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?You're gonna feel it when it hits,? and damn, if that isn't the truth. That line comes from ?Beware,? the Zeppelin-sized, Southern-fried, '70s arena-rock stomp that introduces The Willowz?s latest album, Chautauqua, the follow-up to 2005's critically acclaimed Talk In Circles. Trading off between huge metal riffs, mind-bending psychedelia, traditional country and folk, the Willowz are a grander, more fully realized version of the White Stripes' sepia-toned dream and in 2005, the world took notice.
Rolling Stone magazine named Talk in Circles one of its "Top 50 Albums of 2005" and Willowz music horned its way on to the soundtrack for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," thanks to famed filmmaker and video visionary Michel Gondry.
It was Gondry who directed the band's "I Wonder" video and two Willowz tracks are included on "The Science of Sleep" ? another Gondry movie ? soundtrack.
Bearing the mark of the Rolling Stones' devilish sinister blues drawl, with heaping helpings of "rawk" guitar crunch, Southern gothic imagery, Black Sabbath doom-and-gloom and punk sneers (see "Evil Son" and "Siren Song"), the Willowz' Chatauqua is quite simply a beast. Songs start in one place, but end up in others, unpredictably flying from alt-country trailer homes to dark mountains of rock, where they crash and burn. But the volume doesn't drown out the band's songcraft (see the lovely acoustic ballad "Once And A While").
Recently, one of the band's founders, guitarist/vocalist Richie James Follin, who formed Willowz with bassist/singer Jessica Reynoza in Anaheim, Calif., in 2002, took time out to talk to Goldmine about Chatauqua, "dumpster vinyl" and the group's new lineup.
Goldmine: Talk In Circles was one of those albums that seemed to come out of nowhere to impress critics. What did you think when you heard Rolling Stone chose it as one its "Top 50 Albums of 2005?"
Richie James Follin: I was kinda shocked because all the other bands on the list were major-label bands and bands that had full page ads paid for in the magazine… so besides being happy about being on the list because of the music, I was happier that we were the only independent band on the list.
GM: Did you feel pressured to follow it up with something bigger and bolder?
RF: Maybe at first at the thought of making the third record, but once we got out to the country and started making it in that basement, we just kinda forgot about everything and everyone. It was more about just making something we were happy with and would have fun playing for a while on tour.
GM: What?s striking about Chautauqua is that it retains the kind of torn-and-frayed charm and energy of the first album, but it seems to have fatter grooves in the more rock-oriented tracks and a real attention to detail in ballads like ?Once And A While.? Was that simply a natural progression, a result of maturity?
RF: I think so. Plus we were playing with new members and had a lot of time to make the record. All the previous records had been rushed, and we were still new to making records, being the young lads we once were. You listen to more music, play hundreds of shows, make records, and you start understanding things you didn?t before. All of our records are different, and I think that is the best way for a band to grow into something worth existing
GM: Talk about how ?Evil Son? came together. With the string arrangements, it seems like a really ambitious piece for The Willowz, and yet it goes from down-home country to an ending that feels as heavy as Black Sabbath, ending up in places that the band seems really


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|King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of The Netherlands, Princess Beatrix and Princess Margriet of The Netherlands attended the traditional New Year Reception for Dutch guests at the Royal Palace on January 12, 2015 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Dutch Royals attend New Year Reception 2016
11 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2016 at 10:05 PM
Goodness, her hair is something else. Her mother-in-law is always immaculate.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2016 at 12:31 AM
The coat fits her well and and all in all she is well dressed for die ocasion.Delete
She ages, yes maybe she is not as healthy as should be, so who said, that life is easier as a royal?
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2016 at 10:46 PM
I like Maxima but she's aging fastly...maybe a little shot Botox into her forehead would help?!ReplyDelete
O, please, I don't like botox and she had fillers enough, at my opinion. I don't like her smile. Do you?ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, I like her smile. Very much. Have you evidence that Queen Máxima has had all these treatments, or are you merely speculating based on pictures? Even if it were true, she (and any woman) has the right to choose cosmetic intervencions and even surgery without being lambasted for it.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2016 at 7:48 AM
Queen Maxima is such a beautiful woman but the messy hair is inexcusable for a woman of her position. It is high time that she got a proper haircut and an easy to manage hair style.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2016 at 7:59 AM
I just love her animated persona and dared-to-go-there zeal for fashion while somehow remainly stately! I'm glad that she is so confident to [gasp] age. I never liked her until I followed royal fashion blogs. She has grown on me and her work with organizations promoting women in business earned my respect=)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2016 at 9:16 AM
Queen Maxima is very elegant , I like her coat , the amazing blue silk shirt, the skirt and the beautiful earrings ... I think she is getting her health back , I can see it from her shining smileReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2016 at 11:58 AM
What is wrong with aging and or aging naturally? Maxima is in her forties now, if her face was perfectly smooth without any wrinkles or lines I think she would look strange.ReplyDelete
I hope for her and for her families sake she isn't unwell, however I think she looks fantastic for her age. There is nothing wrong with smile lines.
Maxima is a lovely looking woman who looks her age, and I applaud that!
I hate mask like faces. I like to see women who embrace aging with grace.
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2016 at 12:36 PM
Eugie 23:50ReplyDelete
She already had fillers? Oh then the result has never been sufficient, cause she looks wrinkeled ever since I remember her. But nonetheless I like her. Basically I like her smile and aliveness.
wat mijn opvalt dat de koning zijn haar is goed geknipt,ReplyDelete
hij ziet er veel jonger uit !!!!
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I had my court date today. I ended up having to pay $90. I figured I'd have to pay a lot more than that. Here's how the money was broken up:
Non-Scheduled Charge: $25.00
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text: On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:16:46PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:> On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 18:36 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:> > > > > What bounds the amount of memory waiting to be freed during an rcu grace> > > > period?> > >> > > Most RCU implementations don't have limits, so that could be quite a> > > lot. I think preemptible RCU has a batch limit at which point it tries> > > rather hard to force a grace period, but I'm not sure if even that> > > provides a hard limit.All the TREE_RCU variants will get more aggressive about forcing graceperiods if any given CPU has more than 10,000 callbacks posted. When thishappens, the call_rcu() variants will try to push things ahead.> > > Practically though, I haven't had reports of PPC/Sparc going funny> > > because of this.> > > > It could be considered a DoS if a user is able to free page tables> > faster than rcu is able to recycle them, possibly triggering the oom> > killer (should that force a grace period before firing from the hip?)> > One would think that would be a good thing, yes. However I cannot seem> to find anything like that in the current OOM killer. David, Paul, I> seem to have vague recollections of a discussion about RCU vs OOM, what> was the resolution (if anything) and would something like the below make> sense?> > ---> mm/oom_kill.c | 3 +++> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)> > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c> index 46bf2ed5..244a371 100644> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c> @@ -607,6 +607,9 @@ int try_set_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist, gfp_t gfp_mask)> struct zone *zone;> int ret = 1;> > + synchronize_sched();> + synchronize_rcu();This will wait for a grace period, but not for the callbacks, which arethe things that actually free the memory. Given that, should we insteaddo something like: rcu_barrier();Note that rcu_barrier() and rcu_barrier_sched() are one and the samefor CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels, and there seems to be a lot morecall_rcu() than call_rcu_sched(), so I left out the rcu_barrier_sched().That said, this does have the effect of delaying the startup of the OOMkiller, and it does nothing to tell RCU that accelerating grace periodswould be a good thing. If DoS attack is a theoretical possibility ratherthan a real bug, is a pure wait on RCU the right approach.Alternative approaches include:1. OOM killer calls into RCU, which arranges to become more aggressive about forcing grace periods. (For example, RCU could set a flag that caused it to act as if there were lots of callbacks posted.)2. RCU provides an API that forces grace periods, perhaps invoked from a separate kthread so that the OOM killer can proceed in parallel with RCU's grace-period forcing.3. Like #2, but invoke it a bit earlier than the OOM killer would normally start running. Thanx, Paul> spin_lock(&zone_scan_lock);> for_each_zone_zonelist(zone, z, zonelist, gfp_zone(gfp_mask)) {> if (zone_is_oom_locked(zone)) {>


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Seventy-eight-year-old Andrew Marshall runs the Office of Net Assessment from a small office on the third floor of the Pentagon. It's a small shop by Pentagon standards–it currently has a staff of twelve–but also an influential one, with a slew of Marshall's former staffers having gone on to industry, academia and military think tanks.
Marshall appears infrequently in the press, but when he does he is treated with the sort of reverence normally reserved for incoming presidents. A 1998 article in Defense News called the ONA an agency that "funds innovative studies on futuristic threats, often ones that the rest of the Pentagon is fearful of tackling." A Wall Street Journal profile a few years earlier described Marshall as someone "struggling to save the U.S. armed forces from becoming paralyzed by their own successes in the Cold War and Desert Storm."
Most fawning of all was an April 1999 Washingtonian article by Jay Winik (author of On the Brink, a cartoonish history of the cold war that argues that caped crusaders Elliott Abrams, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Richard Perle and Max Kampelman brought down the Soviet Union). Sprawling over ten pages, Winik's story called Marshall "the most influential man you've never heard of," a "legend among the national security elite" and a "key figure, even the central figure, in reshaping America's military for the next century." According to Winik, Marshall's powers of foresight are so extraordinary that he was one of the first people on the planet to understand the risk posed by AIDS. "This is going to be much bigger than anyone realizes," Winik has Marshall telling his staff at the ONA in the early eighties. Soon, Marshall's office was on the phone with the Centers for Disease Control, urging the agency to devote more resources to the emerging scourge.
Critics of Marshall say his reputation rests on his ability to provide the philosophical scaffolding required by the military-industrial complex. "Andy's one of those defense intellectuals who're always there to come up with the stuff that backs the needs of industry," says an ex-Pentagon staffer and longtime Marshall watcher who asked not to be named. (Marshall declined a request for an on-the-record interview.)
Marshall grew up in Detroit and received a graduate degree in economics from the University of Chicago. He took a job at the RAND Corporation in 1949 and worked with nuclear intellectuals such as Herman Kahn and Albert Wohlstetter. While there, Marshall and several colleagues played an important if hidden role in the 1960 presidential election when they served as advisers to John Kennedy and devised the bogus "missile gap," which JFK used to pillory Richard Nixon.


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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Mike Budd, using a suit of Hyde's Squib sails, has just won Welsh Squib Week.
Once again, South Canaervon YC hosted the Welsh open Squib Week, which ran from August 7-12 with 25 boats enjoying an almost unique combination of competitive racing and off water socials (golf, eating, dancing and much drinking!).
Sunday was one of the two one-race days, and was combined with the club's 'Lighthouse Island pursuit race', which traditionally marks the start of Squib week. This was won by Mike and James Budd in 'Harry 2', who snatched victory from Dave Best/Matt Johnson in 'Crossfire' and Alan Johnson/Dave Garlick in 'Nimbus', literally in the last 50 metres!
Monday dawned with a bit more breeze, 20-25 knots. Principal Race Officer Tom Milne efficiently banged off two excellent races. 'Harry 2' scored 1,3, 'Crossfire' 4,1 and 'Nimbus' 6,2 . Malcolm Blackburn/Dave Shiel in 'Moonstone' started to make their presence felt with a second in race two, but current national champion Chris Hogan and Mark Thompson in 'RicOshea' were a little off their usual pace their best being a fifth.
Tuesday saw lighter airs and it was definitely 'Moonstone's' day scoring 4,2, 'Harry 2' had their worst day with 5,3 and 'RicOshea' and 'Crossfire' had a victory each.
Wednesday was scheduled to be the other single-race day with an evening race, but rain and gusts of 32kts forced a rare SCYC cancellation. This was all made up for on Thursday when three races were sailed in ideal conditions 22 knots and sunshine. 'Harry 2' scored 3 bullets with 'Nimbus' next best with 4,2,2. 'Crossfire' had a poor day by their usual heavy air standards scoring 2,3,5.
On Friday 'Harry 2' scored a second in lighter airs from 'Nimbus', which was more than enough to clinch the series with a race to spare. 'Crossfire' worn the final race of the series.
Overall Results: 1st 'Harry 2' Mike Budd 13pts; 2nd 'Crossfire' Dave Best 19pts; 3rd 'Nimbus' Alan Johnson 21pts; 4th 'Moonstone' Malcolm Blackburn 31 pts; 5th 'RicOshea' Chris Hogan 33pts.


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|Extreme sports, drinking Soda, rock music
|Episode Count:
|78 (canon)
Coming soon! (fanon)
Disco Bear
Evil Flippy
|Love Interest(s):
|Giggles (girlfriend)
|Kill Count:
|9 (canon)
Coming soon! (fanon)
|Coming soon!
|First Appearance:
|"Spin' Fun Knowin' Ya"
|First Victim:
or Flaky (canon)
Evil Flippy
or Toothy (fanon)
|from "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya
from "Let it Slide"
from "Trouble Double Crosser
from "When You Fish Upon a Star"
|First Death:
|"Spin' Fun Knowin' Ya"
|Voice Actor/Actress:
|Kenn Navarro
|2000 - present
Character BioEdit
A yellow rabbit with pink cheeks who inexplicably wears pink bunny slippers. His white fluffy curly hair tuft and cotton tail look exactly the same. His ears move to match how he feels. For example, if he's happy they'll stay up, and when he's upset they'll drop. Cuddles is one of the primary characters in the series. Like Giggles, Toothy and Lumpy, he appears in many of the advertisements. Cuddles was the second character to be created in Happy Tree Friends (the first being Shifty). Creator Rhode Montijo first drew his in a piece of paper with the phrase Resistance Is Futile above and that was how the creators got the idea for the show. His voice is even performed by the co-creator of the show Kenn Navarro.
Cuddles' personality is somewhat mixed. On one hand he can be dangerously mischievous and fairly self-centered. Both of these characteristics have led to both his death and other characters' deaths. On the other hand he is, most of the time, lovable, friendly, sweet and caring, making his personality more complex than the others. As revealed in Sweet Ride, he is referred to as a skaterboy. He was seen to have multiple houses, but his official one is known to be a hollow tree, as it is the only one to appear more than once (In a Jam and Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow). he is particularly good friends withToothy, Flippy, Petunia, Flaky, and Lumpy. Cuddles and Giggles are also very close friends, and it has been hinted several times they have crushes on each other. Their relationship is most prominent in the Fall Out Boy music video: The Carpal Tunnel of Love and hinted at in the internet episode I Nub You.
With 59 deaths, Cuddles is the character who has been killed the most times in the Happy Tree Friends franchise. He is also the character who has, so far, been killed by Flaky, Toothy, Disco Bear, Lumpy and Flippy the most (though, to be fair, Flippy and Lumpy generally kill everyone in episodes in which they are featured).
While he dies a lot in the Internet and TV series, Cuddles has survived in Doggone It, Sea What I Found, A Change of Heart, A Sight for Sore Eyes, Letter Late Than Never, Double Whammy Part 1 (but not part 2), We're Scrooged!, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm episode, (debatably) Mime to Five, I Nub You, YouTube 101: Subscriptions, (debatably) A Bit of a Pickle, Star Kringle, By the Seat of Your Pants, And You're Kraken Me Up. He also survived the HTF Break shorts Deck the Halls, We Wish You, Take Your Seat, Happy New Year, Youtube Copyright School, and Oh Xmas Tree.His deaths often involve his body getting sliced up and flying organs.
Cuddles is one of the characters to have an account on Myspace. It mentions that he actually is allergic to carrots since they make him choke. This is possibly evidenced by the 'Feed' option of his Smoochie. In addition, it mentions he collects pand powerful antique electric toothbrushes and his fur is highly protected from the sun. He may look like a cute, cuddly, and sweet bunny rabbit (which is why his name is Cuddles) on the outside, but on the inside he's known as a rebellious Happy Tree Friend. His talents include extreme sports like skateboarding, surfing, and soccer. He even appears as a daredevil in Mime to Five. Cuddles loves listening to rock music, and he was once a member of "The Happy Tree Band." As evidenced in the Happy Tree Friends Break: Seize the Day, Cuddles suffers from epilepsy the same way Handy does. He has appeared on one of the episodes of The God and Devil Show on God's keys, when they were chasing Robert Downey Jr, Cuddles is one of the characters to have more interactive with others charactes in the series. He also made a cameo appearance on Gundarr, another Mondo show, in the form of a background totem.
Cuddles' EpisodesEdit
Famous KillEdit
- Flaky from Let it slide
Occupations and CareersEdit
For more information, see List of Occupations
- Firefighter - Who's to Flame[1]
- Soccer Player - A Change of Heart
- Christmas Play Actor - Class Act
- Daredevil - Mime to Five
- Journalist - See What Develops
- Delivery Boy - Aw, Shucks!
- Replacement Lead Guitarist/Rock Musician - In a Jam
- Carol Singer - Kringle Carols, Deck the Halls; We Wish You
- Swimmer - By The Seat Of Your Pants
Seen on Computer and on TVEdit
- Banjo Frenzy (Pilot Episode): Sliced in half by Lumpy's banjo.
- Spin Fun Knowin' Ya: Flies into a plane's engine.
- Water You Wading For?: Crushed by a whale after getting attacked by multiple sea creatures
- Sweet Ride: Accidentally skateboards into a small stairway, cutting him in 3 pieces: His legs, his torso with the lower half of his head, and the higher half of his head. His eye then is impaled by an ice cream cone.
- This Is Your Knife: Flippy cuts him open with a knife and pulls out his intestines after getting his face scraped off by a rock.
- Happy Trails: Cut in half by a school bus window.
- Flippin' Burgers: Dies of massive blood loss when Flippy somehow impales his throat with a straw, though attempting to drink back the blood
- Class Act: Dies in an explosion.
- I Get a Trick Out of You: Split in half by Lumpy, barely surviving, but later Lumpy accidentally cuts off his blood supply, to do a magic Trick.
- Keepin' it Reel: Flippy uses Flaky as a mace to hit him with, possibly causing too much blood loss. (Debatable)
- Let it Slide: Cut in half by a broken water slide.
- Remains to be Seen: (1) Run over by Flippy's truck. (2) Dies when Ghoul Flippy's brain explodes.
- From A to Zoo: Eye pierced by a helium tank, filling his brain with helium.
- Kringle Feast: Dies in an explosion caused by Lumpy.
- Kringle Karols: Impaled through the head by an icicle.
- Ski Patrol: Slammed into an ambulance, blown up by a helium tank, and buried in snow.
- YouTube Live Episode: Slammed against the walls of a crane machine multiple times.
- The Wrong Side of the Tracks: Dies of blood loss when his hands are ripped off on a wall.
- From Hero to Eternity: Explodes when Splendid gives him mouth to mouth.
- And the Kitchen Sink: Gets run over by Pop's SUV.
- Party Animal: Flippy ties balloons around his neck forcing him up into a ceiling fan, where he is shredded.
- Ipso Fatso: Crashes his car into a tree, where his body is forced through a knot in tree.
- Don't Yank My Chain: Falls into a well with his head stuck in the bucket and is decapitated when rope stops.
- Concrete Solution: Dies when the highway bridge falls apart or when the ambulance hits his car.
- Who's to Flame?: Impaled vertically by a fence post
- Take a Hike: Impaled on a sharp rock.
- Snow Place to Go: Half his body gets eaten by an orca.
- Dunce Upon a Time: Ground to death in a pepper grinder
- Gems the Breaks: Flung out of a bus when and flies into a wood chipper along with T[2]
oothy and Sniffles.
- A Hole Lotta Love: The front wall of his house falls on him and slicing him vertically into 6 pieces from a window frame.
- Mime to Five: Blown in half by a cannon with too much gun powder in it. Likely dies of blood loss or the killer ducks. (Debatable, as he suffered a similar injury in I Get a Trick Out of You and survived to make it to the hospital. Depending on how quickly he was helped, he may have lived through this or not).
- Blast From the Past: 1) Launched off a seesaw into outer space, where he is frozen and then broken to pieces by a satellite. 2) Same death as Spin Fun Knowin' Ya.
- See What Develops: Accidentally frozen by Splendid's ice breath. Splendid tries to thaw Cuddles out with his laser vision, only to have Cuddles shatter into a bunch of ice cubes.
- Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Accidentally knocked into a wood slicer by Mole.
- Aw, Shucks!: Sliced vertically in half by railroad crossing gate.
- Wipe Out!: Impaled on a buoy.
- Wingin' It: Cut in half by airplane tray table when Lumpy, who was sitting in front of Cuddles, reclines his seat.
- Easy Comb, Easy Go: Unknowingly drinks a bottle of hair growth formula and suffocates on the hair that grows inside of him.
- In a Jam: Mole unknowingly administers an IV full of chair cushioning to Cuddles, causing his body to expand to the size of a recliner. Cuddles dies from suffocation and/or having his internal organs crushed.
- Junk in the Trunk: Forced through a pulley.
- Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: Cut to pieces by the tail of Flippy's helicopter. (Along with Flippy)
- Autopsy Turvy/Double Whammy Part 2: Crushed by Cro-Marmot when Flippy's van crashed into the house.
- Winter Break: Stabbed in the eye by a jack-in-box.
- The Carpal Tunnel of Love: Gets impaled through his mouth by a pipe.
- Can't Stop Coffin: Crushed by Lumpy's truck.[3]
- Peas in a Pod: Killed by a Pod Lumpy with a mop.
- Seize the Day: Suffers an epileptic seizure, gets electrocuted by Lumpy, then choked by game controller.
- Wrath of Con: Squashed in the comic con convention center.
- Strain Kringle: Impaled through the eye by a telescope.
- A Bit of a Pickle: Gets his ears and feet sliced off by Lumpy when his car door slams shut on him and probably dies later from blood loss (debatable).
- See You Later, Elevator: Gets half his body cut in half when elevator closes in between him. Likely dies of blood loss or from the fiery explosion.
- Happy New Year: Lumpy slams the door on him. (debatable, because no blood was seen)
- Claw Death 1: Lifty and Shifty rip his lower half off, causing his intestines and blood to pour out.
- Claw Death 2: Skin ripped off by a claw. (debatable, since Flaky had a similar injury in Class Act and survived)
- New Season Trailer: Shot in the head numerous times by Flippy
- Breaking Wind: Broken in half when Splendid flies through him.
- Buns of Steal: Decapitated by Lifty's veins.
- Cubtron Z: Head Crushed by Spreading against a building by Cubtron.
- Camp Pokeneyeout: Crushed by a boulder, along with Toothy.
- First Blood DVD Cover: Cuddles sticks a fork in the outlet and gets electrocuted.
- DVD First Blood Promo: Cuddles is crushed by a large television after Lumpy managed to fix it.
- DVD Second Serving Promo: Cuddles is left in a microwave and burns to death when the microwave was on.
- Hot Topic/Youtube Live Promo: Cuddles gets slammed around to death by the mechanical claw in a crane game. Cuddles was one of the prizes, along with Giggles, Toothy, Nutty, Handy, Lifty, Shifty, Lumpy, and Flippy. As they witness Cuddles' death, they immediately try to escape from the machine in fear of them being next. This was also used as the Happy Tree Friends section on YouTube Live 2008.
- Cuddles Pet Smoochie Feed: Chokes on a carrot.
- Cuddles Pet Smoochie Clean: While taking a shower, the water level goes too high up and he drowns.
- Cuddles Pet Smoochie Sleep: Gets hit by nine tranquilzer darts and dies of low blood pressure.
- Slap Happy iPhone App: Would get sliced in half by a chainsaw, would have a pipe fall in his mouth and choke him, or would have gotten squished.
- Get Into Advertising: Crushed by a huge safe.
Seen on ComicsEdit
- HTF Comic #1 & #2: Gets whacked to death by Lumpy, thinking he was a pinata.
- I Get a Kick Out of You: Head kicked off by Lumpy.
- Big Bubble Trouble: Killed when a large bubble popped, along with Lumpy and Petunia.
- Making a Good Bleed: Killed in a car explosion, along with Giggles, Pop, and Flaky.
Seen in Arcade GamesEdit
- Hot Potato: Dies in an explosion.
- Fire Escape: Splatters on the ground.
- Ice Slide: Ran over by Cro-Marmot.
- Hare Trigger - 1. Dies after been shot out of a cannon and onto the ground. 2. Eaten by killer ducks 3. Intestines get wrapped around a shovel handle.
- Lumpy's Lame Card Trick: (Card #2) Lumpy accidentally killed Cuddles while he pulled a bunny hat trick.
- Sweet Ride Skate: Has his face scraped away against the ground.
- Dumb Ways to Die: Same death as Cuddles's Pet Smoochie Clean option; however, the shower concept is cut.
Seen on Computer and on TVEdit
- Spin Fun Knowin' Ya: Arms get dismembered as he hangs on to the merry-go-round for dear life.
- Class Act: Has his head forced out of the hole in his costume, forming a bloody cylinder, which bounces down the stairs. Some fans call it the "Head Slinky". Oddly, the rest of his body still seems to remain intact, and in the shot featuring Mole, Pop, and Cub, one of his hands reaches up.
- I Get a Trick Out of You: Sawed in half by Lumpy, performing a magic trick on Cuddles (though his intestines remain uncut).
- Ski Patrol: Broken leg is constricted by a tight splint.
- The Wrong Side of the Tracks: Hands cut off by a small tunnel, radius invisible.
- From Hero to Eternity: Impaled through the eye with a sharp stone caught in a snowball thrown by Giggles.
- Doggone It: Attacked by a giant squid.
- Take a Hike: (before death) Snake's poison is spat into his eyes, melting them.
- Mime to Five: Blown out of a cannon, and, due to there being too much gunpowder, his body is cut in half with his intestines connecting both parts together.
- A Sight for Sore Eyes: Mole drops chunks of Handy's brain in his drink, making him sick.[4]
- In a Jam: (before death) 1. Stabbed multiple times in the arm with a needle. 2. His right eye is split in half when a string on his guitar breaks while auditioning for the "Happy Tree Band". 3. Ruptures his ear drums and is knocked away from the sound of a loud amplifier.
- Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: Half his face is burnt by coffee.
- Can't Stop Coffin: (before death) 1. While trying to get out of a coffin, the tips of his fingers get scratched off. 2. Half his face is scraped off by Lumpy's truck, removing one of his eyes. 3. Mole takes his other eye out, thinking it was an apple.
- False Alarm Episode: Thrown out of his car onto the pavement.
- Wrath of Con: Splendid ruptured his ears and the fire was on his body.
- A Bit of a Pickle: Ears and feet sliced off after having his car door slammed shut on him by Lumpy (if he wasn't killed).[5]
- Happy New Year: Hit by Lumpy's van door.
- Blood Sample B: Ear cut off.
- Don't forget the Sunscreen Wallpaper: An alligator bites some skin on his back revealing his buttocks.
- Slap Happy: Cheek slapped by a finger, crashes into walls when device is shaken up, and/or would get electrocuted.
- Hare Comes the Sun July 2007 Calendar: Left side of his body is severly burned by the sun. Strangly though, he doesn't seem to notice or even care.
- HTF Bunch Wallpaper: Stabbed in the calf muscle by Flippy.
- Hare Trigger: Blown in half by the cannon.
- Deadeye Derby: Gets hit on the eyes, head, or body with rocks.(Character selection) Hand gets burned by a hot marshmallow.
Number of KillsEdit
- Giggles - 0
- Toothy - 2 ("Strain Kringle", "Star Kringle")
- Lumpy - 1 ("In a Jam")
- Petunia - 0
- Handy - 1 ("In a Jam")
- Nutty - 0
- Sniffles - 1 ("In a Jam")
- Pop - 0
- Cub - 0
- Flaky - 2 ("Let it Slide", "Mime to Five" along with Mime)[6]
- Mole - 0
- Disco Bear - 0
- Russell - 0
- Lifty - 0
- Shifty - 0
- Mime - 0
- Cro-Marmot - 0
- Flippy - 0
- Splendid - 0
- Lammy - 0
- Generic Tree Friends - 0
- Others - 0
Survival RateEdit
- Internet series: 26.36%
- TV series: 22.5%
- If you don't count irregular episodes, Cuddles would be one of the four characters to die in all of their starring roles. The others would be (debatably) Petunia, Lifty, and Shifty.
- It's shown that Cuddles is aware that he frequently dies shown in Blast From The Past where he said "Oh My God, I'm gonna die! Not this old death again!".
- He dies in every debut. He dies in his Internet debut Spin Fun Knowin' Ya, died in his TV episode debut The Wrong Side of the Tracks, and he died in his pilot debut Banjo Frenzy.
- Cuddles is the original Happy Tree Friend and debatably the most famous and liked character.
- He appears in the first 9 TV episodes and dies in 7 or 6 of them.
- He can sometimes be mischievous and bratty, as seen in From A to Zoo and Water You Wading For.
- Cuddles and Toothy are the first duo in which both partners have killed each other. In other duos, one kills the other, but not the other way around.
- Most of the time, Cuddles keeps his bunny slippers on, but in the episodes Happy Trails pt. 1 and Home is Where the Hurt is, Cuddles' slippers are seen off of his feet after his deaths. This is also seen that one slipper flew off of his foot on the Overkill DVD set box.
- There was a goof in The Carpal Tunnel of Love where Cuddles was seen without his slippers
- Cuddles has a pet mouse that he lets it ride on his shoulder, feeding it a piece of cheese in the episode, Junk in the Trunk.
- Cuddles is a lefty in Can't Stop Coffin Blurb, but is a righty in In a Jam.
- The Collect Them All section of the First Blood DVD reveals that Cuddles has a Master's Degree in Karate.
- He likes the color of pink as he has been seen with a strawberry ice cream cone, his pink slippers, his pink cheeks, and his girlfriend Giggles (who has pink fur).
- According to the Pop Corn video version of Spin Fun Knowin' Ya in the First Blood DVD, it proclaims that Cuddles starred in the Ninja movie series called "Paws of Fury", a parody of the Bruce Lee movie Fist of Fury. The joke is that Cuddles is a rabbit.
- In the arcade game, Crazy Disco, he is seen wearing a bikini, even though he is a male character. In the updated version of the game, Disco Inferno, he is only wearing his normal bunny slippers.
- When he's playing soccer, he wears pink bunny slippers with cleats and an angry look.
- During the TV series he is often the first character to die, especially when there is a large cast. He was the first to die in From Hero to Eternity, Don't Yank My Chain, Who's to Flame?, Gems the Breaks, Home Is Where the Hurt Is, Aw Shucks!, Wingin' It and Autopsy Turvy (Double Whammy Part 2). On the other hand, he was the last to die in In a Jam, Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow, See What Develops, and Easy Comb, Easy Go.
- Cuddles died in every season 1 and season 2 Internet episode he appeared in.
- Cuddles has the most deaths out of all the characters, despite not being killed by The Cursed Idol.
- Cuddles was the first to die in the HTF Break Shorts.
- The only times in the TV series where Cuddles does not appear in all three segments are Four on the Floor, Marooned Five, Behind the Eight Ball, Nine Lives, Eleventh Hour, and Twelfth Night.
- Cuddles is the playable character in the new Happy Tree Friends iPhone app: Slap Happy.
- So far, his only survived starring role episode was YouTube 101: Subscriptions.
- Cuddles is one of the five characters who die in almost all of their starring roles, but has survived in one of them. The other four are Toothy, Flaky, Russell, and Sniffles.
- In Cuddles' account on MySpace, it mentions that he is allergic to carrots because they make him choke, which is possibly evidenced by the Feed option of him Smoochie. However, this was never officially confirmed by Mondo Media and it is also possible that the choke was merely due to the carrot being stuck in Cuddles' throat, without being an allergic reaction.
- There is no blood in Cuddles' Smoochie.
- He has the third highest number of appearances (behind Lumpy and Giggles).
- Cuddles has the second highest number of appearances in the TV series, only behind Lumpy. The only TV episodes he didn't appear in are Easy For You to Sleigh, Wishy Washy, Every Litter Bit Hurts, As You Wish, Chew Said a Mouthful, Idol Curiosity, Tongue in Cheek, and I've Got You Under My Skin.
- The only main characters who haven't killed Cuddles yet are Handy, Cub, Russell and Lammy.
- In the TV series Lumpy, Cro-Marmot and Mole appeared in all of his starring roles.
- Cuddles may resemble Pikachu from Pokemon. Back when the first episode of Happy Tree Friends premiered (late 1999), Pokemon was incredibly popular.
- Cuddles' season 1 intro was very similar to Petunia's season 1 intro.
- Cuddles survives in By The Seat Of Your Pants, the Season 3 finale, and in You're Kraken Me Up, the Season 4 premiere.
- His season 4 alliterate sentence is:"Caring and sharing is cause for charming and cheers". His starring page is similar to his Season 2 intro.
- Cuddles, along with Lifty, Handy and Lumpy make a cameo appearance as a totem pole in Gundarr, another Mondo Media show.
- There is a Halloween Costume of Cuddles with a saw impaled in his chest.
- He's the only character to be a rabbit/hare in the entire series.
- Even though he has the most deaths, he doesn't have the lowest survival rate. The character who has the lowest survival rate is Handy.
- Cuddles is the only one out of the four primary characters (himself, Giggles, Toothy, and Lumpy) who has less than 20 kills.


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Doin' It Bloggystyle: Blackstones, Meet The Blackstones
By Adam Warner Jun 04, 2007 3:06 pm
Minyanville brings together the best of what they are saying "out there" about the topics we're talking about right here.
Blogs themselves need no introduction, as they get as much publicity as pretty much anything these days, save maybe the latest Britney news. There's an expanding world of excellent financial blogs, covering pretty much everything from global economics to swing trading. Minyanville's goal is to bring together the best of what they are saying "out there" about the topics we're talking about right here.
"What's the matter with Blackstone, he's allright!"
- Terms of the IPO are set, as per 24/7 Wall Street.
- What are they saying about it in China? Here's a taste. If you can read Mandarin. Or whatever this is, lol.
Look Into the Crystal Ball
I predict that in ten years, there will only be a few ETF's. And only the four richest kings in the world will be able to afford them.
- But I could be wrong. If so, Bespoke Investment Group has Cheat Sheets to help you sort through all current ETF's here and here. (Hat Tip Abnormal Returns).
- Random Roger compares a package of individual country plays vs. the EAFE products.
- So what else is new? A new Healthcare X-Shares product, via ETF Trends.
- And I am in the registration stage for my new A-Rod based ETF.
- Ticker Sense polls a bunch of bloggers each week and comes up with a sentiment reading, most recently here.
- In the interests of full disclosure, I am part of the survey, but I have checked off Neutral virtually every time. I'm not a big directional caller.
- Fallond Picks takes a look at the data.
Don't Know About Geometry
- A Dash of Insight declares War on Parabolas. Or rather the hyperbole around parabolas.
- The point being, everyone is quick to call the lift in the markets parabolic, but few know what that actually means.
- Do I know? Hard to define parabola, although I think I would know it if I see it on my hotel set-top box.
Thoughs From an Overhyped Weekend
- Take four hours to play nine innings and you might even see A-Rod hit a 9th inning homer. Which should give him a one-week booing hiatus.
- I mean seriously, the Yankees might have five fewer wins without him this year.
- My first reaction when they were making sure Doug Mientkiewicz was still alive on Saturday was that they should ask him to sign over the 2004 World Series ball before he regains his senses.
- And spell his last name, says With Leather.
- So now all eyes turn towards Roger Clemens "fatigued groin."
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Marlins were beaten 26-18 at Featherstone Lions in the Division One promotion play-off semi-final.
Lions – who finished fourth, one place ahead of Milford – will play Skirlaugh at Widnes' Select Security Stadium on Saturday for a place in the top flight next year.
Milford led 14-12 at half-time, through tries by Matt Brocksom and Mark Judge and three goals from Ryan Oxtoby, but managed only a Joe Ramsden touchdown in the second half.
Scott Glassell bagged a brace for Lions in the second half, after Sam Wilson and Gaz Gale crossed in the opening 40 minutes.
Glassell also kicked three goals and Liam Kay landed two.
Skirlaugh beat visitors Normanton Knights 31-24 in the other semi-final.
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Whether the President can raise taxes only in Minnesota is doubtful, but with the deficit being what it is, it's worth a shot. Perhaps the 1984 election results give Mr. Reagan that much White House latitude. Beyond that, who is to say? What is certain is that folks will be analyzing the voting results for weeks to come.
We are now entering the period when analysts and commentators begin talking to themselves more than to others. To the average consumer, if there is such a thing, it all seems like trying to analyze why more people select vanilla ice cream over strawberry.
It always helps American politics to have a close race like the last one. I speak, of course, about the neck-and-neck contest for the state of Minnesota. Mondale finally won it, but no one knows why. So far, no one has implied it was a racist vote - or whatever you would call it, with so many Norwegians running around that state. My own conclusion on the Mondale win is that Minnesota is the only state in the Union that wants its taxes raised.
And why did Ronald Reagan win all the other states? It may simply come back to the reasons people select vanilla instead of strawberry. They like it better. Besides, in vanilla you get the pure bean. In strawberry there is a foreign ingredient.
This being Walter Mondale's first, and avowedly last, time he runs for president, it is not surprising to make mistakes. One might have been made in the early stages, getting so many different kinds of people to support him. He simply collected the entire nationwide anti-Reagan vote, which includes a multitude of very awesome bedfellows. Maybe just strawberry isn't a good comparison. It was more like heavenly hash.
Anyway, vanilla ice cream won, even though strawberry - or heavenly hash - had lots of trimmings.


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Tomorrow's New York Times tries to keep alive the "issue" of Fred Thompson's work on behalf of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. The Arent Fox law firm has apparently found its billing records and provided them to the Times–they should give the Rose Law Firm lessons in how to preserve billing records–and the files confirm that Thompson did a de minimis amount of work for the abortion rights group in 1991 and 1992.
Specifically, over that one to two year period, he spent a whopping 3.3 hours lobbying "administration officials" on behalf of the organization, and also talked to its president 22 times, presumably advising her about how to take her case to the executive branch. Nothing in the records contradicts Thompson's statements that 1) he has no recollection of working on behalf of this group, and 2) he is quite sure that he did not lobby John Sununu on its behalf.
Arent Fox's current chairman, Marc Fleischaker, says,
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Friday, February 26, 2016
It's a killer-robot rampage in Kill Command
There is indeed a bad-ass looking killer-robot movie coming out, and it's called Kill Command. And it has some of the most awesome killer robots I've seen since the original Terminator back in '84. AND it has some of the slickest production values this side of a Hollywood blockbuster, which means, when the cash is right, who needs Hollywood.
Not a question. A statement.
Anyway, here's the trailer for the bad-ass looking killer-robot movie:
Written and directed by Steven Gomez, Kill Command is essentially soldiers go into the woods, soldiers get dead . . . at the mechanical hands of killer robots. But I'm OK with that! Vanessa Kirby stars as a mystery woman/cyborg who might be the key to the soldiers' survival.
No word on a North American release, but Kill Command opens in the UK (lucky bastards) May 13.
Now, if this got funding, I'm sure we can find some $ for John Fallon and I to get The Shadowing off the ground!
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Take a bow, Sunny Hostin. You've just asked the most preposterous post-2016 presidential election question yet.
Hostin is a co-host of "The View," the show that features a panel of women who sit around and gab about the "hot topics" of the day. Their guest today was U.S. Sen. John McCain, whose daughter, Meghan, has just joined the lineup of "The View."
She asked the senator if he is "afraid of" Donald Trump, who has drawn a lot of fire from McCain over this and that issue since he became president The question drew howls of laughter from the audience — and from the senator!
"I mentioned that I had faced greater challenges," McCain eventually replied once he stopped laughing.
Let's see, how has the senator fared over the course of his life?
McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. Then he flew fighter jets during the Vietnam War. He got shot down over Hanoi in 1967. McCain was held captive for more than five years. He was tortured, beaten to within an inch of his life; he was held in isolation for months at a time.
McCain would be released in 1973. He ran for Congress, landing eventually in the Senate. He ran for president twice, losing the Republican primary in 2000 to George W. Bush and the 2008 general election to Barack H. Obama.
Oh, and then there's this: He's now fighting brain cancer with what I am believing is an iffy prognosis. Sen. McCain is in the middle of the fight of his life. Yet he is proceeding courage and is exhibiting the same fighting spirit he revealed when he was held by vicious enemy captors.
Is he afraid of Donald J. Trump — a man who knows not a damn thing about the kind of sacrifice that servicemen and women such as McCain have given to their country?
I cannot say this enough about Sen. McCain. I more often disagree with his policy positions than I agree with them. However, he embodies the very definition of courage.
I didn't hear Hostin pose the question in real time, but I'll presume she offered it in good faith.
The senator's reaction speaks volumes about his opinion of the president of the United States.


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Monday, 25 April 2011
well, not really. i still need to whip an end paper that dosn't totally suck ASS, but the heavy lifting's done. thank god.
initially when tutor man said i should go back and colour it by hand, i was all like;
but in hindsight, i'm so fucking glad i took him up on it. the digital colouring was totally oppressive and dead. like to think this is a bit more spritly. also, watercolours and photoshop play surprisingly nice together. take note for future reference.
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Labels: illustration, macmillan, photos, uni, well thank fuck for that
life drawing.... FROM LIFE!
in other news, i got an email from the new york musical saw festival. i don't know wether to be totally heart broken i can't go or a little weirded out that they know i have one...
and in other other news, here's an article from /slashfilm.com show casing some totally awesome mock up posters for that hanna movie. gosh, these are tight. that jock chap is a total genius when it comes to design and mind bending perspective. it makes me rather sad that nowadays, film posters seem so keen on plugging what names and faces are in the flick they're advertising, rather than trying to do something clever with the concept.
but then that would probably make for tres shitty marketing.
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Labels: cool stuff, hanna, life drawing, uni
Sunday, 24 April 2011
so in honour of our campus being reduced to a pile of rubble this summer, the university's putting together a book with drawings and photos and what not of the old girl.
i'm kinda sorta a little bit desolated.
the place is totally quirky, higgldy-piggldy and has a real charm... unlike the sterile, super-swish building we'll be in next year. siiiiigh. and as much as i bitch and moan on this thing about screen printing, that room is totally one of my favourite places ever. you will be missed.
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Labels: illustration, photos, uni
Saturday, 23 April 2011
more early stage stuff from the self initiated. gah, i have totally been neglecting this in favour of trying to put the macmillan to bed. this will undoutably going to be payed for in spades further down the road.
in other news, one of my friend's managed to land a gig illustrating an interactive game for the guerilla dance project. it was part of the last 'late at the V&A' event which is so freaking cool so hats off to abi (who's blog you can check out here. she's a total ace with collage and watercolours, but will deny it vehemently).
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Friday, 22 April 2011
currently in the middle of trying to fix up the macmillan entry. it's... kinda long...
right now my brain feels like a sad, floppy fish out of water. *GASP GASP GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASP*
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Labels: illustration, loosing the will to live, macmillan, uni
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
finals for the stamp project. american's came up with some of the most amazing nick names for their heads of state. also, the internet is an AMAZING source for fonts. been raiding that thing like a GODDAMN VIKING.
oh god. these things are going to be waaaaay too tiny irl for you to be able to see jack or squat. time to fudge the dimensions in photoshop methinks...
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Labels: illustration, self flagellation, stamp project, uni
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
aaaand more print project stuff. holy crap. i could actually listen to 'melancholy hill' by gorrilaz ALL DAY. EVERYDAY. that shit is just so synth-tastic, it's off the chain.
it also has a gloriously random music video. i'm guessing it makes a whole lot more sense if you've kept up with the storyline that's been evolving over the course of the band's discography... should catch up on that some time since i am totally in love with what jamie hewlett can do with a pencil.
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Labels: gorillaz, illustration, music, plastic beach, print project, uni
aaaand for a closer look:
MY, WHAT PRETTY HAND-WRITTING YOU HAVE, ALEX. for the print project. oh man, why they didn't include 'bird song' on lungs is a bit of a mystery. this song is just too much damn fun. hooray for maddening guilt!
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Labels: bird song, comic, florence + the machine, illustration, music, print project, uni, youtube
arts for the stamp project. not too sure if the pencil works with the hella plastic photoshop colouring but oh well, what the hell.
Posted by Alex Moore at 16:18 No comments:
Labels: illustration, stamp project, uni
Monday, 18 April 2011
life drawing. exciting stuff, i know. charcoal and pencil might be something worth thinking about.
in other news, i think we are going out drinking tonight THANK GOD. i think i might go a little loco if i spend any longer shut up in the house and tied to the grind stone. don't get me wrong, i love the working, it's just the not being around other people that i miss. OH GOD, HOW I FEAR YOU SUMMER HOLIDAYS WHEN THAT WILL BE MY LIFE FOREVER.
... i am so sorry for getting so live journal up in this shit.
in other news, did you know that origionally alfred hitchcock didn't want any music in THAT shower scene. good thing he went on holiday and bernard herrmann was all like 'I KNOW BEST, BITCH'.
if you would like to learn more about the composer bernard herrmann, may i recomend this totally informative and entertaining episode of battleship pretension: EPISODE 210: artist profile of BERNARD HERRMANN. there's a ton of preamble, but if you can get past that it's a swell show.
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Labels: battleship pretension, blah blah blah, life drawing, music, pluggery, podcasts, uni
Sunday, 17 April 2011
at the mid year crit, our tutor gave each of us personal project. i'm supposed to have spent the last 4 months designing a set of stamps based on american presidents....
yeah, i totally can't multi task projects and the list of to-do has hit bloated, gargantuous proportions so i have devoted all of ONE WHOLE DAY to it. bravo, champ, bravo.
initial pencils. ah well, at least it's done. if you can get another macmillan page coloured before the day's out, i'll give you a high-five to self.
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Labels: self flagellation, sketch book, stamp project, uni
Saturday, 16 April 2011
first lot of pages from the self initiated project, a.k.a tekeshi's castle isn't as challenging as this.
i don't know, there's a ton of things i want to try and deal with with this.
• first off, the whole thing's going to be totally hand made. i've become WAAAAAY too reliant on photoshop when it comes to colouring. time to grow some balls and do some water colouring.
•painfully slow work rate. recently, it's been taking me FOREVER to make even baby steps on the liberty. we've only got about 6 weeks for this project so i'm totally going to have to pick up the pace if i want to get all 24 pages drawn, coloured and lettered.
•quit being so damn 'DUHRRR LOOK AT ME DRAWING'. this has been a recurring criticism from my totally awesome tutors over the last two years. i'd over-draw a frigging line if you let me. hopefully with this, most of the work's going to be in the colour. this is partly because when i grow up, i would quite like to be gipi : http://giannigipi.blogspot.com/
four weeks to go. got two more pages to lay out and 13 drawn. this could quite possibly be doable.
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Labels: comic, go fight win, uni, zoning out
initial drawing and colour test for yet another of those pesky screen prints. HA, you say that like you've done a shed-load of these. so far, you've only done FOUR over the course of the whole year and really, you've only really got time to do one more of these before the end of year crit.
on the up side, this is quite possibly the only existing example of you using a colour scheme that doesn't consist of brown, brown and brown. well done you.
WOOOOOOW, that was a whole lot of self piteous bitching and moaning. here is some totally rad music to make up for it:
holy freaking hell. i LOVE this little ditty. pretty hyped for the film it's from too since folk are describing hanna as a totally nuts art-house action flick. HE-LLO!
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Labels: bitch bitch bitch moan moan moan, gorillaz, hanna, melancholy hill, music, print project, the chemical brothers, uni, youtube
Friday, 15 April 2011
man, don't you just love it when the life model's all like "BAM! MY JUNK! IT'S IN YO FACE!"
in other news, totally shirked off the metric ton of work there is to do and sodded off to brighton for a day. man, what a totally nice place.
Posted by Alex Moore at 15:53 No comments:
Labels: life drawing, photos, uni
Monday, 11 April 2011
some character design stuff for the self initiated. phone lady is essentially somewhere between the twin peaks' log lady and velma from scoobie doo.
...she is also quite possibly me in 10 years time.
throwing this up because i totally can't deal with cross referencing between 12 million bits of paper right now.
Posted by Alex Moore at 11:31 No comments:
Labels: character design, comic, sketch book, uni, zoning out
Sunday, 10 April 2011
i know i've already bored you to death with how much i love sticks and ink BUT OHMIGOD OUR LOVE IS SO TRUE. must must must try drawing free style with them sometime. it would be pretty fly if they could be brought into actual work.
fun fact: did you know that once beethoven went totally deaf, he'd bite his piano in order to feel the vibrations in order to 'hear' what he was composing? so tragic/triumphant...
Posted by Alex Moore at 21:06 No comments:
Labels: life drawing, the more you know, uni
just a quick style test for the self initiated project. more on that soon- i'm just throwing it up now because i need a reminder about not being totally tight and anal (WOW, what a terrible paring of words) about the inking.
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Labels: comic, illustration, uni, zoning out
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
HELLO IRREPARABLE DAMAGE TO ORIGIONAL ART WORK! but yeah. tutor man said to maybe have a go at water colouring the macmillan book. looking back on the digital colours, they do feel totally claustrophobic/overwhelming... so maybe this is a way round that. defiantly lighter... but i did a totally shit job of putting the paint on.
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Labels: illustration, macmillan, trial and error, uni
so last month our course took us to madrid and it was GLORIOUS.such a great vibe... and architecture... and food. oh my god, i can totally get on the side of anywhere that gives you a platter of sausages every time you order a beer. totally blitz zee sketch book while we were there, so you're probably going to see a lot of this kind of thing... once i bother to scan it in
the zoo there is also fantastic. the reptile house was host to a whole load of really bizzar looking beasties.
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this is 'this is laura' > http://www.myspace.com/kittyandsarah < they are really rather good.
we had the total good fortune to catch them playing at caberetnightshowthingy. they didn't have their drummer with them, but they still blew my socks off. if you like your music on the dark and gypsy, folky side of things, you should look them up. i've been swearing up and down that i'll go see them intentionally, but so far have failed miserably. note to self: stop sucking.
(god damn do i love drawing music folk. dose anyone want to give me a job doing this?)
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Labels: music, pluggery, sketch book, this is laura
Sunday, 3 April 2011
oh screen printing. i am the stella to your wife beater.
but really, i just suck balls through a straw at doing this. been trying to print this particular little s.o.b for like... 3 weeks or something stupid. in the end, i ballsed it up so fantastically that i just printed the colours speratly and put it together in photoshop. way to pussy out, son.
musical accompiant- dead man's will by iron and wine
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Labels: dead man's will, illustration, iron and wine, music, print project, uni, youtube
Saturday, 2 April 2011
mole skinning
so yeah, it's super duper final project time. yipes. where the hell did this year go???? anyways, back in the rabid-finger-nail-chomping early days of this thing, we had to write our own brief.
self-determination scares me. a lot.
anyhow, here's one brain fart left over from the macmillan project. i HAVE GOT to do this sometime but yeah.... i might go a little gaga doing another children's book right away.
in other news, we went to the pub for an art jam a while back. we came up with some _very_ high brow stuff.
so yeah, it's super duper final project time. yipes. where the hell did this year go???? anyways, back in the rabid-finger-nail-chomping early days of this thing, we had to write our own brief.
self-determination scares me. a lot.
anyhow, here's one brain fart left over from the macmillan project. i HAVE GOT to do this sometime but yeah.... i might go a little gaga doing another children's book right away.
in other news, we went to the pub for an art jam a while back. we came up with some _very_ high brow stuff.
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Home > Introduction > Articles > Alan Shalleck > All Nanotechnology Today is not "Early Stage"
Alan B. Shalleck
February 21, 2006
Investment opportunities in nanotechnology are being missed because of mischaracterization. Last week, in front of Congress, members of the Nano Business Alliance described nanotechnology as "Early Stage." "Early Stage" is too general. All nanotechnology today is not "Early Stage." Distinctions are needed. With proper distinctions, nanotechnology in 2006 becomes a multi-segmented rapidly growing arena with justifiable private investment sectors and IPO opportunities not to be missed.
"Early Stage" (although correct regarding molecular manufacturing) is a retarding phrase. It gives nanotech IPO underwriters and potential nanotech investors a postponable decision. I have often heard from smart people the following: "It is too soon to be investing in nanotech. It is still 'early stage'." That is a perception needing change. This "maybe in the future" approach is hurting the liquidity in the nanotech industry and creating the valley of death for many promising young nanocompanies. It is also freezing the public out of some of the most promising nanotech company opportunities.
I believe the correct description of nanotechnology today should be a positive "Getting There!" Because … we really are "Getting There." There is a growing list of at least "teenage" sectors of nanotech space. Like all teenagers, those nanotech "teenage" sectors will mature quickly and opportunity will be lost. How many commercial nanotech products are necessary before the investment professionals wake up and create nanotech investment vehicles for rest of us? The timing for public underwriting and investing in nanotechnology today couldn't be better. The IPO market is hot. The economy is strong. Money is available in large amounts. This is reality, not hype.
Lets look at the facts, and make clear distinctions between nanotechnology sectors. After six years of $1+ billion/year of domestic NNI federal government investment and, simultaneously, two - three times that investment by private and local governments (plus cherry picking VC investment) - all that nanotechnology investment is beginning to pay off … right on the NNI 5 - 10 year schedule. 2006 - 2007 are the years of nanoproduct commercial introductions. At last count, there were over 160 pure commercial nanotech domestic products being marketed with additional products being introduced monthly. Many more true nanoproducts are being sold internationally. Once a company introduces its products to the commercial markets it is hard to call that company "early stage."
Certainly, the manufacture of Carbon Nanotubes (in all forms) by multiple companies in tons (production quantities) can't be early stage. Certainly, the manufacture in tons of highly characterized zinc oxide and titanium dioxide nanoparticles for use and current sale in cosmetics and other health and beauty aid products can't be early stage. Certainly, the human clinical trials of multifunctional constructed nanoparticles for rifle shot treatment of cancer tumors under IND's is not early stage. Certainly, the use of CNT (up the value chain) in production large TV displays being marketed by major companies (Motorola, Samsung, Panasonic, etc.) next year in millions of units is not early stage. Certainly, the deployment of nanotech based sensors in detection systems in the desert in Iraq and in our vulnerable cities and towns is not early stage. Certainly, the millions of OLED displays on cell phones today is not early stage. Certainly, the new mini fuel cell nanoapplications for introduction in December of this year (some for use with cell phones) are not early stage. Certainly, the nanobased Li-Ion battery company in Watertown, MA that just raised $20 million to build production plants in China is not early stage. Certainly, the nano-instrument manufacturers are not early stage. The semi-conductor companies producing circuits with 65 nm lines are not early stage.
I could go on … but clearly there are nanosectors consisting of maturing companies that are producing and marketing true nanoproducts, and some sectors (like nanobased diagnostic arrays) that are on the verge of similar maturity. There will be at least 4 nanotechnology IPOs this year. Four times that number are ready to go public if they could find underwriters or valid SPAC's into which to merge.
VC's are not dopes. They normally have a five-year time horizon on their investments. They exit either publicly or by sale to others increasingly after five years to show their investors the promised returns. Selective VCs have been investing in cherry picked promising nanoventures now for five years and recently have followed up earlier investments with major millions to build "production" capabilities. "Production" is not "Early Stage." It is the "profit generating" stage." And, they are now beginning to take some of their investments public.
It is apparent to me that, because we are not describing ourselves correctly, the public leg of the new industry financing cycle is missing. The way we as an industry describe ourselves can go a long way toward re-balancing the financial pillars underlying nanotechnology companies.
I will be discussing the sector distinctions I see and what they represent in trends and opportunities in greater depth in my future columns.
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During the campaign last year, President Donald Trump promised he would put America first and protect our country. First came North Korea. They were very bad. Trump laid the hammer hard on them.
Now, as of last night, the President has turned his attention to a whole new issue: Saudi Arabia. Looks like he is sick and tired of paying for them to spread radical Wahabi Islam.
Last night Trump said,
"Frankly, Saudi Arabia has not treated us fairly, because we are losing a tremendous amount of money in defending Saudi Arabia."
Thank God someone is finally looking to hold them accountable. Remember back on the campaign when he said something similar?
"Nobody's going to mess with Saudi Arabia because we're watching them. They're not paying us a fair price. We're losing our shirt."
And you can never forget this…
So yeah, it looks like President Trump is not ready to play b*tch to the Saudi royal family just yet. The Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas may have, but Trump is a whole new kind of President.
If you are glad to see our leader finally saying what all of us have been thinking, then help him share it out.
I, for one, hope he takes it further and calls them out for all the horrible crap that they do. Why do we even help a country with pure Sharia law and horribly abused women? It's just sad…


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A child rapist who attempted suicide as justice caught up with him was jailed for ten years yesterday after a judge condemned his "heinous crimes".
Paul White abused three little girls during swimming excursions and subjected two of his child victims to rape.
One of the children was raped at a changing cubicle at a leisure centre in Perth. The predator played games of "sharks" with his victims.
A judge told White, 54, at the High Court in Edinburgh: "All three were in your company in the context of swimming or related leisure activity."
Kenneth Maciver QC told the rapist that he had been in a position which "you cruelly abused when you committed these heinous crimes".
The judge said it was recognised that the emotional and psychological effect of such crimes was "both significant and enduring".
"A lengthy custodial sentence is both necessary and appropriate for such serious sexual offending," he said.
The judge said that in the circumstances of the case he could not impose an extended sentence – involving a prison sentence and further supervision. But he said this was because of "a legal lacuna" which he said should be dealt with to allow the imposition of such sentences for historical sexual offending.
He told White: "You have been convicted of the rape of two children, one of seven or under and the other of ten or under."
White, formerly of Crieff, Perthshire, had earlier denied indecency offences and rape charges during his trial.
He was found guilty of indecency towards a girl aged between four and six between 1987 and 1990 at Perth Leisure Centre and Crieff Hydro Hotel Complex. He molested her in the swimming pool and tried to get into a cubicle while she was dressing.
He was also convicted of indecency towards another girl, aged six or seven, between 1990 and 1992 at Perth Leisure Centre and during a car trip. White also took the girl to a wooded area at Kinoull Hill, Perth, and raped her.
White was further convicted of raping a girl aged between nine and ten at a changing cubicle at Perth Leisure Centre between 1997 and 1999 after lifting her onto his knee.
White had denied the offences and when defence solicitor advocate Iain Paterson asked him if there was any truth in the allegations he replied: "No, none whatsoever."
Mr Paterson told the court today that there was no suggestion of a mental health disposal in White's case.


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If you have a local site built on WordPress, build WordPress sites for clients or have clients already on WP, this little local SEO WordPress plug-in I just discovered, could make your life a little easier. I don't build sites for clients and most of my clients are on old fashioned proprietary template-based sites, 🙁 so my little discovery won't help me much, but I'm hoping it will help you!
I'll add it to my Google Places and Local SEO tools page. Have a couple other cool tools to add when I get time, so bookmark it and check back often.
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Latest column: Study This (Summer 2010)
We've just posted the Summer 2010 column, titled The Humorless Twit Says "Study This." Here's a little snippet:
Most recently, the news had on a story about a study that noted sleeping too little can shorten your life (by the way, for those of you who recall, I have a now one-year-old son I wrote about for last summer's issue and as I write this, I had a measly three hours of sleep last night [which might explain this column…]).
That got me to thinking about all the other studies I've heard about in the past that claim if you engage in behavior A, your life will be shortened by X years (or Y percent). So I decided out of sheer
boredomcuriosity to see which of these supposedly life-shortening behaviors I take part in, and by how long my life will be shortened.


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After a critically acclaimed match at NJPW Best of the Super Juniors night 6, NJPW talents Will Ospreay and Ricochet were getting quite a bit of attention online for their efforts. Not all of it was positive, however.
Former WCW and IWGP Heavyweight Champion Big Van Vader took to Twitter to criticize the two performers. Admittedly, Vader saw only a .gif image of the match, and not the actual match itself.
Blantant acrobatics,no story,is there anything done in this video that relates to winning u could get 2 high school gymnast and put ona show� Big Van Vader (@itsvadertime) May 29, 2016
I understand how wrestling evolves beendoing for forty yrs around the worldtitles i europe japan mexico usa dumb ass https://t.co/KO5O2MTsv9� Big Van Vader (@itsvadertime) May 28, 2016
Ricochet, who also performs for Lucha Underground under the name Prince Puma, responded to Vader's criticisms.
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At last night's Best of the Super Juniors show, Will Ospreay responded in his own, unique way.
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Michael Coate on Cleopatra's 50th, plus Fox classic BDs, Oz: The Great and Powerful and more
All right, just a quick heads-up today. I've got limited e-mail and Internet connection all week here so release news updates may be a little slim for the next few days. Rest assured though, I'll check back when contact is restored to update you all on any major announcement news.
In the meantime, Michael Coate returns again this morning with another new History, Legacy & Showmanship column detailing the roadshow engagement history of Fox's Cleopatra, which is newly released on Blu-ray Disc and officially celebrates its 50th anniversary today. Enjoy!
Also today, we've got Jeff Kleist's new review of Disney's Oz: The Great and Powerful on Blu-ray 3D for you – sounds like a great 3D experience but the lack of extras on the BD3D version is an epic fail. FYI, the disc arrived in stores yesterday.


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After an extended stretch that has seen precious few quality movies at the multiplex, Hollywood is back in force this week, with a number of good films to choose from.
Leading the way is the horror-comedy "Zombieland," starring Woody Harrelson as one in a handful of survivors of the zomb-pocalypse. If that's not scary enough, we also get filmmaker/provacateur Michael Moore's latest documentary, "Capitalism: A Love Story," which does its darndest to question America's very American-ness: its way of doing business.
Good stuff, both of them, and they're just two of seven -- count 'em, seven -- new features scheduled to open this week at New Orleans area theaters.
Here's a quick rundown of the full slate, with links to trailers and official sites where available:
(Watch the trailer; visit the official site.)
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore points his lens at America's finances, using his trademark blend of in-your-face humor and liberal outrage to question whether capitalism, as being practiced today, is really the best, and most ethical, system of doing business.
Rated R for some language. 2 hours 1 minute.
(Watch the trailer at the official site.)
The big-screen, Shreveport-shot version of Tucker Max's best-selling book, about a guy who tries to smooth things over with his best bud after screwing up his bachelor party. Matt Czurchry, Jesse Bradford and Traci Lord star in director Bob Gosse's comedy.
Rated R for nudity, strong sexual content including graphic dialogue throughout, language and some crude material. 1 hour 45 minutes.
(Watch the trailer; visit the official site.)
Ricky Gervais directs and stars in a comedy about an alternate reality in which lies don't exist — until one guy figures out that it has definite benefits. Jennifer Garner, Louis C.K., Jonah Hill and Jeffrey Tambor co-star.
Rated PG-13 for language including some sexual material and a drug reference. 1 hour 40 minutes.
(Watch the trailer at the official site.)
A dramatic comedy about a spurned 1953 housewife who hits the open road, with her two sons in tow, in search of a new husband and a new life. Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Kevin Bacon and Mark Rendall star in director Richard Loncraine's loose adaptation of actor George Hamilton's early years.
Rated PG-13, for sexual content and language. 1 hour 48 minutes.
(Watch the trailer; visit the official site.)
The films that started it all for Disney-Pixar -- about toys that come alive when their human owner aren't around -- are given the 3-D treatment for a two-week double-feature engagment ahead of next summer's release of "Toy Story 3." A 10-minute "Toy Story"-themed intermission will run between the two films. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, John Ratzenberger star in director John Lasseter's computer-animated masterpieces.
Rated G. 2 hours 49 minutes.
(Watch the trailer; visit the official site.)
Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut in a comedy about a rebellious teen (Ellen Page of "Juno") who trades her beauty-pageant pursuits for a spot on a roller derby team. Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis and Barrymore co-star in the film, based on the novel by Shauna Cross.
Rated PG-13 for sexual content including crude dialogue, language and drug material. 1 hour 41 minutes.
(Watch the trailer; visit the official site.)
A horror-comedy about four people who band together to survive in a world overrun with zombies — if, that is, they can survive each other. Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin star in director Ruben Fleischer horror-comedy, which flirted with shooting in Louisiana earlier this year before settling on Georgia.
Rated R for horror violence/gore and language. 1 hour 22 minutes.
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text: Excite switches channels Published on April 22, 1997. Excite, as expected, unveiled on Monday its 14 initial channels including arts & entertainment, sports, business & investing, and computers & Internet, careers & education, games, health & science, lifestyle, My Channel (users' own personalized channel), news, people & chat, politics & government, shopping and travel. After choosing a channel, consumers can then dig deeper into the channel and find info on that category in news, reviews, chat or search capabilities. Excite later this year plans to build out each channel as an independent unit, ultimately managed by its own producer, similar to the broadcast network model. Excite has also begun selling advertising tied to its channel model.Copyright April 1997, Crain Communications Inc. Most Popular In this article: News


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The latest Sunday Independent/Millward Brown opinion poll suggests that support for both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is falling.
The survey estimates support for Fine Gael standing at 27% - a drop of two points.
Fianna Fáil is down three points to 25%.
Sinn Féin is at 21% cent with Independents and others up three points to 18%.
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World evangelism statistics: What would our world look like?
Raw population statistics overwhelm you. Here's one way of visualizing the world and its economic, housing, health, religious and educational needs:
Shrink the earth's population to one village of exactly 100 people. Apply the earth's racial, economic and other ratios to these 100 people. Here's how this village would look:
- Origins:
- Source: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, "World Population Prospects: The 2000 Revision."
- Sex / Gender:
- 50 would be female
- 50 would be male
- Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census International Data Base, Table 094 : Midyear Population by Age and Sex 2001.
- Skin color
- 80 would be non-white
- 20 would be white
- Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census International Data Base, Table 001 : Total Midyear Population 2001, assuming the populations of South America, Asia, and Africa are "non-white" and those of North America, Europe, and Oceania are "white."
- Religion:
- 67 would be non-Christian
- 33 would label themselves as "Christian"
- Source: Britannica Book of the Year 1999, "Religious Population of the World, 1998," reprinted at infoplease.com , using numbers from the "Christians" heading only for the Christian percentage.
- Economics
- 20 people would be receiving almost 90% of the village's total income
- Source: The International Herald Tribune, February 5, 1999, cited in the World Income Inequality table.
- Housing:
- 25 would live in substandard housing
- Source: Habitat for Humanity International, "Why Habitat is Needed."
- Literacy
- 17 would not be able to read at all
- Source: UNICEF, "The State of the World's Children 1999."
- Nutrition
- 13 would be malnourished
- Source: UN Food and Agriculture Organization report, cited at OBGYN.net.
- Life and death
- 1 would die within the year
- 2 would give birth within the year
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, World Vital Events Per Time Unit 2001.
- Education
- 2 would have a college education
- Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, World Education Indicators, Gross Enrollment Ratio by Sex.
- Technology
- 4 would own a computer
- Source: UN Human Development Indicators, "Access to Information and Communications 1995."
Research by Rekha Balu, Christine Engelken, and Jennifer Grosso.
This list is not presented to cause guilt; it is simply the picture of reality.
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Peaches1 wrote:So he said as long as I am feeling better w/ no losses, or feeling bad again, the risk of doing something just because of the clot is too risky.
costumenastional wrote:I don't know if the situation is life threatening since the dr show the doppler and didn't say so. I mean, he must know better since he is the one who puts stents in those veins.
I wonder mostly about how the blood flow can be restored at this point. If the clot has totally blocked the drainage it can't be left untreated.
Hopefully Peaches will enlight us when she knows more.
drsclafani wrote:the more i hear of such problems, and I guess i receive lots of private inquiries that color my opinion, the more unlikely i am to put in stents at all when i resume treatments
Peaches1 wrote:I am waiting for the doc to call this am after he looks at my doppler film
After ready other posts re: clots, I am going to question him again,
I need stronger blood thinning meds, clot busters, etc.
And I have read that some get a angio again. Don't know why he is not wanting to go ahead and do another angio.
Yeap, I don't want to be back at square one with this
I will keep all updated
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