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Like many of my co-workers I am obsessed with my horse, a 16-year-old thoroughbred gelding named Samurai. This obsession manifests itself in many ways, from spending 20 minutes trying to pick out the perfect new treats for Sam to try or personalizing all of his clothing with his name. (Have you seen what our embroidery department can do? It's amazing!! And Sam needs a saddle pad in every color.)
In short my horse is a huge part of my life and I wouldn't have it any other way. While some consider this obsession unhealthy, I can think of nothing cuter then sharing our love (and my obsession) in song!
Butter Cup Samurai
(Sing to Butter Cup Baby)
How do you build me up (Build me up)
Samurai baby as you
Stand around (stand around)
Eating your hay and the best of all (best of all)
You're always there baby
Where you say you'll be (say you'll be)
In the stall or field
I need you (I need you)
More than anyone darlin'
Know that I have from the start
So build me (Build me up)
You have my heart
'I'll be over at ten'
Farrier says time and again
But he's late
I wait around for him
I go to the stall
I can't take any more
It's not you
But we need to ride
Sammy, Sammy
Try to find a little time
And I'll make you happy
We'll be grazing
I'll be grooming you all night long
Loving on you
How do you build me up (Build me Up)
To you I'm a chore
But I could be the herd
You adore
If you'd just let me try
Although I'm human
You're attached to me
All the more
How do I need you so baby baby….
Ooh ooh ooh
How do you build me up?!


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Cheeky and charming, the six hairy founding members of the DALIAN moustache family continue to win hearts and inspire tashes worldwide.
Made from fine bone china the moustache mugs are the highest of quality as well as being quirky designs. DALIAN has had a long and happy relationship with its producers in Stoke on Trent, working together with the best skilled crafts-people in local industries for the best mugs and tashes possible. The DALIAN range is really proud to only produce original and high quality goods.
As the brain child of Peter Ibruegger DALIAN and the original six mugs were launched in Paris and London in 2009. They became an instant success and are frequently featured by major international publications and stocked worldwide.
Material: Fine bone china
Made in Stoke on Trent, England
London based Peter Ibruegger Studio designs naughty fine bone china ware and gets them produced by traditional English craftsmen in Stoke on Trent.

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A woman in Braila, Romania, claims she managed to snap the picture of a ghost with her cell phone. It was hovering in a house that was once a commissary station where communists tortured political prisoners.
Romanian publication Astigan reports:
Manuela Chirosca, a local security worker was guarding an old building, no. 29 on Ana Aslan Street, constructed in late 19th century. She was doing routine checks of the house two days ago (July 19). "It was about 7 AM when I was doing the morning tour of the house. I had a strong feeling that I am not alone," she told Jurnalul National.
"I was going for the window of a room which was probably a bedroom or something like that. I approached the window and then I saw a tall feminine shape that seemed wreathed in a white veil. My first reaction was to get back and run away as fast as I can!"
It is exactly what she did. Wouldn't you? But then she took a deep breath, calmed down and went back in the room. "Fear made me feel sick, but then I thought there's nothing that could possibly happen to me and I could not miss the chance to take pictures," Chirsoca told the Romanian newspaper. She took up her mobile phone and photographed the blurry shape. "I had to take several pictures because the shape was moving from one place to another." . . . House no. 29 on Ana Aslan Street served as a stock exchange market before the Great War. It was busy with people interested in agricultural products, especially in grain. After the Second World War, the building was transformed in a commissary station. The communists would torture and murder political opponents in its basement. Perhaps because the building has its own dark history is why Manuela Chirosca believes that it is the Ghost House of Ana Aslan Street.
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Luminous Lakes
Luminous Lakes works by Brian S. Keeler This show of my recent paintings at 171 Cedar Arts Center is a collection of recent plein air and studio works focusing on the beauty of Seneca and Keuka Lakes. The title of this show, "Luminous Lakes", suggest my interest in painting the ephemeral effects of light and atmosphere as it plays on and describes the topography of these landscapes. Working out of doors, from observation is source of inspiration and connects the process to that direct type of painting popularized by the impressionists painters and before them to the proto-impressionist French artist, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot. Taking the immediacy of portraying the motif in oil into larger studio works, of which there are several in this show, adds a sense of authenticity to the imagery. My interest is also in connection to and conveying a sense of Americana or how the land, agrarian tradition and architecture all indicate a unique place. These specifics of history and locale also become a spring board or window into more primordial aspects of nature, such as light, wind, rhythms and atmospheric beauty. - Brian S. Keeler About the Artist Brian Keeler was born in 1953 and he began his art study early in life as his father was a painter as well. More through osmosis than direct teaching he was inspired to paint and encouraged by his father's example. He continued to have an interest in drawing and painting throughout his youth, which led him to study first at Keystone College near Scranton, PA and then at the York Academy of Arts in York, PA. While in York he studied realistic painting under the auspices of Tom Wise, Ted Fitzkee, Virgil Sova, William Faulkner and others. He has since studied with several other accomplished realist painters including Dan Greene, Everett Kinstler, Jack Beal and Nelson Shanks. Graduating from the York School in 1975, he has pursued his career as a fine artist ever since while winning numerous awards and having shows throughout the northeast and beyond. Portrait painting was the mainstay early on in his career with landscape and other explorations taking precedent later, but his work always showing a decidedly realist and representational preference. Several years ago, he moved to Ithaca, NY, but maintains a studio in his hometown of Wyalusing, Pa. He primarily devotes his time to painting landscapes, still lifes, figures, and portraits in oil, pastel and watercolor. His teaching has included giving workshops at various schools and art associations as well courses at Keystone College. He has also been a rostered artist with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts which facilitated art residencies at high schools under the aegis of this state arts organization. Brian has made the landscape and cities of Italy one of his painting projects since 1992 and since 1994 he's conducted a landscape and figure painting class there in the medieval hill town of Barga, in northern Tuscany and just outside of Todi, in Umbria. In the spring of 2004 he was honored with a retrospective of his own work along with his father, William Keeler's paintings at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA. Brian Keeler authored a book about his father's work that served as the catalog for this show. The book titled, "The Art Work of William Keeler- Pennsylvania Regionalist Painter" and was published in the spring of 2004 by River Light Press. In 2016-2017 another retrospective type of exhibit of Keeler's work was held at the Roberson Museum in Binghamton, NY. A catalog and documentary DVD were produced to record this exhibit. This exhibit included 95 paintings shown mostly in the Sears Harkness Gallery of the Roberson. Involved locally in many arts projects, Keeler founded the Blue Heron Gallery in Wyalusing in 2002 and served as its director for 10 years, and he also originated the North Branch Art Trail and Festival in 1993. Brian Keeler has focused on the Susquehanna River as one of his main sources of interest for many years. He derives the primary source of inspiration for his river images from the beautiful stretch of river in Bradford County, but he has also depicted the river shores in the Wyoming Valley near Wilkes-Barre and throughout the river's course. His oil paintings are often begun with quick pencil sketches or studies done in pastel or with oil, usually in a smaller scale on location. He values the time on the river as an important part of the picture-making process. Sometimes stopping to paint while driving past a favorite location or in a kayak when he paddles out to paint these studies from direct observation, they all have their own way of contributing to studio paintings. His outdoor painting is done very much in the tradition of the Impressionists or like the original plein air painter, the 19th century French artist, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot. After making studies outside, Keeler then goes back to his studio and creates larger format oils based on these first-hand compositions and from photos he takes during the days on the river. He feels that there is something irreplaceable about being outside and experiencing nature first-hand while creating paintings in a single sitting. Feeling the air, hearing the ambient sounds of nature and even the background sounds of traffic, lawnmowers and people, seeing the effects of light and serendipitous occurrences of nature all contribute to an emotional connection to his subjects. One of the artist's main attractions to any given landscape is the quality of light and the play of light on shorelines, clouds and topography. He especially enjoys the contrasts of the area's older buildings in combination with newer more banal architecture, set against that natural beauty of the river's edge. Keeler's work has won wide acclaim over the years. His paintings have been collected by many individuals, corporations, and museums. His work has appeared in feature articles in American Artist Magazine in 1992 and 2003 and in 2006 Pastelogram, a journal for pastel artists featured hisFind out more »


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Top Shelf wrote:i've watched mandan play a couple of times and i'm not convinced they are a threat. they have one
defensemen that can handle the puck and probably one or two forwards that can catch pass. they
work hard but there just isn't alot of skill on the team. i thought there goalie is so-so but they are winning some games and staying close with the big boys.
i still think the 3 top teams in the west are
1. century
2. williston
3. bottineau
two forwards that can catch a pass? i dont know where your from but get real......as far as bottineau goes im still not sold and I can garantee you mandan will AT LEAST split with them. With the west being what it is this year mandan has a great chance to make state. Right now id put them 3rd or 4th behind williston and century and MAYBE Bismarck. I cant put minot up here due simply to the fact that they lost to jamestown


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Palladium Books® Weekly Update – March 10, 2011
Palladium Books® Weekly Update – March 10, 2011
By Kevin Siembieda
We've been riding the whirlwind all week.
Wayne keeps muttering, "Too much going on," and he's right. I think Wayne and I have been at the office till 10:00 PM every day working like mad on multiple projects and dealing with the demands of the business. That means I've been coordinating and directing efforts on several fronts. Everything from day to day stuff, to filing copyright forms, preparing contracts, sending out art assignments for The Rifter® #54, lining up artists for upcoming and future books, talking to freelancers, talking to my attorney, prepping for the Creators Conference, working on Thundercloud Galaxy™, getting the next batch of out of print books lined up for reprinting, as well as putting into motion a number of still secret projects and dealing with things behind the scenes. It is all very exciting, but holy moley!
UPDATE: Palladium Web Site. The new Palladium web site has been a big part of what we've been working on this week. There are a lot of decisions to be made, from program choices and costs, to design features and a thousand little details (ease of use, legibility of text, font styles, titles for buttons and pull downs, choice of artwork, and a zillion other things). And that's just our end of things, our web designer Rex Barkdoll is doing most of the heavy lifting. Emails and telephone discussions between me, Wayne Smith, Thom Bartold, and Rex have been flying fast and furious (with additional input from Alex, Julius, Kathy, Matthew and a few fans). There are also all kinds of content changes and updates to be made.
So what do I think of the new Palladium web site design? Personally, I love it, and think most of you will too. It is a vast improvement over the current site: cleaner, easier to use, slick and fun. Everyone working on it is putting their heart and soul into the project. Of course, our funds and time are limited, so we can only do so much, but we're definitely working hard to make it as cool as we can.
When will it launch? We're hoping by the end of March, but it might be April. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it. ;)
UPDATE: Creators Conference. I have been locked in numerous meetings and discussions about the Creators Conference. It should be exciting, but it's not just fun and games. There has been a lot of planning and thought about various topics to be discussed and workshops to be considered. I've also been talking with some key people about a number of the projects and plans I intend to reveal at the Conference. I've been in frequent discussion with Mark Dudley as he'll be heading up a new division within Palladium Books. Freelancer Note: Reserve your hotel room. You have till March 16, 2011 before the Palladium rate is invalid and the price for a room goes up $20 a night.
UPDATE: Secrets. Movies, television, videogame development, comic books, and a range of other projects based on Palladium's intellectual properties (IPs) are being explored. There have been rumblings on several fronts, but when you are dealing with third parties and potential licensees (especially those in big business like Hollywood), you are pretty much a leaf at the mercy of the wind. That's one reason we have not been revealing any details on these fronts, as we don't want to get your hopes up. We'll see a flurry of interest or activity about a Palladium IP, then nothing, or the interest wanes, or you are on hold for weeks or months, and even years. Case in point, it has been 9 years since we signed the Rifts movie option. Will there ever be a Rifts movie? Maybe, maybe not. Will it be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Films? Maybe, maybe not, but I do remain hopeful. It's maddening sometimes even when you understand and appreciate the reason for the delay or hesitation to move forward. Of course, it's not a simple decision like, "lets make a movie." I wish. Meanwhile, we've been trying to make moves in some of these areas ourselves.
UPDATE: Colt the Outlander™/Rifts® Crossover Part Two. After an unexpected delay, the Colt/Rifts® comic crossover in Heavy Metal® Magazine is finished and approved. It's a pulse pounding finish with great art and strong story. We'll let you know what issue it will appear in as soon as we know, but it should be soon. The Rifts® story will also appear in an upcoming Colt the Outlander™ Collection from Heavy Metal.
Back in Stock: Rifts® Baseball Cap. Spring and baseball season fast approach, so I figured Palladium better stock up on the popular Rifts® Baseball Cap. A khaki color hat with black trim and a black Rifts® logo. Should be back in stock and ready to ship by March 24, 2011.
UPDATE: The Rifter® #54. As reported in the last Weekly Update, this is the landmark final chapter of the long running, Hammer of the Forge™ by James M.G. Cannon. Thus, it only seemed fitting that we dedicate the cover to the series. Mike Leonard is working on the cover even as you read this. Other articles include the weapons and gizmos of the Fortress City of New Chillicothe in Rifts®, creatures from across the Megaverse®, superheroes, Nightbane® fiction and more.
Question: Should we collect the Hammer of the Forge™ and present it as a novelization with a game section that presents the stats for key characters, aliens, weapons, and other elements from the Forge series? It's an idea Wayne Smith and some fans have suggested and I'm thinking about. Is this a product you would buy?
UPDATE: Rifts® Dimension Book 14: Thundercloud Galaxy™. I've done a minimal amount of work on the book this week, but I vow it will go to press before the end of March and it will be another great book. I expect to dive back into it full force this weekend.
UPDATE: Rifts® Lemuria. John Zeleznik is fast at work on the cover and I need to assign interior artwork. Nick Bradshaw and a few others keep asking to work on this book, so I need to get cracking.
UPDATE: Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook. Apollo Okamura should be working on the cover, and I need to get author, Irvin Jackson working on the next Robotech® sourcebook.
UPDATE: Kathy Simmons is feeling better and hopes to be working on her ghouls for queenofghouls.com this weekend.
UPDATE: Alex Marciniszyn. Alex and family are hanging tough.
UPDATE: Online Sales. This week's sales have been poor. Between winter doldrums and the delay of Thundercloud Galaxy™, sales have dropped off significantly. In fact, we went from an incredible week of sales with people subscribing to The Rifter® to a dismal week. It's to be expected.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher
2011 Releases
Available Now & Back in Print
- Armageddon Unlimited™ – New – Available now!
- The Rifter® #53 – New – Available now!
- Rifts® World Book 20: Canada – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Dark Conversions – Back in print – Available now
- Palladium Fantasy RPG® – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Game Master Guide – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 5: Triax & The NGR – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® China One – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Megaverse® Builder – Back in print – Available now
March 2011 Releases
Note: All items listed below should be available by March 24.
BACK IN STOCK – Rifts® Baseball Cap (Khaki cap with black Rifts® logo and trim).
BACK IN PRINT – Rifts® Dimension Book™ 6: Three Galaxies™
BACK IN PRINT – Rifts® Black Vault™
BACK IN PRINT – Rifts® Mercenaries™
BACK IN PRINT – Aliens Unlimited™ – A Heroes Unlimited™ sourcebook
April 2011 Releases
- Rifts® Dimension Book™ 14: Thundercloud Galaxy™ – New – April 12
- The Rifter® #54 – New – April 12.
– Additional titles back in print.
May 2011 Releases
- Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook (tentative)
- Rifts® WB One: Vampire Kingdoms™, Expanded & Updated
- Rifts® Book of Magic (back in print)
June 2011 Releases
- Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™ – New
- Rifts® World Book™: Lemuria – New
July 2011 Releases
- The Rifter® #55 – New
- Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames (Minion War™ crossover) – New
New Releases Coming Soon (tentative)
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™: First Responders Sourcebook (as soon as we can slot it in)
- Dead Reign™ Sourcebook Three
In the Pipeline
- Robotech® UEEF Marines and other Robotech® sourcebooks.
- Rifts® sourcebooks
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™ sourcebooks
- Palladium Fantasy®: Mysteries of Magic™ Two & Three
- Palladium Fantasy® other sourcebooks
- Warpath™ Urban Jungle RPG
- And other good stuff. Lots of other good stuff!
NEW! Rifts® Dimension Book™ 14: Thundercloud Galaxy™
– Ships April 12, 2011 – in final production
The Thundercloud Galaxy™ is a place of unparalleled adventure. It is where the Dominators once thrived and where the godlike beings were (mostly) destroyed. The people of the Thundercloud have suffered great adversity and more than one mass extinction, yet somehow the galaxy seems to have more habitable planets and diverse life forms than anywhere else in the Three Galaxies. Strange beings like the feline Shing, insectoid CheDive, and Whetu, who defy description, and monsters like the devouring Yboor are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to life in this galaxy. It is also home to the Bushi Federation and the Splugorth Kingdom of Desslyth, and is a playground for space pirates, raiders, the mysterious Exiles and the dark forces of the Minion War.
As the civilizations of the Anvil and Corkscrew Galaxies scramble to colonize the Thundercloud Galaxy in a mad rush to grab as much as they can, they are beginning to realize the galaxy holds more riches, beauty, horrors and secrets than anyone has ever imagined, making it a place of exploration, discovery, adventure and treachery like no other.
Thundercloud Galaxy™ is a perfect companion to the rest of the Phase World®/Three Galaxies™ based Dimension Books as well as the Minion War™ series. Players can be pirates, raiders, brigands or hired guns, or they may be explorers, adventurers, Spacers, or any number of heroes trying to protect the colonists or the indigenous people of countless worlds and colonies. The possibilities are truly limited only by your imagination.
Publisher Kevin Siembieda vows the book will go to the printer by the end of March, which means a mid-April ship date. We apologize for the delay, but as is Palladium's policy, we will not release a book until we think it is worthy of our audience, and that means epic source material, adventure and fun.
NEW! The Rifter® #54
– Ships April 12, 2011
This is going to be another landmark issue of The Rifter® filled with epic source material, exotic places, strange critters, adventure settings and ideas.
The Rifter® is your doorway to unlimited imagination and numerous Palladium role-playing worlds. It offers new heroes, powers, weapons, magic and adventure for your games. It presents new villains, monsters and dangers to battle, and new ideas to consider.
The Rifter® #54 includes:
NEW! Rifts® World Book One:
Vampire Kingdoms™, Expanded & Updated
Kevin Siembieda is reorganizing, tweaking, expanding and updating one of the most popular Rifts® World Books ever published: Vampire Kingdoms™. This will include some new artwork and an expanded page count. The book will be updated and expanded in much the same way as Kevin did with Rifts® Sourcebook One a few years ago. Best of all, it will be accompanied by theRifts® Vampires Sourcebook™.
NEW! Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™
All new source material
Trouble is stirring in the Vampire Kingdoms as ambitious vampire lords, ladies and misanthropes seek to expand their power to dominate more mortal life forms.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and a handpicked selection of other writers, this sourcebook explores the vampires of Mexico and their kingdoms in ways you never imagined. Tons of new data, adventure ideas and revelations.
NEW! Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook
This Robotech® sourcebook will be an early 2011 release.
NEW! Rifts® World Book: Lemuria™
At last, the underwater realm of Lemuria. The people and history of Lemuria, new magic, sea herbs and healing, sea monsters, and more.
NEW! Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames™
The Minion War spills across Rifts Earth, where demons and infernals hope to recruit allies and use the Rifts as gateways of destruction. Their influence shakes things up across the planet, especially at locations where demons and Deevils already have a strong presence. More details to follow, but for now, 'nuff said.
NEW! Rifts® Chaos Earth™ Sourcebook: First Responders
Data about the chaos and madness of the early days of the Great Cataclysm, and the brave men and women who tried to stem the tide of destruction and save lives, the First Responders.
Armageddon Unlimited™
for Heroes Unlimited™ and the Minion War™ – Available now
Armageddon Unlimited™ is the ultimate good vs evil setting and adventure. The fate of the world hangs in the balance and only you can stop its destruction as demons and Deevils fight for control of the Earth and bringing about the end of life as we know it.
Armageddon Unlimited™ is more than an epic world-saving adventure, it is also a sourcebook jam-packed with new powers, magic, weapons and Power Categories that can be incorporated into any Heroes Unlimited™ campaign. This book can be used as a standalone adventure sourcebook for Heroes Unlimited™ or as a pivotal plot in an expansive Minion War™ campaign. Get a freesneak preview of the book from DriveThruRPG.com.
Back in print in March
New – "Rifts® Logo" Baseball Cap
Back by popular demand. A black Rifts® Logo on a khaki baseball cap with black trim. Looks great and fans love it! Makes a great gift.
Don't forget about the "Rifts® Logo" Dice Bag
Gold print on a rich black, faux velvet material. Looks gorgeous, a sturdy and well made, drawstring bag. A big 7x9 inches, can hold a lot of dice.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 6: Three Galaxies™
Rifts® Adventure Sourcebook: The Black Vault™
Rifts® Mercenaries™
Aliens Unlimited™ – A Heroes Unlimited™ sourcebook
Also recently Back in Print
Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®
Rifts® World Book 20: Rifts® Canada™
Rifts® Dark Conversions™
Rifts® Game Master Guide
Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook™
Rifts® World Book Five: Triax and the NGR™
Rifts® World Book 24: Rifts® China One
Rifts® Dimension Book 7: Megaverse® Builder
PDF downloads from DriveThruRPG.com
This is a great resource for getting out of print Palladium titles and other select books. We've made 90 titles available as PDF digital downloads from DriveThruRPG.com. This is a great way to try Palladium products and get access to out of print RPG source material. Some notable titles include.
- Splicers® RPG
- Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, First Edition Rules.
- Boxed Nightmares™ for BTS, First Edition Rules.
- Nightbane® Book Four: Shadows of Light™.
- The Mechanoids® RPG and The Mechanoid Invasion® RPG Trilogy.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®, First Edition Rules and select 1st Edition sourcebooks.
- After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks.
- The Rifter® issues 1-48.
- The Best of The Rifter®
- Deluxe Revised RECON® RPG and Advanced RECON® Sourcebook.
- And more – go to DriveThruRPG.com and check 'em out.
The Queen of Ghouls: Life-Sized Halloween Props
Start planning for Halloween early as Palladium's very own Kathy Simmons will start to offer her 2011 selection of life-sized Halloween props (most are 6 feet or taller) that are to die for.
Each is an all-weather, life-sized Halloween prop that can handle rain and snow, and is a one-of-a-kind work of art (no two are exactly the same). Each looks frighteningly "real." All come apart and fold down to slightly larger than a king-size pillow for easy storage. Comes with easy instructions, a plastic storage bag, and the lawn stake to stand it up in your front yard. Indoor stand sold separately.
Types of "Ghouls" include: Zombies (all kinds!), killer clowns, wizards, witches, devils, grave ghouls, scarecrows, executioners, mad doctors, deadly nurses, vampires, werewolves, and more. Kathy's also now offering an array of hand-painted Halloween signs, signs with heads and bodies hanging from them, witch's brewing pots, Halloween centerpieces and more. Best of all, her high quality creations are much more affordable and imaginative than most competitors or mass produced items in a store, making them affordable Halloween fun.
If you think the photos online look good, you should see them in person. A typical "ghoul," as she calls her creations, costs $129-$259. You can see some of her work at her Queen of Ghouls™ Ebay store – queenofghouls.com.


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The scenes are becoming increasingly common in Anaheim: Several teens and young adults huddle outside a fast-food joint, taking turns sucking on a balloon.
Dozens of young adults at an industrial complex pass around a balloon after taking "hits," their giddy laughter booming off the buildings.
At a crowded party, a pressurized gas tank stands by a table – not far from the potato chips.
Nitrous oxide, for years used by physicians for its anesthetic and analgesic effects, is becoming the drug of choice for teens and young adults in Anaheim, says Sgt. Steve Pena, a drug recognition expert with Anaheim PD.
"Parents need to be on the lookout and be aware," Pena says. "Abuse of nitrous oxide clearly is on the rise."
In the past month, two suicides have been linked to nitrous oxide, Pena says.
Dentists routinely use nitrous oxide for its pain-numbing effects. Teens and young adults are embracing it for an intense but brief high. A blast of nitrous oxide from a balloon can, within 8 to 10 seconds, cause dizziness, giddiness, disorientation and, occasionally, visual hallucinations – effects users crave, authorities say.
Often taken with the drug Ecstasy, nitrous oxide can cause confusion, headaches and a sensation that one is about to pass out or faint.
The effects last 2 to 3 minutes — enough time for someone to die, Pena says. Police have received reports of people inhaling nitrous oxide while driving – an extremely dangerous combination.
A commonly abused form of nitrous oxide is found in small, pressurized food-preparation containers called "whip-its," or EZ Whip. Users place the whip-it in a "cracker," and then place a balloon on one end of the cracker and turn it until the whip-it pops. This releases nitrous oxide into the balloon.
Whip-its, a cracker and a balloon can be purchased on-line for about $10 to $20, Pena says.
Large, pressurized gas tanks containing nitrous oxide can be purchased at race car shops for between $50 and $100, Pena says. The gas commonly is used to improve engine performance.
Long-term abuse can damage the central nervous system and brain cells. Users also can suffer loss of balance and dexterity, weakness, and numbness in the extremities.
At high doses, nitrous oxide can kill since it replaces oxygen in the bloodstream, depressing the central nervous system and halting breathing.
It's a misdemeanor to possess nitrous oxide, or any substance containing nitrous oxide, with the intent of inhaling it to get intoxicated, Pena notes.
Pena hopes that the now-familiar sight of teens and young adults in Anaheim sucking on balloons becomes less common.
"Parents, teachers, and law enforcement need to recognize the paraphernalia used while inhaling nitrous oxide," Pena says. "And children need to be educated about the dangers and long-term effects – and the possibility of death.
"This is one balloon, figuratively speaking, that needs to be popped."
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Action Bee Removal
We are Action Bee Removal, a bee removal company in southern California. We treat all sorts of bee problems and perform services such as bee extermination, live be removal and bee hive removal. Bees become a problem during the warm season in Southern California and we are here to help people with their bee problems.
There are two common types of bee problem that we encounter everyday. The first are bee swarms. Bee swarms are migrating bees that are trying to find a home, or a hive. The worker bees swarm around the queen been and will often be found clumping up to protect the queen bee. Although it may look menacing, migrating bees are in fact passive and harmless, unless threatened.
The other common problem are bee hives. When bees actually have a hive with honey and larvae, they become territorial. These bees can be dangerous because their natural instinct becomes hive protection. You must have the hive removed; simply killing the bees will not solve the problem even if you kill all of them. Other bees will find the hive and inhabit it.
We have been in business for 3 years and we are trying to increase our presence on the internet. We believe that the web 2.0 methods of using the media is a great way to do that.
The target audience is an existing market. We already have videos uploaded onto youtube such as this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFx5WcRivW0
We plan on creating two new categories of videos:
1) Testimonials: Simple video testimonials of our clients that we've serviced in the field.
2) Informational Videos: We will be providing Do It Yourself, information and tips and tricks videos.
Most of the videos will be posted or linked from our main site: http://www.actionbees.com. That site will be going through an overhaul to include a video gallery. The videos will be hosted on Youtube.
Given this, we expect most of our audience to be people who have an interest or need for bee removal. The audience directly from Youtube may not necessarily have the same need but may likely simply be browsing around.
We need a simple footer for our video so we can overlay information on top (name, location, etc.)
Technical requirements:
-It doesn't matter what program is used to create the video clip as long as it can be imported as a layer into iMovie, final cut (pro/express) and Adobe Premeire.
-Use the appropriate format for an HD and a standard version. If possible, we would like the raw file as well.
-Make a wide screen and a letterbox version
The Footer
- We want a slightly transparent, glassy and glossy, black rectangle background covering about 1/6 of the bottom of the screen vertically and expanding the entire screen horizontally.
- On the left side of the black bar we want our company logo and directly to the right of that will be our company name (the exact format resembling the attached file "Site_Header_New". The font used there is there is "Tw Cen MT", but feel free to use what looks best.)
- On entrance, create a simple animation. Be creative with this. Something like the bar flying in. Animation shouldn't be more than 4-5 seconds.
- After animation is complete, the bar will stay static.


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Hello everyone~! I was going through my posts and realized i NEVER
Posted my gumball machine turned snowglobe here! Gosh! I can't believe
I forgot! It is one of my all time fave projects! So even though it's way overdue
I decided to share it anyways! It was created for the SPC show for Prima, and I guess
with all the creating frenzy I just never got to it! I really hope you like it!
It took quite some time and was a true labor of love . It's "simple" by means
It took quite some time and was a true labor of love . It's "simple" by means
of techniques and what not. But the snowy scene inside using the Stamps and Die set
that coordinates with the paper line was too perfect to add to.
As always supply list is below if you want to shop for the itmes used
it will take you straight to Scrapbook.com. Hugs and huge apologies
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I really enjoyed making a snowy scene! This thing is solid, and can be shook for all of the snow
and glitter to shake around! It is so fun!
The little dispenser has the druzy stones that are so gorgeous!
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Guthrie fine with payback after hit by pitches
CHICAGO -- There was a bit of baseball gamesmanship that, in the opinion of Royals pitcher Jeremy Guthrie, was handled quite properly. And he was the guy who set it off.
In the first inning of the Royals' 3-1 loss on Monday night, Guthrie struck two of the White Sox with pitches. First, he hit Alexei Ramirez, who appeared peeved, and later Conor Gillaspie. Neither intentionally, Guthrie emphasized.
"The thing you have to think about with Ramirez is he stands about four inches from the plate, so if you don't throw a strike on the black, you have a chance to hit him," Guthrie said. "I didn't understand his reaction to it, but certainly the Gillaspie pitch was a ball that got away from me, up and in."
At any rate, in the second inning White Sox pitcher Chris Sale hit the Royals' Danny Valencia in the hand. It was a little payback in the age-old baseball manner.
"I think they handled it the right way," Guthrie said. "It was my fault that Danny got hit like that, but their guy went out and did the right thing in terms of the way you play the game. I wish he would have hit [Valencia] lower in the body and not put his hand and face at risk but, at the end of the day, their pitcher did the right thing."
Valencia came out of the game five innings later and X-rays taken on his left hand were negative. He shrugged it off and said he was fine.
"It's really my fault," Guthrie said. "I talked to Danny about that and said I'm not trying to hit guys, but I hit two. And their guy goes out and protects his hitters. I thought the umpire did a great job, too, because he didn't add warnings and allowed us to continue to pitch inside without fear of being ejected. That took care of itself."


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Look! The MacBook Air! It's back! I took a picture of it here with the Acer so you would know it wasn't just me pretending to live in happier times. It arrived this afternoon, along with everything else in my computer bag, minus the ARC of Redshirts I gifted to the fellow at Reagan National who tracked me down. It's nice when things have a happy ending.
Thus concludes my computer drama. I will never lose my MacBook Air again. Ever. I SWEAR.


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Last week, my family and I went to Downtown Naperville, IL, and the weather was beautiful. The water looked crisp, the sun was bright and shining, and the riverwalk was somewhat empty. So like any other normal melanated civilian, I saw it fit to have an impromptu photoshoot (using an iPhone 7 camera of course).
The Outfit
My outfit consisted of a simple H&M Basic's Latte Scalloped Tee (2 for $10), Dark Wash Hollister Super Skinny Jeans ($25), Cream, Brown, and Reptile Print Franco Sarto Sandals ($40), an Olive Green American Rag Cargo Jacket ($30), and my JetSet Cream Michael Kors Purse ($150). I accessorized with some bracelets from my neighborhood Illumena Jewelry ($30), and a Pandora Bracelet ($150). My outfit was just over $400. Again, keep in mind that these items have been acquired over a series of years; it wasn't a one time buy!
The Photoshoot
I digress
This was totally unplanned, but really fun. I'll have to make a habit of this.
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Marvel Studios announced footage will be added to the Chinese release of "Iron Man 3," a departure from the country's usual practice of censoring U.S. films.
Marvel, in a joint statement with Chinese media company DMG, said Friday special bonus footage will be in the Chinese version of the film, along with an appearance by Chinese actress Fan Bingbing.
The edits are meant to make the superhero film more appealing to Chinese audiences, with parts of the movie shot in Beijing, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Chinese actor Wang Xueqi also appears in the film as a character named Dr. Wu.
"Iron Man 3" isn't the first film to be tailored to appeal to Chinese audiences. Last year's "Looper" included an extended segment during the portion of the film that was set in Shanghai, the Times reported.


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Tea was a cult beverage long before the modern prevalence for all things "cult." To this day, the rules for the correct way to take one's tea vary from country to country.
Relaxing? Eminently. The Japanese have known about the effect of green tea since ancient times. The tea ceremony, a sequence of complex, meditative rituals, was developed círca 800 C.E.
Great Britain
A question of class? Afternoon tea was once the preserve of the upper crust and is still celebrated in luxury hotels around the world. The principal elements are strong black tea with milk, sandwiches and scones.
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|Posted on January 25, 2012 at 04:10 AM EST and last edited on February 15, 2012 at 04:11 AM EST
TL;DR: A new world on the server, where you get one life and you have to survive for as long as you can. Your score is determined by the amount of XP you have when you die. When you die, you can play again, but start from scratch. The world has custom terrain and custom mob behavior, which you can read below. You should also read the Hardcore World rules.
How to play: You must be registered on this website (otherwise your highscore won't be posted on the front page), and be promoted to a Member rank or higher. Type
Background: Okay, so Minecraft can get boring and repetitive, and sometimes creative juices are just not flowing. I've been thinking of something new to bring to the server, and I'd like your ideas / thoughts. Tentatively, I'm calling it Steve vs. Hardcore World. 1
Description: The idea itself isn't new; there are "hardcore servers" out there, where you need to survive, and you are banned when you die. Because we're not banning anyone, we need to raise the stakes.
Future ideas:
Current iteration:
The hardcore world is under development. As of February 13, 2012, we are on Hardcore Test world #4, using vs. Hardcore World plugin v0.12.
|Posted on January 25, 2012 at 02:00 PM EST
Ah, Bear Grylls And that sounds awesome
|Posted on January 25, 2012 at 04:05 PM EST
As I told Imzo, I think it sounds scary but could be fun if I could play in a group. Maybe after that, I'd try playing by myself. Do you know when you'll be ready to test this new world out?
|Posted on January 25, 2012 at 06:09 PM EST
This would be pretty awesome. Have you thought about making endermen hostile or easier to anger and some wolves spawn angry? Also, signs marking the place players died.
|Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:07 AM EST
I thought about the wolves spawning angry, but the hostile Endermen sounds good, too. I'll add that to the OP. My only limitation right now is whether or not I can do all this from a plugin or not (from a plugin vs. having to modify the server directly).
|Posted on January 26, 2012 at 09:19 AM EST
|Posted on January 26, 2012 at 04:09 PM EST
I don't think I can change the nature of mobs without making a custom server (not just a plugin)...
|Posted on January 27, 2012 at 12:24 AM EST
Mad cow infection? Maybe if a cow gets too close to a zombie, it will get "infected" and go crazy and start attacking you. But that would be scary.
|Posted on January 27, 2012 at 06:24 AM EST and last edited on January 27, 2012 at 06:25 AM EST
I started working on custom terrain for the hardcore world, and managed to get some things working:
A screenshot of the terrain:
|Posted on January 27, 2012 at 03:06 PM EST
Well, I like the shroom biomes, the floating islands, and the dried up rivers, so if I can find a place with a floating shroom island near a dried up river, I'm happy Oh, and I like the "Oceans spawn less" part too.
|Posted on January 27, 2012 at 07:35 PM EST
I think it's beautiful! Would we be able to download this world for single player?
|Posted on January 28, 2012 at 04:44 PM EST and last edited on January 29, 2012 at 04:15 AM EST
Nope, Minecraft doesn't have any way to allow you to generate a world like this. I could pre-generate a world, but if you go outside the pre-generated area in single player, you'll see the "regular" terrain. I'm sure there are (single player) mods out there that do something similar.
Another screenshot, this time of some custom pine and giant trees. This is different from the jungle trees in the weekly snapshot (obviously), and they're basically generated with the world (meaning that you unfortunately can't replant them with a sapling, for instance).
|Posted on January 31, 2012 at 02:19 AM EST
the trees are making me laggy. are u still gonna take out some of them?
|Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:49 PM EST
Yes, the code has been updated to generate fewer trees, but this will only happen in new areas. It's best to avoid the dense jungles. I've also decided to remove the world border for the hardcore world, with the thinking that the hardcore world will be reset every month or so, and so I'm not too worried about file size.
Also, I patched
|Posted on January 31, 2012 at 05:24 PM EST
the fuck blue i paused hardcore and it won't let me teleport to sv or cr
|Posted on January 31, 2012 at 06:00 PM EST
So what happened exactly? You were in hardcore, typed
|Posted on January 31, 2012 at 06:15 PM EST
when i typed /pausehc it said the normal message, but it didn't teleport me out of the hardcore world
|Posted on February 01, 2012 at 05:04 AM EST
vHW v0.06
|Posted on February 01, 2012 at 12:37 PM EST
Well, this stuff is going to make my death about 25% more likely. I guess it's more like proper hardcore mode now though...
|Posted on February 01, 2012 at 01:15 PM EST
I keep dying at 0 XP even without all these new things, lol.
|Posted on February 01, 2012 at 04:04 PM EST
highest top score like a boss
|Posted on February 01, 2012 at 08:07 PM EST
Suggestion: Can we have a list of everyone's score while they're living?
|Posted on February 01, 2012 at 08:26 PM EST
My first attempt.
I never realized how much I hate creepers until now.
|Posted on February 01, 2012 at 09:13 PM EST and last edited on February 01, 2012 at 09:13 PM EST
|Posted on February 02, 2012 at 06:23 PM EST
still #1
|Posted on February 02, 2012 at 07:10 PM EST and last edited on February 02, 2012 at 07:11 PM EST
I can live with being #2, although I was #1 for a little while.
Also, great video, Kirby. You should do more videos on the Hardcore world.
|Posted on February 03, 2012 at 02:39 AM EST
vHW v0.07
I like the idea, but not sure we can at the moment (unless you have an idea on how to do it properly). Having your score posted upon death is really convenient (mainly because you wouldn't notice the lag). It'd be really laggy (for yourself) if your score gets posted every time your XP increases. We also can't post scores every few minutes, because that would only work for as long as you're actually online (meaning that if you disconnected, your score would be zero until you came back online).
|Posted on February 03, 2012 at 03:07 PM EST
vHW v0.08
|Posted on February 03, 2012 at 09:36 PM EST
Episode 2 of my sort of LP is up now
|Posted on February 04, 2012 at 06:18 AM EST
Nice vids kirby, You should commentate on them
|Posted on February 04, 2012 at 05:41 PM EST
Good job Kirby. I can't tell you how many times I've died from being blown up.
But he already does...
|Posted on February 06, 2012 at 06:33 PM EST
Well episode 3 is up. Wondering if me telling you every time a new episode is up is getting annoying or not.
|Posted on February 06, 2012 at 06:54 PM EST and last edited on February 06, 2012 at 09:18 PM EST
Not sure about other people, but I don't find it annoying. I actually like that you posted them here, because it makes it easy.
Edit: I think more people should play hardcore.
|Posted on February 08, 2012 at 02:25 PM EST
vHW v0.09 / v0.10
|Posted on February 08, 2012 at 03:34 PM EST
Yay, more hardcore!
|Posted on February 08, 2012 at 08:56 PM EST
Along with more hardcore, there's also more hardcore videos!
|Posted on February 09, 2012 at 04:27 AM EST
Reminder: Hardcore world will be reset sometime today / tonight.
For the purposes of this reset, your inventory shouldn't be lost, so if you want to take anything with you, move them from your chest(s) into your inventory.
|Posted on February 09, 2012 at 04:28 PM EST
Because of the above I will allow anyone to steal the iron sword in mah house cuz i won't be able to reach it
|Posted on February 09, 2012 at 04:35 PM EST
Can we have more time to get the inventory? I have some old inventory in cbik's village, too...
|Posted on February 09, 2012 at 04:44 PM EST
I'll reset the world tonight. You should pick up your old inventory before then. The announcement has been a
|Posted on February 09, 2012 at 06:20 PM EST
Okay, I picked up my stuff now. I'm going to pretend not to care about my old inventory, because it's just too far away.
|Posted on February 09, 2012 at 07:47 PM EST
Hardcore world reset. HT4 is live:
Along with that, vHW v0.11:
|Posted on February 11, 2012 at 07:19 PM EST
I forgot to tell you this, but I think villagers are dropping potions even in creative mode. I don't know if this was intentional or not...
|Posted on February 12, 2012 at 04:21 PM EST
It's been fixed, Oracle.
vHW v0.12
|Posted on February 19, 2012 at 01:39 PM EST
vHW v0.13
|Posted on February 21, 2012 at 05:27 PM EST and last edited on February 21, 2012 at 05:28 PM EST
vHW v0.14
|Posted on February 21, 2012 at 09:34 PM EST and last edited on February 21, 2012 at 09:35 PM EST
|Posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM EST
lololololol me and oracle found one already ^_^
|Posted on February 28, 2012 at 05:35 PM EST
By the way, I'm at level 52.
|Posted on February 29, 2012 at 02:01 AM EST
|Posted on March 01, 2012 at 03:04 PM EST
And i'm still grounded
|Posted on March 01, 2012 at 03:06 PM EST
Wow, this grounding has lasted weeks
|Posted on March 02, 2012 at 11:43 AM EST
Grounded for what? lmao
|Posted on March 02, 2012 at 11:48 AM EST
For not playing enough Minecraft.
|Posted on March 08, 2012 at 07:46 PM EST
When is hardcore going to be back? I actually miss it.
|Posted on March 09, 2012 at 05:20 AM EST
Whenever Multiverse comes out with version 2.4, that's when Hardcore will return. The custom plugins are already updated, but without Multiverse, you have no way of accessing the world.
|Posted on March 17, 2012 at 09:01 PM EDT
Is it safe to /starthc again?
|Posted on March 18, 2012 at 12:42 AM EDT
Yeah, you can play the new hardcore world (
|Posted on March 28, 2012 at 07:29 PM EDT and last edited on March 29, 2012 at 11:47 AM EDT
vHW v0.15
Edit: The explosions are far smaller than that of a creeper's.
|Posted on March 29, 2012 at 02:58 AM EDT
o.o I might just stay away from sheep and cows and go for spiders and pigs instead...
|Posted on March 29, 2012 at 11:47 AM EDT
The explosions are a fraction of that of a creeper's, so they actually don't do much harm, just surprise you.
|Posted on March 30, 2012 at 10:46 AM EDT
I can't even get any to explode anyway.
|Posted on March 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM EDT
Hmm... it might not work with cows that have already spawned... because if you kill a cow, it won't eventually respawn... I think.
|Posted on April 13, 2012 at 08:26 AM EDT and last edited on April 13, 2012 at 08:27 AM EDT
Was Multiverse updated or was Hardcore world added another way? I don't know if I'd go there, but whenever the skylands can come back (Are they?), I'd love to go there. I never did get a chance to build there or anything.
|Posted on April 16, 2012 at 04:04 AM EDT
Yeah, Multiverse was updated. The "Hardcore" world is its own custom plugin; Multiverse just loads the Hardcore world when the server restarts.
Mojang removed Skylands when they added The End, but some people have made custom Skyland world generators that behave like the old Skylands did.
|Posted on May 08, 2012 at 03:10 AM EDT
wat about resetting the leaderboard? =p we dont have any chance on appearing there otherwise. or maybe make it so that anything older than a month wont show up on the leaderboard?
|Posted on May 09, 2012 at 03:26 PM EDT
Nah, not resetting it. Instead, the leaderboard on the homepage only shows the highscores from the latest hardcore world.
|Posted on May 21, 2012 at 09:00 PM EDT
do items drop now?
|Posted on July 30, 2012 at 01:04 PM EDT
Since Hardcore world has been neglected recently (and no one plays it anyway), I'll be discontinuing it once 1.3 comes out.
|Posted on August 01, 2012 at 10:09 AM EDT
wtf how did oracle get the high score
|Posted on August 01, 2012 at 04:12 PM EDT


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A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law.
The report railed against France and the United Kingdom, which have passed laws to remove accused copyright scofflaws from the internet. It also protested blocking internet access to quell political unrest (.pdf).
While blocking and filtering measures deny users access to specific content on the Internet, states have also taken measures to cut off access to the Internet entirely. The Special Rapporteur considers cutting off users from internet access, regardless of the justification provided, including on the grounds of violating intellectual property rights law, to be disproportionate and thus a violation of article 19, paragraph 3, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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The Special Rapporteur calls upon all states to ensure that Internet access is maintained at all times, including during times of political unrest. In particular, the Special Rapporteur urges States to repeal or amend existing intellectual copyright laws which permit users to be disconnected from Internet access, and to refrain from adopting such laws.
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The first reviews for The Dark Tower have been published and they are almost uniformly negative.
The science fiction western film is based on Stephen King's novel series of the same name. In it, 11-year-old Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) finds clues about a dimension called Mid-World. There, he meets "The Gunslinger" Roland Deschain (Idris Elba) who is on a mission to get to the Dark Tower and save the real world from extinction. The Man In Black, Walter O'Dim (Matthew McConaughey), has other ideas, however.
At the time of writing, the film has a score of 21 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, the review aggregator site.
Rolling Stone's Peter Travers calls the film a "major misfire" and begins his one-star review writing: "So much is so wrong about The Dark Tower." He continues to accuse director Nikolaj Arcel of wasting the two leads in Elba and McConaughey, and concludes: "This unholy mess shouldn't happen to a king, let alone a paying customer."
Variety's Owen Gleiberman is more favourable, saying The Dark Tower is "a competent and watchable paranoid metaphysical video game that doesn't overstay its welcome". The Verge's Tasha Robinson describes the movie as simplifying the story in the books to the point that "in places it seems outright generic." She adds it is "a clumsy, halfhearted setup for a sprawling television and film franchise."
Mike Ryan's Uproxx review asks "what the hell happened?" "The Dark Tower is so astoundingly awful that when you leave the theater you'll likely be less mad you wasted your time than flabbergasted that something like this could a) happen and b) be released as something that, theoretically, is going to launch a multi-platform franchise," he writes.
"The Dark Tower has been in production for around ten years in some form or another. This final product reminds me a lot of the GOP healthcare plan: You've had all this time and THISis what you come up with?"
The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore isn't as convinced the movie is a complete disaster, however. He calls it "far from the muddled train wreck we've come to expect", but has his own criticisms, including it "lack[ing] the world-constructing gravitas of either the Tolkien books that inspired King or the franchise-launching movies that Sony execs surely have in mind." He adds: "In their effort to introduce newcomers to this world, the filmmakers make the saga's contents look not archetypal but generic and cobbled together."
The Dark Tower will arrive in cinemas in the US tomorrow (August 4), but won't be released in the UK until August 18.


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text: Thursday, June 27, 2013 New Vision of the Physical Therapy Profession Adopted The 2013 APTA House of Delegates yesterday adopted a landmark new vision of the profession of physical therapy: "Transforming society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience." To see the collaborative process of your House of Delegates in adopting this bold new vision—and of the other important motions debated and resolved—view livestreamed video from the 3 days of the 2013 House. A summary of the House activities will appear soon in PT in Motion News Now, but, meanwhile, go to the APTA Conference News webpage to see a video dispatch interviewing APTA Director Lisa Saladin, PT, PhD, about the new vision, and other updates on the House of Delegates meeting and APTA Conference. Comments Really? I can understand the intention of the vision statement because I am a practicing PT who has answered the question, "what do you do?" thousands of times. However, I doubt any of the public and our potential patients will know what this means or even what we are. Are we not a service? Because this vision sounds as if we are going to change the way people move like a Segway or similar "thing" rather than a service offered by professionals. Posted by Tony Pazzaglia on 7/9/2013 2:20 PM Vision statements aren't to define what you do to the public. A business or organization (or association) creates a vision for itself. If it's telling the public what you do, it's a slogan or a branding campaign. Not the same thing. Check this out: http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickhull/2012/12/19/be-visionary-think-big/ Posted by Tyler Anderson on 7/9/2013 3:25 PM


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As a service that targets the college crowd, it always seemed a bit bizarre that Facebook has never done much in the way of giving promotional tools to musicians and bands the way MySpace does. All the buzz around the Facebook Applications platform aside, the whole Facebook signup and profile experience is singularly geared towards individuals, with no features like embeddable Flash players for one's music to be found.
Of course, given the unbridled use of embedded music players on MySpace, one could argue this may be a good thing.
Nevertheless, Facebook may be gaining some significant new features for musicians and users if the multiple-but-nameless sources who spoke with Yahoo! Finance's Rafat Ali are to believed. Ali's sources say that tools for embedding musicians' music and promoting events across Facebook are on their way, as are widgets for sampling iTunes Store music. Eventually, Facebook users will also be able to buy music from the iTunes Store, which naturally gives way to speculation that Facebook could some day offer the services of an indie label, acting as a promoter and publisher and getting bands into the iTunes Store itself.
For now, Facebook is said to be shopping these new tools and services around to the major labels to get the ball rolling. When we'll be able to use the fruits of these ideas remains to be seen, as well as whether it will be enough to snag any significant portion of the music community from MySpace.


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He doesn't have blond hair. He's not stoic and private. He doesn't routinely chow down reindeer meat and go for daily saunas. His accent is barely noticeable.
He grew up watching American football, went to high school in Minnesota, goes to college at the University of Minnesota, and hopes to someday play for the Wild 8 miles away at Xcel Energy Center.
Erik Haula may have been born in Pori, Finland, but if you didn't know any better, you'd think he was born and bred in Minnesota.
"I hear a lot from people: 'You don't have an accent. No chance you're really from Finland.' I promise, I am. I just feel like a Minnesotan," said Haula, 21, the Gophers' often overshadowed, high-scoring, high-speed junior second-line keskushyökkääjä (center). "I've been here almost five years now -- one-quarter of my life. I love it in Minnesota, and hopefully I have a long future here."
The Gophers "were on him" from the moment he came abroad to Shattuck-St. Mary's at age 17. After being Shattuck's second-leading scorer with 84 points in 2008-09, Haula played for the Omaha Lancers of the USHL, where he was fifth in the league with 72 points.
In three years with the Gophers, the second non-North American in school history is the active leading scorer with 84 points, led the Gophers with 49 points last year, and is fourth in the WCHA this season with a team-high 11 points heading into this weekend's border battle with Wisconsin.
Yet, just like the 2009 seventh-round pick is always the forgotten Wild prospect when names like Mikael Granlund, Charlie Coyle and Jason Zucker roll off the tongue, it's fitting that Haula routinely takes a back seat to former Minnesota Mr. Hockey's Nick Bjugstad and Kyle Rau.
"Probably because he's not from here and people didn't grow up watching him," Gophers coach Don Lucia said. "We have our appreciation for our home-grown here, and maybe build them up a little bit more than maybe they should. But Erik's been probably start to finish so far this year our best player."
American roots
One of Haula's first introductions to sports was football. Not football, as in soccer -- American football.
His father, Tomi, was the longtime head coach of the Turku Trojans in the eight-team Vaahteraliiga, the highest level of the American Football Association of Finland.
As a kid, Erik was the water boy. Each team had two American imports who didn't play past college, so they'd live with the Haulas, and that's how Erik learned English.
"The league honestly isn't as bad as you'd think, but it's nowhere near the NFL," said Haula, a huge New England Patriots and Tom Brady fan who says the Vikings have grown on him.
As a teenager, Haula decided he wanted to chase his NHL dream in Canada or the United States, but when his parents insisted he get his college education, he decided Shattuck-St. Mary's, the prep school in Faribault, provided the best route.
"I'm really happy with the choices I've made so far," Haula said.
Besides Haula's obvious speed, playmaking skills and vision, Lucia raves about his defensive play and "high compete factor."
"All Erik's done is quietly work on becoming a better player," Lucia said. "He's a very good prospect and one of the top players in college hockey."
In the shadows
The Wild has several high-end, potential top-six forward prospects on the horizon, including Granlund, another Finn whom Haula routinely gives the grand tour to whenever in Minnesota. But with so many Wild blue-chippers coming, some wonder where (or even if) the 5-foot-11, 187-pound Haula fits in the Wild's future.
Director of player development Brad Bombardir adores Haula and "won't pigeonhole" his eventual role "as long as he keeps progressing."
Always driven, Haula gained motivation when he slipped to 182nd (the first pick of the final round) in the 2009 NHL draft despite being ranked 57th among North American skaters on the NHL Central Scouting list.
Inside Montreal's Bell Centre with his dad, Haula was scared, embarrassed and thought he came a long way for nothing before finally hearing his name.
"It was one of those moments I'll never forget -- sitting there in a suit, thinking you might not get drafted and both sweating to the max and just looking around ... hoping," Haula said. "Back then might not have gone the way I expected it to go, but now I look back, maybe it kind of fuels me. That's why I don't care [being overshadowed on the Gophers]. I know my role on the team, and I'm happy with it. And people can say or think what they think. I just focus on being the best player I can be."
Those who know Haula say this confidence is another example of being more Minnesotan than Finnish.
"You can really see that he has spent a lot of time in North America," said Samuel Savolainen, a Minnesota-based writer for the Finnish sports magazine Urheilulehti. "He is so much more social and confident in front of the media. Finnish kids his age are usually a lot more shy. They are kind of shy also to express their goals and dreams. Not Erik. Having gone to Shattuck-St. Mary's and the University, he is practically more of a Minnesota product than a Finnish one."


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MIAMI -- At a time when the Marlins as a team have been in a slump, Christian Yelich has stayed hot.
A career-high 11-game hitting streak entering Friday has helped raise Yelich's average to .317, and the 22-year-old left fielder is getting on base at a .388 clip. With his single in the second inning on Friday night, Yelich raised his streak to 12 games.
Yelich is regarded as a pure hitter who has impressed with his patience and keen eye for the strike zone. He's already drawn seven walks and scored 11 runs.
Miami's first-round Draft pick in 2010, Yelich is emerging into the type of hitter many projected. In time, he projects to be a middle-of-the-order threat, but for now, he is a tablesetter for Giancarlo Stanton and Co.
The Thousand Oaks, Calif., native also is well-grounded when it comes to the highs and lows of a long season.
"Baseball is funny like that," Yelich said. "You've got cold streaks, hot streaks. I'm sure I'll be cold again, and you guys will be asking me, 'Why do you [stink]?'"
The streak started on April 3, and Yelich has had hits in all but two games he's started. During the streak, he is 17-for-46 (.370) with a .453 on-base percentage. He's got one double, one triple, four RBIs and nine runs scored.
"It's kind of just baseball. That's how it goes," Yelich said. "You try to ride out your highs as long as you can, and minimize those lows."


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Air New Zealand introduces smart passport service
The airline's mobile app is now able to scan and save passport information and send a timely reminder when it's time to renew.
Every month around 550 customers turn up to the airport with an expired passport, triggering a stressful situation for would be travellers.
Air New Zealand customers can now save themselves the stress and embarrassment by using their smartphone camera to capture and save their passport details. Not only will this streamline their check-in experience, it also triggers expiry reminders including providing handy click through links to renew New Zealand, Australian, British and American passports.
Currently around 10 percent of Air New Zealand customers type their passport details incorrectly as they check in online. By saving these to their profile, customers will enjoy a faster check in experience and rest easy in the knowledge that their travel document has been entered correctly.
Air New Zealand's Chief Digital Officer Avi Golan says customer feedback is driving the rollout of time-saving tools such as this and customers can look forward to an increasingly smarter digital travel experience - not just on the day of travel but in the dreaming and planning phase.
"Customers consistently tell us time is the biggest stress factor when travelling, so prioritising features that offer genuine benefits and convenience on the go is key.
"Integrating smartphone camera technology to our app paves the way for adding secure credit card scanning to our booking system, as well as longer term developments such as selfie-boarding - using biometrics and facial recognition to verify customers at the gate."
The Air New Zealand mobile app has been downloaded by 1.3 million people. Earlier this year the popular coffee ordering function clocked up two million orders.
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- Baggage management: Purchase a bag to add to an existing Seat only domestic fare.
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The following is Part One of an occasional series called "Working," which will examine the lives of people on the job. It was inspired by Studs Terkel's 1974 book, "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do."
The fastest way to stop profuse bleeding is often with your finger, according to Dr. Carina Biggs, South Nassau Communities Hospital's chief of trauma surgery since Feb. 1. Sutures or plastic loops to repair the damage can come later. The first order of business is simply to stop the bleeding, by any means possible.
The finger makes a useful and versatile plug, Biggs said as she sat in a quiet courtyard at the center of South Nassau, in Oceanside, on a recent overcast but warm Thursday. It was a rare moment of calm for Biggs, 56, whose day can be upended at any moment by a patient who has fallen off a ladder, crashed a car, or been stabbed or shot.
An analog clock is hung high on the wall above South Nassau's two trauma resuscitation bays, which are just steps from the Emergency Department entrance on the hospital's first floor.
Tick, tock, tick, tock.
The battle to preserve life plays out at a rapid-fire pace in the trauma bay, where patients are assessed and treated before they are sent upstairs for surgery or other critical care. With each blood droplet that is lost, a patient's life slips just a little further away.
Biggs, by all accounts, thrives in this pressurized environment. Part of the reason she became a trauma surgeon, she said, is because she is regularly presented with new challenges and riddles to be solved. "You never know what's coming," said Biggs, dressed in blue scrubs, with a tartan-patterned surgical cap covering her auburn-blond hair.
Days often blend into nights into mornings. Five times a month, she must work the 14-hour overnight shift, from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. As an American College of Surgeons-verified Level II Trauma Center, South Nassau must have a trauma surgeon on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Biggs never knows how many surgeries she might perform in a week. Maybe none. Maybe four or five. The most complicated cases involve multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen. In such cases, patients might have just minutes to live, Biggs said.
A bullet lodged in the body many times stays there for life, she said, because cutting it out could do more damage than leaving it. A seriously injured spleen can be removed, as can a kidney or part of the pancreas.
Long hours and free coffee
Down the block and around the corner from South Nassau is a tiny, inconspicuous house with a redbrick façade, gray siding, an asphalt roof and a meticulously trimmed lawn. It is the out-of-the-way place that trauma surgeons go to catch their breath while pulling long hours at the hospital. Inside is a dimly lit, largely bare living room with a stationary bike to one side, a futon, a coffee table with an oversized chessboard on top and a small TV. Beyond the living room are two offices and a kitchen. Upstairs is a bedroom. Biggs sleeps there from time to time when her schedule, which is often dictated by the cases that unexpectedly arrive, requires it.
"You get used to it," Biggs said of the long hours. The upside, she said with a laugh, "There's free coffee in the surgeons' lounge."
Trauma surgeons must maintain their health, Biggs said. She makes sure to sleep well the night and day before an overnight shift, and brings her own lunch so she eats only nutritious food. She also cycles and runs to stay fit.
"You have to be in really good shape" to be a trauma surgeon, she said. "Even then, it's hard, but it's a choice."
"Most people," she noted, "don't want to do it."
Biggs, who lives in Brooklyn, has a 10-year-old daughter, Anya, who, she said, "provides me with a lot of happiness. She's also my best friend."
"She asks me what I do," Biggs said. "She loves to come to the hospital."
Biggs tells her daughter, "When someone is hurt, they need an operation. I do the operation, and I take care of them after the operation as well."
She also tells her that when she's grown up, she should do something that she loves that helps people.
Biggs was 4 or 5 when she decided to become a doctor, she said. For the first five years of her life she lived in Germany, where her father was stationed with the U.S. Army. She remembers being in the Bavarian Alps, in the country, and falling onto stones. She cut her forehead and was bleeding heavily. There was little medical care available. It was only 20 years after World War II had ended, and Germany was still recovering. Biggs was rushed to an American Army hospital, where the damage was repaired. After that, she said, her academic energies, from elementary school on up, were directed toward becoming a doctor.
'A very complicated role'
"Holidays are busy," Margaret Puya, a registered nurse who is South Nassau's trauma program manager, said of the number of trauma cases that South Nassau sees. "Nights are busier than days."
Biggs and Puya meet daily to review the trauma team's questions, concerns and cases. "The trauma surgeon," Puya said, "is really the captain of the ship . . . It's a very complicated role."
The trauma surgeon must be willing and able to work with doctors from throughout the hospital, from plastic surgeons to neurologists and cardiologists, said Puya, 49, of Long Beach.
"It's fun," she said of trauma medicine. "You either love it or you hate it. Luckily, I have a great team that loves it."
Dr. Daniel Haller, 39, of Woodmere, has been a trauma surgeon at South Nassau for three years. Among the greatest challenges, he said, is treating older adults who are suffering from Alzheimer's disease or dementia. In such cases, patients are often physically fragile and unable to respond to the simplest questions, including whether they are feeling pain.
Many older adults, Haller said, "have a lot of other medical problems . . . in addition to the new injuries."
Biggs returns to protocol and procedure, the time-tested rules of engagement, often borrowed from the military, that allow her to quickly and seamlessly assess a patient's condition and decide his or her fate. "You have to get control of the situation," she said.
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'Rupert - Bill and the Pearls' (1930s)
Alfred Bestall is a British illustrator of children's books and Amalgamated Press annuals. Born in Mandalay, Burma, as the son of a Methodist Missionary, Bestall eventually was sent to Rydal Public School in North Wales. He attended the Birmingham Central School of Art and spent three years in Flanders during his military service in World War I. He contributed his first cartoons to The Cartoon and Blighty and worked through the Byron Studios in London after the war.
Dust cover for the first Rupert Annual in 1936
He drew for Punch and was also present in magazines like Passing Show, Tatler, Eve and The Strand. He became a productive book illustrator and also drew for the Schoolgirl's Own Annual by Amalgamated Press between 1923 and 1942. He was the artist who continued the adventures of 'Rupert Bear' when creator Mary Tourtel quit the series.
'Rupert and Pong Ping's Party' (1940s)
Bestall started in 1935, when the furry British bear Rupert already had fifteen years in the public eye. Bestall managed to increase the popularity of Rupert Bear, who is now known all over the world. He semi-retired in 1965 and 'Rupert' was continued by Alex Cubie and John Harrold and scriptwriters Freddie Chaplain and James Henderson. Bestall continued to do art on the annuals until 1973, however.
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On Wednesday evening, May 22, the Chestnut Hill Book Festival will host an evening reading, discussion complete with a wine and cheese reception with George Ciccariello-Maher, author of the newly released book, "We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution" at the Chestnut Hill Hotel, 8200 Germantown Ave. The talk begins at 7 p.m. and will take place in the Bombay Room.
With the recent death of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, Mr. Ciccariello-Maher, a professor of political theory at Drexel University, addresses a timely, interesting, and perhaps controversial subject with his in depth study of the history that led to the election of Mr. Chavez who until his death had been the contemporary face of Venezuelan politics and a leader of its anticapitalist revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and during the Chávez era, provides a broader, more nuanced account of Chávez's rise to power and the years of activism that preceded it.
Mr. Ciccariello-Maher will discuss his interviews with grassroots organizers, former guerrillas, members of neighborhood militias, and government officials who's accounts present a new history of Venezuelan political activism. Mr. Ciccariello recounts the struggle since 1958 against corruption and repression which led leftist guerrillas, women, Afro-Venezuelans, indigenous people and students to rise up in a social movement which led to dynamic interplay between the Chavez government, social revolutionaries and the Venezuelan people.
George Ciccariello-Maher is a writer, radical political theorist, and currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He has taught radical theory and politics at Drexel, U.C. Berkeley, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. He holds a B.A. in Government and Economics from St. Lawrence University, a B.A. Hons. and M.A. in Social and Political Sciences from St. John's College, University of Cambridge, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley.
He appears and is quoted frequently in the media on subjects ranging from Venezuelan politics to the Occupy Movement, notably Al Jazeera, National Public Radio, Telemundo, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Brazil's Gazeta do Povo.
He is currently working on a theoretical analysis of violence and revolutionary identity in French syndicalist Georges Sorel, Black revolutionary Frantz Fanon, and Latin American philosopher of liberation Enrique Dussel entitled Decolonizing Dialectics.


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It doesn't always have to be Mallorca – or Ibiza, Crete or Corsica for that matter, either. There are thousands of other islands in the Mediterranean alone. Our expert knows a few wonderful, lesser-known spots.
Gavdos, Greece
The 1970s are still going strong: Visitors to Gavdos, Europe's southernmost island, still sleep on the beach as in the wildest hippy days. Some stay for weeks or even months on Gavdos.
Comino, Malta
Caves, shipwrecks, tunnels – Comino, Malta's small neighbor, has plenty to offer divers. For snorkelers, there's the popular blue lagoon to explore. Stay on after the day trippers have gone home and you have the three-and-a-half square kilometers of island almost all to yourself.
Procida, Italy
With about 10 500 inhabitants on about four square kilometers, no other Mediterranean island is as densely populated as Procida. Best of all, it's still worth making the trip! While its sister, Ischia, attracts hordes of tourists, Procida is still very much the real Italy.


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Kevin Garnett scored 12 points, passing Jerry West for 15th on the NBA's career scoring list, and Paul Pierce joined him among the top 20 scorers in league history with 15 points as the Boston Celtics beat the Toronto Raptors 112-88 on Wednesday night.
Garnett needed four points to pass West (25,192 points) and Pierce entered the game nine points shy of tying Charles Barkley (23,757) for 20th.
Garnett hit a bank shot with 10:03 left in the second quarter and received a standing ovation when his milestone was announced during a stoppage a few minutes later. Boston fans returned to their feet again in the third to recognize Pierce, who responded with a salute back to the crowd.
It was a short night for Boston's 30-something stars, who were resting comfortably on the bench through the fourth quarter as their teammates finished off the Raptors.
Jeff Green scored 20 to lead the Celtics, who ended a two-game slide and won their 10th straight at home. Jason Terry and Jordan Crawford added 12 points apiece, while Brandon Bass and Avery Bradley both scored 11 for Boston.
Rudy Gay had 19 points and DeMar DeRozan added 17 points for the Raptors, who have lost seven of nine. Terrence Ross scored 13 for the Raptors, who got within four points before Boston blew it open in the third quarter.
After falling behind by 13 early in the third, Toronto scored nine straight to get right back in it. DeRozan scored 12 in the period, including a three-point play with 6:04 left that pulled Toronto within 60-56. Pierce answered with four straight to start Boston on a 14-4 run.
Bradley hit a jumper to put Boston up 66-58, then stole a pass and took it in for a layup.
Terry added a 3-pointer to end the run, giving Boston a 74-60 lead. The Celtics closed the period on a 21-6 run, leading 81-62 entering the fourth and making it a short night for Garnett.
Notes: The Celtics outscored the Raptors 28-18 in the second quarter and led 49-40 at halftime. ... The Raptors announced Wednesday that forward Andrea Bargnani was expected to miss the rest of the season with an injury to his right elbow. ... Gay was a game-time decision after missing a game with a stiff back. ... Toronto's Sebastian Telfair received was ejected after the third quarter with his second technical of the game.


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- Erin said...
Love it. This room looks like a fantasy. Wouldn't you love to sit on that throne? haha
- March 19, 2012 at 9:50 AM
- Courtney said...
So cool! I love it when designers add a little bit of humor to their work. I do wonder if they just have cold water coming out of the fountain or if they came up with a way to balance out cold and hot water lines without a faucet control.
- March 19, 2012 at 10:04 AM
- Cailan said...
How amazing is that. Hmmm...I'd love to set a party table with a sheet of moss for the tablecloth and do a mild woodland theme - so dreamy. And now I dreaming of wheat grass everywhere. : )
- March 19, 2012 at 10:11 AM
- Like Me Some said...
That is just fantastic! Very clever and very cool!
- March 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM
- Acquired Objects said...
I want Amy's bathroom! Just bought some wheat grass this weekend already potted up but Dylan dog is doing his best to eat it! DOGS!
- March 19, 2012 at 11:24 AM
- Loretta Fontaine (EcoHappy Blog) said...
Lauren- Really unique. I'm drawn to the wall of mirror tiles, with the little jewels of metal holding the tiles to the wall.
So nice!
- March 19, 2012 at 12:04 PM
- toocolorcrazy said...
I have to say Im not a fan of the grass. Looks too forced to be clever. Reminds me of the moss covered mantel at last years DC design house...NOT a good look in my opinion. However the bathroom mirrors, tile and vanity are very beautiful.
- March 19, 2012 at 1:12 PM
- Kathysue said...
Lauren on year my home was on a Home tour during the holidays and I filled my black and white bathoom tub up with poinsettias, it was so pretty. The other thing I love is green Pellogrino bottles all lined up in a kitchen, love that look!
- March 19, 2012 at 1:22 PM
- BaileyWife said...
We usually have a big 4th of July party every year and my husband laughs at how I "stage" everything in and outside our home. Although nothing ever stays looking that way throughout the day, I just like the idea of "picture perfect", but our life is anything but! :)
- March 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM
- christy said...
Lauren - Totally unrelated to your post, but I just had to say that I received my new BHG in the mail tonight. I was so excited as I flipped through before anything else I recognized a pillow in the showhouse & said: "That's Lauren's fabric! I read her blog". The room looked great, love the daybed.
- March 19, 2012 at 11:45 PM
- Unknown said...
wow, over the top! How cool is the FOOT PEDAL? and lion head...
- March 20, 2012 at 12:53 PM
- EDYTA & CO. INTERIOR DESIGN said...
love this! Must have the lion head like this somewhere:))
- March 20, 2012 at 1:19 PM
- isaiiahdiaz said...
This room looks really amazing and wonderful. In any occasion we decorate this room and look elegant. I like this pix so much. Thanks for sharing this post with us.
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I guess if I was named "Jason The Jumper" this is the sort of thing I'd do, too. Al The Jumper, the Swedish king of jumping over moving cars, has just jumped over a Lamborghini heading at him at 80 MPH. Holy crap, right?
The Stockholm-based photographer Henrik Jensen who shot the car-bounding event sent us this video of the jump, and a nice little interview with the man who is probably the best in the known universe at jumping over cars.
Al the Jumper has been Al the Jumping for quite some time. Here's some previous car-jumping videos, but I think this Lambo jump here is his fastest. I like that his goal is to jump two cars at once — that would be remarkable.
If I could suggest something to Al the Jumper, it would be maybe to jump two cars, but have the second be a convertible, and land in the passenger seat. While singing.


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The Atlanta Dream recently announced it has renewed its television partnership with FOX Sports South and SportSouth for the 2013 WNBA season. With the renewal, all Dream home games and a number of road games will be televised on the sports networks.
"We are excited to continue our broadcast partnership with FOX Sports South and SportSouth, providing our fans across the Southeast the ability to continue watching our exciting, fast-paced brand of basketball," said Dream CEO Ashley Preisinger. "We're thrilled to provide our fans the ability to watch Atlanta Dream games for a fourth consecutive season in high-definition on two regional sports networks recognized as the leaders in local sports programming."
The telecast schedule begins with the Dream season opener at home against the Tulsa Shock on Saturday, May 25 at 7 p.m. (ET). Both home games against Tamika Catchings and the defending WNBA champion Indiana Fever, on June 25 and Sept. 4), will be televised as well.
Other key televised matchups from Philips Arena include visits by WNBA stars Maya Moore and the Minnesota Lynx on Aug. 20, Candace Parker and the Los Angeles Sparks on Aug. 2, and Diana Taurasi and Phoenix Mercury on Sept. 8. The full TV schedule will be announced at a later date.
The two-time Eastern Conference Champion Atlanta Dream qualified for the playoffs in each of the past four seasons, including back-to-back conference titles in 2010 and 2011. For more information, visit www.AtlantaDream.net. A complete 2013 schedule can be found at www.wnba.com/dream/schedule