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Awesome! I've been waiting to do my Zulander Hack scam review and finally got to sit down and write something about this totally wack system! I also had to teach my spellchecker that "wack" is a real word, it means bad or inferior, crazy, worthless or stupid ideas or talk, rubbish! That pretty much sums up Zulander Hack! I think I'll edit the Wiki page and suggest that "Zulander Hack" be added as a synonym for wack.
Official website: ZulanderHack.com
This system has absolutely everything that you can find in the standard scam toolbox. It has fake countdown timers, it has a fake "licenses left" counter, it has bogus "Verified Online" badges, it has fake trust badges (try clicking our badges, they're real). The "verified online" badges irk me the most, because if it is a trusted site, it should say "verified offline" to really mean anything! The Zulander Hack site has everything that all the other scams have, and then some.
They tell us that this system by Michael Wright will make you $1,000 every 5 minutes (or Euros, or Pounds, or Chickens, I guess, depending on where you are in the world). Now, while it is possible to take 5 one-minute trades with high amounts in Binary Options, I can guarantee you that this crazy Zulander Hack system is not going to make you that type of money.
We have already received complaints about the Zulander Hack system, since they sent out emails to people making all sorts of impossible claims, and of course their trading accounts got cleared out. Never just trust a link you get in an email, always verify first if it is legit!
There are a few other obvious tell-tales that make us certain that the Zulander Hack is a scam, and one of them is that they claim to have over 242 days of consecutive profits and yet, the Zulanderhack.co domain was only created on December of 2015!
Zulander Hack: Identity Scam!
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How is it possible that the same person that supposedly is giving us their Zulander Hack testimonial, is located in the US for US visitors, but in the UK for UK visitors? The amounts that they supposedly made also stays exactly the same, but the currencies change, what a total scam!
Here are the same people, but this time if you are a visitor from the US. You can clearly see that the names and everything they say stays the same, and the amounts stay the same, but the currency changes. There is no way that this is true!
There is no doubt that this Zulander Hack system is utter nonsense, just stay away from it, and rather take a look at the top systems that we have already identified on this site.
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Continuing Elton Townend Jones' appraisal of Series 5/Season 31…
Fortunately, The Hungry Earth has put things back on track. It's been clear throughout the season that Moffat has been the strongest writer for the new regulars, but he also seemed to lack the equivalent of himself that Russell T Davies had. Perhaps Chris Chibnall will come to fulfill this role. The latest episode was strong and visually striking, and Chibnall's handle on the regulars was certainly tight. While it's a shame the production team didn't recreate the Silurians of old – or incorporate the original face into their masks – the new versions are well designed, if a little Star Trek: Voyager (although, I suspect the scariest reptile we'll see this year is the '70s lounge lizard' Dream Lord we saw the week before…). Following a slight dip, Ashley Way's lovely direction suggests that the season is now moving towards something very substantial indeed.
I'd put Ashley in third place for this year's directors. Second place goes to Andrew Gunn (The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks) who proved his ability with tasty pictures and delicious atmospheres, but first place – and surely we all agree on this – must presently go to Adam Smith. His work on the debut and Angel episodes was outstanding. Look at that golden blue light when the Doctor convinces Amy that he's the man who visited her as a child. We've never seen anything quite so cinematic on Doctor Who, and he's certainly up there with Harper, Camfield, Maloney, Sax and Lyn.
Having a whole new crop of directors has been good for the programme and great for the audience. We have been given some great moments: 'fish custard', 'basically… run', the Doctor's 'nobody human' outburst, Ambrose being warned by the Doctor to leave her accumulated weapons alone, and the most perfect Doctor facing down the most perfect Daleks in perhaps the most perfectly Who-esque scene since Eccleston faced the Dalek Emperor. Possibly the best moment so far was the final scene between the Doctor and Octavian (in the grip of an Angel), closely followed by Rory's stag (Doctor: 'I thought I'd burst out of the wrong cake. Again.').
Alongside the new stuff, there have been some tasty Easter Eggs for long-time fans. I'm not just talking about Silurians, Daleks, River Song and the Angels. The new Doctor was fully revealed amid a montage of old Doctors and old enemies (how everyone cheered at the sight of the Sea Devil, but few pondered the significance – if any – of a Colin Baker era Sontaran). We've also had the Cloister Bell, a William Hartnell library card (I cheer every time I see the guy) and the ongoing TARDIS swimming pool gag.
But what has this series been about and what is it telling us? Where will it take us over the five remaining weeks? From the get-go, we've been presented with abundant mysteries: what's causing the cracks in the universe? What happened to Amy's mum and dad? Where was her aunt? Who was that in the kitchen? Did the Doctor return to Amelia, or didn't he? These mysteries gained serious momentum with the 'is it a continuity error' jacket scene amongst the treeborgs in Flesh & Stone (which itself became wonderfully entangled with the ever perplexing mystery of River Song). Oh, and just what is it about that duck pond?
The sense I get from the first eight episodes is that they seek to question our perception of 'reality', our observation of it (how we alter it and how it alters us) and examine our interactions with it. We have been invited to doubt the boundary between what is real and what is not, because travelling through time 'changes the way you view the universe forever…' There are 'eyes' everywhere, in alien spaceships, in cracks in the wall; retracing their observations across Leadworth green, noticing impossible truths on Starship UK; sitting in the mouths of fabricated pensioners, twitching in polycarbide casings; and on the receiving end of quantum Angels, behind frightened eyelids (fine time for the Silurians to lose that third one!). Reality comes under fire when the mysterious orphan who lives with her aunt in a big dark house claims the Doctor as her imaginary friend.
Fairy tales are invoked both lyrically and visually by a terrifying walk through the dark forest, or the suggestion that the dangerous myth that awaits us at the end our journey – the thing that could change the world and kill us all – is only as unreal as we are. Dreams have run amok in word and deed. After a long wait, little Amelia seems to see/hear TARDIS return (or at least a TARDIS); this is sold to us as Amy's dream, but it might be much cleverer than that. Memory is important in Amy's story – why can't she remember the Daleks? Can she remember what the Doctor told her when she was seven, or not? Did any of these things happen? Did any of them not? On Starship UK, Amy acts like Little Nemo in Dreamland; dressed in her bedclothes, the perfect lucid dreamer. There are dark rumblings of dreams that no longer need their dreamers, while Rosanna (who, don't forget, saw 'silence') speaks of dreams faded and bad. Even the Doctor's own nightmare of self-loathing has become manifest…
What any of this means remains unclear, but we know it will end as it began with the crack from Amy's wall and the opening of the mysterious Pandorica on 26.10.2010. But will that be AD, as we've all assumed, or BC? And what of this 'silence' that seems already to have touched 16th century Venice? Have we encountered this 'silence' before? Having watched the first eight episodes a number of times, I'm beginning to feel that the finale might not involve Daleks (perhaps we'll be getting them for Christmas?), and that the cracks might be a paradox caused by the Doctor's attempts to prevent their ever occurring. But I'm also being niggled by the uncooked Doctor's attempt to prove his credentials in the first episode. Here, he gave the scientific community Fermat's Theorem, an explanation as to why electrons have mass and, perhaps most importantly, Faster Than Light travel – one of the latest scientific developments Rory claimed to have been reading up on when he entered the TARDIS in episode six. Coincidence? Maybe. And what about the couple waving at Rory and Amy from the future? Time can be written, re-written and unwritten, it seems, so how real is that future? Perhaps only as real as the past it came from…
What is certain is that we are now at the endgame for Smith & Moffat's first series, with the thrilling conclusion to the Silurian story to be followed by two richly drawn character comedies and an explosive finale (with yet another new director). Since 2005, the best part of any season has been its last third. Smith has suggested that his Doctor is very different in the later episodes; he says his performance has improved. Like it's all been sub-standard so far? This can only mean that this is, regardless of any faults (Daleks? Dream Lords?), going to be quite possibly the best season of Doctor Who we've ever had.
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iphitus and PDExperiment 626: When dealing with a long thread like this, its good forum etiquette to stay on the original topic or start a new thread. In this case, the discussion didn't need to be public at all.
I did not post anything private, that information was passed to me, and is all over the internet. If you want to keep secrets, don't post them on blogs and flickr.
If that information was passed to you in private, WHY didn't you keep it that way? You are confusing the fact that I am not Cerise. I DO NOT have ANY such information posted on ANY of my personal websites.]]>
I could have dismissed iphitus' _wife_ comment as speculation if it weren't for your indirect confirmation. And since you confirmed, the conflict of interest is more than obvious. So please stop this before you make a fool of yourself.
I am not in conflict of interest because I am not voting. I have critiqued all the designs I had looked at, all of them. To say that my critiques represent a 'conflict of interest' is to also say that your critiques as a 'professional' designer--WHO has submitted to this competition--ALSO represent a conflict of interest, if you would like to use that term. I believe the term you are looking for is biased, and I NEVER claimed to be unbiased. NEITHER can YOU, SINCE you have SUBMITTED.
It is you who needs to learn to respect the general mood of the community. You are annoying some people with your posts, period. Stop this before the thread is locked.
I am sorry that an honest critique in a discussion thread is what you consider 'annoying'. Perhaps this thread should lose the word 'discussion' and instead be called 'personal attack or reaffirmation time'. If you can find anywhere in my posts--regarding the submitted designs--that I have personally attacked a design (or the designer themselves), I will eat my words.]]>
Iphitus, you need to learn to respect issues of privacy on public forums. I didn't go posting informations about you all over these threads, when I was feeling emotional. I was wrong to think that you would have the intelligence and respect to acknowledge other's right to privacy.
You can't get any lower in my book.
I'm not feeling emotional at all, I was hilighting your bias. And I really did want to see what you could create.
I did not post anything private, that information was passed to me, and is all over the internet. If you want to keep secrets, don't post them on blogs and flickr.
As foxbunny said, stop before this thread is locked.]]>
It is you who needs to learn to respect the general mood of the community. You are annoying some people with your posts, period. Stop this before the thread is locked.]]>
You've made negative comments on everyone's logo's except those of your *wife* cerise. freigeist echos my thoughts, there is a bit of arrogance in the air.
No, I have actually made positive comments about several other submissions including cerise's. I also put negative critiques against Cerise's design. I am NOT voting on the designs, there is no conflict of interest posting critiques on a thread that has no bearing on the final decision.
YOU have no ground to argue a conflict of interest as you are pushing to submit as a decision maker.
As I have NEVER made any claims as to what I am, who I am associated with and what my relationships are; where do you get off breaking my right to privacy? It speaks volumes of you as person. You couldn't strengthen your argument to hold a conversation with me. No, you stooped to a personal attack.
Iphitus, you need to learn to respect issues of privacy on public forums. I didn't go posting informations about you all over these threads, when I was feeling emotional. I was wrong to think that you would have the intelligence and respect to acknowledge other's right to privacy.
You can't get any lower in my book.]]>
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 93#p293293
The chages include:
* Changed the shape of the lower arc (rounded it a bit)
* Rounded the tips of both arcs (made them a bit thicker, too)
* Fixed the 16x16 and 22x22 scales
* Fixed the dark b/g version
* Fixed the color (changed it to Golden Poppy #FCC200; fixed the gradient so that the upper right edge of the circle is not lost on light bg; made it a bit more 3D)
* Changed the logotype so that the logo would stand out
* Created an Arch Emoticon character (there will be more of them)
I have documented the steps I took while i was fixing the logo, and will publish them on my blog when I get a chance.]]>
As for scaling, my point is that TheBodziO's logo can be easily scaled down to sizes less than 16px. The fact that you may not see it doesn't make it impossible. People who've dealt with typography know this very well, and TheBodziO is one of them. Therefore I asked devs to consult with at least the authors, if not the broader artist community here, to see if the author simply did not have time to deal with scale-downs or the logo is truly impossible to scale down.
@iphitus, PDExperiment626
Wife? Uh...
The logo change was initiated by the hype created over Thayer's post. I think it is good that devs agreed to draw on that energy. That is always a beautiful think in open-source communites.
@iphitusiphitus wrote:
Being able to draw... <snip> ...I can however point out that it may not work well though.
So, is submission now a requirement for critique on the forum? If not, then why are you asking for my submission?
I just wanted to see what you could produce. You've made negative comments on everyone's logo's except those of your *wife* cerise. freigeist echos my thoughts, there is a bit of arrogance in the air.
How the current design of the site was made?
It's still fairly new... it came up a few months back... I can't actually remember the whole details though. They're around here somewhere. Try searching.
What's the status with the current logo and why is the need for change ?
Some people thought it looked like Star Trek
Is this a plan to make Arch with it's own and consistent look and feel, like
other big distroes. Are we talking about GUIs only or what ?
Generally, we keep things pretty uncustomised, if people would like to make customisations, that's great, but out of the box, most of the packages are as the developer packaged them.
I don't expect answers, if you can point me to some information would be nice.
PS. If you feel this post isn't suitable here, feel free to move it elsewhere.
All good :) And it's relevant to the logo and design, so it's fine here.
Critiques are critiques. Arrogance has nothing to do with it; indeed, I have claimed nothing about myself. I have merely presented critiques on the designs put forward. What you read into them beyond the critique itself is a reflection on you, not the critique.
It's not what you say, but how you say it...as you may know it is not necessary to claim something about yourself to create an aura of arrogance, arrogance works much more subliminal. And this has nothing to do with your fair comments regarding my and other logos, which are appreciated (by the way...I'm just curious...is a critic the person who expresses a critique? And critics are a bunch of people who criticize? and what is criticism compared with critique?) I don't know if you have children but if you would, you should know that there are many ways to transport a message and some work, some not. Whatever, let's get back to topic...I know that my English is too bad to withstand in a psychologically discussion even if it may be interesting]]>
I just wanted to say that I like the "lame" logos by matt3o posted in this thread.
The "Alpha sun" concept is nice too! But I think the powerd by Sticker looks better without the black edges.]]>
I found GNU/Linux and the Free Software community around 9 months ago.
I started with Ubuntu, but it's visual design didn't suit me, so it was soon
when I switched to Xubuntu.
The look and feel of Xubuntu made me feel like I'm at home. The underlying
"Ubuntu way" have served me way, but I wanted more. I wanted knowledge and
power. I wanted to learn.
It was 7-8 days ago when I found Arch linux.
After lurking the forum and the wiki. Browsing the repository and the git one.
Playing with Arch on my work and home machine. I've decided that I want to be a
part of all this.
I want to share with you why I liked Arch, so much.
I liked the main site, the design was simple, elegant and beautiful. Then I
started reading some materials in the wiki. It was organized, the visual design
was consistent in every part of the site, which gave me the feel of
I wanted to point out that the design and how things are organized, how the
ideas and paradigms are presented is very important. If the Arch site wasn't
like it is, I wouldn't bother to try Arch linux. And I'm not afraid of learning
new things and changing habits.
Because I'm new to Arch, it's very difficult to me to have a clear opinion about
all these logo stuff, I would appreciate if you can point me to some information
How the current design of the site was made?
What's the status with the current logo and why is the need for change ?
Is this a plan to make Arch with it's own and consistent look and feel, like
other big distroes. Are we talking about GUIs only or what ?
I don't expect answers, if you can point me to some information would be nice.
PS. If you feel this post isn't suitable here, feel free to move it elsewhere.]]>
I was trying to keep my critiques short and to-the-point, but I fear I have oversimplified my explanations of the associations made with your logo.
It is true, I think of ribcages, waves, mountains when looking at your design. That being said, you have added a layer of interpretation on top of those objects that aren't the psychologically strong ones. For example, let's say someone sees a ribcage in your design. Those ribs are open and exposed. The only time one sees such a scenario is in the context of some medical situation. That is why I made the comment that it seems like the logo would go in a doctor's office.
If I felt that the design conveyed the ideas of strength, flexibility, etc. I would have made that statement. When a design associates to an explicit object, that object can be linked to ANY thought or emotion when viewed the right way. That is why I think a strong level of abstraction away from tangible objects is important.
I hope this clarifies what I meant.
I already understood what you meant because your message was not very subtle. Therefore I put an smiley in that line to express that I'm just kidding with your associations...but maybe you don't like or understand irony. Seeing an ribcage in the image and having bad associations is possible if you want to see it. It is also possible to see some abstract warning sign in cerise's design that reminds on radioactivity or biohazard, as well as it is possible to see a star trek sign in the current logo (or (remembering a discussion a few days ago) to even see vag1nas or p3nises in the submissions, if you prefer that example). If the majority of people looking at the sign think its an open ribcage than I agree, that my logo is not a good idea, even not for an doctor's office, because people prefer to think of healing and medicine and want to get positive associations and not think of something like an open ribcage when going to a doctor...therefore the doctor's PR campaign possibly won't attract many new customers...
I think iphitus feels a bit of what I feel...there is some arrogance in the air. Critics are important, yes, but there is one thing I learned in life, it's always important HOW you express your message. Unfortunately especially "geeks" tend to be arrogant to cover their own shortfalls...]]>


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Daily commuting and work related travel has increased slightly while total travel time per person has decreased over the past 11 years, according to a study by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).
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Overall, the average hours spent traveling daily for work or work-related purposes rose by approximately three percent. Work related travel for men rose by approximately 3.7 percent from 2004 to 2014 and 4.6 percent respectively for women.
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A Gay Marine Who Saved a PresidentFiled by Michael Hamar | December 28, 2010 | 2:30 PM |
Given the efforts of organizations like Concerned Women for America who want American history to remain sanitized to omit any references to the contributions of LGBT Americans, it is important that our true contributions be highlighted. Fortunately, a opinion column...Read More
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Right wingers continue to rage against DC's 'Batman' for teaming up with an Algerian Muslim, and Marvel's 'Thor' for the use of a black man in a "white role." Now conservative blogger Warner Todd Huston has brought the gays into...Read More
Religious right scandal brewing in Indianapolis?Filed by Bil Browning | December 27, 2010 | 11:00 AM |
Where there's smoke there's usually fire... It seems that there's a possible Eddie Long-style scandal brewing in Indianapolis and a couple of media outlets are hot on the case. Long is the vehemently anti-gay African-American minister from Atlanta who recently...Read More
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It has been said before -- recently, even -- but it bears saying again and again, as any truth does. Conservatives have finally, and completely, abandoned compassion. Progressives spent much of the previous decade declaring the "compassionate conservatism" of the...Read More
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1994 Acura Vigor 4 cyl Four Wheel Drive Automatic 195789 miles
I bought a car off craigslist and I am not sure if something is wrong. The main problem is it occasionally smokes(white) off the top of the engine, and smells bad, like burnt chemicals. I had a new raidiator put in because it was overheating. That is not the problem, I think, the smoke is coming from the passengers side, as well as it feels hot. The mechanic said it was oil, but that it was not a major problem. I just want to know is that true? Or should I pay them ALLOT of money to pull the engine out to see where it's coming from. It only does it after it has been running for a while, and more when it hasn't ran for a few day's. It also stalls when I come to a srop, or about to take off from a stop. I am HOPING it is because it has been sitting for a while and it just needs a tune-up or something. I put the fuel injection cleaner in the gas tank, but I am not sure if it is something more serious or not. Can you tell me what these two problems may be? Thanks :)
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IK Multimedia, a global technology company and leader in mobile music creation apps and accessories for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, announced today the release of the developer's manual for iRig® BlueBoard, the first wireless pedalboard controller for MIDI and more. Now developers have more ways to integrate iRig BlueBoard directly into their apps.
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Well, in this case, mostly untested. Here's a mechanic I improvised while running Trail of Cthulhu last night:
Mitigation Test:When making a mitigation test, instead of setting a difficulty number the Keeper sets a "worst case quantity". The Investigator then resolves the test normally (spending points, adding them to their roll, and so forth), but the result of the test is subtracted from the worst case quantity to determine the actual outcome. (In some situations, you might choose to use multiples of the test of the result.)
Example: One of the investigators has been bitten by a Mythos creature and the creature's poison is turning their flesh to stone. The team's doctor decides the only way to save their life is to cut away the "infection". The Keeper calls for a mitigation test using Medicine to determine how much damage the doctor deals to the victim/patient and sets the "worst case quantity" to 12 points of damage. The doctor's player spends two points, rolls a 4, and manages to perform the procedure while only inflicting 6 points of Health damage (12 – 4 – 2 = 6).
Example: An orphanage is beginning to collapse. An Investigator is trying to rescue as many kids as possible before the building comes down completely. The Keeper calls for an Athletics mitigation test to determine how many kids survive and sets the "worst case quantity" to 6 dead kids. The player asks if he can spend Architecture points to assist (by judging which sections of the building are in most jeopardy) and the Keeper agrees. He spends 3 points and rolls a 2… He's just not able to find Timmy before it's too late.
Example: The player is trying to carve a forged copy of a stone tablet, but is under something of a time crunch to get it done. The Keeper sets a "worst case quantity" of 48 hours and calls for a Craft test. The Investigator gets a result of 6, which the Keeper multiplies by 5: It'll take 48 – 30 = 18 hours to complete the duplicate tablet.
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Amritsar, Tension prevailed at the Golden Temple complex here Friday as more than 10 people, including a child, were injured at the Sikh shrine complex in a clash between task force volunteers of the SGPC and radical Sikh activists on the 30th anniversary of the army's Operation Bluestar.
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Police were keeping a close watch on the situation inside the shrine complex.
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'What?' Greg looked up, surprised. 'Yes, sir...'
'Good, good,' the professor smiled, 'I take it you found my little present?'
The first-year blinked. 'Your present?'
'I think he means the butterbeer,' Lucas interjected. 'Who else would have left it there?'
'Oh...' Greg realised. 'Yes, we did, thank you.'
'Enough to go around?'
Theo snorted. 'Yeah, just about,' he grinned. '48 bottles and nine people...'
Slughorn chuckled. 'There were more people to share it between the last time we managed a win.'
'It's okay,' Isaac joined in the conversation, 'we didn't mind,' he grinned.
'I think we could have done with one of your revitalising potions the next morning, though,' Greg suggested. 'I didn't know butterbeer was that strong...'
'I'll make sure we've got some ready for after the Hufflepuff match, then,' Isaac laughed. 'Sir, you will get us another crate when we beat Hufflepuff, won't you?'
'Beat them first, and I'll think about it.' The teacher glanced over Greg's shoulder. 'You might want to add some knotgrass to that, Mr. Bennett.'
'Yes, sir,' the first-year followed his instruction, watching the potion on his desk bubble from black to green.
'Don't you have anything to say about that, Mr Jones?' Slughorn waddled over to the neighbouring table, where Glyn and Jai stared at their own Forgetfulness Draught.
'Sir...?' The Welsh boy looked up.
'Won't you defend your House's honour?' The professor challenged the two Hufflepuffs.
'They probably will beat us,' Glyn muttered. 'It's not as if we're any good.'
'If we lose to Gryffindor next week, no one will care about the last game anyway,' Jai sighed. 'It'll be like the end of the season, when the teams who can't qualify for the Champions League just play their reserves.'
'Oh dear,' Slughorn shook his head. 'Where's that famous Hufflepuff loyalty? Your mother would never have stood for that.'
'Yeah, well I'm not my mother, am I?' Glyn's eyes flashed as he glared back up at the teacher. 'I am loyal, but I'm not stupid.'
'Now that's more like it...' The professor turned on his heel, leaving Glyn to gaze angrily at the back of the man's robes.
'Bloody hell,' the Hufflepuff swore, 'he's nearly as bad as those Gryffindors,' he shook his head. 'Why do people keep judging us on the House we're in?'
'What, like those Gryffindors?' Greg laughed. 'Do you know what a hypocrite is?'
'Oh, fuck off, Greg,' the Welsh boy snapped, turning his back to the Slytherins and untidily decanting his potion into a thin vial as the bell rang out for the lesson's end.
'That went well,' Isaac observed sarcastically, watching Jai hurry after his housemate towards the classroom doorway.
Greg gaped blankly after the two Hufflepuffs. 'I've never heard him say that before...'
'Maybe you've been a bad influence on him?' Theo suggested, impishly.
'Fuck off yourself,' Greg rolled his eyes.
'See?' Theo nudged his best friend's elbow, remembering the conversation they'd shared with Oscar the week before. 'I bet he's just having a bad day.'
Greg nodded, slowly. 'I hope so,' he mumbled, tidying his own potion-making kit away as Theo measured out their efforts for Slughorn to mark.
The sound of an explosion echoing down the stairway that led from the Potions classroom up towards the Great Hall quickly distracted the boys from their thoughts.
'What the hell was that?' Isaac exclaimed.
Lucas shook his head. 'I don't know...' His uncertainty was drowned out as a sudden cacophony of sound spilled down the stairwell, before a bloodthirsty chant answered the question for him.
'Fight! Fight! Fight!'
The first-years hurried up the staircase as the echoes of spells reverberated along the passageway.
'Impedimenta! Rictusempra!'
'STUPEFY! STUPEFY!' The Slytherin boys recognised Oscar's voice cutting across the exchange. 'Finite Incantatem!'
The crowd's interest ebbed away as easily as it had arrived, and as the massed students filtered away towards their own dormitories or House tables, the first-years recognised Oscar, wand still out, standing over the motionless bodies of Glyn Jones and Spencer Dawlish.
'Mr Symons,' Professor McGonagall was making her steady way from the Great Hall. 'Please could you follow me to my office?' She turned to the two paralysed first-years. 'Mobilicorpus.'
'Ossie,' Greg hissed, hurrying across to the prefect and quickly relaying the events of their Potions lesson, from Slughorn's remarks about the Welsh boy's mother to Glyn's own four-letter outburst.
'Thanks, mate,' the prefect nodded. 'Wait for me at the table,' he angled his head towards the Great Hall. 'I'll tell you all what happened.' He turned quickly, falling in step behind the Headmistress and leaving the shocked first-years to traipse towards their lunch.
The first sign that Professor McGonagall had finished talking with the three students came when Dawlish trudged, his shoulders sunk, back into the Great Hall to make his lonely way to the Gryffindor table. Shortly afterwards, Oscar and Glyn followed, their voices hushed as they entered the room.
'Come and sit with us, Glyn,' Greg stood up as he watched the Hufflepuff look up, uncertainly, at his own deserted House table.
'Yeah, come on mate,' Theo echoed, loudly enough to persuade the other first-year to make up his mind, and joined his housemates in shifting along the end of their bench to make room for the new arrivals.
'What happened...?' Isaac blundered in, barely allowing Oscar and Glyn's plates the time to fill themselves.
The prefect glanced over to the Welsh boy, who nodded back, almost imperceptibly, his eyes barely leaving his lunch. 'How much did you see?' Oscar asked.
'Just the end,' Greg answered quickly, wanting to make sure that Isaac's lack of tact didn't make things any worse. 'We heard you shout, "STUPEFY", and then saw Glyn and Spencer on the floor.'
'Okay,' Oscar nodded, 'well, I'm sure you guessed that I just split them up,' he began. 'I came across them just as Dawlish cast the first spell.'
'He started on you?' Theo's voice was sharp.
The little colour that remained on Glyn's face drained away and his head dropped further still, sinking onto his forearm as he pushed his untouched meal away.
'Glyn punched him first,' Oscar explained. 'Dawlish said something about the Quidditch match at the weekend, Gryffindor against Hufflepuff, and then about his Mum...' the prefect tailed off, and Greg instinctively reacted, reaching out to rest his arm over the Welsh boy's shoulders.
'McGonagall took twenty points off each of them,' Oscar finished, 'and they've both got detentions tonight and tomorrow with her as well.'
'Shit...' Isaac shook his head. 'That's three this year, isn't it?'
'Zac!' Under the table, Greg kicked out sharply at his friend's ankle, before shaking his own head insistently as he made eye contact.
'Oh,' the other boy winced, 'sorry.'
'Come on, Zac,' Lucas stood up, 'let's go and sort our stuff out for Charms,' he picked up his own bag. 'Greg, Theo, we'll bring yours if you want?'
'Thanks, mate,' Greg smiled. 'See you there.'
'I'll see you in CMC, Ossie,' Matthew followed the redhead's example.
'He deserved it,' Theo muttered. 'He's deserved it all year.'
Glyn sniffed, slowly lifting his head. 'I should never have done it, though. I don't know why I did.' He blinked, half-clearing the moisture from his eyes.
'McGonagall knew,' Oscar offered, gently. 'You weren't thinking straight, after that Potions lesson...'
'Oh, Merlin,' the Welsh boy's eyes filled with tears once more. 'I'm sorry, Greg,' he whispered, 'sorry for telling you to, for telling you to...'
'Forget it,' Greg patted his friend's shoulder. 'It doesn't matter.'
'Everyone else is going to hate me, though,' the Hufflepuff took a deep, fractured breath. 'For losing all those points...'
'They'll understand,' Greg offered, 'if Dawlish has been half as much a tosser to you as he has been to us.'
'He is,' Glyn nodded. 'He calls us "Dufflepuff", or "Huff-and-puff", and he thinks it's funny,' the Welsh boy shook his head, 'and everyone else in Gryffindor thinks the sun shines out of his arse...'
'Not quite everyone,' Greg corrected his friend. 'I bet you Ciaran Abercrombie doesn't.'
Glyn shrugged. 'They just tell him he'd be better off in the losers' house with the rest of us.'
'And he just sits there and takes it?' Greg asked.
'Yeah,' the Hufflepuff answered.
'I wonder why he's in Gryffindor?' Theo wondered aloud.
'There you go again,' Greg responded. 'Why does it matter? What difference does it make?' He thumped the table in front of him. 'Remember what the Hat said – it's your choices, and not your abilities, that really matter.'
'Look around you,' Oscar shrugged. 'Is that really true? How many other people think like that?'
'It's getting better,' Greg snapped, before taking a deep breath as he noticed his own temper. 'Remember the start of the year; remember Slughorn. Just look here: there's a Hufflepuff kid sat on our table. It's getting better,' he insisted, 'and remember what Slughorn said after that first detention – that we had to choose between what was right or what was easy. I don't care how hard it gets, I'm going to keep on doing what's right.'
Oscar stared calmly back at the first-year. 'I do sometimes wonder how come you ended up in Slytherin, though, Greg,' he fought to keep his face straight, 'but then I remember just how bloody stubborn you are, and it all makes sense.'
Greg rolled his eyes, gazing back at the prefect as he heard Theo slip into laughter alongside the older boy.
'It's true, Greg, and you know it!' The other first-year grinned.
'So what?' Greg rolled his eyes. 'It's not like you ever listen to anyone when they say you need your hair cut...'
This time it was Glyn's turn to try – and fail – to stifle his own laughter. 'I remember when we first properly met... in the Hospital Wing, when you told me that you were going to make Slytherin into what you wanted it to be.'
Greg nodded. 'Am I,' he paused, correcting himself, 'are we doing a good job?'
The Welsh boy nodded. 'If someone had told me on the Hogwarts Express that some of my best friends would end up being Slytherins, there's no way I would've believed them.'
'Thanks, mate,' Greg returned his friend's smile.
'I reckon it's time you got some of this lunch down you now,' Oscar pushed the Hufflepuff's plate gently back across the table. 'It's not long until your next lesson. Have you got your books for it?'
Glyn shook his head.
'It's alright,' the prefect reassured him as he finished his own lunch. 'I'll go and find another Hufflepuff and ask him to bring your things along.'
'Thanks,' Glyn managed, sticking his fork deep into a roast potato as the fourth-year stood up, 'for everything.' He swallowed. 'See you later.'
'Glyndwr Jones?' The three children who had remained at the lunch table were greeted abruptly as they entered their Charms study classroom after the break.
'Y... Yes, Jenny?' The Welsh boy stuttered, gazing up at the seventh-year girl who addressed him. As well as being the most senior of the Hufflepuff prefects, Jennifer O'Callaghan was also the Head Girl.
'Is this true?' She was comfortably taller than any of the first-years, and her neat brown hair contrasted sharply with her pale skin as she glared over her thin spectacles towards Glyn.
'Is w... what true?'
'The story that Mr Davies here just told me, when I asked whether anybody knew why the Hufflepuff hourglass was so low?'
'Oh, shit...' Glyn's whisper was so quiet that only Theo and Greg could hear him.
Jennifer continued, regardless. 'I understand that you lost twenty points because you, and I quote, "punched Spencer Dawlish in the face"?'
'Y... Yes.' Glyn struggled to maintain eye contact with the prefect. 'It's true.'
'Was that worth twenty points?' Her gaze didn't waver, and Glyn shuffled subconsciously backwards, only for Greg and Theo's arms to hold him steady. The silent tension of the classroom was broken, however, as its back door crashed open thanks to another first-year boy.
'Jenny! I just got twenty points from a prefect for going to get Glyn's books from the common room because he was busy and didn't have time to get them himself...' The boy, who was shorter than any of the four Slytherins, panted his announcement breathlessly, before realising that all the other pupils' eyes had turned to face him and starting to blush red beneath his short black hair.
'Twenty points?' Jennifer repeated, distracted from her interrogation. 'Do you know which prefect it was?'
'N... no,' the small boy shook his head, 'I didn't even know prefects could give points.'
'Only to other Houses,' the Head Girl explained, briefly. 'Not to their own House. So it would have to have been a Ravenclaw, or a Gryffindor...'
'Or a Slytherin,' Glyn interrupted.
'Well, technically, yes, but...'
'Cameron,' Glyn projected his voice across the room. 'Was the prefect about this tall,' he motioned with his hand, a few inches above his own head, with short, sort of blondish hair?'
The other first-year nodded.
'Oscar Symons,' Glyn concluded, 'Slytherin seeker.' He turned back to the Head Girl. 'He was the one who split up the fight,' he paused, catching his breath as he noticed the room's attention was now focused on him, 'and yes. It was worth it.' He strode defiantly across the room to fill an empty table, beckoning Cameron to join him as Greg and Theo followed.
A handful of minutes later, Jennifer had finished explaining the incantation for the colour-change charm that they would be practising during that particular study lesson, and the first-years had begun their attempts to turn a satsuma blue.
'You do realise you just pretty much told the Head Girl where to go, and got away with it, don't you?' Greg ventured above the noise of casual conversation.
'I was right, though,' Glyn replied, quietly. 'She was doing exactly what everyone else does, ignoring Slytherin for no reason.'
'It was still awesome,' Theo grinned. 'I bet you'll realise properly later.'
The Welsh boy smiled, reddening a fraction as he did so. 'Thank you. Hey,' he hurriedly changed the subject of their conversation, 'have you met Cameron?'
'Not properly,' Theo answered for the two Slytherins. 'Hi, Cameron,' he introduced himself. 'I'm Theo Forrest, this is Greg Bennett. We're scary Slytherins.'
Cameron fidgeted, looking nervously towards Glyn before nodding slowly. 'C... Cameron Ollerton.'
'Hi, Cameron,' Greg smiled. 'Theo's only scary cause of his crappy haircut. He won't listen to anyone who tells him he needs it cutting.'
'Piss off,' Theo laughed, 'I'll cut it when it starts getting so long I can't see bludgers properly.'
'When you're in the hospital wing, right?' Greg teased. 'I'll tell Madam Pomfrey.'
Cameron glanced back towards Glyn. 'My Mum says I'm not supposed to talk to Slytherins.'
The Welsh boy shrugged. 'I guess it's your choice, Cameron. Talk to Gryffindors who call you names or Slytherins who stick up for you. I know who I'm choosing.'
Cameron nodded again. 'You're in the Quidditch team, aren't you?' He asked, tamely. 'You were good against Ravenclaw.'
'Thanks, Cam,' Theo laughed. 'Did you see my bludger hit against their chaser? The one that broke her broom?'
'Yeah,' Cameron recalled, 'that was great! I bet it wouldn't have broken if it was a Cleansweep, though.'
'Cameron's granddad started the Cleansweep Broom Company,' Glyn explained, noticing the looks of confusion on the Slytherins' faces.
'It was my great granddad,' the smaller boy corrected his housemate.
'Glyndwr,' the children's discussion was interrupted by Jennifer's approach, and the Welsh boy looked up coldly as he heard her speak. 'I'm sorry. I shouldn't have talked to you like that,' she apologised. 'That was wrong.'
'That... that's okay,' Glyn mumbled, taken aback by the Head Girl's change in tone.
'Well done,' she smiled, 'for making friends where so few have done before.' She turned to Glyn and Theo. 'And well done to you as well. Five points, each, in the spirit of House co-operation.'
'Cool,' Theo swallowed. 'Thanks.'
'Yeah, thank you.' Greg echoed, as the Head Girl walked away. 'I told you guys, it's getting better.'
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Here is my video guide to From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee.
The video is only accessible if you have the link to the video, as to be hidden from everyone until the contest winners are announced, so that my guide will remain original and impossible to steal.
Direct Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-1kUvDLDqU
Here is the script for the video. (There is some adlib)
Hi my name is Exonfang and welcome to my video guide on the Achievement, "From Hell's Heart I stab at Thee", where you kill the Whale Shark in Vesh'jir.
The safest and easiest way to obtain this achievement is to be in a group of 3-5, where all players are Level 85. While, the whale shark is soloed by ranged classes, it is significantly harder and will take much more time if you're by yourself. The fight will last anywhere from 15, to 45 minutes long, depending on your dps and tank.
The group composition should be as follows;
The tank should either be a feral (bear) druid, a blood death knight, a protection paladin, or any ranged dps class with a lot of instant cast spells or DoTs.
The DPS are preffered to be ranged, however melee dps can deal damage to the shark if they are verycareful. (More on this later.) Any class is viable.
Now for the strategy;
When you pull, I suggest kiting the shark to the shell, being very careful of range, and then doing laps around the shell, sticking fairly close to the shell. Instruct your tank to maintain 6-20 yards in distance, never venturing below 6, or above 20, because past these thresholds the whale shark will either instant kill you, or reset. A good addon for this is RangeDisplay, a link to which can be found in the description. Your ranged dps should be behind the tank, with atleast one stacking with the tank, incase the tank either dies or ventures too far away. Your melee dps should be positioned around the eye, taking great care not to venture into the shark's body, as this will instantly kill the dps. If the dps are generating too much threat, and are about to pull, they can venture away from the shark to reset their aggro.
The fight is mainly positioning, because if there are no characters between 0-20 yards from the shark, he will reset.
The tank MUST stay between 6-20 yards to maintain threat, and must be able to generate threat at a distance.
The DPS cannot pull off of the tank, or the shark will reset. For this reason, for the first few minutes, allow your tank to gain threat, and have your dps standby. Only when your tank has a good threat lead should the dps start dpsing.
A good addon to monitor threat is Omen, a link to which can be found in the description.
If you're soloing, simply stay between 8-20yds and dps the shark down, kiting him around the shell. This will take anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours depending on the dps.
Once you've mastered juggling the threat and range, it's an easy, however long, kill.
Thank you for watching and remember to rate, comment, and subscribe, my name is Exonfang, and I'll see you next time!
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This is my Entry to MMO-Champion.com's Guide Contest.
This video is unlisted so that it is completely private, will be public after the contest Ends. My MMO-Champion account name is Exonfang.
This is my achievement guide to "From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee", or how to kill the Whale Shark in Vashj'ir. Big thanks to Lovechild, Rolander and Pingus on Alleria-US (Alliance Side) For grouping with me to complete this achievement, check out their youtube channels;
Lovechild - Youtube.com/cadillacal74
Rolander - Youtube.com/animalality
Omen - http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...eat-meter.aspx
RangeDisplay - http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...e-display.aspx
Thanks for watching, please comment if you have any questions, and I'll do my best to answer them all! I read all questions!


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Britax Frontier 85 in Livia :)
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I have it in red, LOVE IT!
I'm jealous! lol I REALLY need to try to get money up for that seat for DS4 so I can keep him harnessed longer... things just havent been working out lately.
Cool my bf just bought dd the new graco one that holds 4-40 pounds I love it
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Besides crippling social anxiety and trying to "'keep things together' with their high school sweethearts, every freshman guy has one thing in common: they love getting drunk. Many experienced upperclassmen let their evenings out be ruined by these roving bands of intoxicated freshmen. "Look at these idiots," you say, "They can't hold their booze at all. They totally ruined this bar." Shame on you. As an experienced college student you should know that every negative has a positive and that positive is usually a drinking game. So next time you're at your favorite bar and a herd of freshmen dudes come tramping through the door, filling the juke box with their TRL favorites and ordering shot after shot of Jager, don't get mad, just play Drunk Freshman: The Drinking Game!
Drink for the allotted amount of time whenever you spot a freshman guy"


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There are huge opportunities to learn from those schools that are achieving massive success.
(PRWEB) December 23, 2012
MMA business owners looking to transform their schools in 2013 are to be offered the information, tools and step-by-step systems they need at a four-day event in Orlando, Florida from January 3 - 6. Host of the event is successful MMA school owner Lloyd Irvin who has helped many other school owners create million-dollar martial arts schools through his previous events. Only a handful of places remain at the event which is expected to sell out in the next few days. http://www.TheMMARevolutionEvent.com
Martial arts school owners will have the chance to get ahead of their competitors and make 2013 their best year ever at an Orlando, Florida event from January 3 - 6 which will give them a Blueprint and step-by-step process for succeeding while others fail.
The event, hosted by successful martial arts school owner Lloyd Irvin, is aimed at any martial arts school owner looking to stop struggling and start building a million-dollar martial arts school instead.
Lloyd - who was the first martial arts school owner to use direct marketing and internet marketing to build a million-dollar martial arts school - believes there is now a major opportunity for school owners who are ready to learn the leading-edge approach to building a successful martial arts school.
He says:
"Many martial arts schools are struggling to achieve the levels of success they need to survive. With the current economy, increased competition and tougher marketing challenges, things will get even more difficult in the year ahead.
"But, despite all the challenges, a handful of schools are attracting more students, charging higher fees and achieving more success than they ever have before.
"In this event, we'll be sharing the exact strategies and tools that have made this small group of martial arts business owners successful.
"As a result of my previous events, a bunch of martial arts schools have been transformed and we are seeing a growing band of martial arts millionaires.
"My MMA Millionaire Blueprint 5.0 Event in Orlando from January 3 - 6 will boost these numbers to unprecedented levels."
The MMA Millionaire Blueprint 5.0 Event - at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld, Florida from January 3 - 6 will share the exact strategies, tools and systems that martial arts school owners need to stop struggling and start building a million-dollar school.
Topics covered will include:
- Powerful new technology that converts prospects into lifelong students before they even set foot in your school
- How to implement the right pricing structure for your school to sign up more students and have them paying more
- How to have students asking to upgrade to higher membership levels without you having to sell anything
- The only martial arts school based time management system that will save your marriage, let you play with your kids and still allow you to make big money at your school!
- Website Magic… the new website of 2013 that not one of your competitors will embrace for at least 1-3 years!
- Medal Chasers Revealed… The A-Z Blueprint for creating your own winning fight team
- And much more
Lloyd comments:
"All the rules of running a martial arts school are changing fast and school owners can either grasp the opportunity or continue struggling.
"The stakes have never been higher. There are massive risks of trying to follow the failed approaches of the past but there are huge opportunities for those who are ready to learn from those schools that are achieving massive success.
"My MMA Millionaire Blueprint 5.0 Event in Orlando from January 3 - 6 is a fantastic opportunity for martial arts school owners to get the year off to the best possible start and to walk away with the exact tools they need to make the year ahead their most successful ever."
Normal price for attending the event will be $2,997 but limited tickets are still available at the special price of $997.
Tickets are available online at http://www.TheMMARevolutionEvent.com
Lloyd Irvin is a successful martial arts business owner in Maryland who pioneered the use of internet marketing and direct marketing techniques in the MMA business. He has used these mixed martial arts school marketing strategies to build his own school and to help other MMA business owners achieve greater success in their martial arts school marketing.


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If one of the more prominent trends in craft brewing proves to have some staying power, then the future of beer lies in its past.
Last month, the Brewer's Association, the pre-eminent organization of American craft brewers, released its 2013 beer style guidelines, an industry-standard guide used to define, categorize and judge the seemingly endless varieties of beer. This year, two new beers were added, bringing the total number of unique styles recognized by the association from 140 to 142.
You might assume that these new styles are modern creations, the result of myriad tweaks and hybridizations developed within the craft-brewing scene. You'd be pretty far off. The two new styles — Adambier, a pre-Reinheitsgebot strong ale originating from Dortmund; and Gratzer, an 18th century Polish beer made from smoked wheat malt — are archaic styles brought back from the brink of extinction primarily by homebrewers and small American breweries.
This fascination with archaic and obscure beers is not entirely new. Delaware's Dogfish Head Brewery has long been known for its resurrection of extinct beers, sometimes reproduced through means as obscure as scraping residue from ancient pottery found in tombs and cultivating new yeast strains with DNA that closely matches historic versions (e.g., Birra Etrusca). Even Pennsylvania's Victory Brewing Co., known for brewing traditional styles, is collaborating with Ohio's Market Garden Brewery to bring back a nearly-extinct 19th century English beer called Kennett Ale.
Anyone who's been paying attention to such trends has no doubt noticed the rise in popularity of Berliner Weiss among beer enthusiasts; there's even a movement to establish a new take on this traditional German style cultivated right here in the Sunshine State: Florida Weiss. And Gose, a style once as rare as they come, has become a staple in small brewery tap rooms across the country.
Seminole's Rapp Brewing Company may be the local epicenter for this kind of retro experimentation. Even before his tasting room opened last year, brewery founder Greg Rapp was pouring his takes on Berliner Weiss, Gose, Roggenbier and Lichtenhainer at local beer festivals. His version of a classic Gratzer was on the tasting-room menu a full month before the Brewer's Association announced its addition to this year's style guidelines.
Rapp's original Gratzer was a small beer with big flavor. At a diminutive 3 percent alcohol by volume, it was characterized by a sharp smokiness and extremely light body. If you stopped by the tasting room a few weeks ago, you probably noticed a new addition to the draft list: BA Gratzer, a new version brewed to the 2013 Brewer's Association specifications.
Rapp's BA Gratzer is a little smoother and less smoky than the earlier version, and at 4.7 percent ABV, it's also a touch stronger. Although some may be put off by its still-prominent smokiness, it's a very drinkable beer, and I would be surprised if it didn't become part of Rapp's regular rotation. For now, it's probably the only example of this style that you'll be able to find just about anywhere.
With a search of beer check-in app Untappd's database yielding just over a dozen commercial examples of Gratzer currently brewed worldwide, it's unclear whether or not this particular style will catch on with the masses.
Other styles, like the aforementioned Gose, have been surprisingly successful in a short period of time, And with the release of this year's Brewer's Association guidelines, it's likely a matter of time before Adambier — which currently only has one commercial example listed on Untappd — starts popping up on tap list menus across the country.
While I doubt this newfound infatuation with endangered styles amongst craft brewers will change that, it may very well be that right now, old is the new new.
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April 10th, 2017
Dr. Asrat is a surgeon with Amref Health Africa. Dr Asrat Mengiste arrives at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi, Tanzania. It's 8am, and already 70 patients are lined up for a consultation. In the operating room are 20 local doctors
Dr Mengiste talks them through every action and explains every decision. After four days he will have operated on 40 patients and passed his knowledge and expertise on to another group of medical staff, eager to put into practice what they have learned.
Outreach patients travel for miles to reach Dr Mengiste's team. Dr Mengiste insists:
"The operations make a big difference to the lives of my patients. Most of them have suffered for a long time, often since birth. It may be a cleft palate so that one is unable to talk, eat or go to school. It may be a burn that has left one unable to walk or to hold things."
More than 60% of the patients waiting in line are children. Amongst those awaiting surgery is four-month-old Angelina, whose mouth and nostrils are badly disfigured due to a cleft lip and palate. Angelina's mother carried her for six hours to the nearest bus stop in order to bring her to the Amref Health Africa team in Moshi. Angelina cannot be breastfed because of her disfigurement – her mother has to feed her milk and porridge drop by drop.
Angelina is first on the operating table. Like with all his operations, Dr Mengiste explains to observing medical students what has caused the condition, answers their questions, talks them through the surgery, and discusses aftercare.
This simple operation will transform Angelina's life and her mother is overjoyed by the results: "Before the operation I had so many worries, that she would not survive, have friends or find a husband, now I am sure she will survive and live a normal, happy life".
Next in line is a boy who injured his hand by falling into an open cooking fire. His little fingers were badly burned and have not healed well; his forefinger is now attached to his thumb by scar tissue. Nearly 99% of Tanzanians cook on open fires. Too often children fall into fires or scald themselves with boiling liquid. If the burns are not treated they form thick cobwebs of scar tissue, causing crippling deformities, making the simplest of tasks such as dressing or eating impossible.
During surgery Dr Mengiste separates the boys thumb and finger so they move independently again. Such a small operation will make an enormous difference to this little boy's life. While recovering from surgery the boy tells Dr. Mengiste he is looking forward to going back to school and being able to write like the other children in his class.
Dr Mengiste and his team spend their lives travelling to remote rural hospitals. The challenges of performing surgery in these hospitals are immense. Water supplies are often scarce, surgical facilities and basic medical equipment are poor or non existent, and power cuts happen every day.
Despite these challenges, Dr Mengiste has carried out 1,702 consultations and 801 operations during 80 outreach trips in the last twelve months. "The fact that we are able to make a difference in the lives of many desperate people in our region makes me proud."


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Friday, May 3, 2013
Penguins ECQF Game 2 Recap - Islanders 4, Penguins 3
-As I talked about in recap after game one and in the preview today the Islanders weren't as bad of a team as they showed in game one and while they looked like they were going to fall to the same fate today as they gave up a goal only 46 seconds into the game and fell behind 2-0 shortly thereafter. The Islanders got a goal back but Sidney Crosby pushed the lead back to 3-1 only 18 seconds after the Islanders scored. Really had a good feeling after that but as the second period started the Islanders started to take over and they didn't let up. They scored just about five minutes apart in the second period and just kept coming in waves against the Penguins.
-Just like last season the Penguins were not good in their own zone and it killed them. They gave up 20 shots in the first period and if not for a pretty stellar period from Marc-Andre Fleury it could have been a lot worse than it was going into the second. They finished the game with 11 turnovers but it was probably a lot more than that. They were taking some bad penalties and one of them led to the Islanders first goal and it is just stuff that you don't want to see. I am not going to be overly worried about this but it is sort of disappointing that they blew a pair of two goal leads.
-Sidney Crosby really looked good today. I know he looked good just about every game he plays but he found the back of the net twice and was pretty dominating all the way around. He played 23 minutes so I guess there was no acclimation time and I can't wait to see him play when he gets a little more of the rust out of his game.
-Fleury is going to take the brunt for a good portion of this game but he played pretty well overall. He faced a ton of shots in the first period and he was there for almost every single one of them. He did get beat a few times and there was a soft goal in there along with one where it bounced off the boards and hit him and went in but there really isn't a ton you can do about that. It sucked big time and you could see that he was visibly frustrated with giving up that fourth goal but that shouldn't take away from his performance. He was one of the main reasons this game wasn't over earlier.
-Really no idea what was up with the treatment of Beau Bennett. He only had ten shifts in the game and totaled 7:19 of ice time. Bennett has been pretty good all season but the only guy who had less ice time than him today was Tanner Glass and the next closest guy to him was Jussi Jokinen who had 11:30 of ice time. Really strange that Bennett was pretty much benched for much of the third period.
-On that same wave Dan Bylsma really shortened the bench tonight. Craig Adams/Glass/Jokinen/Bennett combined for around 32 minutes of ice time. Essentially the Penguins were playing with three lines while on the blue line Douglas Murray had only 12:29 of ice time while Deryk Engelland played 12:23. I am not sure when exactly the bench shortened up but by those playing times I would assume it was relatively early and that seems a little off. That might be just me though.
-Evgeni Malkin looked really good tonight. He had ten shots on goal and had a goal and an assist and was generally all over the ice creating plays, especially early. He had a really strong game one so that is very good to see if you are a Penguins fan that was worried about Malkin coming into the playoffs.
-The Penguins just got flat outplayed tonight. I talked about this when I was on TribLive radio today that sweeping a team in the playoffs is an extremely hard thing to do. This is a professional sport and while these guys are the eighth seed they are still some of the best players in the game. Winning four straight times against a team is very hard to do and today showed why. This doesn't mean that we should all panic and worry but it should send a wakeup call to the Penguins that they just can't throw their sticks out on the ice and expect teams to roll over.
-The Islanders aren't a very good home team. During the regular season they were only 10-11-3 but the atmosphere at the Nassau Coliseum should be rocking for the first Islanders playoff game since the 2007 season. I am not sure if it is going to phase the Penguins but they need to come out and play like they did in game one and for most of the first period and they should put themselves in good position to win the game on Sunday. The Penguins had home ice taken away from them with the loss today but they can steal it right back. As I have said before when you don't want to give the less talented team a chance to hang around because if you do they are more than capable of taking advantage. They did tonight so don't let them do it in the series.
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TONY EASTLEY: In a world first, US scientists have successfully created embryonic stems cells through human cloning.
The technique used is considered ethically controversial because its requires an embryo to be created and then destroyed.
The big advantage is that the embryonic stem cells that are gathered are a perfect genetic match to the person who gave the skin cells in the first place.
With more here's Miriam Hall.
MIRIAM HALL: For years scientists have tried to perfect this particular cloning technique, but it's never been possible.
In the past it's been successful with animals, but scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University in America say they've made a breakthrough using human cells.
Shoukhrat Mitalipov is the lead scientist
SHOUKHRAT MITALIPOV: We produced early stage embryonic stem cells so it's actually a permanent cell lines but they represent very early unprogrammed cells that have a potential, they're basically charged with ability to make any other cells and tissues and even organs.
MIRIAM HALL: The technique is called somatic cell nuclear transfer, or therapeutic cloning.
Scientists took a person's genetic material and it put it human egg. Then they created an embryo, which they then used to make a stem cell, which is genetically matched to that person.
Professor of Stem Cell Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Martin Pera, says the discovery is enormously exciting.
MARTIN PERA: The discovery offers a new technique for treating patients who are at risk of passing on severe diseases, mitochondrial disorders, to their children and also offers a new approach for making stem cell lines that will enable us to match tissues for transplant patients to individual patients.
MIRIAM HALL: He says many scientists had believed the technique to be impossible. Now he's expecting it to be used to develop treatments for genetic diseases.
MARTIN PERA: In the UK the government has already been advised there that they should proceed with using this type of technology to help people who are at risk of passing on mitochondrial disorders.
These are severe diseases that affect particularly the brain and the heart and I think now that we have the ability to actually use this cloning technology or somatic cell nuclear transfer in man, the road ahead is clear and I think there will be groups who will be interested in using this technique very soon to try and help those patients.
MIRIAM HALL: Professor Pera thinks the discovery has so much potential, ethical concerns about the technique will soon dissipate.
MARTIN PERA: Oh, well I think in the scientific community and in the medical community and for patients suffering from these disorders, there'll be a lot of excitement around it. Of course this approach is permissible in Australia so Australian scientists could pursue the same avenue and I think in general where we look at the potential for alleviating disease and when that potential becomes real, then some of the objections I think tend to diminish.
TONY EASTLEY: Professor of stem cell sciences at the University of Melbourne, Martin Pera, speaking to Miriam Hall.
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World first: scientists create embryonic stem cells through human cloning
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TONY EASTLEY: In a world first, US scientists have successfully created embryonic stems cells through human cloning.


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Topic: The Church (12/06/07)
TITLE: This Church Was Built
By LaNaye Perkins
Clay was gently packed between, with love by Godly men.
People gathered within my walls on God's appointed day.
In one mind and accord they worshiped, sang, and praised.
Decades passed, my walls grew weak and needed much repair.
I was given brand new life by workers paid a fare.
People gathered within my walls on God's appointed day.
Several minds and much discord they gossiped, sang, and played.
Repairs complete, my walls pristine and furnished with pricey decor.
Members argue over color and style, several go out the doors.
Still some gather within my walls on God's appointed day.
The majority now has one accord, but God has been betrayed.
Alas my life in this sad time, no longer like early days.
God does not linger here, the people have turned away.
Their ears are tickled by a man, who only wants their praise.
His salary is his main concern, and of course, the yearly raise.
But I yearn for the days of old, when men and women bowed.
When the Spirit of my God was welcomed and allowed.
They gathered all together here, on God's appointed day.
In one mind and one accord they worshipped, sang, and praised.
No more this whited sepulcher only filled with dead men's bones.
I want the Spirit once more alive, and God back on the throne.
I want fellowship true and sweet, with His Spirit filling my beams.
I just want to be a church, where God can reign supreme.
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Ten years ago, this statement would sound redundant. Now it seems developers and manufacturers are doing everything in their power to make it inconvenient to play games. Gamers this generation had to deal with: day one dlc, locked codes, day one patches, and micro-transactions. In the next generation, these same problems will most likely be included in the next generation, and new problems will arise.
Cute. Though I agree with that sentiment. It seems gaming consoles are treating the ability to play games is a secondary function on them..I'm not a social media enthusiast, so I can careless about facebook or twitter and whatever else involves giving up privacy. I buy game consoles to play games.
Going by what we are seeing, it looks like every console maker is adopting this idea for a jack of all trades machine..I'd prefer they keep it simple. Can't stand all the bloat.
While that is true gaming consoles have also become the main media machine for streaming & video playback. One thing i really want is the ps4/720 to be able to store media on the hdd like the ps3 does. I would also love them to be able to play any media give us mkv file playback!
I store all my music, pictures, home videos, & movies on my ps3 hdd for easy playback they better cary this ability over!
So gamers want BC so that they dont have too many consoles crowding the Ecenter. But they're not ok with the system playing other media so the their Ecenter is even less cluttered. On a whole, we don't watch all the bloated channels and prices cable offers and we can pick and choose alot better with our consoles.
These extra features have not dampered the games we've been recieving. With all these extra functions we get, they arent costing a helluva lot more than what we payed for the N64 or Gamecube when they first released.
So if games were being lessened due to these extras, I could see the unwant for it. But we still recieve great games and getting great extra functions. If all these consoles did were play games...they wouldn't feel like electronics. I'd bet gamers would be clamoring for these extra features if we didnt get them.
that's funny because even with day one dlc, locked codes, day one patches, and micro-transactions, i can still play games on my PS3/X360.
and i'm not sure how day one dlc, micro-transactions or day one patches are a problem... you aren't forced to buy dlc, you don't have to participate in the micro-transactions (since all they do is allow for people to waste their money on acquiring in-game items that are already available through natural progression), and patches fix problems that exist in the game to begin with.
seems like pointless whining about first world problems that don't even affect anything.
So the article writer doesn't have a lot of time to play games but writing an entire article is something he has time for?