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Youth Voices of Neskantaga (finished)
Youth Voices of Neskantaga Art Exhibition
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Thursday, 18 July 2013 00:35
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We are happy to share that we have rescheduled the Grand Opening of the Youth Voices of Neskantaga Art Exhibition to July 26th at Beit Zatoun Gallery from 7-9 pm. We have several youth from the community joining us for the event, as well as some community members. The youth will be sharing their art and what it means to them!
Check out the Facebook Event Page here!


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Cleveland Villa Angela-St. Joseph is the scariest name in the Division III Canton regional, but the team St. Thomas Aquinas faces Wednesday might have the best player.
"St. Joe" can wait.
Before the St. Thomas Aquinas Knights even think about a regional championship rematch against powerhouse Cleveland Villa Angela-St. Joseph, they will have the "Big D."
The Knights' fifth straight trip to the OHSAA boys basketball Sweet 16 starts with a 6:15 p.m. Wednesday tipoff against Northwestern. The Huskies will hit them with 6-foot-9 senior Derek Koch, who was a priority recruit at Bowling Green. Not only is Koch the tallest player Mark Alberts Jr. has had in 19 years as Northwestern's head coach, he is "the most talented," Alberts said Monday.
"He's a once-in-a generation player," Alberts said. "At our school, they might never see a guy like that again."
Koch has built nicely on a junior season when he averaged 22 points and 16 rebounds and made first-team All-Ohio.
Aquinas head coach Jason Herold is weighing matchup options. Six-foot-5 senior Jaret Knox and 6-3 senior Bryson Knox offer good height, but neither is taller than the 6-9 Koch's inside sidekick, 6-5 senior Derek Darnall.
Herold's largest player is 6-foot-7, 300-pound senior Cisco Pedrozo, whose minutes off the bench have fluctuated. Like Koch, he is headed for the Mid-American Conference, but in football (Western Michigan).
"I'm sure Aquinas has seen Derek, but he's definitely a different kind of matchup," Alberts said.
"Koch is a phenomenal player," Herold said. "You can't teach 6-9, and he's a little different than some big men. He's a force inside and he can extend you outside and knock down 3s. He can handle the ball as well.
"Our strength of schedule prepares us for the tournament and the matchups. Warren JFK, Villa Angela-St. Joseph and Cleveland Central Catholic all had big men."
Herold liked what he saw in practice in the wake of a district championship conquest of Canton Central Catholic.
"We're definitely locked in," he said. "Winning the district championship was definitely very fun. But it's a new beginning now."
Northwestern uses a nine-man rotation and and features one of Wayne County's top juniors in point guard Parker Smith. He scored 28 points in the sectional final and 25 in the district final. The Huskies use a three-guard approach that features two seniors in their third year as starters, Trevor Kline and Jacob Besancon.
Alberts loaded up this year's schedule anticipating a special season. The Huskies lost five games before December but haven't lost since. One of the losses was a wire game against Dayton Dunbar, which is in the Division II Sweet 16.
"After that Dunbar game," Alberts said, "our kids were believing they could do some things."
The Knights have turned "could do" into "done" for years, with five straight district titles.
"Their perimeter players make them go," Alberts said. "Logan Newman can hit from anywhere. The way (Michael) Sommers played in the district final (26 points against Central Catholic) puts a different emphasis on him.
"(Drew) Duplin can do about anything — shoot it, drive it, handle the ball."
Aquinas-Northwestern is the first game of a Division III regional semifinal doubleheader in Memorial Field House.
Northwestern, 21-5, advanced by beating top-seeded Oberlin 66-51 Friday at Wooster. The Huskies led 21-7 after one quarter behind hounding defense that wound up allowing 19-of-59 shooting from the floor.
The Huskies also beat Rittman 55-28, Norwayne 73-45 and Doylestown Chippewa 76-45 in the Wooster sectional-district.
The other regional semifinal will pit Villa Angela-St. Joseph (19-6) against Garretsville Garfield (18-8). VA-SJ rolled into the Sweet 16 with a 75-45 rout of Warrensville Heights Friday night. The Vikings were pressed in the district semis, where they beat Beachwood 63-58 in overtime.
In last year's reginal finals at the Field House, VA-SJ beat Aquinas 54-46. Then, at the state tournament, VA-SJ beat Lynchburg Clay 81-64 before falling 66-44 to Lima Central Catholic in the state championship game.
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many new glass candy bars were born in this late October 2012. they all need good homes...
this may be my favorite:
or purple?
A panel from SANDMAN #69 from July 1995 drawn by the flawless Marc Hempel.
a big chunk of moody beauty, that Morpheus. Isn't he most everyone's favorite from the SANDMAN stable of characters? When I read Neil's words coming out of his mouth, I automatically give him a Nick Cave type voice, super slowed down and deep...
those lucky pigeons!!
I make these pieces because every comic panel is a framable mini-artwork. You should see me on the floor with mucked-up comics surrounding me. Some panels,just can't save the whole thing, so I cut out the words and preserve them in another way. Comics just heal every wrong. I also use recycled packaging to firm up the panels, this one gots microwave popcorn on the back. They are all different!
If anyone is late to the party, these magnets are my last-ditch effort to save my collection of drowned comic books that were damaged in an east coast flood. (yes, never again shall i use cardboard storage boxes...)
I cut recycled glass to fit and then frame the original panels in copper.
...If you are overseas from USA, contact me via twitter (@Neverwear) and we will work out a plan. thanks for supporting the arts-- It is my therapy for so many things. (to see a full report, go to my furrytiger blog. My boss helped saved my soul the other day) NEIL HAS LOTS OF MY MAGNETS... here are (kinda crappy) photos of them living happily in his spooky house:
oh, Thessaly, you crafty goddess. Remember her soon after this, with her knife behind her back, as poor doomed George opens the door? i absolutely flipped when i read this issue. My heart was beating in my chest, like a murder of crows...
She will always be one of my favorite characters, pay attention to this lady. and didn't she breaks someone's heart....yes, yes she did.
this panel is from SANDMAN issue #33, Dec. 1991 in the GAME OF YOU story arc. Art by Shawn McManus.
{THIS ONE IS NOT A MAGNET, BUT FOR HANGING ON THE WALL! (if you want it as a magnet, let me know)
Thor, you own my heart. Such a blonde god. He is always getting himself into scrapes and then at the very last minute, he's out again, flinging around that hammer and causing chaos. This word bubble panel is from The MIghty Thor vol. 1 #1 January 1971.
i love that someone (no names...ahem** LOKI) is telling Thor's DAD Odin on him!! Who darest call him a liar?!? (no names...ok, it was LOKI)
this is some more of that vintage glitter wrapping paper that i really don't have but maybe another square foot of. *choke it's all about being able to let go of things, isn't it??


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Jason Miles, '73, has had a successful career in the music industry by working hard and being unique. Now, he encourages aspiring musicians to do the same.
On one wall of Jason Miles' in-home studio are more than 100 snapshots of artists he's made music with — Luther, Vanessa, Sting.
On another wall are certificates for the Grammys he's won and for which he has been nominated.
Gold and platinum discs honoring millions of album sales? Check. Emmy nomination? Check.
After more than 40 years in the music business, these wall hangings are all satisfying accomplishments and evidence of a successful career. But, after all these decades, what keeps this New York native still inspired in a notoriously tough business? Love.
The love for his wife, Indiana State sweetheart and sometimes lyricist partner, the former Kathy Bennett, '72. The love of a great song's melody, beat and groove. The love of learning, always striving for deeper understanding and the next new sound.
"Many of us musicians are very insecure about things — maybe you're going to get fired, maybe I'm going to get this, or maybe — all the stuff that hangs on you," said Miles, who finished his classes at State in December 1973. "For disappointments and all this stuff, and how do you get out of it? You need somebody who supports you. You need love in your life, you need somebody that's going to stand by you no matter what and that believes in you. You're going to need to believe in yourself, too, and you're going to have to learn to go and pick yourself up and regroup."
Miles' album "A Love Affair: The Music of Ivan Lins," featuring the Grammy-winning song "She Walks This Earth," took eight years of rejection to get made, he said. Record exec after record exec prefaced their meetings with Miles, "Don't pitch me that Ivan Lins project that you're working on. I do not want to hear about it."
Obviously, their tune changed after Miles and his team were honored by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
"We come home and all of a sudden the label president calls me, 'Wow, congratulations! How did — I'm so surprised, Sting's on it! How did you get Sting?!'
"'Well, I called his place; I (asked) if he wanted to do it. And called him back the next morning, and he said 'Yes.'"
Miles has made his career on offering something unique. After Indiana State, he moved to New York to work with renowned jazz musician Miles Davis — his idol with a talent and impact he compares to The Beatles — and after 12 years, Miles got the chance by perfecting his skills at the synthesizer, new technology in the '80s.
"I wasn't going to get in there competing with a keyboard player. I was going to get in there competing with nobody, 'cause I did what other people couldn't do," Miles said.
Today, he delivers that message to universities across the nation, telling aspiring musicians, producers and engineers to do something better than anyone else — even if it's making a cup of coffee.
"And (the students are) looking at me like in a state of shock," Miles said. He explains, "With the engineer going 'I gotta have him on this session,' and he goes 'Why?'
"'He makes great coffee, man.' Everybody knows how to use the patch bay and you know how to do this and you know how to do that, but what can you do that somebody else can't do?"
After visiting and performing at Indiana State this past November, Miles looks forward to returning to his alma mater again.
"This is a very progressive campus. It really is. They're thinking in the future," he said. "Indiana State has moved into a place they can be very proud of. The performing art school is terrific, the instruments they have there are great, and obviously people have been working and are committed, and now hopefully, to tie the community together with the school."
An avid music historian, Miles says the craft has evolved from the masters mentoring the next generation — and should continue to do so.
"Quincy Jones said when we asked about Michael Jackson, 'How come "Thriller" sold so many albums, man? What is that about?' 'Youth meets experience.'"
As long and as impressive as Miles' list of collaborators is, he still has a few names on the bucket list — Dave Matthews Band and Chaka Khan (again) among them. Currently, he's also grooming a young musical act.
"I'm looking for fresh and new and interesting and somebody that I can help mold into something that represents great music and pass it down to generations," Miles said. "Great musicians come from other great musicians."
And through relentlessly hard work. Journalist Malcolm Gladwell theorizes in his book "Outliers," it takes 10,000 hours of practice to perfect a skill — a theory Miles has witnessed from some of the music greats.
"(Saxophonist) Michael Brecker … was always pushing it. And as major as a guy he was, man, he just never stopped practicing," Miles said. "He never stopped reaching for that next place. And you gotta, you know, you always gotta do that."
These are tough concepts for many to grasp nowadays, Miles said, as we're in an era of melody-less music and seven pop singers who all sound the same.
"Nobody's building on the rock foundation that was. I want to hear some freaking guitar god. They're too impatient to become a guitar god now," Miles said. "We're not hearing (guitarist) Steve Cropper play; they don't play like that anymore. As the audience gets older and the country gets older, where are we going with all of this stuff? Is it just a matter of people making music on their computers? Or is it going to be people who are also playing music that don't have the great experience of working with masters?"
Miles' newest album, "Kind of New," is set to be released this spring and honors what he's learned and loved along the way. The title itself is a nod to his music hero Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," which features a musical fluidity that still fascinates Miles today.
"Where did it happen? How did the notes change?" Miles asked famed pianist McCoy Tyner, who played with John Coltrane. "(McCoy) said to me, 'The notes changed on the bandstand. We worked it out — every night, one-night stands here, three sets a night. There were some real Chitlin' Circuit jazz gigs. All the clubs were open until 4 o'clock in the morning, and we played — they changed on the bandstand.'"
Miles was also inspired by Davis' blues vibe on "The Cellar Door Sessions," recorded by a small band over several nights at Washington, D.C., nightclub The Cellar Door in 1970.
Miles worked out the songs with Ingrid Jensen at The Falcon in Marlboro, N.Y., and other gigs. They then found the right musicians to assemble what Miles describes as "a great band."
"It started really coming together," he said. "We recorded live in September, because I wanted that 'Cellar Door' feel — I wanted to go and have people hear what a band sounds like with a small ensemble."
A deal with a smaller label that has a number one album rounded out the process.
"We wrote about Ferguson, Mo., because it's not — to me — about black and white. It was about seeing the big picture, and Ingrid came up with the title 'Seeing Through the Rain' and that's what we call that tune," Miles said. "The music has a lot of integrity, and it is in the spirit of Miles. And that's where it started."


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Tempo No Tempo - "Pole Position" from French Press Films on Vimeo.
Their album, Waking Heat, was released last year. They'll be in the West Coast touring with Dinowalrus.
4.27.10 — Hemlock Tavern w/ Dinowalrus and Ingot Rot (members of Tussle)
4.28.10 — Biko House w/ Dinowalrus
4.29.10 — The Smell w/ Dinowalrus, Signals, Foot Village, Ezra Buchla (Gowns) and DJ Set by Railcars
4.30.10 — Che Café w/ Dinowalrus, Da Bears, Endless Bummer
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- The primary ministry is to bring the Eucharist to our homebound parishioners. Each minister agrees to take on the responsibility for one or more of our homebound parishioners. He or she sets up a schedule with the Team leader as to when they will do their ministry. These schedules can be weekly, bi-weekly or at least monthly.
- Part of this ministry is to spend a little bit of time with those they visit connecting them with the St. Andrew Community.
- When necessary, the minister will keep an eye open for other needs the homebound parishioner might need and help to make them known to the parish, perhaps making connections to the CathedralCare parish nursing or to the pastoral staff.
- Each time a minister makes a visit they are to fill out the online log recording their visit.
- Each minister is to be given proper training and goes on a visit or two with another minister prior to caring for their own homebound parishioner. Click here if you are interested in this ministry.
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Grandpa Bingo Is the Antagonistic Family Game You've Been Waiting For
The holidays are a time for giving, family, eating boatloads of food, and generally giving a damn about your fellow man. They're also a time where you just have to grit your teeth and put up with relatives.
Reddit user BitchyTyphoon has put together a beautiful game that manages to encapsulate everything about how you just put up with family despite the fact that you wouldn't put up with the same crap from a complete stranger.
BitchyTyphoon has created "Grandpa Bingo," which is specific to her grandpa, but you can probably use it for someone you know.
There are so many highlights it's hard to choose just one, like the incredible specificity of "I really don't like to be argumentative with people" or the beautiful succinctness of "is racist" and "Gizmo."
"I'm glad people are finding it funny," she tells Thrillist. "My family likes to tease one another, but it's all in good fun."
And yes, according to the thread on Reddit titled "Had to make Christmas interesting somehow...," she did actually play the game. "My sister ended up winning five in a row first," she said in the thread, "but I almost checked off every box."
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Good morning!
Today I have a baby card to share with a sweet little elephant from the Baby's Circus stamp set. My daughter wanted a shower card and her friend is expecting a boy so I went with blue!
I also used the SNSS Banner dies to create my sentiment. Some foam dots gave the card dimension.
A few teeny rhinestones and a tiny button finished it off.
Thanks for popping in! Happy stamping!
♥ Diane
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Upgrade Nightmare: The Parental PC
My parents' Celeron 800 was getting a little long in the tooth, so I figured I'd upgrade their PC as a "welcome home" present.
I got them a new AMD Sempron 2400+, 512MB DDR RAM I had left over from my last upgrade, a new Gigabyte motherboard, and a Radeon 9600SE. They had a reasonably newish hard drive, so no need to upgrade it or the case. Cheap components, but still a respectable upgrade.
I figured it'd take around two hours to upgrade the whole thing, tops, so I arranged to go around to their place at 7:30, have dinner, and then start work.
The old motherboard came out in about 20 minutes flat, and the new one went in in about 5 minutes. So far so good. About 4 cards came out, only one new card went in, and it was the optional AGP video. That's progress.
All the components were reconnected, I had a quick run through connecting the Front Of Case stuff (power, reset, speaker, USB), and then hit the power button.
Nothing. Bugger. At this point my parents perk up and start helpfully standing nearby and watching with concerned expressions.
The CPU fan wasn't moving, which basically says "screwup". Still, I've had similar problems before, and they've been fixable (eg, loose expansion card, bad connection, short)...
I unplugged everything except the FOC stuff - still nothing.
Flash forward half an hour of plugging, unplugging, plugging, and so on, and I'm troubleshooting what I think is a short, part of the motherboard touching the case. It never works when screwed in, but always works when not.
I'm working through one more iteration of "screwed in", adjusting the last screw, next to the power supply. The live, I forgot to turn the power point off power supply. The one with the soft-off switch only.
There's a loud Zap, a flash of purple-white arc flames between screwdriver and power supply, a surprised yelp from me, and then nothing.
Smoke wisps up from the power supply, bringing with it the smell of ozone and burning component. My parents are checking I'm not shocked or anything. I'm cursing my own stupidity (keep the case grounded by being plugged in and switched OFF! Plugged in and switched OFF!), and wondering where I can get a power supply from at 9:30 at night.
My parents had had some problems with their old case while in the US, and the tech (who didn't know what an Event Log was or what "Disk" errors meant, but was happy to recommend Windows 2000 over XP for unspecified reasons) had diagnosed the "case and power supply and motherboard" as being the problem, so had replaced it all. My folks, paranoid by my instruction, had actually had the old case shipped back here. So, I tool a look at the power supply, and - wouldn't you know it - it's perfect. The case on/off switch was sticky, but I guess $US300 to fix it was reasonable*.
After swapping over the power supplies, I'm able to put power through it, and also notice that I've misread the manual on the USB port front. So I plug the USB connector in the other way around, and whop! Power.
Then, of course, there's the Stop 0x7B that XP puts forward when working with a completely different hardware platform, but we're now at the point where we should have been about two hours ago.
I just reinstall XP using the Repair option (40 minutes), but it wants Activation. Bugger. I reinstall XP SP2 in Safe Mode, but it still wants activation (I thought there was meant to be a 3 day grace period post-SP2, but apparently not), and there's no Internet connection yet.
Dreading reading numbers to someone, I call Activations on 13 20 58, and am pleasantly surprised when the whole thing is done by telephone keypad, with no mess, no fuss, and no miscommunications. No Humans, in other words.
Finally, at 11:30, we're done. Or So I Think.
The printer, an OfficeJet T45 All-In-One Fax, Scanner, Kitchen Sink and Copier, no longer works. It bitches about a communication problem. The Print Troubleshooter can't find a problem (and it even prints from a command prompt), it's only the custom HP stuff that doesn't believe the printer is connected, please try another cable.
I wandered out at about 1am, the printer still broken. I'd tried SPP, EPP, ECP, port jiggling, cable unplugging and replugging… nothing worked. The parallel port was very near the screw that got fried. Very near. Support forums seem to indicate that other motherboards have had similar issues under Windows 2000/XP with the same (aging) printer, but I'm not sure. I can never be sure.
My parents took it like losing a child. There's something about people of that generation and printers that I just don't understand, but there it is.
The next day, I ordered them a new one (USB- the sooner the parallel port goes away, the better) for only $200 from HP (no Fax, but they didn't use it anyway).
So, lessons learned:
- ALWAYS turn the power to the case off at the power socket, or the power supply, while working on the innards. Earthed-but-not-live. Earthed-but-not-live.
- If you're not seeming to get any power, check the USB connectors are plugged in the right way around. The manual may help.
- Always multiply the estimated time taken to upgrade a parental unit's computer by 3. Be happily surprised if you go under!
- If you're upgrading a PC, consider upgrading the printer at the same time.
Sigh. Still, it works really well now. Apart from the printer (new one isn't delivered yet). And my parents still look at me funny.


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By pk1 Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:00 pm
Congrats to K-mo
so..K-mo is not able to submit a sample this week and suggest we run a no sample challenge that i suggested a cpl weeks ago.
So we will
Make a sample free beat.
To clarify you are not to use a break unless the drums are individually chopped. no groove from break allowed.
Make your own groove with drums!
No sampleing to create your track. this is where you need to shine on your own!
please explain what you did to produce track you submit.
Picture it like this.... You just got a production deal with a studio. Your job is to make beats on call.
Although your a sample chopper. they are asking you to step up and create a non clearance issue of original work.
No sample Libraries! you play instruments.. or vst's
now for some of you that can't play a lick to save your career. you may need to be creative. and work around the rules.
say "Play your instruments to make your beat, you can chop and treat it like an outside sample"
just as K-mo suggested in his P.M.
think apprigator.
Any genre of music is welcome. "even **** no sense or skill house music "
upload your track to this thread with a soundcloud or youtube link.
Track needs to have BB224 in title
Needs to be uploaded by tuesday night the 18th
if you start on this and get frustrated with what your churning out. remember
its generally the simplest melodic tracks that seem to hold allot of heat. more people are drawn to simpler sound then complex...
good luck and holler if there are any questions.
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Digital River Achieves First Profitability Milestone
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Minneapolis-based Digital River (Nasdaq:DRIV), a global Commerce Service Provider, today announced that its Software and Digital Commerce Services Division reached profitability, prior to depreciation and amortization expenses, for the fourth quarter of 2000.
The company anticipates reaching overall company profitability, on the same basis, in the fourth quarter of 2001.
"This profitability milestone in the Software Services Division is a major event for our company," said Joel Ronning, CEO of Digital River. "By reaching this important goal, we've validated the Commerce Service Provider model," Ronning stated.
The company also announced today that it expects that it will exceed prior expectations regarding overall fourth quarter performance. Previous company guidance was a 25-30% sequential growth in fourth quarter revenue to $9.5 - $9.9 million, and a $0.21 per share net loss prior to goodwill amortization. The company expects fourth quarter performance to be better than each of these previously announced performance targets.
The company will announce its fourth quarter financial results after market close on Tuesday, January 23rd. At that time, the company will also provide full year guidance for 2001. The fourth quarter conference call will be held at 4:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, with remarks from Joel Ronning, Perry Steiner and Bob Strawman.
A live broadcast of the conference call may be heard by dialing 800-340-5808 or via web cast through the Investor Relations page at www.digitalriver.com. A replay of the call will be available starting at 6:45 PM Eastern Standard Time and can be accessed by dialing 800-633-8284, reservation number 17562126.
On a separate note, the company also announced today that after nearly three years as President of Digital River, Perry Steiner will be stepping down at the end of February. Mr. Steiner, who is returning to his career roots in private equity investing by joining Arlington Capital Partners in Washington, DC, will continue as a member of the Board of Directors.


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Use Eric's Charge and Eric's Pocket Potion.
- Use Eric's Charge
- Use Eric's Pocket Potion
Before we get too crazy with the dragon-killin', let me tell you a little bit about how I fight.
"The Swift" is what they call me, and there's why: I'll dash straight into your enemies - helmet first, mind you - and stun 'em for a few seconds. I also keep a few potions with me for tight spots.
Why don't we practice fightin' together? Head out into the field, and try my abilities.
We're not through yet, <name>.
I'm not what you'd call "very strong" or "battle-hardened", but I get the job done my own way.
Lookin' forward to fightin' with you. I never fought with a fancy-lookin' <class> before.
Pick up Baelog, the Glass Cannon and Olaf, the Big Fella' before heading out. Accepting the first of these quests put all three of the lost Vikings into the player party. Now as minions of the player, all three Vikings have their two abilities listed:
- [Eric's Charge] 25 yd range—Eric charges an enemy, inflicting 85 to 115 Physical damage, and stunning it for 3 sec. Instant. (15 sec cooldown)
- [Eric's Pocket Potion]—Heals all vikings by 400 over 10 sec. Instant (2 min cooldown)
- [Baelog's Valhalla Shot] 40 yd range—Baelog shoots at an enemy, inflicting Physical damage and dealing high threat. Instant. (15 sec cooldown)
- [Baelog's Warcry]—Increases all vikings' attack speed by 200% for 15 sec. Instant. (1 min cooldown)
- [Olaf's Shield Wall]—Reduces the Physical and magical damage taken by Olaf by 75% for 10 sec. Instant. (30 sec cooldown)
- [Olaf's Mighty Shout]—Taunts the target to attack Olaf, but has no effect if the target is already attacking Olaf. Instant (15 sec cooldown)
Merely getting within range of a target is all that necessary for the Vikings to attack. Head out and use all of the Vikings' abilities to complete the quests.
Quest progression
- [45] To Fuselight Proper
- [45] Easily Swayed
- Side chain: [45] When the Going Gets Tough, Cheat & [45] It's Goat Time, Baby
- [45] A Strange Request
- [45] First Sample: Wild Eggs / [45] Second Sample: Whelps
- [45] Lifting the Veil
- [45] Third Sample: Implanted Eggs
- [45] Rhea Revealed
- [45] The Venerable Doctor Blam
- [46] Troggish Troubles
- [46] Dustwind Dig / [46] Bloodwatcher Point
- [46] All's Fair in Love, War, and Archaeology / [46] It's Not About History, It's About Power
- Side chain: [46] A Dwarf's Got Needs & [46] The Good Stuff
- Complete all of
- [46] The Warden's Pawn & [46] The Warden's Game
- [46] The Sentinel's Pawn & [46] The Sentinel's Game
- [46] Ancient Protectors
- [46] The Titans' Trove
- [46] Return to Blam
- [47] Into the Dragon's Mouth
- Side quests: [47] Half-Ton Holdouts, [47] Survival of the Fattest
- Side chain: [47] Down to the Scar (optional) & [47] The Day that Deathwing Came & [47] The Day that Deathwing Came: The Real Story & [47] The Day that Deathwing Came: What Really Happened
- [47] The Swift, the Fierce, and the Stout
- [47] Eric, the Utility Dwarf / [47] Baelog, the Glass Cannon / [47] Olaf, the Big Fella'
- [47] Amakkar, Jack of All Trades / [47] Jurrix the Striker / [47] Gargal, the Behemoth
- [47] The Wrath of a Dragonflight
- [47] Their Hunt Continues
- [47] The Sorrow and the Fury
- [47] The Hidden Clutch
- [47] Rheastrasza's Gift
- [47] Devastation
- [47] The Egg Lives On
Patches and hotfixes
- Patch 4.0.3 (15-Nov-2010): Added.
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Defense request for fiscal 2012 comes in at $13 billion less than earlier spending projections.
After enjoying a decade of historic growth fueled by the demands put on a force at war and the collective assumption that defense accounts were off limits for cuts, the Pentagon is no longer immune to fiscal belt-tightening.
The president's fiscal 2012 defense budget blueprint -- not including the wars -- comes to $553 billion, which equates to just $3.9 billion more than the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 request and $13 billion less than had been projected for next year.
That meager uptick means no real increase in spending, placing an emphatic and definitive end to a 10-year stretch during which the Pentagon's base budget nearly doubled.
War spending is also on the decline as the United States prepares to complete its withdrawal from Iraq at the end of this year. The administration is requesting $126.5 billion for the wars for the next fiscal year, $117.6 billion of that for the Defense Department. That compares with a $164.7 billion spending proposal for the wars for this year, which included $159.1 billion for defense.
But the spending proposal released on Monday tells only part of the story. The budget, the product of months of negotiations between Pentagon and military service leaders, was built around the assumption that Congress would approve a spending bill for this year.
Now, more than four months into fiscal 2011, Congress has passed no budget, and the Pentagon and other government agencies are operating under a stopgap continuing resolution.
The CR funds the Pentagon at last year's spending levels -- which Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said amounts to a $23 billion cut over the request delivered to Capitol Hill in November 2010.
House Republicans released a plan on Friday that would cut more than $15 billion from the defense request, including military construction accounts, for this fiscal year. The Senate is not on board with the plan, lining up a showdown as lawmakers attempt to avert a government shutdown when the current CR expires on March 4.
Failure to approve a Defense request this year would undoubtedly have a ripple effect into next year's budget -- a contingency not factored in the Pentagon's proposal. Until Congress approves a spending bill, the Defense Department has to put on hold any contracts for programs not in the fiscal 2010 request and delay new construction projects.
Gates has said that failure to pass a fiscal 2011 defense spending bill amounts to a "crisis on my doorstep."
But Gordon Adams, who was the Office of Management and Budget's associate director of national security during the Clinton administration, said that the $23 billion hit the Defense Department could have to take this year is "ludicrously small" compared with the overall defense budget.
"Is it fun? No, why would it be fun? You're managing with fewer resources," Adams said. "But it's not like the building doesn't know how to do it, not like they haven't done it before, and not like you can't manage a quality force."


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"Efficiency and progress is ours once more,It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done."
Now that we have the Neutron Bomb,
Ah, the neutron bomb; that miracle of modern science and engineering. Supposedly, a detonated neutron bomb has negligible if any explosive force but instead emits a pulse of deadly, somewhat non-specific radiation, that leaves things like buildings alone but kills everyone dead. That way, one can rid an area of some inconvenient group while still maintaining high property values. No issues with radioactive contamination/cleanup, either.
The truth is very different. The Neutron Bomb is unique, and controversial, in that while other nuclear weapons indirectly generated radioactive fallout that could cause negative health effects, the Neutron Bomb was the first weapon to be specifically designed to use radiation to kill people. Although it differed from the inventor's original conception (a Samuel Cohen) the neutron bomb, as designed and built, was just a fancy tactical thermonuclear warhead. That's right; thermonuclear. It was a very small fusion bomb. However, while more conventional thermonuclear bombs have radiation casings which reflect neutrons back into the secondary and increase the explosive yield, a neutron bomb lacks this radiation casing; the neutrons are just allowed to escape. They don't contribute to increasing the explosive yield, so that's relatively small; a neutron bomb will have an explosive yield of a few kilotons at most, although that still exceeds most conventional bombs by several orders of magnitude and is quite devastating. However, it means a particularly intense and deadly pulse of highly-penetrating immediate neutron radiation. Why would someone be interested in such a thing? It turns out that main battle tanks are surprisingly resistant to the blast and heat effects from a nuclear explosion, especially from a small tactical device. Both sides would probably limit themselves to relatively small devices for tactical use, mainly because they'd want to avoid collateral damage to their own forces, who'd be present in close proximity. However, with the neutron radiation increased (the technical term for a neutron bomb is "enhanced-radiation warhead") they can penetrate MBT armor and kill the crews inside.
The Cold War applications are obvious: nuking population centers is not such a great land-grab method, but deploying tanks is, and Russia had plenty of tanks.
Now, Cohen's original vision was for a similar device; presumably it would be somewhat larger and emit more neutron radiation. The burst parameters (yield, height of burst, etc.) would be carefully managed to minimize damage on the surface; however, the neutron bomb would emit enough of a pulse of radiation that it would kill everything on the ground in a substantial radius from the hypocenter. Cohen intended this to be a humanitarian weapon; civilians could retreat into underground shelters and be protected and when they emerged, although they'd find a lot of dead plants and animals, they wouldn't have to cope with as much in the way of devastation. The soldiers, though, wouldn't have that option, and would be killed; so, this was supposed to be a discriminate, humanitarian weapon. There are some doubts about its effectiveness, though; it would have to be detonated at high altitude to minimize explosive damage effects, but at such a high altitude the atmosphere might absorb most of the neutrons before they could reach the surface and do their work. Cohen made some claims to the contrary, but he's a little, well...credibility-wise, he could use some work in some respects. In addition, Soviet tanks were up-armoured to counter the potential threat of such a weapon before any neutron bomb was ever tested, let alone fielded. Then again, much of the armor for tanks is depleted uranium, which is worse than useless at stopping fusion neutrons. It'll absorb the neutrons, all right, but in doing so, the U-238 nuclei will fast fission, which will actually increase the dose received by the crew.
- Well, American armor. Soviet tank designers didn't use depleted uranium in their armor, instead going for tungsten, which is similarly hard and dense, but much less toxic and basically shrugs neutrons off. It doesn't offer much protection from them, true, but it doesn't get activated by them as well. Neutrons are effectively absorbed (without much activation) by hydrogen atoms, so plastics make a good neutron shields, so Soviet tanks had thick polythene covers under their armor, that also doubled as an anti-spalling layer. As their efficiency in that department left much to be desired, and neutron bombs fell out of favor, these were replaced by the more conventional kevlar ones.
- The reasoning behind putting fuel tanks in the sides and doors of certain Soviet APC and AFV designs was supposedly neutron protection. Armor is bad at stopping neutrons, but hydrogen-heavy diesel fuel excels at it.
There was also the concern that given the nature of radiation poisoning there would have been a significant amount of 'walking ghost' cases who would remain functional for few days but whose eventual death was certain. Studies showed such troops would most likely react by attacking ferociously, attempting to do as much damage to the enemy as possible before they succumbed to their fate.
The Soviet Union described the Neutron Bomb as "a capitalist weapon" because it was designed to destroy people while preserving their property. (And because they didn't have one of their own.)
Anime and Manga
- In the Trigun anime, Knives' weapon is apparently one (or at least its fictional version), making the whole population of a town disappear without trace but everything else is intact. Vash's one is the opposite, destroying everything when activated but living things - but Vash himself doesn't know it (not like people usually survive much there after the town is hit with it anyway).
Western Animation
- A Treehouse of Horror short on The Simpsons had Homer the apparent sole survivor of a French neutron bomb detonation ("Le Bomb Neutron"), and enjoying his hedonistic isolation until the requisite nuclear mutant cannibals showed up. The reason for the Bomb? Mayor Quimby made one too many frog jokes.
- There is a noticeable bang and cloud, which adds a little to the realism factor.
- The film Repo Man revolves around a car with one of these in the trunk. Or maybe shrimp-aliens who vaporize people. Or David Bowman. Or some combination of the three.
- The French movie Banlieue 13 had one stolen by criminals and kept in the slums of future Paris. The bomb has a fail-deadly feature of detonating after 24 hours unless the heroes storm the castle and disarm it. Some politicians let the bomb get stolen so that when it blew up, it would take out the slums and most of the criminals in Paris. The disarm code given to the heroes actually arms it. They figure it out in time.
- In David Graham's Down To A Sunless Sea, in addition to several countries throwing nuclear weapons at each other, a major military base on an island is apparently the target of a neutron bomb. Some people show up and supposedly all the buildings, equipment and structures are intact, it's just that everything living is dead. Apparently nothing is alive above ground, not even worms, because the pulse killed everything, to a distance of ten feet below ground. The only survivor was a man who was in the vault of the military base, 60 feet underground, at the instant of the blast.
- In Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl, the incredibly technologically-advanced fairies have a neutron bomb known as a "blue rinse". It can destroy all life in an area and leave every non-biological thing intact. It's also remarkable in that it can be tuned to a blast range of centimeters, if not millimeters.
- This is partially due to the fictional element solinium not to mention the fairies' time-stop capabilities. Essentially, because the blue-rinse detonated in an isolated area of time-space, everything outside it remained unharmed while everything inside died horribly.
- In The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern, the Soviets use a neutron bomb on Chicago so that they'll have an intact city from which they can direct the occupation of America.
- In the Red Dwarf novel Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, the radiation leak that kills the crew is described as being equivalent to a neutron bomb.
The ship remained structurally undamaged, but in 0.08 seconds, everyone on the engineering levels was dead.
- The Kurt Vonnegut novel Deadeye Dick revisits "Midland City", the terminally dull town from Breakfast of Champions, and destroys it with a neutron bomb. (Vonnegut admits in his introduction that the way he wrote it isn't the way that a neutron bomb would actually work, but is based instead on pipe-dreams of Cold War strategists.)
- In the Dale Brown novel Chains Of Command, Russia's campaign to reconquer the Ukraine begins with a bombardment of neutron bombs against the main Ukrainian Air Force bases, killing three-quarters of the pilots, thousands of civilians, and destroying the bulk of the aircraft. In this case, the weapon was selected to take out an air base with one shot (impossible with conventional weapons) while leaving the cities a couple of miles away mostly unscathed (impossible with a full-scale nuclear bomb). The bases themselves were leveled.
- In the foreword of a later edition of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley mentioned that he had thought about such a weapon that'd kill all the people but leave the great artworks of mankind intact.
Live Action TV
- Used rather inaccurately in an episode of Alias, where one only killed people in its immediate area, but left everything else unharmed.
- A similar device is used in the Doctor Who story "Timelash".
- In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Chain of Command," Captain Picard is sent to investigate suspicions that the Cardassians are developing a metagenic weapon, which is a virus capable of destroying all life on a planet within days, dissipates in less than a month leaving all the planet's technology intact.
- A similar device is mentioned in Firefly, where a antique-loving warlord used them to kill people and leave their property.
- Implicitly used in Battlestar Galactica, as part of the Cylon plan to preserve cities such as Delphi for re-settlement. That said, the level of damage varies. Over the course of the series, we see cities that are completely destroyed, cities that are damaged and cities where not even the windows are cracked.
- Used in "Kill The Poor" by Dead Kennedys, where the rich get together and do just as suggested by the song title.
- Another punk band, the Weirdos, did a song called "We Got the Neutron Bomb".
Video Games
- Command and Conquer: Generals gives you the option to use neutron warheads which kill the crew of enemy vehicles while leaving the vehicles themselves undamaged or nearly undamaged, so that you can take them over for your own side. There are also neutron land mines.
- The plot of Metal Gear Acid 2 revolves around a terrorist who wants to detonate a neutron bomb, so as to wipe out civilians, but leave the infrastructure of the world's technology (such as the Internet) intact.
- Perfect Dark has the N-Bomb, a grenade designed to explode in a sphere of darkness rather than fire so that it kills anyone in the blast zone and leaves their supplies behind.
- The Prothean VI in the From Ashes DLC authorizes a Neutron Bombardment against Reaper forces to cover his creators' retreat into stasis pods inside a bunker. This makes questionable amount of sense - while the EMP from such a weapon could very well kill the Reapers, anything that could kill a robot spaceship cthulhu in that way would be equally effective against things like power systems in bunkers, as the inhabitants discovered. Or didn't, since the VI managing power decided that the only hope for any survival was to try and keep one of them alive.


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We all know that what started it all for Peruvian Connection was when 19-year-old Tonganoxian, Annie Hurlbut, went to Peru for an archeological dig with her university. She fell in love with Cusco, and well, the rest is history…
I am from Tonganoxie, Kansas. And I've now been living in Cusco, Peru for 13 months.What makes small-town farm girls from Tonganoxie, Kansas fall in love with Cusco? Well, it's not a hard question to answer for those who have ventured to South America and experienced the charm of Cusco, but for those who haven't yet had the opportunity, let me explain: Cusco, the capital of the ancient Inca Empire, is quite simply, a magical, captivating place.
How did I get here? Well, I was 20 years old and it was my last summer of university. I went to Peru for 11 weeks, volunteering at a low-income medical clinic in Cusco proper and at a biological research station in the jungle. After my summer adventure, I wanted more, but, I went home because 12 credit hours were all that separated me from my BS. I went back, finished my last semester, and graduated in December 2010 with a Bachelor's of Science in Biology and a minor in Spanish. At the end of January, just six months after I'd left Peru, I was, once again, Peru-bound. I had one suitcase, one carry-on, and big plans.
After obtaining a Teaching English as a Foreign Language certificate, I began teaching English to Peruvians at a language institute here in Cusco. After nine months of that, I am now the Academic Director at that same institute. With 1,200 English students, 50 Spanish students, and a lot of volunteers, there's no doubt I work a lot…but, I work in Cusco, Peru.
How many people can say that they walk past the Coliseum to get groceries, that the Great Pyramids are visible from their bedroom window, or that they run past the Taj Mahal? I'm one of those people. I work across the street from Qorikancha, the most important temple in the Inca Empire, and walk past massively, impressive stone walls built in the 13th century everyday.
I'm still that good ol' Kansas girl who believes there's no place like home. But Cusco – just ask anyone who's ever been here – there's no place like it.
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Wedding Planning
10 Details for a Wes Anderson-Inspired Wedding
Wes Anderson's movies are a quirky blend of retro and modern, making them fun inspiration for unconventional weddings.
Quirky Details
There is something very distinctive about the set details in Wes Anderson movies. And "quirky" would be an understatement. He is terrific at creating an aesthetic using commonplace details in a creative way. Here, this picture of the wedding party is transformed into an elementary school portrait courtesy of a bench and a magnetic board.
Impeccable Re-Creations
In several of Wes Anderson's films, badges make an appearance. Instead of traditional boutonnieres, give the fellas their own merit badges (these are from Rushmore and Moonrise Kingdom) to either pin to their lapels or attach to their breast pockets.
Retro Influence
Clearly, Wes Anderson loves him some 1960s fashion. Almost all of his movies feature bold retro style statements. Take your bridesmaids to a vintage shop to find them mismatched dresses and pair with berets, knee socks, and chunky shoes.
Eclectic Playfulness
Nothing makes us long for our childhood toy chest quite like a Wes Anderson movie. His playful props create a sense of whimsy and nostalgia. These luxe welcome bags were filled with all sorts of fun treats, including a personalized ViewMaster.
Literary Details
It's probably a good guess that Anderson was a bookworm as a kid, given that all of his movies use a copious amount of literary influences. This escort card/favor idea is nothing short of brilliant. Pick out a vintage book for each guest (based on how well you know their interests) at estate sales or thrift shops. Wrap them in brown paper and put personalized labels with their names and table numbers. Line them up on a long table or on a bookshelf.
Creative Backdrops
The sets of these movies are so iconic because of how unique they are. It's sort of like entering another world. Make a collection of photo backdrops inspired by his set design for the coolest wedding photo booth ever.
Font Focused
One of the more modern elements of this theme is the typography. Wes Anderson is famous for his use of strong block fonts. Copy this style with an invitation suite that makes the font the focus.
Eccentric Choices
If your fave film is The Fantastic Mr. Fox, then you have to put a few eccentric woodland accents in. These masks should do the trick!
Interesting Alternatives
You can have so much fun with these registration cards as a wedding guest book alternative. Arrange on a classic cork bulletin board with plain metal tacks to acheive Anderson's retro minimalism.
Nostalgic Charm
Make sure to include tiny moments of nostalgic sweetness thoughout your details. Things like sprigs of dried flowers and envelopes wrapped in colored twine are used throughout Anderson's movies to soften the starker edges.


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An attempt by a frustrated housewife in Atumaga Community in Delta State to get her husband to fulfill his conjugal duties at the weekend backfired after she reportedly ate an egusi (melon) soup laced with a poisonous charm she procured from a native doctor.
It was reported that the housewife identified as Egwoli (surname withheld) had complained of abandonment -that her husband has not been making love to her since they got married two years ago.
The wife, instead of seeking the family's intervention, allegedly sought the help of a native doctor who prepared a charm via egusi soup for the man to have a change of heart.
The man had told some persons that he was involved in extra-marital affairs because of an odour that oozes from his wife.
On her return from the native doctor's place on Friday evening, she immediately applied the charm but unfortunately the man was nowhere to be found. She was said to have mistakenly mixed the charm in her own soup not knowing it was poisonous. She ate it, went to bed and died.
Reacting, the husband said: "My wife had threatened to make me impotent when I stopped making love to her for obvious reasons and I found some fetish items in her room, including the egusi soup she ate before her death.
Delta State Police spokesman, DSP Celestina Kalu, said the police was currently investigating the circumstances that led to the woman's death, adding that reports indicated she was involved in fetish activities.


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Anyone recommend Malaria shots or yellow fever vaccine if traveling in South AFrica and Botswana?
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My doctor recommended both along with an array of other vaccines.
For malaria you can get pills which you have to take once a week. They're called Lariam over 7 years agoAnswered by Mihir Ranadive via WorldNomads.com
For most nationalities, you have to have taken yellow fever vaccines to enter South Africa and have an international yellow fever card. Although the health control at the airport is not strict. Even so, they are highly recommended.
For malaria, I don't know of any shots you can take, just pills like Mihir Ranadive just mentioned. The pills are not soft on your stomach though. A lot of doctors just recommend using a very strong insect repellent, specially in the evening (there is a very popular one you can buy in South Africa called Tabard, it's very effective). over 7 years agoAnswered by Renata Moraes via WorldNomads.com
Botswana and South Africa are NOT in Yellow Fever transmission areas. However if you have been to a country which is at risk, you'll need a Yellow Fever vaccination and a card to prove you have had it before you're allowed to enter.
Malaria exists in South Africa's remote north and east (including Kruger national park) especially in a 90 kilometer strip along the border with Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the risk is regarded as low and seasonal (wet season November to March)
In Botswana Malaria exists everywhere but is especially bad in the north and of course in the wet season.
No anti-malaria shots are available, it's pills, and some people experience bad side effects from them (hallucinations and insomnia). You need to discuss this with your doctor, but many experienced travellers believe because the treatment for Malaria is the same as the preventative, they wait to see if they're infected before taking the medication. That's a personal choice.
Its always best to do your best to avoid being bitten in the first place (protects you against a heap of other mosquito-borne nastiness). So cover up with long-sleeved, long-legged, light-coloured, loose-fitting clothing and slather yourself in insect repellant. Sleep in a sealed air-conditioned room or under bed nets.
Phil from the safety hub over 7 years agoAnswered by Ask Phil via WorldNomads.com


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text: Talking with a client recently regarding a microbial (mold) assessment of her residence, I was asked a very good question… "Why should I hire a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) perform the assessment and what level of expertise do I get for having a CIH versus a non-CIH certified professional do the work?" OK… "Fair enough I state!!!" Let me answer that question "frankly"…The simplest answer is that contracting with a Certified Industrial Hygienist establishes the highest level of professional expertise and verified technical background employed for her project and on most environmental health and safety projects. Then, I continue… when a CIH performs any professional work, this work is based on an extremely deep technical foundation with advanced professional college education, training, certification, and ongoing maintenance requirements which are all performed under a stringent Professional Code of Ethics and Moral Conduct established by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (www.abih.org). As the Senior Certified Industrial Hygienist with BioMax Environmental, Inc., I then explained that I (Michael A. Polkabla) have over twenty years experience as a CIH with degrees from the University of California Santa Barbara in BioChemistry/Molecular Biology, and Aquatic Biology. I then worked for a minimum of five years under the supervision of a CIH as an industrial hygienist (much like an "intern") so as to qualify to take my certification exams, which I did in Washington DC some twenty years ago. These exams were two full days of testing at that time and the passing rate was roughly 10% passing back then. Hence, I was extremely pleased (and also relieved) to say that I passed my exams on my very go around (which was also rare) and have been certified in the Core and Comprehensive Practices of Industrial Hygiene under Certification number CP7104 ever since. I say "ever since" since certified as Industrial Hygienists are required (amongst many other requirements) to actively work in their field and attend a great deal of technical courses and accrue continued education units on an annual basis so as to maintain these certifications. Let me clearly state, that these exams were the most "professionally grueling" exams that I have ever taken and I strongly believe in the high standard of professional ability that all CIH's have demonstrated to achieve and maintain such professional certification. I believe strongly in my profession and intend to do everything I can to not only maintain my professional certification, but to further develop my technical knowledge and capabilities in all fields of worker and environmental health and safety protection. Now back to the original question… Why use a CIH ???… that is why!


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text: Does anyone know any legitimate work-from-home sources??? I have heard that the ones who charge money to "apply" are bogus. If I could work from home I could work around my physical problems. It would be a perfect situation for me. I think that I would pretty much do anything, except telemarketing. I am very craft-y, and very organized. I don't type with more than two fingers - but I'm sure with practise I could get better. There HAS to be real work-from-home oppurtunities out there somewhere! I'm Hangin' on by a Thread aka Amy


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I cannot eat this apple, I thought as the old lady handed it to me, her beef jerky like fingers trembling, the smile under her hat lighting up the dingy room.
"Xie Xie," I nodded, admiring her face.
Every wrinkle lead to a different story, from China's Cultural Revolution to her recipe for jiaozi.
Why was I at this human time capsule full of China's best treasures?
Instead of spending Thanksgiving stuffing ourselves with turkey followed by a roll of Tums and the Lions game, our school celebrated this American holiday by visiting a retirement center to visit with the folks and remove a few cobwebs. It was on a dusty corner of Kunming, one that you'd never find on Map Quest.
The seniors slowly came out of their cocoons to see the kids, rubbing their Buddhist prayer beads as the students played with their cell phones, their traditional clothing clashing with blue jeans. Snail-gaters pushed their walkers, a few rolled their wheelchairs, others hobbled on crutches.
Even though the mercury hit seventy-five that day, the residents were bundled in enough quilted jackets to survive the Arctic.
A crumpled man with only one good eye pointed at me and smiled, "Měi guó rén?"
"Duì," I nodded, answering in old folk slow-mo. "Wǒ lái zì Zhī Jiā Gē." I'm from Chicago.
He gave me a toothy grin and then hobbled on. I wasn't sure if it was because he couldn't understand me or couldn't hear me.
I joined the students as they sang, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Old Oak Tree".
Don't ask me why that song was chosen to represent the sediment of Thanksgiving, but it was. It wasn't any crazier than how world, KFC is packed on Christmas as many believe Colonel Sanders is Santa Claus.
The residents enjoyed the ruckus until 11:00 when they started tapping their watches, anxious to get to lunch. Their fuzzy slippers shuffled to their dining hall, a cold room with mismatched chairs squeezed around a king sized table.
Instead of plates loaded with soft foods such as apple sauce and meatloaf, they dined on small bowls of rice, boiled bok choi and chicken soup. But no chopsticks. Instead, their rusty fingers clenched fat plastic spoons.
It was painfully quiet, the only sound being the slurping of broth. No conversation since no one could hear or maybe, there was nothing left to be said.
I saw the old lady teetering as she tried to push off her chair, the cushions swallowing her body like a sink hole. She had shrunken in time, a real life version of one of those apple dolls you made in 4H as a kid, and way too short to get on any of the good rides at the fair. As I held out my hand to help her, she pushed me away.
"She doesn't want your help," one of my students explained. I cringed as she got up, fearing her knees would Snap! Crackle! Pop! like my mom's.
But this lady was as strong as an ox, navigating crutches that were bigger than she was. She wiggled her sausage like finger towards the hall.
"What does she want?"
"She wants you to visit her room."
"Let's go!" I nodded.
As we walked down the hall to her room, I couldn't help but notice pictures on the doors of residence in their better days. Teachers. Accountants. Mechanics. The old woman pointed her crutch to the last door on the left and ordered me inside, passed her private john, where I had to take a quick peek. It had a Western toilet but without guard rails. I couldn't imagine how old folks could do their business with just a squatty.
Her room was a flashback to the fifties, right One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, minus Jack Nicolson and the big Indian. Being the size of a glorified closet, it had two metal framed beds, one covered with a stack of pink quilts, the other with shoe boxes and shopping bags arranged in such a way that her room had good feng shui.
A vase full of red incense sticks was on a small table, the fragrance as annoying as a rubbery Renuzit.
The old lady fluffed her quilts to make a spot for me to sit.
"Xie Xie," I smiled.
She then slowly reached into one of her bags, pulling out a huge red apple.
"Bù xie xie nǐ, bù xie xie nǐ," I declined twice before accepting the fruit, as that's the proper Chinese way to accept a gift.
She smiled as I took the apple from her hands but I felt guilty, thinking I was taking all that she had. My mind flashed backed to Trick or Treating as a kid, pounding on the door of a lonely man never frequented by masked candy bandits.
"Graham crackers, kids?"
I looked at the apple and wished I had something to give her other than a crinkled business card bearing my Chinese name,
I handed it to her with two hands, wishing it was a box of Russell Stover Turtles.
I sat and smiled until it was time to leave, knowing I'd never return down that dusty road.
And she did, too.
That night, I put the apple on my table and just stared at it, fearing if I ate it, the memory of that day would be gone forever.
Then I thought about the lyrics my students sang: Three long years, do you still wove me?
I sighed, thinking I never got a yellow ribbon, just red tape with accountants and a divorce hearing on February fourteenth.
I looked at the wedding ring on my left hand and with fingers trembling just like the old woman's, I removed it.
I snooped around my small apartment for a safe place to store my past. I smiled when my eyes spotted the perfect resting place: a small bottle of my mom's favorite brand of caffeine pills, which I converted into a shrine, containing a handful of her precious ashes.
I opened the bottle and dropped the ring inside, taking out her timeless strength.
Like I said, some things need to be retired.
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Having a visual piece to accompany music has never been more important than it is today. Most people who are plugged into social networks will only hear a new piece of music if the video has been shared to their feed. In fact, I have even heard people say that a certain song doesn't give them the same chill when played on its own as when played with the video.
I am still juggling my time with work and playing live, trying to fit in enough time to write and record my own music. The plan is to work with some talented friends to come up with some effective music videos to go with my music.
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Tips on buying a used car from a dealerLabels: Used Car buying 0 comments
I have a friend, let's call him Mike, who recently bought a used car from a used car dealer and is going to get burned. Price was right, and he even took the car for a test drive and everything seemed fine.
Mike decides to buy the car, puts $4,000 cash on the table, and is now the proud owner of a 1999 nightmare. Two hours after driving off the lot, the Service Engine soon light comes on, along with a flashing OD indicator light. Not good. Not only did Mike buy the car as-is, he also waived the state requirement that a car dealer guarantee that the car will pass inspection.
Turns out the car may need a transmission, and it is starting to look like Mike will have no recourse against the dealer. This is still an ongoing saga, so there is no final chapter, but I thought it was a glaring example of how not to buy a used car. I got me thinking of all the precautions that I would take when buying a used car. I thought I would list my opinions here and see if other people could add to the list:
- Never buy a used car from a dealer without a warranty. If the dealer isn't going to stand behind the car, at least for 30 days, then you might as well buy private and pay less.
- Ask the dealer for the Carfax report. They should be able to print it on the spot. You can get this yourself for $29.99 at carfax.com, but why pay when the dealer should have instant access? I have run a Carfax report against every used car I've bought in the last three years. There is a wealth of information in the report, such as prior accidents, title changes, insurance claims, mileage indicators, etc.
- Take the car on a long test drive on both local roads and highways. Bring a friend to help listen for noises and vibrations. Check for steady and smooth braking.
- Check every single device on the car. Lights, horn, wipers, radio, all power windows, seats, everything. Push every button. I would expect everything to work if buying a car from a dealer.
- Check the tires for even wear. Check for a spare tire and jack.
- Take a really close look at the paint and body. Any flaws? Any dull spots? Any overspray on the moulding or trim?
- Look for signs of high mileage. Are the pedals unusually worn for the mileage? Check the door hinges by lifting the open door up and down to look for play. Check the seat cushion and upholstery for signs of high use.
- Have the car checked by a competent repair facility. A comprehensive inspection could easily cost $100, but is well worth it.


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kijk een ster – night out ep [download]
After being featured on compilations by Saturate!Records and Lomechanik, the Dutch electronic producer Kijk Een Ster (translation: Look A Star) has finally released his first EP. "Night Out" contains 6 feelgood Electro-Funk infused tracks, with beats ranging from 80s styled Synth-Funk to Hip-Hop.
As the name suggests, the release has been built on the idea of going a night out, and every title covers a part of a night out that we all can relate to.
Do U Wanna Get Freaky (ft. Mo) is a quirky rendition of teasing that one person you've spotted on the dancefloor (whether they are new or not). Simple but groovy drums, 80s funk chords combined with little stabs, a savvy little melody and ofcourse the right on the spot almost-naughty vocals.
After that initial mating ritual has passed, it's obvious that you two hit it off really good. All I Want Is Rock With You (ft. Joya Mooi) captures that feeling of mutual attraction and finding comfort in each other beautifully, with its easy sweeping pads, intense but complacent bassline and the cute vocals by Joya. As with the previews track, this one'll definitely keep you on the dancefloor.
At some point you will want to take a smoke-break or just hang out at the bar for some Conversations. This Hip-Hop infused interlude is light in every way: the beat keeps on head-nodding, there are some LFO'd and filtered synths and the bassline is sublime in its easyness. All this creates a nice back-drop for the words being exchanged to and fro, in this case portrayed by some nice high-pitched and quirky arped bleeps.
By now it's getting later and later, the booze is flowing richly and the vibe is good. In other words it's time to Break A Leg On The Dancefloor. You might think that's because everyone is wildin' out, but the opposite is true. Everybody is getting their sexy groove on and, like a peacock, is trying to show everyone their best moves. Feeling a little slower but definitely not lacking in tempo, the square bass warmly vibrates and the little lead will make you smile a bit. And that reversed clap will get everybody sliding from left to right in perfect unison.
The night is coming to an end and everyone knows it. The bar shouts 'last round!' and the DJ is quickly putting on his best-for-last tracks to get the floor filled one more time. Deep Is The Midnight Sea breathes that feeling of drowsiness, combined with that nag that you don't want to go home yet. There's more lead-work on this track than the previous ones, but Kijk Een Ster keeps it simple as it should be for your last moves. The bassline is thick, the strings compliment the beat and everything is just both in place as well as just a little off.
It's time to head home, and although you're content with the outlook of going to sleep you keep thinking 'damn, he/she is still On My Mind (ft. Mo & +Battery-). And that's because you like to funk with them, as the vocal states. Like Conversations the closing track has a nice head-nodding beat, and the vocals, synths and bassline together form a satisfied. Some extra funk is added by a little jazzy guitar that matches the notes of the vocals, and a little organ that is flowing from the background to the front from time to time. Time to put the lights out.
Where other contemporary Electro-Funk artists go hard on the intricate synth-work with dissonant melodies and minute-long solo's, or go Pop 80s doing Miami Vice styled tracks, Kijk Een Ster uses the restro style of synth-playing to create a comfortable and easy EP. The melodics are sweet and never overbearing, and switching up the drumstyle takes care of the variation that others may miss. Download the "Kijk Een Ster – Night Out." EP on Bandcamp (Name Your Price, a.k.a. free), and don't forget to connect through Facebook, Twitter and Soundcloud.


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Edvard Munch's "The Scream,'' which sold for nearly $120 million at auction, will go on view at the Museum of Modern Art.
The museum announced Tuesday that the iconic image will be on display from Oct. 24 to April 29.
The painting is the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. It was purchased by an anonymous private collector at Sotheby's on May 2.
Munch created four versions of "The Scream'' between 1893 and 1910. This is the only one in private hands. The other three are in Norwegian museums.
MoMA Director Glenn Lowry said, "This will be a rare opportunity to see this extraordinary work of art.''
It's an image of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked, blood-red sky.
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Marriott's takeover of Starwood closed on September 23, and so far I'd say they've been doing a good job. Marriott Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest introduced reciprocal status matching and allowed points transfers from day one, which we've never before seen so quickly following a merger being finalized.
However, Marriott is taking their time integrating the brands, and plans on running independent loyalty programs though at least the end of 2017. So those of us who are SPG loyalists can continue to enjoy the program for at least another year.
Unfortunately it's inevitable that there will eventually be big job cuts at Starwood. When the takeover was first announced, Marriott said that they hoped to achieve $250 million in corporate overhead savings, and one way to make progress towards that goal is by eliminating redundant positions at the two groups.
Well, unfortunately it looks like some of those job cuts at Starwood will come sooner rather than later, well before the Starwood brand disappears. This past Friday Marriott informed the Department of Labor that they'll be laying off "approximately 163 employees" by the close of business on December 31 in Stamford, Connecticut, which is the headquarters for Starwood.
Per the Hartford Courant:
The layoffs include some rank and file workers, such as administrative assistants, executive assistants and specialists in supply chain, design and brand management. But most of the layoffs are for managers, directors, vice presidents and senior vice presidents.
"They're all senior management," said Thomas Madden, Stamford's economic development director.
Starwood's letter to the state said that the employees have been informed that Marriott, which is based outside of Washington, D.C., will be posting jobs "in the coming weeks for which they may apply."
As of now about 660 Starwood employees work in Stamford, so this represents layoffs for about 25% of their corporate employees there.
Starwood received some nice corporate incentives for having their headquarters in Stamford, and it looks like that will cause Marriott to keep that office open with at least 400 employees through 2018, or else it will cost them dearly:
Under the agreement with the state, if Marriott reduces employment at the former Starwood headquarters to fewer than 400 employees before 2019, it would have to pay back all of the state loans from 2009 and 2014, and would have to pay $1.7 million in taxes it avoided through credits. It also could have to pay 7.5 percent back on any tax credits it claims from now until the time it shrinks below 400 workers. With this reduction, the company will have about 500 employees in Stamford.
Bottom line
Starwood has a lot of great people working at their Stamford office, so it's sad to see that they'll be laying off about a quarter of the workforce there in the coming weeks. Despite Marriott's takeover of Starwood, I've been impressed by how Starwood has still been going "full steam ahead" with their program, by introducing new partnerships, adding more SPG Moments events, etc. I fear that with a quarter of the workforce being cut, that may change starting next year. [Update: you can read about the new Marriott/Starwood program in its entirety here.]
Here's to hoping that many of these great Starwood employees end up getting roles with Marriott.


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The North Korean regime headed by Kim Jong-Un seems rattled by the presence of the USS Michigan near the Korean peninsula.
The former doomsday "boomer" was once loaded with Trident nuclear ballistic missiles but has since gone retro for a more conventional role, including the transport of elite American commandos in the form of Navy SEALs.
"The moment the USS Michigan tries to budge even a little, it will be doomed to face the miserable fate of becoming an underwater ghost without being able to come to the surface," the North's propaganda website Uriminzokkiri said.
That was how the North greeted the arrival of the 560-foot, Ohio-class Michigan at the South Korean port of Busan on April 25 — the anniversary date of the founding of North Korea's army.
The U.S. Navy let it be known that the Michigan would join the battle group of the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson for exercises off the peninsula with the South Korean navy in a show of force against North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's regime. The North issued a barrage of threats against the Vinson as well.
"The urgent fielding of the nuclear submarine in the waters off the Korean Peninsula, timed to coincide with the deployment of the super aircraft carrier strike group, is intended to further intensify military threats toward our republic," the North said.
The Michigan was commissioned in 1982 as an SSBN capable of firing Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles with MIRV, or Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicle, nuclear warheads as part of the nation's nuclear triad deterrent.
In the 1994 nuclear posture review, the Navy decided it needed only 14 of the 18 SSBNs to fulfill the mission. The Michigan, Ohio, Florida and Georgia were converted into guided-missile submarines, or SSGNs, for conventional roles.
The Michigan entered the shipyard for conversion in 2004 and was delivered back to the fleet in 2006. It now has tubes to launch up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles with 1,000-pound conventional warheads and berthing for as many as 60 Navy SEALs, who could be sent on covert missions from a special drydock mounted behind the sub's sail.
Navy fact sheets say that the Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles have been loaded in seven-shot Multiple-All-Up-Round Canisters (MACs) in up to 22 missile tubes.
The 38-foot long Dry Dock Shelter (DDS) allows SEALs to deploy while submerged aboard Seal Delivery Vehicles — free-flooding mini-subs for covert missions.