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Today my students will start off the hour voting for Prom King & Queen (it's obviously the end of the school year when my English classroom gets bogged down with school-wide or grade-wide paperwork!). Then, I will model today's activities, which have been briefly discussed at early points in the past weeks to give students time to "percolate" about them.
I will use the projector to direct students to the Great Gatsby Project Sheet. Then, I will give them a preview of the project pieces by showing them an example of a final Great Gatsby Soundtrack Project in Thinglink. I chose this platform after much thought about how to best incorporate all of the activities that I want my students to complete, so I will will show them with the Gatsby character links how each symbolic image contains links to a music video that's related to the character, lyrics for the song in the video, and a Google Doc that contains a brief essay matching the character traits as articulated in the novel with the song. I will also show students the clear rubrics for each component section so that they know in advance what they will be graded on.
Students have known about this project for several class periods now, so it's not entirely new to them. It's also likely that they will have a few questions about song choices, so I will answer them if they come up during this time. The most-often asked question is whether or not songs can use profanity, so I'm always prepared to answer this question! For me, I think that a handful of profanity (like the kind that appears on television before 10pm, not full-on graphic or obscene language) is acceptable in these projects. However, I always caution students to make sure that if their song DOES contain profanity, they should be extra certain that they have fully explained why that song completely matches their character. If there's a "clean" version of the song out there, they should aim to use that version and edit lyrics accordingly. Also, if the song that they are considering is extremely graphic or obscene, they should select a different song entirely. If they have any questions about this, I will encourage them to email me specific questions before they commit to using it in their project.
Next, I will introduce our project for today that we will use to prepare for the individual Gatsby Soundtrack projects. On larger projects, I like to make sure that students completely understand the process involved, so whenever possible we model them as a group or in small groups before students turn to individual practice. For this group practice, self-selected groups of 3 will create group soundtracks for The Great Gatsby, though unlike the individual project (where students base their songs on characters), this group project will be based on evaluating a chosen theme as it develops over the course of the chapters in the novel. They will need to utilize the same process and skills as they will for their individual project.
First, they need to consider how the theme grows and changes over the course of each chapter. Additionally, they will need to consider what the overall tone (which needs to be a specific emotion word that is greater than five letters!) of the chapter is. They will reflect both of these pieces of information in the first column of the first table. To emphasize the need to base these judgments in text, they will also need to include evidence in the right column of the same table that supports their interpretation of the theme and tone in each chapter.
After student groups complete this planning table, they can move on to the next portion of the activity, which is choosing an idea for an image and song that reflect each of the chapters. If students are not given clear directions here and instructed to first evaluate the text and outline arguments, this project will rapidly go off track! It is supposed to be a fun assignment for students, but the educational value lies predominantly in fully evaluating the text for its tone and theme and supporting that evaluation with evidence. The soundtrack portion of the activity is a multi-media way to frame it in a way that appeals to students and adds an element of synthesis to their work. The same goes for their individual projects, so modeling the process here will save you from receiving a plethora of individual soundtrack projects that lack analysis and evidence.
While students are working with their groups on this activity, I will move throughout the room to help students, pose questions about their choices, and ensure that they are analyzing and collecting evidence before launching into choosing images and songs for each chapter. I will also try to keep groups moving along with this project, since they may get "stuck" on finding the perfect song for each chapter, rather than just getting a feel for how the project works and how to analyze and substantiate their claims for each chapter. My students have thousands of songs on their iPods and are passionate about music, so I will stress that it is impossible to create the perfect soundtrack in only 45 minutes! All I will be expecting from them is a soundtrack that makes sense with their analysis and evidence of the theme's progression. They can put all that music-love and perfection-seeking into their individual projects!
As groups wrap up their projects, they will need to raise their hands to let me know that they have completed the project and get my approval on what they have done in order to move on to the next piece of the lesson. They will have to talk me through their group project, and I will want to hear from every group member how the theme changes and becomes more complex as the book progresses onward. I will also listen for clear connections between the symbols chosen to represent each chapter and the songs chosen to represent each chapter.
Once a group's project has been presented to me and accepted by my, students will remain with their groups to begin work on their individual Great Gatsby Soundtrack Projects using the materials I went over at the beginning of the hour. I know that students will be eager to share what they have for songs with their peers, so I don't want to fight that from happening if I can use it to my (and their!) benefit. Students will be encouraged to share their song choices and help one another find evidence to support their character analyses. The visual character maps that students have worked on throughout the novel will be an excellent resource for gathering evidence to support their song choices, as students have tracked the evolution of characters throughout the book and noted evidence with page numbers on these maps.
I want all students to have time in class to get an individual start on their projects today, so I will continue nudging groups that are still working to "divide and conquer" any remaining pieces of their group activity. I will also interact with students working independently on their projects to spot-check their choices and ensure that they have selected evidence that supports their song choices for each character.
In the final minutes of class, I will be sure that ALL groups have completed their group projects. Furthermore, I will remind students that they need to have songs and ideas for symbolic images picked out for each character when they arrive to class next time. We will have several athletes leaving early today, so I will make sure to remind each of them of the expectation. Students will have most of next class period to work on these projects, so arriving with a clear plan is critical to effective time management!
While I'd love to assign major homework tonight, Prom season is upon us and students are wrapping up Spring sports. Rather than fight the system, I have opted to organize this project so that much of the planning takes place at home, but the actual project creation happens at school. Another perk of this idea? It's great to be on-hand to answer student questions while working, and I historically get a better product if I can be nearby making them push themselves harder. Next class period, however, my students will need to arrive prepared to work hard in exchange for this break!


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iPhoto for iPad Is Gorgeous, Fluid, Fun - and Slightly Confusing
Mar 19, 2012 5:00 AM PT
iPhoto, an app from Apple, is available for US$4.99 cents at the App Store.
How so?
First, the look and feel. The app is broken out into four sections: Albums, Photos, Events and Journals. Your Albums are shown off on a green glass shelf and look like old-school photo book icons. It looks fantastic and a little tacky at the same time. Subtle animations and sharp details help it all look great, but the photo book idea ... eh, whatever.
When you tap on Photos, however, you'll get a grid screen of all your photos on a nice gray background with subtle shades and framing. Getting to this screen also includes some nice motion in the icons of your photos as they slide into place. Tap a photo, and you'll launch into a larger view, which you can then zoom into or edit.
Instead of the conceit of photo album books for your Albums, your Events are like well-framed photos with the key photo of the event on the front, again, sitting on the green glass. It's an improvement over the albums, for sure. Tap an event, and you can view all the photos in the event or edit them individually.
Journals lets you "tell a story" with your photo and share it on the Web using iCloud. To get started, you open an album or event, tap Share and choose Journal. Seems easy enough, but I haven't tried it yet.
Lots of Editing Tools
Scanning and viewing your photos is easy through the two-column icon grid at the left, with a large area to the right reserved for viewing an active photo. You can easily share a photo through a journal, to your camera roll, Twitter, Flickr and Facebook or start a slideshow. There are lots of options here, like sharing to iTunes, which I tried but have no idea what happens or why or even where my photo went. Presumably, it's somewhere in iTunes. I'm just saying, I haven't ever used that feature before, not sure I ever will again, and I sure as heck believe that most iPhoto users on their iPads will run into similar features that they won't be able to figure out without some trial and error or Web searching. Which is sort of irritating.
Fortunately, there's a sort of a built-in help system which flags features and offers built-in details for how they work, using yellow flags that pop up after you hit the "?" icon at the top of the app. For example, I messed around with iPhoto for quite a while before I noticed the button at the top that shows or hides the thumbnail grid. And hiding it is handy, like when you want your photo to stay at full-screen while you edit it. How did I notice it? By using the help button.
You can also view multiple photos side by side to compare similar photos to pick your best. This works pretty well on my iPad, but I'm having a hard time imagining using it on my iPhone 4. To view photos side by side, you have to tap them in the grid at the left, but figuring this out is not particularly intuitive. Fortunately, again, the help button will come to your rescue. One tap will let you view a photo. Touch and hold will let you add another photo to view it side by side with the existing photo. Alternately, if you take a lot of similar shots like I do, you can double-tap a single photo and iPhoto will automatically find and select similar photos to display.
Once you figure it out, it's awesomely powerful. And that might be the metaphor that describes the entire app: Awesomely powerful, but jeez, it's going to take you a while to understand and appreciate it.
Back to the Editing Tools
As you would expect, you can do a lot of dragging and pinching to edit a photo. A pallet of brushes, for example, lets you saturate, desaturate, lighten or darken an area of a photo simply by tapping on the brush and then using your finger to brush on the effect on the area of the photo that you want to saturate, for example, with extra color -- like a blue sky.
Other preset editing tools let you change things like saturation, blue skies, greenery or skin tones. Plus there's presets for sun, cloudy, flash, shade, incandescent, fluorescent or face balance that you can use to affect the lighting.
There are also effects like Warm & Cool, Duotone, Black & White, Aura, Vintage and Artistic. Tap one of these and you'll get a whole new set of options to apply. For example, tap Vintage and your refined choices include Early Chrome, Sixties, Saturated Film, Neutral Film, Vivacious and Muted. Choose one and you can then add a vignette effect.
At the same time you're messing with all of these effects, iPhoto occasionally (and quickly) updates itself, presumably to communicate with iCloud or make sure its brains remember where and what you're doing to all of these photos, all of which is non-destructive and can be removed or reverted back to the original. And through the editing process, you'll see the photos peel back to reveal the photo again in an animated move that's slick and cool. Still, I have no idea what it's supposed to indicate happened or is happening. Was the effect applied? Or did I tap something to remove an effect? I'm just not sure.
Other simple features include a red-eye marker and a brush that will let you soften a photo, say to tone down grandma's wrinkles, which might result in people letting you take more photos without getting all super shy about it.
A Packed Powerhouse
The real question about iPhoto on your iPad will be if you have the patience to start using it, figure it out, and work it into your life. Frankly, I already have some great go-to apps for editing and effects, like ColorSplash, PhotoStudio, AutoStitch, GroupShot and Snapseed. Will iPhoto replace these? Or enhance them? Or will it become something more, like a spot to manage and contain all my photos on my iPad -- a storage locker, sharing tool and workspace all in one?
Frankly, I'm not yet sure. The only thing that is clear is that I've barely scratched the surface with iPhoto. And a recommendation? Easy. If you have an iPad, for $4.99 you have to check it out and give it a spin. It might change how you pack around and share your photos. It's quite solid, super cool in some places, and has the potential to let you crank out some awesomeness while on the go. If you're just an iPhone user, I'm not sure that your experience will be as compelling. But on my iPad 2, I'm going to keep playing with it. It's definitely worth my investment of time to give it a real chance.

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Padres trying to steady roller-coaster season
Despite losing streak, San Diego believes it can win in second half
SAN DIEGO -- It's always been Huston Street's policy to avoid looking too far ahead, so the Padres' closer might be the wrong guy to ask what the second half has in store for San Diego.
"I've learned not to make predictions because of the unpredictability of baseball, the nature of how one swing and one good start can change things," Street said.
One thing is for certain: The All-Star break couldn't arrive quickly enough for the Padres (42-54), who finished the first half with a 10-1 victory over the Giants on Sunday, but prior to that had lost four in a row and 14 out of 15.
Even with that victory, the Padres enter the break having lost 18 of their last 22 games, with one of the losses coming on Saturday when they were no-hit by the Giants' Tim Lincecum.
How can this trend change?
"Consistent play at the plate and on the mound," said Padres manager Bud Black. "… It's no secret. This game is built around consistent performance. But where we are now? We're not a team that's playing well."
To be sure, the first half was anything but a bore. It was a wild ride that saw the team endure more twists and turns than the historic Giant Dipper Roller Coaster at nearby Belmont Park.
• The Padres began the season by getting smoked by the Mets on Opening Day, 11-2. This was the start of a 5-15 stretch that had the team 8 1/2 games out of first place by April 22 -- yes, April 22.
• Then the pitching got better, especially from the rotation. The team started to score runs and, lo and behold, the Padres went 33-19 over their next 52 games to inch within a game of the D-backs in the NL West.
First-half awards
|MVP: Everth Cabrera A first-time All-Star, Cabrera has been a catalyst for the offense and offers plus speed and defense.
|Cy Young: Eric Stults The soft stuff plays well, as Stults shows you don't have to throw hard to be steady and dependable.
|Rookie: Jedd Gyorko Missed time with a groin strain, but showed early that he belongs at this level.
|Top reliever: Joe Thatcher Rough start for the bullpen, but lefty specialist has been tough on the game's best lefties.
• Then came a 10-game losing streak, nine of the losses coming on a grueling and hot and sticky road trip to Miami, Boston and Washington.
Get all that?
"At 5-15, everyone wanted to say it was over, that it was the worst year ever," Street said. "Then 60 games later, all of a sudden, everyone wanted us to be buyers and is talking positive. But then you lose 10 games in a row and people think it's the end of the world and you're horrible again.
"I've learned not to be that fickle."
Street said the key for this team is to continue to plug away. The right pieces are here, he insists. In the wild NL West, the Padres aren't, and shouldn't, be discounted.
"The one thing I would tell guys in here is just to play today," Street said, motioning to the clubhouse. "Today is the only thing that matters."
Tomorrow is pretty important, too, especially if San Diego wants to get back to .500 and get back into contention in a division that no one -- to this point, at least -- wants to run away with.
Players to watch in second half
|Yonder Alonso Was on way to a big year when broken bone in hand sidelined him in June. He's healthy now.
|Chase Headley Slow start, but remember what he did in second half in '12? (.308/23 HRs/73 RBIs).
|Andrew Cashner First full season as a starter, continues to learn on the go. He has been very good at times.
"It's time to go," said Padres catcher Nick Hundley.
What will it take?
Better pitching, to start.
The Padres have long been among the league leaders in team ERA, but they have scuffled during the first half. The result from the starters has often been a mixed bag of results. Clayton Richard, who in 2012 tied his career high with 14 wins, is out for the season with a shoulder injury.
The bullpen has struggled as well, as Street has allowed 10 home runs and Luke Gregerson has scuffled to find the right rotation on his slider.
"I hope so," Black said when he was asked if the pitching will be better in the second half. "We didn't pitch well in April, we pitched much better in the middle part of May through June, and here in July, we haven't pitched as well as we're capable of."
Improved health could help the Padres moving forward.
First baseman Yonder Alonso got off to a very good start but missed the next 34 games with a broken bone in his right hand. Rookie second baseman Jedd Gyorko hit .303 with six home runs in May, but landed on the disabled list in June with a strained right groin.
Third baseman Chase Headley missed the first 14 games of the year recovering from a finger injury in Spring Training. Left fielder Carlos Quentin missed time with a sore left shoulder. Catcher Yasmani Grandal is out for the season with ligament damage to his right knee. Center fielder Cameron Maybin played in 14 games before suffering a knee injury.
The good news was the depth the organization cultivated paid off, as Kyle Blanks stepped in for Alonso, Logan Forsythe stepped in for Gyorko and the collective effort of the outfielders made up for the loss of Maybin.
"The big part of the entire group is the great flexibility it brings," Black said. "There's many components to sustaining winning. But it will help us if we get all the guys back we expect to get back and they're playing like they can."


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Ivan Nova's season has been a colossal disappointment. Last year he was a breakout star, 16-4 and the Yankees' No. 2 starter, and things were only looking up. Now he's 12-8 with an ERA over 5.00, won't even be in New York's playoff rotation, and looking like yet another of the Yankees' vaunted crop of young arms that fails to pan out. He got knocked around in a 6-0 loss last night that dropped New York's AL East lead to a single game.
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The new season begins with a week of five "brain-ier" than-ever episodes -- each inviting kids to join WordGirl and her friends as they fight the "cheesy" tactics and dastardly tricks of local villain Dr. Two Brains, while learning new vocabulary words all along the way! To help keep kids' minds in gear and their vocabularies growing all summer long -- and to get them set for all-new word-driven hijinks -- here are some tips inspired by WordGirl's Word of the Month for August: CLEVER!
Find the word! Turn reading into a fun game for your child! Host a reading-based scavenger hunt and ask them to find the nouns, adjectives, or rhyming words in a book. And, before embarking on your road trip this summer, give your kids a list of words and challenge them to check off each one as they spot it from the car window.
Solve the puzzle! It's important to keep your child's mind working, especially during the summer months, and one super way to do it is by working on logic puzzles together. Purchase crossword puzzles and word search books, find free printable puzzles online -- or even create your own!
Make it a reading challenge! Reading is rewarding for kids of all ages. Create a log of the books your child reads this summer. During the school year and all year long, continue to track the titles your child completes. For each book they finish, reward them with a special sticker. Add to the challenge by asking them to pick out a word they don't know from each book they read and look it up together in the dictionary. See how many books they can read -- and new vocabulary they can learn -- in just one week or month!
Spell it out! Throwing a mini spelling bee into the mix is a great way to test your children's spelling ability. Say a word and ask them to spell it out. Then, go around the home, the park or the supermarket asking them to spell each item you point out!
And don't forget to tune in to Season 7 of WordGirl, August 4 on PBS KIDS (check local listings) for more word-powered fun!
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Reynolds optimistic as elbow rehab moves forward
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB.
PHOENIX -- Left-handed reliever Matt Reynolds played catch from 120 feet Monday and hopes to increase the distance to 135 feet later in the week.
It's all about taking steps forward for Reynolds, who underwent Tommy John surgery last September.
The target time for him to get back on the mound is sometime in June, and he hopes that he can rejoin the team before the end of the season.
"It's not up to me, but I'd like to get back at some point this year, whether it's for a week or a month," he said.
There is still a ways to go before then, but when you've missed as much time as he has, you'll take any ray of hope you can get.
"I feel like I'm starting to get to the point where I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel," he said.
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Huntington is a town in Chittenden county, Vermont. It was formed in 1763 in N.H. from the following county/ies: Addison. It has used the following other name(s): New Huntington. The probate and court district for Huntington is Chittenden. For more information, contact the town at 4930 Main Rd., Huntington 05462. On the attached map, Huntington is shown as 14 in Chittenden county.
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Saturday Night Live first asked Eli Manning to host the show in 2008, after the Giants won the Superbowl. Eli declined, in part because his brother, Peyton, had done such a great job hosting the show in 2007. "Peyton Peyton Peyton, everybody loves Peyton," Manning thought to himself, fists clenched. "Why even bother?" He sat for a moment, silently, before his eyes lit up. "If I win another championship, then I'll come back and host. Yes, that's it!" And with that, Eli slowly rose from his seat and floated out the door. (Note: Only some of this is true.)
Four years and another trophy later, the Giants QB will take the SNL stage with musical guest Rihanna (and, hopefully, Shy Ronnie). We'll be watching here; open thread starts at 11:15pm EDT. Join us, won't you?


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4th generation Intel® Core™ processor compared to an old PC
Lightweight, simpler. An all-in-one PC can be moved from one room to another with fewer wires than a standard desktop and monitor. With a new 4th generation Intel® CoreTM processor inside, you get the latest capabilities you expect from Intel. Whether playing games, creating a video to share, or web-browsing, this new PC powered by a Visibly Smart Intel Core processor brings style and processing power to your computing experience. That's the power of Intel Inside®.
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The holiday theater season in Anne Arundel County started early in December and lasted through this past week, with festive and sacred concerts, "The Nutcracker" ballet and annual favorites showcasing the talents of local children.
Memories of these shows bring smiles that should last into the new year, and while that holiday glow lingers, we reminisce.
For many, the holiday season began at Eastport United Methodist Church on Dec. 2, when the Arundel Vocal Arts Society's "A Symphony of Song" concert, conducted by JoAnn Kulesza, opened the society's 30th season. The society was joined by the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Anna Binneweg.
Now in her sixth season as AVAS conductor and music director, Kulesza led the 40-member group in its performance of Morten Lauridsen's "Lux Aeterna," with full accompaniment under Binneweg's direction.
Conventional carols were offered, of course, but a special feature of AVAS holiday concerts is the inclusion of other cultures — in this case, the Nigerian carols "Betelehemu," performed in Yoruban, and "Noel," performed in Ket. Both had strong percussion elements as accompaniment.
For more than 20 years, the Annapolis holiday season has officially begun when J. Ernest Green conducts the Annapolis Chorale in its Celebration of Christmas concert. Over the years, the chorus has grown to its current strength of 170 voices.
This year's concerts, held in the first week of December at Maryland Hall, were highlighted by the chorale's "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and the Annapolis Youth Chorus' salute to Hanukkah in "Ose Shalom." Soprano Christina Lamberti was joined by baritone Michael Ryan in "O Holy Night," and Ryan offered a stellar interpretation of "Good King Wenceslas." The chorus also performed "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "Do You Hear What I Hear?" and a version of "White Christmas" that sent the audience off with a glow.
The Ballet Theatre of Maryland's performance of "Nutcracker" marked Dianna Cuatto's 10th year as artistic director. She was out of state for some of the performances, but her choreography was brought to life by dancers who seemed focused on delivering flawless performances in the absence of their mentor.
As is her usual practice, Cuatto had double- and triple-cast many of the roles to give ample performance opportunities. Kaitlin Frankenfield, who joined the troupe last year and was promoted to solo artist in 2012, excelled as she danced the lead role of Clara for the first time.
Florent Bouyat was cast as the Nutcracker Prince, and the native of France brought his experience as a soloist for companies including the Royal Swedish Ballet, the English National Ballet and Milwaukee Ballet. This year he joined BTM as a principal dancer, and in the "Nutcracker" executed strong elevations and precision dance.
Other noteworthy performances were Jillian Cyr as the Snow Queen and Alexander Collen as the Snow King. All on stage contributed to making these performances a tribute to Cuatto.
As the holiday season moved toward its culmination, The Talent Machine Company — whose players range in age from 5 to 18 — offered its enchanting show, "A Happenin' Holiday," for two weekends, Dec. 14-16 and Dec. 20-23. Founded by Bobbi Smith in 1987, The Talent Machine Company is now under the direction of Smith's daughter, Lea Capps.
Talent Machine performers move on at age 18, and one of those making a final Christmas performance with the troupe was Bowie High School senior Tabitha Thornhill, who has performed in every holiday show with the company since she was 6. Sam Curbelo, 17, was also in her last holiday show, also having started at age 6.
Those two will move on in the new year, but perhaps we'll see more in the future of two 11-year-olds who didn't miss a step — Alex Sarkady, as Raggedy Andy, and Emma Sayers, who portrayed Raggedy Ann.
Indeed, the new year brings the turning of the page, but also continues our local theater traditions.
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To follow these organizations in 2013, go to arundelvocalarts.org for information on the Arundel Vocal Arts Society; annapolischorale.org for coming performances of the Annapolis Chorale; balletmaryland.org for details on performances and classes offered by the Ballet Theatre of Maryland; and talentmachine.com for The Talent Machine Company.


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Trying to make Yanks' roster, Sizemore progressing
TAMPA, Fla. -- Scott Sizemore already had his crossword puzzle about halfway completed at his clubhouse locker on Thursday morning. You tend to develop those kinds of skills after two serious knee injuries.
"I've had a lot of time on my hands the last few years," said Sizemore, who is hoping to find a roster spot as a Yankees infielder after being forced to sit out most of the last two seasons.
Sizemore tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee while with the Athletics in February 2012, then re-injured the ACL last April, with a partial meniscus tear. He said that he has been doing more conditioning and is almost ready to get on the field.
"There's no pain or anything to really restrict me," Sizemore said. "It's just a matter of getting out on the field and doing it. They've been kind of taking it easy on me, hitting them maybe a step or two to my left or right. I'm just trying to progress to more and more movement. So far, so good."
Sizemore, 29, came up through the Tigers' chain as a second baseman and was moved to third base by Oakland in 2011. He said that he expects to be capable of playing both positions at a high level, which could help him challenge Eduardo Nunez for a roster spot.
Sizemore said that he has outs in his Minor League contract for May 1 and Aug. 1, and would go to Triple-A if he does not make the team out of camp. One encouraging sign in Sizemore's favor: He was issued uniform No. 24, last worn by Robinson Cano.
"That's some pretty serious shoes to fill, but I'm glad they at least gave me a really good number," Sizemore said.


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What happens when The Dark Knight Returns version of Batman faces off against Alan Moore's smartest man on the planet? Only funny things.
Artist Axel Medellin drew this short comic for the latest installment of Comics Should Be Good's The Line It Is Drawn art challenge. This week, artists were asked to send a comic book character back in time to change a significant moment in comics history. Medellin took a suggestion to have the older, Dark Knight Batman lend the heroes from Watchmen a helping (but grim and gritty) hand.
Head over to deviantART to see more of Medellin's work, including some of his previous entries. (I highly recommend the Godzilla Xenomorph.) And there are more time-traveling comics hijinks—the Red Skull finding a still-frozen Captain America, the Power Rangers interfering with a Green Lantern massacre, and Lady Liberty preventing Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster from signing away ownership of their characters—at Comics Should Be Good.
The Line it is Drawn #195 – Fun With Time Travel! [Comics Should Be Good]


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MONDAY BASEBALL West Chester Adult
Red Men vs. Ryan's Pub, ppd. Coatesville Adult
Mariners vs. Affordable Grass Guys, ppd.
A.J. Blosenski Steelbirds vs. Athletics, ppd.
Ramcon Masons vs. SNC-Lavalin Longhorns, ppd.
Chester County American Legion Spring City at Exton, ppd. to 7/11
Phoenixville at Lionville, ppd. to 7/6
Downingtown at West Chester, ppd. to 7/5
TUESDAY BASEBALL West Chester Adult
Arc Concepts vs. The Jays at Farley Field (Hoopes Park), 6 p.m.
Coatesville Adult Athletics vs. SNC-Lavalin Longhorns at Ash Park, 6 p.m.
Harlan Motors Giants vs. Mariners at Boot Road Park, 6 p.m.
Affordable Grass Guys vs. McComsey Builders Brewers at Shadyside Park (West Bradford), 6 p.m.
Chester County American Legion West Chester at Caln (Caln Park), 6 p.m.
Avon Grove at Downingtown (Downingtown West H.S.), 6 p.m.
Spring City at Oxford (Lincoln University), 6 p.m.
Phoenixville at Westtown (W.C. Rustin H.S.), 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY BASEBALL Chester County American Legion
Westtown at Avon Grove, 6 p.m. Caln at Exton (Owens Field), 6 p.m.
Lionville at Paoli (Downingtown East H.S.), 6 p.m.
Oxford at Downingtown (Downingtown West H.S.), 6 p.m.


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COUPEVILLE, Whidbey Island, Wash. - On the beach at Ebey's Landing, gray bones of driftwood that have washed up from who-knows-where have been cobbled into elaborate beach shelters to be used for who-knows-what. Just knowing someone spent time constructing them makes you smile.
In the 1890s, pilings anchored fish traps along this shore. These days the traps and pilings are gone, but anglers still frequent a narrow crescent of sand with a wide, crane-your-neck view of open saltwater where scuttling ferries and lumbering container ships thread the waters of Admiralty Inlet and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Watching surf-casters woo coho adds to the sense of continuity that washes over visitors here to Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve.
The landing, a timeless spot where a broad swath of fertile prairie meets the sea, is a fine place for a hike any time of year - for history, for scenery, and for fresh salt air.
This is where Col. Isaac Ebey, formerly of Missouri, came to stake a claim in 1851. Among the first Euro-American settlers on Whidbey Island, he liked it so much he coaxed more of his family to move here.
The exposed and often windy beach was the island's first ferry landing, where Ebey brought supplies ashore and a ferry took passengers across to Port Townsend - you can see it from here - and south into Puget Sound.
At the foot of Ebey Road, which curls steeply down a bluff to the beach, a small state-park wayside is the trailhead for two delightful hikes. The first stretch for both starts by climbing 57 stairs back to the top of the bluff, then follows the blufftop alongside farmed fields, recently cultivated with beets next to a golden patch of mowed hay.
To the left is that saltwater view, looking across to Point Wilson lighthouse, Protection Island and a backdrop of the Olympic Mountains. To the right, look past old farmhouses and barns to Mount Baker. Above, watch for bald eagles wheeling high on updrafts.
It's a very gentle uphill grade 0.3-mile to a split rail fence and a turnstile, where paths diverge.
Straight ahead and up a steep hill, heading to the 260-foot crest of the bluff, the trail enters the Robert H. Pratt Reserve, belonging to the Nature Conservancy.
"There's a gorgeous view from up there!" Mike Price told me as he hiked down with companion Debra Antetomaso, both of Oak Harbor, and dog Jake, a German shorthair.
The trail continues as part of a 3.5-mile loop that switchbacks down to a pretty lagoon, Perego's Lake, a shorebird haven, before hikers follow the beach back to the trailhead.
My wife, Barbara, and I took Price's word for it, and turned right. Our objective was the path less taken: a 2.7-mile round trip to Sunnyside Cemetery.
We were intrigued to see the grave of Isaac Ebey, who only six years after settling here was beheaded by a raiding native tribe from what is now British Columbia, taking vengeance for the death of a chief at the hands of Americans near Port Gamble.
"The lagoon walk is clearly the traditional sort of loop that people do," Mark Preiss, Historic Reserve manager, told me. "But that cemetery - When people want to learn about the homestead families, that's the place. Thomas Coupe (for whom nearby Coupeville is named) is buried in that cemetery. The Ebeys are buried in that cemetery. For many, many Whidbey Island place names, you can find the family names in that cemetery."
We followed a wire fence bordered by puffball seedpods of thistles and skirting the upper edge of the farm prairie, about 50 yards from an upland fir-and-cedar forest. Sounds of honking geese and lowing cattle blended with the lapping of shore waves behind us. Straight ahead, snowy Baker was our beacon.
After a half-mile, where some modern homes edge the prairie, we angled left through an opening in the fence to inspect the restored 1850s home of Jacob Ebey, Isaac's father, who followed him from Missouri. There's also an old blockhouse, built as protection against raiding tribes. June through September, the house is staffed by volunteers as a Historic Reserve visitor center.
From here, no signs point the way, but we proceeded straight on a gravel track past another beet field and along a hedge of snowberry and rose hips, then wound to the right to easily find the cemetery.
The Ebey plot, surrounded by a white picket fence near the cemetery's edge on Sherman Road, includes weathered old monuments for Isaac, Jacob and more.
As Preiss promised, we found Coupes, Libbeys and other names from around the island. One small tombstone with the name broken off listed an age of "1 yr., 1 mo., 7 days," with the inscription, "Sleep on, dear Freddie, and take your rest. God called thee home, when He thought best." Nothing like a graveyard to put you close to people's loves and losses.
It's an easy tramp back, with that panoramic view to remind you what made settlers come here in the first place. And why they stayed.
WHERE: From Highway 20 at Coupeville, Whidbey Island, go south on Ebey Road about 1.5 miles until the road dips to the beach. Park in the small state-parks wayside (Discover Pass required) or on the road shoulder along the beach (free). The trailhead is just beyond a vault toilet at the state wayside.
EVENT: After a hike, bring a dish to share at the Ebey's Forever Community Potluck, with live music, 6-8:30 p.m. Nov. 9 at the historic Crockett Barn on Fort Casey Road, Coupeville. A raffle will benefit the Ebey's Forever Fund, which helps preserve historical buildings in the area; http://www.ebeysforeverfund.com/events.
MAP: Maps and brochures for the historical reserve, which takes in 17,400 acres of Central Whidbey Island, are available at Island County Historical Society Museum, next to the Coupeville Wharf.
MORE INFORMATION: Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve, http://www.nps.gov/ebla or 360-678-6084.
COUPEVILLE, Whidbey Island, Wash. - On the beach at Ebey's Landing, gray bones of driftwood that have washed up from who-knows-where have been cobbled into elaborate beach shelters to be used for who-knows-what. Just knowing someone spent time constructing them makes you smile.


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Like the last light of a summers evening this goes down with a quiet contentment. A tune laid back enough to be soothing but simultaneously purposeful enough to hold your attention. The vocals coo over the strings and organ backing, the closest reference point being somewhat unbelievably "Strawberry Fields" era Beatles.
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A Short HISTORY
Let's stick to the reverse chronology.
2011 - I taught Sound Design and Scoring at CCS. The scoring class was a first for me, and a blast. By the second week of class I had non-musicians and musicians performing Bernstein's music to a scene from "The Magnificent Seven" while watching the clip and recording it in our new foley room. Little Bang Theory released their second cd and I also released a cd of prepared piano music. Little Bang Theory performed musical and live foley accompaniment several times for the animated Starevicz film "The Mascot" and Ozu's "I Was Born But..."
2010 - Another year of teaching at U of M and CCS. I co-curated my first group show, "Animal Farm" (w/Heather Accurso) at Gallery Project. The big news is I received a Kresge Fellowship for my work in Sound Art, which allowed me to breathe slightly easier for a year. I also returned after almost 20 years to the Sound Symposium in St. John's, Newfoundland. While there I had my third solo exhibition, performed with my automatics and wrote my second Harbour Symphony. My second cd with Klimperei, "Musique for Bath," was released on the French label, Jardin Au Fou.
2009 - Another year of teaching at U of M and CCS. In the summer I performed with my automatic organs and a quartet in Los Angeles at a festival called "Cams, Cranks & Computers. I enjoyed my second solo exhibition of kinetic sound sculptures at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Between Kansas and California I hope I've improved at packaging and sending my automatics...no small feat.
2008 - The year began with a couple of months helping Trimpin during his residency at U of M School of Art. The year also marked my return to teaching at U of M in Ann Arbor and CCS in Detroit. I had the pleasure of working with Malcolm Tulip again, performing musical accompaniment to his latest theater piece, "The Day Everything Went Wrong." "buzzards steal your picnic" was shown at Ann Arbor Film Festival and took the Best Michigan Film Award. I also wrote new music for Peter Sparling's documentary for Michigan Television, "Climbing Saint-Victoire." Little Bang Theory released their first CD "Elementary," on AcidSoxx.
2007 - I had a breakthrough this year with my kinetic sound installations. My "Wind & Percussion Ensemble #1," exhibited at Gallery Project, featured two binary counters, one for the air organs and one for the doorbells. Jim Pallas was a tremendous help with the binary counters. I also exhibited my Toru Quartet at PCCA and won a small award. Terri Sarris completed her documentary about yours truly, "buzzards steal your picnic," and premiered it at Detroit Docs where it took the Best Michigan Film Award.
2006 - I exhibited new work at Gallery Project, A2 Art Center and Bohemian Gallery. In Milwaukee I had the privilege of performing with Milwaukee Dance Theater (and Dan Kahn) the music of Tom Waits for their excellent production of "Woyzeck." Another highlight was being asked to write new prepared piano music for a documentary on architect Eero Saarinen by Ed Moore. The documentary toured Europe and North America with the Saarinen exhibition.
2005 - In the spring I had my first solo exhibition, "Four Quartets," at ArtCite in Windsor where my new toyband, Little Bang Theory, premiered Toy Suite #2. In the summer Little Bang Theory performed at Three Drops of Blood festival in San Francisco with a little help from the NEA. I also composed music for, acted in and built a kinetic sound installation for Tate Bunker's award winning film "Space Worship." Scavenger Quartet released their finest collection to date, "We Who Live On Land."
2004 - In March I wrote music for "My Master is a Collector," a collaborative multi-media piece by Thylias Moss, with video, direction and performance by Cynthia Pachikara, Marienetta Porter and Terri Sarris, which premiered at Michigan Theater as part of the Ann Arbor film fest. Also at the film fest i premiered the sound installation "Ode to Mesmer" at Work Gallery, later exhibited at Biddle Gallery. April and May were spent at Performance Network in my role as Musical Director for a 6-week run of "Three Penny Opera". In June, the Power Center premiered "Peninsula" by choreographer Peter Sparling for which I wrote the music. In July at the Performance Network I wrote and performed original music for Jeffrey Steiger's "Stand-up: A Show." In September I performed at the Broken Clock festival and provided sound design for Performance Network's "Humble Boy." October will premiere "Fair and Balanced" a political cabaret by Milwaukee Dance, for which I'll write incidental music and perform protest songs. Awards this year include Best Sound Design for "Three Penny," Der Leo's Best Music for a Short Film (Egg), and a Salute to Excellence Award from Downriver Council for the Arts.
2003 - In January at Hastings Street Ballroom, Scavenger Quartet, with automatic accompaniment, performed the music to an original piece of theater I wrote and directed entitled "Leftovers: The Musical" which told in verse the fictionalized life of Edward Lear. Late February and March were spent in Japan touring to support Back of Beyond on the Novel Cell Poem label. In April I joined the Shaking Ray Levis to perform "Mayor of Tennessee River" written and narrated by David Greenberger. I also received a Creative Artist Grant from ArtServe Michigan to build and write new music for Automatic instruments.
2002 - I've been juggling three groups: The Immigrant Suns (a tour in May to support "Supernova"), Xenharmonic Gamelan and Scavenger Quartet. I wrote the music for "Dada Boy Paints on Canvas" by Jeffrey Steiger and Body Talks by Peter Sparling. Two installations were also premiered: "Slumberland" at Detroit Artist Market and "Fall" at Biddle Gallery. Breech and Nelly Bly also released CDs featuring my tinkering.
2001 - Music for Desserts with Klimperei on the in poly sons label and Whistling for Leftovers with Scavenger Quartet on the Snowdonia label are both released and a lovely toypop compilation "Musique du Jouet," on Japan's Novel Cell Poem label also hits the record stores (somewhere). Several theater and dance commissions (performed live): "My Elephant Dream" for Milwaukee Dance in Milwaukee, "Dossin Project" for Peter Sparling and Company at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and for University of Michigan: Brecht's "Good Person of Szechwan" and Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath". Two installations: Double Quartet #1 at Slusser Gallery and "Music for Desserts" at Biddle Gallery. A few lectures, most notably a lecture, demonstration and workshop at Cranbrook Arts Academy and a fine article in The Wire by David Mandl entitled "Scavenging for Automatons."
2000 - In January and February I was Artist in Residence at Zeum in San Francisco where I taught high school students how to build and perform with automatic instruments, culminating in a performance called "The Luggage Project". Several theater commissions kicked me arse in the best possible way. In Miwaukee: "Ten Minutes Till Bedtime. In Detroit": "Inspector General". And for University of Michigan: "Lysistrata" and "The Tempest" (return engagement). The sound installation "Music for a Red Room" was installed at Biddle Gallery and The Immigrant Suns released the "Field Recordings" LP featuring improvisations recorded at my studio.
1999 - Two commissions for University of Michigan (both performed with Scavenger Quartet): "The Tempest" and Peter Sparling's "Delirium Waltz". I also wrote an article for the final issue of Experimental Musical Instruments entitled "Door-to-door Doorbell Salesman Sample Case." A few exhibitions that are hardly worth mentioning and an extremely limited release CD with David Greenberger, "I Still Like Myself."
1998 - Two releases now out of print: Only a Mother's swan song, "Damned Pretty Snout," and a collection of instrumentals to coincide with my MFA show called "Remove the Cork." The MFA show which featured members of The Immigrant Suns (first use of the name "Scavenger Quartet") was the final requirement for an MFA in Art and Design from University of Michigan. Also featured in the MFA show was a performance by The Amazing Tubachairs complete with a video collaboration with Terri Sarris. Other gallery performances included automatic doorbell performances/exhibitions at C-Pop in Detroit, Biddle Gallery in Wyandotte and Performance Network in Ann Arbor. I was also a finalist for the Polk competition in Birmingham and I received a competitive scholarship award in composition from the GameWorks/World Studio Foundation and an Arts Achievement Award from Wayne State University where I received my undergraduate degree in 1981. Curiously, Only a Mother was nominated for best new jazz band by Detroit Music Awards? And in the summer I squeezed in a West Coast tour.
1997 - Several Dance Commissions: Janet Lilly's "Portrait of a Woman in Mythological Disguise" in Milwaukee, two short pieces for "Haiku Project" (released on CD of the same name) in Geneva, Switzerland and Terri Sarris' "Partners" in Ann Arbor (for which I also danced). I also composed music for the documentaries "Ballad of Fire" by James Knight and "The Faces of Tyree Guyton" by Nicole Cattel. Besides performing with Only a Mother at Edgefest in Ann Arbor I also toured Japan solo where I hawked my "In Cahoots" CD which made a few top 10 lists at year's end. Four local exhibitions, two of which yielded cash prizes (Polk Awards and Lansing Art Gallery).
1996 - University of Michigan lured me back to school with a non-traditional fellowship (which means help for the aged). Two exhibitions, one film commission, two dance commissions and two theater commissions that are hardly worth mentioning. My music appeared on three CDs now out of print: "Eyesore: A Tribute to the Residents," "State of the Union," and "Back from Durbecca" by the Immigrant Suns. Of particular interest was an automaton performance at Detroit Institute of Arts and a European tour with Only a Mother followed by performances at Solofest. Solofest featured Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Rudiger Carl, Otomo Yoshihide, Peter Kowald and many others. It was in Geneva where I met Pierre Bastien and the automatic music bug may have planted.
1995 - Two Ann Arbor dance commissions: Terri Sarris' "Loose Threads" and People Dancings' "Way Far Out Balls." Three theater commissions: Malcolm Tulip's "Robber's Nightmare," Sue Carman's "Heaven" and Wild Swan's "Winnie the Pooh." "Feral Chickens" released to unsuspecting public.
1994 - Three dance commissions: Janet Lilly's "Black Cat," Terri Sarris' "Chance and Circumstance" and Peter Sparling's "Travelogue." Two theater commissions: Malcolm Tulip's "Asylum Asylum," and Walk & Squawk's "They Do It With Mirrors." Two CDs: "The Romantic Side of Schizophrenia," and "Montenegro," with Immigrant Suns. Last but not least, I penned a chapter in Jon Rose's book, "Violin Music in the Age of Shopping."
1993 - Two theater commissions: Nelson Smith's "Psychological Gravity" and Malcolm Tulip's "Enrique Miasmo." Two dance commissions, Peter Sparling's "Local Color" and from Chattanooga Ann Law's "Walnut Street Bridge Dance" with the Shaking Ray Levis.
1993 also marked the second year of the Earwhacks! Music Festival that I coordinated with the help of Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. The two festivals took place in five venues and three counties to give musicians ample opportunity to reach different audiences. Featured performers included Eugene Chadbourne, David Greenberger, Shaking Ray Levis, LaDonna Smith, Davey Williams, Roy Brooks, Nobua Kubota, Paul Dutton, Nick Didkovsky, Amy Denio, Tatsu Aoki and many more. A couple of awards from Detroit's Metro Times: Hall of Fame and Best Instrumentalist.
1992 - Only a Mother was busy in 1992 with performances at Sound Symposium at St. John's Newfoundland (the inspiration for Earwhacks!), New Music America, a European tour and a performance at the first Earwhacks! A commission to write music for Walk & Squawk's production of "Song of the Lark," brought me to Telluride, Colorado. Eugene Chadbourne included Only a Mother on his LSDC&W Part 2 CD.
1991 - Only a Mother was chosen by Metro Times as Band Deserving Wider Recognition but more importantly 1991 was the year of the first collaboration with Malcolm Tulip ("Don Don…") and it was also the year of the first CD releases from Wyandotte's Private Studios (Only a Mother's "Naked Songs for Contortionists" and my first solo release "The Cowboy Disciple").
Xenharmonic Gamelan - XHG XHG is a six-piece band based out of Detroit and led by microtonalist Clem Fortuna. Many of the instruments are home made. Equally influenced by traditional gamelan music and minimalism, XHG is capable of beautiful music to meditate by.
Supernova - Immigrant Suns (Phonetic Records) Frank Pahl - Harmonium, Euphonium
Scavenger Quartet - Whistling for Leftovers (Snowdonia - Italy) Scavenger Quartet (Doug Gourlay of Only a Mother, Tim Holmes of Major Dents, and Joel Peterson of Immigrant Suns and XHG) was originally formed to perform original jazz waltzes for the choreography of Peter Sparling. We got along so well we decided to call it a group. Dave Mandl of The Wire wrote "a chamber jazz hybrid that is much more intimate than Only a Mother but with an equally vast palette." And Ralph Valdez of WDET added "Future-rustic might be an apt description of the Scavenger sound which achieves a fusion that is simultaneously antiquated and avant garde."
Music for Desserts - Frank Pahl and Klimperei (in poly sons - France) What can I say? This is my favorite. All tracks began with home made automatic instruments. Klimperei laid down their sympathetic magic and I mixed. The folks at The Wire liked it and Nate Cavalieri of The Metro Times wrote, "an achievement that depends on beautifully complex minds and beautifully simple machines." Cover art by yours truly.
Chadbourne Baptist Church, Vol. II - Eugene Chadbourne Frank Pahl - Producer, Euphonium
Birthing Chair Blues - Amy Denio Frank Pahl - Assistant
Field Recordings - Immigrant Suns (Phonetic Records) Frank Pahl - Engineer, Alto Clarinet
Atomic Milk-Throwers - Various Artists
Damned Pretty Snout - Only A Mother A classic from 1998 brought back to life on Frank's own Back of Beyond CDR release. Guests Eugene Chadbourne and Luc Houtkamp join the usual cast for the fun.
More Than Food - Immigrant Suns (Phonetic Records) Frank Pahl - Farfisa Organ, Siren, Euphonium, Engineer
Boss Withch - Shaking Ray Levis (Shaking Ray Records) My favorite improvising duo on this here planet, Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner get together with some of their favorites (JD Parran, Davey Williams, Frank Pahl, Mary Richards & Steve Beresford).
In Cahoots - (Vaccination Records) As the title suggests, there are different collaborators on each track and the CD alternates songs with instrumentals. Pitching in are The Immigrant Suns, Eugene Chadbourne, Only a Mother, Shaking Ray Levis, Luc Houtkamp, David Greenberger, Missy Gibson, Brian Poole and more.
Insect & Western Attractor - Eugene Chadbourne (Leo) Frank Pahl - Engineer
Haikus Urbains - Various Artists
Insect & Western Party - Eugene Chadbourne Frank Pahl - Engineer
Thunderclap - Live at the Den Haag Korzo Theatre Field Recordings 3 - Luc Houtkamp & Guests Frank Pahl - Engineer, Banjo
State Of The Union - Various Artists (Atavistic) - Compilation curated by Elliot Sharp
Eyesore: A Stab At The Residents - Various Artists - Tribute to the Residents
A compendium/preview/guide to Eyesore - Various Artists - 7" Single preview of Eyesore includes Frank track.
Feral Chickens - Only A Mother Released four years after Naked Songs for Contortionists, Feral Chickens remains one of Only a Mother's strongest effort.
I Still Feel Like Myself - David Greenberger with special guests (PONK Home Recordings) How's this for a lineup: Only a Mother, Eugene Chadbourne, Davey Williams, Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (minus Amy), Tatsu Aoki and David and I. All previously unreleased material.
Loose Threads - One of my most successful dance scores to date. Commissioned by Terri Sarris as composer and dancer (that's my dancing behind on the cover) this sewing epic explored the connection between recorded images, history and memory.
Lyrics By Ernest Noyes Brookings II - Various Artists
Unsettled Scores - Various Artists
The Nerve Events - Various Artists w/Dr Nerve
LSD C&W, Pt.2 - Eugene Chadbourne w/Frank Pahl & Only A Mother
Lyrics By Ernest Noyes Brookings - Various Artists
Passed Normal Vol.5 - Various Artists - Frank & Major Dents contribute one track to this ever-eclectic collection series assembled by FOT Records. It started out as a cassette only collection, mutated to vinyl, and now on CD.
Naked Songs For Contortionists - Only A Mother This early opus by Bobbi Benson, Doug Gourlay, Marko Novachcoff, Frank Pahl, and Mary Richards contains 23 tracks. Half are instrumental, the others support Frank's warped stories.
Studio Animals - Only a Mother
The Romantic Warped - Only a Mother The second release by Only a Mother is the folkiest of their five releases however there are plenty of the weird moments that brought us infamy (kind of).
Studio Animals - Various In the '80s I began releasing cassette-only compilations. This vinyl release was my foray into the big time. Contributors include Eugene Chadbourne, Only a Mother, Rascal Reporters, Major Dents and more.
Riding White Alligators - Only a Mother The first release by Only a Mother.
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added more covers from some of our favorite film composers as well as a suite of
themes from our accompaniment to the silent film "I Was Born, But ..."
20112CD Music for Architecture - Frank Pahl This collection features prepared piano
on all 17 tracks. Much of the music was written for a film commission, a documentary on
Eero Saarinen by Ed Moore. When the commission was finished I couldn't bring myself to remove all the screws and bolts that made my piano moan, so I continued to write
and record, some of which was used for dance, some for film, but mostly music that either amused or disturbed me.
20101CD Musique for Bath - Frank Pahl & Klimperei- Twenty-one new tracks for your listening and bathing pleasure. This could be considered a follow-up to "Music for Desserts," with a bit less emphasis on the automatic instruments (instead of every track, they appear on about half the cd). I can't read Dutch but the review I read referenced Penquin Cafe Orchestra and "Another Green World" era Brian Eno. Lovely artwork in a limited edition.
2008CD Elementary - Little Bang Theory Formed in 2006, w/Terri Sarris, Claudette Jocelyn Stern and Doug Shimmin to amuse ourselves with my collection of musical toys, LBT has become a popular live act, occasionally performing accompaniment to silent films. Our first release features music for film and theater and fun. Recommended for all ages.
20071CD Songs of War and Peace - Solo w/Special Guests Though this is a Bushera protest release, many of the attacks are against corporations and big oil so I like to think it isn't dated. Francois Couture wrote, "It took George Bush to pull Frank Pahl out of his music for dance and theater productions and drag him back to songwriting. So, fans of Only a Mother rejoice, because the man is in fine form, turning in an opus at least as strong as "In Cahoots." Guests include Eugene Chadbourne, members of Only a Mother, Immigrant Suns and more.
20051CD We Who Live On Land - Scavenger Quartet Automatic instruments on every other track. Doug on drums, Joel on bass and Tim on reeds; together touching on several musical bases but not for long. I recently read a nice review of this release by our multi-talented friend Eugene Chadbourne who said the genre "was downright impossible label." Hell, I can't and I wrote it!
20041CD-R Dusty Nuggets - Only a Mother Seventeen unreleased OAM tracks
recorded between 1988 and 1998. A fine release for any OAM enthusiast.
20042CD-R Euphoniums - Solo Originals mixed with unlikely covers of Mancini, Neil
Young, Cat Stevens, The Beatles and The Doors. The covers were rescued from the
Cranbrook Art Academy's dumpsters. Bertoia? Saarinen? Eames?
PRICe $11
20021CD-R Xenharmonic Gamelan - XHG XHG was a six-piece home made gamelan band based out of Hamtramck and led by microtonalist Clem Fortuna. Equally influenced by traditional gamelan and minimalism, XHG was capable of beautiful music to meditate by.
19981CD Damned Pretty Snout - Only a Mother Cleaning house recently I came
across about 50 of these gems. This was the final release while we were together and
features some of our best material with great performances by guests Eugene
Chadbourne and Luc Houtkamp. Now if only I could find matching socks.
19971CD-R In Cahoots - Solo w/Special Guests As the title suggests, there are
different collaborators on each track and the cd alternates songs with instrumentals.
Pitching in are Immigrant Suns, Eugene Chadbourne, David Greenberger, Jessica
Lurie, Only a Mother, Shaking Ray Levis, Luc Houtkamp, Missy Gibson, Brian Poole
(Renaldo & the Loaf) and more. These CD-Rs are available in the original packaging by Vaccination Records w/cover art by Dennis Palmer.
19891LP The Romantic Warped - Only a Mother This is the second of five releases
by Only a Mother and features all the original members and original artwork. It has folky elements like "Rubbydubs, Mugwamps and Wobblies," alongside that avantfolk OAM sound in cuts like "Song for Mud."
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We have some weblogs on this site. Go to: https://www.usingenglish.com/weblog/
English Teacher
"I've become very interested in blogs and blogging recently. I was wondering if anyone has used blogs with their students either as a reading activity or as somewhere for them to produce writing. Any ideas for how best to exploit this exciting medium?"
asks Nik Peachey from the British Council.
Anyone got any views on blogging and EFL??? .......If you're not familiar with the concept......there's a good introduction to it at this link...
Best wishes etc
Will ;)
We have some weblogs on this site. Go to: https://www.usingenglish.com/weblog/
Hi Ron,
Thanks for the useful info.
Best wishes etc
Will ;)
He there!
Yes, I think weblogs work very well, and the particular ones you cited are excellent examples.
They need to be updated regularly for them to work well and keep interest going, however; something that we need to work on at this site!
Can I ask you a couple of questions?
What do you think of weblogs, and which are your top 5 (if you have a top 5)?
Do you run a site, and possibly a weblog?
I'm not a teacher, so please consider any advice I give in that context.
WordSurfing is his
I can't see a blog there - that's more what I was asking about.
I'm not a teacher, so please consider any advice I give in that context.
I see
I have only recently become interested in the use of Blogs with students (http://blog-efl.blogspot.com), and I have been searching the Web to find examples, opinions, experiences, etc. I have found some examples of how teachers use Blogs to keep in touch with their students, to tell them about homework, etc, but no instances of teachers actually using blogs with students to publish their writing.
If anyone out there has had experience of this and would be willing to share the information, I would love to hear from them. :)


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