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New York-based AWS Truepower LLC has released a redesigned and expanded version of its Wind Trends Bulletin – a free quarterly report that examines deviations in global wind conditions from historical norms.
The first-quarter 2013 (Q1'13) bulletin has expanded from Europe, India and North America to include South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania. In addition to including new regions, AWS Truepower says it has updated its methodology in creating the anomaly maps to improve global accuracy.
The AWS report notes the wind speed anomalies in North America during Q1'13: Areas with below-average winds included the coastline of British Columbia and the western U.S., the northern Canadian territories, South Florida, and the Lesser Antilles. Areas with above-average winds include the north slope of Alaska, the Canadian Maritimes, and Mexico, especially Baja California and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Other key Q1'13 findings include the following:
– Winds were generally below normal across the northern latitudes of North America and Eurasia, the west coast of the U.S., the Sahara region of Africa, southern Argentina and Chile, and New Zealand.
– Winds were well above normal across southern Europe and North Africa, as well as in southern Africa, eastern Australia and most of South America.
– The largest wind speed anomalies of the quarter – both positive and negative – were found in Europe and North Africa, a pattern that can be explained in part by the Arctic Oscillation.


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Arguably, this is simply shorthand, much as genre names are. In the same way that we would describe Team Fortress 2 as an FPS, or Fable II as an RPG, these three categories are a way of asking: What does the player want? What draws the player in?
Is it discovering the past, understanding the present, or shaping the future? What experience do you want your player to have? And, most importantly, how can you make it more personal?
Never forget that we, when playing games, are somewhat selfish creatures. We want the game world to be about us, and we want it to grab us within those first vital minutes and convince us that this game, not that one, is what we need right now. This is where games need to develop their own 10 minute rule, though the "10" is negotiable.
Depending on the length of the game, the introductory hook could come anywhere from one minute to three hours in. But never forget, you do need to hook your player. How quickly you do so is reliant on the gameplay.
The pace of a Story is faster than that of a History, while a Mystery is faster still. Do you want your player to be thrown into your world with a bang, or are they going to spend most of their time exploring? What is the pace of an intended playthrough?
That's a good start.
So here, then, are a few questions to get you started on thinking about where the story should start for your player. The old adage from film -- to get in as close to the action as possible and jump out as soon as it's over -- definitely still has a hand in choosing where to begin, but the how is something you need to know even before that.
That last question is one I would urge every developer to consider. It's far better to leave your audience wishing the story segments were longer than to overload them with information they don't care about or understand.
Like, well, any of the Twilight series.
So what does this mean for you, in the long run? Stick to the good old storytelling rules -- the best stories combine inevitability with irony, show don't tell, sometimes the best answer is silence -- but think about how you're delivering that narrative, too. Does it mesh with the player's in-game experience? Does a slow story building to a dramatic finale really suit your hardcore FPS?
In some cases -- Halo: Reach, for example -- the answer is yes. But to be able to judge whether or not your story suits, you need to know who you're making the game for. You need to know what they like, what they love, and what they hate. You need to do research. Once you've done your research, you will know what the first 10 minutes of your game should be. You will have your hook.
Know that, and you will know your audience.
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Copenhagen climate agreement
We all know world leaders and their delegates will be grinding out a new global climate agreement this December in Copenhagen. But have you ever wondered what document they will be arguing over? This post from the Dot Earth blog includes some excerpts from the United Nations negotiating text for the 192 countries to meet in Copenhagen. There is also some commentary about the likely "pinch points" in the agreement.
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Making another post to give my third entry for Justrite stampers Challenge #102.I did it in my previous post but could not enter the same url. I am new for participating in any challenge....will learn soon.Here is my third entry.
The poppies are hand painted with distress inks using koi brush.
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Spellbinders Imperial Gold die set
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By Spoon Jackson
The call for racial peace came from Pelican Bay SHU - the hole - and I read about it in the San Francisco Bay View, where my poem "Go On" was published. I think that was a brave, human, and needed call for racial harmony. Since I'm a believer in peace and realness - one people, one race - I must echo their cry and add my voice to the chorus. I think it is a call all peace groups around the world, inside and outside of prisons would welcome.
I always tell my creative writing classes that you must stand up for what is human, true, and real. You must stand up for how we want our children, parents, grandparents, and spouses to live. Who would want loved ones to live in violence anywhere on the planet? It is a call to peace, love, growth, truth, and harmony. No one wants to see their sons or daughters in a bloody pool on the side walk or in someone's back or front yard, or in some prison yard or cell.
We must pay the peace call forward. We must call for racial peace among all prisons, not only in California, but around the world. It is said you know society by its prisons, and if are a microcosm of society, it is time to make harmonious change inside, and perhaps peace will spill over to the free world. We can hold peace and love in our hearts like a sunset, ocean breeze, or soft bird song.
In my family, there are many colors and cultures. One of my grandmothers was half Caddo Indian. I have brothers married to Asian, Mexican, White, Native American, and Black. I appreciate them all and I am happy my family is like it is.
I have shared the call for peace article with blacks, browns, and whites. I'll share some of their words in this article. This call may translate to the streets, if only to affect a few people, a few youngsters. It is time to embrace, each moment, and repeat what Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and John Lennon said about unconditional peace. I cannot sit idle as a poet and artist, while brothers of all colors in the hole call for racial peace and not echo those thoughts, vibes, hopes, and wishes.
We are all human beings and something that affects one of us touches all of us. Nothing human is foreign to any of us.
The Way Light Breaks Apart
By Marty Williams
I don't believe for a moment that someone doesn't see race. It looks back at me like a mirror image of everything I'm not sure of within myself. I clique, I flock, I herd, and the struggle to do otherwise makes me dizzy with anxiety. My phony holiness says, "There is no race," but if that were true, the history of the world would be much different, and chains would mean something else entirely. But here I am, and my liberal guilt wants to prove to you how very inclusive I am, while the truth is I don't know enough about how deep my own racial preference is buried. So what I want is first to just know what I'm missing, to know the depth of someone else's difference, and the depth of where we are the same. First meet me on the field, and then I'll deserve to live with you, and you with me. Not in harmony (another phony holy ideal), but in human beingness, that needs us to be different, the way light breaks apart into colors. One light. We are just colors.
Our Struggle
by O.G. Woody, Watts (Solid & True)
I'm Brown, he's Black, you're White, so what?
The question is not why, the question is how. How did we let ourselves become so divided, so narrow-minded, to where we can't see the pain that we've caused ourselves in our own struggle? Racism is the wall that blocks our vision to a future vast and beautiful.
Wake up! Open your eyes! This struggle is real. The pain that you have inside is the same pain that I feel. This is our struggle; our struggle is real. What will it take for our kids not to have to go through this pain that we face? What will it take for us to be just one human race? This is a battle that we can't afford to lose.
A better future is what we choose. How grand will this world be if you would only look past my color and see me? Get to know me, know who I am, and look into my heart. All I'm asking for is just a start. Though I'll continue to try, I know I can't do this alone. But I'm doing my part here within this poem. So stand at my side, every color and creed, open your minds so that we may succeed.
How Do You Improve Race Relations?
By Soto
Race relations are quite difficult to come to a successful outcome where everybody is
respectful and loving. I have always said that in order to resolve a problem, one must conduct an inner examination, come to terms with its causes.
As a society and young country, it would benefit us to learn about our dealings with Asians, Native Americans, Blacks, and Hispanics. The learning of culture should be done not only as current events. The study should go as far as the very foundation of this great nation. Although it would be extremely difficult to be objective when learning about racism, genocide, injustice, and straight out executions, this step of acknowledgement must be taken as soon as a young mind is able to comprehend the paths between right and wrong. Once the true history of races is known, the second step should be a quick course of culture learning. This course would involve a study of any given race's religion, music, spiritually, costume, dances, sports, etc.
Without a true knowledge of other races, costumes, and habits, a peaceful and understanding relation among different races would be impossible.
How Do You Improve Race Relations?
By Joseph Ennis
Well, this is a big issue, bigger than one could imagine, though not so big that we can overlook or ignore it. In my opinion, to im-prove race relations you first must find common ground between two open-minded people. The ways of growing up are all similar, even if in a different place or street. Relations can be built on real life events and experiences, and what I may find in common, three can, then five can, and so forth.
Change is the most fearful thing one can experience. I know 'cause I'm a walking testimony. That's what it's all about though, not being afraid of change, positive change. Just think of the doors that can open through having a good relationship with someone not from your own race. Why shut those doors? If there's one thing I've learned, it's that I don't know it all. And if the next person knows more, or even less, that's someone I could learn from, no matter the race.
Simply Saying Good Morning
By V. Tapia
Racism has its periods and changes of heart. I guess some people just need a key moment or to hear words of gratification to make them feel at peace with a different race. My moments of peace, while riots were occurring in prison, came through words of gratification expressed through the vent in my cell, directed towards my neighbours. These were a simple good morning or good night. And my moment of peace was when my neighbour put the trust in me to lend me a book, even though tensions were high between our two races. We found the key mo-ment and words to look past our difference and vibe together.
That's what it's about, coming together and sharing. Whether it's a moment of your time or simply saying good morning or good night.


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I am trying to solve a problem which asks to write number 1/(a3+2a2+4), where a satisfies: a4+2a3+2a2+8a = -2 without using other than rational numbers in the denominator. I came as far as reducing the problem to finding inverse of (x4+2x3+2x2+2s+2 + (f)) \in Q[x]/(f) (f) is here ideal generated by <a3+2a2+4>. Now I suppose I have to apply Extended Euclidean Algorithm for gcd(x4+2x3+2x2+2s+2, a3+2a2+4). However, I found out don't really know how to do the algorithm as I cannot get to Bezout's coefficients that are of degree <=3.
I attach a photo of my progress. I would like somebody to point out where I fail in executing the algorithm correctly as I cannot find out.
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I don't think humanity is going to continue to agree to what is government approved torturing of people who have already undergone trauma. I don't think humanity wants to be inhumane. So eventually those people who have altered states of consciousness and unusual sensory experiences won't be subjected to a forced psychiatric regime, by the fearful public, who if they were better would never approve of such things as ECT and forced drugging.
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Can you see us dancing!!! 100 followers and counting. I know it just a small stepping stone, but we sure are excited about it.
Emily and I are over the moon with happiness. We are having such a great time creating projects again. I wanted to take a minute to tell everyone a little more about us and a REALLY fun project Em and I have been working on. Be sure and come back on Wednesday to See. We have a little Sister vs Sister competition planned.
Emily is mom of 5 boys and I (Amy) have 4 girls and 2 boys. To say the least....like all of you moms know the kids come first. That leaves very little time for us, but we are trying our best to make some time for getting back to what WE love. CRAFTING, SEWING, and CREATING. Did I also mention that Emily and I are highly competitive? We both played college Volleyball-TOGETHER much like many other things. WE have always liked the same things, and done almost everything TOGETHER. We are very close sisters, but we also have our days that we cuss each other out, and hang up on each other. Anyone else have a healthy disfunctional relationship with their sister or best friend that their husband doesn't understand? I may be rambling, but hopefully some of you can relate. I wanted to share a few pics from our life growing up.
Did anyone else's mom dress you alike? This is one of many.
Not only did she dress us alike...we had the same haircut too.
Sisters of the "WILD" West. This is part of where our name comes from. We both can be a little "wild" and crazy. WE both love things with a vintage western flair, and we were raised on the "west" side of town. Anyone from Wichita, Ks knows that it is very much a east side west side kind of city.
Back in the good old days playing college vball together.
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Markets were down for much of the European trading session. But now they're up across the board.
England's FTSE 100 is up 0.2%.
France's CAC 40 is up 0.2%.
Germany's DAX is up 0.6%.
Spain's IBEX 35 is up 0.6%.
Italy's FTSE MIB is up 0.4%.
Earlier this morning, we learned that industrial production grew at a faster-than-expected pace in the euro area.
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Riadan, one of the commentators on my recent post on science fiction's battle against an entrenched opposition had some interesting things to say. Since his or her comments were rather long and deserved significant rebuttal and discussion, I thought I would approach them via a dedicated post. So, without further adieu, here goes a (mostly) line-by-line counter argument to Riadan:
No, Science fiction does not have a near impenetrable no-mans land to cross. No, Science fiction does not have an impenetrable social barrier to destroy. Science fiction has grabbed the hearts and minds of the populace.
Who these days are not born with the concept that maybe, just maybe, the future will be awesome. Maybe, just maybe, our race will not lob deathweapons at every soul on earth. I know you are a young white male. Who of your peers are not touched by science fiction in a very personal manner? Do you have friends who are Star Trek geeks? Or Star Wars nerds, perhaps. We are fucking science fiction, and many people realize our scientific and technical world.
I think we have the problem here of science fiction style. True, science fiction has grabbed the dominant culture fairly easily in recent years, but this is through the medium of film more-so than the medium of books. Film, unfortunately, is not approached, consumed, or even perceived as the same thing as a book, and so is a separate entity. But, film, especially in film studies, has had a hard time trying to make the case for the value of science fiction film, particularly because what has been most successful in film are not those occasional films with something "valuable" to say (making a personal judgment here on "value"), but those films most recognized as flashy or indicative of what Ellison and others have angrily called "scifi" rather than "science fiction." So, while Star Wars and Star Trek and Transformers and all those other massive franchises, and even small ones like Firefly, et al, have captured the minds and hearts of the general viewer, they have not wormed their way into the esteemed clutches of the academia at the same pace. There is, I would argue, far more work to be done in film than in literature.
That said, working back to literature, I think it is fair to say that this assumption of widespread adoption of science fiction literature is not nearly as true as you might think. We frequently see talk of science fiction literature sales dropping (with the exception of media tie-ins); if that is true, then it is hard to say that science fiction has even managed to maintain its own selective readership, let alone been properly exposed to or adopted by those outside of it.
What argument are you rallying against?
You quote Margaret Atwood without taking into account her context. She does write literary fiction, even though I sneer at her applying such a label to herself. She has never denied that she has written sci-fi novels. Her commentary to Oryx and Crake proves that (forgive me for not citing correctly).
Her commentary has never suggested that she calls herself a "science fiction writer." Quite the contrary. In fact, she goes to great lengths to get around the fact that she does write science fiction by pulling the "furniture" argument or using terminology that was never meant to be used the way she proposes (speculative fiction began as a term to mean science fiction and has since been adopted as the umbrella term for SF and fantasy; she seems to think it's something else). The problem with Atwood is that even when she seems to be accommodating, she is simultaneously defending her high-brow position of literary quality and other such mumbo jumbo. Take her 2005 article for the Guardian. Sure, she starts to admit, there, that she writes science fiction, but also goes to great lengths to say she does not. She's saying "you can call it whatever you want, but I call it this, and that's that." The fact that Atwood actually does write science fiction, but refuses to use the label herself implies that the little bit of literary snobbery that keeps SF out of the literature party on Saturday nights is still alive and kicking.
You do not provide an adequate counter-argument for your statement. There is no pro to your anti. There is no thoughtpolice to your Winston. Instead you fawn over the achievements (and great achievements they are) of the sci-fi greats of the past (though you missed out a few. The genius of Olaf Stapledon, and the portentous paranoia of Ballard and Burgess did well to establish sci-fi as mainstream and as *ahem* winning) and while fawning you provide no counter.
What is the counter? Science fiction certainly has made great strides. There are, as I mentioned, a handful of programs dedicated to the stuff and even a research organization, and colleges have begun to include more science fiction curriculum. But that doesn't counter the fact that science fiction isn't there yet. It hasn't secured its place. It has a very big leg in the door, sure, but it has yet to break through with its torso and head. The anti-SF crowd periodically slams that door against SF's leg just to make a point.
I get that SF has come a long way, as a film genre and a literature genre, but coming a long way is not the same as making it. It's getting there, but we shouldn't be too secure as SF fans to think that the war is over. The entrenched opposition is waging a fierce battle.
Instead you use an "us-vs-them" mentality, which does nothing to forward the so-called "cause" of science fiction.
Science fiction was born (as we know it. Fiction magazines of the thirties etc) as a product of the popular.
Science Fiction is a Popular Movement. "We" won with the printing of the first paperback sci-fi novel. We won when the first person read that novel on the train.
The distinction between science fiction and "regular" fiction is blurry at best, as is the distinction between "literary" fiction and science fiction.
Hell, what's to stop a detective novel being a fictive literary work? Detective fiction has been regarded as trash just as long as sci-fi has, and just as unfairly. This does not mean that detective fiction has lost its battle against the Plebes, or the Masses, or the Workers, or whatever the fuck you envision the Other to be.'
This would imply that there was never a battle to be had, which would be true if all we were dealing with were popular culture. But, since what I'm focused on here is not popular culture so much as what would be considered the "dominant" culture (though not by numbers), it seems irrelevant to claim victory through existence. If that's all science fiction wants to achieve, then it's not the field I should be studying. Science fiction, to me, desires more. As much as it is always looking toward the future, so too much it always look at the present and the future of its own existence.
Every single person with access to Western mass-media has access to science fiction. Everyone has seen Starship Troopers. Everyone has seen Alien.
Both films have been reviewed as high art. Both films are considered to be exemplary specimens of their work, and both have been analysed as being more than their constituent parts, one being a commentary on Fascism in the military and one being a deconstruction of rape. (bonus points if you can tell which one is which. Not as easy as you'd think.)
I think it's unfair to assume that everyone has seen Starship Troopers or Alien (you're flirting with hyperbole here). Clearly not everyone has seen it or the ticket and DVD sales for those two movies would be astronomical. But, again, we're talking film, not literature. I wasn't talking about films, to be honest. I see science fiction film as wholly separate from science fiction literature. It has to be, in my opinion, because what makes film work is not necessarily true of literature. Also, only some consider them to be works of "high art." There are even those in film studies who would argue vehemently against such a notion. Such folks do live in little magic boxes of obscure French films and other such things.
As to academia? Real learning has never been by rote, taking down notes in a class taught by someone with the appropriate credentials.
Real learning has been the experience. If you write a PHD thesis, and it's accepted by your university of study, you can probably make your own class. When you start teaching your own beliefs on science fiction, much like those at Liverpool, VUW, MIT and fucking Oxford, that's when science fiction will have won. Science fiction is, and has been a legitimate field of study since the moment someone thought that there might be more to writing than words on a page. Without that mindset, we wouldn't have theology, ethics or philosophy.
Technically this is true. Yes, the second someone said "hey, there's more to this than meets the eye" it gained some measure of victory. The problem isn't that SF has won in one sense, but that it has yet to win in all senses. I liken this to the racism problem. As much as we might want to say that we've won the fight against the most insidious forms of racism, we still have yet to defeat racism itself. That is a battle that will probably last for as long as our species exists. The same is probably true of science fiction, but there are battles we can win that need to be fought now and not set aside simply because readers and fans are secure.
And with that, /rant. I'd love to have a real time conversation with yez, bra.
Perhaps some day. I'm actually going to be presenting a paper at the University of Florida on Kage Baker's The House of the Stag soon. That would be a perfect time.
And that's that. I have more thoughts on all of this stuff, but that will come in a new post. Any thoughts for now?


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I took the dimensions of a remote oil filler for a 851/888 this morning and figured someone here might also be interested in the file. It allows to top up the oil w/o having to remove the side fairing. Got this thing on ebay many years back. Don`t know who originally made it.


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Tomorrow is August 1. For me, growing up, August 1 meant time to start on the summer reading assignments because school was beginning in under a month. August always felt a bit marred like that.
The girls start school in 24 days – there are backpacks to pick out and school clothes to fit and all sorts of anxieties to keep at bay.
Our third little girl arrives in about 90 days, mas or menos – there is one more room to paint, more clothes to find to fit, and yes, all sorts of anxieties to keep at bay. There is also my current pastime of constant and continual eating which is proving quite time consuming.
There are million things I am behind on and lists that I have yet to even make. At night when I could be "getting stuff done" I've been searching for wall hangings for the girls new room, or squinting at our newly painted converted master bedroom (Benjamin Moore Whispy Green) and wondering what picture/lighting combo could make Travis feel less like he's on a Sprite Commercial inside Erving's Nicaraguan school bus.
Some of my favorite people are still home from college and I can't get enough of them dropping in like they did years ago, except magically, and stunningly, they've become adults.
And true confession, when everyone is asleep, and the Whispy Green is finally tempered by lamplight, I've been swept into the world of Mitford, which is the most delightful, comforting, soul soothing reading I've done in a while:
And so I'm officially behind but present in summer right where we are. Today is the day, I keep saying I will find my planner and start, umm, making plans. And today we will make it to the kindergarten screening, but then we will go swimming, for the whole afternoon.
Summer isn't over yet. And the rest of that stuff will get done. Or at least the important things will. (Like making it to Sno to Go.)
Because it's almost August, but I'm reclaiming August for the present, as a true summer month. One we will enjoy fully even if it means falling behind.


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PITTSBURGH -- PPG Industries announced the launch of an initiative designed to heighten awareness of the company's brand and support its sales efforts across many of the core markets and industries it serves. The first of its kind for the company, the marketing communications initiative redefines the PPG brand by showcasing the unique ways it brings innovation, sustainability and color technologies to its customers in a wide range of markets. Because of the current overall strength of PPG's global business, the company is able to leverage its unique position and more clearly define the unmatched offerings it brings to the markets it serves.
PPG's Core Marketing Branding Initiative features a new tagline - BRINGING INNOVATION TO THE SURFACE™ - that positions PPG as a "surfaces" company. The company believes that, compared to its competitors, it has the capabilities to enhance more types of customers' surfaces in more ways than does any other company. The new tagline will appear throughout PPG's multichannel efforts, which include:
A targeted print and online advertising campaign, featuring high-impact ads that highlight PPG products in color against black-and-white backdrops, showing the unique ways that PPG assists its customers in tackling some of the most important issues they face.
A refreshed website and social media effort to support the advertising and the day-to-day outreach efforts of PPG's customer-facing employees.
A variety of training and customer engagement tools - presentations and marketing collateral - that empower PPG employees to act as brand ambassadors in talking about the company's unique offerings.
"Many of PPG's customers are familiar only with the specific products or services they rely on the company to provide, so through this new initiative, we aim to bring to light the breadth and depth of PPG's innovative offerings," explained Patrick Kenny, PPG vice president, corporate marketing. "The campaign reaches the varied industries PPG touches, highlighting the company's strengths - innovation, sustainability and color leadership - that some customers may not know about."
The efforts currently focus on the aerospace, automotive manufacturing, automotive refinish and repair, commercial construction, consumer goods, infrastructure, renewable energy, residential construction and marine markets. The ads show children gazing in awe at a colorfully coated airplane parked on a tarmac; a roadster that catches the eyes of onlookers; and the most modern of buildings, which highlights the company's many coating and glass applications for the construction industry.
"The campaign takes an educational approach and brings to life the unique stories of how PPG truly partners with customers for success," added Jack Maurer, PPG director, corporate communications. "The multichannel campaign highlights the technologies PPG brings to the table that help our customers overcome their unique industry challenges and differentiate themselves from their competition."
The initiative officially launches today with a series of employee events. Advertisements have begun appearing this month in trade and online outlets throughout the United States, Europe and the Asia/Pacific region, and these will continue on an ongoing basis.
PPG Industries' vision is to continue to be the world's leading coatings and specialty products company. Founded in 1883, the company serves customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, PPG operates in more than 60 countries around the globe. Sales in 2010 were $13.4 billion.
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About the Author: Bryan Sanford
Bryan Sanford is Vice President and Investment Officer of Charter Trust Company. He joined the firm in 2009 and is based in our Concord NH office. Mr. Sanford received his Bachelors of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire, Durham. Mr. Sanford has held the FINRA Series 7 license. Prior to joining Charter Trust, Mr. Sanford served in the United States Marine Corps as an infantryman. He participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom, touring in Fallujah, Iraq.


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eremy commenced with Marks & Sands Lawyers as a Partner in 1994. Prior to moving to Western Australia in 1993 Jeremy was extensively involved in private client work in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.
Fulfilling a number of management roles within Marks & Sands since 1994 including becoming Managing Partner in 1998, Jeremy currently heads the Family Law Group in Perth as well as continuing his role as Legal Practice Director for Culshaw Miller Lawyers.
In 2006, in addition to his role at Marks & Sands, Jeremy became the Legal Practice Director at Shann Family Lawyers and remained in this position until the two firms merged in August 2011.
Jeremy is a previous Western Australian Board member of the Hunt & Hunt Legal Group.
Jeremy has in excess of 25 years experience practicing in Family law and became an Accredited Family Law Specialist in 1994. He provides legal advice on all aspects of family law including Divorce, Property Settlements, International Child Relocation and Hague Convention Matters, Domestic Partnerships and De Facto and Same-Sex relationships, Binding Financial agreements and Parenting Arrangements.
Jeremy also specialises in property transactions in the Family Court jurisdiction and as a consequence has particular experience in bankruptcy and creditor protection. Jeremy has extensive experience in mediation, negotiation and litigation of complex property and commercial family law matters. He has a particular interest in the relationship between the Corporations Code and the protection of third party interests in the family law jurisdiction.
Following extensive amendments to the Family Law Act in July 2006, Jeremy was successful in establishing the Legal Advice Service being the Family Law legal advice component of the Family Relationship Advice Line; an initiative of the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department.
Heavily involved in the general family law community, Jeremy takes an active interest in the promotion of greater awareness of family law in the community at large, including the practice of Collaborative Law. Jeremy played a key role in chairing the Organising Committee of the 2006 National Family Law Conference, Western Australia.
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Welcome to Killavullen GAA Club
Killavullen is a very progressive, family orientated GAA club, situated, six miles from Mallow, 12 Miles from Fermoy, and only 20 miles from Cork, thus it well within the commuter belt area for all of these major population centres. With the recent changes in population demographics, many new families have moved into the general village and parish environs.
The club grounds are nestled in the foothills of the Nagle Mountains, adjacent to the village and on the banks on the Blackwater River. We currently have two full sized playing pitches, and a very well equipped gymnasium, which has undergone major investment in recent years.
New members are always welcome, and the club prides itself on the commitment that it holds to strangers, to help them integrate into the community. We have a very active underage structure, with fully qualified trainers for all teams starting at Under 8's that cater for both boys and girls.
The Juvenile club looks after the following teams
- Under 8
- Under 10
- Under 12
- Under 14
- At Under 16 and Minor levels, Killavullen has amalgamated with Ballyhooley club, under the name of Blackwater Rovers, to facilitate our players, playing at a higher level of competition.
The senior club, fields hurling and football teams at Under 21, Junior and Intermediate Football standards, and and in 2007, we were narrowly defeated in the final of the Premier Intermediate Football Final by our near neighbours Mallow.
Our hurlers contested the North Cork Final of the Junior B Hurling Competition in 2010, being beaten by Doneraile in the final, who annexed the County title, rather dramatically, later in the year.
New members and players are always welcome, and we extend the hand of friendship to all.
Players get free gym membership on joining the club, while ordinary membership is only €50 per annum, and allows users to avail of the full Gym facilities, and there is reduced rate for juveniles.
If you wish to join, please contact any of the committee members as indicated in the "Club Officers" page on this web site - www.killavullengaa.com
Killavullen GAA club is one of the oldest official clubs in North Cork, with the club being founded on the 15th of February 1888 under the auspices of the then newly formed Gaelic Athletic Association, and with the exception of a North Cork Junior hurling championship that they annexed in 1929, the club toiled away without much success. However they had a proud tradition of promoting our Gaelic games, and the club is grateful to neighbouring parishes, particularly Shanballymore for inviting them to participate in hurling tournaments which sometimes brought success, but more importantly provided competitive games in preparation of championship fixtures. The prize for winning such tournaments was often the "Cut" of a suit, or gold watches, which in poorer times, were great incentives to do well. Persistence paid off and in 1962, the club contested the final of the Avondhu Novice hurling Championship, and won out this competition in 1968. In between, with the immense help of Johnny Beechinor, a native of Newmarket, who had come to settle in the parish Killavullen made a break through in Football in 1963, which was the clubs first football title, and went out to further glory in 1979, when they were crowned North Cork Junior (B) Hurling League Champions.
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Our man Pa has a big influence on the game, but alas, he is not our player any more.
Earlier today with heavy underfoot conditions, Killavullen went down to a highly vaunted Kilshannig team on a final score of 2-16 to 1-105. That margin is considerable but this was an even enough cont...
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Tough conditions, but hard working Killavullen forge a good win.
The pitch in Killavullen this afternoon was very heavy, it having to endure its second game of the day, and a desperately heavy shower before this Minor Division 1 football game against Mitchelstown. ...
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Winning Start and pleasing debuts
On Sunday last, in a bitterly cold Fermoy, Killavullen were victorious in the opening round of the Division 1 football league. Killavullen had a large panel, and utilised it to the maximum, and with a...
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Have You Ever Wanted A Dolce and Gabbana Gown?
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Oh my, those fabrics would go with the Dolce and Gabbana rose print sunglasses I saw two weeks ago while shopping for new frames. Sadly, they were a want and out of my new eyeglass budget. Beautiful fabric though, thanks for the link.ReplyDeleteReplies
I know those sunglasses, they're beautiful! But....the price tag is woohooo!!! Still, it's nice to dream :)Delete
I love roses. I just order a black and magenta jacquard fabric for a dress. I'm on trend. Tee hee.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Beautiful fabric. I love roses. Wish I had an occasion to make something with this fabric.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 12, 2016 at 9:56 PM
I always love looking at expensive fabrics as usually, as is the case here, they are as beautiful as they are expensive. An alternative is to create your own one of the many online create your own fabric businesses. Here is a link to my attempt, which I was thrilled to find a matching Dolce & Gabbana dress (sorry will need to scroll all the way to the bottom)ReplyDelete
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No I never did want a Dolce and Gabbana dress until I saw those red red roses!ReplyDelete
I would love the pink roses. With the British pound as it is and the ludicrously high import tax it makes it only a wish!ReplyDeleteReplies
A lady who lives in the UK sent this site to me,Delete
While the fabrics aren't the same, they are beautiful, and much closer to home :)
I looked at these when they came in and realized that one even if I could afford it where and when would I wear the garment that I made from it. But they are absolutely gorgeous!ReplyDelete


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Here I have both an 8 and 12 cylinder front axle side by side for comparison
8 cylinder axle beam is 1 3/4" wide
8 cylinder axle has this notch near bolt holes
8 cylinder spindle is smaller, .750 and 1.312 are the bearing surface diameters.
12 cylinder axle beam is 2" wide
12 cylinder axle is wider in this area
12 cylinder spindle is larger. 1.00 and 1.50 bearing surface diameters.
8 cylinder stamped "A 30118" from a 1931 car
It appears as if the steering arms are the same for both 8 and 12 cars, the leaf spring U bolts are the same also. I will pull these apart and photograph their respective part numbers. (10.27.14)
12 cylinder stamped "C 1641"
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IK Multimedia has a new version of their iKlip that is compatible with the new iPad 2. The accessory is a universal mic stand mount that makes your iPad or iPad 2 more accessible for use on stage and in the studio.
The update adds snap-in adapters to accommodate for the width difference between the two iPad generations. It's structure also works well with the iPad 2's back-facing camera.
The iKlip mounts in 4 steps to virtually any mic stand and allows for portrait and landscape modes with multi-angle adjustment. The thermoplastic construction has sure-grip touch points to securely hold your tablet without scratching it.
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I can't believe I'm typing a post on St. Patrick's Day while it is snowing outside! Dear Spring, whatever we have done to upset you, please accept our sincerest apologies and come back, we miss you!
These pictures are almost 2 weeks old, from when we had our last snowstorm. This snow is even heavier, and as of now we have about 5 inches on the ground and it's still spitting snow. It is lovely though, I have to admit that much.
The last of the Tundra Swans said goodbye to us late last week, and though I will miss them and the lovely calls they make to one another, it does mean that spring must be just around the corner.
I know this not only because of the swans' departure, but because this guy paid us a visit last Saturday when the weather was nice and balmy. Sorry for the brown lines in the foreground on this image, those are the grasses that line our shore, and I was too lazy to photoshop them out.
We've seen a number of nesting pairs of Osprey high up in their abandoned perches from last summer, a sure sign that warmer temps are on their way. I'm betting the early arrivals are wondering if perhaps they should have stayed down south just a few days longer since they are now likely huddled up trying to keep warm.
Last week I was huddled up myself, and wondering if a visit to the hospital might not be in order. I managed to make it through Sunday, and on Monday, first thing, I was at the doctor's office where he diagnosed me with 2 flu bugs and a sinus infection! Mr. Tide reminded me that my overachiever personality could leave illnesses out of my repertoire...and after feeling like I'd been hit by a truck, or 2, I wholeheartedly agree!
I laid in bed for days and watched almost every movie Netflix has to offer I think. Some of them were good, others were just a way to kill the time since I wasn't even feeling up to using my laptop.


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A cross section of an early 17th century Miniland university. Inside there is the anatomical theatre, where the minifigure's inner workings are explored. This MOC is a big brick salute to medical science!
About this creation
There is a very interesting story about how the Classical view on the human body was thrown away like used toilet paper. The reason to throw it away was simple enough; there turned out to be a hell of a lot more than only blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile to make a human body tick.
The theory of the four humors is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates, who lived around 400 BC, but may have been around long before that. The idea is that anyone (or any living thing) has these four fluids; blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. If one is healthy they are balanced, but if the balance is tipped, a person is sick.
The theory of humorism was scrutinously studied and described by the Roman physician Galen (Aelius Galenus, 129 - 200 AD), who made rather accurate anatomical drawings of what he saw during his vivsection experiments. The accurateness of the drawings supported the theory, but he was very, very wrong on some important facts. For example, that there is one bloodflow carrying pneuma, the breath of life, and another bloodflow carrying food from the liver to the rest of the body. The heart's role in this was to produce warmth for the body...
Medical science, just as all the sciences, came to a dead stop everywhere that Christianity was adopted. Human dissection has been a touchy subject in civilisations throughout the ages, but now it would not return for well over a thousand years. Until well into 16th century people just stuck with the theory of the four humors. You would be burned to the stake for performing anatomy experiments on human cadavers. Oddly enough the powers that be never have had any ethical issues with cutting up
living bodies
for all the noble reasons such as conquest, enslavement and domination...
But where the renaissance rooted around 1500, scientific discovery came into bloom. The new age gave birth to some of the greatest minds humanity has ever known! One of them was Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519). Human anatomy was one of his many interests. As with many things, Leonardo was well beyond his time, a time where dissection of humans was still stricktly forbidden. He secretly performed dissections on freshly dug up, stolen corpses, until he was ordered to stop. Leonardo da Vinci's work remained unpublished until 1680, but was still wrong in many details, and still in agreement with the classical theory.
So it was up to two other geniuses to shake up the medical world. Andreas Vesalius founded modern anatomy (1514 - 1564). He discovered some important flaws in Galen's classical theory of humorism. Vesalius pushed medical science in high gear. William Harvey (1578 - 1657) made the greatest anatomical discovery to be made on the dissection table; he was the first to describe the double circulation of blood correctly. Briefly put, this is how the heart pumps blood to the lungs to collect oxygen, which than returns to the heart that pumps the blood with the oxygen to the rest of the body. The blood then returns to the heart to repeat this double cycle.
The next revolutions in medical science would be on ever smaller scales and anatomy became out of fashion. The invention of the microscope by Antonie van Leeuwehoek (1632 - 1723) lead to the discoveries of microorganisms, cell build tissues and many, many more. Microscopic observation also definately proved Harvey's theory of double
blood circulation; now scientist could see the tiniest of blood vessels, the capillaries that connected the oxygen rich arteries with the oxygen low veins.
The last revolution of medical science would come a lot in later in 1953, when James Watson and Francis Crick discovered DNA. DNA is the recipe for an organism; it tells what it is made of and how it is made. Now, nearly sixty years later, the impact of that discovery still rings through and the biochemical pathways still have some misty sidetracks. Medical science is far from done, we have but scratched the surface of the wonders in the biochemical universe.
The Legoversity of Medicine was inspired by my fascination for that golden age when scientific discovery came out of hiding and showed humanity how beautiful they are; the people, every life around them, the world in which they live, and the universe it revolves and evolves in. The beauty of what makes life alive is reflected in the elegance of science, science is art.
There are many tricks in this MOC, in this section below I'll describe them in some detail as I rant about the frustrations I bumped into during construction.
This MOC was built inside out starting with the anatomical theatre. I reused the same trick I used for the theatre in Blockerdam but basically replaced chairs with tiles, and did an awful lot of smoothing out afterwards. The trick is to build a classic curved wall with 1x2 bricks and 1x1 barrel bricks, with (in this MOC) five layers of protruding plates. The plates on the lowest level are the longest, and on the upper level shortest. To have all plates meet tip to tip with the smallest possible gap is a mathematical conundrum well beyond my capability; I just kept trying and trying and trying...
With the benches for the theatre ready there was a big decision to be made; how big was the building around it going to be? On its own it did not look that big at all, but to leave myself some wiggle room the building was to be 48 studs wide! I rushed to build the first floor, from the back to the front around the theater; I wanted to build the front wall.
The ground floor front wall was thrown together in a classic design without to much effort; I needed a quick base for the swooping stair design I was toying with. The stairs are an adaptation of the trick to create the steps in the mountain of the Avatar temple, but this time left open and regularly spaced. The trick is to connect the steps with only one stud that is not tiled, and twist it around the desired angle.
The doors in the front wall are inspired by
's rise of the mage MOCs. Thank you man, I love that door design! I am not sure if AP was first with it, but he was the first where I saw it. Another trick are the tops of the columns with gears, I don't know whom to credit it to, but it has been done before...
With the front done, and still an empty ground floor interior, I built the hall interior. Nothing too remarkable in there, the floor of the balcony floor is a brick wall laid flat. This is a brick efficient away to make studless, smooth floors. This trick is all over this MOC...
To make one large or two small classrooms on the third floor was a tough decision that fell on two because it would allow a more open sideview in the MOC. The trick to solve not having enough books to fill two closets, was to stuff them with suitcases and laptops.
Despite my best efforts, there was still a little error to fix in the roof; the front wall and the interior front wall were not equally heigh... There was no way to adjust the height of either one without throwing the design or the proportions in disarray. The last minute fix was to build a thick and a thin roof slab. The trick I was going to use for the roof I knew well in advance; the same concept as on my Kerstal MOC, but straight. Too bad it turned out to be impossible to
fully press the plates together, it was too large for that... In the end I gave up trying and went for the solidly pressed together roof, which is also fine, but lacks a bit in contrast.
With the building pretty much done except for some interiors, the garden came next. The large tree is a trick I came up in building a Monty Python MOC; at the heart of the tree runs a flexible pin and multiple branches have a clip brick to hook onto it in a spiral. This way the trunk gets a twist and will start to lean. The other tree is an old trick of connecting leaves with flowers. I weaved a large tapestry in search of something to cover a concept design for the outer wall, that I rolled up and knitted together like a sock. This sock is put over a prefab conifer tree.
The center pathway has a warp in it that is allowed by the margin of fit of the 1x2 plates. I was left with a gap of about half a plate in the middle of the pathway. By loosening all the 1x2 plates in the path I hid the gap. This turned out pretty cool as it gives the pathway the contrast the roof lacks.
As I was toying with different ideas for the gardens, I also set out on furnishing the ground floor; the morgue and the cabinet of curiosities. Nothing to exotic here, except the use of large gates as the back panel of the cupboards.
A trick seen often enough, but new for me, is to use halberds for a fence. I was short three bley halberds and used dark ones instead, I hid these off coloured halberds under the blue flowered plant...
The last trick was the road. Building walls with a melee of textured bricks has been repeated in a number of, mostly horror themed MOCs by various builders. I kept it rather tidy and just laid it flat; walls laid flat as floors was, the recurring theme in this MOC. The sewers had to made, just because it could.
There were just three more blanks to fill in before it really was finished; The attic I just stuffed which as much crates and barrels as I could. Finally, there were two tiny rooms on the first floor at the back. On one side I put more crates and boxes, but the last one holds the skeletons in the closet. Literally skeletons in the closet, but there are so many in this MOC...
Thanks for viewing, please leave a comment. Be warned that if you want to search the internet on the subject of anatomy, you will encounter some gruesome images.
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November 22, 2016
Another stunning creation!!
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Mario Fabrio
August 25, 2013
Nice presentation, really beautiful creation. I like it.
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Harrison&Nate Todd
April 14, 2013
Incredible! The yoda head is a nice touch.
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Emerald Knight
January 27, 2013
most pleasing !>>.....well done
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Elk Guard
January 27, 2013
The building looks so elegant and the attention to detail is second to none!
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Ian Spacek
January 2, 2013
Absolutely fantastic! The tiled road and sidewalk are eye-candy, and the building is gorgeous. In addition to the road/sidewalk I particularly like the spiral-stairs entry way. Well done!
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Bumlin Bumlin
December 15, 2012
Realy realy nice work, however, this one was realy massive!! Normally your creations are a little bit smaller but:: the footpath is the greatast creation!!! Grtz. Bumlin
ramon doomernik
December 7, 2012
Nice one! I especially liked the background information - very detailed and worth learning about :D When can I expect a new creation..? Greets Nomar (wink)
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David Roberts
October 30, 2012
Wow! Another quality filled build. I love the operating theatre, with its curved banks of seating and the box of surgeons tools. The scene in the cellar, with Frankenstein's Monster is great, as is the cabinet of curiosities. We forget places like that used to be open to the public. I like chandeliers in the rooms and the skeleton on its golden stand. The ossuary at the end is a nice touch. Great building and an interesting read too.
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LukeClarenceVan The Revanchist
October 9, 2012
Phenomenal! Very elegant design, amazing job capturing all the details. Great work!
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Master Shifu Leo J
October 9, 2012
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Thoy Bradley
October 7, 2012
A very gorgeous building and an excellent MOC. This is fantastic and not in a simple way! Brilliant! ~Thoy
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Medieval Guy
October 7, 2012
Great MOC and interesting commentary!
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October 7, 2012
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Paul Romano
October 7, 2012
Amazing build here! There's so many details to take in; the back-story was very educational too!
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StoveTop Creator
October 7, 2012
There's history is all those lovely details! If you like medical history... you should read... Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter. :)
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Jared .
October 7, 2012
Wow, wish I could attend to my medical studies here... guess I'll just keep dreaming. Nice!
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Jackson Williams
October 7, 2012
Wow this is amazing!!5/5
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mitchell niemand
October 7, 2012
Absolutely outstanding!
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Riccardo Zangelmi
October 7, 2012
WOW, something of incredible... you used a lot of new and epic tecnique! A Awesome artist work!!!! I really love it
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michael k.
October 7, 2012
I love how you made the fence and the road!!
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Yuri Fassio
October 7, 2012
Awesome down to the smallest detail. I spent a good 30 minutest going through everything, and it was worth it. Good thing most CFOLs won't go through the bulk of text, or you would be in for some drama :D
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--R.K. Blast--
October 7, 2012
Oh... my goodness! This is fantastic beyond words! WOW! Truly spectacular! The details and finishings are superb, the build itself magnificent and I adore that theatre! Brilliant work! --Blast--
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Tris B
October 7, 2012
Awesome. I wonder if Yoda realised that a long time in the future his head would be part of an anatomical collection in a Lego university. Decorative droid heads! Well why not.
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Sebeus I
October 7, 2012
This is Very nice, I see lots of interesting techniques and nothing "over-the-top" if you know what I mean, everything blends in nicely with the environment you created. Love it!
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Kanye's "Fantasy" conquered reality; the Black Keys locked into a groove; Arcade Fire burned down the suburbs.
(Rolling Stone) -- 5. Jamey Johnson, "The Guitar Song"
1: What does Jamey Johnson keep under all of that hair? Songs. Nashville's gruffest and grittiest star turns out to be its most reliable traditionalist, a Music Row pro who can write a song for every emotional season. Johnson pulled out a whole slew of them -- 25, clocking in north of 105 minutes -- for his double-disc fourth album: acoustic confessions and rugged boogie blues, big weepers and grim reapers, cover tunes and novelty ditties, not to mention "California Riots" and "Playing the Part," a pair of fiercely funny, unrepentantly redneck swipes at the frou-frou blue states.
4. Arcade Fire, "The Suburbs"
Arcade Fire don't do anything small -- so leave it to the Montreal collective to make an album of vast, orchestral rock that locates the battle for the human soul amid big houses and manicured lawns.
"The Suburbs" is the band's most adventurous album yet: See the psychotic speed strings on "Empty Room," the Crazy Horse rush of "Month of May," the synth-pop disco of "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)." Win Butler and his wife, Régine Chassagne, sing about suburban boredom, fear of change and wanting to have a kid of their own -- always scaling their intimate confessions to arena-rock levels and finding beauty wherever they look.
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Two rock giants, one largely forgotten, rekindle a friendship and make music that ranks with their best. Producer T Bone Burnett delivers his most spectacular production in memory, filled with shining steel guitar, chortling brass and gospel-time choirs. Ultimately, it's Russell's voice that shines brightest, drawing on the entire history of American popular music in its canny, vulnerable, knowing croon.
Rolling Stone's top five singles of 2010
2. The Black Keys, "Brothers"
The duo boil it down on their best record yet: vivid tunes stripped bare and rubbed raw, with hot splashes of color and hooks popping through like compound fractures. "Howlin' for You" smears gnarly blues over a glam beat cribbed from Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2," while a cover of Jerry Butler's broken-hearted hit "Never Give You Up" takes Dan Auerbach's falsetto-flashing soulman persona to the next level. It's rock minimalism pushed to the max.
1. Kanye West, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"
With "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", Kanye West made music as sprawlingly messy as his life. When he wasn't feuding with Matt Lauer or bugging out on Twitter, Kanye was building hip-hop epics, songs full of the kind of grandiose gestures that only the foolish attempt and only the wildly talented pull off.
The more he piled on -- string sections, Elton John piano solos, vocoder freakouts, Bon Iver cameos, King Crimson and Rick James samples -- the better the music got. Never has Kanye rhymed so hilariously ("Have you ever had sex with a pharaoh? I put the [expletive] in a sarcophagus") or been so insightful about his relationship-torpedoing faults.
From the bracing prog-rock of "Power" to the spooky grandeur of "Runaway" to the shape-shifting "Hell of a Life," he made all other music seem dimmer and duller. Is the album dark? Sure. Twisted? Of course. But above all, it's beautiful.
See the entire list at RollingStone.com.
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Hey everyone! Spq96 here! Today Club Penguin announced TONS of new upcoming events that will be occurring this summer! They didn't want to give everything away, but there are still lots of events that will be going on in the next few months! There will be new game updates, new rooms, special appearances, and much more! Check out this sneak peek I managed to get of a few upcoming events! I'm not very sure what the one on the left is supposed to represent though…
Pretty cool, huh? The Club Penguin team has been working really hard to get a ton of stuff ready for the summer, and I'm sure you will like what they have in store for the next few months! Here is a list I made that describes only SOME of the upcoming events in Club Penguin! Check it out.
- New parties (there will be a new Music Jam party)
- New costumes & items at the Stage (Ruby and the Ruby will be returning)
- Brand new clothing, wigs and furniture!
- Game upgrades (Members will see and hear some cool changes to DJ3K and more)
- New rooms (There's going to be some construction, renovations, and new places)
- Special appearances (Penguin Band will return, and I even heard Sensei will make a special visit)
Then again, those are just a few of some upcoming events. Which event are you looking the most forward to? Comment and tell me what you think! I really hope Club Penguin has another Water Party this summer. Hopefully they didn't replace it with the Adventure Party. What was your favorite summer party from last year?
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Irrigation pack v2.0
How to use:
For transport, you must attach the carriage to support using NUMPAD 2
You must dettach the truck before turning the reel.
You can unfold the safety devices using touch X.
You can turn right or left side of the coil with the left mouse button and moving from right to left or left to right .
To expand use NUMPAD 9
To rewind use NUMPAD 7
Voluntary capacity is very low ( 100 liters) , we must place it near irrigators irrigation pipe (containment of a release fertilizer ) available in this pack ( transposable mod) .
To spray , you must complete the irrigator help contact R activate the spray using B, and you must use new contact R to reload the irrigator Sametime spray it .
tube diameter = 110 mm
Maximum pipe length = 400 meters.
Capacity = 100 liters
Spray use = 10 liters / second
A bug has already discovered this mod :
It is not compatible with the GuelleMistMod , I am looking to solve this problem !
! PLEASE DO NOT download this MOD ON ANOTHER SITE AND KEEP THE ORIGINAL LINK !
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I'd like to share the cards that I've got in the December issue of Australian Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft. Very soon I should be able to share my contribution to the upcoming, January issue, once I get my hands on it. It's a very special one to me, but more of it later :)
On the pages 40-42, you can find the set of four cards, made with the Glitz Design product (Hoopla collection) and Layers Of Color stamps.
I blogged this set a couple of months ago, you can view the post HERE for the details.
Also, there are two of my cards to be found on the page 48, featuring the Make It Crafty stamps, within the Stamper's Challenge feature.
Here are the photos of these, taken in my studio:
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