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"New York: New Work" by Fab 5 Freddy
Photos by G. Art by Fab 5 Freddy.
Fred Brathwaite aka Fab 5 Freddy is a pioneer in hip hop and graffiti. His latest exhibit is entitled "New York: New Work" and is showing at Gallery 151 in New York. His mixed-media canvases use a modified pointillism technique where he incorporates hand-laid crystals into his works.
It's hard to see the crystals from these pictures, so perhaps a closer look will help you get the idea. See an extreme close up after the jump.
"New York: New York" by Fab 5 Freddy is on display at Gallery 151 until July 1, 2011. Gallery 151 is located at 350 Bowery between 4th Street and Great Jones in New York.


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Close my eyes and at last there is the heavy perfume, nectar of the gods, sweet and lingering fragrance that wraps itself around the garden – the 'pinks' have opened their petals and intoxicate the air.
I was introduced to pinks as a child. A name, easy to remember with a perfume hard to forget. My mother had large clumps of them, the old-fashioned double variety with twirls of one-coloured petals, slightly clove fragranced, long stemmed type. She would cut a few and place them in a vase and their perfume filled every corner of our home. I have loved them ever since but lost my original plant due to bad weather several years ago. It has been impossible in my area to purchase the same variety and over the years I have bought the single petal dianthus which are a poor substitute. Last week I called into a couple of nurseries in the hope of finding a few more plants to fill up one or two spaces in the border and found a two-tone double pink with a strong, sweet, sugary smell that is just lovely.
Dianthus: Scent First – Raspberry Sundae
Country Quips:
- The sweetest smell on Earth is the down on the forehead of a new born baby. It is like no other; it is the greatest gift bestowed on man.

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Miami continues to put pressure on the 3rd seeded Celtics while the Knicks are likely too far out of it as these two teams meet inside MSG on Sunday night.
Miami has overcome many injuries and are now just 1.0 game behind Boston.
As for the Knicks, their struggles continue as they sit 6.5 out and have a lot of teams to jump. While there still is time, the amount of teams, along with the struggles may be too much to overcome.
Miami Heat
Miami has been playing without Chris Bosh and a not 100% Dwayne Wade, but this team continues to overcome and play well.
After winning 3 straight, the Heat nearly pulled off the upset of the Warriors, but a late clear path foul did them in as they fell by 6. Still, Miami showed a lot of fight behind Wade and the biggest producer lately, Luol Deng.
With Bosh down, Deng has really stepped up and produced in his place. Deng turned in 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the loss, as he continues to relish in his new role.
With the injuries, the Heat got good news as they are the likely landing spot for Joe Johnson, who just got waved. Johnson will provide height, length, and another shooter to a team that needs it. With so many questions about Bosh, Johnson and Deng will certainly be asked to play a giant role going down the stretch.
N.Y. Knicks
The Knicks sit in 12th in the East, 6.5 off the pace of the 8th seeded Bulls. This team has been way too inconsistent this season and that has led to a rocky month.
They do however come in on a bit of a high after knocking off the Magic 108-95 on Friday night. Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis both had solid nights as the two scored 19 and 18 points. Melo added 11 rebounds, while Porzingis grabbed 6. All 5 starters scored in double figures.
The key for the Knicks will be finding that starting 5 consistency down the stretch. They'll need to put together a solid winning streak if they hope to get back into it and they do have the talent to do so. Robin Lopez and Arron Affalo have both showed signs of playing well and they'll need to find that groove.
New York took the last meeting 98-90 on the road back on 1/6.
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- Heat are 34-16-2 ATS in their last 52 Sunday games.
- Heat are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 vs. NBA Atlantic.
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The Heat's attitude coming into this one will depend on their game Saturday.
Miami will be in Boston on Saturday, with a chance to tie them for the 3rd seed with a win.
This has the feeling of a bit of a letdown spot either way, so look for the Knicks to expose that here.
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No one but YOU owns the title deed to your dream. (Quote by - John Di Lemme)
Every failure is a stepping stone to success. (Quote by - John Di Lemme)
Next week could be one of those very big weeks. It's a big harvest and there's a lot of fruit out there. I'm sure in October we'll run into a time when we have more than we can handle. We're trying to strategize as best we can. (Quote by - Tom Myers)
I will not allow someone else's poor opinion, poor decisions, or poor words to keep my champion imprisoned. (Quote by - John Di Lemme)
When we are born, we have the same opportunity as everyone else to achieve success. Do t let your past be the excuse for your failure. (Quote by - John Di Lemme)
It was a real good harvest. We kind of had a later start than normal as far as early harvest. (Quote by - Wade Wimmer)
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There is no such thing as a success shortcut. Be willing to take the long road or you will hit a dead end. (Quote by - John Di Lemme)
And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. (Quote by - Bible)
Faster communication does not predict success. It actually predicts quicker failure, because you are distracted by the constant multi-tasking. (Quote by - John Di Lemme)
The most important season for a seed is the rain. Without it, the seed will wither and die. Your tears are the rain that will breathe life into the seed of greatness in your heart. (Quote by - John Di Lemme)
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Focus eliminates Confusion. (Quote by - John Di Lemme)
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Ask yourself, What can I do today to improve my daily championship action steps that will ultimately lead to the achievement of my true purpose? (Quote by - John Di Lemme)
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i'm think i'm too old for this. or too tired for this. [or too pregnant -- although i definitely can't use that excuse given attendees sabrina, gina, and heather.]
in all seriousness, the HLS was so much fun -- but it's also exhausting! i loved getting to meet new bloggers [local, far away, old, and new] -- but somehow all of the fatigue and non-nausea i enjoyed for most of the weekend seems to have caught up to me.
i do have a few fun fresh ideas for posts, and a million feeds to add to my google reader. i don't know if i'll be able to attend again [unless next year's event is in NC -- meghann, what do you say?] but i'm really glad i went for #3. more to follow, but just a few photos before i settle in for some down time with the 'rents in PHL before my flight!
saturday night
as the official festivities wound down, a small group of us headed out to dinner at kanella, just a few blocks from our hotel. beforehand, allie and heather got their cameras warmed up at reading terminal:
kanella is a "greek/cypriot kitchen", featuring plenty of fresh in-season vegetables, seafood, delicious dips, flatbread, and lots of [pasteurized! yay!] feta cheese.
with lovely tablemates JT and valerie:
we found out at the end of our meal that "the chef does not allow food photography" -- but uhhhh, it was too late. i hope they don't mind this little review, since i absolutely loved the cuisine. JT and i shared the following:
it was a bit loud, but i really enjoyed eating at kanella -- and would definitely go again when we're in the area. i know josh would have loved it, too, but he was too busy rocking out to don't stop believin' -- without me.
important notice
GLEE PROJECT FINALE TONIGHT!! [apparently i'm the only one who watches this, but i love it!].
i have no idea who will win!! sort of hoping for alex but anyone but lindsay would be fine with me . . .


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Refugee Services of Texas is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit agency affiliated with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS), Church World Service (CWS) and Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM). Since 1978, RST has successfully resettled more that 15,000 refugees. Currently we have offices in: Amarillo, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
amazing animation painted on public walls by blublu, made in buenos aires and baden. also recommend that you have a look at the artists website its really nicely made.
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Labels: public art, stop motion animation
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
October Electronic Drawing Jam
October saw many of the Drawing Jam crew dispersed: Nic had just got back that day from the Northern Territory, I was on King Island, Jared was in Africa. So we cancelled the meet up and I proposed a digital drawing correspondence, and set the task of drawing something related to evening meal for the night of October 15th. Below are the results from Chay-Ya Clancy (in Berlin), her friend Adelaide Rief (Melbourne), and myself.
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Labels: berlin, Drawing Jam, Events, Launceston, photos
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Drawing Jam @ The Perpetual Party Collective
September's Drawing Jam took place amongst the growing cardboard walls of the Perpetual Party Collective's bump-in at Arts Alive. Matt and Themis very kindly let us use one of the cardboard rooms in the labyrinth; it glowed with the light of the data projector.
Casting coloured shadows and insulated from the world we had our best night yet.
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Labels: Drawing Jam
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Eat the Wall
An interesting report on two "eat art" exhibitions in Berlin, which explore the use of food as an art language. If you click here the video will open in full screen.
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
in issuu
"Signal Periodical: Volume Two"
This is a project which i produce in Melbourne at ArtPlay with awesome young people
"A perfect stillness where everything moves," by Chay-Ya
this is a sampler of one a 36 page exhib cataloguethe stillness in flight blog
Issuu is a pretty wonderful and easy to use website that allows you to create your own online publications. and the neat thing is once you can made them you can embed them in other sites, and experiment with electrical world wide distribution. (For a bigger view click on the small ones above!)
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Photos from the July Drawing Jam
The first drawing jam was full of wonderfulness, oranges, subtle confusion and excitement.
The sense of adventure was running rife in the air and it was intriguing to be apart of something that moved and changed. It is so fun to draw with other people in the room!
This jam will be a regular event at Arts Alive in Launceston. In fact the second has already happened and the third will be soon.
These photos are only a subjective view of what happened through the lens of my particular camera. To see the rest of the photos I took, please click on this album:
|Drawing night July
Zine from the first drawing night is coming soon. Edited by guest editor Chay-Ya Clancy (me).
The zine from the second drawing night is also in progress, edited by guest editor Jared Irwin. If you would like to sign up to the mailing list to receive zines and information on the gravity project, please contact Sarah Howell
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Labels: Drawing Jam, photos
The Notebook Project
The Colors Notebook Project is something you would have surely heard about by now.
Here is some photos from the construction of my entry, its almost finished, and almost ready to post off. How is yours going? Have you started? Have you nearly finished? Send in any photos you have and we will post them up on this blog.
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Black Box
The Black Box event presented by the Manic Productions Crew was over a month ago now. Here are some of the photos that I took whilst they were setting up the Installation and Performance event at Arts Alive, and whilst it was happening.
Being a drawer the definite highlights were "buying squares on the blank canvas to create in" and Nic drawing and writing over almost the entire venue with white chalk.
For the full collection click on the album below:
|Black Box
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
August Drawing Jam
Activities undertaken:
* Exquisite Corspe game
* 1 x 3 m collaborative drawing
* Observational drawings of pears, mandarins, and each other
* Sharing and discussion of artbooks and strange seventies illustrations
This month's guest zine editor is Jared Irwin who gathered up our drawings at the end of the night to create the next zine to share with us in September.
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Labels: Arts Alive, Drawing Jam, Events
Friday, August 15, 2008
Take my Word for it...
Opening: Thursday 14th August at 5:30pm
11 August – 16 August Tue to Fri 10am to 4pm, Sat 10am to 2pm , Arts Alive, 178a Charles St, Launceston.
Artsts: Sonja Brough,Tim Chatwin, Samuel Eddy, Vika Fiffta, Mairi Ward, Rowena Watson, Themis Wood, Janine Wright, Steven Wright
For this show, nine contemporary artists have been asked to provide works with no title or statement that would reflect the intention of their work, with writers then being invited to view one of the works each and to give a description or possible 'meaning' of the artwork.
Part of Tasmanian Living Writers' Week
Arts Alive contact: Damien Quilliam 6331 2777 or 0447 874 117
11 August – 16 August Tue to Fri 10am to 4pm, Sat 10am to 2pm , Arts Alive, 178a Charles St, Launceston.
Artsts: Sonja Brough,Tim Chatwin, Samuel Eddy, Vika Fiffta, Mairi Ward, Rowena Watson, Themis Wood, Janine Wright, Steven Wright
For this show, nine contemporary artists have been asked to provide works with no title or statement that would reflect the intention of their work, with writers then being invited to view one of the works each and to give a description or possible 'meaning' of the artwork.
Part of Tasmanian Living Writers' Week
Arts Alive contact: Damien Quilliam 6331 2777 or 0447 874 117
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Labels: Events
From early September Wide Angle Tasmania will be trialing having regular monthly screenings of films and we are going to develop a mini-movie-makers weekend!
If you are based up north, and would like to be involved or contribute your skills, please contact Bev directly on firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone on 6223 8344.
We would like to have a northern based email contact list, so just send Bev an email with "Count Me In" and she will update you directly.
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Labels: Events, Film and Video
Showreel for Launceston's Diemen Media
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Labels: Film and Video, Launceston, youtube
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The timezone in Fort Wayne (historical) is America/Iqaluit
Morning Sunrise at 08:14 and Evening Sunset at 18:20. It's Dark
Rough GPS position Latitude. 32.0786°, Longitude. -81.0842°
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Rough GPS position Latitude. 32.0786°, Longitude. -81.0842°
Weather near Fort Wayne (historical) Last report from Hunter U. S. Army Airfield , GA 12.4km awayTemperature: 5°C / 41°F
Wind: 8.1km/h West
Cloud: Broken at 700ft Solid Overcast at 1300ft
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Geographic features & Photographs around Fort Wayne (historical) in Georgia, United States
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- Second African Baptist Church (0.4km)
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Accommodation around Fort Wayne (historical)
The Brice, a Kimpton Hotel 601 East Bay Street, Savannah
Savannah Marriott Riverfront 100 General Mcintosh Blvd, Savannah
Olde Harbour Inn 508 E Factors Walk, Savannah
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- Abercorn Street School (1km)
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- Savannah Post Office (1.1km)
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- WSGA-AM (Savannah) (1.1km)
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- Robert M Hitch Village (0.8km)
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- Yamacraw Bluff (0.7km)
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Airports close to Fort Wayne (historical)Hunter aaf(SVN), Hunter aaf, Usa (12.4km)
Savannah hilton head international(SAV), Savannah, Usa (16km)
Wright aaf(LHW), Wright, Usa (64.7km)
Beaufort mcas(NBC), Beaufort, Usa (72.2km)
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Labelscar picked up an interesting tidbit in the Gwinnett Business Journal about yet another Sears prototype called the "Duluth" model. It joins the laundry list of other Sears prototypes and concepts now in circulation.
According to the article, the new Sears, complete with a retro logo, is set up like an "open showroom" with no interior walls. There will also be a "customer solution center" and display areas dedicated to Sears' major brands, including Lands' End clothing. The store will also be 13,000 square feet bigger than Sears old prototype stores, which average about 90,000 square feet.
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The Claustrum tape dispenser is both office supply and work of art with its unusual asymmetrical design and magnetic conception. The device offers a luxe and carefully constructed design that goes far beyond plastic throw away versions with a sleek, thin and stylized metal shape.
Unlike most tape dispensers that tend to be standard in shape and design, the Claustrum diverges from this route entirely with a design that is meant to be longl-asting and permanent. The device is made from a sturdy metal base that suspends the role of tape from above. The tape is threaded through the front of the device to a serrated edge that cuts the ribbon instantly without any pull back.
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Ok, Ok....I know....been gone too long without posting. Thanks everyone for checking on us!!!
We're still waiting (quite impatiently, I might add) for Hannah's test results to come back. Monday was 2 weeks since the FA test and it should take 3-4 wks for the results. :-( She's had a few bad falls the last couple of weeks, too. Praying for results soon!!
She had a pediatric ophthalmology appointment and all is fine with her eyes. She was, however, EXTREMELY mad that they dilated her eyes. I couldn't talk sense into her AT ALL. She's also had another croup attack. I'm starting to wonder if we need to add a pulmonology appointment on top of everything else. The attacks really freak her out and even cried, "I'm gonna die" this time.
Besides all of that, we've been....
To the beach
Celebrated Easter
Started Ballet/Tap
Had Hannah's 6th Birthday Party
We've also done a good bit of yard work. We've planted peach trees, apple trees, a fig tree, grapes, 2 black berry bushes, and the garden. I'll take pictures later.
Next up is all the landscaping for the beds. We hope to do that in a couple of weeks.
I'm SUPER behind in just about everything....EGF stuff, taking down Easter decorations, laundry, and sending thanks to all that have sent Hannah well-wishes and b'day gifts, AND Easter presents for both kids. You guys are the GREATEST!!
Ok, I must close now. It's taken me probably 2 hours to post this. Austin's down for a quick nap so I need to try to catch up.
I'll let you know something when we hear something from Hannah's bloodwork.


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Small-biz bosses: Want staff plans from Obama Care site? See ya in 2014!
Come back in 12 months, it'll probably be working then
The beleaguered US HealthCare.gov portal has been dealt yet another setback: small-business owners will not be able to use the medical insurance marketplace to buy plans for staff for another year.
Known as the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), the service was supposed to be used by small companies with fewer than 50 employees. Such organizations are not mandated to provide health insurance, but have been offered coverage programs by insurers.
The US government had hoped to bring the SHOP service online quickly so firms could purchase multiple individual coverage plans from the glitch-prone HealthCare.gov, rather than a single insurance plan for all employees. Now the rollout of that feature has been delayed.
Bosses can still purchase coverage directly from insurers and brokers, while certain states will also offer their own online markets for small business insurance coverage.
"We anticipate that small employers throughout the country will have online access to an online SHOP Marketplace by November 2014," the US Department of Health and Human Services said in a blog post.
"Also, for the first time ever, small employers in all 50 States and the District of Columbia will be able to offer their employees a choice of plans from multiple issuers while making a single monthly payment, for coverage taking effect on or after January 1, 2015."
News of the 2014 SHOP launch date is the latest in what has become a series of setbacks for the Obama administration's online health insurance bazaar. Launched as part of new regulations mandating health insurance coverage for Americans, the market is supposed to allow Americans to seek out plans from competing insurers.
Since its launch, however, the site has fallen over and has been the subject of speculation that it is vulnerable to attack: computer security researchers fear the portal will soon be, or already has been, compromised by hackers bent on swiping sensitive personal information about US citizens. ®


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of the 1st, by the Confederates, was a matter of no importance and not worth the effort, inasmuch, as it would not, if occupied have been decisive, and would only have pushed back the battle ground to another field, probably to Pipe Creek. In reference to General Early's first point, if the facts as we have cited them, and the concurrent opinion at the time are not reasonably conclusive, we will supplement them by the opinion of General Hancock, expressed in a letter written to General Fitz Lee, dated January 17, 1878, in which he says, "—— I am in receipt of yours of the 14th instant, and in reply have to say that in my opinion, if the Confederates had continued the pursuit of General Howard on the afternoon of July 1st at Gettysburg, they would have driven him over and beyond Cemetery Hill. After I arrived on the field, assumed the command, and made my dispositions for defending that point (say 4 P. M.) I do not think the Confederate force then present could have carried it." John B. Bachelder, of the Union army says there is no question but what a combined attack on Cemetery Hill, made within an hour, would have been successful.
As to General Early's second point, it would seem to be sufficient to say, that if the Confederates had taken Cemetery Hill the first day, they would have accomplished what they vainly tried to do on the 2d and 3d days; the moral effect would have been as inspiring to one side as depressing to the other; the tremendous losses suffered in the efforts to take it on the 2d and 3d days would have been averted, and Meade could nowhere have selected or stumbled upon a line of defense so impregnable as Cemetery Hill and Round Top proved to be.
In the engagements 'which have been described as occurring on the first day, six pieces of my command, Johnson's battery and a section of Hurt's were put in position on high ground to our right, and with Lane's brigade were engaged in holding in check Buford's cavalry. The two long ranged Whitworths occasionally shelled the woods and distant points wherever the enemy could be seen. The remainder of the battalion under my immediate command actively supported the attacks of Archer and Pender. This gave me an opportunity to witness a large portion of the battlefield, including Oak Hill where Rodes' brigades deployed in line.


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Information in this article may not be canonical to the storyline of the games or any other Sonic continuity.
Planet Freedom (惑星フリーダム Wakusei furīdamu?) is the main setting of Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie. It is the home planet to Sonic, Tails, Dr. Robotnik and many others. The entire planet is unique in that it is split into two layers: the Land of the Sky and the Land of Darkness.
The populace of Planet Freedom ranges from anthropomorphic animals to normal human beings, though the term "human" is never used in the film. The planet is also home to a number of strange human-animal hybrids. These include Sara, the President's daughter, who appears to have cat-like features, including a tail, semi cat-like behavior and cat ears.
Planet Freedom is made up of two different regions referred to as "dimensions", that separates the planet into two different layers; the outer world that is called the Land of the Sky and the inner dimension that is called the Land of Darkness. Within these regions, several cities and other "Zones" can be found.
Land of the Sky
The Land of the Sky (天の大地 Ten no daichi?) is a region made of sky-bound islands and continents, making aircraft a necessity to move from place to place. All these landmasses are connected to a glacier which both anchors them to the planet's surface below and separates them from the Land of Darkness. Most of the planet's populace resides here, in a region of islands collectively known as South Island which is governed by the President. Apparently, long before the movie's plot, an unknown disaster forced the populace into the mountains, where they rebuilt their cities, becoming the Land of the Sky.
Beneath the continents lie rivers of magma that spread all over the planet like blood vessels. If the tip of the huge glacier was punctured by an explosion, the magma would rush to the surface and melt all the ice. This would cause the continents to separate from each other and the gravitational pull of the planet, sending them hurtling into space.
Land of Darkness
The Land of Darkness (闇の大地 Yami no daichi?) is the world underneath the Land of the Sky and is the actual surface of Planet Freedom. It is where Dr. Robotnik lives and Robotropolis can be found, as well as ruins of buildings crumbling into the sea. Befitting the area's setting, the planet's thick clouds and floating contients block out most of the sun's light. Despite its gloom, the land is quite verdant, though it is a bit rugged with ridges and mountains and is littered with deadly booby-traps and killer robots designed by Robotnik. The Land of Darkness can be accessed in two ways: by a whirlwind-like "portal" in the Land of the Sky, or by chancing into a warp zone; an extradimensional link between two locations.
Long ago, the residents of Planet Freedom lived on the surface, but their home city was destroyed by a disaster and the inhabitants were forced away. Finding the mountains of Planet Freedom high enough to reach the planet's atmosphere, the people relocated to the mountains, while the surface became increasingly polluted and dark. In this time, Robotnik took control of a large portion of the destroyed planet, building his city. Because its skies were shrouded by a blanket of smog and the cities were destroyed and decaying, the people of Planet Freedom gave the area its name.
Land of the Sky
Land of Darkness
|Sonic | Tails | Knuckles | Robotnik | Sara | Hyper Metal Sonic | President | Old Man Owl | Metal Robotnik | President's aide | Buzz Bomber | Crabmeat | Crawlton | Snail Blaster | Robotnik's guard robots | Unnamed humanoid robots
|English voice actors
|Sonic (Martin Burke) | Tails (Lainie Frasier) | Knuckles (Bill Wise) | Robotnik (Edwin Neal) | President (Edwin Neal) | Hyper Metal Sonic (Gary Dehan) | Old Man Owl (Charlie Campbell) | Sara (Sascha Biesi)
|Japanese voice actors
|Sonic (Masami Kikuchi) | Tails (Hekiru Shiina) | Knuckles (Yasunori Matsumoto) | Robotnik (Junpei Takiguchi) | President (Yuzuru Fujimoto) | Hyper Metal Sonic (Masami Kikuchi) | Old Man Owl (Chafūrin) | Sara (Mika Kanai) | President's aide (Akimitsu Takase)
|Egg Mobile | Look-a-like | Navigator | Planet Freedom | Robot Generator | South Island | Super Peel Out


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College Students Are Moving In, Be Forgiving With Drivers Unfamiliar With The Area
My daughter Kylee just graduated from UMD. I remember "move in" day and the chaos that transpired at our area apartments, houses and especially on campus at the dorms. With that said there are a lot of families driving in the Northland unfamiliar with the city and natives need to be forgiving.
I brought this up on air this morning after mentioning all of the construction that started this week both on our roadways and our local bridges. It's confusing to those that live here, imagine what's it's like to be coming to town with a load of your belongs and a lot of mixed emotion. Not to mention after they get their clothes, furniture and yes, even their beloved stuffed animals in their new home, they need to venture out to find grocery stores, doctors, dentists, shopping centers and everything they need to begin life without parents in a new place.
For those students that need to cross Lake Superior they'll find it even more challenging with the Blatnik Bridge construction. The Superior-bound lane will be closed until the end of September and then it will switch to the Duluth-bound lane. The lane that aren't closed will be down to only one lane and that will slow down traffic considerable. Of course, the Bong Bridge is an option, but since more motorists will be using that route, again, travel time will be slow.
It goes without saying that we all will be affected with the construction and more vehicles on the road than we're use to. I just wanted to call attention to the fact that you may experience someone hesitant with what road to take and asking you to curb the road rage and give them understanding. I bet they'd appreciate a smile at this hectic transition in their lives. It's all about the peace, love and consideration for others, we have that in the Northland!


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Irma stuffed as many pecans as she could on the cracker, smashed with cheeseball. She didn't even know where it came from, but Holden was back, and a bit banged up.
His car had spun out of control on the interstate on Christmas eve, and he ended up with a broken arm. His sister came back with him. Well, Irma misunderstood, evidently.
"We're not really related." Luna informed her. "His Dad married my Mom."
Irma kept hacking at the left over cheeseball, as if it was something to do, instead of ignoring the current situation.
Jung was off limits. She barely got to see him at work. His brother Jin was keeping a watchful eye on him, as of late.
For a moment, Irma got the bright idea that maybe..just maybe this Luna could side track Jin. She was pretty enough to be a distraction. Irma took another bite of the cracker sandwich.
When she turned her head, just so, to look down the hallway to Holden's room. Did she see what she thought she was seeing? Were they kissing?
She'd met Luna once before, over the summer, but she'd brought her college boyfriend then.
Irma winced hard, trying not to watch the two of them. Together. Ever so close?
"Aren't you afraid, that'll make you fat?" Luna came back and put the lid on the plastic bowl, the cheese ball was in. Then put it in the fridge.
Irma only sighed. She was starving. She either thought about Jung, all the time, or wanted to eat junk food.
Well, she had nothing else better to do with out Jung in her life. She took a round cracker and stuffed it her mouth. January was going to be terrible.
Luna went into Holden's bedroom and shut the door behind her.
Irma looked out of the livingroom window. She shivered at the snow softly falling. Irma didn't want to stick around here.


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Are patients with rheumatic diseases at high risk of dementia?
Rheumatic diseases, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren's syndrome (SS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and osteoarthritis (OA), appear to pose an increased risk of dementia, a study has reported.
In a cohort of 10,180 rheumatic disease patients with newly diagnosed dementia and 61,080 matched controls without the brain disease, the risk of developing dementia was substantially higher in patients with RA (odds ratio [OR], 1.11; 95 percent CI, 1.10–1.22; p<0.05), SS (OR, 1.28; 1.11–1.47; p<0.01), SLE (OR, 1.55; 1.16–2.07; p<0.01), OA (OR, 1.47; 1.40–1.54; p<0.01), or PsA (OR, 2.10; 1.20–3.62; p<0.01). [Int J Rheum Dis 2017;doi:10.1111/1756-185X.13246]
On the other hand, the risk found in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (p>0.05) was not statistically significant.
Subgroup analyses showed that the increased dementia risk was especially pronounced in female patients with SLE (OR, 1.60; p<0.05), male patients with PsA (OR, 5.72; p<0.05), and patients of either gender with SS (females: OR, 1.26; p<0.05; males: OR, 1.34; p<0.01) or OA (females: OR, 1.42; p<0.01; males: OR, 1.51; p<0.05).
Additionally, the risk was more evident in SLE among younger patients (aged 40–64 years; OR, 2.46; p<0.01), in SS among older patients (aged ≥65 years; OR, 1.25; p<0.01), and in OA among patients in both age groups (young: OR, 1.48; old: OR, 1.47; p<0.01 for both).
The authors postulated that inflammation and medications might explain the connection between dementia and rheumatic diseases.
"First, both rheumatic diseases and Alzheimer's disease [AD] involve inflammation caused by inflammatory mediators," they said. The overwhelming inflammatory response will drive microglia cells to overreact and release chemokines, which can (1) lead to cell apoptosis and therefore result in massive loss of neurons (2) or cause great damage to the beta-amyloid clearance functions of microglia and consequently speed up the accumulation of beta-amyloid in the brain—the hallmark of AD. [N Engl J Med 2010;362:329–344; PLoS One 2014:9:e110024]
"Second, anti-inflammatory drugs may play a role in deteriorating cognitive status in patients with rheumatic disease," the authors continued. Glucocorticoids, commonly used in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, have some adverse effects that contribute to a decrease in the volume of the hippocampus, which therefore results in cognitive impairment.
Corticosteroid-induced dementia occurs in patients receiving 30–60 mg doses daily and is usually accompanied by a decline in verbal memory and loss of concentration. This effect can be reversed by reducing the dose. [Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2011;65:549–560]
Despite the presence of several limitations in the study, the authors expressed increased confidence that their findings would bring forth a far-reaching perspective of the association between rheumatic diseases and dementia. This is in light of a sample size that was large enough to avoid selection bias. Moreover, the 10-year population data were extracted from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database, making the results more comprehensive.


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"I can serve as a role model, showing women can take on leadership roles and succeed," Dixie Hoeh, Vice President, Senior Branch Manager.
Giving Back To Our Communities
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ArcheAge Darkrunner Basics Guide
ArcheAge Darkrunner Basics Guide by endah
o/ sup. im endah, and ive had many many requests to create a guide for this class (my class) – and so here it is.
Understand that some aspects of this will change with the coming patch, so i am going to cover some general aspects, to
make room for the coming change. Ill be creating a video guide soon enough, prob when my summer semester is over (tomorrow). And as always, you can come watch the best in the west @ twitch.tv/endahlol. Ask ask ask, i love helping out DRs/other classes alike – and i love learning from those with different perspectives. So, shall i begin?
note: you will hear complaining about the amount of DRs on the server. let it fuel your desire to become better than all of them. This class is like rogue from wow in that regard, a lot of rogues keyturning around in elwynn forest, but year after year it was (is) the lowest populated class above 2200. So you will find a good amount of darkrunners, fortunately you will run circles around their inability to do damage effectively, and react to control correctly.
CLASS: DarkRunner/Politician = shadow+fight+willsafe to say you already knew that
DESCRIPTION: Highly mobile, melee burst dmg ganker. Little to no sustained survivability, Little to no sustained dmg output (considering the former). MORE OR LESS -> high risk, high reward.
The Basics
You will need to have an understanding of basic melee play in any mmo obvi before beginning to play risky. Oh, this class is all about being risky. That means, try to focus on the following :
1. Stop keyturning. Learn to move fluidly, like you would in an fps with either QWE or AWD.
2. Notice i left out the 's' in WASD? Unbind it. Back pedaling is slow and an ineffective method of retreating/kiting. S is also an incredible hotkey.
3. Understand buff watching. You need to have a good understanding of buff icons/meanings in this game to succeed at higher levels of play. IE: know when an occu bad pops dmg reflect so you can dip out and dip back and complete your quadkill.
4. Up your awareness. You need to begin watching 2+ 3+ 4+ players around you at all times. When engaging a killtarget, you need to be aware of the (now) slightly moistened neckbeard ramming his forehead into his arclightning key. Pop shield while engaging your killtarget, and he'll think you have(,Ó,)sharingan(,Ó,).
5. Prepare to lose. You cant be afraid to duel classes that are designed to stomp you 1v1 JUST to understand them more effectively. AND to flex a little bit, stretch your muscles. or in my case noodles Try some new things, get creative– if you fall 4 times you get up 5. So play with/agaisnt good players, bad players, and anything in between. experience is key.
1-49 : Plate. level as plate. The majority of mobs will be pumping out physical damage, which means you can soak up more dmg and level quicker.
Fresh 50 : Auroria greens (dont worry about equip effects). Your goal here is to simply amass a large HP pool with cheap auroria plate, until you can afford your 44 arcane/heroic set. –Ekolb
Post auroria : Try nabbing/crafting the 44 DESERT leather set, arcane and above. Ideally heroic, but if youre like me, and have 13g and loose change, fk that we're on AA welfare.
1-49 : I would recommend dual wield leveling. Simply because youre aiming at higher sustain, as you wont have all of the tools necessary for serious control/burst until a bit later on.
fresh 50 : At this point, if you've collected all of your 0/200 honorpoint kill quests, you should have enough to afford the honor 4500 Axe, which will give you a nice cushion before moving on to crafted weapons.
Post honoraxe : At this point you have 2 options: dual wield or no-dachi. At the moment, i would recommend no-dachi — as the crux of this class is ONDEMAND no tv doe burst. But with the upcoming changes, and with high grade weapons (even now) — dual wield can, and DOES work very effectively. Play around, and if you find youre successful, let me know.
Also, if youre dual wielding – mainhand sword/offhand katana no questions. Sword attribute = parry chance (for TS/charge/PS resets) and katana = crit chance (for… >_> crit dmg)
…So now youre ready for combat. You understand the basics of mmo group play, you're working on your gearset, and youre getting moist at the thought of globalling that full heroic reaper. Onto the intricacies of DR building, damage output, and survivability…
Endah's current (1.2) build: http://www.archebox.ru/build-kr#!BzntWXTAX
-SO- i just spent about 40 minutes typing, what (was) more or less a novel, and realized there is no way i could summarize any of it into this guide. So for now, i will leave this segment open, and i encourage anyone interested to contact me in anyway you see fit. You can check out the stream, whisper me ingame, mail me ingame, i dont care, im always willing to take time to help out someone trying to improve.Other ArcheAge Articles
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One Response to "ArcheAge Darkrunner Basics Guide"
How do you do that..Is there a way we can just toggle the mouse pointer to first person view or mouselook? It so tiring when i have to hold RMB all the time to face monsters.. looking forward to your reply thankx :D


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Bob the Castaway
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: Frank V. Webster
Narrated By: Nigel Boydell
Publisher: LibriVox
Date: January 2015
Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes
Frank V Webster was a pseudonym controlled by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the first book packager of books aimed at children. This pseudonym was used on books for boys from the early 1900s through the 1930s. Bob the Castaway follows the antics of young prankster Bob Henderson, his parents futile attempts to get him to mend his ways, and his subsequent nautical adventures.


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Bases Loaded 3 (known in Japan as Moero 8!! Pro Yakyuu '90 Kandouhen) is a baseball video game released in 1991 by Jaleco for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
The game is the third installment of the Bases Loaded series.
While Jaleco did hire famed baseball player Ryne Sandberg for an endorsement, this installment of the game did not feature real teams or players. More unpopular with players, however, was the somewhat bizarre premise that "playing a perfect game", not winning a pennant, was the game's ultimate goal. Regardless, there would be one more NES Bases Loaded title, as well as several Super NES titles.
Source: Wikipedia, "Bases Loaded 3", available under the CC-BY-SA License.


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Dr. Matlock Breaks Down Vaginoplasty & Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation
February 6, 2007 in Plastic Surgeon Articles & Interviews by ericharatz | 23 Comments
Dr. David Matlock is the undisputed leading surgeon for vaginoplasties and laser rejuvenations, having pioneered these procedures over a decade ago. While few women openly discuss vagina-related cosmetic issues, many women wonder about how they can enhance the aesthetic look of their vaginas and increase sexual gratification. In this interview, Dr. Matlock discusses a wide variety of vaginal cosmetic procedures that treat all common imperfections (see full description of procedure options at end of interview)…giving women hopes everywhere.
MMH: What is vaginoplasty and what problems and imperfections does it address?
Dr. Matlock: At the Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute we perform two categories of procedures, laser vaginal rejuvenation (LVR) for the enhancement of sexual gratification and designer laser vaginoplasty (DLV) for the aesthetic enhancement of the vulva structures. LVR is primarily for women who have had children and as a result of childbirth they are experiencing vaginal relaxation. This vaginal relaxation results in decreased sexual gratification for the female. LVR enhances vaginal muscle tone, strength and control. It also decreases the internal and external vaginal diameters and builds up the perineal body (the area outsets the vagina and above the anus). DLV consist of numerous aesthetic procedures of the vulvar structures. The most requested is laser reduction labioplasty of the labia minora. The laser procedure sculptures down the labia minora. Women state that they don't want the labia minora to project beyond the labia majora (large outer lips). We can perform most anything one desires of the vulvar structures (reduction of the labia majora, liposculpturing of the fatty mons pubis and labia majora, autologous fat transplant to the labia majora to enhance them, correct deformities, combination procedures (LVR plus DLV).
MMH: Please discuss the different types of vaginoplasty procedures and what problems and imperfections each treats (i.e. laser reduction labioplasty, augmentation labioplasty, reduction of prepuce).
Dr. Matlock: Women want the skin of the clitoris to hug it like a piece of paper is draped over a pencil; this can be done via reduction of the prepuce [excess skin along the sides of the clitoris]. The majority of women have this done with the laser reduction labioplasty of the labia minora., vulvar labioplasty, etc.).
MMH: Which of these procedures is the most common?
Dr. Matlock: The most common DLV procedure is laser reduction labioplasty of the labia minora.
MMH: Please describe how the procedure is performed as far as incisions, anesthesia, and other technical details. How long does a vaginoplasty take to perform?
Dr. Matlock: LVR is a one hour outpatient laser surgical procedure. One can have their choice of anesthesia from local to general anesthesia. Everyone gets a special block which results in an 18 to 24 hours pain free period after surgery. You can return to work in 7 days and get back to the gym in 2 to 3 weeks. Sex can be resumed in 6 weeks. The laser is used to perform all the cutting and dissecting. The muscles are tightened with sutures. I have treated patients from all 50 states and over 30 countries. Most patients say that they want to be like 16 or 18 years old again. With LVR we can accomplish this. In our DLV procedures the laser is used to perform all the cutting. The same above info also applies to DLV.
MMH: How is the future of vaginoplasty looking and are there any innovations on the horizon that can improve the aesthetic outcome of the procedure?
Dr. Matlock: I pioneered and developed LVR and DLV eleven years ago. To date I have treated Patients from all 50 states and over 30 countries. I have 140 surgeons (gynecologist, plastic surgeons, and urologist) trained in my trademarked techniques in over 21 countries. The future of this field is bright. I have just developed a new procedure called a lip/tuck where I lift the sagging vulvar structures. I am also just launching my G-Shot procedure (G-Spot Amplification). This procedure amplifies the G-Spot and enhances sexual gratification (wwwthegshot.com).
MMH: When did vaginoplasties start to become popular?
Dr. Matlock: The procedure became really popular 11 years ago.
MMH: Is there a specific age range for a woman seeking a vaginoplasty, or can a woman of any age have a vaginoplasty? Please specify if there are any ages of patients beyond which or before which one should not have a vaginoplasty?
Dr. Matlock: My patient population is 20s to 40s.
MMH: Are there any special considerations for women who intend to be pregnant as far as when a vaginoplasty is safe to have?
Dr. Matlock: With DLV there is no problem if one wants to become pregnant. With LVR the pregnancy can damage the LVR. These patients can have a C/S. This is rare and most patients for LVR have completed their family.
MMH: What types of doctors (i.e. gynecologists, urologists, or plastic surgeons) typically perform vaginoplasties?
Dr. Matlock: All the ones you mentioned are good choices.
MMH: Who do you think are the best qualified to perform vaginoplasties?
Dr. Matlock: LVR-gynecologist; DLV gyn and plastics.
MMH: What should a patient desiring a labioplasty look for in a physician?
Dr. Matlock: Training in the techniques and experience.
MMH: How long do the results of a vaginoplasty last? What can a patient expect 4-5 years and then 10 years after a vaginoplasty?
Dr. Matlock: For LVR as long as they don't have children they should be fine. The cause of the problem in the first place was children.
MMH: How is the recovery like from the various types of vaginoplasties?
Dr. Matlock: The patients can return to work in one week. They can resume sex in 6 weeks. The main post operative symptoms are mild swelling and pain which is controlled by pain meds.
MMH: What symptoms can a patient expect to have (i.e. bruising, swelling, numbness) and for how long do they persist?
Dr. Matlock: The majority of the discomfort is gone in 7 days.
MMH: Can a patient walk, sit, or use the bathroom easily following a vaginoplasty?
Dr.Matlock: The patient will walk into surgery and after the recovery period in the recovery room she will walk out. These are outpatient procedures and the patients can ambulate immediately.
MMH: Can a patient experience permanent loss of sensation following a vaginoplasty?
Dr. Matlock: No.
MMH: What are the risks associated with a vaginoplasty?
Dr. Matlock: The risks are bleeding, infection (these are the main risk and they are less than 1%); hyposensation, hypersensation, scarring, uncomfortable sex. These are safe, bloodless outpatient procedures with very low risk and high satisfaction.
MMH: Are there any scars following a vaginoplasty?
Dr. Matlock: No.
MMH: Are there physical exercises, personal care products and routines for the vagina that can help reduce its aging process?
Dr. Matlock: Not really. It is a good idea to maintain a normal weight (ideal weight).
MMH: What level of improvement in sexual gratification can a woman expect from vaginal rejuvenation? Does the partner of the woman also benefit from this procedure?
Dr. Matlock: Our primary concern is to enhance sexual gratification for the woman but it also enhances sexual gratification for the male.
The following are the main Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation procedures performed by Dr. Matlock:
Laser Reduction Labioplasty can sculpture the elongated or unequal labial minora (small inner lips) according to ones specification. Most women tell us that they do not want the small inner lips to project beyond the large outer lips. Many women bring us Playboy and say that they want to look like this. With laser reduction labioplasty, we can accomplish the desires of the woman. Our labioplasty techniques can also reconstruct conditions that are due to the aging process, childbirth trauma, or injury.
Laser Reduction Labioplasty with Reduction of Excess Prepuce (excess skin along the sides of the clitoris) can provide the true playboy aesthetic look. Women tell us that they want the skin to drape neatly over the clitoris. The reduction of the excess prepuce provides the desired aesthetic enhancement of the clitoral skin. The majority of women having laser reduction labioplasty need the reduction of excess prepuce for a complete aesthetic result.
Laser Perineoplasty can rejuvenate the relaxed or aging perineum. It can also enhance the sagging labia majora (large outer lips) and labia minora. Overall, the procedure can provide a youthful and aesthetically appealing vulva.
Augmentation Labioplasty can provide aesthetically enhanced and youthful labia majora by autologous fat transplant (removal of the patient's fat via liposculpturing and transplanting it into the labia majora).
Vulvar Lipoplasty can remove unwanted fat of the mons pubis and upper parts of the labia majora. Liposculpturing can alleviate the unsightly fatty bulges of this area and produce an aesthetically pleasing contour.
Combination of DLV® with LVR LVR® and DLV® can be performed in combination. They can also be performed with most cosmetic surgical procedures; the most popular of these are liposculpturing, breast implants, breast reduction, tummy tuck, nose surgery, and eyelid surgery.
Hymenoplasty (reconstruction of the hymen) can repair the hymen as if nothing ever occurred. The Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute® is sensitive to the needs of women from all cultures that embrace these particular issues because of cultural, social, or religious reasons.
Board Certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Matlock is the founder of the Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute in Los Angeles and is the Medical Director of the Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute®, Inc., a training center for physicians. Author of the new book, SEX BY DESIGN, Dr. Matlock is the pioneer in this unique field of Boutique Cosmetic Gynecologic Laser Surgery. Dr. Matlock is the world renowned developer of Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation® (LVR®) and Designer Laser Vaginoplasty® (DLV®). LVR® is for the enhancement of sexual gratification and DLV® is for the aesthetic enhancement of the vulvar structures. Dr. Matlock is a featured cast member on E!'s smash hit "Dr. 90210."
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23 Comments so far
christina on
May 27, 2008 5:04 am
hi, if a vagina could fit 3 fingers in and then if they have vaginaplasty could that make it as small as to fit 1 little finger in it??
michelle on
July 16, 2008 3:27 pm
hi, i had labioplasty 2 1/2 wks ago. i don't have a lot of swelling left, and my lt side is shorter than the right. I have noticed this for 1 1/2 now, and i'm concerned. I actually like the length of my right side. my left side is a bit too short. so i don't want to have to get my right side revised. i'm scared that i will be left with no labia at all then. anyway, i read another girls post that this happened and she was able to stretch the shorter side. Is this possible to do, if i do it carefully? or would i damage my tissue. I only need to stretch it about 1-1 1/2 cm at most, just at the top. i would wait a couple months till i was really well healed first.
victoria palmerton on
July 24, 2008 7:26 am
I am very interested in having some work done by Dr. Matlock. Could you please send me some information at :9305 Hunting Valley Rd.S., Clarence, NY 14031
Felicite Pickett on
November 2, 2008 6:37 pm
Dr Matlock I'm a 24 year old mom with 2 kids and over the past 4 years ive been experiencing vaginal dryness. Of course my vagina is stretched with no walls @ when Im performing sex with my partner hes not feeling it. not only that i pee when im trying to have an erection. so im thinking about having some work done.
tamara on
January 9, 2009 1:36 am
i would love the location of Dr. Matlock office performs Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation
omotola Awosika on
March 6, 2009 5:03 pm
hello dr matlock.my name is tola from nigeria and am a yoruba[ethnic]. In my culture the flesh of the clitoris of a girl is cut off when they are small and that does not allow u to enjoy sexual pleasures.it was done to me and i want to know if anything can be done for me to get sexual pleasures because i dont feel anything when a guy have sex with me.
c. gregory on
March 19, 2009 6:48 pm
Dr. Matlock I have had 6 children at a young age and I am married to a great man in which I had three of the 6 with. We have been married for 19 years and I would like the oppurtunity of feeling like a virgin again. I would also like to give my husband something he has never had, a virgin. Will this procedure help me? I do not plan to have more children and I would like to keep it tight like a virgin. I lost my virginity at the age of 16 and I would like to be as tight as a 16 year old again.
mrs jeff on
April 10, 2009 2:13 am
Dr. Matlock
Could you please recommend a surgeon in the u.k, as I'm looking to have a vaginal tightening proceedure her at home.
Many thanks
Mrs Jeff
Mrs. Nata on
April 10, 2009 6:32 pm
Hi. I have suffered with UTI ever since i was a little girl and i was wondering if this could be because i have the labia minora out.i would like to get it reduce a little bit because i strongly believe this might be causing all this uncomfortable urinary tract infections every month sometimes even more than once in a month. thanx
Mrs. Molina on
May 4, 2009 10:54 am
Dr matlock.
i am 21 years old with a beautiful 2 year old boy. I have had "bumps and lumps" is what my high school Dr called them on my pubic hair area. I don't know why i have them. i have had this since i was about 12 or 13. I wasn't sexually active then. The Dr says it's normal and that it might be caused by shaving too often. i stopped shavin and i started again because over a year passed by and i still have them. they are not the size of a pimple i wish they where but they get really huge and sometimes hurt when i sit down because my panties will be smashing them a bit. after a while it pops and then it bleeds a bit. it sort of disappears but more come out. i usually have 5 of them and they never seem to go away no matter what i do. do you have any suggestions in what i can do to make it go away? thank you so much.
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3KneeGurl on
November 3, 2009 6:06 pm
I would like to know the cost of the vagina tightening surgery..and If i get this done now how long it would take to heal N how soon after I could have intercourse with my husband…PS another question, do you know anything about squatting over a steaming hot tub or basin of water making sure the steam gets directly into ur vagina will help restore tightness?
Thanks in advance!
Angela on
November 25, 2009 11:30 pm
Hi, My name is Angela and have been married for 22 years, Is there a procedure to great increase the size and lenght of my labia minor so my husband has plenty to put in his mouth during is great oral pleasure he gives me, I would like it to be thick and be about one and a half to two inches out when my panties are off, could you please help ?
kendra on
December 19, 2009 10:44 pm
hi, i am 22 years old and i have a 2 year old little girl. i am very interested in this surgery but i live in north dakota. i am wondering if you know of anywhere close to me that does this surgery?
ciara on
December 27, 2009 5:06 pm
To other commenters:
this is not Dr Matlock's website, and it is very unlikely
that he will see your questions -
look him up on Google – der!
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anna on
October 6, 2010 7:25 pm
Will this surgery make me as tight as a virgin again? (not restore hymen, but make the tightness the same as before I had sex? I used to barely fit one finger inside when lubricated. Now 3 can go in after years of sex It doesnt feel the same! I am 27 and have not had children. I do not use toys, so it must be a fact that normal sex alone can stratch things out. Can I request the amount of tightness I want? How tight can this surgery make it? How quickly can it strecth again? The same amount of time it took to stretch the first time? (again no crazy big objects or children…just the fact that 10 years of intercourse changes everything)
Rebecca Rosak on
January 2, 2011 7:19 am
I'd like to ask the same question as one of the other postings? I wish the responses were posted as well. My question is: Will this surgery make me as tight as a virgin again? I've lost most sensation and can barely feel when a man inside of me…and he is larger than most. It doesnt feel the same! I do not use toys, so it must be a fact that normal sex alone can stratch things out. Can I request the amount of tightness I want? How tight can this surgery make it? How quickly can it strecth again? The same amount of time it took to stretch the first time?
Jaimee Underwood on
February 16, 2011 10:04 am
I would like to schedule a consultation for labiaplasty and vaginoplasty.
Debbie dimes on
April 14, 2011 9:55 pm
I am interested in having my vagina tighten
after three children my vagina is loose
And me and my husband have
A very active sex drive and are
Married 31 yrs . We have more
Time to spend with each other
Our youngest 18:) I have wanted
To do this and want to have a consultation
To see if your procedure can give me the
Results and also want tummy tuk?? And implants depending on the cost
I am fifty but most would guess forty
I'm looking forward to hearing from you
Hyatt on
June 30, 2011 11:48 am
Hello, i am a 20 yr old female from the middle east, i am active in soccer and other sports since childhood and im scared that i have broken my hymen during rough play and etc. If i were to have the surgery nobody can know and i would have to go back home the same day. am i able to walk after the surgery and they wont come lloose? also my wedding isnt for another 9 months but i want to be safe and do it earlier then later. will the hymen still be intact in 9 months with no intercourse and no sports just regular day to day activities
amana on
March 11, 2013 9:50 am
I want to do hymenoplasty surgery can you do it for me in Dubai plaese?
Emily calimano on
February 25, 2017 1:46 pm
I have strecthmarks on my pubic bone is highly visible, can that be remove?
My vagina is a little wide, can it be shrunk down to my liking?
The large libia is opened a little too wide for my liking, can we tighten it, where it looks more close?
My vagina is dark brown to black it used to be dark pink can my natural
(Pink) color be restored?
What's the cost for all the aforementioned inquires.
Thank you, Ms.Calimano


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In today's busy world, it isn't always always easy to take time for rejuvenation and reflection.
Staff at the Alton L. Collins Retreat Center in Eagle Creek strive to create a space where people can do just this.
"We want to create a space where people can grow and develop their spirits," said Dan Benson, director of the center at 32867 Highway 211.
The site is run through a partnership between the Oregon-Idaho Conference of The United Methodist Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon.
The center's location — nestled in the forest, with buildings surrounded by cedar, spruce, fir, hemlock, moss and ferns — provides a sense of peace and seclusion ideal for stepping away from the rest of the world.
What visitors at the center do while on retreat is centered on their group's unique needs, and one retreat is often very different from another. Earlier this year, a chamber music group spent time playing songs at the center. The next week, a different group embarked on a silent retreat.
Other visitors to the site include a board-gaming group, several quilting groups and the Mevlevi Order of America, a Sufi group also known as the whirling dervishes. Center staff also organize events for people to participate in, including a day of singing hymns from the Christian faith and learning the history behind the music.
One of the tenets of the center is to ensure that all visitors feel welcome, and staff work to ensure the needs of guests are met. For example, a recent visitor was a practitioner of feng shui, so additional cloth was added to one of the bedrooms to ensure that there was balance.
Staff strive to embrace guest needs and identities.
"Our work is not to transform people, but to allow for people to engage in transformation where and how they need it," Benson said.
Benson noted that people often find spirituality in different outlets, which is perhaps why such a diverse selection of groups visit the center.
"People often talk about what feeds their soul, or how they encounter the divine or what's greater than them — sometimes that's the pleasure of playing games with one another, or making music or beautiful things out of fabric, or being in nature," he said. "There are many ways of doing it. It's not that there's one right way of doing it."
For many visitors, the center's wooded location and two miles of walking paths is a central part of their retreat experience.
"We value helping people come into connection with nature, find rest and be restored," Benson said.
The center features 23 rooms for guests, each boasting a private balcony, two large meeting spaces and a chapel.
"It's not a chapel in what people often think of a chapel with pews and an altar," Benson said. "It's just open space. There's something special there, a reverence with looking out of the windows and seeing the beauty around us."
He added that the buildings feature large windows to allow the outdoors to be seen from inside.
"Sometimes people come to us with limited mobility, and we want to allow them to be able to see (nature)," he said.
The grounds also feature a bee colony and a peace pole surrounded by a labyrinth and herb garden.
The pole features the phrase "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in multiple languages, including braille.
Benson noted that when the pole was first created, visitors at the center were encouraged to request a language to be included on it.
"The peace is coming from people who have been here," he said. "It's a way to really
make this a part of our community."
Benson, a United Methodist pastor, has been the center's director since May. He lives on site with his wife, Karen, and their sons Nathan and Jeremy, 11, and Peter, 9.
He appreciates many aspects of being at the center but noted that the most rewarding parts are "coming into connection with each other and the divine."
"We often lose sight of that yearning to be beyond what we are, and that's part of what retreating is," he said. "Giving people breathing space to focus, that's always at the core of what this place is."


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June 21, 2010 - Another Handshake in Space
Another Handshake in Space In 1994, the United States and Russia began a series of joint missions known as Shuttle-Mir. The project began with a Russian cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, flying on a shuttle mission, but it progressed to regular shuttle dockings and crew exchanges with the Mir space station. The first Shuttle-Mir docking mission began fifteen years ago this week. Three days after the launch of the STS-71 mission, the space shuttle Atlantis docked with Mir. Atlantis (seen here from a viewing port on Mir) brought home three Mir veterans who had been on board for over three months, and dropped off two cosmonauts to take their place. The historic STS-71 mission came almost exactly twenty years after the first U.S.-Soviet docking in space, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, which took place in July 1975.
Image credit: NASA
Weekly Calendar
June 21-27, 2010
Holidays - Sky Events - Space History
Monday 21
Summer Solstice 7:28 AM
1993: STS-57 Endeavour launched
2004: SpaceShipOne launched, first privately-funded human space flight
Tuesday 22
1675: Royal Greenwich Observatory founded
1973: 28-day Skylab 2 mission ends
2000: NASA announces evidence of present-day liquid water on Mars
Wednesday 23
Thursday 24
St. Jean Baptiste Day (Québec)
1999: FUSE spacecraft launched
Friday 25
Ceres 1° south of Moon
Pluto at opposition
1894: Hermann Oberth born
1992: STS-50 Columbia launched
1997: Progress spacecraft collides with Mir Spektr module
1999: Gemini North telescope dedicated
Saturday 26
Full Moon 7:30 AM ET
1730: Charles Messier born
1963: Syncom 2 satellite launched
1984: First space shuttle launch pad abort (STS-41D)
Sunday 27
1982: STS-4 Columbia launched
1995: STS-71 Atlantis launched
1997: NEAR-Shoemaker probe flies by asteroid Mathilde


text: Damen Shipyards Gorinchem recently completed the research vessel Celtic Explorer for the Irish Marine Institute of Dublin. This 65 m ship was constructed by Damen in partnership with the Vlissingen yard of Royal Schelde and follows two other important vessels previously delivered to Ireland, the research vessel "Celtic Voyager" and the buoy maintenance ship Granuaille. The work to be carried out by this new vessel will include a National Seabed Survey in Irish waters, perform a vital role in monitoring and recording fish stocks, oceanographic tasks, and wide range of other maritime duties. The new vessel is only the third of its kind in Europe and represents a significant milestone in Irish marine research. The vessel will be named on April 11, 2003 in Galway, Ireland. Celtic Explorer was ordered in December 2000 to a demanding specification requiring compliance with the most stringent requirements for a vessel capable of carrying out sophisticated fishery, geological and hydrographic research and environmental sampling. The ship had to comply with Lloyds' Register of Shipping class +100A1, Ice class 1D, IMC, UMS, SCM for a Multi-purpose Research Vessel. It was also to comply with the International Convention on Exploration of the Seas (ICES) '209' report on 'Silent Fish Surveying'. Celtic Explorer is assumably the first vessel in the world to comply with ICES 209 without any compromise in the required sound frequency range between 10 Hz and 63 kHz. To meet these requirements special attention had to be given in design, construction, and fitting out to minimise radiated underwater noise, onboard acoustic interference, and vibration. As a 'multi-purpose' vessel it was necessary to ensure that equipment and resources could be changed easily from, for example, fisheries work to hydrographical survey. The transversely framed, welded steel hull of Celtic Explorer is 65.5m in length overall with a moulded breadth of 15.0m, depth of 8.4m and design draft of 5.6m. Ice class requirements are met by reinforcing the foreship with intermediate framing and heavier shell plating. The underwater profile incorporates a bulbous bow, a smooth after body with a single propeller, and provision for bow and stern thrusters. Internal tanks are provided for 400 cu/m of fuel oil and 100 cu/m of fresh water, ballast tanks fore and aft, and a semi-passive roll reduction tank. A double bottom is incorporated between the fore and after peak bulkheads. In order to assist the deployment of scientific transducers a retractable fin keel is provided just forward of amidships. The keel is located in a totally enclosed vertical steel trunk and can be raised or lowered by means of an electrically powered winch controlled from the bridge. Work-, scientific-, and accommodation areas are located on four decks within the hull and the high, extended, forecastle. The work deck aft houses the trawl winches and equipment, deck cranes, and the open stern is fitted with a 600mm diameter stern roller, a trawl gantry and two 'A' frames. At the heart of Celtic Explorer is a sophisticated 'low noise' diesel-electric propulsion system that has been specially developed for the vessel with the assistance of Dutch specialist Bakker Sliedrecht Elektro Industrie. A single, specially designed, 'extremely low noise' fixed pitch propeller of 3200mm in diameter is directly driven (without gearbox) by two direct current (DC) Indar, low speed, electric motors coupled in tandem. Each of the low noise DC motors has a maximum power rating of 1500 kW at 180 revolutions per minute which are fed and controlled by two Bakker custom build digital drives in a semi 24-pulse configuration together with two double winding transformers with an extra low-noise mode. The vessel can achieve a maximum speed of approx. 15.5 knots at 100 percent 'maximum continuous rating' (MCR). A single 'high-lift' ice class rudder is controlled by an electro-hydraulic steering system powered by two hydraulic pumps. Two thrusters are also an important part of the propulsion system. An 'Elliot Gill' jet powered by a 720 kW electric motor is installed in the bow and delivers a maximum omni-directional thrust of 6.2 tonnes. A transverse tunnel thruster in the stern, located beneath the main propeller shaft, has a controllable pitch propeller and is powered by a 400kW motor. Power generation for the propulsion system and ship's main electrical supply is provided by three Wärtsilä diesel engines coupled to Indar generators. Two Wärtsilä 9L20 powered generators produce1620 kW each and a Wärtsilä 6L20 drives a 1080 kW generator, all at 690 volts. Two transformers are used to provide 400 and 230 volt supplies. The electrical system incorporates a sophisticated distribution system that includes a 'black-out prevention system' and provides redundancy for all major supplies. An additional emergency generator, powered by a Caterpillar 3306 diesel engine rated at 125 kW, delivers 155 kVA. Special attention has been paid to the mounting of the three main generators, to minimise noise and vibration, and the main drive motors and generation equipment are located in separate engine rooms divided by a watertight bulkhead. Hydraulic power aboard Celtic Explorer is supplied by a common high-pressure system utilising electrically driven pumps to serve the main winches and miscellaneous deck equipment. Other equipment, such as deck cranes, have their own discrete power-packs. In order to reduce the noise output for the main high-pressure system the hydraulic winch motors are fitted with acoustic attenuators and all pumps and pipe-work utilise resilient mountings. Celtic Explorer is fitted with a comprehensive array of winches and deck equipment enabling the vessel to handle a wide range of fisheries research equipment and nets, towed hydrographic sensors, and also to carry out other marine tasks over the stern. A total of eleven winches are installed on the vessel. Fishing operations are controlled by a sophisticated trawl winch and handling system, with 'auto-trawl' displays and controls on the bridge. Two 30 tonnes split trawl winches located on the main work deck are each fitted with 3500m of wire and have a maximum line pull of 30 tonnes at 78m/min. A pair of 12 tonnes 'Gilson' winches are located at bridge deck level. Three net drum winches are provided, two rated at 35 tonnes line pull and one at 45 tonnes is fitted for towing purposes and incorporates a constant tensioning system. The trawl gantry operates in conjunction with a 5.6 tonnes net-sounding winch accommodating 3200m of 11mm diameter wire. A CTD winch with a 6 tonnes line pull contains 6000m of wire and the 4 tonnes 'Hydrographic winch 2000m of wire. Three hydraulically operated deck cranes are provided, one with a lifting capacity of 120 tonnes/m and two of 15 tonnes/m one of the latter is mounted on the foredeck. The cranes can also be radio controlled if required. The two stern mounted 'A' frames have lifting capacities of 25 and 10 tonnes, both at a working radius of 3m. A lifting frame with a 'T' configuration can lift 10 tonnes and is located on the starboard side of the main work deck. The vessel's anchoring equipment comprises two 'high holding power' anchors handled by an electro-hydraulic windlass located under cover, within the forecastle. Warping heads are incorporated for mooring and the windlass drive is fitted with a tension control device. A single, vertical capstan with a 5 tonnes pull is provided aft. Scientific and Survey equipment Among the wide range of equipment installed aboard Celtic Explorer is an 'Acoustic Doppler Current profiler with a 75 kHz transducer, and Simrad Kongsberg multi-beam echo sounders capable of mapping the seafloor. A Thermosalinograph is carried along with CTD and a Rosette sampler. The vessel is fitted with a 'Motion Reference Unit' and extensive metrological equipment. Accommodation Fully air conditioned accommodation is provided for 31 persons, 12 crew and 19 scientists. The facilities for scientific staff onboard include four well-equipped laboratories for chemistry, wet fish research, water sampling and dry procedures. A purpose designed IT room is included and a dedicated scientist's office and meeting room. Provision is made to accommodate additional scientific equipment contained in laboratory containers on deck. Navigational and communications equipment The Celtic Explorer is fitted out with navigational and communications equipment to a high standard, with an installation contracted out to Irish specialists Barry Electronics. The installation includes hydrographic survey equipment, and other scientific equipment with inputs and sensors accessible via a Local Area Network computer system throughout the scientific and control areas around the ship. The communications equipment fitted complies with the requirements of GMDSS Area 3.


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Discussion in 'Economics' started by Oz435, Sep 21, 2007.
Read the article http://www.thestreet.com/s/the-cred...sanalysis/investing/10380613.html?puc=_tscana
Let me just add, the article doesn't say anything we all don't already know. It's Das' belief in the magnitude thats kind of jolting.
Interest recent paper by Das from his blog:
His take is accurate. The question is not, Whether a great depression will grip the US, it's a matter of When. Astute traders will get the opportunity of a lifetime to make a small fortune short selling american equities as they fall into oblivion. The question is whether they will be allowed to remove those profits from their trading accounts.
However the malaise will not be as prolonged in Asia. Asia is going to own the global economy in the coming centuries. Jim Rogers is way ahead of the curve, as usual.
Don't be so certain about Asia in the short term. Never forget to ask where the money comes from.
Aussie gets its money selling raw materials to India and China. India and China get their money selling cheap good and cut price services to ... who ... ?
And if the buyer is in a recession what will happen to the seller?
excellent, thanks
Any specific timeframe for American equities falling into "oblivion" ? X-Mas 2030 or earlier ?
So when does a mediocre trade like myself spot the once in a lifetime chance to finally get rich shorting American stocks? When we're down 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%?
When do I know "this is armageddon finally" and go all out short and just sit on my shorts for a year or two without stops and watch the SP500 shed 80% of its value so I finally become a millionaire with zero risk?
Central banks and governments worldwide are not going to sit by idly while a protracted bear market unfolds. They will do everything they can to ensure robust economies and stock markets.
True, Japan can be cited as an example of prolonged recession but I think it can be argued that the problem there is more of a government unwilling to take bold steps to solve the mess.
Going by the way the US Fed successfully tackled the Asian crisis, LTCM, dot-com bust and even 9/11, I think they can be relied on to avert a potential sub-prime crisis too.
exactly correct AS, we all know of nature's mean reversion ways that are present in financial markets just like in our personal lives (you eat, you shit), but there is that mind boggling question of WHEN We can only try and consistently foresee events that occur on regular basis, it can be compared to our digestion system, we know our own body like nobody else, I know that every morning around 9am I will be going to take a dump, it's a regular event that takes place pretty much every day and about the same time (it's highly unlikely you seeing me riding a horse about that time), so I can foresee it happening tomorrow and day after and as the cycle changes I can adjust probability. Now, I also know that because all my male predecessors went bald it's high probability to expect my honourable self to follow suit, but considering my fragile age of 30ish I am slightly frustrated by same old question - WHEN
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