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Martin Scorsese has found the star of his upcoming film, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret."
Just hours after it was learned that Sacha Baron Cohen and Sir Ben Kingsley had signed on, it's been reported that Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz will be joining them on the set of Scorsese's next film.
Butterfield will take the lead role in "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," as a 12-year-old boy living beneath the streets of Paris, trying to bring his father's robot back to life. Knowing nothing more about the project, it's a safe bet that there will be some romance between him and Moretz.
Butterfield earned raves for his work as the young son of an SS officer in 2008's "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas," more recently appeared in "The Wolfman" and just finished filming "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang."
Moretz is probably the hottest young actress working right now. She stole every scene she was in as Joseph Gordon-Levitt's little sister in "(500) Days of Summer" and has all of cyberspace howling with delight over her work as "Hit Girl" in the not-even-released-yet "Kick Ass."
Additionally, she appears in "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" (out this week) and has been cast in the female lead of the American remake of "Let the Right One In."
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The King, the Mufti & the Facebook Girl: A Power Play. Who Decides What is Licit in Islam?
Saudi Arabia enforces a ban on woman driving on the grounds that it is prohibited by sharia law. Women's associations have actively denounced this ban for years, arguing that it was the only Muslim country which had such a peculiar interpretation of Islamic law. A power play is taking place online on this subject between the ulema (who support the ban), the Saudi authorities and feminine associations. This situation raises the question: "Who decides what is licit or illicit in Islam?" Muslim women's associations merely ask for the implementation in Muslim countries of the "best practices" in Islamic law which exist anywhere, as a substitute for those laws which are unfavorable to women's rights or do not protect their interests adequately.
"It is human beings (with all their frailties) who interpret the sharia"
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"Women in Saudi Arabia: to drive or not drive? That is not the question.
The question is: When?"
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Randall Jones' '35 Oldsmobile Convertible
Randy Jones says he grew up in the shadow of his father, James, as his dad worked on the various cars that filled the Jones family garage. He also seems to have inherited his father's interest in Oldsmobiles. This '35 L-35 Olds convertible is the rare jewel in the long list of Oldsmobiles he either has owned or does own.
Most of his other Olds have been muscle-cars, and while cooling down in the pits waiting to get called to the staging lanes for another pass with his '65 Olds 4-4-2 convertible, it occurred to him that there were many other good ways to enjoy cars. He drove out of the pits in the middle of the event and hasn't been drag racing since.
After attending a hot rod show, Randy's conversion was complete. His first rod was a '35 Olds two-door sedan, purchased from a co-worker's brother for $300. After that, he bought and built a '35 coupe. The search for a convertible took 15 years. At the time, Randy didn't know how extraordinarily rare these cars were. Less than 1,000 L-35 (inline eight-cylinder) convertibles were built in 1935. Now, Randy knows of only four still in existence.
Eventually, a friend heard about one in a junkyard in South Dakota. Unfortunately, he couldn't remember exactly where in South Dakota it was. After countless phone calls, Randy located the car just outside of Sioux Falls. By the time he got there, the owner had changed his mind about selling the car, so Randy made the 1,000-mile trip back to Ohio with an empty trailer. After some time had passed, he called again to follow up on the car. The owner had passed away, and the car was for sale.
When he bought it, the Olds had already been hot rodded with a Ford Flathead drivetrain and a straight-axle, but had not been driven since 1955, had a bunch of broken or missing pieces, and was coated in rust.
After finishing the frame and chassis, he sandblasted the bare shell of a body, tore out the original wood, and added lots of new sheetmetal, including a new floorpan and crossbeams. Otherwise, he kept the body mostly stock looking, and the Flathead was replaced with a '69 Chevy 402 tied to a Turbo 400 transmission.
It took Randy a long time to find and build his dream car, and despite the Oldsmobile's rarity, he refuses to stop driving it. In addition to local cruising, the convertible goes to plenty of East Coast shows every year, and never on a trailer. By the time you read this, the odometer will probably have spun past 23,000 miles.
A lot of friends pitched in along the way, and Randy especially credits his father for providing him with the knowledge and patience he needed for this buildup.
Although James isn't around to see the finished product, you've got to believe the old Oldsmobile man would be impressed by this remarkably rare ragtop.
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Randall Jones
Huron, Ohio
1935 Oldsmobile Convertible
The Olds came from the factory with a 240ci straight-eight, and from South Dakota with a worn-out Flathead. Nowadays it runs an owner-built Chevy 402 big-block loaded with 9:1 TRW pistons and a 520-lift cam from COMP Cams, and GM aluminum heads under ball-milled aluminum valve covers. Randy dropped a billet air cleaner over the Edelbrock 750 four-barrel on an Edelbrock Air-Gap intake manifold. A column-shifted Turbo 400 automatic is paired with a B&M 11-inch, 2,300-rpm-stall converter.
Randy kept the mostly stock frame, but added a '69 Trans Am subframe and steering system, along with 2-inch dropped spindles and Monroe shocks at both ends, as well as a '57 Ford rear with 2.75:1 gears.
Wheels & Tires
These 15-inch Halibrand Sprint wheels add a little hot rod attitude and are a cool contrast to the resto rod look of the rest of the exterior. Randy chose Goodyear blackwalls, measuring 205/75R15 and 235/70R15, for wrapping the rims.
Body & Paint
After finishing all the necessary bodywork, he got out the paint gun and shot the cherry red and cream PPG paint, and built a cloth top to replace the rotted original, using custom-made stainless steel mechanisms.
The six-way power Eldorado seats were upholstered in cream-colored Rolls Royce leather at Krist Kustoms in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The rumble seat, also electronically controlled, got the same treatment. The stock dash was treated to aftermarket gauges and air vents, and a matching console houses the stereo and climate controls.


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It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
I have some questions or suggestions here:
Thanks for the feedback! I marked the navigation drag and drop bug as an issue to be fixed, and I fixed that it wasn't resetting in the demo site as well. To answer your other points:
I wanted to keep font choice out of the page editor because it can really mess up a site's design. Many designers I've worked with have asked to have that feature removed from other CMSes, so that the font families used on the site can be chosen at the stylesheet level and text will always look consistent. Then for formatting, you have header levels, emphasis, etc.
Yes, this is a bit cramped. I was thinking about making a handle between the editor and preview so you can expand/contract them, or even making the preview open in a separate window or tab as another option. Not sure the best way here yet, but thinking on it still.
See bug mention above :)
You can only create one navigation tree, but you can use different parts of it separately in your site. For example, if you have a "products" section with sub-pages, you can show its children using {! navigation/section?section=products !} in your layout. Or if you want to show only the top-level pages, you can use {! navigation/top !}.
You can't edit the PHP code from within the browser, but it is pretty easy to write handlers and upload them separately. I fear offering a full code editor would give too much power to break things...
Thanks again for the feedback. I hope that answers your questions, and now off to figure out how to fix that bug! :)
Thanks, userful answer.
For the second question, I tends to remain the two parts in a single page, make them 100% height, and give two links within a absolut float div to travel.
I have made a chinese translation file, I wonder where to upload?
I like that idea, change the layout for those screens to take up 100% (I think I'll still add a control to expand/contract between the two so you can make the preview smaller or larger if you need). Will try playing with that tomorrow!
To send a translation file, it's probably easiest to paste the file into this page:
Then paste the link to it in here. Thanks!
I can't visit that link. Bad luck!
It's here:http://pastie.org/3222383
But some words doesn't change language in cms. I find that the cms admin bar is defined in apps/$appname/conf/config.php, which is organized in ini style. labels are hard coded. if I want to completely translate the whole cms, I have to modify every file.
Why use ini file style? I'm not familar with this. If a common php file, I will be able to use "i18n_get" function for translation.
Some more questions or suggestions.
I used the INI format since PHP has fast INI parsing so it's easier to read and write to than a PHP script. I would have used JSON but data can potentially be seen by requesting the file directly in the browser. With the INI files, you can start with a line like this
;<?php/* and name it
.php and the browser will display only a semicolon instead of the contents of the file, so it's still secure like a PHP script, but easier to edit :)
To answer your other questions:
I'm not sure what you mean. You're referring to this page right? http://www.elefantcms.com/wiki/Hooks-and-WebHooks
I'll have to think on whether it's best to put a single page in multiple places in the tree, but a workaround is to create additional pages that redirect to the main one and place them in the other parts of the tree: http://www.elefantcms.com/wiki/Redirecting-Pages
I haven't written a good pagination solution or found the right one to include in Elefant yet. For now I've simply written a very simple one that you can see in the blog app in
apps/blog/handlers/index.php where I set the count, last, more, and next values and
apps/blog/views/index.html where I display the "Older posts" and "Newer posts" links.
I haven't added many-to-many relationships to the Model joins yet, but I've been playing with some ideas for it. I want to make sure it works very naturally but also creates efficient SQL behind-the-scenes.
There's some info on creating your own dynamic objects at the bottom of this page: http://www.elefantcms.com/wiki/Dynamic-handlers-and-the-wysiwyg-editor
I'm not sure what you mean about foreach and sorting. I usually sort the data in PHP before sending it to the template myself :)
Yes, you can put direct PHP into the template instead of the tags. You can refer to the data passed to the template like this:
<?php echo $data->title; ?>
I'm sorry, my english is poor...
The first question is: there are some build-in hooks, right? Show them in a list or table may be useful.
The sixth is like this:(in template)
{% foreach pages %}
{{ loop_index }} - {{ loop_value }}
{% end %}
It works well. But
{% foreach pages %}
{% foreach loop_value %} //foreach again
//I think I will be confused
{% end %}
{% end %}
Thanks to your wonderful document!
That's a good idea to have a list of built-in hooks. I've added it to the hooks page now: http://www.elefantcms.com/wiki/Hooks-and-WebHooks
For multi-level loops in templates, here's an example of how it works:
apps/test/handlers/test.php I created this:
$data = array (
'my_list' => array (
array ('One', 'Two', 'Three'),
array ('Four', 'Five', 'Six')
echo $tpl->render ('test/test', $data);
Then in
apps/test/views/test.html I loop through
{% foreach my_list %} in a

 then loop through the
{% foreach loop_value %} in each:
{% foreach my_list %}

{{ loop_index }}:

{% foreach loop_value %}
{{ loop_index }}. {{ loop_value }}

{% end %}
{% end %}
The output looks like this:
* 0:
0. One
1. Two
2. Three
* 1:
0. Four
1. Five
2. Six
I found that in desigher page, when listing layout and css files, each link is linked to the direct file. I usually want to go to the edit page. Change this may be more helpful.
In user and controller class, there are some require_* functions. In user class, the function checks the authenticate staus. Renaming it is_* maybe easier to understand. It means:
if (! User::require_admin ())
change it to
if (! User::is_admin ())
Is it better?
On the other hand, the user class has require_admin function. How about add a require($type) function, to check more group types, not only for admin, or member? And maybe a user has more than one role, $type may be an array.
A optimizing suggestion: autoload searches classes when need a class. How about caching the file path information?
It seems that adding two hooks is useful: before_handle, after_handle. As elefantcms use handle rather than controller class( it seems controller in elefantcms is similar with route in others), we can't extends a parent class to share code. These hooks may be useful.
I cleaned up the User model today and I think it's much better now. I got rid of the lazy global object I was using before, wrote some unit tests for it, and added a few new methods:
if (User::is ('member')) {
// User type is member
// Get a value
echo User::val ('name');
// Set a value
User::val ('name', 'New name');
// Save the info
User::save ();
That should make it easier to check new types, and to get/update user info cleanly. I kept the
User::require_admin() naming for now, but for most uses using
$this->require_admin(); is probably better anyway (from http://www.elefantcms.com/wiki/Code-example:-Authorizing-users).
Thinking about the before_handle and after_handle hooks, I'm not sure if adding them is the best way. The
bootstrap.php file (see http://www.elefantcms.com/wiki/Global-configurations) may be adequate to solving the before_handle hook at least. I'll have to think more on that.
And for the designer links, that gets me too sometimes. I meant it as a preview link but it doesn't work well for that. I will see if I can improve on that. Thanks! :)
I like it:)
Just posted a new release with these changes as well :)
User class can save serialized data in a extra field, so it can be extended to more dynamic fields as you like. it's nice. Other models also need this feature?
For example, usually the post model is designed enough. But in some themes( as some wordpress themes) it perhaps needs an additional field to save a special picture for each post.
Perhaps we should let the model class also has the ability like use class. Of course, doing this we will have to add every table a extra field. But it will be more extensible, right?
Or not every model needs this feature, because dynamic data can't be found by database. So have a normal model class for normal use(it has now), then a advModel for extensible use, this may be better.
I also have a question, if data is from the extra field, using the INI-styled form file seems to will have a problem, as we get data using:
These days I am away from my home, so I can't test it. But I think it may be.
If change the model class, we can get data form the same implement:
we don't need to care about where the data from. This may be more simple and less problems.
Another suggestion is, elefantcms doesn't support muliti site installed in a database. After subfolder installation support, this can be done.
Thanks to your efficient work. I wish elefantcms becomes more and more excellent.
Great idea to make that more general. Check out the ExtendedModel class I just checked into Github. I'm thinking of extending the blog post model with it like this:
namespace blog;
class Post extends \ExtendedModel {
public $_extended_field = 'extra';
Then you'll be able to add fields to a blog post like this:
$post = new Post ($post_id);
$extra = $post->extra;
$extra['photo'] = '/path/to/image.jpg';
$post->extra = $extra;
$post->put ();
Unfortunately, you can't just do a
$post->extra['photo'] = '/path/tp/image.jpg' in PHP because accessing the member of the array causes it to not trigger the
__set() method. That's why the
$extra = $post->extra and
$post->extra = $extra lines are needed...
I wonder if I could also add a special getter/setter method to ExtendedModel to simplify this further, something like:
// set an extra field
$post->extended ('photo', '/path/to/image.jpg');
Then you could also say:
// get a single field
$photo = $post->extended ('photo');
And even:
// return the whole array
$extras = $post->extended ();
That would be easy to add. What do you think?
I've added an
extra property to blog posts now, and added an
ext() method to ExtendedModel for accessing extra values like in my last post.
Next I'll also need to figure out how to add custom-defined properties to the post add/edit forms too. Maybe as a configuration option in the blog app. Hmm... :)
I make a try here: http://pastie.org/3260755 .
I'm poor in php, and now I have no develop environment, so I didn't test the scirpt, and even there may be syntax errors. But I think it shows my idea.
Main idea:
1. use __get() and __set() to have the same implement as normal field;
2. give a default extra field name;
3. extra field named 'extra' may be too normal, because it may has been used.
4. I'm not sure that we need to append new extra data field by code. For example,
will work well when the model has the pic extra data field, but if it hasn't, ignore it or add a new field and value?
5. further feature: define the form information (see TODO in code). So we would be able to just define this array, then build the custem fields in form. It's nice, isn't it?
I didn't develop anything before, but I like thinking :)
I'd like to figure out a way to include validation for the extended fields in the regular model validation, maybe with an 'extended' flag value, for example:
[title] /* regular field */
not empty = 1
[photo] /* extended field */
extended = 1
regex = "/.*\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$/"
This way it would simply know to use the $_extended_field instead of trying to get/set it directly, causing the SQL to fail too.
This could also allow it to build a list of extended fields so the ordinary __get/__set would know to pass it on as well, since otherwise it wouldn't know to do so. That could be a workaround for the fact that you can't say
$model->extra['photo'] because PHP won't trigger __set() on the $model when its inside the array.
I'm going to file an issue for this and think more about it for now.
How about my idea above? If that is feasible, it seems simpler and better.
I just added the validation for extended properties, but I also modified the __get/__set methods so that if an extended property is defined in the
$verify list, you can then access it directly via
$model->extended_field_name, for example:
$blog_post->photo = 'example.jpg';
I believe that's what you meant, right? It definitely makes it simpler, although it adds a bit of "magic" to how those properties work, but not too much I think :)
aha, I like it!
Admin toolbar seems to miss a link to edit current page.
The edit buttons should appear inside the page next to the content that's editable. I wanted to keep the toolbar as clean and simple as possible, and since you can also edit blocks as well, I think this makes it clearer what content you will be editing when you click an edit button.
oh, sorry, I'm too careless.
I want to optimize the performance of elefantcms even faster, so I have a try to add file path cache for autoloader.
Codes are here: http://pastie.org/3287208
Unluckily, it doesn't work. I don't know what's wrong.
These days my wife is sick in hospital, so I don't have time to fix it.
Another suggestion, elefantcms globs config files and combines the values. In this way, apps can easily extend the system. Then, I think it is valueable to wrap it as a function for further use.
For example, function glob_config($section, $handle,$file='config.php').
Then, when we want to analyse a config section in all apps, like "mySection", just use code:
//other codes
function dosomething(){
Your class map suggestion got me experimenting over the last couple days. I just posted results here:
In the end, it looks like the class map ended up taking more memory and I couldn't get it to improve performance by any real amount.
For the configurations, I'm not sure what you mean beyond the config info at these pages:
The global configurations are always available, and an app's configurations are automatically loaded within the app itself. You can also in theory access the configurations from other apps as well via:
echo $this->appconf['blog']['Blog']['title'];
But you would need to ensure the blog app was loaded already. Do you mean that you want to be able to load their configurations manually if they haven't been called yet?


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Today's Story from the Road by Shad shows how his Zimrides to Tahoe have helped him save on gas and make new friends.
I work for a large company with tens of thousands of employees, so Zimride and Facebook actually helped me find rideshare buddies I would not have thought of. Also, use of the Zimride referral link breaks the ice and turns us onto the idea of sharing our resources rather than clogging the roads with more cars. It also keeps us from draining our wallets of money we would rather spend on skiing and boarding equipment like new boots and helmets.
One of my riders was a repeat from a previous Zimride who as it turns out skis pretty much at my level (i.e. gnarly stuff). I arranged to pick him up at the Larkspur Landing Ferry for our Zimride to Lake Tahoe, and it turned out someone else found me on Zimride that wanted to ride with me using the very same ferry. What are the odds! While waiting for the ferry to arrive with my passengers, a third passenger contacted me to ride from Sacramento to South Lake Tahoe, which was perfect because we had just enough room for one more person. The Zimride communication features were perfect for coordinating rides because each of them could see what they were getting into. They had time to lookup my profile and my vehicle to decide whether it was appropriate for them. And there was zero tension about when we would arrive and who would pay for gas, food, etc. That right there made the ride an absolute blast. One of my passengers turned out to be an experienced back-country snowboarder with amazing stories about ski areas all over the United States. I'd pay to hear the things he shared with us. Great stuff!!!
Our 4-1/2 hour drive seemed like it flew by in half that time. 🙂
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Hi Gang,
Here are some of my favorites...
Reading Santa
Baby Goat and Flowers
St Augustine Lighthouse
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Hi Gang,
Here are some of my favorites...
Reading Santa
Baby Goat and Flowers
St Augustine Lighthouse
Willie is trying to learn how to make the colors more vibrant. I keep seeing new photography magazines show up :) Does anyone know how to photograph embroidery to make the colors "pop"?
If you have access to Photoshop you can make your colors "pop".
Yes, I don't know if I told you but I love your squares, you do excellent work. I think your squares are reasonably priced.
You have a nice web site and your work is beautiful good luck in your venture :D
Thank You to all who have responded. It is encouraging to hear from others, sometimes it gets discouraging at first. There are so many things to think about and do other than just the embroidery, never thought I would be writing ad copy. Everything is slowly coming together. I picked up some bone colored Kona cotton as an alternative fabric and some ivory flannel backed satin to do some wedding squares for pillows, albums and maybe purses. If any of you have suggestions on fabric please let me know.
Thanks Again
Well, of course, the lighthouse is my favorite bc I am a lighthouse fanatic!!
These are really great!! Awesome work!
very pretty blocks


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I am very excited about the lovely job that Michelle from Shabby Creations has done in bringing my ideas of a new look for Under Her Starry Mantle to life. I had many little, incessant thoughts and desires, but Michelle accommodated them all beautifully!
This blog is dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe and so the new look is my more personal reflection of that.Our Lady's image rests in a mexican retablo frame, surrounded by her miraculous starry mantle that Our Heavenly Mother wishes to envelope us all in:
"Are you not in the fold of my mantle?..."
I also love herbs and have started to blog a bit more about them so it was a fitting choice to include an image of the Lady's Mantle herb. This is a beautiful, healing herb for women, one that I brew up into a tea regularly. A famous Catholic priest, Abbe Kuenzle once said,
"Through early and prolonged application of this medicinal herb, two thirds of all operations performed on women would be quite unnecessary, since it heals all inflammations of the abdomen, fever, burning, suppuration, ulcers and hernia. Every woman in childbirth should drink much of this tea. Some children would still have their mother, some stricken widower his wife, had they but known this herb. "
The name given to this herb due to the plant's very shapely and pleated leaves that look like a lady's cloak in medieval times. The cloak was thought suitable for the Virgin Mary and the original common name of the herb was - 'Our-Lady's-Mantle' in honor of Mary. Of course it ties into the blog's theme in a lovely way. You can see the herb in the header in colour and in the background of the main text section, in a slightly darker shade than the background colour, along the sides.
The mantle flows over and down the side of a painting of the scene where Juan Diego is walking to meet Our Lady (Our Lady is seen in the top, left hand corner of the picture) it has been given a worn, antique look with the most beautiful, motherly words in the world scripted over the top:
"Am I not here, I who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and watch? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the fold of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms?"
Castilian roses fell from Juan's tilma at the moment the image of Our Lady miraculously appeared, the press dried roses in the header are in rememberance of that scene.
The background on the very far sides, behind the main text area is part of Our Lady of Guadalupe's dress, that is full of symbolic meaning.
My beloved bottle of Loreto Holy Oil features as well as my vintage reproduction Guadalupian rosary beads I made last year.
The title over the top of the header, "Under Her Starry Mantle" I tried to match a font that was similar to the calligraphy script of the Nican Mopohua the ancient account of the apparition written in his own hand in 1649 by Valeriano in the mexican language, Nahuatl.
I hope you like the new look as well!
I had a series of things go wrong on St Patrick's Day, too numerous to mention including the loss of a tooth that required surgical removal, deleting my whole post by accident, then re-writing and having the delete button jam and eat up my post before I discovered what was doing it, accidently sending my St Patrick's Breastplate video to Catholic Cuisine, oh yes, it just goes on! I hope to blog sometime soon about St Patrick.
We are also caught up in state elections down under in our state, in which we are heavily involved with, (please offer an Ave for our election, that Godly people are elected) so we didn't get to celebrate our beloved St Joseph's feastday as we would have hoped, we always have so much to thank him for! I hope your St Joseph's day is a blessed one!


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TRY SOMETHING NEW Chapter 22: This Is Madness!
Sometimes weird stuff happens in your life. Like, for example, you decide you want to write comics for a living and then someone hires you to do that. That is a really weird and wonderful and stressful and anxiety producing thing. Also, weirdly, that exact thing happened to me. I got hired to write a comic and, as anxious as it makes me to tell you all this, it comes out this week. The book is called TWELVE REASONS TO DIE and I was lucky enough to work on it with RZA and Ghostface Killah from the Wu-Tang Clan. It's an insane mashup of Giallo crime stories and all sorts of horror elements. As truly awesome as getting hired by those guys for this book is, I feel just as lucky to be getting to work with over 20 of my favorite artists in comics. Ron Wimberly, Tim Seeley, Paolo Rivera, Ramon Perez, Shaky Kane, Anders Nilsen, Phil Noto, Joe Infurnari, Tony Moore, Ben Templesmith, Jim Mahfood, Johnny Ryan, Chris Mitten, Riley Rossmo, Nate Powell, Tyler Crook, and a ton more awesome folks are all contributing to the book. I should probably say something snarky and obnoxious about this but mostly I just get kind of sickly feeling when I have to think about it for too long so I will just ask, if you like my column here, maybe pick my book up off the shelf and see if you might like it. And if you put it back, please put it back in the right place. It's super #@%*!^& annoying when you don't do that.
Since my book only costs $3.50 and this store can't operate without money I am now going to encourage you to buy some other stuff too. I don't make these recommendations with any less enthusiasm then I did the previous one, it will just feel that way. CHIN MUSIC #1. At this point I shouldn't have to explain this drill to you. Image launches a new series. Not too many people buy it. Then 3 months pass. The book is a hit at some convention or some tv producer buys the rights. Everybody on earth falls in love with it. It has become tv hot. Or con hot. You all come back begging for copies of issue #1. We laugh at you. Let's cut out some of the steps. Chin Music is the new book from horror icon Steve Niles (30 DAYS OF NIGHT) and Tony Harris (EX MACHINA) and it's a mystical crime story set around prohibition. It is beautiful and, I don't say this lightly, intriguing. This book could legitimately be the best work of Steve Niles' very impressive career. Buy it now and get intrigued.
This is a personal note for Dan DiDio and Axel Alonso. Guys. How's it going? You guys have a lot of books to put out each month. That must be hard. That is a lot of writers to try and find to write your books. I mean, Scott Snyder and Brian Bendis can each only write what? 10, maybe 20 comics a month. Well I am here to make your lives a little easier today. Buy COMEBACK, then email Ed Brisson and tell him you want him to write… well, anything. It isn't often that I come across a new writer who blows me away. The same is probably true for you. Who was the last writer whose work you absolutely fell in love with? Who you knew was going to be a career worth following. For me it was Ed Brisson as I got 5 pages into COMEBACK. Equal parts crime noir and sci-fi time travel head#*$&, Comeback is one of those books you want everyone you know to read so you can all discuss it. It's as smart as it is cool, it tells a time travel story that both makes sense and will mess you up for days, and it looks amazing. I can safely say Comeback is the best book I read so far this year and I don't see much on the horizon to come after it. This is just one of those books that will stick with you. So thanks Ed Brisson. Remember all the nice stuff I said here when you become a comic superstar.
SPIDER-MEN was the gimmicky crossover event Marvel did where regular Peter Parker met ultimate Miles Morales. Here's the thing. The scene where a grown up Peter Parker meets the alternate universe teenage Gwen Stacy is one of the best moments I have ever read in comics. It draws upon 40 years of Spider-Man history, 13 years of Ultimate Spider-Man history, and produces one of the best, most human moments I have ever read in a superhero comic. This book is beautiful, fun, and has one of my favorite comic scenes of all time. You should probably just buy it.
It's nice to see Matt Kindt getting the recognition he deserves. Marvel and DC are fighting over him, his book MIND MGMT has taken off, and he seems like a really nice dude. It's funny though because I fell in love with Kindt's work because I thought he could do small and personal better than most, yet here he is getting noticed for this big bombastic stuff. Well, now he is releasing a new OGN that is more a return to his earlier form. RED HANDED- THE FINE ART OF STRANGE CRIMES is an amazingly fun detective story about a small town dick has become so good at his job that crime no longer exists. Imagine his surprise when new and bizarre crimes begin taking over the town. Equal parts human interest story and absurdist mystery, Red Handed is an early frontrunner for underappreciated book of the year.
I love a book that comes out of left field and just floors you. For me that was MUMBAI CONFIDENTIAL. A gritty cop story that doesn't look like anything else on shelves, Mumbai Confidential is a stunningly good book. Based on a true story, MC follows 2 cops who are tasked with cleaning up the streets of Mumbai after they have been taken over by organized crime. The Indian government gave these officers carte blanche to use lethal force as they saw fit. That's the set up for Judge Dredd too, only this one is true and much more terrifying. Equal parts Hong Kong action flick and crime noir comic, MC is well worth your time.
I also wanted to briefly take a minute to say thanks to a bunch of the FP staff. This isn't really the right forum for this but I am pretty awkward and comics don't usually have a thank you page so I just want to wholeheartedly thank Jeff and the anthropomorphic business that is FP for being supportive and dealing with me being pretty sleep deprived and crazed most of the time. A huge thanks to Tyler, Ben, Javier, and Vita for going above and beyond always. My sincerest thanks and apologies to the rest of the staff for having to listen to me talk about this all the time and still being nice to me. I am awful but you all are pretty good so it balances out in the end. And special thanks to Carly for always being a great friend and being more supportive than I deserve. It all means more than you know. Now if you'll excuse me I am going to go be all awkward and weird and watch people not buy my comic.


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The Chicago Bulls sent Andres Nocioni, Drew Gooden, Michael Ruffin and Cedric Simmons to the Sacramento Kings for Brad Miller and John Salmons.
Andres had this to say, according to the Chicago Sun-Times:
"I'm not surprised," Nocioni said. "There have been a lot of rumors. I'm all right. I was waiting for this.
"But I don't feel bad the way I'm leaving. It's not like I did something wrong. I wasn't playing my best this season. But I gave everything to this team. I played hard every day whether in practice or in games. I'm a competitive person and I leave this team the best way I could. The only thing I feel bad about is I'm leaving a good team, good players and good coaches. I really enjoyed being with the Bulls. But this is the NBA life. Things like this can happen."
Drew Gooden had similar thoughts:
"This is a good team that can make a push into the playoffs," Gooden said of the Bulls. "We all know this is a business but I also look at it as an opportunity."
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Senior Jaclyn Babe scored a career-high 36 points as the Central Connecticut women's basketball team ran to a 78-69 victory over UMass on Tuesday night. The Blue Devils (2-0) scored 16 points on fast breaks, which helped the team score a season-high 46 second half points.
The Blue Devils posted a shooting percentage of 46.2 in the first half and 45.5 in the second half. The shooting percentage was boosted by Jaclyn Babe who connected on 12-of-15 field goal attempts and on 11-of-11 free throws.
As a team the Blue Devils hit 21-of-23 free throw attempts, good for a 91.3% mark.
Junior Jessica Babe grabbed a team-high eight rebounds and had a career-high 11 assists.
Defensively, Jaclyn Babe posted a career-high seven steals and Jessica Babe added four of her own. Senior Kirsten Daamen blocked three shots to help the Blue Devils slow down the Minutewomen.
Babe is the first Blue Devil player to eclipse the 30-point mark since Gabriella Guegbelet scored 30 against Monmouth on Feburary 6, 2006.
"This is a really good win for us. They are a good team, they are a tough team with good post players. We did a lot of the things that we had to give ourselves a chance to win," head coach Beryl Piper said.
The Blue Devils led 32-22 following the first half and were actually outscored, 47-46, by the Minutewomen in the second half.
Sophomore Kaley Watras (16), Daamen (10), junior Lauren Arbogast (9), Jessica Babe (5) and freshman Raven Makins (2) also contributed to CCSU's scoring.
Jessica Babe (8) Daamen (4), Watras (4), Arbogast (3), sophomore Johnna Fisher (2), Jaclyn Babe (1), Makins (1) and freshman Nicole Ferguson helped out on the boards.
The Blue Devils return to action on Friday night when they host the University of Hartford at 7 p.m.


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Uptons go deep, set sibling home run record
Brothers belt blasts in the same game for the fifth time to make history
ATLANTA -- Once Justin Upton rounded the bases after taking Stephen Strasburg deep to give the Braves a quick two-run lead in the first inning of Friday night's 7-6 win over the Nationals, B.J. Upton approached him and said, "Well, if I hit a homer, maybe we'll do it tonight."
One inning later, B.J. sent a Strasburg breaking ball over the left-field wall that not only increased Atlanta's lead to 4-0 but marked the fifth time both brothers homered in a single game, setting a new Major League record for siblings.
The Uptons previously shared the record of four games with Vladimir and Wilton Guerrero and Jason and Jeremy Giambi.
"I don't know why tonight was the night," Justin said. "He never said that before any other time, but for some reason, he had a good feeling tonight."
Justin and B.J. broke the sibling record less than two months after they tied it against the Astros on June 24 at Minute Maid Park. The 45 days that passed between then and Friday was much shorter than their previous wait.
Before tying the record in Houston, the Braves had played 217 games since the brothers had last homered in the same game -- the second contest of a doubleheader on April 23, 2013, at Coors Field.
It was a lengthy drought, considering the Uptons accomplished the feat in three of the first 20 games they played together. But they have more than made up for it, breaking the record in only 220 games together as Braves teammates.
The Guerreros appeared in 345 games as teammates and the Giambis played 219 contests in the same uniform.
"I think it's enough to say two brothers have been in the big leagues as long as we have, and getting the opportunity to play with each other is enough," B.J. said. "For us to be able to break a record, you can only dream about that."
"I never take it for granted," Justin added. "Coming to the ballpark with my brother every day is special, and I try to take it in every single day, but when we do stuff like this and setting records, it's definitely nice. We really enjoy playing together, and to do that is special."


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Aberdeen Asset Management is on a quest to help investors resist "the siren call of short-term opportunity."
Short-term investing, the group says, often is unproductive and stems from "bad habits" linked to "behavioral traps and temptations," the group said in its report "The Seven Deadly Sins of Multi-Asset Investing."
The group doesn't aim to make Catholic and other investors feel guilty about their less-than-stellar investing habits, just more self-aware and able to "resist them."
"We hope our take on sin is a fun but useful insight into the way we think about the world and multi-asset investing," said Mike Turner, head of multi-asset for Aberdeen Asset Management, in the piece.
Read on to learn about the common investor tendencies that Aberdeen suggests be avoided for reliable, long-term performance.
1. Lust (Chasing Hot Stocks)
"Investing for the long term sounds like an obvious strategy, but it is surprising how few investors actually adopt it. In our fast-paced world, the desire for instant gratification can overwhelm," the group explained.
The prospect of immediate gain or desire to jump into the latest hot stocks or sectors can prove harmful, since these strategies frequently are followed "long after the opportunity to profit has passed," Aberdeen says.
"A less lusty approach that weathers market ups and downs over years, not just weeks, almost always proves more fruitful — as well as cheaper — in the long term," Turner said.
2. Gluttony (Information Overload)
Don't get lost or overwhelmed by information and analysis being thrown at investors online, on TV and radio, and in print.
"Simpler but disciplined analytical frameworks can be the most robust," Turner said.
When evaluating asset classes, it's best to look at yields and growth prospects.
"If valuations are high (and therefore yields are low), the chances are that valuations will fall (and therefore yields will rise)," he said. "Conversely, if yields are high, there's a good chance that they will fall and valuations rise."
Muster the discipline to screen out "market noise," which few did during the dot-com bubble, when many investors chose to count eyeballs, instead of looking closely at company cash flow.
"When it comes to information, less is very often more," Aberdeen stressed.
3. Greed (Following the Herd)
"Whether it's equities, bonds or property, the avarice of the herd is always to be treated with caution," the group explained.
When investors are piling in to a stock or sector, it's good to steer clear or even sell. At the same time, when there is market agitation or investor rejection, this may "provide rich territory for smart, selective investors who know what they want to buy and why."
Equal discipline also is required when it comes to keeping portfolios balanced.
"If everyone is moving to equities, it can be tempting to sacrifice your fixed-income exposure. But with that, you could also jettison your risk diversification," the investment group said.
4. Sloth (Neglecting Due Diligence)
There are no shortcuts when it comes to successful, well-planned investing.
"In fundamental equity investing, that means doing all the hard work to get to understand every single company first hand — finding out where performance is coming from and how it can be sustained in the future," Aberdeen explained in its report.
There's lots of homework to do when buying bonds, too, of course.
"Only through this grunt work do we really understand what the right valuation for an investment should be," Turner wrote.
Overall, the moral is not to be lazy in doing due diligence, the group says, and to "rest comfortably once a sound long-term decision has been made."
A properly diversified portfolio can allow you to feel like you're in "an oasis of calm."
When equities fall, fixed-income holding should be stable, for instance.
"Allocating to the highest-quality assets you can find across a spread of lowly-correlated asset classes remains arguably the most sensible protection," the group noted. "Being diversified is the key to calm — even in volatile markets.
5. Wrath (Slavery to Benchmarks)
Tracking or bugging a benchmark is "a cardinal sin of the 'active' investor," Turner points out.
"The sin with this approach is partly that it's lazy and unthinking. It means you are constantly investing only in assets that have done well in the past, rather than those that might do well in the future (stocks only enter indices following good performance and leave after poor)," the Aberdeen report noted.
Instead, consider investing in assets that offer potential for future return at the "appropriate level of risk."
Modern multi-asset strategies, the group explains, focus on measuring themselves against "the tangible and absolute concept of a risk-free return," which is a benchmark well worth outperforming for many investors.
6. Envy (Overconfidence)
Being overconfident can prove fatal for investors, since it causes them to make the same mistakes over and over.
Plus, strong feelings of overconfidence tend to come before a fall, as in the dot-com bust.
"Whatever your assessment of your own confidence, spending more time asking yourself why your judgement could be wrong, rather than gathering proof that it is right, can lead to a better outcome."
7. Pride (Overreliance on Instinct)
Instinct and emotion easily override sense and logic when it comes to investing.
To be a "virtuous" investor requires that you "resist impulsive behavior, screen out market noise, remain thorough in your research and stay calm and dispassionate whatever market conditions you face," Aberdeen argues.
Armed with the knowledge of which vices to avoid, good habits should now become at least somewhat easier to cultivate.
Want to review the seven deadly sins? Go through the "investment sin" checklist:
- I avoided making an investment just for short-term gain
- I focused on sensible information to make my decision
- I ignored the crowd and made my own mind up
- I resisted the temptation to over-manage my investments
- I checked that my portfolio is properly diversified
- I did not slavishly follow a benchmark
- I made sure I assessed my decision thoroughly before taking action
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O.J. Mayo broke out of a shooting slump with 27 points and Dallas celebrated Derek Fisher's Mavericks debut with a 92-77 victory against the Detroit Pistons on Saturday night.
Mayo was coming off consecutive games with season lows and started 0 for 4 before taking over in the third quarter. He scored 16 points in a 17-4 run that eventually stretched into a 25-6 surge as Dallas snapped a three-game losing streak.
Fisher got the start a day after the 16-year veteran's first practice with the Mavs. His presence seemed to spark Darren Collison, the struggling young point guard he was brought in to help. Collison had eight assists and no turnovers.
Brandon Knight led Detroit with 20 points, including 18 in the first half.


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8 November 2017UN Women
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View the Video Watchdog Minute: Donation after seal vote
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This story has been amended from its original posting, which incorrectly said that Oceanside has campaign contribution limits. The city does not.
California Coastal Commissioner Esther Sanchez accepted a $1,000 campaign contribution from an activist who supports a year-round rope barrier at the Children's Pool in La Jolla, two months after voting in support of the barrier.
State law bars commissioners from receiving campaign contributions larger than $250 from parties involved with a permit, a license or other entitlement before the board, for a period from 12 months before a decision to three months after.
Sanchez, who serves on the Oceanside City Council, was seeking re-election in 2012.
On Sept. 14, she accepted the contribution from Jane Reldan, a La Jolla doctor and supporter of a rope barrier to separate visitors from seals that gather on the beach there. Reldan lives 30 miles from Oceanside.
The money came within three months of Sanchez's July 11, 2012, vote in support of the barrier. Sanchez made the motion for approval of the barrier, which she said was a protection for both the seals and the public. The commission vote in favor was unanimous.
"It seems to me that the rope worked, and when it came down, that is when things started to go under," Sanchez said at the hearing.
Reldan, who is involved with the organization La Jolla Friends of the Seals, spoke at the hearing in favor of the barrier. During her presentation, she gave the commission more than 1,000 letters and a petition with more than 2,000 signatures from supporters of the barrier.
"These numbers exceed the opponents by more than 1,000," she said.
Opponents of the barrier questioned the timing of Reldan's donation.
"She gives the largest donation possible in a city where she doesn't appear to have any real interest except that a coastal commissioner sits on the council," said Ken Hunrichs, a member of the group Friends of the Children's Pool. "It just looks a little funny."
Hunrichs said an individual from his group will file a formal request with the state's Fair Political Practices Commission to investigate the allegations.
Sanchez is in limbo on the state board. Her term expired May 20, but she is still seated because Assembly Speaker
The Friends of the Children's Pool has called on Perez not to reappoint Sanchez.
Sanchez, a Democrat, was named to the state panel in August 2009 by then-Assembly Speaker
Gary Winuk, chief of the Fair Political Practices Commission's enforcement division, said he couldn't comment on Sanchez's situation specifically, but said a scenario in which an appointed official accepted a donation less than three months after a vote could violate the law if the circumstances fit the prohibition.
"Appointed officials, including elected ones who get appointed to other boards, are subject to a prohibition on accepting a contribution over $250 for a period of three months after the final decision if they knew or should have known about the conflict," Winuk said.
Multiple calls to Sanchez and an aide went unreturned over a period of two days.


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DURHAM — New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation program stirred up creativity on Saturday at the University of New Hampshire.
The global leader in teaching the creative process from imagination to innovation educates all ages of children from kindergarten through the university level. The program encourages learners to take risks and challenge themselves while incorporating subjects such as: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
There are 150,000 annual participants in Destination ImagiNation alone, and 38,000 volunteers.
Jill Schoonmaker, Executive Director of New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation and New Hampshire's Incredible Creativity Connection provided Saturday's event schedule which included three separate workshops: An instant challenge workshop, that emphasizes critical thinking and problem solving, an improvisation workshop which focuses on team building and a third workshop called, beautiful garbage which encourages children to become empowered through their own creativity and construct costumes out of plastic materials.
"Fun is very important aspect of this program," said Schoonmaker.
The basics of the program include teams of seven members, from kindergarten through the university level, that include an adult team manager to help students stay on track. Seven new challenges are presented to the teams to choose from, technical, scientific, fine arts, improvisational, structural and service learning. The young age range team remains on a noncompetitive level but still helps develop certain cognitive skills. The season takes place from Sept through May and teams will typically spend 2-4 months practicing their challenging solutions. NHDI teams are assessed at a regional, state or country tournament and while developing new friendships in the process. The first regional competition will be on Mar. 16 at Littleton High School.
"I'm really enjoying it," said ten-year old Amelia Demopoulos when asked how she likes the program. Amelia was currently in the creating process of making parachutes out of plastic bags on Saturday afternoon.
Ryan Fitzgerald 12-year old at Dover Middle School is in his fifth year of participation of NHDI.
"I'm learning how to be a team player. Having fun is my favorite part," said Fitzgerald.
Media contact of NHDI, Wayne Kurtzman, finds that alumni of NHDI helped them do better in school at the college level.
" Four hundred of our 1,000 annual NH Volunteers are NHDI alumni. They're coming back in big numbers," said Kurtzman.
New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation is operated by the non -profit organization New Hampshire's Incredible Creativity Connection and is entering their 32nd year of running programs that extends in-school learning. Well over NHDI 2,000 students will showcase their solutions at tournaments that will be scored on teamwork creativity and problem solving.


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Entire Damnation team laid off
Blue Omega programmer Geoff Rowland has confirmed on his Twitter account that the Damnation team is no more. "The entire Blue Omega team was laid off today (well, starting Friday)," he said. Shacknews has dug up some legal docs surrounding Damnation's development, none of it pretty. There's plenty there to pick over, should you be […]
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Damnation gets ready for release with new assets
Blue Omega and Codemasters will release Damnation on Steam, PC, PS3 and X360 in the UK tomorrow, and to get folks ready, some screens and a multiplayer video were handed out. The video is after the break and the screens are over on Shack. Come May 27, North America will get its hands on the […]
Pre-purchase Damnation through Steam, get Second Sight free
Damnation is now available for pre-purchase on Steam. Should you lay down the cash for it, you will get a copy of Free Radical's stealth-action game Second Sight, for free. Damnation will be available worldwide on May 22.
Damnation video details storyline, villains, super soldiers
The video posted after the break shows loads of footage from Damnation, along with lead game designer Jacob Minkoff chatting about the villains you will be up against in the game. Looks and sounds interesting, what with all the steam powered machines, guns and what look like super soldiers. Game's out for PC, PS3 and […]
Damnation assets show off a fine looking game
Damnation assets popped up over on CVG earlier this afternoon. Five screens and a trailer are posted. Looks mighty fine. You should go take a look. Codemasters confirmed a May 22 release for the shooter on PS3 and Xbox 360 just last week.
Damnation to release May 22, gets four new shots
Codemasters just confirmed a May 22 release date for Damnation, Blue Omega's "vertical" steampunk shooter. The PS3 and 360 title was supposed to launch last year, but sort of didn't. Get the screens below.
Damnation shots have guns, acrobatics
Blue Omega has released a few new shots of upcoming steampunk-inspired shooter, Damnation. Images show some guns, people hanging from things, and a dark, dreary environment. Codematers says it'll be out for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 sometime this spring. After the break.
Codemasters launches "drive" for Russia
Codemasters is to translate all its major upcoming games into Russian as part of a "global drive," the firm announced today. Rise of the Argonauts, Damnation and Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising are all getting the Cyrillic treatment. "Codemasters has targeted Russia as a front-line territory, key to our overall EMEA strategy" said Codemasters' Axel […]
Damnation moves to 2009
Never saw this coming. Codemasters has told Eurogamer that Blue Omega's Damnation has moved out of 2008 into next year. "Damnation is being rescheduled for an early 2009 release," said a rep. "The game will be much stronger and better as a result, and will also give people time to get all the pre-holiday releases […]
Damnation gets five new videos
On IGN. There's plenty of the "verticalised" steam punk shooter to keep you happy there. Looks dandy. Listen to Fields of the Nephilim while you're watching them. Out next year.
New Damnation trailer shows "verticality"
On Shacknews. The Blue Omega steampunk action title is about the "shooter gone vertical," apparently, and it's looking not half bad. There are new screens over there as well. Game's out this "winter" for PC, 360 and PS3.
Damnation website and trailer up
Codemaster's mysterious looking "acrobatic shooter," Damnation, now has a trailer and website. The trailer, available to watch or download, shows some third-person shooting and acrobatics while hinting at the storyline, which has something to do with a 40-year conflict being waged across America. The game will be released on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC this […]
A first look at Damnation posted
On Gamespot. This is the first proper nose at the Codemasters steampunk action game, as far as we're aware. There are some new screens there, too. From the piece: Visually, Damnation is looking nice. There's a sort of Wild West steampunk look to the characters and weapons, as well as a great sense of scale […]
Few new bits of Damnation art
RPS got hold of a couple of new bits of art for Codemasters' upcoming open-level action thingy, Damnation, thanks to the fact the kids over there slagged off the announcement press release. We might try doing that. If we didn't already. Can we have some exclusive art now, please? Your press releases are rubbish, Codemasters. […]
Damnation fully playable in co-op, says Blue Omega
Blue Omega-developed Damnation – the "shooter gone vertical" to be published by Codemasters this winter – will feature buddy-buddy action from beginning to end. "The single-player campaign is fully playable in two-player co-op," chief designer Jacob Minkoff told videogaming247, adding, "After just one multiplayer match, trust me – you'll see what makes it different, and […]
First Damnation shots hit web
Here. Codemasters' third-person action game came to light in a French magazine earlier this week. All looks a bit Fields of the Nephilim to us. No release date – or anything else for that matter – on this as yet. Update: Press release after the link. It's out for PS3 and 360 in late 2008.
Damnation revealed, new Recoil: Retrograde stuff
A brand new game has surfaced in a French mag here, being a Codemasters title called Damnation, and action outing developed by Blue Omega and published by Codemasters. Also discussed in the issue if Recoil: Retrograde, a third-person action adventure from Morten Iversen, the writer of the Hitman series. Apparently this was a PC exclusive, […]
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Two back-to-back episodes with Whitney Houston in a candid, revealing, no-holds barred world exclusive interview launches the 24th season of "The Oprah Show" Monday. Opening up for the first time in seven years, Whitney talks about drugs, rehab, marriage, divorce and her new album. No topic is off-limits for an interview that's too big for just one day. Oprah asks the questions on all our minds: "When did the drugs start?" "What finally made you decide I'm out of this marriage?" and "Were you afraid that you had lost the voice?"
And on Wednesday, the talk show queen reveals for the first time the untold stories behind her history-making 1993 interview with Michael Jackson. Along with an encore presentation of excerpts from the original interview and unaired footage, Oprah dedicates the entire show to The King of Pop with never-before-revealed personal details about their sit-down that was seen by more than 100 million people worldwide. (I remember it all too well! It was my very first look at Michael's Neverland Ranch, named for the fantasy island in the story of "Peter Pan," a boy who never grew up.)
Next day, Dr. "Tell It Like It Is" Phil returns to Oprah's stage to set the record straight and bring viewers the story of a woman whose father is a serial killer. Friday: "Live from New York: Mariah Carey, Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa" and Oprah's Book Club announcement.
And More! – All of the above will be "sneak previewed" on "Oprah" when she hosts a Season 24 kick-off party in the streets of Chicago. A crowd of thousands joins her for a fun-filled, star-studded celebration, including a special appearance by three time Grammy Award-winning The Black Eyed Peas. Then, on Friday, the "Oprah Show" features exclusive interviews with newsmakers who had people talking all summer. TV's Lisa Ling returns for the first time since she and her sister, Laura, were reunited, after Laura was set free following a 140-day detention in North Korea. ESPN's Erin Andrews speaks out for what she calls "the first and last time" about the peephole video filmed without her knowledge and circulated on the Internet. Finally, Father Alberto Cutie, often called "Father Oprah," opens up about falling in love, falling out of favor with the Catholic Church and his new life with his wife and stepson.
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"Sasha Sings Dinah" will be available for one show only on Sunday, 4:30 p.m., at DuSable Museum. Sasha performs some of Dinah's most memorable recordings backed by Corky McClerkin and Marjorie Stroud on twin grand pianos. The show will also feature a surprise guest, promises Sasha, who has performed this tribute throughout the U.S. and is slated to begin a European tour before year's end. You don't want to miss it! Call (312) 881-9262.
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As a little girl, I always wanted a pony for Christmas. Santa never brought me a pony. So in my late 40s, I started taking horseback riding lessons. When I turned 50, I got my first horse, an Icelandic named Blessi (Veigar frá Búðardal). Little did I know how much fun life with an Icelandic was going to be. Blessi has a unique perspective on life. I hope you enjoy reading about it as much as I enjoy Blessi. And you will probably read about my cats from time to time.
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Not too big, just big, buddy. Don't worry about it!
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Red Grape
Veterinarian Reviewed on June 7, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Red Grape (Seed and Skin)
The Red Grape seed and skin are a huge resource of antioxidants, flavonoids and phytochemicals that are so strong that they can easily supersede the nutrient value of vitamin C and vitamin E when it comes to fighting against diseases, infections and aging. The Red Grape seed extracts have been in use for thousands of years for treating inflammations such as heart diseases, sore throat and bleeding. Out of all that is available now days, proanthocyanidins are considered to be the most potent and it is also believed that is the main component in red wine, which has antioxidant effects.
History of the Red Grape
It is believed that the Egyptians and the Greek philosophers were the first to recognize the healing properties of grapes and since then it has been used as an important source of herbal medicine. There are no known side effects of Red Grape seed extracts. A lot of diseases such as macular degeneration, diabetic neuropathy, cataracts, varicose veins, thrombosis and even impotency are known to have shown improvements with the usage if Red Grape seed extract supplement and its prompt healing properties.
Ancient Uses of Red Grape
The most popular use of Red Grape has been in the form of Red Wine for thousands of years, although a lot of herbal medicines too are being known to have Red Grape seed extracts. Red Wine was used for healing for many years before the discovery was made that the moderate consumption of wine made with Red Grape is beneficial for the heart, blood and cholesterol levels. The Red Grape leaves and vines have been used in traditional healing to help conditions such as bleeding, inflammation and are also known to provide relief from sore throat, relief from constipation, as well as relief from the symptoms of many different types of skin conditions.
Modern Uses of Red Grape
Red Grape seed extract contains numerous chemical compounds that are known to work at a cellular level and it also promotes healing in the body. It releases the most useful antioxidants and hunts for free radicals in the blood stream. Red Grape seed extract has a high concentration of Vitamin E, Linoleic oil, and also astringent tannins that are known to improve digestive conditions. There are also evidences that Red Grape seed extracts helps to heal wounds faster and are also helpful in stronger capillary growth. The benefits of Red Grape have been in use for a long time but it was only in recent years that scientists have truly recognized the positive effects of the Red Grape and its seeds and skin. Its anti cholesterol property is known to be the best medical discovery as it reduces the amount of bad cholesterol and helps to rebuild good cholesterol. Other important features are stimulating the immune system and helping to reduce high blood pressure.
Side Effects of Red Grape
Red Grape components have shown no side effects if taken in moderation. However, pregnant women are advised not to take the supplements without proper medical supervision for prevention.
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Nordic racing | Auburn Ski Club hosts 10th Mountain Division Biathlon
The 10th Mountain Division Biathlon was held in honor of World War II ski troops under sunny skies at Auburn Ski Club on Sunday.
A total of 82 people took part, with Phillip Violett winning the 10-kilometer pro race with a time of 44:25.3. Sam Zabell finished second overall in 46:19.4, while Dan Warren (46:39.1) was third and David Eastwood (47:55.2) fourth.
Britt Cogan placed fifth overall and first among women in a time of 48:30.9. She was followed by Raylene Chew, who was the second female racer and 13th overall in 57:08.2.
Mason Payne claimed the victory in the 2K youth race, posting a time of 7:20.1, and Colleen McCandless was the top female and second overall in 7:25.9. Alex Whitham (7:28.2) was third overall and was followed by Tommy Pullen (8:36.6) and Lily Bradley (8:59.6).
Claire Lang-Ree easily took the overall win in the 4K novice race, finishing with a time of 18:37.9. Chase Stalter was second in 21:24.5 and Orion Maxwell third in 21:37.1. Paul Hoefer (23:09.9) and Megan McCandless (23:13.6) were fourth and fifth, respectively.
In the 8K novice race, Branden Deeter captured victory in a time of 30:09.9 to runner-up Alex Ferneyhough's 30:17.2. Keith Weiland was third in 32:42.6 and was trailed by Jared Mahler (34:47.8) and Travis Atkins (38:50.9).
Tara Atkins was the top female racer and ninth overall in 42:46.1. Lyra Pierotti was the second woman and 10th overall in 43:13.0, and Terri-Ann Rojas was the third woman in 49:55.0.
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Bolton Valley's Director of Mountain Services Andrew Snow Will Ski His 100th Consecutive Month Today During Next Winter SnowstormBOLTON VALLEY, VT (3/1/2012) -
Photos of Andrew Snow skiing today.
Andrew Snow never set out to ski 100 months in a row. But as he approached month number 90, he was too close to 100 to call it quits. Always one to try to push the ski season as long as possible for himself, Snow, the director of mountain services at Bolton Valley, has logged days at the bookends of the winter season in Vermont, headed down under during the summer and has made treks to Colorado and Mt. Hood to keep his streak alive.
He will officially hit the century mark today, skiing all day Thursday at Bolton Valley during yet another snowstorm that has fallen in the past week. Last week Bolton received two feet of snow in 48 hours and the resort is expecting upwards of at least a foot in this latest storm. Ushering in month 100 should be pretty good.
He is available to ski or ride with today. Contact Josh Arneson at firstname.lastname@example.com or 802.434.6814 to arrange a time to meet.
"In the spring of 2004, an Australian co-worker at Mad River Glen convinced me that there was actually snow in Australia and that it would be fun to spend the following 'summer' skiing and working at a resort down under," said Snow. "I wasn't scheduled to fly to Australia until that July, but reading about a Memorial Day rail jam at Stowe got me thinking that it would be pretty cool that I could ski all 12 calendar months of the year if I made some turns in June. So that's when the quest to ski every month started. A few days later, I went to Stowe, hiked over to the remnants of their halfpipe and found a friend and MRG coworker of mine doing laps on the remaining patch of snow. I joined him for a bit of silly skiing and June was in the books. In July, I headed to Mount Hotham in southeastern Australia, and an above-average season kept me skiing through October.
"I had so much fun during my first winter in Australia that I jumped at the opportunity to go back for a second when my boss there offered me a sponsored work visa. At that point, while I was working back-to-back winters, I decided to keep the streak going and continue skiing every month. Most times it was pretty easy to do, since my work calendar kept me in almost eternal winter."
To keep the streak alive, Snow did deal with some of mother's nature's challenges—lack of snow—but managed to find about 211 vertical feet of kiddie terrain in Australia one October and another patch of "mixture" of snow, frozen grass and mud that allowed him to link turns down under one June after the resort's unusually late first natural snowfall of the season.
Last summer was the first that Snow decided to stick around in Vermont, posing another challenge to find snow stateside during the country's warmer months. He headed to Arapahoe Basin in Colorado in May and June, made turns at Mt. Bachelor over Fourth of July weekend headed back to Oregon for August turns at Mount Hood and bagged the month of September with a trip to Chile. He found snow this fall out west to keep the streak alive.
"Waiting in JFK airport to fly out to Denver this past June, I questioned if I was making the trip just to feed some obsession with reaching a number," said Snow. "But once I got off I-70 in Summit County and started making my way up towards A-Basin, I was as excited as a kid on Christmas morning: the sun was shining, there was still a ton of snow at the higher elevations, temperatures were cool but forecasted to reach the 50s or 60s, and I was skiing in June. I had two of the best days of spring skiing of the season, and I wouldn't have been there if it hadn't been for the quest for 100 months. It was even worth flying on two red-eyes in three days!"
As his quest continued, Snow had to face reality that the day job must be attended to. In the winter he oversees lift operations, ticket checking, ticket sales, guest services, rentals, retail, and Bolton Valley's volunteer Mountain Host program. This past summer he worked with the finance team to revise and improve the point-of-sale systems, procedures and reports. When the first flakes flew at Bolton this season, he was there and has skied each month this season at his home mountain.
Bolton Valley Resort is Vermont's most convenient and affordable big mountain skiing. Less than 10 minutes from I-89 and less than 30 minutes from Burlington, the family-friendly mountain offers skiers and riders of all abilities three mountain peaks with 70 trails and 6 lifts, plus 3 terrain parks including the Burton Progression Park. Bolton Valley is the first in Vermont and the second in the U.S. to implement wind power as an energy source and is the recipient of the National Ski Areas Association's 2010 Silver Eagle Award for environmental initiatives. Approximately 88km of high elevation Nordic terrain, a complete Sports Center and Indoor Amusement Center plus Vermont's most extensive top-to-bottom night skiing and riding are just a few of the extras available to guests. All-inclusive, true ski-to-your-door lodging packages from $79/person/night. For more information visit www.boltonvalley.com or call 802-434-3444.


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