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I recently spoke with Leon "Big Van Vader" White. White is a former WCW world heavyweight champion, former IWGP heavyweight champion, Triple Crown heavyweight champion and was recently ranked by WWE.com as #5 on the list of "30 best big men in wrestling history." Vader also is a former NFL player, who played for the Los Angeles Rams NFC championship team.
In part one of the three-part interview below, Vader discussed his NFL career getting cut short, getting his start in pro wrestling, The Ultimate Warrior almost getting the Vader gimmick and much more.
You can get a video message from Vader and other wrestlers and celebrities at CelebVM.com. Make sure to check back tomorrow for the second part of our interview, where Vader talks about his WWE career. Make sure to check back tomorrow for part two of the interview, where Vader discussed saving Sid Vicious' life, signing with WCW, Ron Simmons defeating him to become the first African American World Heavyweight Champion and what it meant to him, Eric Bischoff taking charge in WCW, his WCW departure and more.
Wrestling INC: Thanks for talking with us. You were in the NFL with the LA Rams, where your NFL career got cut short due to injury.
Vader: Yeah. Between football and wrestling, we're talking 48 years so I've left a lot of blood, sweat and tears behind in the whole bunch of surgeries. But man, I started out in Compton and you know, we grew up tough. It is a tough place to live and that is where my dad chose to live. He worked in the Navy shipyard down in San Pedro and he was an underwater welder in World War II and he could weld on these ships underwater will and he was doing well and we did well but that's where we lived. That's where my mother's family was. It was a situation where you either had to be able run real fast or be real tough and stand and fight and at the at time in my life I couldn't do either. I couldn't run real fast and I wasn't real tough so we didn't do it and we did the best we could. But we got out of there and we went to a little town called Bell and I went to high school and I started lifting weights and got real Big Early. In fact, my mother is 4'10" and I was nearly 11 pounds at birth. Yeah, that's crazy�a little teensy woman. She's still alive and she is thriving and doing well but they had to get me out of there at seven months and two weeks because I was just too big. So I was a preemie baby and still weighed 11 pounds.
At Bell High I was a high school All-American. In high school, the All-American was fun but there were guys on that team from North Dakota and South Dakota and you look at (this guy) and he's an offensive tackle and he's 6'4 and he's 190 pounds and you go "Wait a minute�That guy couldn't start on my high school team. How'd he make the All-American team?" The All-American is a lot of politics, it's spread out all over the country and the team for me that I was most proud of making was the all Los Angeles team. Now there was about 800 high schools in Los Angeles and if you were on the all-Los Angeles team, that represented the best high school football players in America, bar none. I loved getting in arguments with those people from Texas because they'd just get upset and we had more people so we got better football players or more better football players, I guess I should say. I was recruited everywhere. I got scholarship offers for Oklahoma, S.C., Notre Dame, et cetera, et cetera and I came to Boulder, Colorado and fell in love with those mountains.
I'll tell you a good story: I was at a recruiting party�they had a keg of beer�and I saw some blinking lights out front and I said, Uh oh, the cops are here and coming from L.A., I made a mad Dash; three steps and I was over that fence and I was gone. And they said, "Where'd Leon go? What's going on?" So I snuck back up to the fence and I said, "Look�" through a hole in the fence and the police are standing there and the senior offensive lineman throwing the recruiting party had his arm around the police officer and�I'm not saying the police were drinking beer with us, they just wanted to check and make sure everything was okay and I went, "Wow. This is pretty good. This might be the place for me because it's entirely different from what I grew up being around in Los Angeles." Because the situation with the police was just different.
Going from Colorado and then obviously to Los Angeles where I played in the Super Bowl and I'm the proud owner of a Super Bowl ring because I was a member of that team. I didn't play long. I had a career ending injury�ruptured a patellar tendon on a sweep against the Dallas Cowboys in a pre season game. Got to play against the Hall of fFamer Randy White and had a great game against him. I shut him out for three quarters; no tackles, no sacks and then I came home back to Boulder and I started doing real estate. I had money saved up from a large bonus and money I saved with the Rams and I built a little shopping center and speculated on some homes, bought some raw property, developed it and put some homes on it and I drive around them today and they're still standing. The home I built that my son was born in�I drive by it sometimes and I wish I had it. It's a beautiful home. But I just got bored. I was getting fat and sloppy and making money, I often wonder if I had that choice to do over again would I switch from real estate to wrestling? Probably not, knowing what I know now because 31 years later and 20 world titles later I'm pretty beat up but that brings us up to date and I'm currently writing a book and we'll talk about this. I've invented an exercise device and I'm involved with a company overseas. If you don't mind, can I talk about this company overseas? Because it's about wrestling and wrestling fans.
Wrestling INC: You mentioned if you were able to go back in time and go into real estate as opposed to wrestling�how did you decide to go into pro wrestling?
Vader: I just got bored. I was doing well. I was selling homes�existing homes that were on the market. I was good at it. I had a college degree, I spoke well. And then I thought I need a little more excitement so I buy a home�a raw set of grounds and then I'd buy a print and say "This home would look good on this lot and I'll put it this way�" and I was creative. I don't know; just the process of watching a piece of property go up and then that got boring and then I built a small shopping center and it got completed and finished and unfortunately I sold out of that and I should've held on to it. The long-term income would have been substantial but I was moving on to bigger and better and going to do a bigger and better one and it just�I just got bored, man. I don't know. I'm 6'4" and I could bench press 600 pounds in the gym when I was in shape and I could squat nearly 1,000 pounds and I thought, "I just got to give this a try. I have to see if I can do this."
I was watching wrestling on TV. Again, going back, I don't think I would do it. Now I love wrestling much more than real estate but I'm talking about�you know, you take 30 years of bumps and being on the road and the relationships lost because I live in Boulder, Colorado and that's not far from where you're at� But you go away for 30 days and come back and hibernate because you're tired and you've got to get a workout and get prepared to go out on the road. You're not socializing, you just get dislocated from people. You lose friends and the road becomes your life. It can become very lonely. And then the injuries. I've had 48 surgeries. The fortunate thing about me�you know I've played high school football, I've played college football�but never received a concussion, never was taken out of a high school or college game with a concussion. And then wrestling, let's face it: it's entertainment. The chairs we use are plastic, we don't hit to the head. You do get hurt in wrestling�your feet, your knees, your back, your hips, your shoulders but head injuries don't happen because we're very protective of that. My memory is intact. I think I'm speaking coherently, here. For me, it was all about the challenge and the next thing. I got bored with it. I wasn't looking 30 years down the road. My father left early on so if maybe I would've had a dad, he would have said, "Look, you've done your thing athletically; let's talk about the grandchildren and the wife and kids and stuff like that." With lack of direction, I just impulsively quit, packed my bags, drove to Minnesota and�Brad Riggins, who trained me�and I don't know, I think I'm considered by most as the most dominant champion in the history of professional wrestling, at least from '85 to up until present time. There's a guy named Brock Lesnar right now who is pretty dominant, so I think my reign might be over. He's ragdolling people. He just ragdolled Undertaker and [John] Cena. That was impressive.
Wrestling INC: You were starting to make a name for yourself early on in AWA but you really started to take off in New Japan as Big Van Vader. Is it true that Ultimate Warrior was originally groomed for that gimmick? How close was that to happening?
Vader: Yeah! This is just my understanding, but I heard that Sid Vicious was also up for it. And [Antonio] Inoki had designed this thing and he was going to put this helmet on somebody and pay him a lot of money. They brought the Warrior over and�let's face it�may he rest in peace and with all due respect�he looked fantastic, he had a lot of energy, he's a Hall of Famer, but athletically, he was limited; in other words, he was a little stiff. In other words, I don't think he could play a real good game of basketball. I'm not trying to be disrespectful but I believe the best wrestlers are also athletic in nature. Look at someone like Sting who is a tremendous athlete. Look at Undertaker, who is just a fabulous athlete. A guy like Shawn Michaels, who is a smaller athlete but�tremendous athleticism. I think Ultimate Warrior and Sid, although they looked fantastic, athletically I don't think they'd have been given college scholarships to play football or basketball or something like that.
This is my point: over in Japan, these guys were just very special athletes. They were raised in this. They were like gods and these guys were raised to do this from childhood. These guys started when they were 10, doing squats and pushups and they were handpicked. The best athletes moved on. There was never a case when I got in the ring in Japan and I wasn't with a superior athlete. These guys were all fantastic athletes. They could do anything. A guy named Mitsuharu Misawa�he worked for a while and then started his own company, NOAH�he could do anything physically. He was just gifted. He got heavy and smoked towards the end and still could do 20 and 30 minute matches with me and just do anything�and hold, any move, anything off the top rope. All of them: Kobashi, Akiyama, Inoki�was probably the least athletic of them all�Gret Muta�God, you talk about a 6'3" athlete. So that's just my opinion and they didn't work out because Inoki saw that they could not go 20 minutes a night and work with these athletic, smaller guys. Especially Sid, because of his height. He's 6' 7" and you know, I was a lot taller than these guys and compared to Sid�Sid towers over me. I'm 6'4" and he's 6'7"�6'8" with a boot on. But again, if you watch Sid in the ring, he's kind of stiff. He kind of reminds me of Kane. Kane is stiff. He moves� that robotic kind of thing. Not real fluid. And you compare Kane to the Undertaker and I think that'd be a fair analogy. Kane gets up to the top rope and he comes off and it's kind of difficult for him and it's kind of awkward. The Undertaker walks up backward gracefully and comes of the top rope and there's just a difference in athletic ability. Don't get me wrong; Kane's a Hall of Famer and he's going to do great but I'm trying to make a point here.
Wrestling INC: You mentioned working with Warrior and Sid Vicious later in your career. Did they ever mention how they almost got the gimmick?
Vader: No, we never talked about that. I think things happen for a reason. My first match with Inoki, we sold out the Sumo Palace and Inoki had gone undefeated for seven or eight years and I got into the ring with him� Four minutes and my instructions were, "Try and knock him out if you can." That's what I was told, honest to God. I said, "Are you serious?" and they said, "You'll never touch him. He's Antonio Inoki." And I did touch him. I've got pretty quick hands and they didn't realize I had sparred with Mike Weaver, heavyweight champion of the world and I said, "Really, you want me to try and knock him out?" and he was supposed to block me and dodge me and do all this stuff I was just too big and too strong and surprisingly to them, quick and agile. Especially back then. I mean, I was in the 370s, 360s and I was quicker than him with my hands and I think I surprised him. I did catch him that night and I almost knocked him out that night. I certainly could've. He tagged me once and then backed off. But that was my instruction and the Japanese people didn't like it. They rioted, they burned pillows and I barely got out of there. They rushed me back and said, "No time to get dressed, let's go!"
Wrestling INC: Yeah, New Japan was banned from that building for a while after that match.
Vader: Yeah, they were but we also sold out for like three years running and it was when they gave me the Mastadon mask after that first year that we had sold out. I think they made the right choice. Warrior could have done a great job and so could Sid but they made their choice and Sid had a great career and Ultimate Warrior had a fantastic career and it seems like everything kind of worked out the way it was supposed to.
Wrestling INC: You had a tremendous career in Japan. How did you like working over there?
Vader: For me, it was great. I flew first class from Denver to Seattle, Seattle over to Tokyo and I enjoyed the rides over there. You had a bed and you had a TV and basically a seat that would fold back into a bed. They fed you three or four times out there and you could have a glass of wine and relax, so the trip didn't bother me at all. Now if I was flying coach, that would be a different thing. That was just part of my deal. They'd pick you up at the airport and take you back to a hotel. And that's it. You'd go to bed, get the next day off and get a massage, work out and then, boom� Bus is at 10 the following day. It's a big, luxurious bus and they had these little, small chairs in there so they'd take the two chairs out put the one, big in there for me. So I had a big recliner and I just sat back. Before your match, all you have to do is relax and think about your match because you know who you're going to fight on the way. After the match, they have cold beer on the bus and it was just "relax time." So there was no driving, no real cars.
It was a pretty good life. It was a fantastic life. I often wonder why I never left. I got attracted to WCW, Dusty Rhodes, and Jim Ross said, "We're going to pay you this much money" and I kind of wish I had just stayed. It was good money. If you're making $100,000 a year over there�and I obviously made a lot more than that�if you're making that kind of money over there, that's "net" of Japanese taxes, so Japanese taxes are 20%, so you'd being that foreign tax credit back to America, so the money I brought home I'd only have to pay, I think�I don't know who was in office then but the tax rate was like 32 or 33% so I was paying 12% on the money I brought home. It was a pretty good deal. To justify me to come to America, you'd have to pay me a lot more money to justify that foreign tax credit thing. And it's not a loophole; it's completely legal. It's in the constitution�you can't be taxed twice so if I'm taxed 20% over there, I can't come back and have to pay another. It just turned out very well. That would've been another decision�I think I just would've stayed in Japan and forgot about it. It was a pretty good life.
Wrestling INC: You had that really famous match with Stan Hansen at that All Japan/New Japan Supercard where your eyeball popped out in the middle of the match. What happened there?
Vader: Well, Stan is a friend of mine now and certainly before the match and Stan is the real deal. Fantastic big man. Not just good, great. He was all business. He was stiff. I mean, I'm stiff but he's the stiffest guy in the history of professional wrestling. We had 80,000 people in the Tokyo Dome, we were one of the main events and I came out and I had this mask on�a full mask, not this mask I have now but a full, Japanese, lucha libre mask and that helmet weight about 60 pounds with the engine in it. So I'm carrying it, I took it off so I could see not fall and trip and have everyone laugh while I'm going down the aisle and they're trying to grab me and stuff like that. And I get up in the ring and Stan can't see but if you can't see you shouldn't be swinging that�whatever�big rope he's got, that cowboy rope and that big steel bell on the end of it. So he swung it over at me and hit me right in the face. I mean�BAM! And it about knocked me out, literally. And this is before I got in the ring. So I took two steps up the ladder, got smacked in the face with that steel thing and took two steps back, set the mask down and just stood there. And the Japanese guy who always took me to the ring� and actually he was from Mexico; he looked Japanese but he was Mexican�he said, "Go! Go! What are you doing?" and I said, "Wait a minute, man. He hit me in the face with that bell." I couldn't see and I stood there for about a minute and everyone was like, "What's Vader doing?" I came to, I came back around, I shook it off, I got through the ring and I walked over to Stan and I slapped him upside the head just as hard as I could about two or three times and let's face it: no one did that to Stan Hansen, especially in Japan so he's mad. He don't know why I went over and slapped him but am I justified? Hell yes! You get hit in the face with a bell before you get in the ring? That's crazy! And that's dangerous. He said, "Well, I can't see!" And I said, "Well then why are you swinging the damn thing if you can't see?"
Anyway, I was giving him a few receipts in the corner and I was at the point�hey, I was much younger than Stan and I think he had dropped down to get in shape for this; he was about 260, 270 so he was real light, I was 410 pounds and I was bench pressing 600 at this time�I was in my prime. He was a little older and I had him in the corner and I was like, "Hey, I'm just going to finish this off." I gave him a couple of good shots to the shin. I was like, "Hey, you hit me in the face with that steel thing and now we're back" and so I eased off and stepped back and I'm like, "Now we're even" and he didn't understand and he stuck his thumb in my eye. That's on tape and I've watched it 100 times and I don't care. But it broke my nose, it broke eight bones in my orbit and my eye popped out of my cheek. I lost a lot of vision and I've had four surgeries on the eye. But you know what? Back then, I just shoved it in and the swelling just kind of swelled around it. I shoved it back in and kept fighting. We did another 27 minutes. That was a hell of a match. Finally, I couldn't stand the pain any more because the mask was pressing on the eye and dealing with the pain and fighting him at the same time, I took the mask off and I'm glad I did because he saw it because if he wouldn't have seen it, he probably would have hit it again and either I would have been blinded and then probably killed him or tried to. But he saw it and he stayed away from it and we got through it. It's probably one of the best matches I've ever been in and one of the best matches�Jesus�ever. It technically might not have not been real good but it was one heck of a fight, let me tell you. If you've never watched it's like a 27, 28-minute double count-out draw. And he was the world champion for Baba and I was the world champion for Inoki, so there was a lot of pride representing two of the biggest companies in the world. Inoki was every bit as big as the WWE then and so was Baba.
Wrestling INC: You have also been working with CelebVM, where fans can get a message from you. How does that work?.
Vader: It's a video messaging company and if you want a message from Big Van Vader�Leon White�the 20-time heavyweight champion of the world, the former All-American, the former Los Angeles Ram, for any occasion at all pretty much, in other words if your friend is having a birthday, if your friend is getting married, if your friend is sick in the hospital and you want to send a verbal audio visual recorded message of me talking to your friend or to yourself, if you're having a 30th birthday and I'll say something like this, "From the bowel of The Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado, I bring you the Prince of Power for it's time, it's time, it's birthday time. Johnny, you're going to turn 30 years old. Now I want you to go out and have a good time but you've got to be careful because it's all about getting to the next birthday. So make sure you have someone around you who is going to put their arms around you and slow you down at that time of the night when it's time to slow down and get home. So happy birthday from Big Van Vader." It's a fun company. I enjoy doing the messages. I'm doing about 20 a morning. The company is on fire and let me give you the call-sign to the website. It's CelebVM.com and the other one is WrestlingVideoMessages.com . They range from $25 to $100 depending on which star or celebrity. There's professional wrestlers, there's actors. The list goes on and on so you pick your poison but obviously I want you to pick Big Van Vader because I do the best interviews. That's what I'm told, anyway. I do the best birthday wishes. I'll even sing you happy birthday. I'm having a ball with them, the company's on fire. I tell you what�we all wish we had some money to invest 10-15 years ago�got in on that gold rush because we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing now. We'd probably be on the beach somewhere.
You can get a video message from Vader and other wrestlers and celebrities at CelebVM.com. Make sure to check back tomorrow for the second part of our interview, where Vader talks about his WWE career. Make sure to check back tomorrow for part two of the interview, where Vader discussed saving Sid Vicious' life, signing with WCW, Ron Simmons defeating him to become the first African American World Heavyweight Champion and what it meant to him, Eric Bischoff taking charge in WCW, his WCW departure and more.
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Starting with the philosophy that humanity should limit our intervention of wildlife as much as possible; we should be considering a reduction of hunting tags and/or limiting industrial development long before we introduce killing cougars and bears. Introducing "predator control" is the easy way out, while not addressing the best solutions for the long-term health of these ecosystems. Ecosystems swing on a pendulum of equilibrium — sometimes predators push prey to low population numbers and then the pendulum swings back the other way and prey is over-populated. We should give nature the chance to balance itself before inserting our own controls.
The paradox of CPW's wildlife management program is they are responsible for protecting wildlife resources while simultaneously being funded by the very actions that are a threat to wildlife. This is not a problem unique to Colorado, as state wildlife managers across the U.S. are funded directly by the hunting licenses they issue. The financial conflict of interest is almost impossible to disentangle from the policies enacted by state wildlife managers. It is hard for us to have confidence in their policies given their financial dependence on hunting. I support hunting as a means of sustenance, but that does not include predatory animals that are taken mostly as trophies. Hunting is a part of America's culture but is a privilege, not a right. That privilege should rarely if ever come before nature's own checks and balances.
Why can't we remove this conflict of interest and put the CPW on the state budget? This means they could manage and issue hunting tags without the financial incentive of maintaining a hunting quota to generate the revenue necessary to achieve that mission. This is no small sum of money. According to CPW, hunting revenue was roughly $70 million in 2015.
The problem is created by this cycle. If we can convince policy-makers to shift the annual budget of the CPW to the state to manage, then the commissioners would be liberated to make decisions that aren't driven by revenue but rather for their mission to "...inspire current and future generations to serve as active stewards of Colorado's natural resources."
Going back generations, humans have felt entitled to insert themselves into the natural order things, especially wildlife management. For example, take the eradication of wolves and bison over the last 100-200 years. It wasn't until some humility came into the fold that these two animals have been "allowed" to reenter the very same natural ecosystems they had inhabited for millennia. It does not require complex programs to conclude that predators and prey have always existed in an ebb and flow of natural equilibrium. We have to ask ourselves, why do we constantly feel the need to inject ourselves into the role of puppeteer directing the strings of Mother Nature? We must remember the deep-seated principal founded by many indigenous cultures: "We do not own the land, the land owns us."
Matt Benjamin lives in Boulder.


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Innovation has propelled in the course of recent decades and we have seen some incredible things made possible by innovation. The CPU processing scene is one such area. However, with the better clock speeds, the frameworks have a tendency to produce a high measure of heat, which can be harming to the framework and cause long term issues with the PC. Not unlike the led light bars described at ledlightbar.reviews, your PC generates a lot of heat. If you are experiencing issues with overheating, then it is recommended to go for liquid PC cooling system, keeping in mind the end goal is to ensure that no harm is done to your PC.
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The fans that are supplied with your CPU are fit to handle the heat created up to a certain level. However, once the limit is crossed, the heat can't be appropriately scattered by the fans and you require some other outside cooling answer for keep your PC from being harmed.
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The PC water cooling systems can be assembled at home. However, there are numerous manufacturers that produce these systems and their units re more dependable than the ones assembled at home. The units come in different shapes and sizes and are perfectly customized for a specific model of motherboard. You must have the information about the make and model of your motherboard before you set out to purchase a cooling system for your PC.
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text: I`ve created a website to help create leads for my brothers training business and he gives me commission on any converting leads which come from my site. On my site I have a question form for people to ask about training, prices, e.t.c and I store them in mysql. I have created a simple admin panel for him to go through the questions and answer them and send them to his site for training booking. He has a website that processes payments and it works fine but, it`s old, form based and we have no idea how to setup tracking. So we have just been going through my sites names, emails (200 and growing) each month and looking to see if any are on his Access database customer list(5600). This is not perfect as some will add different info on my site to when they order and we won`t find all of them but, I`m not too worried about this as I`m still helping my brother out. As you could imagine this is very time consuming and is only going to get worse as my leads list is getting larger by the day. He is currently getting a new site built and we plan on adding some kind of tracking system but, that's a long way off. Is there a way to add each data to separate spreadsheets then compare them for similarities? Or do you know of a better way we can do this? Any input would be great.


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"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." Mario Andretti
Desire is the fuel to ignite your dreams. Determination is the power to reach for your goals. Commitment is the vessel to obtain excellence. Living the LivFit Lifestyle takes willpower and fortitude to succeed. By following my LivFit guidelines & workout routines you will literally transform your life. You'll find that you not only have more energy, but you'll also have more self-confidence, more patience and more abundance.
I'm passionate about assisting other's in achieving their goals and dreams. I want to assist others in to becoming the best they can be. Connecting with the power from within will be life changing. You already have everything you need to succeed. We just forget how powerful we are as we let "life" get in the way of creating our dreams. By believing in yourself and thinking kind thoughts you'll literally transform your physique sooner.
Along with having positive thoughts exercising daily and eating clean is a must. To aid your weight loss & health goal be sure to drink 2 to 4 oz of Liv Sxinney, 2 servings of Go (one morning and one at night) and take Crave between meals to keep you on track. Liv Sxinney is a phenomenal product as you know, drink it all day long for added energy & weight loss. Drink LIMUPlus for optimal nutrition, VitaOne multivitamins & Crave (an energy drink) by Vitamark Int'l. Vitamark also offers diet cookies that are delicious! They have fiber & protein in each cookie, it's a perfect snack to accompany your favorite protein drink.
Stay motivated by committing to excellence! Be true to yourself and remember to stay focused on your goals throughout the day to keep you on the fast-track to success!
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I am finally back to blogging and I have some good news - after almost a year my workroom is
almost ready, I just moved in couple of days ago and I'm already back to beading.
Here is a little fun brooch that I made just yesterday. :)
And here is another thing that I'm currently working on. Do you recognize the beautiful painting by my very talented friend Nancy? ;)
I hope I can dedicate more time for my beading from now on. And I finally have a real place for it. Yay!
I am not going to show you much of my new room quite yet, as many things still need to be finalized, but I will show you a little corner of my beading table just for a little taste. :)
What do you think about my crazy wallpaper? :D I decided to make it really bright and fun, but still stick to some classic shapes. Love-love-love those funky tulips!
More photos coming soon!
Oh, I missed you all so much!


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Ruth is the PVC and Dean of Faculty of Medical Science and is currently seconded to set up Anglia Ruskin's new School of Medicine and to oversee the integration of the PMI into the new school.
Ruth is also Director of the Postgraduate Medical Institute - Anglia Ruskin's internationally recognised translational medical research institute. Founded in 2008, the Postgraduate Medical Institute (PMI) is a partnership, unique in the United Kingdom, of all the acute, mental health, primary care trusts in the county of Essex, the Royal Society for Public Health, Essex County Council, two national private health providers and Anglia Ruskin University.
Kinnear, John and Jackson, Ruth (2016) Constructing diagnostic likelihood: clinical decisions using subjective versus statistical probability. Postgraduate Medical Journal


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This year already there has been quite a few odd beauty trends. People are drawing on freckles and purposely smearing their lipstick to get a "lollipop" effect. The picture below features both of these trends.
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However, there is one trend that is a little out there that I am finding myself loving: the simple beauty of chunky glitter makeup.
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There is something so elegant and beautiful to me about it that makes it captivating. These looks are obviously not something that you would wear every day. However, for a special occasion like a themed party or festival, this look is perfect.
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After watching YouTube tutorials, I think the most common way to apply the glitter so that it stays is with eyelash glue. However, for more fine grained glitter I would recommend using sticky hair spray. I have done this before with glitter and it works really well!
Companies and buisnesses have even begun to make glitter specifically for this trend, like this Etsy shop has. I love the amount of creativity that this trend allows for. It is letting people express themselves in a whole new way and I am definitely a fan.


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BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL (INTERNATIONAL EDITION), vol. 315, n° 7111, 1997, pages 786-790, 21 réf., ISSN 0959-8146, GBR
Mrc Dunn Nutrition Unit. Keneba. GMB, Mrc Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre. Cambridge. GBR
To test the efficacy in terms of birth weight and infant survival of a diet supplement programme in pregnant African women through a priamry healthcare system.
5 year controlled trial of all pregnant women in 28 villages randomised to daily supplementation with high energy groundnut biscuits (4.3MJ/day) for about 20 weeks before delivery (intervention) or after delivery (control).
Rural Gambia.
Chronically undernourished women (twin bearers excluded), yielding 2047 singleton live births and 35 stillbirths.
Birth weight ; prevalence of low birth weight (<2500 g) ; head circumference ; birth length ; gestational age ; prevalence of stillbirths ; neonatal and postneonatal mortality.
Supplementation increased weight gain in pregnancy and significantly increased birth weight, particularly during the nutritionally debilitating hungry season (June to October).
Weight gain increased by 201 g (P<0.001) in the hungry season, by 94 g (P<0.01) in the harvest season (November to May), and by 136 g (P<0.001) over the whole year.
The odds ratio for low birthweight babies in supplemented women was 0.61 (95% confidence interval 0.47 to 0.79, P<0.001).
Head circumference was significantly increased (P<0.01), but by only 3.1 mm.
Birth length and duration of gestation were not affected.
Supplementation significantly reduced perinatal mortality : the odds ratio was 0.47 (0.23 to 0.99, P<0.05) for stillbirths. (...)
Mots-clés BDSP : Epidémiologie, Prévalence, Gambie, Afrique, Mère, Grossesse, Pronostic, Nouveau né, Homme, Poids naissance, Long terme, Milieu rural, Foetopathie, Maladie nutrition
Mots-clés Pascal : Epidémiologie, Prévalence, Gambie, Afrique, Efficacité traitement, Régime alimentaire enrichi, Mère, Gestation, Pronostic, Nouveau né, Homme, Poids naissance, Etude longitudinale, Long terme, Etat nutritionnel, Milieu rural, Mère pathologie, Foetus pathologie, Trouble nutrition
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Epidemiology, Prevalence, Gambia, Africa, Treatment efficiency, Supplemented diet, Mother, Pregnancy, Prognosis, Newborn, Human, Birth weight, Follow up study, Long term, Nutritional status, Rural environment, Maternal diseases, Fetal diseases, Nutrition disorder
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Legislation for forced unitization/pooling for drilling horizontal gas wells is ONLY a good idea IF: [Updated 6/24/2015]
The Marcellus Shale is the newest "play" in gas drilling in West Virginia and other states in the East. It is different from other plays in that it produces much more gas, and is under much more area (as explained below) than previous plays. It could be the biggest play in West Virginia's history. But it has much more adverse effect on surface land owners and others in West Virginia for two reasons. First, shale wells are drilled much closer together, and are therefore more densely numerous on the surface, than traditional plays in "sands". Second, the new drilling and fracturing techniques that have for the first time made it possible to economically produce gas from the Marcellus Shale take up much more land and use much more water for "fracturing" the gas bearing formation. Instead of a well site with a typical drilling rig and a single drilling pit on 1.5 to 3 acres (plus a couple tractor trailer loads of water for the "fracture" process), a Marcellus Shale vertical well takes a bigger drilling rig, a bigger drilling pit, and in addition an impoundment pond the size of an Olympic swimming pool to hold 600,000 to 1 Million gallons of water for the fracturing process – and many more than 100 tractor trailer loads of water and sand. (And many are concerned about what happens to the 40 to 60% of that frac water that flows back to the surface which contains chemicals added to it by the driller and that come back up with it from under the ground.) Below is an aerial photograph of a vertical Marcellus Shale gas well drilled in Upshur County, West Virginia, in 2008 (except that an extra pit for capturing the flow back water is not included in the picture).
Until now, almost all gas wells drilled in the East have been drilled vertically, like the one above. The driller sets up a drilling rig on a well site directly above the place where he wants to penetrate the gas bearing formation. He drills straight down until he drills though the gas bearing formation, which in the case of the Marcellus Shale is up to 100 feet thick in West Virginia. He cements production pipe into the gas bearing formation. He puts holes out of the production pipe into the gas bearing formation. He fractures the rock in the area around the 100-foot vertical well bore so the gas will flow out of the formation faster. And he pipes that gas to the surface and to market. This process is illustrated on the right side of the illustration below. Here is a more detailed slide show of how vertical gas well drilling is done.
There are two kinds of "directional"gas well drilling that can be done instead of vertical drilling. The first one is not the one we are talking about here. The first one is the kind done mostly from offshore drilling platforms. It is "slant drilling". As soon as the drilling bit enters the earth, the driller slants it at a slight angle off vertical. By the time it reaches the target formation thousands of feet down, it is hundreds or maybe even thousands of feet away horizontally from where it started at the surface. By drilling multiple wells in all directions from the same drilling platform, a large area of the deep oil or gas bearing formation can be punctured with near vertical well bores for producing oil or gas. This "slant drilling" is still rare in the East.
The second kind of directional drilling is "horizontal" drilling. It is what is being done, and should be done even more, in the East. It is illustrated on the left side of the image above. The driller drills down vertically until near the top of the gas bearing formation, then new technology allows the driller to bend the well bore sideways so that it is horizontal by the time it penetrates the gas bearing formation. Using pressure from the downward wight of the horizontal drilling pipe the driller can drill 4000 or 5000 feet sideways, and maybe more, through the Marcellus Shale. Developing techniques allow the driller to fracture the horizontal well bore in stages all along its 4000 feet of length – as opposed to fracturing only the 100 feet that a vertical well bore runs down through the Marcellus Shale here. As you can see in the illustration above, it would take four or more vertical wells to drill, fracture and produce the area of the gas bearing formation that can be produced by only one horizontal well. (To see an illustration of horizontal drilling go to our slide show on vertical drilling and click on the link at the bottom of the introductory page.)
Even newer techniques allow the driller to drill 4 or 6 or even 8 horizontal wells from only one well pad/site! See the image below showing only 4 wells on one site.
Having 6 or 8 horizontal wells drilled from one pad taking the place of 20 o4 24 vertical wells each on their own well pad/site is a HUGE improvement for surface owners! As illustrated below, one horizontal well pad/site (see the yellow square below) with six wells horizontal wells drilled from it (see the yellow lines below) can take the place of 24 vertical wells pads/sites (the purple squares below).
So with horizontal drilling there is 1 well pad/site with one access road and one drilling pit and one frac water impoundment pond instead of 24 five-acre, vertical well pads/sites, and 24 access roads and 24 drilling pits and multiple frac water impoundments. (Note that the vertical wells in this illustration are spaced 1000 feet apart. Most Marcellus Shale wells in West Virginia are being spaced 1500 feet apart. So these 6 horizontal wells might not replace quite as many vertical wells as the image illustrates. But the point is the same. And the drillers are now drilling 8 wells from one well pad instead of the 6 in the illustration!)
What does this mean for surface owners? Earlier new gas well "plays" discovered in West Virginia were as large as one county, or maybe several counties. Also, almost all of the gas well drilling in West Virginia was west of I-79. The Marcellus Shale is under almost all of West Virginia, though it is better in some places than others.
The typical Marcellus Shale well pad/site is 5 acres. If vertical wells are drilled on 1500 foot spacing, which is one well for every 40 acres. So almost all of West Virginia could be covered by a 5 acre well site every 40 acres. Below is a picture taken in the Catskills. The grey area in the left foreground is a gravel pit and not a well site. But the rest of the cleared areas are 5 acre Marcellus Shale well sites drilled on 40 acre spacing.
The image below is an aerial view of gas well sites drilled on 40 acre spacing in the Jonas basin in the West.
Does ANYONE think this is a good idea for West Virginia!
Not only is horizontal drilling of multiple Marcellus Shale gas wells from centralized well pads/sites better for surface owners, it is better for lots of other people and interests:
•It is less risk to ground water if there are only 6 penetrations in one place from the 6 or 8 wells on the centralized pad instead of 24 all over the place.
•It lessens the dangers of other environmental concerns because there is less forest fragmentation, less inevitable steam siltation from more access roads (and horizontal well access roads tend to be better constructed and maintained than vertical well access roads) etc. etc.
•It is better for coal owners and coal companies and coal miners. This is because the horizontal well driller goes through the coal seams while the well bore is still being drilled vertically. So 6 or 8 well bores are drilled through one spot in the horizontal coal seam, rather than drilling 24 vertical bores drilled all through the coal seam. Since the well bores are drilled in one spot, there is less risk to the safety of miners of running into one as they mine through the coal seam. Because coal companies have to leave a circle of unmined coal around every gas well bore in order to protect miners, having 24 well bores spread out all through the coal seam would "sterilize" large quantities of coal from being mined.
•Investors in oil and gas drilling probably also are benefitted. Although the initial capital cost of a horizontal well is greater, they get out more gas faster and cheaper than vertical wells and so save production costs in the long run.
Why aren't all Marcellus Shale wells drilled this way?
First, at least one vertical well needs to be drilled in an area to be able to tell exactly how deep and how rich the Marcellus Shale formation is.
Second, the driller has to have maybe 640 acres of contiguous mineral land for horizontal drilling of multiple wells from a central well pad to work. Very often that 640 acres of minerals the driller needs is made up of smaller tracts owned separately by different individuals. If one or more of them does not agree (or if a different driller holding the lease on one of them holds the horizontal driller hostage for an unreasonable payment) the driller cannot take the horizontal well bore through the gas bearing formation of the owner who is holding out. The hold out can spoil the accumulation of the amount of land needed in order for horizontal drilling from a central well pad to work. (The driller can drill the horizontal well bore right next to and along the boundary of the hold out and drain the gas out from under the hold out as long as the well bore does not go under them — and the hold out will not get paid.)
There are laws in place in most other states, but only for some gas producing formations in West Virginia, that can solve this problem. We call it "forced well spacing and royalty sharing", but the statutes call it "forced pooling and unitization". Under these laws, if a driller accumulates the leases/the right to drill for a certain percentage of the 640 acres, then he can "force" the rest to allow drilling under (not on) their land. In return the "forced" owner gets their share of the royalties. And if they want, they can invest in the drilling and get a share of the working interest in the well. West Virginia ought to extend its laws for forced well spacing and royalty sharing to horizontal Marcellus Shale wells that are drilled from central well pads/sites. See our slide show on why well spacing and royalty sharing ought to be adopted for all gas wells in all formations in West Virginia!
Third, some small drillers claim they cannot raise the money to drill the more expensive horizontal wells. We think these small drillers should get some benefit of joining their properties with other larger drillers who can afford to drill horizontal wells, but they should not be able to obstruct horizontal drilling and forced well spacing.
Fourth, some areas may not have the geology for the Marcellus Shale horizontal wells. If that is true, allowances should be made for that.
The bad thing about horizontal drilling is that, while there is less total surface damage, it is all concentrated on one surface owner. WVSORO believes that the law does not permit drillers to do that without obtaining permission (in writing) from that one surface owner, whether the surface owner does or does not own the minerals. See our web page on that. And if the surface owner does agree to allow the centralized pad to be drilled on their land, then the surface owner should insist on environmental and surface protections that other drillers have agreed to, in particular a liner covering the pad should be used so that spills do not leach down into groundwater. And surface owners, particularly those who do not own the minerals and so will not be getting any royalty, should be compensated for the use of their surface based not on what the surface was worth to them before the driller showed up, but based on what the use of their surface is worth to the driller! It costs $3 to $7 Million to drill each well on a pad, and they are drilling multiple wells. If you are a surface owner who also owns the minerals and will be getting royalty, you should ask for $25,000 per well. That is only 8/100ths to 4/100ths of 1% of the cost of drilling each well. If you do not own the minerals, and if you want to let them drill, and if you get paid less than that, you are being played. Unfortunately you will probably have to hire a lawyer to get that because the State will grant them their permit if it has the environmental protections the State wants, and leave it to you to protect your surface ownership rights.
If the Marcellus Shale is going to be drilled, the best thing for almost everyone is for Marcellus Shale wells to be drilled horizontally from centralized well pads/sites. Ideally the West Virginia Legislature would pass fair laws authorizing "forced" well spacing ("pooling and unitization") for all wells in the Marcellus Shale and encouraging these horizontal Marcellus Shale wells to be drilled from centralized well pads/sites. However, WVSORO, has learned the hard way that any such legislation that the Legislature would pass would only give the drillers what they want out of such legislation, and would not protect surface owners or other mineral owners. See our web page on this subject. So we and you should oppose forced pooling legislation as a taking of surface owner's rights.
If you are a surface owner, and if someone wants to put a well site for drilling horizontal wells on you and you do not want that massive disturbance on you, or if they will not pay you what it is worth to them to use your surface, then go to our web page on how to stop them, and send the letter recommended there and contact a lawyer now. The same applies if you own surface and minerals, but you or your predecessors have already signed a lease that specifically allows for the use of your surface to drill horizontally into neighboring mineral tracts. (If you have signed a lease or an amendment with a pooling or unitization agreement, the driller will say that this gives them permission, but we still say that the new massive well sites are not authorized because they were not in the contemplation of the parties as explained on the web page referred to above.)
If you are a surface and mineral owners and a driller wants you to sign an amendment to the lease to make pooling and unitization possible, you should read our advice on that.


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Spike is launching a new one-hour game show, "That Awkward Game Show," where parents and their adult children compete to win a large cash prize while learning some of the most ridiculously shocking truths about their next of kin.
Our capes are in position and ready to fly, as we bring you all the news, celebrities and superheroes that can fit into one jammed pack hour. But we need your help deciding 2016's "Game Changer of the Year."
Spike is honoring all-star cast mates Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci with the "Guy Movie Hall of Fame" award at this year's tenth annual "Guys Choice."
Julia Roberts will need to make more room in her trophy case for a pair of Mantlers.
Five-time NBA World Champion and 18-time All-Star Kobe Bryant will be honored at Spike's tenth annual "Guys Choice" as "Athlete of the Decade".
In a live finale that was both intense and thrilling, Anthony Michaels was named the winner of "Ink Master" Season 7.
Spike is pulling out all of the stops for the 10th anniversary of the ultimate A-list, guy's night out with "Guys Choice".
An original scripted series adapted from Stephen King's 1984 novella of the same name will begin production this summer before hitting Spike in 2017.
An original scripted series adapted from Stephen King's 1984 novella of the same name will begin production this summer before hitting Spike in 2017.
Spike has greenlit a new season of the highly rated hit original tattoo-competition series, Ink Master. Season 9 will consist of 15 one-hour episodes plus a LIVE finale and will debut in 2017.


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| Common names: four-eye (English), four-eyes (English), cuatro-ojos (Espanol)
Anableps dowei Gill, 1861
Northern four-eye, Pacific four-eyes
Elongate, body rounded at front, compressed at rear; head wide, depressed, pointed at front in side view, with upper profile horizontal; eyes elevated on top of head and divided longitudinally, producing two pupils in each eye; mouth at top front, upper jaw longer; teeth simple; nostrils tubular; gill membranes joined under throat (but not fused) to throat; pelvic fins on belly well behind tips of pectorals; dorsal fin (7-10 rays), short, well behind anal fin, at rear of body on base of tail; fertilization is internal, male sex organ is a scaly tube formed by first three anal fin rays; scales small, 50-96 in lateral series.
Upper 3/4 of body and upper ½ of head dark brown, lower parts whitish; a creamy yellow stripe along the midside from the eye to the base of the tail fin; tail, dorsal and pectoral fins dark brown, anal and pelvic fins pale brown.
Size: reaches 34 cm.
Habitat: lives at the surface layer.
Habitat freshwater, and, sometimes (as in the Gulf of Fonseca, El Salvador), in saline mangrove areas at the mouths of rivers.
Depth: 0-5 m.
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Patrick Boyle, executive director of the Gateway program, said he gets calls constantly from Elmont parents asking if the program will return. The only thing Boyle can tell them is that their children can be put on a waiting list for the after-school program at Gotham Avenue School. Gotham Avenue still has such a program thanks to a state grant. It currently has 100 students enrolled, and hundreds more waiting for an open seat. "The waiting list for that program is through the roof," Boyle said.
Parents in Elmont also have the option of signing their children up for SCOPE, a program chartered by the New York State Board of Regents that provides after-school activities across Long Island. The program costs $283 per month per child, which many parents in Elmont cannot afford, Boyle said.
As a result, he added, many parents have no choice but to wait and hope that funding is restored so that Gateway can get back to work. "Who knows what the long-term affects are going to be" if funding isn't restored, Boyle said. With no word from the county on whether it will be, he said, he and other directors are waiting along with them.


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I invent and develop new interactive technologies, applications and experiences. Before starting 32AL, I led multi-disciplinary R&D projects in the Think Tank Team at Samsung. I also worked at Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Sony Corporate Laboratories in Tokyo and Paris, as well as at the MIT MediaLab.
I have presented my work at top international academic conferences and exhibitions, including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, ACM UIST and ACM SIGCHI. My research has also been reported in popular media, such as CNN, BBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired or Engadget. My background is in Computer Science, Cognitive Sciences and Design. I received my PhD in Computer Science from INRIA in Paris, France.
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|Very nice press coverage, including by the BBC, of the Ishin-Den-Shin project I developped while at Disney with Yuri Suzuki and Ivan Poupyrev.
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|I joined Samsung's new Think Tank Team as the Lead Researcher. Looking forward to work on new exciting projects!
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|Our Ishin-Den_shin project received an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica 2014.
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|Our Revel project as been selected as one of the 100 outstanding innovations in 2012 by UNESCO's NetExplo.
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|Looking forward to talk at SXSW Interactive on March 9th 2013. The topic: "How electrical signals can give you superpowers"
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Excited to serve as a Program Committee member for UIST 2013.
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Very nice article about the Revel project in MIT Technology Review.


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A health crisis is barreling down on the free-love generation. Reported cases of hepatitis C, an infectious virus that is the leading cause of liver transplants and cancers, are skyrocketing among South Florida baby boomers this year, and public health officials are warning that everyone in this age group should consider themselves at risk.
There were 1,168 new chronic hepatitis C cases logged in Palm Beach County so far this year, according to state health officials, as compared to 722 during the same time period last year. In Broward County, there were 1,077 new cases this year, compared to 683 last year.
Among this year's cases, 45 percent in Palm Beach and 60 percent in Broward involved people age 50 or older – higher than the state average. State officials say about 40 percent of the 300,000 Floridians with chronic hep C are boomers.
Yet many boomers still appear to be uninformed, in denial or too ashamed to confront medical reality. A new survey of 400 Miami-Dade and Broward County residents, between 48 and 68 years old, found only 20 percent were aware that their age group was five times more likely to be hepatitis C carriers, regardles of their health or past lifestyle habits.
Sixty-eight percent of those responding to the survey, by pharmaceutical manufacturer Genentech Inc., said they associated the virus with drug addicts and alcoholics. And 42 percent said they would rather admit to having a DUI than a hepatitis C infection.
Dr. Kalyan Ram Bhamidimarri, a transplant hepatologist and gastroenterologist at the University of Miami Hospital, said he found it "shocking" that 62 percent surveyed had never been tested, "even though 100 percent of them should be."
"Because of these attitudes and unawareness, we are going to end up with more illnesses and more deaths," Bhamidimarri said.


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Ha! My SO is starting his new job next week Wednesday and he promised that we would be engaged before he starts. His saving is on track so I know money is not a problem. Last night I was playing Devil's advocate trying to find out if he had the ring or not (without asking if he had it). He gently said that I should relax and stop asking questions cuz all that's left is for him to tell me the exact day it's gonna happen and he will not do that lol. But the nearer it is, the further it seems to be ugh! lol
I have taken the last two days of the month off work to spend time with him before he starts his new job. We are going clothes shopping for him next Monday to get some new pieces for work and then he's taking me out in the night. He refuses to tell me where we're gonna go. This is strange because in all our dating life, he has never planned a date…never. And it gets me excited and not excited 'cause he says the engagement won't happen on a date night. Ahhhh! I just need my ring already! Lol


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CES 2013 Coverage
As is an OCC CES tradition, we got to sit down with President Robert "Razerguy" Krakoff for a private meeting at the Razer booth. Whereas last year Project Fiona was relegated to a glass cube, this year we actually got to use it, and along with that was the unveiling of its new name, the Razer Edge.
The Razer Edge is purported to be the world's first tablet designed for PC gamers, by PC gamers. Using the power of the Internet, Razer posted polls on Facebook, allowing fans to vote on the components they wanted to see in the device. For the most part, the majority vote getter for each component type was selected. Put simply, the Razer Edge is an impressive product, albeit a bit pricey. The Edge comes in two flavors: the base model and the Razer Edge Pro. The base model features an Intel Core i5 processor, NVIDIA GT640M LE GPU, 4GB DDR3, and a 64GB SSD. It's priced at $999.99. The Pro model is equipped with an Intel Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GT640M LE GPU, 8GB DDR3, and either a 128GB or 256GB SSD. It's listed at $1299.99, but with no distinction between the different SSD sizes. Both models feature a USB 3.0 port, an audio jack that supports both stereo out and mic in, a front-facing 2MP HD webcam, and 802.11b/g/n + BT4 Intel WLAN. The screens are 10.1" IPS panels sporting a 1366x768 resolution. Most importantly, the Edge runs a full Windows 8 operating system, which means all of today's popular PC games will run natively.
The Razer Edge features four different playable modes. Tablet mode is the standard mode, requiring no extra accessories. The caveat is that games would obviously need to support touch controls. The game Razer was showing off for this mode was Civilization V, which worked remarkably well - so well that you can see Waco's "oh my god, this is amazing!" expression in one of the images below. If you'd like a truer PC gaming experience, you can buy the optional keyboard dock for $199.99 and pair it with a mouse. For this mode, Razer was showing off RIFT. The next mode is what Razer calls "Mobile Console Mode" and is the one most of you are probably familiar with from all the Project Fiona photos in the past. The Razer Edge Gamepad Controller ($249.99) adds dual analog sticks, backlit D-Pad and A/B/X/Y buttons, and three trigger buttons for each hand. For this mode, Razer was showing off Dishonored, which looked outstanding. The last mode is referred to as "Home Console Mode" and features a docking station ($99.99) that adds three USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port, a stereo out port, and a mic in port. This allows you to connect the Razer Edge to your HDTV, hook up two gamepads, and use Steam's Big Picture mode to play your favorite games. For this mode, Razer was showing off DiRT Showdown.
We were all very impressed, but the Razer Edge is clearly not a piece of hardware for everyone, as it would set you back a minimum of $999.99. Start adding in a few of the accessories and you're easily approaching the price of a decent laptop. Still, when you consider that a 64GB iPad costs $699, the price starts to make a lot more sense with all the additional features and support. You're never going to play Civilization V, RIFT, Dishonored, and DiRT Showdown on an iPad. There is a downside to all that heavy gaming though - battery life suffers. Though the Razer site doesn't list battery life at all, Robert stated it was roughly two hours with heavy gaming and 5-6 hours of general use, though you can buy an extended battery for $49.99 that supposedly doubles that.


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My column in the Globe and Mail can be found at:
globeandmail.com go to Life then Home & Design then Gardening
Spirea 'Double Strike Red'
Read this on The Globe and Mail
I have been so busy this summer but things are returning to a normal work load so I'm hoping to be on this blog more often. And if anyone can tell be how to get a direct link to my column I would be ever so grateful.
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Dan Shaughnessy tells an emailer that he will address his David Ortiz comments on a NESN commentary soon. He sarcastically notes that "it's certainly far more important than anything else at this hour and must be addressed." He hopes that doing this will leave the emailer and their family, "fulfilled". Way to reach out to the fans, Dan.
Guests on Dale & Neumy included Peter King, as well as Cam Neely, who will be having his number retired next January by the Bruins. There was also a lot of Seabiscuit and horse racing talk. They even discussed Bill Simmons' Page2 article on the Seabiscuit movie.
An interesting stat for Manny-bashers, as provided over at Musings from RSN.
"What might be most interesting to your readers is where Manny Ramirez ranks in terms of career slugging average (based on a minimum of 5000 plate appearances). #6 all time. Behind only the best of the best. Ruth, Williams, Gehrig, Foxx, and Greenberg. And ahead of Bonds! Now that is impressive company indeed.
Win Bates gets the perspective of a few Red Sox players on what it is like to play in Boston. Jon Couture wonders if it's too early to hitch ourselves to this Red Sox wagon. Steve Solloway and Kevin Thomas write about a "Maine day rally" held by the Sox in downtown Portland yesterday.
Learned enough about Brenden Stai yet? Well, here's more from Tom King, Mark Farinella, Glen Farley, and Eric McHugh. McHugh's piece also looks at the other newcomer to the O-Line, Bill Conaty. Farinella also writes about the wife of Patriots safety Chris Akins, who is a true Patriot.


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UK government's 'Project Fact' enters final phase
Government publishes conclusions of its Scotland Analysis programme.
The UK government today (19 June 2014) publishes the conclusions of the most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of Scotland's place in the UK ever undertaken.
'United Kingdom, united future: Conclusions of the Scotland analysis programme' summarises over 1,400 pages of analysis, the opinions of hundreds of independent experts and organisations on what a separate Scotland would mean for individuals, businesses and other organisations.
The paper brings together the UK government's key findings on currency, businesses and jobs, the affordability of public services, personal finances, and Scotland's place in the world into just over 50 pages.
The findings will be shared directly with people in Scotland through the UK government's public information campaign, with a booklet going to every home in Scotland from next week.
From the outset of the Scottish referendum debate the UK government has set out to inform voters in Scotland. Voting to stay as part of the UK or for a separate Scotland is the most important decision any Scottish voter will ever make.
The Scotland analysis programme has been designed to provide the facts every Scot needs to know before the referendum.
It has included:
- 1,400 pages of analysis compared to one page of costings in the Scottish government's White Paper
- fiscal projections over 20 years based on independent forecasts, rather than the Scottish government's optimistic internal forecasts for just one year
- costed policies, rather than the Scottish government's unfunded commitments
- rigorous analysis of the currency options for a separate Scotland, showing that none of the alternatives would work as well as using the pound as part of the UK
Today's paper concludes:
As part of the UK Scotland has the best of both worlds:
With a strong Scottish Parliament, Scotland can make its own decisions in devolved areas, while sharing risks and resources with the other parts of the UK. More than 200 UK public institutions serve people in Scotland, underpinned by shared principles and values. If Scotland votes for independence this will come to an end. Scotland will leave the UK and become a new, separate state.
As part of the UK Scotland has all the advantages of the pound:
Scotland is currently an important member of one of the oldest and most stable currencies in the world, supported by the UK's strong political union. It would not be possible to recreate today's arrangements if that political union did not exist. That is why all three of the largest political parties in the UK have ruled out sharing the pound or the Bank of England in a formal currency union.
As part of the UK Scotland has lower taxes and higher public spending:
A great weight of evidence says that Scotland's finances are stronger as part of the UK. Independent experts agree that the UK offers people in Scotland lower taxes and higher public spending than would be possible in an independent Scotland. HM Treasury estimates that this is worth £1,400 per year for each person in Scotland, this is called the UK Dividend. The government of an independent Scotland would exercise additional responsibilities, but it would also have to choose whether to raise taxes, or cut public services, or both.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, said:
People need to be informed about the consequences of the Scottish referendum. That's why we have undertaken the most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of Scotland's place in the UK ever attempted. You might call it 'Project Fact' - over 1,400 pages of analysis citing hundreds of independent experts and organisations.
The conclusion is clear: almost every aspect of life in Scotland is enhanced and improved because we are part of the UK.
That's why we will share these conclusions with people in Scotland through the UK government's public information campaign, with a booklet going to every home in Scotland over the next few months.


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Hashtag Basketball / Fantasy Basketball
Week five is here in Fantasy Basketball and this article provides you with a tool to take advantage of the schedule to win your head-to-head league matchups.
Congratulations. You have survived the first month of the season! Depending on your league, there are somewhere around 15 weeks left before the playoffs begin, so still plenty of time. Now is the time of year where I seriously start exploring the trade market. I look to sure up my team and put the pieces together for a championship run.
Other than that, I am streaming away. That is what brings us together today, so let us get to it. Do not forget to check out the fantastic Advanced Schedule Grid on Hashtag Basketball.
Tip of the week: The Oklahoma City Thunder play just two games this week while nine teams play four times. That makes decisions on Russell Westbrook, Paul George, and Carmelo Anthony slightly tricky. I would bench every other Thunder play in a standard league unless I needed a center and owned Steven Adams.
Note: 20 teams play three games this week. That makes those players safer options. I doubt you are benching any top 50 player who has three games this week, so do not freak out if your lineup features a handful of three games players.
Top 10 potential pickups playing four games: (All ownership percentages based on ESPN leagues and under 40 percent owned was the cut-off for available on the waiver wire):
Head-to-head leagues with daily roster changes are the optimal conditions for streaming players. Most leagues create a limit to the additions for the week to keep the streaming from getting out of hand. That makes the goal to maximize the pickup's usefulness by using back-to-back sets or just any schedule advantage.
First, a word on the schedule itself: The two heaviest gamedays this week are Wednesday and Friday with both featuring 11 games. That will make streaming nearly impossible. Monday is next with nine games which put it on the fence. You should be able to stream on the remaining days. It is not a good week for taking advantage of the schedule, though. You may be forced to play matchups for one game only this week. Check out below to see the potential additions.
NOTE: The Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics, and Houston Rockets each have the top schedule this week with three games on light schedule days. Their players you can target and hold them through the week for three games in your starting lineup.
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Marcus Morris (30.1%)- Morris is still working his way back from injury but should see a safe 25 minutes a night and provide solid points, rebounds, and 3-pointers in that playing time.
Terry Rozier (25.6%)- Rozier is hot right, so ride the streak, but expect four rebounds, two assists, eight points, and half a steal per game on average.
Aron Baynes (6.3%)- Baynes should provide healthy rebounds in his limited playing time.
P.J. Tucker (7.2%)- Tucker is a steals and 3-pointers stream as he should provide about 1.5 per game in both categories.
The Warriors have been resting veterans and changing their rotation on a game by game basis making it difficult to endorse any bench player. I will mention Andre Iguodala for assists and David West for blocks, but both men could rest in one of these two games. Good luck.
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Perhaps, you have an extra addition heading into Sunday and would like to take advantage of both Sunday and the beginning of next week. Here is the place for you:
Taj Gibson (30.7%)- Gibson is playing 30 minutes a night and should provide close to a double-double in that time.
Kelly Oubre Jr. (21.6%)- Oubre Jr. is going to play fewer minutes with Markieff Morris ramping up his minutes, but he provided decent rebounds and steals.
Tim Frazier (0.3%)- Frazier is averaging over four assists per game in limited minutes. Not the worst addition if you need dimes.
Jamal Murray (34.4%)- Murray is a points and 3-pointers player, but he is worth owning all season long. Pick him up as the production should continue to improve for the 20-year-old.
Emmanuel Mudiay (15.8%)- Mudiay is averaging 3.5 assists per game this season and makes for a reliable stream for dimes.
Ish Smith (6.8%)- My favorite assist stream of the set as Smith can fill up the category even in limited minutes.
Bojan Bogdanovic (30.5%)- Bogdanovic is a points and 3-pointers stream and should be worth.
Corey Joseph (4.9%)- Corey Joesph provides a nice across the board stat line for a 14 or 16 team league and should help you a bit in each category for a standard league stream.
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The Ying and Yang of Life
Gold $418 Silver $7.05 Wednesday 6 October, 3am Sydney
"Either we get a rally in silver pretty quickly, or the equities must come off to reflect said metal price changes." - some clown from Oz - Minyanville Oct 5, 2004
G'day. Well, well, well. 24 hours is a long time these days. I didn't expect a 30c up day today when I wrote that. Yesterday was just a blip, apparently. I don't particularly feel comfortable with this price action and am a little perplexed as to the psyche of the market. These commodity markets either reek of death or smell of roses these days. There certainly isn't much middle ground. Stops were triggered in gold at $416 and silver around $6.85 and that was that. These days you are either very right or very wrong.
The Indian Rupee held ground against the dollar today and it appears they are still very keen importers of metal judging by the local premiums. There were many commentaries noting that there was good physical buying on yesterday's dip below $414 which should not be ignored. The physical price of gold and silver is very different from the paper price as we have mentioned ad nauseum.
I was watching silver like a hawk this morning, especially on my shorter term indicators and there was a number of different techs converging at around $6.81-82. Initially (fundamentally hard wired into my system), I wanted to be long but something didn't pass the smell test so I let it ride for a while looking for more clues. Don't bet scared money - especially in a market as unforgiving as silver. I expected a 10-15 cent move either way and, if truth be known having watched a few more attempts at the upside over a further 2 hours, I probably would have been short had I not held off for further confirmation from my indicators. Currencies were doing bugger all. European buying was noted but I am surprised that it caused such a nasty spike. Anyway, not losing is sometimes as nice as a win. Frustrating, but I learned something, and that's always a good thing. Note on a 15 minute chart the move from $6.80 to $7.05 was in 3 periods with no price overlap. That's a pretty strong move given the past 72 trading hours.
I suppose we should now be focusing on where / whether it's gonna stop and have a breather. The speculative open interest numbers are suggesting that we are nearing the same sort of exposure that we had with the last $50 brouhaha. I am of the view that we may see a new top put in, maybe even this week, but that we should certainly see another entry level closer to $400 than $420. Just opinion and don't blame me if the next stop is $450! Silver may test $7.25 on the topside although I am much more comfy with it around $6.70. We may well repeat the overbought condition of a few months back if we keep going at this rate! Caution required in silver for sure, in my opinion.
There is a very interesting view of the gold market that was presented to the LBMA in June, by a dude from the Russian Central Bank and I believe there is a link to it in Todd's Randoms. I will be interested in hearing what comes out of any discussions regarding some of their assertions although I suspect that it will be largely ignored and that some will hope that the story dies a quiet, quick death. Interestingly, Russia have been talking "reserve diversification" and they haven't shied away from gold in the past. I wonder if the Russians ever speak to the Chinese? 'Coz they got lotsa dollars to employ somewhere. Hmmmmm. My view of all this is irrelevant in the scheme of things, but this could affect the market and so we should be mindful of what MAY flow from here.
The Amex Gold Bugs Index (HUI) has reclaimed all of the recent retracement and looking for higher maybe. I see Golden Star Resources (GSS:AMEX) and Coeur D'Alene Mines (CDE:NYSE) are leading the charge higher today, as has been the norm recently. Support down near 210.
My little bloke, of cricket bat fame, immediately got what was coming to him. He woke up this morning covered in spots. Chickenpox. He's learning about the ying and yang of life.
I was enjoying a beautiful morning here in Sydney with my girl and it occurred to me that Monday Night Footy was on and so we did it "Sydney Style" for the first time. Kickoff is at 11am, just after I have had my 4 hour nap. We sorted out some beers (real ones, not that American lolly-water) and a bit of tucker and we kicked back on a perfect sunny day. The only thing missing was some Jets. I told her how this was not the "norm" and that as summer warms up we should be slurping a cheeky chardonnay while flipping prawns on the barby. All she has to do is build the barbeque.... Easy.
There is not enough beer in the universe for me to drink to make this kind of error - OUCH.
Looks like a solid close coming for the metals, all up near their highs so maybe we push this thing a little further this week.... Friday could be a seriously important day in the scheme of things for commodities in general,and am conscious of a violent dollar rally pre-election.
Enjoy the rest of your day.........
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Lonely Planet: Buy 2 Get 1 Free
Lonely Planet has a great offer right now, buy 2 books and get 1 free! Just add 3 books to your cart, and get the lowest priced book for free! Also, all orders to Canada over $40 USD ship for free via USPS.
I added 3 New Zealand guide books to my cart: one for the North Island, one for the South and a Trampling Guide. The lowest priced one ($19.99) was taken off and I qualified for free shipping, which is worth $16 to where I live! It is too late to order these books for my trip: but we are going with 2 guide books to help us plan and execute the best trip ever!
See terms and conditions here if you are having any problems. I have never ordered from Lonely Planet before so I do not know if you will be charged duty or not. I do know that they are very well known for their guide books!
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- AnnaI really like the Lonely Planet guides, I think they're excellent. I've used a few for various locations round the world; Iceland, London, Rome.