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Ravens CB Jimmy Smith arrested after incident at restaurant
TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Baltimore Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith became the fifth player on the team to be arrested during the offseason after he received a criminal citation Saturday night for failing to follow an officer's orders.
The incident occurred after Baltimore County police were called to a Towson restaurant because a woman had reportedly passed out in the bathroom.
Police arrived and found the woman vomiting into a sink in the bathroom. Police say Smith was with her and refused to obey an officer's repeated orders to leave the bathroom.
Smith, 25, was cited late Saturday at a police precinct in Towson and then released.
A Ravens spokesman said Sunday that the team is "gathering information" on the incident.
Four other Ravens had encounters with the law this offseason. Running back Ray Rice was arrested for felony assault; offensive lineman Jah Reid was cited for felony aggravated assault; wide receiver Deonte Thompson was arrested for felony possession of marijuana; and running back Lorenzo Taliaferro was charged with misdemeanor destruction of property.
Rice and Reid were accepted into a pretrial diversion program. Thompson had the charges dropped. Taliaferro has a court date scheduled for later this month.
Smith started all 16 games for the Ravens last season. He had 58 tackles, two interceptions and forced two fumbles in his third NFL season.
A first-round pick in 2011, Smith was a key contributor to Baltimore's Super Bowl win in February 2013. He had three tackles and knocked away a pass during the Ravens' goal-line stand in the closing minutes of a 34-31 victory over San Francisco.

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When the forsythia bloom, the hickories start running
Pulling into my driveway this week, I caught the briefest flash of bright yellow out of the corner of my eye. A neighbor's forsythia bush was beginning to bloom. My mind returned to this exact time a year ago.
Late that morning, a friend and I were pussyfooting up to a riverbank on the upper Choptank. We had already spent a number of fruitless weeks chasing elusive yellow perch and again feared failure. What we saw in the water restored our hope.
Hickory shad are at Deer Creek near the head of the Bay, in the Choptank, the Elk and the Patuxent. Smaller runs are usual in most Chesapeake tributaries. White perch have also begun to show in the Choptank at Greensboro, along the Tuckahoe, the Magothy at Beachwood Park and up toward the headwaters of the Chester and the Sassafras.
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My jaw dropped as a large shoal of big silvery fish, flexing as a unit, melted away from the near shore and back out into the spidery, central vortex of tumbling water. Hickory shad, hundreds of them, more than I'd seen at one time in many years and more than I'd ever seen in the Choptank.
Trembling, we backtracked away from the shoreline and moved upstream to the head of the pool. Rigging tandem shad darts, orange and black as I remember, we each made long casts. Using light spin rods with four-pound-test line, we aimed diagonally downstream so that our darts would swing back through the rough water into which that mass of fish had disappeared.
As our lures swam into the intended area, both of our rods were nearly jerked from our hands. Downstream two lovely hickories, almost two feet long, somersaulted out of the water, flashing in the morning sun. Our drags buzzed as they re-entered the water and took off downstream. We both whooped with delight.
Gangbusters is a word that over the years has come to mean an enjoyable chaos. The term originated with a popular 1940s weekly radio show, Gang Busters, whose beginning was announced by the sound of wailing sirens, screeching tires and the rattle of machine gun fire.
That morning on the Choptank was gangbusters for us. The fish wore us out as we lost count of those caught and released. They were still biting when we left the river some four hours later, arms sore, weary and out of shad darts. We lost many of our lures to the river's rocks to be sure, but we also left more than a few firmly clenched in the jaws of powerful and determined hickories.
The hickory shad has had a troubled life the last 30 years in the Chesapeake with dams, silt from careless development and polluted stormwater runoff savaging its efforts at reproduction. The anadromous, ocean-running fish faithfully return in large schools to their sweetwater birthplaces each spring to spawn. In Bay waters, they are near the northern limit of their range.
Though generally measuring 16 to 20 inches, with its lifespan of up to nine years the hickory can grow to surprising size. In 1972, one of the last years that they could be legally harvested, the Maryland state record fish, a four-pounder, was caught.
Their response to being hooked is generally to leap high into the air, leap again and then tear into a long run. Hickory shad fight like a miniature tarpon. The species continues to be protected from harvest in Maryland, but they are eligible for catch-and-release.
Up to 10 million hickory shad fry are also raised and released by DNR hatcheries every year in a long-term effort to rebuild the stocks. If you haven't tangled with a hickory shad with light spin gear or a fly rod, you have an angling treat coming.
Natural Resources Police Turn 145
Maryland's Natural Resources Police celebrated 145 years on March 30. The force descends from both the State Oyster Police, created in 1868, and the Office of the State Game Warden, created in 1896. Fighting a difficult and endless battle with poachers and other natural resource outlaws, policing our waterways, keeping boaters safe and providing them aid and assistance, Natural Resources Police deserve our respect and gratitude.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday defended his decision to veto a European Union proposal to provide an enforcement mechanism for fiscal discipline. He says the EU deal, which other members plan to go forward with outside EU auspices, would have damaged Britain?s key financial services industry.
?I went to Brussels with one objective, to protect Britain?s national interest and that is what I did," said Cameron.
Prime Minister Cameron faced the unruly behavior that is traditional in Parliament as he began his statement Monday. When the shouting ended, he stated his position.
?I made it clear that if the eurozone countries wanted a treaty involving all 27 members of the European Union, we would insist on some safeguards for Britain to protect our own national interests. Satisfactory safeguards were not forthcoming and so I did not agree to the treaty,? said Cameron.
The prime minister refused to back a European Union summit deal Friday in Brussels that would have required members to keep their budget deficits below 3 per cent, and empowered the organization's bureaucracy to enforce the rule. The plan is designed to build investor confidence that the current financial crisis - blamed mainly on large debts in some countries - will not get worse or be repeated.
Prime Minister Cameron said the rules would have surrendered sovereign British powers to the EU and would have hurt the country?s financial services industry. He said his European counterparts refused to provide a series of safeguards he wanted.
The other 26 EU member states decided to go forward with the plan, without Britain?s participation.
Opposition leader Ed Miliband of the Labor Party accused the prime minister of isolating Britain, alienating its European partners and removing it from important future talks on European economic issues.
?He has given up our seat at the table. He has exposed, not protected, British business. And he has come back with a bad deal for Britain," said Miliband.
Miliband declined to say whether he would have accepted the EU treaty, or what he might have done to get a better one.
Notably absent Monday from Parliament was the prime minister?s coalition partner, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats. He spoke out against Cameron?s decision over the weekend on the BBC?s Andrew Marr Show.
"Well, I am bitterly disappointed by the outcome of last week's summit, precisely because there's now a real danger that over time the U.K. will be isolated and marginalized in the European Union," said Clegg.
Financial markets reacted unevenly to Friday?s decision. The plan to be pursued by the other 26 EU members is designed to ensure long term stability. But analysts are still concerned about the short-term financial health of some members who will need to borrow large sums of money early next year to finance their existing debts - including Greece and Italy.
Cameron Defends Veto of EU Financial Agreement
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday defended his decision to veto a European Union proposal to provide an enforcement mechanism for fiscal discipline. He says the EU deal, which other members plan to go forward with outside EU auspices, would have damaged Britain?s key financial services industry.


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Have We Lost the War on Drugs?
After more than four decades of a failed experiment, the human cost has become too high. It is time to consider the decriminalization of drug use and the drug market.
President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in 1971. The expectation then was that drug trafficking in the United States could be greatly reduced in a short time through federal policing—and yet the war on drugs continues to this day. The cost has been large in terms of lives, money and the well-being of many Americans, especially the poor and less educated. By most accounts, the gains from the war have been modest at best.
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Carmageddon: Reincarnation
Update #21: Hey Hey HEY..! It's our LAST DAY!!
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…Max Damage is back! Carmageddon: Reincarnation is going to reintroduce the gaming world to the original freeform driving sensation, where pedestrians (and cows) equal points and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines. It's the racing game where racing is for wimps.
Originally released for the PC in 1997, Carmageddon was an instant hit thanks to its anarchic gameplay and over-the-top surreal comedy violence. Here's what a sample of the gaming press thought:
"Carmageddon is visceral, violent, vehicular fun..."
GameSpot 8.8 out of 10
to get straight to the point, is one of the best computer games I've ever
played… Carmageddon is God!"
Duncan McDonald 95% Classic Award PC Zone Magazine May 1997
Carmageddon won the Game of the Year trophy in the 1997 PC Zone Reader awards. Carmageddon 1 & 2 were Driving Game of the Year 1997/1998.
is one of those games that only come along once in a blue moon. An essential
Escape Magazine 6 out of 6
gameplay is spot on and anyone with a dark enough sense of humour should give
it a go."
Computer Gaming World 4 out of 5
"So next time you gun down coppers on GTA VI, just remember, Carmageddon's controversy was there first, and you have a lot to thank it for." RetroGarden
Back in 1997 a small, independent game studio called Stainless delivered its first PC game to an unsuspecting world. Rich in humour, bathed in gibs, and relishing its instant reputation as the poster child for everything that's wrong with society (and therefore right in a videogame), the smash hit Carmageddon and its successors sold over two million copies worldwide.
Of course the copyright and truck-loads of cash went to the EVIL publisher, but Stainless survives to this day, still independent, still kicking, and still releasing successful products. (Check out our other work and credentials at stainlessgames.com.)
After years of negotiation, the original founders of Stainless recently bought back ALL the rights to Carmageddon. So now it's back in its rightful home, Stainless Games Inc., we've embarked on the journey that will reboot the brand, and we want YOU to join us on that journey.
Carmageddon featured real-world environments that had been turned into killing fields, where the locals stay out on the streets at their peril. As well as using your car as a weapon, every level was sprinkled generously with power-ups that had a vast variety of mad effects: gluing pedestrians to the ground or rendering them blind so they couldn't see you coming; turning your suspension to jelly or your car into solid granite; arming you with the awesome Pedestrian Electro-Bastard Ray or the Pedestrian Flame-thrower - and a whole lot more!
Carmageddon boasted a bunch of stand-out innovations: true 3D physics; dynamic car damage and repair; a feature-rich action replay system; and big, free roaming environments. Most of all, you were free to do what YOU wanted to, when YOU wanted to do it, however SILLY it might seem to anybody else.
With a host of crazed opponents and a wide variety of loopy locations, the single player game was a blast. And things got even more fun with the multiplayer games and the opportunity to send your friends to a fiery death.
Carmageddon: Reincarnation is a re-boot of everything that made the original games such a blast to play. The new game will be inspired by the classic environments, cars, drivers and power-ups from the original, but dragged screaming and kicking into the current state of the rendered art. And of course, there will be a bunch of brand new STUFF too, including true rag-doll pedestrians and physics-based power-ups that let you mess with their limbs whilst wiping away the tears - of laughter!
Multiplayer was the hidden-treasure of Carmageddon back in the dark days of LAN parties, but will now be able to be enjoyed by almost all of our players, thanks to the entire planet going online since then. The single player game will be brilliant too, thanks to demented opponents with demented A.I. brains made from demented code written by demented programmers.
Another cutting-edge feature that our loyal fans loved about the original game was the Action Replay facility, and this is also going to be coming back - but with a modern twist: You'll be able to post your clips on YouTube and other such sites. And of course we will be embracing the Social Media revolution and linking up to your Facebooks and Twitters with in-game integration so you can disturb your parents without even leaving the game.
The Carmageddon community means the world to us, and over the years a dedicated army of Modders continued to develop content for the original games. We'll be making sure that the tools we use to craft the game are developed in such a way that we can release them as well, thus making player-generated content a central part of the Carmageddon: Reincarnation experience.
Thanks to in-house tech that's been in constant development at the studio for more than a decade, we've been able to get prototyping under way. It helps that of the 8 man team that worked on the original game, 5 of us are still with the company and raring to go! This means we've been able to tune the driving experience, test new power-ups, and start creating the initial game assets.
But there's so much more involved in making a full game... it takes a lot of time, and flock of talented and committed (in every sense...) people. This requires a stack of money, as try as me might, they seem to insist on salaries at the end of every month. EVERY single month! We've tried paying them in cake and small bags of chocolate, but they keep coming back for more.
We're a modest-sized indie developer (around 50 trapped souls), and we've already invested well over a third of a million dollars getting the rights back and beginning design and prototyping. This represents all of our profits from our other work - but we think it's worth it. We currently have a small team working on the project - but without some sort of dedicated funding, that can't continue indefinitely. We can't put this game into full production without a sizeable team dedicated to it. So we need a pile of CASH to get the game made. Or more chocolate and nicer cake. But CASH is more likely to work, to be perfectly honest.
Now we have our baby back we really don't want to have any creative control of the new game wrestled from us by a corporate investor, a publisher, or space aliens trying to subvert humanity using subliminal messaging in video games. We want to make sure that the game we make is the game that we (and Carmageddon's fans, and a new generation of Carmageddon fans who don't even know they want it yet) want to play.
What Do I Get For My Hard-Earned Dollars?
We've planned Carmageddon: Reincarnation as an iterative development project. This means that if we just make it to the $400k target, we'll be able to deliver Release #1 in February 2013. Kickstarter backers of $15 and above will receive Release #1 plus all subsequent releases.
If we exceed the $400k target, it'll allow us to include even more content in the first release. And if we smash the target, it'll also allow us to greatly expand the scope of the game, and to roll it out across more and more platforms, with Kickstarter backers getting to select their delivery platform of choice: consoles, tablets, phones, Macs, toasters, vibrating pillows, bananas... errrr.....
.....anyway! The higher our budget, the more it accelerates the development of major game features and get them in the game sooner, and the greater the ultimate scope of the game's content and delivery platforms. Wahoo! We all win!
We're not just doing this because we saw what happened with Double Fine Adventure, Wasteland 2, and the other oldies around here that are making great comebacks; we were already working on Carmageddon: Reincarnation as a skunkworks project. What happened is that these other projects opened our eyes to the fantastic opportunity that crowd-sourced funding represents. We have an opportunity to make Carmageddon the game it always wanted to be - and to do so with the help of our fans. How perfect is that?
Anyway, other games don't let you glue a penguin to the ground and then fire it through a plate glass window with a giant spring. We do. We offer a unique service to humanity. Messy, but unique.
Kickstarter has now proved itself to be the perfect place to fund a project in The Modern Way. And so, with a realistic target budget to get the first release of the game out, and pledges made through Kickstarter, we have the opportunity to make the game that we want to make, and that our fans want us to make too.
Plus we can also repay the dedication of the community at the same time, through the rewards system.
Well, talking of rewards – we have a great bunch of those lined up for you guys. What's also GREAT about the Kickstarter funding model is being able to also offer a range of cool STUFF and even some THINGS to our backers, as a way of thanking them for their involvement in our shared goal. STUFF including early access to the project beta, plus a whole bunch of cool physical product THINGS, from t-shirts to stickers to posters and limited edition lovelies, right on up to actually being in the game as a pedestrian, billboard star or even a driver!
You can even come and get drunk with the team! (Hospital bills are NOT included.)
You'll notice that we aren't asking for Shipping costs to be met by our backers. That's because we're covering the cost of shipping, out of the goodness of our hearts. Aren't we lovely. BUT - if you'd like to add a little extra to your pledge to help us meet the commitment, then obviously we'd be very grateful, and we'll talk about you in a respectful way during our tea breaks.
If we reach our Kickstarter target of $400,000, we'll be able to deliver the first release of Carmageddon: Reincarnation by February 2013. Following that, our backers will get every update of the game as it's released, for FREE. You get it all for the minimum "get the game" pledge of $15. You get to download the first release via Steam, and your updates will occur automatically after that.
So, in summary, this is an opportunity to be a key part of bringing back one of the pioneering titles in videogame history. Better than it was before; badder, shinier bloodier, sillier, and even more outrageous, with celebrity appearances by YOU and a bunch of other cool STUFF included because YOU made it possible. Plus MORE small WORDS in BOLD capitals. YES! And some LONGER ones too!
We're incredibly happy to be working on a project that's so close to our hearts, and we're thrilled that we've got the opportunity to do all the cool/stupid/fun stuff that we've discussed and planned over the years. We hope that you're excited at the prospect of being instrumental in bringing the next game in the Carmageddon series to life. Thank you very much for looking, and thank you IMMENSELY for your pledge!
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Imlad Morgul, meaning "(Deep/Narrow) Valley of Black Sorcery" (from imlad + morgul) in Sindarin, was the valley among the western slopes of the Ephel Dúath where Minas Morgul (originally Minas Ithil) stood. This name was used in the later Third Age after the capture of the tower by the Nazgûl.


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The previous annual new capacity record was set just in 2008, when a total of 1,010 MW was installed.
According to a joint statement on 2009 capacity figures from ENEA, Italian wind energy association ANEV and other Italian renewable energy associations, preliminary figures showed wind energy accounted for 6.7 TWh of electricity production in 2009, or more than 2.1% of gross domestic consumption.
The associations stressed that Italy's wind energy performance was particularly significant since it had been achieved during a financial crisis.
The 2009 showing is expected to allow Italy to maintain its distant third place for installed wind capacity in Europe, behind frontrunners Germany and Spain. A possible challenger for the third place showing could be France, which will be releasing its 2009 capacity figures in February.
The island of Sicily experienced a boom in 2009, leading all Italian regions with roughly 340 MW installed. Next came Apulia, with 212 MW in new capacity, and Calabria, with 197 MW.
Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas garnered the largest market share in 2009, with its turbines installed on Italian wind farms with capacity of 337 MW. It was followed by German manufacturers Enercon, with 207 MW installed, and Nordex, with 167 MW.


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When it comes to DIY upgrades for modern performance cars, few products offer a more compelling cost/benefit equation than aftermarket computer-tuning devices. We experienced some of these benefits firsthand a few years ago, when we used one of Hypertech's (since discontinued) Power Programmers to lop more than a tenth of a second off of our Polo Green '96 coupe's quarter-mile times. In addition to the extra urgency at WOT, the Hypertech unit allowed us to activate the engine-cooling fans at lower temperatures, put some extra starch in the upshifts, and even adjust the speedometer calibration to match the car's shorter-than-stock 3.54 rear gears. In a marketplace awash with inflated price tags and dubious performance claims, the affordable, easy-to-use Power Programmer distinguished itself as a true overachiever.
Time and technology march on, however, and when we recently installed one of Trick Flow Specialties' "Fast as Cast" GenX top-end packages on the car, it quickly became apparent that the handheld Hypertech's "one size fits all" programming lacked the power and flexibility we'd need to get the most out of our revitalized engine combo. When an initial attempt at having the ECM reprogrammed on a mail-order basis proved only partly successful (the car ran fine-after a 10-minute warm-up period), it was clear that what our C4 really needed was a fully customized, combination-specific computer tune developed on a chassis dynamometer.
Dyno-Based Tuning: The Ultimate ECM-Tuning Tool
For all their impressive computing power, most handheld ECM-tuning devices lack one key feature: the ability to "read" powertrain measurements such as spark and air/fuel ratio in real time and make changes accordingly. (While some of these tools do offer the ability to read and modify certain parameters, the range of adjustability offered is typically limited, the idea being to prevent an untrained or injudicious operator from damaging his or her engine.)
By contrast, a dyno-based tune is performed using ultra-powerful software capable of monitoring and controlling virtually every aspect of engine (and, in most cases, transmission) operation. For this reason, it's critically important that you locate a properly trained tuner who has experience with your car's specific type of powertrain-control computer.
Fortunately for us, one of the nation's top tuning specialists, Tony Gonyon, is located just a few hours from our office. Through his Orange Park, Florida-based tuning firm, TunersInc., Gonyon has worked his special brand of binary magic on everything from lightly modified everyday cruisers to turbocharged, 1,500hp Ford GT supercars. A munificent sort by nature, he agreed to drive down and tune our C4 on our office tech center's recently installed Dynojet chassis dyno.
Finding the Power: An Exercise in Incrementalism
Once the car was thoroughly warmed up and strapped to the dyno, Gonyon began the session by plugging his laptop into the car's diagnostic port and taking a baseline read of the engine data. It was at this point that he discovered the source of the idle problem: A false knock reading-most likely prompted by the noisier aftermarket valvetrain components-was causing the computer to retard spark timing by up to 10 degrees. Gonyon used his programming software to direct the ECM to account for the clatter, and the problem instantly disappeared. With the car idling almost as smoothly as a stocker, it was time to start tuning for maximum horsepower.
While the subjects of spark timing and air/fuel ratio (AFR) are sufficiently complex to fill an entire article, the bottom line is that finding the right combination of these two parameters is critical to the task of extracting maximum safe output from any engine combination. Tuning on a chassis dyno is the ideal way to achieve this balance, since it allows the tuner to make minute changes to spark advance and fuel-injector timing over the engine's entire rpm range.
The terms rich and lean are central to any discussion of AFR. A rich combustion mixture-that is, one with an overabundance of fuel-is typically safe under a wide range of operating conditions but less than optimal for generating optimum horsepower. A lean mixture-one with an overabundance of air-makes more power but can become dangerous beyond a certain point. Again, balance is key.
Our C4 started out with an overly rich AFR, which Gonyon tweaked via laptop over the course of several dyno runs until he reached near-ideal readings on the final pull. After settling on a complementary spark curve, he fine-tuned the car's shift points and firmness, rev-limiter settings, cooling-fan operation thresholds, and various other parameters to better suit the new cylinder heads and camshaft. The entire process took a little more than two hours, mostly due to the protracted upload times of the LT1's outdated ECM. (Indeed, we've seen similar tuning sessions take half as long on C5s and C6s.)
The final dyno run of the evening brought readings of 323.39 hp and 302.89 lb-ft of torque at the rear wheels, representing improvements of nearly 52 horses and 7 lb-ft over the session's first pull. While it's perhaps unreasonable to expect similar results from a stock or lightly upgraded car, our test provides ample demonstration of the value of dyno-based tuning on a heavily modified engine combo. Even better, our C4 now operates with a stocker's civility in everyday driving, a faint syncopated patter from the exhaust serving as a subtle reminder of the 400 (crank)-horse performer under the hood. Roll into the throttle, though, and the big rear Nittos claw for purchase, the trans snaps off perfectly timed redline shifts, and the C4's Cyrano schnoz takes on a distinctly skyward cant.
Will these most recent tweaks enable us to hit our previously outlined bogey of mid-12-second e.t.'s in the quarter-mile? We'll know soon enough, when we take the car to nearby Gainesville Raceway for a full dragstrip test session. In the meantime, it's nice to know that the car is performing at the full limit of its capabilities-thanks to the magic of dyno-based ECM tuning.
To see a video of our final dyno pull, click here.


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Fighting Ferns with Raw Fish--Years ago, a friend taught me a new word for those ubiquitous, family-oriented chain restaurants that proliferate near freeway exits. You know the type. Places that are decorated by The Big Metal Turn-of-the-Century Reproduction Sign Company. Places that pour foot-high, neon cocktails with embarrassing names like the "Chattanooga Chocolate Twister." Places where the food is reassuringly bland, Americanized and uncomplicated. She called these places "fern bars."
Fern bars, because most have big, potted plants scattered throughout their annoying faux-Irish/sports bar areas. They're mediocre, but consistently so, and that's enough to keep them turning a profit. And on the Westside, they're spreading like impetigo.
But Westsiders can't really be faulted for giving them business. They don't have much of a choice. See, there's just not a lot variety out there, fern bar or not, and if you narrow your scope to locally owned businesses only, there's far less. But it's getting better all the time. I actually drive across town to eat at local places like Deli Mart West, which has been sticking it out on the Westside for close to 30 years. Bombay Grill opened the first Westside Indian restaurant two years ago, which was quickly followed by India Palace Westside. Le Café Miche Bistro (no fiscal relation to Le Café Miche on Wyoming) brought continental French to our own left bank a little more than one year ago.
And this Tuesday, Neko Sushi opened its doors at 9421 Coors NW. That's in the old TIPS coffee shop building next to Kelly Liquor--right in the heart of fern bar territory. Owner Cathy Punya is aware of her competition, and she's prepared to fight the ferns. She already owns three other Eastside restaurants: Sushi King, Bangkok Café and the belated Asian Noodle Bar due Downtown sometime next month. She says Neko Sushi is similar to Sushi King, with a mix of noodle dishes and Japanese food off a menu, in addition to rolls, nigiri and sashimi from a sushi bar. (For you nipponphiles, "Neko" means "cat" in Japanese. Cat, as in Cathy.) It should be open from 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, and until 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Sushi south of Cottonwood Mall? Yessir, the Westside's getting better all the time.


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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Is it raining cats and dogs?
13 comments:
- Mary Grace McNamara said...
Those quilts are cute! I love how the dogs are all wide eyed and ready to please, and the cats look totally bored with the whole thing and ready to take a nap. Just like real dogs and cats!
Thanks for the link!
- October 9, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- Rachel said...
Oh how CUTE! I love them both. Thanks for sharing the link to these patterns. :)
- October 9, 2010 at 9:30 PM
- Rhanda said...
I love dogs and cats. I sooo appreciate you posting the links to these patterns! They are really cute.
- October 9, 2010 at 10:45 PM
- Sherry said...
They are so cute. I'm going to the cat quilt one day (LOL) so I'm printing it out and going to save it for the Its Raining Cats and Dogs days. Just likewhat your hving. Hope the sun comes out soon for you.
- October 10, 2010 at 1:54 AM
- Arnica said...
Thanks for the tip. So cute dogs and cats. Just what I have been looking for.
- October 10, 2010 at 2:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks so much for sharing the link to those quilts. I'm not sure that I will use them, but will pass the info on to my quilting dog and cat lovers.
- October 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- EmilyP said...
I just got my magazine, too, and the puppy quilt was my favorite part. My 21 month daughter is obsessed with all things "puppy" and this may be one I need to make for her!
- October 10, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- Pauline said...
Thanks for the link- they're so cute aren't they!
- October 10, 2010 at 5:55 PM
- Sherrill said...
I've already printed those out cause I thought they were SO CUTE!!
- October 10, 2010 at 6:58 PM
- Gari said...
And did you notice the mice? I, too, had already printed out the patterns. I'm thinking about combining cats and dogs, since we now have both.
- October 10, 2010 at 8:43 PM
- April M. said...
Thanks for sharing! My biking buddy would just love the dog quilt :)
- October 13, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- Marianne said...
These are so cute! Thanks for the head's up!
- October 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- Deb said...
The designer made an owls quilt, too - I'm sure you can get it straight from her. The shop is Starry Night Hollow, in Encinitas, CA. (As for the hunks on her calendar, I've *never* seen them in the store...though she is about 1 mile from from the ocean...)
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Mr. Holmes is a beautiful take on a shrivelling Holmes and his loneliness.
Ian McKellen dons an oldie Sherlock and he does it with a brilliant grace and like a pro. He handles Holmes like an expert, and portrays him superbly in his old age.
Screenplay of the movie is simply outstanding, well-written and executed superbly by the characters. Direction is marvelous too since it was one Herculean task to narrate three different stories that unfurled at three different timelines. Bill Condon isn't reckless in navigating to Holmes' past and does it at apt moments, like using a dream, story-telling or taking writing as props. The score is very soothing and well placed too. The moment flick starts the background music captures your attention at once. The melody simply melts you.
Everything on this planet ages. Sherlock was no exception. Mitch Cullin's story that exemplifies the sorry fate of ageing with hints of forgetting names, facts, faces and stories, is a gorgeous unravelling of the last case Sherlock ever did that wasn't exactly the way it was penned by Watson. The tale is written in a world without his enemies. This world is void of Mycroft and Watson too. So it is highly advisable to eschew making comparisons. Just feel the timeline and feel for him.
If you are a drama freak, watch out for that brilliant conversation between Ann and Holmes about loneliness. There are amazing lines strewn all across the movie that will rivet you to the tale. The flick doesn't forget its roots. Occasional deductions do come up and they light you up in nostalgia.
Beware! If you are hoping you will see some mind blowing cases, just stop right there! This movie wasn't intended to satiate your suspenseful head. It should go into the library of the classics as a brilliant drama that portrays one particular profound timeline of Holmes, where he gets to understand the importance of bending facts and experience the chasm of regret.
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Socceroos veteran Brett Holman in action in the clash against Iraq at ANZ Stadium last June. Photo: Dallas KilponenSocceroo Brett Holman will not make a second World Cup appearance after announcing his retirement from international football, effective immediately, on Wednesday.
The 30-year-old attacking midfielder has not featured in the green and gold since the appointment of coach Ange Postecoglou last October and has decided to call time on his international career after 63 appearances for Australia. Despite not playing since the change of coaches, Holman was called up to the squad that played Ecuador in a recent friendly but was an unused substitute and it's understood that he was not assured of making the provisional 30-man squad for the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Holman says he will focus on his club commitments in the UAE where he is contracted until the end of the 2014-15 season.
"Over the past six months, circumstances have led me to re-think my international career and I have made the difficult decision to step aside from my role with the Socceroos. My priorities lie with my young family, and my focus from now on will be with my club Al Nasr. I've enjoyed a lengthy and challenging season in the Middle East, and the league over here continues to go from strength to strength. It has been a great honour and privilege to play for Australia, and to represent one's country is every footballer's dream. I am proud of my achievements and I take with me many happy memories of my time with the national team.
"Growing up in Croydon Park, I would never have imagined scoring twice in a World Cup. The players that I've played with and the staff of the Socceroos have been fantastic and I have made some great friendships that I'll have for a lifetime. I'd like to wish the current playing group every success, and I look forward to seeing them do the whole nation proud in Brazil and beyond. Finally, I'd like to thank my mum and dad who have supported and inspired me from day one, as well as my wife and kids who are always there for me."
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Microsoft cuts Azure storage pricing
Shaves one cent per gigabyte, with volume discounts
Microsoft has announced a series of changes in the pricing of its Azure storage service, with a tiny cut for everyone and big discounts for volume customers.
Redmond has announced a general price cut of one cent per gigabyte, from 15 to 14 cents per month for those storing under a terabyte of data. This drops to 12.5 cents for those using up to 50TB, and then down to 11.2 cents per gigabyte per month for volumes over 500TB.
Those with up to a petabyte of storage will pay 10.2 cents per gigabyte per month, and the lowest rate of 8.5 cents is available to users of up to five petabytes, with further discounts possible if they are prepared to negotiate with Redmond's salespeople. All these prices aren't graduated, so as long as you hit the right storage mark then all the data is priced at the cheapest level possible.
The new Azure discounts will mean big savings – for some
"At [the five-petabyte] level and beyond, we want to work with customers directly to ensure we understand their business needs and will price accordingly," Microsoft told The Register.
Microsoft wouldn't say how many of its customers are in this mega-user category, other than a comment than to say it was "a significant number", and that Redmond was pleased so many people were using Azure storage – so no surprises there. ®
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Progress in girls' education eroding in some Afghan areas
Progress in girls' education eroding in some Afghan areas
KABUL (Pajhwok): An influential human rights organization has commended the Afghan government's progress in the area of girls' education, but at the same time warned against remaining deficits and a risk that the progress achieved was being eroded in some areas.
In a letter and brief summary of the Human Rights Watch (HRW)'s upcoming report next month to President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and some government ministries, the watchdog shared its concerns regarding girls' education in Afghanistan.
The 249-page report is based on interviews conducted by HRW researchers in 2016 in Kabul, Kandahar, Balkh and Nangarhar provinces.
According to the report, the majority of the interviewees were girls who had missed some or all of their education. The organization also interviewed parents, teachers, community leaders, NGO workers, experts, and national and provincial-level government officials.
"We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance we received from a number of Afghan government officials during our research for this report," the report summary said.
The watchdog hoped hope the people and the government of Afghanistan would view the report as a "sincere effort" to strengthen the education system and to strengthen international support for the Afghan government's efforts to educate girls.
The HRW report also documented serious remaining deficits in girls' education and a risk that the progress achieved is already eroding in some areas and could face further backsliding in the years ahead.
Below is a summary of key findings in the forthcoming report:
- Low--and sometimes falling--participation of girls in education
- Discrimination against girls in the education system
- Lack of schools and poor infrastructure
- Community-based education--effective but unsustainable
- Failure to implement constitutional provisions regarding compulsory education
- Donor dis-engagement and insecurity pose serious risks to girls' education
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Summer business in resort towns is growing at a faster rate than winter, revealing both a recovering economy and a shift in resort tourism.While Colorado's High Country will always rely heavily on skiers, mountain towns are seeing more summer vacationers in a trend that promises swifter growth than downhill skiing – especially if weak snowfall continues in the High Country."This is a very big deal for us," said Michael Martelon, chief of the Telluride Tourism Board, which last summer achieved a longtime goal with summer spending in the box canyon eclipsing winter for the first time ever. Telluride's taxable sales activity set monthly records in July, August and September.Martelon said the towns of Telluride, Mountain Village and Montrose worked together to boost regional tourism, expanding Telluride's festivals and reaching out to visitors who tend to visit the area regularly."I call it microtargeting," he said. "We are talking to people who we know love Telluride, and getting them to come more often is getting us to a place where we are actually able to grow our base."Telluride joins Winter Park, Aspen, Vail, Steamboat Springs, Breckenridge and Crested Butte in posting strong summers this year, with most of those communities surpassing the pre-recession glory days of 2007. In all seven resort communities, spending from June through September is growing much faster than winter spending.While last winter's weak snowfall could have pinched spending as fewer vacationers gathered for ski holidays, ski-town winter spending increased in six of the seven resort communities even though visitation plummeted 10 percent, the steepest drop in decades.To read this article in its entirety, go to http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_22102925/summer-spending-growing-faster-than-winter-colorado-resort?IADID=Search-www.denverpost.com-www.denverpost.com
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The Witching Hour Draws Nigh!
This year's Halloween Challenge has seen a terrific number of entries -- some whimsical and some downright scary. With the midnight deadline for entries drawing close, it's time to begin gathering everything in one place so that we can create the gallery to showcase what you've done.
We really couldn't be more excited or thrilled by the spooktacular caliber of this year's entries!
To have your artwork included in the gallery, all you need to do is post your FINISHED image in this thread.
Please also include a link to your WIP thread from the Halloween Challenge Forum.
Witches and monsters, spooks and silliness
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ZBC Halloween Challenge
Your chance to s c a r e people
with the power of your imagination!!!
Instructions for Gallery Entry
- Your entry must have a Halloween theme.
- Your entry should be created entirely in ZBrush. It can be a full scene, a turntable or a scary model.
- Keep it clean! No entry should require the "Mature Audience" tag.
- Deadline for entries is the witching hour: Midnight on October 31, 2011. Those who did not yet post their entries in this thread may do so until midnight November 1st.
- Reply to this thread and post your finished image. (No WIP images can be included in the gallery.) Also include a link to your WIP thread from the Halloween Challenge 2011 forum. IMPORTANT: You MUST create an icon for your post in this thread. It will not work if you create your icon from the post within your WIP thread.


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45n5 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 24 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
45n5.com is a website (community) of bloggers and webmasters with the goal of making money online. We are looking to add a little bit of shine and attention getting look to our boring dark look.
We Make Money Online
Desired Style:
web 2.0 - modern - web appish
Accepted File Formats:
Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
You can view my current site at http://www.45n5.com.
I want the design updated to a more modern look that is a bit "fresher" than the current version. The layout should remain "about" the same, I do want a few changes that I have noted in the following mockup:
To sum up the mockup:
1. remove the paid links bar
2. put the recent visitors there
3. put a 468x60 banner where recent visitors currently are
4. add two boxes above the current location of the posts, top moneylinks and rss
5. add 125x125 ad blocks to the menu
6. create a footer for the page.
Those are the only requirements. Have fun and get creative.
Some designs I like in my niche are
However I dont' want to replicate these blogs, I want my own design, based roughly on my current layout.
 *** I DO NOT *** want my blog to look like the ones above, I referenced them to show you what other types/quality of sites are in my niche.
here are a few web 2.o ish sites/apps that I like the designs
http://www.freelanceswitch.com/ (minus the goofy cartoon)
I want the final design to be preferably in a Fireworks PNG, or a PSD will also work. I will need any fonts that you use emailed to me also if they are fonts not on windows.
I prefer to pay via paypal but am flexible to pay other ways.
Thanks. Have fun and get creative.


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Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation Names Chairman
Naples, Fla. – Donna Barrett, president and CEO of Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Montgomery, Ala., has been chairman of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation Board of Trustees.
The SNPA board of directors elected five trustees for the SNPA Foundation at its meeting in Naples. The trustees, in turn, elected their officers.
In addition to Barrett, two additional foundation officers were elected:
Vice Chairman: Lissa Walls Vahldiek, chief operating officer and vice president of Southern Newspapers, Inc., Houston, Texas.
Treasurer: Gregg K. Jones, president and CEO of Jones Media in Greeneville, Tenn., and co-publisher of The Greeneville Sun.
Elected to the board were:
Donna Barrett.
Steve Brandt, president and publisher of The Greenville News, Greenville, S.C.
Todd Carpenter, president and chief operating officer of Boone Newspapers, Natchez, Miss.
David Paxton, president and CEO of Paxton Media Group, Paducah, Ky.
Hal H. Tanner III, publisher of The Goldsboro News-Argus, Goldsboro, N.C.
The other members of the SNPA Foundation Board of Trustees are:
Stephen P. Hills, president and general manager, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Walter E. Hussman Jr., publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock.
The SNPA president also serves as an ex-officio member of the Foundation Board of Trustees.


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Installing Ruby on Rails (RoR) on Linux
Getting RoR up and running means working with a few moving parts. That said, with a little bit of tweaking of various config files and making sure that Ruby, Rails and various other subparts are all up and running, this is totally doable. If you're familiar with the various package managers (e.g. yum, apt) and comfortable updating config files, it's pretty straightforward.
|Basic - 1 | Medium - 2 | Advanced - 3
|30 min
|Linux-based VPS or dedicated servers
Install Git
Install Ruby Version Manager (RVM)
Start Ruby Version Manager (RVM)
Test for successful RVM install.
Open terminal and execute the following:
You should see the following result:
Install additional dependencies.
Install Ruby
Select the version.
Ensure the current Ruby version is installed
Install Rails
Install sqlite
Test your installation with a sample application using Ruby on Rails
You'll need to ensure that JavaScript is set up in your Gemfile. To do this
Add the following two lines at the end:
gem 'therubyracer'
Save and close the Gemfile.
Install everything and start the Rails server
rails server
Things should now be running.
Check to make sure everything is working
Go to http://your_domain_or_IP_address:3000
You should see a page that indicates that
my_test_app is running.


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Create an Accountant's Copy of the QuickBooks Data File
QuickBooks 2012 makes it easier for accountants to work with client data files. Your client creates the accountant's copy of the QuickBooks data file by using his version of QuickBooks and the real data file and then either creates a file that the client sends to you (such as through the mail or via e-mail) or that Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks, sends to you.
Here's what your client needs to do if the client will take care of sending the file to you:
Choose the File→Accountant's Copy→Client Activities→Save File command.
QuickBooks first displays a message asking the client whether he wants either
An accountant's copy of the file
A portable or backup copy of the file
You can also create an accountant's copy by choosing File→Create Copy and then choosing the Accountant's Copy button.
A portable file is a real, live copy of the QuickBooks data file that's been slightly scrunched in size so it's easier to move around (such as by e-mailing the file as an attachment). A backup file is a backup, second copy of the QuickBooks file you create (usually) so you have a copy of the QuickBooks data file in case something bad happens to the original QuickBooks data file.
Select Accountant's Copy and then click Next to continue.
Specify a dividing date.
When a client clicks the Next button to continue with the creation of an accountant's copy, QuickBooks asks him for the dividing date. Transactions falling before this date can be edited only inside the accountant's copy. Transactions falling after this data can be edited inside both the accountant's copy and the client's copy.
Click Next to continue.
Another message appears, telling the client that QuickBooks must close all the windows to create an accountant's copy. QuickBooks may also tell the client to insert a disk.
Click OK and insert the disk (if necessary).
QuickBooks displays the Save Accountant's Copy dialog box.
Name the accountant's copy.
Use the File Name box of the Save Accountant's Copy dialog box to name the accountant's copy of the QuickBooks data file. If necessary, the client can also use the Save In drop-down list to specify where the accountant's copy of the QuickBooks data file should be saved.
The client needs to remember where the accountant's copy of the file gets saved. This file is given to the accountant — via e-mail, snail-mail, or saved onto a disk — in order for the accountant to be able to use it.
Create the file.
After the client names the accountant's copy of the data file and indicates, if necessary, where the accountant's copy should be saved, the client clicks Save. QuickBooks then saves an accountant's copy of the QuickBooks data file.
This data file is then transmitted to the accountant by the client. In other words, the client needs to snail-mail or e-mail the file.
Your e-mail provider may limit the size of attachments (including QuickBooks files) that you can send via e-mail. If the size thing fouls you up, you can upload the QuickBooks file to the Intuit website by selecting File→Accountant's Copy→Client Activities→Send to Accountant. Intuit then sends your accountant a message with a clickable link that she can use to grab the file.
Accountant copies make use of three files types. The Accountant Transfer File (with the .qbx file extension) is what a client creates and gives to the accountant. The actual Accountant's Copy (with the .qba file extension) is what the accountant works with after he or she opens the Accountant Transfer File. And finally, there's the Accountant Export File (with the .qby file extension).


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Lotteries have been with us for a long time. They go so far back that they're mentioned in the Bible, and Caesar himself is known to have encouraged lottery games in Rome to help pay for repair work that needed to be done in the city. Legend has it that even the Great Wall of [...] Read more
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So you missed out on this Kickstarter, don't worry, drop by our website www.larryelmore.com
A personal note from Larry Elmore
I want to say a few words about this Kickstarter Campaign, it has overwhelmed me, surpassed my wildest dreams and left me very humbled. Ken Whitman, a friend of mine, had tried to talk me into doing a Kickstarter campaign several years ago, because many times I had spoken to him about doing a big hardback book that would cover my life's work. Then another friend, Jim Ludwig of DarkSword Miniatures, started calling me about Kickstarter.
When I crunched the numbers, for me to publish a big book on my own dime, I simply couldn't afford it. I had certain publishers approach me to do a big book during the past few years....they would publish it, and of course, make all the money. But I wanted to do it my way. I never had a real agent during my career, I never particularly cared for someone telling me what to do (art directors were enough), so I have done it all my way the best I could. With an agent, I may have made more money over the years, perhaps done covers of "bigger books" and maybe, more popularity could have come my way, I don't know... I wanted to paint and draw. I just kept working and never ran out of work.
I was worried about this Kickstarter project, I didn't want to be the first guy to loose money on Kickstarter :-) . I was hesitant on the whole deal. I knew I had fans out there, because I have attend a lot of conventions over the past 25 years, but I didn't really know just how many and I didn't know just how strong and true they were. It really takes your most dedicated "hardcore" fans to pull off a project like this. I didn't know if there were that many---"left". Even though I still paint every day if possible and I will paint and draw until I die.
I basically got out of the publishing world a few years ago and lately I have been painting my own work and selling the originals. I love it. But I know that many fans have missed my work being published on books and game covers. I guess some of you thought I had "retired"!!! Well, I haven't! I never will. I worked as an illustrator for over 40 years, now I am ready to do my own work. I will still be around, while you sleep, I will be painting and drawing, and I will continue to do that until it becomes physically or mentally impossible for me. In the future, I will publish books of my newer works, both paintings and drawings, I will continue to make prints of these pieces, available at my website.
Well anyway, this campaign was greatly successful ONLY because of you guys. The MAIN reason I am writing this is to THANK ALL MY FANS...all over the world!! My family and I thank each and every one of you from the bottom of our hearts, I am seriously overwhelmed. I think my family didn't have a clue that this would happen, they are just as surprised as I am. Now, I have "pad money" ... and that means this, when I try to do a painting every month to pay the bills, and if that painting takes me a month and a half or two months to finish, I will have " pad money" to carry me over until I get paid. And that, my friends, takes a load of stress off me, and frees my mind up to do more creative work.
I am planning other Kickstarter Campaigns later on, some special books, like a NEW color Snarfquest graphic novel, and we are working on card games and board games, which I am greatly involved in. One of the most important projects, that may go up on Kickstarter next year, will be a large hardback black and white book. I wanted to get all my black and white work in this book, but there was no way...the book would be TOO thick. So, I want to do another hardback of all my black and white art, pencils and inks. The black and white book will be a matching book to this hard back color book. If you have purchased this color book and you purchase the black and white book, you will have a matching set of hardback books that cover around 95% of my life's work.
Again, I Sincerely thank each and every one of you ALL your support in this Kickstarter campaign, not only for this campaign, but THANK YOU for supporting me through all those years of fun and games that covered most of our lives!!! Did you ever think we would all come together one more time? I love you all!!!
Larry Elmore
ADD-ON #1: Add $25 to your pledge and get a Dragon Doodle in front of your book. This is a FREE add on to everyone in a foreign county.
ADD-ON #2: Add $100 to your pledge and you can get a 24"x36" Limited Edition print of the cover of this art book. It will be limited to 250+ the number of fans that participate here on Kickstarter. Many of you know, I have not painted the cover yet, but I do believe there will be a DRAGON on the cover.
ADD-ON #3: Want a second hardback book? Just add $49 extra to your pledge and we will send you a second book (however, it will not have all the extra stretch goal rewards). There is no additional shipping for a second book. (International FANS, we love you too!)
Example: Just go in and increase your pledge, we will figure out what you get based on your pledge minus your reward!
USA FANS (Example) -------------------------------------------------
$98-----FAN PACKAGE + 2nd BOOK
$123----FAN PACKAGE + DD + 2nd BOOK
$198---FAN PACKAGE + LE COVER PRINT + 2nd BOOK
$223---FAN PACKAGE + DD + LE COVER PRINT + 2nd BOOK
INTERNATIONAL FANS (Example)-----------------------------
$146---FAN PACKAGE + DD + 2nd BOOK
$246---FAN PACKAGE + DD + LE COVER PRINT+ 2nd BOOK
**International FANS will automatically get a DRAGON DOODLE at no additional cost as a bonus for the additional cost of shipping.
Your Fantasy Begins here!
I want to make available, through this project, the largest, most comprehensive collection of the very best of my art spanning my full 40 year career. Many of the images I will include in this tome are being re-mastered using the latest digital technology from original film, for unprecedented quality, and several pieces have never before been published or rarely seen. Interspersed among the images I will also offer you glimpses into my studio and creative process, including sketches and preliminaries, as well as share with you my autobiography, my artistic journey, and my stories. I will start from my earliest childhood drawings, and together we will journey through my challenges breaking into the industry and frustrations with commercial art, through my years working in games and on novel covers and ultimately to my latest personal works.
This hardback book will be 9" x 12" and encompass 300+ pages. Depending on your pledge amount you can own this book as a standard coffee-table hardback edition, or a deluxe leather-bound cover edition, as well as other bonuses, such as special prints, original hand-drawn sketches, or even the original painting used for the cover itself! Most importantly, you are helping me realize my dream of bringing this volume to you, my fans. Thank you in advance for your pledge!
This kickstarter project is going unbelievably well and I am overwhelmed. I want to do more stretch goals, and believe me we have been wracking our brains. But I had an idea; I have a lot of paintings and many of them have never left my studio, the originals have never been seen, and hardly anyone has had an opportunity to purchase one. I feel that they are too much trouble to take to conventions and also more likely get damaged. In the old days every painting made a trip to the publisher in New York and after it was published they would send the painting back. When it returned I would usually put the painting on a shelf in my studio or in a flat file. Now days I drive my paintings to Nashville for a professional scan and when I get back put them either on a shelf or in a flat file. So why not put some of these paintings up for sale because so many fans of my art are following this project and everyone would have an equal chance at purchasing an original painting. I have selected 12 paintings to sell; we will keep three available for purchase at all times until they are all sold or this kickstarter project is over. We are still trying to come up with new stretch goals and want to sincerely thank everyone for the fantastic support of this project!!!
SPECIAL: This Kickstarter campaign has been unbelievable, over whelming. So I decided to do one more special for everyone that is interested in original paintings. Since this campaign has been underway, many people have called me about buying original paintings. I think what surprised people most is that I have sold so many paintings over the years. Many of those iconic pieces are gone. I was never interested in hoarding all my paintings, I would always sell paintings at a reasonable price, because my favorite painting was always my next one! These paintings I am displaying here on kickstarter are some of the "few" that I have left to sell. I have saved some paintings to pass on to my children. Over the next 14 days, I have decided to lower the prices on these paintings $100 each day, until this Kickstarter campaign ends on December the 31st. If they sell, then I hope they find a good home, if not, I will keep them, just a few more paintings my children will have to deal with when I am gone....hopefully many years from now :)
The Last Ingredient : http://larryelmore.com/lastin
Three Doors: http://larryelmore.com/threedoors
Might & Magic 8: http://larryelmore.com/mightmagic
Unexpected return: http://larryelmore.com/unreturn
Frost Giant: http://larryelmore.com/frostgiant
King Author: http://larryelmore.com/kingauthor
The more we raise with this campaign, the better we can make this art book. We are still negotiating with our printers to get the best price on additional pages and extras, but your support will make them all possible. Once the Kickstarter program is over, the Hardback book will sale for $80.
Here is the curent retail value of our current stretch goals...
Stretch Goal 1: 48 Additional Pages If there is enough interest in this project, I would like to expand the book to 304 pages. This will give me more room to add more obscure paintings, more preliminary works and other black and white artwork. If pledges exceed thirty thousand, all contributors will receive a 304 page book rather than only 256 pages. COMPLETED
Stretch Goal 2: 8"x10" D&D Original Box Set Covers As a special thank you to my fans, should funding exceed fifty thousand dollars, I will include three 8" x 10" print of one of my most remembered painting series--the Basic Dungeons & Dragons Red Dragon box cover, the Expert Dungeons & Dragons Blue box cover, and the Companions Dungeon & Dragons Green box-- in every contributor's package. COMPLETED
Stretch Goal 3: B&W Sketch Book As an added bonus for achieving the one Seventy-five thousand dollar mark, I am going to bind together a soft cover black & white sketchbook that will include copies of all the original drawings I will be doing as inserts for this project and a few extra no one has ever seen. Everyone who has contributed from the Fan Package on up will receive a copy of this book in their package. I am so very grateful to you all for making my 40 year compendium a reality! COMPLETED
Stretch Goal 4: 8"x10" Original Dragonlance Covers Once we hit one hundred thousand, I will include three limited edition 8" x 10" prints of the three original Dragonlance Book covers -- Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, Dragons of Spring Dawning -- in every contributor's package. COMPLETED
Stretch Goal 5: Motorcycle Ride & Studio Tour As an added bonus for achieving the one hundred twenty-five thousand dollar mark, I plan to have a studio tour and motorcycle ride in my hometown of Leitchfield Kentucky. I will send each you a ticket to bring one guest sometime during the summer of 2013. You will have a chance to walk through my studio and time to talk with me. Later in the afternoon everyone with a motorcycle is welcome to take a long ride with me through the foothills of Kentucky. If you do not have a motorcycle, you are still welcome to come and enjoy the studio tour. (Contributors would be responsible for their own travel arrangements, overnight stay, gas, etc.)
Stretch Goal 6: 32 Additional Pages will round this book out to a whopping 336 pages. If pledges exceed two hundred thousand, all contributors will receive a 336 page book rather than the expanded 304 pages.
Risks and challenges
The greatest challenge I am facing with this project is the re-mastering and color-correcting of all my older works from the film the images are preserved on. Don't get me wrong, the quality of color will be phenominal and as close to the originals as I can get, but there is a LOT of work to do "cleaning up" the fuzzies, speckles and other gremlins that creep in during the scanning process. Still, I am excited to have the technology to reproduce these old favorites in a clearer, crisper way than ever before.
This book will ship to Kickstarter supporters in August 2013.
All pledge amounts include USPS Media Mail shipping within the U.S. Shipping for international orders will receive an additional $48.00 fee. International orders ship by USPS Priority Mail. Taxes and fees vary by country. Please be aware international orders may be required to pay a duty tax by your local postal station.
For more artwork by Larry Elmore log on to http://larryelmore.com/Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Funding period
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Oshie's Hat Trick Lifts Blues Over Wild 5-1
ST. LOUIS (AP) — T.J. Oshie scored three goals for his first NHL hat trick and Ryan Miller made 27 saves to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 5-1 rout over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night.
St. Louis has won three in a row overall and nine straight against the Wild. The Blues lead the NHL with 107 points.
Minnesota has lost six of eight.
Jaden Schwartz and Brenden Morrow also scored for St. Louis, which has points in its last 10 home games. Miller improved to 9-2-1 since being acquired from Buffalo on Feb. 28.
Zach Parise scored for the Wild, who had earned points in their previous three road games. Darcy Kuemper made 19 saves but fell to 12-8-4. He has won just twice in his last nine starts.


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/ Men: A Brief Survey /
A Baker's Dozen /
Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark/ Birds
Polychromed bronze and wood.
Ensemble appr. 19 x 34 x 26 in.
Noah's Ark
A number of years ago, I saw an exhibit of Noah's Ark toys made by 19th Century artisans. The toys were die-cast pairs of gaily-painted animals, standing on rectangular bases, one each, male and female. The story of Noah, of course, is that of the triumph of the procreative urge in the wake of the cataclysmic destruction of nearly all that walked, swam and flew. These toy animals from more than a hundred years ago represented a cheerful and unquestioning sensibility of sexuality as solely in the service of reproduction. The toys were not sexualized in any way other than by the differences in size and colorization that we associate with many male and female animals, but their mission was perfectly clear: Mama and Papa Zebra, hell-bent on making as many little zebras as time and good health allowed.
I could not help but compare this simplistic view of couples and their sexual relationships with the complex, if not absurdly convoluted, goings-on that characterize any real relationship. Few of us, anymore, feel the need to indulge in unbridled fecundity. Our sexuality seems more an arena, now, for playing out our needs and desires and our aversions and fears and, only occasionally, for the making of babies. I decided to make Noah's Ark toys for our times.


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