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Nov 26, 2008 at 12:27 PM
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This is based on a project that was previously written in for a previous job, we had to search through up to 100,000 images and suggest matches to the user to see if the currently scanned image had already been entered into the system.

The search in this example uses color histograms, which represents the distribution of color across the image, this can be stored as a simple list of numbers that can easily be stored on hard disk once the images have been analysed. This library of information about the images can then be used for searches without going back to each image - the advantage of this being performance.

This is the purpose of the Load Library/Save Library menu options, you should only have to load in the same set of images once.

When I had to investigate this subject I came across a lot of  very academic and complex discussions around this area and it took a long time to find the information I needed, however in the end color histograms proved very simple and effective for what I needed to. Hopefully this might help some people not have to traul through the information I did!

There was also an edge detection part which I might add in later.

Thanks for dropping in, Peter.
Mar 26, 2014 at 4:21 AM
This thread is a little bit old. But this image tool is might suitable for my .NET project.

Susanna Moore
Greate Image Tool
Mar 27, 2014 at 11:17 AM
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Hi Susanna,

Glad to hear it helps your project!

Thanks, Peter.
Apr 8, 2014 at 5:27 AM
Image Duplicates Search Tool - Useful Image Tool

I just got around to this post… it’s funny because I' looking for such a Tool! I really liked this and would like to test.


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Thursday, 21 February 2013

Pink and Swirls

The last card for DD's birthday today.

Oooh, how very pink, lol.

The BP is a freebie from craft mag.
Garden Weave die d-lites, my favourite of the moment - shame there isn't a 'mirror' die with this so they would be nice as corners on a larger card.
I lightly coloured the flowers with spun sugar DI.
I made a scroll from parchment type paper and distressed the edges.

I had left this to the last minute and luckily I had made the flower some time ago. I used crinoline from Linda's, Funkie Junkie Boutique and some net cut with TH tattered flower garland die.  The centre is a large brad liberally covered with silver glitter.
There are a few gems on the swirls

Ladybug - think pink
Eclectic Ellapu - photo inspiration - yippee, this was one of the top5!!!!
Fun With Shapes - greengate style
Let's Craft and Create  #64 - swirls

Thank you for stopping by
Cheers me dears :)

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

The Rose

Another card for DD.
The stamp is from Joanna Sheen - have had it years so it is about time it surfaced - I had forgotten what a nice stamp it is.
Coloured with DI pads old paper and spun sugar with a water brush and given a bit of dimension with foam tape

I coated the butterfly with 3D clear gloss, added wire antenna and a pearl .

Creative Card Crew #30 - birthday
Crafty Cardmakers #85 - blooming images
Inky Chicks #4 - mothers day or birthday

Thank you for stopping by :)
Cheers me dears

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

I was lucky enough to win some die cuts from the lovely Sarah at Craft All Day - thank you very much Sarah :)  I am so happy this bird cage was one of them. I have often considered buying this die, but, my crafting budget has to be kept under control, lol.

I started off by covering a piece of card with crumpled tissue paper and experimented with all of my distress stains - yup, got a blue AND a green :)
I then did a bit of random stamping with some words in black and also with white paint  through a piece of plasterers mesh. This was the nearest I could get to a stencil -  the Dylusions diamond border is on my wish list!  I dabbed around the edges with gold.
The birdcage has also been well dabbed with the same gold and some brown paint to give it a worn/distressed look.

I covered the old button with few layers of copper EP then dobbed it on to a swirly stamp while still warm.  I added some black glitter to the corner with just a bit of iced jewels glitter crystal.

The ball chain is a relic from my working life - I knew it would come in handy one day.
I cut the little birdie from a freebie template from Crafts Beautiful  and coloured with some copics and a promarker. If I had made it bigger I would have put it 'in' the cage but it looked so pretty I decided  to leave it free.  Finished off with the crinkled turquoise seam binding bow.

The Ribbon Girl - Feb colour challenge
Allsorts #194 - things with wings
Alphabet - A for...anything with wings

Thank you for stopping by and for the much appreciated comments on previous posts
Cheers me dears :)

Monday, 18 February 2013

Black and White

Main BP is a freebie from Far Far Hill.
Die cut label shape is glittered around the edge.
The corrugated heart has been painted with iridescent medium
Tis a shame that the doily, heart and flower look off white but IRL it all looks OK.

I  made this glittery flower months ago and added a couple of leaves  die cut from tracing paper.

Joanna Sheen - black and white
Cardabilities - sketch
The Pretty Little Ribbon Ch#19 - anything goes
 The ABC Challenge - H is for happy birthday
Charisma #6 - anything goes

Thank you for stopping by and for the  lovely comments on previous posts :)
Cheers me dears

Friday, 15 February 2013

Love Actually

For this fortnights challenge we are turning to a film title again for inspiration and this week it is........

Love Actually

I have chosen the lush gold paper from APPATW for the BG. I placed the lovely red embossed hearts BP into the metallic frames digitally, added the words, printed on to photo paper  and then cut them both out.
These are then slightly shaped and simply laid on to a piece of fringed muslin.
All elements can be found in the shop here

I felt the edges need a little treatment so I got out the trusty peel-offs - something I don't do very often these days but are just the job sometimes. The little hearts in the corners are punched from a little bit of left over embossed hearts paper.

Do pop over to CACB and check out the fabby DT work for inspiration

I'd also like to enter these challenges
Charisma #6 - anything goes
MAWTT - love is in the air
PCJ - love
Sincerely Yours #1 - valentine/love
Crafty Creations #209 - love and/or hearts
The Paper Shelter #99 - be my valentine

Thank you for stopping by and for your much appreciated comments on previous posts
Cheers me dears :)

Saturday, 9 February 2013

Happy Birthday Dear Daughter

Main BP is from Far Far Hill.  I added some spots and cut a fancy scalloped border on some pale green paper for the vertical interest....distressed edges with frayed burlap DI.

TH flourish cut from silver mirri card and dabbed with gold.
Flower made from crinoline and net with a brad covered with liquid pearls for the centre  .
Lush silk ribbon bow and hessian ribbon from Linda's, Funkie Junkie boutique. The bow  is actually a beautiful Rose Pink but looks sort of orangey here :(
Handmade stick pin

I'd like to enter this for the following challenges
Bearly Mine #72 - anything goes
Crafty Ribbons #38 - anything with ribbon
Challenges 4 Everybody #13 - anything goes
Craftroom Challenge - make your own (embellies)
Papertake  - anything goes ( with option of using yellow)
Pretty Little Ribbon    #19 - anything goes

Thank you for stopping by and your fab comments on previous posts
Cheers me dears :)

Friday, 1 February 2013

Tie a Yellow Ribbon

 ......and the challenge for you this fortnight is......
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
so we want to see, something tied, some yellow and  ribbon on your project
(the ribbon and tied can be the same element )

I chose this lovely image in anticipation of Spring.....there are some daffs with tight little buds up in my garden which had been hiding under the snow and it is lovely to see the snowdrops in bloom as well.

The gold and silver BP's are just two from Ann's 'massive' new collection......'A Picture Paints a Thousand Words'....APPATW......the image is pre-coloured.......the pearl gems from Cream dream and all can be found in the shop..
This came together a treat and is entirely digital, printed on photo paper and used as a topper on an A5 card blank.

We hope you can play along with us for this new challenge and look forward to seeing your Yellow Ribbon creations.
Do pop over to  CACB  and have a look at the excellent samples the fab DT have produced  for your inspiration.

I'd like to enter this for
Happy Campers #9 -  flowers - use something digital
TTCRD - anything goes
Twisted Tuesdays #42 - free for all
My Grafico #144 - anything goes
OSAAT #148 - use a digi

Thank you for stopping by
Cheers me dears :)

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Saturday, 15 July 2017

Palaeo Diet bloodbath

Palaeo Diet: Eat or be Eaten has been formatted and is currently receiving a much-needed proof read. This week we messed around with a little hunt, keeping going long after our hunters had satisfied their bellies, just to see what happened. In short, it was a bit of a bloodbath.

The layout o f the table, four hills and two patches of tricky going. Three mammoths and two boar in the center of the table. We had two groups hunters (Snogg, Dogg, Rarr and Bow top left, Ogg Idd, Herc and Tark bottom right), each consisting of a spearman with a hound, an archer and a clubman.
The early turns saw our intrepid ancestors trying to get into position. For a tribal victory we needed to secure six bulk worth of meat (i.e. kill two mammoths, or one mammoth and and a pig). Critters, should they be flushed out of terrain, would also make a welcome contribution to the tribal feed.

By the end of the first turn, Bow and Snogg, in an uncharacteristic show of team work, had already taken down one boar. By turn two, there was also a nice tasty bunny (brought down by Snogg!) to add to the pot. It looked like it was going to be a short hunt.

Herc managed to get way too close to various mammoths at various times, although they usually moved off, or trumpeted and scared him off, before he had a chance to swing his club.

Ogg wasn't so lucky. He only met one mammoth...

Herc finally landed a blow or two against one of the woolly pachyderms, while Snogg took on his second boar for the hunt. I mean, we didn't need it, but why not... the boar was there.

 Finally sick of being clobbered and stuck with arrows (from both Bow and Tark), the wounded mammoth turns on Herc and brings him crashing down. Meanwhile, someone Bow took down a second rabbit.

 It then turned and charged at Tark who was squatting at the brow of a hill...

Before turning back and charging Rarr, making contact with him, but not quite managing to insert a tusk anywhere uncomfortable. With a tremendous effort, Rarr landed a final blow, bringing the mammoth down.

Here we see the surviving hunters and their huge haul of meat. Bow and Dogg were wounded, but Snogg, Rarr and Tark survived unscathed. Herc and Ogg will be remembered fondly by the tribe. In total, a mammoth, two boar and two bunnies brought in 10 bulk. More than enough to feed the four survivors, with plenty left over for the carrion eaters!

  1. Ugh. I need to just stop reading these - I do NOT need ANOTHER collection of miniatures!

  2. I keep telling myself - Okay, I'll just buy the book when it comes out - just to read, because it sounds totally interesting and maybe I can pinch ideas to incorporate into other games... but who am I fooling... I'll be painting prehistoric peoples and critters by the end of the year...


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CEAT Kelani to invest Rs 3b in Sri Lanka’s tyre industry

Unveils master plan to set up new truck bus radial tyre plant, double production of radials and motorcycle tyres and grow exports

(From left), Rohan Fernando - Executive Director CEAT Kelani Holdings, Anant Goenka - MD CEAT Limited, India, Chanaka De Silva - Chairman CEAT Kelani Holdings, Vijay Gambhire - MD/CEO CEAT Kelani Holdings, Tilak de Zoysa - Vice Chairman, CEAT Kelani Holdings, Ravi Dadlani – Vice President Sales, Marketing & Exports CEAT Kelani Holdings.

CEAT Kelani Holdings today announced an infusion of Rs 3 billion in new investments for the enhancement of manufacturing capacity, new product development and growth of exports, in a significant vote of confidence in the prospects for the India – Sri Lanka joint venture tyre manufacturing operation.

The investments, made up of internal funds and borrowings, will see the establishment of a state-of-the-art plant in Kelaniya for the manufacture of Truck Bus Radials (TBRs) and the expansion of the existing cutting-edge passenger car radial tyre plant at the same location, the company said.

New machinery already on the way from Europe, when commissioned circa June-July 2018 will commence the production of Truck Bus Radial Tyres. The Company also plans to double CEAT Kelani’s Passenger Car Radial (PCR), Van and SUV radial tyre production from a current 500,000 tyres a year to 850,000 a year, CEAT Kelani Holdings Chairman Mr Chanaka de Silva told media at a news conference in Colombo today. The company’s Motorcycle tyre manufacturing capacity, currently at 375,000 tyres a year, would also double as a result of the investment, Mr de Silva disclosed.

The first ever domestic production of Truck Bus Radials in Sri Lanka will lead to noteworthy import substitution, substantial saving of foreign exchange, the transfer of the latest international knowhow and technology for the manufacture of this category of tyre, and the launch of TBRs designed and built for local conditions, he said.

"This new investment is part of CEAT-Kelani’s Investment Master Plan in Sri Lanka, and is projected to generate a substantial increase in turnover over the next three years from Rs 10.5 billion in 2016-17, de Silva added. The joint venture’s cumulative investment in Sri Lanka to date totals Rs 5 billion.

Anant Goenka, Managing Director of CEAT Limited India, and CEAT Kelani Holdings Managing Director Mr Vijay Gambhire joined their fellow directors of the Joint Venture (one of the most successful ventures benefitting from the Indo-Lanka FTA), at the announcement of the new investments.

"CEAT India is happy with the progress of the Joint Venture in Sri Lanka, which completes 20 years this year," Goenka said. "Our focus now is on taking the extensive portfolio of Sri Lanka made tyres to the next level in terms of performance specifications and attributes, to keep pace with product developments in highly developed markets. CEAT India has already gone down this road, and CEAT Kelani enjoys the benefit of our technological knowhow and market experience," Mr Goenka said.

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Friday, May 2, 2008

Emilia-Romagna = Proscuitto and Parmigiano

Buon giorno tutti!
Well, here I am exactly at the midpoint of my culinary training. I’m at the halfway point of my ALMA training (not counting the 2 weeks I’ll be home for Christmas) then 9 weeks on my stage. I can’t believe it!

OK ... so lets chat about this week. Monday was a continuation of my great weekend with Larry. On Monday we spent the day in Cinque Terra, in the region of Liguria. The Cinque Terra – or Five Terraces – are beautiful little towns perched up on the mountains overlooking the ocean, on the western coast of Italy. If you follow the coastline around you will end up on the French Rivieria. Despite the time of year, we found it still quite beautiful- albeit a tiny bit chilly. We alternately walked and traveled by train through the five towns. It was a perfect day – cool, breezy and sunny. It’s totally off season right now, so we really enjoyed a peaceful non-touristy day.

Back to reality on Tuesday. We were studying Emilia-Romagna last week, so we made several regional dishes. On Wednesday we continued the regional cooking – except it was in the kitchen of the school’s restaurant. Everyday they serve about 100 people for lunch. I was stationed with the Garde Manger and with a fellow classmate was responsible for 2 first course dishes: a smoked salmon salad and parmesan souffle. We had a great time and got kudos on both dishes. The only low point of the day was that Larry went back to New York. L

Thursday and Friday we had several fabulous field trips. The general theme for the visits were understanding the micro-climate of the Emilia-Romagna region, and how it affects/enhances the production of their specific foods. The E-R region sits (more or less) between the Po River and the mountains of Tuscany. It has a rich production of fruit, vegetable and grains – but none more famous than the finest proscuitto and parmigiano cheese, consumed around the world. Production is intensely tied to tradition handed down for centuries, the raw materials and the climate. Just like the wine producers, they are incrediably passionate about their process and their products. Another interesting note is that many of the farmers, all over Italy for that matter, belong to co-ops. It’s actually a great way for the small farmer to be able to bring his product to the market and not be gobbled up by industry.

That said, our first stop (very early) Thursday morning was a parmigiano reggiano cheese producer. ( The process for making real parmigiano was amazing. He processes fresh milk from four dairy farms daily. The milk from the evening milking is delivered and rests overnight. In the early morning the butter fat is skimmed off the top, and then process begins. The process takes about 2 hours to get the milk to the big curd you see in the photo. Then it’s placed in the mold. The cheese can age anywhere from 12 to 36 months.

Next stop was the restaurant and farm of our guest chef this week. I missed his demo on Monday, so it was great to be able to meet him later in the week. ( In addition to having his restaurant, he produces culatello using a method handed down to him through three family generations. We had the opportunity to try no less than a dozen different types of cured meats at lunch. Each was amazing. Last stop – just in case we didn’t get enough cured meat – we went to a large prosciutto factory and sampled more meat in Langhirano.

Friday we did a lot of driving, but it was worth it. I think I saw, by far, the most fascinating cheese process ever. We went to the town of Roncofreddo and met a man who simply ages pecorino cheese. He gets blocks of about 30 day old pecorino cheese and basically buries it in a “fossa”, using an ancient aging method. I’m sending you 3 pics of this – the fiasco shaped fossa which is lined with a straw, and his own combination of aromatic herbs, a diagram of what it looks like inside and the cloth sacks which hold the cheese. He buries and seals the cheese in July, and then takes them out at the beginning of November. I won’t lie to you – it was pretty smelly in the room – but the cheese was amazing.

Last stop on Friday evening was to an oil mill in Brisighella. We saw the first cold press of olives. Lot’s of machinery … but very interesting to see the process from start to finish.

On Saturday I took a quick trip to Bologna by myself. I’ve been wanting to explore that city a bit. I only spent the afternoon – so I’m planning on returning, It was a fun lively city with a lot happening.

Thanks for your emails. Please forgive me if I don’t write back right away. My internet access is sketchy here and my time during the week very limited. I am glad you’re enjoying my travelogue, and having fun reading it. It helps me feel a little closer to you all. I’m feeling a little homesick now that Larry has come and gone; and I missed a couple of big Junior League events too which made me a little sad. I was IM/chatting with my friend Cindy this week, bemoaning that fact that I was missing my family, friends and life in NY. She reminded me that it was natural, especially since Larry just left, and that all would be fine when I came back in March and started working again. (She always knows just the right thing to say!!)

Well … until next week … arrivaderchi!
xo, Maria

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Mick Sowry on his addition to the pantheon:

In the midst of the god’s I’ll make a play for the rest of us.

Oddly enough, the most formative shapers have been more recent than early with a couple of exceptions. Most recently, are two, in Maurice Cole, and Corey Graham. Maurice’s presence extends over forty years though, as we first met back in 1972, when I was 18, as was he, in the beginnings of his shaping career. One board back then, but that began a friendship that grew organically and most recently since 2006 though we crossed paths in France in 1986, and on his return to Victoria in the late 2000’s.

Following that one early board from Maurice I became the shop grommet for legendary Victorian shaper Mick Pierce, who shaped me several epic boards that I loved, each helping me progress in understanding and range.

I rode my biggest wave in my first ten years on a 7’2’ Eastern Light (Mick's brand @easternlight on Instagram) and that was at Nazare in 1978. Twelve foot but we thought it was eighteen. God help us if it had been what we now know it can become.

Later I switched to Kym Thompson, Maurice, Greg Brown and Wayne Lynch, all connected and working within a circle of West Coast shapers who influenced each other and in doing so had a profound effect on surfers here and worldwide.

Kym shaped a couple of channel bottom 5’8”s in the early 80’s that worked wonderfully in a surprising range, with very memorable tubes at Lacerations on Lembongan and a near close out wave at Shipwrecks at near 10ft that had all those who saw the take off wonder if I’d lived.

Greg Brown is still one of the great shapers in the Torquay area. He is a go to guy for boards that are both trustworthy and at the same time full of personality. Not something that comes from a reliance on machine shaping.

Wayne became a great friend and shaped some divine mid length guns for ‘down south' through the nineties, and early 2000’s before I reconnected with MC in 2007 around the time the waiting period to get a board off Wayne extended from weeks to months, such is the demand.

MC’s boards, like Wayne’s, have been highly influential on some of surfing’s greats. My introduction to his very-technical-to-ride deep concave asymmetrics had me re-looking at how to approach a wave at a time when I though I was done with any progression. The boards are fast, wonderfully on rail in their predisposition and you need to think to ride them, but they deliver more satisfaction when on song than almost any board I have ridden. Or you can be bucked of if you get it wrong.

Most recently, on a particular Corey Graham single channel 5’8' fish, I have been privilege to feelings and sounds I’ve never heard before. In itself, at 62, that is a privilege too. It has been a lucky life to still be able to surf a board like that after 47 years of surfing, though my performance the other day at 8 foot Bells after ten days out of the water shows there is still plenty of room for improvement.


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International Tower Hill Reports New High-Grade Gold Intercepts Surrounding Main Deposit at Livengood Gold Project, Alaska

August 21, 2012

Vancouver, B.C. – International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. (TSX: ITH, NYSE-MKT: THM, Frankfurt: IW9) (“ITH” or the “Company”) announces drill results for 45 geotechnical and condemnation drill holes in the Livengood project area (Figure 1).  Assay results from four of these drill holes returned multi-gram gold intersections well outboard of the main deposit, indicating the Livengood district scale gold system has significant exploration potential (Table 1).  The locations of these new gold intercepts do not impact the current conceptual plan for the locations of mining-related infrastructure contemplated in the ongoing feasibility work but they do highlight the potential for new discoveries on the Company’s large 170 km2 land package.

Jeff Pontius, ITH Interim CEO, stated “These most recent drill results from a non-exploration directed drill program continue to show the robust nature of the Livengood gold system and potential for both new bulk tonnage and high-grade discoveries.  It is clear that the Livengood gold system is a District scale gold discovery with significant future potential.”

Figure 1: Map of the Livengood Project area showing the locations of all drill holes.
The Money Knob gold deposit is outlined in red.

Table 1: New Selected Drill Intercepts*

*Intercepts are calculated using a 0.25g/t gold cutoff and a maximum of 3 metres of internal waste.

Qualified Person

Chris Puchner (CPG 07048), a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has supervised the preparation of the technical information that forms the basis for this news release and has approved the disclosure herein.  Mr. Puchner is not independent of ITH, as he is the Chief Geologist of the Company.

About International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.

International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. controls a 100% interest in the world-class Livengood Gold Project accessible by paved highway 70 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska.  In 2012, ITH is focused on the rapid advancement of the Livengood project into a compelling potential development scenario.

On behalf of
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.

Jeffrey A. Pontius
Interim Chief Executive Officer

Contact Information:
Michelle Stachnik, Manager Investor Relations
Direct line: 303-881-7646 Ext. 203
Toll-Free: 1-855-208-4642 Ext. 203

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, “forward-looking statements”) within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S. securities legislation.  All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, including, without limitation, statements regarding the anticipated content, commencement, completion and cost of exploration programs, anticipated exploration program results and the timing thereof, the size and characteristics of, or the discovery and delineation of, mineral deposits, resources or reserves, the potential for the expansion of the estimated resources at the Livengood property, the identification of additional deposits on the Company’s Livengood property, the preparation or completion of a feasibility study, the optimization of mine or gold recovery plans, the permitting of a mine at the Livengood project, the potential for a production decision to be made, the potential commencement of any development of a mine at Livengood following a production decision, the company’s business strategy and the potential for a joint venture in respect of the Livengood project, and the Company’s other business and financing plans and business trends, are forward-looking statements.  Information concerning mineral resource estimates and the preliminary economic analysis thereof also may be deemed to be forward-looking statements in that it reflects a prediction of the mineralization that would be encountered, and the results of mining it, if a mineral deposit were developed and mined.  Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct.  Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as: believe, expect, anticipate, intend, estimate, postulate, proposed, planned, potential and similar expressions, or are those, which, by their nature, refer to future events.  The Company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements by the Company are not guarantees of future results or performance, and that actual results may differ materially from those in forward looking statements as a result of various factors, including, but not limited to, variations in the nature, quality and quantity of any mineral deposits that may be located at the Livengood property, variations in the market price of any mineral products the Company may produce or plan to produce, the inability of the Company to obtain any necessary permits, consents or authorizations required for its activities, the inability of the Company to produce minerals from its properties successfully or profitably, to continue its projected growth, to raise necessary capital or to be fully able to implement its business strategies, and other risks and uncertainties disclosed in the Company’s Annual Information Form filed with certain securities commissions in Canada and the Company’s annual report on Form 40-F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and other information released by the Company and filed with the appropriate regulatory agencies.  All of the Company’s Canadian public disclosure filings may be accessed via and its United States public disclosure filings may be accessed via, and readers are urged to review these materials, including the technical reports filed with respect to the Company's mineral properties.

This press release is not, and is not to be construed in any way as, an offer to buy or sell securities in the United States.

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Comments on: Block IP address to workgroup nodes Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: santoshsharma Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:54:14 +0000 #comment-109638 Hi Mnrao,You can add a specific IP address range pool in your DHCP Server for the computers which are in domain controler. if the new computer joins in your network it will not take the ip.

By: mnrao Thu, 03 May 2012 07:55:52 +0000 #comment-107155 whenever you connect the system to the network, an IP address automatically assigned by the DHCP server. here I want to stop automatic IP address to those which are not in domain network. pl guide me

By: gabe9527 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:59:33 +0000 #comment-107059 Q: how to block dynamic IP address assigning to workgroup systems?
A: Turn of DHCP from the Network properties or create a seperate DHCP scope and add the Workgroup server in as a reserved address. This would also give you Dynamic DNS for the workgroup servers.

Q: the domain network nodes only can access the IP address?
A: I am guessing this is a DHCP question and not server access. Removing the NIC property to use DHCP should do what you require but the reservation outside of your scope would work better.
If you are asking about access then your best bet would be to use a seperate subnet and firewall control access across the route.


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 It's All About Guitar - Essential Resources For All Guitarists

It's All About Guitar !!

Welcome to It's All About Guitar.

With so much information about guitar scattered around the web, in books, DVD's and videos, it can be very confusing and not just for beginners.

Hopefully, here at It's All About Guitar I can help ease the confusion by providing clear advice, guidance, hints and tips.

Have you been thinking about learning how to play? Perhaps you always wanted to but you just never got around to doing anything about it for any number of reasons. You didn't have the time, what with other commitments like school, being too busy with work, or even raising a family.

You just thought it was too much like hard work? And no matter how much you put into it you just wouldn't be able to play anyway. Big mistake! You can still learn how to play guitar despite all that, and hopefully we will be able to provide a little bit of inspiration and encouragement to get you on your way.

The aims of the site are numerous. Firstly, to provide encouragement for anyone who falls into one of the categories above and, as the site grows, providing valuable information on learning how to play, how to go about buying without wasting your money, caring for your instrument once you have made your purchase, tuning (including some alternative tunings), and provide you with a load of basic chords to get you started.

There will also be sections on the history of the instrument, some useful hints and tips on gigging, and using your skills to make money from playing. Want to know all about the different types of guitars out there? It will all be here.

Just follow the sections on the left to find a wealth of information on accessories, effects, players, news, and loads of other vital information and advice.

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And don't forget, if you have a WAP enabled mobile phone (one that can access the internet that is) you can use it to visit the site at any time by simply adding the website address as one of your favorites. Among other things, you should find this particularly useful for viewing those basic chords when you are away from the computer. Most mobile phones can also pick up RSS feeds.

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Just in time for your last minute gift wrapping sessions, our buddies in Other People have gifted upon us “The Greatest Christmas of All”, a brand new original tune created right here in St. Louis. Band member Bob McMahon wrote to us about the track:

“Just like all your holiday shopping, ‘The Greatest Christmas of All’ comes together at the last minute to save the day. It’s a tongue-in-cheek tale of a man with the poor fortune to be born on December 25th. Don’t let the sleigh bells, pretty harmonies, and classic chord progressions fool you…the narrator does not feel this is the most wonderful time of the year. Other People disagrees with him, however, and in celebration of Christmas, we present this song as our gift to you.”

And I’d be remiss not to mention that on Saturday, January 7th, Other People releases its new CD at Off Broadway with the excellent support of Dinofight! and Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship. The show is free thanks to 4 Hands and the venue. Cheers and congrats, OP! We hope to see you all there.

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Friday, 9 October 2015

SLEEP by Haruki Murakami

Me and Murakami have a very difficult relationship.  It started few years back when a friend gifted me "Norwegian wood". It is like this: I read him, I don't dislike him, or his writing, but when I finish his books I am always like: and so?. I also created a book club to read "Kafka on the shore" to try to discuss with others on what I was missing of this writer.  If you are asking why I tell you it is because I really want to find what people love of him, and I don't.
So I had given up, untill my mum gave me this little book full of nice drawings, and I decided to give him another try. I started the book and I really liked it, I was so much into this magic story, these nice drawings making you live in a dream.  Then I reached the last  page and I wanted to scream at him:  you did it again  Mr. Murakami, you cheated me!!. One thing is to finish with an open end, another is to not finish a book,   'cause this is exactly what he does for me.
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Thursday Thirteen #9

Thirteen Of My Favorite Comfort Foods

1. Chili

2. Stew

3. Spaghetti

4. Chicken and Dumplings

5. Cregacheck (I know it’s not spelled right but it’s a casserole my German grandma used to make and it’s just ground beef and egg noodles and stewed tomatoes and peas and I love it with all my heart because it reminds me of my childhood)

6. Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Tomato Soup

7. Pizza

8. Brownies

9. Biscuits and Gravy

10. Scrambled Eggs, Bacon and Toast

11. Bread pudding

12. Chocolate cake with chocolate icing

13. Pannetonne…Italian sweet bread

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The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

18 thoughts on “Thursday Thirteen #9

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    Teri brown says:

    Good, good food. I love bread pudding. With or without chocolate chips (nummy) or a carmeled brandy sauce. (More nummy) In fact, my stomach is pretty much growling right now. Thanks.

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    Oooooh count me in on Bread Pudding. I haven’t had that in YEARS!

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    SciFiChick says:

    mmm.. I’m hungry now, and I still have an hour till lunch.

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    I think all your favourites are my favourites too *g*. I think one of my all time favourite meals though is turkey dinner (with all the stuff that comes with it)

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    May says:

    Spaghetti is one of my favorite comfort foods too. I think I’ll be eating a lot of it at university. LOL.

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    I’m drooling. Which isn’t a good thing to do at work. I love freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. I always feel gooey when I get to eat them right out of the oven.

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    Darla says:

    Oh, yum. I’ve got extra milk in the fridge I need to use up. I think I’ll make some bread pudding–so what if I’m the only one who’ll eat it?

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    Jaci says:

    Erin…you’re absolutely right. I can’t believe I forgot turkey dinner! Yummm!

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    Scooper says:

    Some days just aren’t complete without pizza and brownies.

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    Annie says:

    Thakn goodness it’s lunch time. Your TT has me STARVING!!!

    Brownies are by far my #1 comfort food!

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    Kate Davies says:

    Okay, now I’m hungry. Is 9:53 too early for lunch?

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    Michelle says:

    Yup, I love them all except not a big chili fan and have never had #5. I LOVE biscuits and they aren’t as popular up here as they are in the States. We usually have english muffins, which I also like, but they aren’t as comforting as a biscuit. And cornbread. I love cornbread and I wish that was more popular up here as well. I just have to make my own. I make good cornbread but my biscuits just aren’t as good as I’ve had in the US.

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    Hey Jaci…funny thing, I almost blogged the same Thursday Thirteen myself today! My list of comfort foods.

    Weird how our minds are connected…very weird.

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    Renee says:

    Great List–Breakfast foods are comfort foods for me too, especially if you have them for dinner. :chicken:

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    Caryle says:

    My work computer absolutely hates WordPress, so whenever I try to comment on your blog, I can’t. 😳

    Anyway, your list had my stomach absolutely growling this afternoon. I miss the biscuits and gravy from the union at K-State. I think they were responsible for at least five of my freshman fifteen. 🙂

    And just so you know, I bought Surviving Demon Island on Tuesday. I’m looking forward to reading it!

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    Jackie says:

    My thirteen favorite comfort foods? Easy.

    1. Chocolate
    2. Chocolate
    3. Chocolate
    4. Chocolate
    5. Chocolate
    6. Chocolate
    7. Chocolate
    8. Chocolate
    9. Chocolate
    10. Chocolate
    11. Chocolate
    12. Chocolate
    13. Chocolate

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    Anni says:

    yum yum yum yum!

    i almost swiped your idea for today. prolly next week. LOL

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    Hmm…I think mine are chicken enchiladas, chicken mole, shepards pie, chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream, stuffing, birria de chivo and I think that’s about it. :doglick: Mmmm yum! Comfort foods give me the warm fuzzies!

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Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Reading Frenzy Bookshop

I'm already getting a very warm welcome from ALL the way over in the US. The dates have been confirmed - 30th of April 2013 I'll be flying over to spend an evening at Reading Frenzy BookShop (which is the coolest bookshop I've ever seen) with Heather Savage and Sheri Olson. Can't wait to hear that famous US accent. I'll try and not confuse everyone with the Aussie lingo. ~ ♥ ♥ ♥
"Quoted from Reading Frenzy"
Ok, we are super excited!!!!!! International Author, Jacinta Maree from Australia will be with us on Tuesday, April 30th!!!!! She'll be talking about her new book & the book industry down under. She'll be joined by Heather Savage, her pu...blisher, & we'll talk about the e-book industry vs. traditional publishing. You don't want to miss this!!! Come just so that she can make fun of our Minnesotan accents! :) At our Elk River location!

Sunday, 27 January 2013

HARD COPY- My Demonic Ghost Book One

My Demonic Ghost is available as a hard copy! That's right ~ it's ready to go to a beautiful home where our demon rebel Lock can stare upon you as he watches from the bookshelf.
 Become a Host, carry young Lock from the pages and give him a new home in your heart.
He'll never forget you.

He'll be your banished ghost forever.

*Depends on shipping costs- I do not intend to make a profit AT ALL.

 Norway = $20
US = $15
Aus =$9

Book Price: $15.40 from Book Depository.

COVER REVEAL: TM Smith Opposites

A fantastic blogger and reviewer has just had her very first novel published and ready to take on the world- we welcomed the ever so talented T M Smith with her book OPPOSITES.

Author: TM Smith
Tentative release date; March of 2013
Genre: Adult Dystopian

Calendar year 2081. Our planet has finally succumbed to Global Warming.

Dr. Anthony Smith, one of only a few thousand people to survive Global Warming Ignition, has come to the conclusion that the destruction of our planet and society had been due to Injudicious Breeding which lead (in his opinion) to over population, WAR, unnatural climate changes, lower intelligence, poor physical health, poverty, lust and greed. Having isolated the Dionysus gene, he decided to start society anew by manipulating Human DNA to ensure all their offspring would be born Gay/Lesbian. Thus creating a society where Gay/Lesbian is the norm… to be straight labels you an Opposite and makes you an Outkast.

~ Nature Versus Nurture ~

Some 200 years later Dr. Smith’s descendants have maintained control of the Government that rules society. House Gaeland rules their lands, as well as the other 6 countries that survived GWI. Twins, Aiya and Aiyan, are next in line to rule alongside their soon to be wife and husband. There is, however, a growing anomaly; one that threatens to unravel over 200 years of progress. This anomaly is known as Opposites.

A bit about the author:

A military brat born and raised at Ft. Benning Georgia; Smith is an avid reader, reviewer and writer. She now calls Texas home from her small town on the outskirts of the DFW Metroplex. Most days you can find her curled up with her kindle and a good book alongside a glass of something aged and red or a steaming cup of coffee!

At 42 years young, she’s decided to enter the next phase of her life by adding the title of “author” to her list of accomplishments that includes single mom of three disturbingly outspoken and decidedly different kids, one of which is Autistic. Her two eldest kids and gay best friend were the inspiration for her upcoming new release, Opposites.

Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Rise of the Dead

Just a small post in celebration to my finally being able to squirm out of my writing block and explore the world of My Demonic Ghost Book Three. The more and more I try to see the world through their eyes the more I feel their struggles and the more their happiness is able to pick me up off my feet. There's so much frustrated love and passion to explore that at times I find myself leaning away from the keyboard just to catch my breath.
Lock and Rachael are growing stronger and stronger, I'm unable to keep them silent anymore. The spirits are uprising, the demons are cracking the surface to our earth and they refuse to be ignored.

And so I start the ending of their story...

The green eyed monster is following you.

Sunday, 20 January 2013

Mechanical Breath - Miracle Rain

 Eli comes from a dead planet so he has never seen plantation or wild life, he has never felt the chill of snow, the pattering of rain or the soft caress of sunshine. There is no beauty where he comes from. He lives in a society that deems the human body weak and useless, meaning they actually idolise machines because of the robot’s capability to go beyond the human body limitation. Eli does not see it as an improvement, but he sees it as a horrible loss of the natural human body.

So, when he finally feels the fingertips of rain fall down on him he is overwhelmed and brought to tears...

Monday, 7 January 2013

Win a picture with a Ghost ~

Let's have a competition ~ It's very simple with great stuff to win. It's as easy as one, two, three.
One: It's a very simple click of the button, head over to GoodReads and add My Demonic Ghost to your To Be Read pile.
Just click the button underneath the front cover.
  If you have facebook you can easily sign up.
Please comment here to let me know you've entered for the draw.
If you do this ~ You go into the draw to win a copy of My Demonic Ghost. There will be five winners. For one lucky winner with win a paperback copy from any category.
Two: Buy a copy. It's only $3.99 believe it or not.
If you do this ~ You go into the draw to win a amazon gift card worth $25. Not only can you buy books, you can buy dvds, games, anything you want.
For one lucky winner with win a paperback copy from any category
Three: To win a amazon Gift Card Detailing $50 all you have to do is buy My Demonic Ghost AND write a review.  I will also commission an artist to draw YOU and ANY CHARACTER YOU WANT from the Demonic Ghost series together.
For one lucky winner with win a paperback copy from any category
Depends where you buy it allows you to post a review.
If you don't win BUT you still wrote a review for me ~ I will reward you with a personalised My Demonic Ghost pen.
Conditionals apply, review must be a serious and honest review with a minimum word count of 250 words.

Yuck~ Rules ~ :)
- You need to prove to me you have bought the book to enter - comment on this journal with your receipt number after the transaction.
- You can enter as many times as you wish.
- Past Reviewers can still enter please just notify me of your interest.
- This competition ends May 31st 2013.
- Booger Booger (<- Not a serious rule).
- You can show me some love by adding me on facebook here  Click Here for Facebook.
- Show more love (because let's face it you're incredibly awesome) by following my blog.
- Lots and Lots of Love ~ Jacinta Maree.

Current Entries:

Option One: Prize 5 EBooks + 1 Hard Copy (any category)

- Lisa Markson
- Crystal Trent Dotson
- Rhonda Moffitt - Winner EBOOK
-Wendy Carr  - Winner EBOOK
- Teena  - Winner EBOOK
- Lauren Dawes
- Rachael Rivera
-Todd Bar (aka awesomesauce)
- Josie Hink  - Winner EBOOK
- Kristi  - Winner EBOOK
-Diana Pinguicha - HARD COPY

Option Two: Prize $25 + 1 Hard Copy (any category)

-Graciela Gutierrez
-Kim B
- Jessica Johnson
- Michelle McQueen
- Sara Peterson Johnson
- Jen Berg- $25 GIFT CARD
- Tara Neideffer
- Tammy Middleton
- Olivia Zak
- Christy Sloat (pending)
-Lauren Dawes
-Jon C.
-Travlin- HARD COPY

Option Three: Pize $50 + Picture + 1 Hard Copy (any category)
(All reviewers will get a pen)

- Jessica Johnson
- Michelle McQueen
- Sara Peterson Johnson
- Jen Berg
- Tara Neideffer
- Tammy Middleton
- Olivia Zak
Lauren Dawes

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Dusty Blood - Fatal Love

 Would you dare a kiss?

Sebastian from Dusty Blood - the 22 year old slave seeking revenge on all those who repressed him. Set loose and wild, the blood underneath his skin not only harbors the body of an enormous demon snake but is also tainted with fatal poison. One clip of his fang against your mouth only brings death and darkness.

Artist: Artwork done by Claparo-sans

Wednesday, 2 January 2013

One of the Seven Deadly Sins - WRATH

Half woman and half shark.
Inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger.

Wrath resides in the barren lands of spitting volcanoes and harsh pelting heat. The demon remains nailed to the rock embedded deep into the core of the most ferocious volcano within the spiritual cosmic.

Do not approach this sin ever, as hell has no fury as a woman scorned

This is the final piece of the deadly seven sins collection. A huge thank you to the ever so brilliant, selfless and creative Christin Zakh and her amazing talents when making these creatures. I am speechless, finally able to see this demons transform from mere words on a page into collages of colour and emotion. Christin has worked very hard and spent a lot of time and energy on every piece in the collection, helping me launch the book My Demonic Ghost into story that everyone can enjoy.
If you like this style, I strongly suggest you check out the rest of Christin's gallery as she so unique in her craft that you never know what to expect with her next submission. Might I add she has also a book which she had written as well. I'm just waiting for the English version to come out.
Thanks a million Christin, you're awesome.

Please Click the Links to see the other sins:
Vanity, Lust, Sloth, Envy, Gluttony, Greed.
Artist: Christin Zakh

My Demonic Ghost 2- Taking Prisoners

 My Demonic Ghost - Book Two - The Reapers

Another brilliant master piece from the lovely and extremely talented Laverinne.

Here is a paragraph from Laverinne's interpretation of the characters from Book Two.

Laverinne: I draw betrayal is hugging the Reaper while her hand is chained, and the reaper is holding the chain like she's his prisoner. I want to make some ironic that, although she's chained and somehow she's hunted by the reaper, but they love each other,  i draw her hugging the reaper and the reaper is put her in his lap and hugging her waist with his left hand..^^. and i draw them touching each other, (that's different from Rachael and lock pure love) to show that their love is more adult..

She is absolutely fantastic, and it's obvious I don't need to tell you to check out her page because you can see for yourself how amazing she is.

My Demonic Ghost- Book Two - The Reapers will be out 2013.

Happy New Year & Baby Pictures

Sorry for my absence, I was swept away to the sunny land of Queensland where I spent most of my time lounging by the pool and trying to avoid sun burn. (Which I failed... horribly).

But now I'm back, it's currently 3:09 AM in the morning and I can't seem to step away from the computer. So, while I am here wasting away precious sleeping time I may as well catch you up on some of the games that's been happening over at Bookend 2 Bookend.

It's a competition to guess which baby photo belongs to who.

 The 8 winners have their choice of one book from one of the eight participating authors. The first winner will get first choice, the second winner will then choose, and then the third winner will choose their prize and so on and so on until all 8 books/prizes are gone. :) Prizes are listed below.

Ebook from Tiffany King
Ebook from Belinda Boring and swag pack
Ebook from Cameo Renae
Signed paperback from Donna Milward
Ebook from Kristin R. Campbell
Ebook from Jacinta Maree
Ebook from JM Schroeder
Ebook from Amanda Heath


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Language is the limitless body

Tracking erasure in HR Hegnauer's 'Sir'

Note: This is our (should we say "my"?) first post on a published manuscript. A book-length volume, Sir was published this past summer (2013) by Brenda Iijima's Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, which also published an earlier chapbook version of the book, also called Sir, in May 2011. All quotes come from the recent volume.

“I understand now that this is what happens when a human and: the language won’t let us.”

In HR Hegnauer’s Sir, the grandfather, known as Sir, buys cotton candy in the early morning on a school trip, for all the children he chaperones.  Far later the narrator's girlfriend sneaks this same Sir a Snickers bar while he is on life support. These are the un-secreted worlds, memories as bodies to lay down next to. Both actions of desire against the reign of the forbidden. “And then there was the embarrassment of remembering, yes, I do have a body.” This being alive is treated like a shocking headline about no one you know.

In Sir, the Ma’am vs Sir address is about having language or not having language in the case where having language happens in the reverberation of its failure, that rupture is here is what makes body tangible, a thing simultaneously within and without, not Sir and half Ma’am.

 "But more often I’m called sir, and if I’m feeling extra confident, I like to respond, I am not a sir! I said this to an airport security officer in Denver when I was on my way to Sir’s funeral, and I got patted down twice: first by a man and then by a woman.

 There is a funny reoccurrence of driving the wrong way on to a highway, of entering an exit, which is similar to the gender nonconformity of the narrator.

"I like when people call me ma’am because it gives me hope that genders might be fluid. It becomes a special occasion for me, and I celebrate it by marking it on my calendar.

The interpellation of "ma'am," is a "special occasion" because usually they are placed on the "sir" side of the gender binary. My experience is opposite to the narrator's, and I wonder if that was set up, in the tone, so that all the memories could stay close to them, only theirs. (E.g. I don't like being ma'am, and I don't think it attests to the fluidity of gender, I think it's a bogus word. But…I also never had such a fantastic relationship to my grandparents because we always had language between us.)

Sir is an anthem to language as something real in its necessary failure. It is precisely the slippage, the lacunae, the error, that enables language cathexis within the real of the young narrator: ma'am is ironic evidence that there is a body, a young vulnerable not yet aware of the ways of the world body, a trans body (vs a male body). Present. Presenté!

Memories then (present or not, for this is also a book about dementia) are mood swings, extremes of carefulness to full-fledged desperation all towards Sir: "I'm very sorry, Sir, but I think I might have lost part of you." How many times have we had that thought: "I'm putting this here. This isn't good enough! Is this good enough?" There is something high pitched about doubt, almost unbearable to read because we are getting too close: "when the notebook is full, I duct tape it closed."

Continuing from the image the image of a [mood, playground] swing here. Unstill, back and forth, never returning to the exact location from which it departed. Sir is obsessed with time and event, about memory's impossible task of holding, not missing anything, as a means of tracking how they—time and event—conspire in particular moments to make language and knowledge. These events turned language accumulate in the body to make a collective personhood, an "and." My favorite is the story about the meth addict. It begins just after the narrator explains why at 15 they had already been driving …

"for two years now — ever since that awful accident that Sir and Mrs. Alice and I witnessed along the backside of the armory outside of Oakland. That was the moment when all the wheels turned, and I became their driver. We watched a man flip his stolen car and drag his face along the freeway guardrail, through the windshield, across the shoulder, and towards the woods. Sir called to the man’s upside down body, Sir, sir can you hear me?! ... Dude, help me out of here! He kept yelling this at us. Dude, pull me out! Then an ambulance came. A fire truck came. The police came, and then another fire truck came, and they all kept saying, he’s so methed-out. This guy’s methed-out. one uniformed-man came up to me, and said, The only reason why this man is still alive is because he’s so methed-out. Let this be a lesson to you. I didn’t know what this meant: methed-out. I looked at the man’s badge and nodded. Yes, I understand. I thought to myself, Remember this. This must be a safe place — this methed-out place."

It is here, in the place where language makes a place outside of reality through reality (in this case maybe by reality I mean event) that the body is both within and beyond the "limit of the body" a trope or refrain from Akilah Oliver via Agamben through which Hegnauer frames this book length series of prose poems (or are they vignettes?).

I thought the most interesting letter to the ghost of Sir to be a description of receiving all the "real" letters the narrator wrote to Sir, which includes maybe ten years of letters, and there were also emails with Sir. I liked that at one point Sir asks for less elaborate emails from the narrator.

And this line really spoke to me: "I just spent five days in a room that looked like the inside of a purse" because it felt like it was also a guide. I could be inside the bag of a brain of this childhood to late twenties memories. And the desire to wash it away, the burden of the details, one request to the ghost of Sir, "Please, help me hallucinate a clear tide."

I think a lot of new writing now-a-days attempts to track time, slow it down, pause it, so that it might be read, recorded, made "real" in the absence of the material of letters, printed photos, sentimental journeys etc. Sir expresses desire for tangibility within the landscape of the ephemeral.

It should be also noted that this is a performance text and that HR Hegnauer, like Evan Kennedy, "reads" their books from an internal page in the body. You can listen to HR reading at the book release party for the chapbook right HERE.

HR is also featured in a short amateur youtube video called There Will Be Three that Rachel (Levitsky) made for a panel with Dana Teen Lomax, Sueyeon Juliette Lee and Cara Benson on the "Errant Future" for &Now in 2011.


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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Thai Coach Blames Lack Of Fitness

Thailand lost to a South Korea team yesterday in the King's Cup. I have no idea which South Korea, it certainly weren't the first team and they didn't even include the Arsenal striker Park, but anyone the Thais played them and got beat 3-1.

Coach Winnie Schaefer after the game said the Thai team weren't very fit.

Hmm. Let's see. A season that began last February. Intermininable FA and League Cup schedules. A frequently rearranged TPL schedule. A SEA Games disaster. Prehistoric training methods at some clubs.

God knows when the Thai season will end. And he will only now if the FA and or TPL deign to tell him in advance. The League Cup Final is scheduled for February. The end of that month sees a final WCQ with the Thais having an outside chance of going through to the next round.

And then the next season begins when? Early March?

Lack of preparation has hampered the Thai national team at every major international event for several years now and it doesn't look like ending any time soon.

If Thailand had a powerful animal protection lobby they would be protesting at the conditions players there operate under.

The King's Cup, a football tradition dating back decades, has surely run its course, at least in its current format. There are already too many demands on the players with the normal TPL/AFF/AFC/FIFA schedule without adding to it by playing kids from Scandinavia and South Korea.

Time to put it out of its misery.

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40 PEOPLE MARKED FOR DEATH? - Gregory Park residents say triple murder will lead to reprisal killings

December 20, 2016
Scene of Crime detectives conduct investigations at the scene of a triple murder.

While not corroborating word on the street that a massacre is slated for Gregory Park, St Catherine, following the triple murder of members of the Umbrella gang operating out of Newlands, also in the parish, the police say they will continue to maintain a heavy presence in the community to avoid any flare-ups.

THE STAR has obtained information from members of the Gregory Park community that word on the street is that 40 persons from the community are marked for death, as reprisal for the December 9 triple murder of Paul Parchment, Durrant Miller and John Lyttle, who were all believed to be top-tier members of the Umbrella gang.

However, Commander of the St Catherine South Division, Senior Superintendent Robert Bennett, told that THE STAR that while he has not receive information that there are threats on the lives of residents of Gregory Park, the police will continue to talk to members of the community about how to operate while they try to bring order to the area.

"We have not received information that persons are listed to be killed, but we have gone to the community and we have met with members of the community and sensitised the community about the threats that the community might be facing, based on the police intelligence," Bennett said.

Parchment, Miller and Lyttle were murdered in a section of Gregory Park, called Gulf.

Bennett said that the structure of that section of the community makes it very difficult to police.

unknown assailants

"The development is very hard to police because there are no lights and there are just dirt tracks," Bennett said.

Last Saturday, 24-year-old Jeremiah Meyers was murdered by unknown assailants in the community at about 6:40 p.m. Reports from the police are that men went to a barbershop and opened fire. Meyers and a 15-year-old boy were rushed to the hospital where Meyers was pronounced dead. The teenager is still being treated.

But even with the latest killing after the police had already increased their presence in the area, Bennett believes that the police will maintain order in the community.

"Each day as we go through policing the area, we will make an assessment and also assess what our intelligence gives us. We will act accordingly to ensure that we have a safe community," Bennett said.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

James Hartline on the Rick Amato Show Tonight

James Hartline will be appearing on the Rick Amato Show tonight, October 29, 2007.
We will be discussing Hartline for City Council, District 3 Campaign, the Fires and the Prayer Rally at City Hall coming up on Tuesday - October 30, 2007.
Time: 10pm
Tune in to KCBQ - 1170am
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The Cuts That Dare Not Speak Their Name

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is likely to announce tomorrow the long-awaited general election. But in the run-up none of the major parties are prepared to tell the truth about the scale of the cuts in public expenditure that will be needed to stave off national bankruptcy. All the parties are careful to avoid announcing any numbers – how much will have to be cut from public spending, how many jobs will have to be lost from Britain’s bloated public sector, how high taxes may have to be raised and what the balance should be between spending cuts and tax hikes, if Britain is going to secure the economic growth it needs to get out from under mounting debts.

Cutting public expenditure substantially is the only way forward. But where and by how much? Labour politicians on the whole avoid the word “cuts” and prefer to talk about public investment. Conservative leader David Cameron and Osborne have followed their Labour counterparts and promised to ring-fence health care, defense and Britain’s overseas aid budget. In fact, Labour goes even further and the Prime Minister has insisted that all “front-line” services – education, the National Health Service and the police – will be unaffected, if he is re-elected.

Read my full take on the British election and the economy at the Daily Caller.


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Upgraded Custom items and delivery times.

Posted by David Krepel on January 24, 2017 (Comments Closed)

We have improved our software and laser machines in the past 12 months and even survived the learning period.  Our software upgrade is most noticeable for detailed graphics and using photos.  I also purchased a second copy of the CAD program so I can take it with me and design at the show and at my hotel in the evening.  Gone are the days of long delays.


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KKK, the Cruel Beast [a fantastic movie by Jann Halexander – 2013] VOD

KKK, the Cruel Beast
[a fantastic movie by Jann Halexander – 2012] VOD
VOD (release): in November, 2013.
Official website:
A movie of Jann Halexander [Fantastic]
Maggelburg, somewhere in Europe. A young woman investigates into the death of his brother, whose body was found in the border of a forest nicknamed 'the Forest of Mass graves'.

With Ariane ., Maïk Darah (french voice of Whoopi Goldberg), Olivier Magdeleine, Marlène Pons...
The movie was in several festivals and cultural centers from November, 2010 to June, 2011.

English Teaser :

Available in VOD on the following link :
(for english subtitles, click on Subtitles, at the top, to the right)
Some marks on the director: Jann Halexander belongs to a minority of totally independent directors, outside the main circuits of the French cinema. He realized movies essentially for the DVD market, sold thousands of copies.Production: Trilogie Halexander / Lalouline Editions
Contact media: Jeff Bonnenfant 0033680150524

Filmography Jann Halexander:

- J'Aimerais J'Aimerais (2007)
- Occident ( 2008 )
- A last night in Le Mans ( 2010 ) (Une dernière nuit au Mans)


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Makau, Mathathi, Gitau and Nakamoto Headline Fukuoka International Marathon

by Brett Larner

For its first running following the launch of the new mass-participation Fukuoka Marathon on Nov. 9, the hallowed Fukuoka International Marathon has pulled in former world record holder Patrick Makau (Kenya) to make a go at a comeback against 2013 winner Martin Mathathi (Kenya/Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) and surprise 2012 winner Joseph Gitau (Kenya/Team JFE Steel) in its 68th edition on Dec. 7.  Until this summer Makau hadn't run at quality over any distance since 2012, but a sub-28 road 10k in the U.S.A. in August suggests he has been getting back toward full fitness, something he'll need to bring to compete against Mathathi and Gitau.  2:06:24 Ethiopian Raji Assefa is a potential darkhorse, #2 on paper but without a good marathon to his name since running his PB in 2012.

Kentaro Nakamoto (Team Yasukawa Denki), 6th in the London Olympics and 5th in the Moscow World Championships, leads the domestic hopes alongside 2:08 Moscow teammate Masakazu Fujiwara (Team Honda), track and half marathon star Tsuyoshi Ugachi (Team Konica Minolta) making his domestic debut after running 2:13 and 2:12 overseas earlier this year, and former 1500 m and 5000 m national champion Yuichiro Ueno (DeNA RC) and college indy Hideyuki Ikegami (Kyoto Kyoiku Univ.) in their marathon debuts.

A solid overseas second pack is also in place to boost Japanese chances.  The aging internationals include 2005 Fukuoka winner Dmytro Baranovskyy (Ukraine), perpetual pacemaker Isaac Macharia (Kenya) and national record holders Yared Asmerom (Eritrea) and Henryk Szost (Poland).  Fresher blood includes Ser-Od Bat-Ochir (Mongolia/Team NTN), Cuthbert Nyasango (Zimbabwe), Jeffrey Eggleston (U.S.A,), Mekubo Mogusu (Kenya/Team Nissin Shokuhin) and Benjamin Ngandu (Kenya/Team Monteroza).

Fukuoka is one of the four races used to set up the three-person team for the 2015 Beijing World Championships, with Federation bigwigs calling for Japan's corporate runners to step up and run sub-2:06:30 to get there.  Considering that only one Japanese man has ever done that it seems like they might as well call for a 2:05 or 2:04, but the sub-2:08 standard for the Moscow World Championships team was at least partially responsible for all five team members clearing 2:09 and the fastest getting down to 2:08:00 and Fukuoka has seen a sub-2:07 by a Japanese man in older times, so who knows?  With a decent pack of overseas competition staging things at mid-2:06 pace maybe fans will be treated to something special.

68th Fukuoka International Marathon
Elite Field and Open Division Highlights
Fukuoka, Dec. 7, 2014

Patrick Makau (Kenya) - 2:03:38 (Berlin 2011)
Raji Assefa (Ethiopia) - 2:06:24 (Paris 2012)
Joseph Gitau (Kenya/Team JFE Steel) - 2:06:58 (Fukuoka 2012)
Dmytro Baranovskyy (Ukraine) - 2:07:15 (Fukuoka 2006)
Martin Mathathi (Kenya/Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 2:07:16 (Fukuoka 2013)
Isaac Macharia (Kenya) - 2:07:16 (Dubai 2008)
Yared Asmerom (Eritrea) - 2:07:27 (Chuncheon 2011)
Henryk Szost (Poland) - 2:07:39 (Lake Biwa 2012)
Masakazu Fujiwara (Team Honda) - 2:08:12 (Lake Biwa 2003)
Kentaro Nakamoto (Team Yasukawa Denki) - 2:08:35 (Beppu-Oita 2013)
Ser-Od Bat-Ochir (Mongolia/Team NTN) - 2:09:00 (Hofu Yomiuri 2013)
Yoshinori Oda (Team Toyota) - 2:09:03 (Tokyo 2011)
Cuthbert Nyasango (Zimbabwe) - 2:09:52 (Prague 2014)
Tomoya Adachi (Team Asahi Kasei) - 2:10:22 (Lake Biwa 2013)
Chiharu Takada (Team JR Higashi Nihon) - 2:10:39 (Fukuoka 2013)
Jeffrey Eggleston (U.S.A,) - 2:10:52 (Gold Coast 2014)
Mekubo Mogusu (Kenya/Team Nissin Shokuhin) - 2:11:02 (Tokyo 2013)
Takaaki Koda (Team Asahi Kasei) - 2:11:08 (Tokyo 2011)
Taiga Ito (Suzuki Hamamatsu AC) - 2:11:15 (Tokyo 2013)
Noriaki Takahashi (DeNA RC) - 2:12:04 (Lake Biwa 2014)
Tsuyoshi Ugachi (Team Konica Minolta) - 2:12:18 (Sydney 2014)
Makoto Fukui (Team Fujitsu) - 2:13:57 (Muenster 2012)
Benjamin Ngandu (Kenya/Team Monteroza) - 1:01:06 (Marugame 2012)
Hideyuki Ikegami (Kyoto Kyoiku Univ.) - debut - 1:03:09 (Tanigawa Mari 2014)
Yuichiro Ueno (DeNA RC) - debut - 28:01.71 for 10000 m (Kobe 2014)

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Pammy's last hurrah

I am thrilled to the cockles of my groin that Pamela Anderson will be posing in Playboy’s last nude issue. It just goes to show that even a fusty old reptile like Hef can have a flash of inspiration. Call me a kinky ape, but I am far more interested in Pamela’s body now that she’s reached the ripe and raunchy age of 48. We gorillas prefer our meat cured and slightly chewy. I just hope they don’t airbrush the photos to make her skin look like polished plastic.

There are many things I admire about Pamela Anderson. Her critics think she’s an airhead, but she’s definitely not as stupid as she looks. Her critics might say that no one is as stupid as she looks, but they can go and suck on lemons. A woman who can make fifty thousand bucks by posing naked in Playboy doesn’t need to worry about snide comments from pettifoggers and guttersnipes.

The good news is that her sons have given their blessings to the venture:

“Mom you've got to do it,” said Brandon. “We're older, we're not embarrassed anymore of you. You know, we think you're great!”

“He was so excited he may have high-fived me!” added Pamela.

You’ve got to wonder how Pammy’s boys will turn out. My gut feeling is that they’ll be fine young men with a deep respect for women, even if the women in question are hoochies or harlots. That doesn’t mean they’ll date such women, of course. I wouldn’t be surprised if they married Mormon girls, who would never dream of being unfaithful to their husbands unless they were carousing with other women, which doesn’t count as cheating in the Mormon religion. I make this proviso after learning about a new genre of lesbian pornography that the manager of the safari camp is currently enthusiastic about. It purports to show Mormon girls ecstatically exploring their erogenous areas.

“I’d convert to Mormonism to get a pair of wives like those two,” he said, while drooling over a video clip on his i-phone.

“Be careful what you wish for,” I remarked. “Your sex life might be limited to the role of a referee in a wrestling match.”

“Hmm,” said the manager frowning. “I was hoping to be the hooker in a rugby scrum.”

“Not much chance of that,” I replied. “They don’t play rugby in America.”

I now feel quite guilty about spoiling the manager’s fantasy. Christmas is a time for whimsy and make-believe, when fat jolly men empty their sacks under big bushy trees. You’re not supposed to tell children that Santa Claus isn’t real and the elves won’t turn up because they only want to play with themselves. I will have to cheer him up with news of how the Mormon faith is spreading outside America, to countries where rugby is played with a passion. Good things come to those who wait, as the Book of Mormon would have said if a gorilla had written it.

The Japing Ape wishes his readers a Merry Christmas.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Pants down incident

Whenever I hear of a human having a clothing mishap it makes me glad to be a gorilla. Ivan Zvonimir Cicak, pictured above, is a Croatian human rights activist whose trousers fell down at the precise moment he accepted an award from the president of his country. The last time I saw something like that happen was back in my circus days, when the clowns dropped their baggy pants as a joke. Not all jokes are funny, of course. I certainly wouldn’t have laughed at Mr Cicak’s involuntary debagiture, although I might well have applauded. It isn’t everyday that a man in boxer shorts is honoured by the president of his country.

Mr Cicak is probably too old to let an incident like this get him down. With any luck, his wife will tell him what a sexy pair of legs he has and slip a Viagra pill into his bedtime drink. If I were his publicist, I would put out a statement saying that the mishap occurred because he had burned off his belly fat after cycling through the hills of Krapina. Far better to let your pants fall down than be a fat slob who slouches in front of the TV eating Big Macs and McNuggets.

A very different type of sartorial malfunction has bedevilled Ms Rita Ora, who is strangely blasé about the fact that her breasts have frequently popped out at public events.

“It's fun,” she insists. “It has happened to me lots so I am not paranoid about it any more. You end up losing track of them.”

Reading between the lines, I detect a woman who is exceedingly proud of her puppies and wants the world to admire them as much as she does. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I don’t personally like it when they bounce out unexpectedly. The sudden exposure of external organs can easily be mistaken for threatening behaviour in the jungle. A snake would certainly hiss at a woman’s jahoobies if confronted by them at close quarters.

You are probably wondering whether a free-living, laid-back ape like me ever wears clothes. Well I did perform in a pair of scarlet pantaloons in the circus, but I never really felt comfortable in them. A gorilla likes the air to circulate around his nether regions. Since then I have been pantless, although I do sometimes wear a waistcoat to reassure the tourists at the safari guesthouse that I’m not the sort of beast who would punch their lights out if they expressed themselves too freely. The manager of the safari camp uses such occasions to make what he considers to be amusing quips:

“I say, m’lud, will you be taking tea in the conservatory?” he once asked me in a poor attempt to mimic an English butler.

“I shall be taking my tea in your mistress’s bedchamber,“ I replied. “She has complained of a lumpy mattress and would like me to install a hammock.”

“My arse you will!” exclaimed the manager heatedly.

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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Caught in the act

I have a huge amount of sympathy for the Cornish woman who installed a CCTV system to monitor her garden after she saw a man masturbating there.

“It was shock horror – just disgraceful!” said 38-year-old Devika Devereux. “My jaw was hanging wide open and I could not believe what I was witnessing!”

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the police then instructed her to remove the camera because it was violating the man’s privacy! I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t reading the script of a Monty Python comedy sketch.

I hope Ms Devereux sues the police for adding insult to her injury by implying that she had installed the device for voyeuristic purposes. Never in my life have I heard of a woman who derives any pleasure from watching a man play with his private parts. That doesn’t mean such women don’t exist, but they are surely few in number, living on the margins of society in fear of their vice being discovered. Of course, there is no lack of men who love to watch women toying with themselves, but that’s a completely different scenario. No one in his right mind would compare horsemeat to finger-licking chicken.

The identity of the man who groped himself in the garden is yet to be discovered. The police, it seems, have better things to do than apprehend the culprit responsible for the whole imbroglio. Why he should have wished to spill his seed on Ms Devereux’s perfectly mown lawn remains a mystery. Given that the police have no interest in carrying out an investigation, I would advise Ms Devereux to check her garden gnomes for signs of physical or emotional abuse. It might also be an idea to interview any local cats that were lurking in the vicinity. Our feline friends have excellent night vision and would certainly be spooked by the sight of a strange man wrestling with his todger.

I came across a fair amount of self-abuse when I was in the circus. Most of it was done by the dwarves, who seemed to be sexually frustrated to an unusual degree. I soon learned to ignore the ferocious panting of these surly manikins, to say nothing of the evil manic laughter they emitted on arriving at the consummation of their exertions. However, on one occasion I was forced to intervene when a particularly odious dwarf was thrusting against the smooth polished exterior of my trailer. I grunted to attract his attention and threw a J-cloth and aerosol spray in his direction.

“Make sure you clean up after you’ve finished,” I barked. “I don’t want your toxic secretions corroding the surface of my dwelling.”

The dwarf scowled and gnashed his teeth, but I knew he would not dare to disobey me.

If I lived in Cornwall, I would certainly lend Ms Devereux a hand in dealing with the villainous onanist who trespassed on her property. But as I live in the Congo, I can only offer her my moral support.

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Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Aerial assualt

I draw your attention to a strange and disturbing news story from Kuwait, where an 8-year-old boy is standing trial for molesting his school teacher. The young fellow allegedly manufactured a paper aeroplane which he fired into the teacher’s “lower back region” – a polite Kuwaiti term for the bumcakes. The prosecutor has demanded a 5-year prison term for the boy, who was in shock when he appeared in court, telling the judge that he didn’t know why he was there.

Before denouncing the Kuwaitis as towel-headed apostles of the child catcher in Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, we should recognise that many women are extremely sensitive about their posteriors. In all probability, the teacher had a sizeable rump which was a major hazard for low-flying projectiles. To have such a sensitive area of her anatomy assaulted in this way would have deflated her self-esteem and inflated her body image. I hope she has received counselling from a psychologist to reassure her that her bum is not as big as she thinks it is. No woman should go through life believing that her rear-end is a legitimate target for paper aeroplanes.

As for the boy, he may be wholly innocent of any malicious intent. The news report indicates that he dreamt of becoming an aviation engineer. We can therefore assume that the paper aeroplane was expertly constructed and found its own banking curve. Lacking navigation tools, evasive manoeuvres would have been impossible when a large fleshy object appeared in its flight path. If I were the judge, I would call witnesses who saw the boy’s reaction when the collision occurred. Only if he clapped his hands and hooted would there be any solid evidence against him.

This doesn’t mean I approve of putting an 8-year-old child on trial, of course. The Kuwaitis have their own peculiar customs which would not be appropriate in a gorilla habitat. When I was in the circus, I often looked after the children of performers who had gone out for a night on the town. For human infants, a gorilla is the most awesome Super Nanny who ever took up the profession of nannying. I didn’t need to say much to them, but when I did they followed my instructions to the letter.

One on occasion, I saw a naughty boy poke a girl in the eye and make her cry. After consoling the girl, I ordered the boy to report to a certain clown and offer to pick the clown’s nose with the finger he had used to assault the girl. Knowing the clown as I did, I was certain that he would accept the offer. The boy was sullen, but assented to the punishment and returned with a soiled finger, which I told him to wash with soap and water.

This incident caused the other children to marvel at the wisdom of my judgments.

“Why can’t our parents be like you, GB?” they asked.

“Because they are not gorillas,” I replied.

The children opened their mouths in wide-eyed wonder and marvelled yet more.

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