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Amazing Ducks Concept Art
Earlier in the week I posted some awesome concept art that went over a storm with you guys. We saw designs for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins as well as the New York Islanders and Atlanta Thrashers.
Today we're treated to some work on the Anaheim Ducks. These designs were based on concepts that "leaked" prior to the unveiling of the new Ducks logo last summer. Have a look and be impressed.
If you ask me, that's what the Anaheim Ducks should look like. And it couldn't be further away from the old Mighty Duck look. However, while the green is sharp, tan doesn't make for a vivid secondary color. So what about orange?
Our favorite designer upgraded his original logo with much more vivid colors. Can anyone deny this would be one killer logo package?
If the logos weren't enough for you, check out the uniform designs. Any NHL team would be lucky to look that good. How come this guy doesn't already work for the league?
Are there any Anaheim fans reading that would be repulsed by something like this? Would that even be possible?
Anyway, it's artwork like this that gets me so excited to do a blog like this. So what do you think? Am I going a little over the top with my glowing praise? Or are these designs really that good?


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When Gods become superheroes… or something like that. Thor is the latest odyssey in the Marvel Studios journey towards the all-star extravaganza that will be The Avengers. To be honest, I'm not much of a Marvel Comics fan, or a Thor fan for that matter. I'm more of a DC Comics man myself, but that's not to say I can't enjoy a good Marvel movie. Sadly, Thor is not one of them. It's not a horrible movie, I mean it's no Jonah Hex, which by the way was last year's Death Coach winner, which should dispel any thoughts of publisher loyalty that you might find in this review. But, Thor does have its fair share of problems, as well as nice moments, however few.
In Thor, King Odin (Anthony Hopkins) of Asgard tries to prepare his two sons for the challenges they may face one day as future kings. His eldest, the Mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is cocky and arrogant, and only wishes to show off his superior strength and fearlessness at any chance he can get. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) on the other hand, likes to use his head, and manipulate situations and others to help mold events to his liking. They don't call him the God of Mischief for nothing. The ying to Asgard's yang is Jotunheim and its people the Frost Giants. When a small group of Frost Giants breach the palace's security, Thor wishes to go to Jotunheim and strike fear into the heart of its people to never try such a thing again. Odin strongly forbids it, but Thor and his men, consisting of the Warriors Three (Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, & Josh Dallas) and Sif (Jamie Alexander), along with his brother Loki, sneak-off to Jotunheim and unwittingly start a war. Yeah, I don't get that either! What did they think would happen? Anyway, Odin strips Thor of his powers and banishes him from Asgard. He is cast to Earth as a mortal man, but his Mjolnir (Thor's Hammer) is also sent to Earth as a "Sword in the Stone" to restore Thor's powers once he's learned his lesson. While on Earth he meets astrophysicist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), and S.H.I.E.L.D., and bla babla babla. You get it right?!
Okay, so let's just say Thor didn't make me a fan of Thor. It's too bad too! I was really hoping having director Kenneth Branagh behind the wheel of this one would have done for Thor, what Jon Favreau did for Iron Man. That's not to say Branagh didn't do a good job! If it wasn't for him, we could have easily been looking at next year's Death Coach Award winner here. The problem isn't so much the directing, as it is the writing. The script isn't horrible, but it does feel like it's just jumping from plot point to plot point to keep the story moving, and it never lets you really care about the characters, or even the story for that matter. The storyline in Asgard is much more defined than that of the story on Earth, but that comes as of no surprise with Branagh's Shakespearean background. Chris Hemsworth is perfectly cast as Thor! He did an incredible job of bringing the mighty comic book God to life. We also get to see Thor and his powers unleashed pretty early in the film when he battles the Frost Giants on Jotunhein, and I've got to say some of the hammer tricks were pretty bad-ass! It's just too bad I didn't get to have that feeling again by the end of the movie. I would have really liked a second helping of that fight scene later on in the film. I can't for the life of me figure out why Thor's best fight scene would be at the beginning of the movie, and not at the end? I also don't know if it was just me, or the once again pointless 3D conversion, but the CGI at times seemed to be a little too CGIy. The other realms looked fantastic, and had a grand sense of space to them, but I felt like I was watching a video game at times, and actually had to remind myself I was watching a movie! I know that this is Kenneth Branagh's first real CGI venture, and with that in mind it's really not that bad. But next time, less is more. I'm starting to feel like I'm being unfair. They say that this is the first official movie of the summer season, but I'm going to give that title to Fast Five! Also, that way my summer can start on a high note, and not this middle of the road shit! Thor does its job of introducing the movie going public to the Mighty Thor, but ultimately it's just not worth it.


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Wow, I didn't know this!
Does this mean all the other MJ "customs" are just mass market lights that have been rebranded?
The Extreme 3 is almost exactly a Liteflux, so I always wondered why it cost so much?
Wow, I didn't know this!
Does this mean all the other MJ "customs" are just mass market lights that have been rebranded?
The Extreme 3 is almost exactly a Liteflux, so I always wondered why it cost so much?
Tiger Woods had an affair and tried to hide it. David Letterman had an affair but sucked it up and owned up to his actions. Which of those two people is more prominent in your mind for their actions?
Hopefully he'll leave all the excuses behind and give us an honest answer. Right now's exactly the time where he decides whether to rebuild or bury his reputation.
Are you sure you can't find it in your browser history?
If it has been withdrawn from Alibaba, anyone know how we could get a cached version of the page?
I am so glad I never bought from him. I always had the feeling that something was "off" in his sales posts. Too much hype and advertisement that sounded weird.
Yep, I guess many consider the extreme 3 to be a masterpiece, I'll retract my statement, sorta. They were nice lights, just seem like slightly re-engineered Litefluxes...
I didn't follow the other MJ threads, too rich for my blood.
THis is just disappointing.
Wow, what a thread. What a way to get yourself caught too. Ballsy, stupid, inconsiderate... anything for a quick buck I suppose.
We are all flotsam and jetsam being carried by a relentless tide towards our ultimate fate!
His Extreme III was supposed to be a special "Limited Run" of lights, they are still being released to this day. Now if some one was doing a "Limited Run", why would so many hosts be made in the first place?? People were questioning how many would be produced prior to it's release, and that question was ignored. I think MJ's dishonesty goes back farther than you might think.
IIRC the initial order was for 700 units but that was reduced to 400.
I got to see a couple of Ostar type lights from ArcMania and always thought the quality was amazing.
Yet the performance where it counts was low, but I just figured it was something inherent to Ostar LED's not being as efficient as we like.
___________Production & Limited Runs_______________________
Light_____________________LED_____________ Cells____________ Lumens____ Time___5m lux__1m lux (cal)__
ArcMania_________________Ostar SMT__________1 AW 2600mAh_________ 405.0______1 sec____394______9,850_______
SF III__________________________________________________________ 368.5______30 sec_______________________
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__________________________________________________ _______________352.3______2 min________________________
__________________________________________________ _______________343.8______3 min________________________
Surefire 6P with Malkoff M60 simple, bright, efficient.
Looks pretty similar to the light in that link on the first page.
Although its just as expensive as the one arcmania sold.
LiteFlux... I thought people knew this...
Just for the record, there is nothing wrong with making a profit on an item, even a good profit but I believe honesty is also needed. In this case, there seems to have been a lack of honesty and then a pathetic attempt to cover it up.
I still want to see what name he comes up with for the Taiwanese contractor.
And I doubt there was ever a contractor.
certain creations of his did rouse suspicion but accusations can't be made until sound evidence is procured. For one thing many of the customs here who create "limited runs" discontinue their completed lights up to a certain period of time, yet its been how many years now since the Micro Extreme III came out and they are still available at lighthound. Its these subtle contradictions that makes people wonder, maybe in the future I'll jot down a list of contradictions I see around here
compared to ArcManias: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/...d.php?t=281978
I think we found his supplier
Lets not forget the X6 http://www.lighthound.com/ARCMania-X...le_p_3296.html
compared to: http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/30...lashlight.html
While I would appreciate the introduction of good engineered lights to the forum, why not sell it reasonably as a dealer in CPFM, why scale it in customs?
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who made those SF bodies? it sure has a nice design
My Mods.. http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/...5&postcount=78
Hobby only, I don't do custom mods as a service, thanks for understanding.
Wow, right now I am thinking of sending a thank you note to McGizmo, Data, Milky, Tranquility Base, Photonfanatic, Mac, Peter, Henry, everyone at Surefire and many other custom modders and builders for their WORK and HONESTY....
Oh, perhaps I just did. Thank you all!!
It's most likely he OEMed the two models & renamed them X6 & X6 canon respectively.
The X6 fooled a bunch of people but the X6 Cannon was not successful, perhaps, things already stated smelling fishy?
Compare the image on the Wkled site:
to the X6 Cannon feeler photo:
He didn't even take his own photo, just cropped the OEM mfg. photo instead.
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My Mods.. http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/...5&postcount=78
Hobby only, I don't do custom mods as a service, thanks for understanding.
Well I'll give him credit, it's a fairly impressive looking photo!
My Mods.. http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/...5&postcount=78
Hobby only, I don't do custom mods as a service, thanks for understanding.
First time I saw it I thought, "weird, a re-engineered, rebranded Liteflux, wonder why it costs so much". Then of course the masses stated how it was a limited run and super special etc...
It was definitely an improved model. Just not limited nor worth double a Liteflux price.


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Called EnergyWise, the software is a free upgrade to Cisco Catalyst switches that can monitor and manage how energy is used on IP-connected devices, including phones and wireless routers. This summer Cisco will release a version, based on Verdiem's Surveyor PC management software, that reduces energy levels of PCs.
With EnergyWise, a company can set policies on energy use, allowing PCs or networking equipment to go into sleep mode after work hours, for example.
Cisco's longer-term plan is to get beyond tech gear and into building-automation systems.
Early next year, EnergyWise will be able to manage building assets, including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, and employee badge systems.
On Tuesday, Cisco said it bought a company called Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence that makes software that translates information from building equipment, such as heating and cooling systems, into a format that can be read by EnergyWise and other software applications.
Other large IT vendors, like IBM, are making similar efforts to manage both IT equipment and building management systems.
Cisco is also working with Schneider Electric to tie its building management system to the EnergyWise software. But William Choe, director of Cisco's Ethernet switching technology group, told Light Reading that many of the energy savings for companies will occur by installing the software on smaller routers in a business.
"The majority of these switches in this application are in the wiring closet, touching the endpoints--the APs (access points) and the IP phones," Choe said.


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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
preschool lunch: down on the farm bento
In this farmtastic bento box there is a cowmooflaged boiled egg, ham and cheese half-sandwich on whole wheat, purple grapes, a few gnarly pickles and some Annie's organic bunny snack mix. The "moo!" letters are provolone cheese and cut with my mini sized alphabet cutter set.
An egg! Yep, that's what that cute cow is!
I used my Tovolo ice cream sandwich press to mold a boiled egg into a cow face, then colored the black spots on it with black food coloring. I wasn't getting nice covering with my black food marker, so I actually used Wilton black food gel and painted it on with a clean paint brush. That might sound crazy (and possibly, it may be) but it was actually really fast (and fun!). Much quicker than using the food markers, actually. The goofy eyes are candy icing decorations and I used a teeny straw to poke in holes for nostrils. :)
Are you new to shaped eggs? To learn more about the process, you can check out my tutorial: how to make shaped eggs. :)
Supplies used to make this bento:
6 comments:
- Alysa said... [Reply to comment]
That is so adorable!!! <3
- November 8, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- aud1inok said... [Reply to comment]
You are such an inspiration! I made peanut butter & jelly sushi rolls for my DD today. Also put some of the raspberries and cheese bites on fancy picks. She was so excited and asked what would Fancy Nancy say if she saw it? Thanks for the ideas for making packing lunches more enjoyable.
- November 8, 2011 at 9:44 AM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Aw, I love the Fancy Nancy comment! That is so sweet! :D
- November 8, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- Keitha said... [Reply to comment]
Wow! Your cow is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I love to use egg molds. I will have to try out the ice cream molds on eggs.
- November 8, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- mbug said... [Reply to comment]
love love love the cute cow hehe. is the ice cream mold the same concept as the other egg molds. stuff the egg in and squish in the fridge over night?
- November 8, 2011 at 9:31 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
mbug, yep, that's it! You need to keep the plunger part pressed in until the egg cools, I used a really thick rubberband.
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56.4 ▶ Questioner: Is there an apex angle that is the angle for maximum efficiency in the pyramid?
Ra: I am Ra. Again, to conserve this instrument's energy, I am assuming that you intend to indicate the most appropriate angle of apex for healing work. If the shape is such that it is large enough to contain an individual mind/body/spirit complex at the appropriate off-set position within it, the 76° 18′, approximate, angle is useful and appropriate. If the position varies, the angle may vary. Further, if the healer has the ability to perceive distortions with enough discrimination, the position within any pyramid shape may be moved about until results are effected. However, we found this particular angle to be useful. Other social memory complexes, or portions thereof, have determined different apex angles for different uses, not having to do with healing but with learning. When one works with the cone, or, shall we say, the silo type of shape, the energy for healing may be found to be in a general circular pattern unique to each shape as a function of its particular height and width, and in the cone shape, the angle of apex. In these cases, there are no corner angles. Thus the spiraling energy works in circular motion.
59.6 ▶ Questioner: I'm trying to understand the three spirals of light in the pyramid shape. I would like to question on each.
The first spiral starts below the Queen's Chamber and ends in the Queen's Chamber? Is that correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. The first notion of upward spiraling light is as that of the scoop, the light energy being scooped in through the attraction of the pyramid shape through the bottom or base. Thus the first configuration is a semi-spiral.
59.19 ▶ Questioner: In other words, if I went just inside the wall of the pyramid a quarter of the way but still remained three-quarters of the way from the center at approximately the level above the base of the Queen's Chamber, I would find that position?
Ra: I am Ra. This is approximately so. You must picture the double teardrop extending in both the plane of the pyramid face and in half towards the Queen's Chamber extending above and below it. You may see this as the position where the light has been scooped into the spiral and then is expanding again. This position is what you may call a prana vacuum.
59.10 ▶ Questioner: And then the third spiral radiates from the top of the pyramid. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. The third complete spiral does so. This is correct. It is well to reckon with the foundation semi-spiral which supplies the prana for all that may be affected by the three following upward spirals of light.
58.10 ▶ Questioner: Would the pyramid shape work just as well right side up as upside down with respect to the surface of the Earth, assuming the magnetic alignment was the same in both cases?
Ra: I am Ra. We do not penetrate your query. The reversed shape of the pyramid reverses the effects of the pyramid. Further, it is difficult to build such a structure, point down. Perhaps we have misinterpreted your query.
66.25 ▶ Questioner: Now, you mentioned the problems with the action in the King's Chamber of the Giza-type pyramid. I am assuming if we used the same geometrical configuration that is used at the pyramid at Giza this would be perfectly all right for the pyramid placed beneath the head since we wouldn't be using the King's Chamber radiations but only the third spiral from the top, and I'm also asking would it be better to use a 60° apex angle than the larger apex angle? Would it provide a better energy source?
Ra: I am Ra. For energy through the apex angle the Giza pyramid offers an excellent model. Simply be sure the pyramid is so small that there is no entity small enough to crawl inside it.
59.11 ▶ Questioner: Now I am trying to understand what happens in this process. I'll call the first semi-spiral zero position and the other three spirals one, two, and three; the first spiral being study and healing. What change takes place in light from the zero position into the first spiral that makes that first spiral available for healing and study?
Ra: I am Ra. The prana scooped in by the pyramid shape gains coherence of energetic direction. The term "upward spiraling light" is an indication, not of your up and down concept, but an indication of the concept of that which reaches towards the source of love and light.
Thus all light or prana is upward spiraling but its direction, as you understand this term, is unregimented and not useful for work.
57.30 ▶ Questioner: The dangerous pyramid shape for use today would be a four-sided pyramid that was large enough to create the King's Chamber effect. Is that statement correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This statement is correct with the additional understanding that the 76° apex angle is that characteristic of the powerful shape.
57.13 ▶ Questioner: Is there currently any use for the pyramid shape at all that is beneficial?
Ra: I am Ra. This is in the affirmative if carefully used.
The pyramid may be used for the improvement of the meditative state as long as the shape is such that the entity is in Queen's Chamber position or entities are in balanced configuration about this central point.
The small pyramid shape, placed beneath a portion of the body complex may energize this body complex. This should be done for brief periods only, not to exceed 30 of your minutes.
The use of the pyramid to balance planetary energies still functions to a slight extent, but due to earth changes, the pyramids are no longer aligned properly for this work.
66.23 ▶ Questioner: Is there a best material or optimal size for the small pyramid to go beneath the head?
Ra: I am Ra. Given that the proportions are such as to develop the spirals in the Giza pyramid, the most appropriate size for use beneath the head is an overall height small enough to make placing it under the cushion of the head a comfortable thing.
55.14 ▶ Questioner: The book, Life Force in the Great Pyramid, they have related the ankh shape with a resonance in the pyramid. Is this a correct analysis?
Ra: I am Ra. We have scanned your mind and find the phrase "working with crayons." This would be applicable. There is only one significance to these shapes such as the crux ansata; that is the placing in coded form of mathematical relationships.
59.7 ▶ Questioner: Would this be similar to the vortex you get when you release the water from a bathtub?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct except that in the case of this action the cause is gravitic whereas in the case of the pyramid the vortex is that of upward spiraling light being attracted by the electro-magnetic fields engendered by the shape of the pyramid.
55.9 ▶ Questioner: OK. I'm sort of hunting around here for an entry into some information. I may not be looking in a productive area.
But you had stated that "we (that is Ra) had been aided by shapes such as the pyramid, so that we could aid your people with a shape such as the pyramid." These shapes have been mentioned many, many times and you have also stated that the shapes themselves aren't of too much consequence. I see a relation between these shapes and the energies that we have been studying with respect to the body, and I would like to ask a few questions on the pyramid to see if I might get an entry into some of this understanding.
You stated, "You will find the intersection of the triangle which is at the first level on each of the four sides forms a diamond in a plane which is horizontal." Can you tell me what you meant by the word, intersection?
Ra: I am Ra. Your mathematics and arithmetic have a paucity of configurative descriptions which we might use. Without intending to be obscure, we may note that the purpose of the shapes is to work with time/space portions of the mind/body/spirit complex. Therefore, the intersection is both space/time and time/space oriented and thus is expressed in three dimensional geometry by two intersections which, when projected in both time/space and space/time, form one point.
58.11 ▶ Questioner: I used this question only to understand the way the pyramid focuses light, not for the purpose of using one. I was just saying if we did build a pyramid point down, would it focus at the Queen's Chamber position or just below it the same way as it would if it were point up?
Ra: I am Ra. It would only work thusly if an entity's polarity were, for some reason, reversed.
4.7 ▶ Questioner: Would it be possible to build a pyramid and properly align it and use it today [with] materials we have available?
Ra: I am Ra. It is quite possible for you to build a pyramid structure. The material used is not critical, merely the ratios of time/space complexes. However, the use of the structure for initiation and healing depends completely upon the inner disciplines of the channels attempting such work.
58.17 ▶ Questioner: Thank you, that explains it nicely. I apologize for asking so many stupid questions on this, but I am really functioning here with very little knowledge. I do not wish to get into subject matter of no importance. I had assumed [that] questions about the pyramid were desired by you due to the fact that some danger was involved to some who had misused the pyramid, etc.
I am trying to understand the way light works and trying to get a grasp of how everything works together, and I was hoping that questions in this area on the pyramid would help me understand the third distortion, I'll say, which is light. Now, as I understand it, the pyramid shape acts as a funnel, in this way increasing the, I'll say density of energy so that the individual may have a greater intensity of actually the third distortion. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. In general, this is correct.
60.10 ▶ Questioner: Thank you. When you spoke in the last session of "energizing shocks" coming from the top of the pyramid, did you mean that these came at intervals rather than steadily?
Ra: I am Ra. These energizing shocks come at discrete intervals but come very, very close together in a properly functioning pyramid shape. In one whose dimensions have gone awry the energy will not be released with regularity or in quanta, as you may perhaps better understand our meaning.
58.16 ▶ Questioner: I can see how a solid-sided pyramid would act as a funnel. It seems to me that using just the four rods joined at the apex angle would be less efficient. Can you tell me how they are equivalent to the solid-sided pyramid?
Ra: I am Ra. They are unequal in space/time, and we recommend for practical use the solid-sided pyramid or other focusing shape in order to give your physical bodily complexes respite from outside noise, rain, and other distractions to meditation. However, in time/space one is concerned with the electro-magnetic field produced by the shape. An equivalent field is produced by the solid and the open shape. Light is influenced metaphysically by this field rather than by visible shapes.
56.3 ▶ Questioner: In that case, I will ask how does the pyramid shape work?
Ra: I am Ra. We are assuming that you wish to know the principle of the shapes, angles, and intersections of the pyramid at what you call Giza.
In reality, the pyramid shape does no work. It does not work. It is an arrangement for the centralization as well as the diffraction of the spiraling upward light energy as it is being used by the mind/body/spirit complex.
The spiraling nature of light is such that the magnetic fields of an individual are affected by spiraling energy. Certain shapes offer an echo chamber, shall we say, or an intensifier for spiraling prana, as some have called this all-present, primal distortion of the One Infinite Creator.
If the intent is to intensify the necessity for the entity's own will to call forth the inner light in order to match the intensification of the spiraling light energy, the entity will be placed in what you have called the Queen's Chamber position in this particular shaped object. This is the initiatory place and is the place of resurrection.
The off-set place, representing the spiral as it is in motion, is the appropriate position for one to be healed as in this position an entity's vibratory magnetic nexi are interrupted in their normal flux. Thus a possibility/probability vortex ensues; a new beginning, shall we say, is offered for the entity in which the entity may choose a less distorted, weak, or blocked configuration of energy center magnetic distortions.
The function of the healer and crystal may not be over-emphasized, for this power of interruption must needs be controlled, shall we say, with incarnate intelligence; the intelligence being that of one which recognizes energy patterns; which, without judging, recognizes blockage, weakness, and other distortion; and which is capable of visualizing, through the regularity of self and of crystal, the less distorted other-self to be healed.
Other shapes which are arched, groined, vaulted, conical, or as your teepees are also shapes with this type of intensification of spiraling light. Your caves, being rounded, are places of power due to this shaping.
It is to be noted that these shapes are dangerous. We are quite pleased to have the opportunity to enlarge upon the subject of shapes such as the pyramid for we wish, as part of our honor/duty, to state that there are many wrong uses for these curved shapes; for with improper placement, improper intentions, or lack of the crystallized being functioning as channel for healing the sensitive entity will be distorted more rather than less in some cases.
It is to be noted that your peoples build, for the most part, the cornered or square habitations, for they do not concentrate power. It is further to be noted that the spiritual seeker has, for many of your time periods of years, sought the rounded, arched, and peaked forms as an expression of the power of the Creator.
4.5 ▶ Questioner: Is the size of the pyramid a function in effectiveness of the initiation?
Ra: I am Ra. Each size pyramid has its own point of streaming in of intelligent infinity. Thus, a tiny pyramid that can be placed below a body or above a body will have specific and various effects depending upon the placement of the body in relationship to the entrance point of intelligent infinity.
For the purposes of initiation, the size needed to be large enough to create the expression of towering size so that the entrance point of multi-dimensional intelligent infinity would completely pervade and fill the channel, the entire body being able to rest in this focused area. Furthermore, it was necessary for healing purposes that both channel and the one to be healed be able to rest within that focused point.
58.9 ▶ Questioner: Do you mean that if I drew a line through two opposite corners of the pyramid at the base and aimed that at magnetic north— that would be precisely 45° out of the orientation of one side aimed at magnetic north— it would work just as well? Is that what you are saying?
Ra: I am Ra. It would work much better than if the pyramid shape were quite unaligned. It would not work quite as efficiently as the aforementioned configuration.
58.12 ▶ Questioner: Then the lines of spiraling light energy— do they originate from a position toward the center of the Earth and radiate outward from that point?
Ra: I am Ra. The pyramid shape is a collector which draws the instreaming energy from what you would term, the bottom or base, and allows this energy to spiral upward in a line with the apex of this shape. This is also true if a pyramid shape is upended. The energy is not Earth energy, as we understand your question, but is light energy which is omni-present.
56.6 ▶ Questioner: Would you please do that?
Ra: The spiraling energy is beginning to be diffused at the point where it goes through the King's Chamber position. However, although the spirals continue to intersect, closing and opening in double spiral fashion through the apex angle, the diffusion or strength of the spiraling energies, red through violet color values, lessens if we speak of strength, and gains, if we speak of diffusion, until at the peak of the pyramid you have a very weak color resolution useful for healing purposes. Thus the King's Chamber position is chosen as the first spiral after the centered beginning through the Queen's Chamber position. You may visualize the diffusion angle as the opposite of the pyramid angle but the angle being less wide than the apex angle of the pyramid, being somewhere between 33 and 54°, depending upon the various rhythms of the planet itself.
60.11 ▶ Questioner: The next statement that I make may or may not be enlightening to me in my investigation of the pyramid energy, but it has occurred to me that the so-called effect in the so-called Bermuda Triangle is possibly due to the large pyramid beneath the water which releases this third spiral at discrete and varying intervals and when other entities or craft are in the vicinity of this it creates a situation where they change space/time continuum in some way. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. Yes.
3.16 ▶ Questioner: Does the shape of the pyramid itself— is that a key function in the initiation process?
Ra: This is a large question. We feel that we shall begin and ask you to re-evaluate and ask further at a later session, this somewhat, shall we say, informative point.
To begin. There are two main functions of the pyramid in relation to the initiatory procedures. One has to do with the body. Before the body can be initiated, the mind must be initiated. This is the point at which most adepts of your present cycle find their mind/body/spirit complexes distorted from. When the character and personality that is the true identity of the mind has been discovered, the body then must be known in each and every way. Thus, the various functions of the body need understanding and control with detachment. The first use of the pyramid, then, is the going down into the pyramid for purposes of deprivation of sensory input so that the body may, in a sense, be dead and another life begin.
We advise, at this time, any necessary questions and a fairly rapid ending of this session. Have you any query at this time/space?
3.15 ▶ Questioner: Well, then you speak of the pyramid, especially the Great Pyramid, I assume, as primarily a healing machine and also spoke of it as a device for initiation. Are these one and the same concepts?
Ra: They are part of one complex of love/light intent/sharing. To use the healing aspects properly it was important to have a purified and dedicated channel, or energizer, for the love/light of the Infinite Creator to flow through; thus the initiatory method was necessary to prepare the mind, the body, and the spirit for service in the Creator's work. The two are integral.
14.9 ▶ Questioner: Did the balancing pyramid cause the Earth from changing its axis?
Ra: I am Ra. This query is not clear. Please restate.
4.6 ▶ Questioner: Is the large pyramid at Giza still usable for this purpose, or is it no longer functioning?
Ra: I am Ra. That, like many other pyramid structures, is like the piano out of tune. It, as this instrument would express, plays the tune but, oh, so poorly. The disharmony jangles the sensitive. Only the ghost of the streaming still remains due to the shifting of the streaming points which is in turn due to the shifting electromagnetic field of your planet; due also to the discordant vibratory complexes of those who have used the initiatory and healing place for less compassionate purposes.
59.9 ▶ Questioner: Now, the first spiral is obviously different somehow than the second and third spirals since they have different uses and different properties. The second spiral then starts at the end of the first spiral and goes up, I assume, to the apex of the pyramid. Is that correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is partially correct. The large spiral is drawn into the vortex of the apex of the pyramid. However, some light energy which is of the more intense nature of the red, shall we say, end of the spectrum is spiraled once again causing an enormous strengthening and focusing of energy which is then of use for building.
58.14 ▶ Questioner: Then if I just used a wire frame that were four pieces of wire and joined at the apex running down to the base, and the pyramid were totally open, this would do the same thing to the spiraling light energy? Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. The concept of the frame as equal to the solid form is correct. However, there are many metals not recommended for use in pyramid shapes designed to aid the meditative process. Those that are recommended are, in your system of barter, what you call expensive. The wood, or other natural materials, or the man-made plastic rods will also be of service.
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Saving for retirement is important. For most people, stocks are the only investment type that can grow wealth quickly enough to provide the dream retirement so impressed upon Americans through media. It's risky, as recent would-be retirees have seen. Thanks to the cognitive dissonance resulting in the understanding that the promotion of retirement is a result of the financial industry trying to increase profits on a large scale rather than corporate concern for the well-being of a nation and the knowledge that Americans must do something drastic to save money in order to fulfill the dream of quitting work, some Americans choose to invest while others would sooner give away their firstborn rather than drink the financial industry's Kool-Aid.
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Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity
Thank you to all of our backers for making the Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign the success that it was. We are deeply appreciative of the trust and support you have shown us. You helped us put Synthetic Biology on the crowdfunding map, now it's up to us to create and deliver the Glowing Plant.
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Missed the Kickstarter campaign? You can still support the project with donations at our store, where some of the rewards remain available. We will update this store with other items like the open-source DNA parts we are synthesizing when they become available in late 2013. Donations at this store will count towards our stretch goals until the end of June.
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* See Risks and Challenges section regarding release of seeds.
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What is Synthetic Biology?
All living organisms contain an instruction set that determines what they look like and what they do. These instructions are encoded in the organisms's DNA — long and complex strings of molecules embedded in every living cell. This is an organism's genetic code (or "genome").
Humans have been altering the genetic code of plants and animals for millennia, by selectively breeding individuals with desirable features. As biotechnologists have learned more about how to read and manipulate this code, they have begun to take genetic information associated with useful features from one organism, and add it into another one. This is the basis of genetic engineering, and has allowed researchers to speed up the process of developing new breeds of plants and animals.
More recently we have learnt how to make new sequences of DNA from scratch. By combining these techniques with the principles of modern engineering, scientists can now use computers and laboratory chemicals to design organisms that do new things.
This is the essence of synthetic biology and it's potential is tremendous – we can use it to produce cheaper, more efficient biofuels, to excrete the precursors of medical drugs or create new plants which naturally glow.
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By backing this project you can help create the world's first naturally glowing plant available to the public. Inspire others to become interested in synthetic biology and receive some awesome rewards in the process.
What will you use the funds for?
We are using Synthetic Biology techniques and Genome Compiler's software to insert bioluminescence genes into Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant and member of the mustard family, to make a plant that visibly glows in the dark (it is inedible).
Funds raised will be used to print the DNA sequences we have designed using Genome Compiler and to transform the plants by inserting these sequences into the plant and then growing the resultant plant in the lab.
Printing DNA costs a minimum of 25 cents per base pair and our sequences are about 10,000 base pairs long. We plan to print a number of sequences so that we can test the results of trying different promoters – this will allow us to optimize the result. We will be printing our DNA with Cambrian Genomics who have developed a revolutionary laser printing system that massively reduces the cost of DNA synthesis.
Transforming the plant will initially be done using the Agrobacterium method. Our printed DNA will be inserted into a special type of bacteria which can insert its DNA into the plant. Flowers of the plant are then dipped into a solution containing the transformed bacteria. The bacteria injects our DNA into the cell nucleus of the flowers which pass it onto their seeds which we can grow until they glow! You can see this process in action in our video.
Once we have proven the designs work we will then insert the same gene sequence into the plant using a gene gun. This is more complicated, as there's a risk the gene sequence gets scrambled, but the result will be unregulated by the USDA and thus suitable for release.
Funds raised will also be used to support our work to develop an open policy framework for DIY Bio work involving recombinant DNA. This framework will provide guidelines to help others who are inspired by this project navigate the regulatory and social challenges inherent in community based synthetic biology. The framework will include recommendations for what kinds of projects are safe for DIY Bio enthusiasts and recommendations for the processes which should be put in place (such as getting experts to review the plans).
Why now?
Recent advances in the field of synthetic biology, such as Genome Compiler's software and Cambrian Genomics DNA printing hardware, have brought the cost and complexity of genetically engineering new organisms within reach of amateurs:
As the chart shows, the costs continue to fall, and within a few years thousands of DIY Bio enthusiasts will be using Citizen Science to inspire their own creations. We want to create a signature project which inspires them and demonstrates to the world what's already possible with a little creativity and imagination.
Is this legal?
Yes it is! There are three federal agencies which regulate Genetically Modified organisms in the US, each with a different remit for public safety:
- USDA regulates plant and agriculture impact through APHIS and are the most relevant for our project. We've been in touch with them to understand and address their main concerns which are mainly related to the introduction of potential plant pests. After more than 15 years working with genetically engineered crops they have established a set of guidelines for what needs additional testing, and what doesn't. So long as we meet all their requirements we can safely release the plant. One of their inputs was that we should use the gene-gun technique to transform our plants, instead of Agrobacterium.
- EPA regulates new uses of pesticides - many GMO's introduce pesticide or herbicide resistance to their plants (either as a selection agent or as an intended outcome). We have elected not to do this, as we can use the glowing effect as a marker, so will not need to go through their testing procedures.
- FDA regulates food and feedstock implications and requires extensive testing to make sure the product is safe if this is the case. Because our plant is strictly ornamental and not for consumption by animals or humans we do not have to go through this testing.
We will continue to liaise with the federal agencies, especially APHIS, as the project develops to ensure we are compliant with the frameworks they have put in place to protect the public.
Is this safe?
The head of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, George Church, who works extensively on engineering biosafety described our project as 'as safe as it gets'. We are introducing non-pathogenic, non-toxic, well categorized genes to a model plant which is well understood by biologists and which will not survive very well in the environment.
In the lab we will comply with all NIH guidelines on recombinant DNA research. Our work is graded at Biosafety Level 1, which is the lowest level of risk.
What is Genome Compiler?
Genome Compiler is software, designed by Omri and his team, which allows a user to easily design genetic sequences and order them online. The software includes a large database of genetic parts and a beautiful interface so you can easily combine them to create your desired results.
What is Cambrian Genomics?
At Cambrian Genomics Austen and his team make the first commercial hardware/systems for laser printing DNA. Presently, researchers in academia and industry order or clone >$1b/year of DNA. Cambrian plans to deliver high quality sequence verified DNA to buyers in this existing/growing worldwide market.
What is Project Cyborg?
Currently being developed by the Bio/Nano/Programmable Group at Autodesk Research, Project Cyborg is a cloud-based meta-platform of design tools for programming matter across domains and scales. Project Cyborg provides elastic cloud-based computation in a web-based CAD shell for services such as modeling, simulation and multi-objective design optimization. Project Cyborg allows individuals or groups to create specialized design platforms specific for their domains, whatever their domains happen to be, from nanoparticle design to tissue engineering, to human-scale self-assembling manufacturing.
Who made your video?
The video was made by Rick Symonds, who is based on San Francisco. You can see more of his work and contact him at www.ricksymonds.com.
Video Music: "The March" by LIGHTS & MOTION Courtesy of Deep Elm Records www.deepelm.com/lightsandmotion
Where can I get more information?
Want to know more? Just give us a call +1-415-779-6333 or email antony at glowing plant dot com.
Risks and challenges
We are confident that we can deliver on the rewards we are offering backers. There are two main risks to the project:
1) Transformation
We have put every care into the designs of the DNA but we may not get the glowing result we (and you) hope for. Biology is complicated and while we are confident of getting some glowing effect (it's been done before in a research lab) we may not get a strong effect as we (or you) want or it may be unreliable. We hope to have a plant which you can visibly see in the dark (like glow in the dark paint) but don't expect to replace your light bulbs with version 1.0. The more money we raise, the more we can refine our designs and the stronger the effect we will get so please tell all your friends about the project.
2) Emerging regulation
We have received written indication from USDA/APHIS that our plant will not require a permit. However this is a new field and it is possible that more restrictive regulations are implemented during the project that will require us to get a permit which would delay the release of the seeds or possibly block the release altogether.
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When a moribund public company hires a new chief executive officer, change is surely in the offing. If the new corporate general is trained in the business school lingo, she will evaluate each business units based on the profit potential of the industry, the company's ability to gain market share in that market, and whether it is earning more than the cost of capital.
Business units that fail this test will get sold or shut down. After all, if a big company is in a business that represents a small portion of its revenues, chances are very good that the small business will lose in the battle for corporate capital and talent.
And if that small business is the only thing that a startup is doing, the big company will serve customers less effectively than the startup. That's what Axcient, a 3,500-customer provider of IT recovery services, is doing to a small part of Symantec, the $16 billion market capitalization provider of "security, backup and availability solutions."
In July 2012, Symantec's board tossed out Enrique Salem and installed Steve Bennett, then Symantec's chairman who was Intuit's CEO from 2000 to 2008, as CEO. Naturally, he came up with a new vision for the company which he called Symantec 4.0 � which meant that some businesses did not pass those three tests.
One of Mr. Bennett's losers is Backup Exec.cloud � Symantec's cloud-based backup storage services introduced in 2012. Most of its customers are small- and medium-size businesses that store data from PCs or servers on the Internet for $38 to $45 a year.
Starting in early January, Backup Exec.cloud is shutting down. According to The Washington Post, Symantec "is not offering a replacement service, although it will continue to support existing customers for about a year."
Backup Exec.cloud was not a great service for customers, nor did it earn its cost of capital. The service was built using a hybrid architecture � some data would be stored on a customer's local machines and some in the cloud � that put it at a competitive disadvantage.
Morningstar analyst Andrew Lange told the Post that Symantec "really tried to make a cloud solution out of something that wasn't cloud-based to begin with. From an architectural standpoint, they're at a bit of a disadvantage here. The competition has built cloud backup solutions from the ground up."
Symantec did not believe it was getting the best return on its investment in the business. Customers were trying Backup Exec.cloud on a limited basis and deciding that it was not that great compared to competing offerings.
Piero DePaoli, senior director of product marketing for Symantec's commercial segment, told the Post, "We had to make some very tough decisions over the last 18 months. As we looked at the cloud-based backup business � we had the product in market for some time � we didn't see great uptick from our customer base on it. More than half of users were backing up only one machine."
Symantec concluded it could better invest its capital and people in "backup services for larger businesses and email systems, and in its anti-virus protection services," Mr. DePaoli said.
Axcient is growing fast because customers see the service as competitively superior. In a Dec. 18 interview, Axcient CEO Justin Moore said, "Our three-year revenue growth is 3,400 percent. We win 82 percent of the face-offs we have with competing service providers."
As Symantec experienced shrinking pains, Axcient suffered due to its rapid growth � its ability to satisfy customer demand slipped as did the strength of its culture. Mr. Moore said, "We had planned for 10-fold growth but we exceeded that and we should have planned for 25 percent faster growth. As a result, our ability to support our customers slipped."
Mr. Moore is a big believer in culture, but Axcient suffered from a cobbler's shoe problem. "I am big on culture, but I did not spend enough time on maintaining the culture as we passed 100 employees. That meant customer satisfaction slipped because we were not investing enough in making sure we had the right people and keeping them on track with our corporate goals. I hired a VP of People and since then our customer satisfaction scores have increased from 7 to 9.4," he said.
Mr. Moore also realized that Axcient must not lose its sense of paranoia: "Look what happened to Kodak and Barnes & Noble," he said. "Change is constant and we have to keep up with the market and changing customer needs. As a company grows, the CEO can't know what's going on just by walking around. I need a CEO dashboard that gives me an early warning system of problems."
One of the big changes in Axcient's market is that backup is moving to the cloud as many business computing functions already have.
While Symantec is retreating from providing Backup Exec.cloud, the most interesting question for Symantec is whether Axcient will start to take bigger enterprise customers from Symantec as well.
Doing that will depend on how well Mr. Moore can manage Axcient's stupendously fast growth.
But Symantec does not seem worried: "Based on the number of customers Symantec has in this area," Mr. DePaoli said, "I don't see this as having a drastic effect on the Symantec course of business."
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DE Terrell Turner carried his infirm neighbor up the stairs. It's nothing worth canonizing, but after the example set by his Duck teammates, he may as well be Oskar Schindler.
It's a cute story, but notable more for its atypicality (I love the incredulous headline: "Duck Does Good Deed.") Chip Kelly will take what he can get these days, and any Ducks headline not including the words "suspected," "arrested," "charged," "jailed," or "Masoli" is welcome.
But lest you think our nation's amateur football players are turning it around, there's NC State's J.R. Sweezy, who got drunk and punched out a 65-year-old shuttle bus driver.
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Olczyk finds second career in broadcast boothby Brian Compton
When Eddie Olczyk was growing up in Chicago, the Blackhawks didn't televise their home games. He would cheer on the team at night while shooting pucks in his garage, listening to Pat Foley on the radio.
Roughly three decades later, Olczyk now sits alongside Foley in the broadcast booth for Comcast SportsNet in Chicago. When not paired with Foley, Olczyk is calling nationally televised games on NBC with Hall of Fame announcer Doc Emrick.
Indeed, life has been good for Olczyk since he ended his playing career in 2000. Monday, Chicago's first-round pick (No. 3) at the 1984 NHL Draft will be inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame -- along with Mike Modano and Lou Lamoriello -- at a ceremony to be held at the Plaza of the Americas in Dallas.
"I've worked with the very best that we have throughout the National Hockey League," Olczyk told NHL.com. "To be able to work with two voices of hockey -- Doc on a national level for so many years and working with Pat on a local level in Chicago -- when you work with the best, it makes your job a lot easier because there is the intimidation and there is the awe factor. It's about talking about the greatest game in the world and teaching and having fun. It's a privilege. I've been given so many gifts. To get a chance to sit next to those two guys on 122 nights a year to do hockey games, I'm pretty lucky. I couldn't be more pleased to be their partners, that's for sure."
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Olczyk, 46, got his first taste of life in the booth near the turn of the century via radio. With Emrick by his side, Olczyk quickly understood what an analyst should be. Though it wasn't the same as working on television, Emrick had a feeling his partner could evolve into one of the top analysts in the sport.
"It's a little hard to get an assessment on how well somebody can teach when you're working with them on radio because they're obligated to be such a quick hitter because there's no picture to go on and there are no replays to work with," Emrick told NHL.com. "But he had the ability before any replay came up on a monitor that we might have sitting in the radio booth, he would recap the play brilliantly. Foley said he thinks he has a photographic memory. I think he's probably right because when a goal is scored [on TV], he will actually be on the button down to the truck telling them what angle he wants and where it needs to be backed up to. He saw the play and doesn't need to see a replay once. He's already seen it. He knows how the play happened. When it goes in, he knows why and he knows what to start showing to explain why. You don't need somebody who's just going to repeat what you did. If I did just a halfway decent job [explaining it], then it's just redundant. That's why I think he's probably the best teacher you can find. All analysts have to be good teachers."
Olczyk was able to become a better analyst thanks to a coaching stint with the Pittsburgh Penguins from 2003-05. Though he would have liked to have seen things through with the Penguins -- he was fired by the club 31 games into the 2005-06 season -- Olczyk is thankful for the knowledge he gained.
"At that time, the Penguins had no coaches in the organization," Olczyk said. "They had no coaches at the NHL level, the American League level, or in Wheeling, which was the [ECHL]. They were going to rebuild. [Former Penguins general manager] Craig Patrick was so good to me from Team USA and he and Mario [Lemieux] hired me and gave me that chance in Pittsburgh. When Craig took over the Rangers after the Olympics, Craig had never been a head coach in his career and his first job was in the National Hockey League. I think there was that cord of respect and knowing the game.
"Look, it was a tough spot and I would never trade it in for anything. It made me a better coach, it made me a better hockey guy, it made me a better person. It just taught me a lot about the game, and I think it's helped me to where I am today as far as a broadcaster. It gave me an opportunity to really broaden my hockey mind. I loved the challenge. It was gratifying to see a lot of young players that I had those two seasons and what they've done now in their NHL careers. I mean, we started over. We blew it up. We were on a five-year plan."
Olczyk, who joined the Blackhawks' booth full-time in 2006, said he believes the announcers he's worked with also enabled him to grow as an analyst. However, he admits he felt comfortable right from the get-go.
"I knew that I had to start preparing for life after hockey and was given some opportunities. [Director of NHL Radio] Gregg Baldinger was the guy that hired me for Westwood One and NHL Radio and gave me a chance to do some games. I had a chance to work with Bob Miller (Los Angeles Kings) and Dave Strader (Phoenix Coyotes) and Ralph Strangis (Dallas Stars), so I think I started to realize there might be an opportunity to work in the game from that aspect of it. But I don't think there was any doubt that it was just something that came very natural."
Emrick said, "The support that he gives you as a broadcaster and as a colleague … he's 20 years younger than I am. I just hope that when he is my age and still working that he will have somebody as his partner who is as supportive of him as he has been of me. You just really feel like, 'There's a guy that's got your back.' He's with you all the way. We all need that. Anybody in any line of work likes to know they've got the support of their colleague. I hope he gets somebody like himself when he's 20 years older.
"I'm happy for him and I'm happy for his family. I know them and they're just wonderful people. The impressive thing to me is it's one of those rare times where the people that you work with and your family are all in the same place at once. That's a lifetime memory. The first time it ever happened to me was for the Lester Patrick [Award] in New York. You never forget looking at that table that has the people you grew up with that you've had a half-century with, and then a couple of other tables are people that you've worked with. Those groups of people never seemingly intersect -- except for an occasion like this.
"I think he'll be thrilled with all the hockey people there, but the fact that his family is all going to be there and sitting around the table with him, I think that's going to be huge."


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College baseball team (17-9, 9-5 PBC) pulled off a doubleheader sweep of Augusta State University (10-20, 3-11 PBC) at John Kurtz Field Sunday, taking games 7-1 and 7-6. A Taylor Hinshaw (Winder, Ga.) walkoff single provided the thrilling finish to game two.
Game one was dominated by the Bobcats, scoring one run in every available inning save the eighth.
Righty Justin Blue (Mulberry, Fla.) went the distance for the win (5-2) scattering six hits and three walks for just one run while fanning five.
The Bobcats had four extra-base hits among their 12, as Jeremy Donaldson (Winder, Ga.) and Ikaika Anderson (Austell, Ga.) each went 3-for-4. Donaldson scored twice, while Anderson drove in two.
Shortstop Daniel Bick (Alpharetta, Ga.) and centerfielder Mikee Moore (Dunwoody, Ga.) each tallied two hits and two runs. First baseman Clay Ardeeser (Loganville, Ga.) added a home run in the fifth, his fourth this season.
Game two saw the Bobcats jump out to 3-0 and 4-1 leads. ASU had three in the third and two more in the fifth to take at 6-4 lead.
A Jake Sandlin (Evans, Ga.) two-run double in the sixth tied the game 6-6. Setting the stage for Hinshaw's heroics, but they wouldn't have gotten there if it wasn't for reliever Jordan Brooks (Macon, Ga.).
Brooks (1-1) entered in the sixth, with the team behind 6-4, and the Jaguars having scored five runs over a three-inning stretch on two prior Bobcat pitchers. Brooks closed the door for his first career victory, allowing just two hits and two walks over four scoreless frames as the Bobcats headed to the bottom of the ninth tied 6-6.
After a fly out, Bick reached on a bunt single back to the pitcher. ASU reliever Clint Echols (0-5) slipped on the wet grass from yesterday's downpour, and still nearly had the speedy Bick at first.
A strikeout later, Bick stole second to give the Bobcats the winning run in scoring position for Hinshaw. After fouling off four straight with a 2-2 count, Hinshaw sent a pitch to right center, scoring Bick to end the game.
The Bobcats and Jaguars complete the three-game set with a single contest tomorrow, March 25 at 2 p.m.
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It's always interesting to see what journalists zone in on when a new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life comes out. More recently, most outlets picked up on the subject line that Pew chose, since it was presumably the most significant item the researchers found. Most outlets covered the idea that more people say politicians are talking too much about religion. By "more," researchers found that an increased percentage of people are saying there's too much religion talk (38 percent) compared to 30 percent who say there has been too little and 25 percent say there's the right amount.
The news that caught our eye, though, was that 19 percent of Americans say reporters and the news media are "friendly" toward religion. Just 38 percent of the respondents thought journalists were "neutral" while 35 percent said they were outright "unfriendly."
You can see a split based on political identification: 11 percent of Republicans say the press is faith-friendly, compared with 24 percent of Democrats who say that same thing. On the flip side, a majority of Republicans (56 percent) saw the media as unfriendly to religion, while most Democrats and independents see the media as neutral or friendly to religion.
Poynter wrote a little teaser for the survey, suggesting reporters could be given a test.
Nittle's piece [here] suggests the term "evangelical" is straining under the weight of groups laying claim to it. She's right, of course, that evangelicals are not monolithic. Still, white evangelicals are a large and remarkably coherent group, culturally and politically. Maybe reporters who are friendly to religion could employ a couple of test questions to make sure they know who they're talking to: "Do you own any Switchfoot albums released after 2007," maybe, or "Does your youth pastor own a kilt?"
So there's some in-depth analysis from journalism's finest for you.
Another interesting is that among religious groups, white evangelicals (53 percent) were the most likely to say that the news media are unfriendly toward religion. Among other religious groups, half or more saw the media as neutral or friendly to religion. Those who attend church weekly (45 percent) are much more likely to see the media as unfriendly to religion than those who attend less often (29 percent).
Perhaps the sentiments expressed in the survey have something to do with the percentage of journalists who are religious and compared it to the rest of the country. From an 2008 Associated Press story:
[T]he Pew Research Center for the People and the Press reported in 2007 that 8 percent of journalists surveyed at national media outlets said they attended church or synagogue weekly. The survey also found 29 percent never attend such services, with 39 percent reporting they go a few times a year.
Pew polling of the general public found 39 percent of Americans say they attend religious services weekly.
On the bright side, while the "unfriendly" figure has been pretty consistent since 2003, friendliness has gone up by 5 percent since 2009. Still, it's worth considering how to interpret the survey results. For instance, how are people considering "friendly" and "unfriendly"? Does it mean they think media outlets are journalistically unfair to people who are religious? What do you make of the breakdown?
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
I was one of the founders of hi5.com(check out alexa.com, it was 15 at one time) and I am on to my next company, http://www.buzzbox.com.
I want to build the next big thing and I think we have something in BuzzBox.com. Here is the positioning:
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For tech news readers who quickly want to know & understand the top stories that matter to them. BuzzBox is personalized recommendation engine and web assistant to give tailored top tech news alerts & related information. Unlike GoogleNews, BuzzBox gives personalized top stories from a users favorite sources not every news site so the user isn't overwhelmed
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2) Casual Reader - People who don't read much but want to do a little more but don't want too much. We are targeting the simple user who visits 1-3 news sources/day.
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It is a news site telling you about the Buzz That Matters To You. So something leveraging that helps.
The Logo has to be able to be shunk down to go a chicklet and badget.
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