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"They'd tell me, 'Music is a hearing thing. It's not for deaf people'."
Amber Galloway Gallego is an ASL-based music interpreter who has worked with Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Destiny's Child, Paul McCartney, and many more rappers, R&B stars, and rock bands. Her YouTube channel is chock full of music interpretation for deaf audiences. [more inside]
Subpolar Express
The Canadian Pacific Christmas Train is a rolling holiday party for a cause. Two beautifully lit trains - on a US Route and a Canada route - cruise through the Midwest, stopping in 150 towns along the way to present live music and light shows while bringing donations of cash and food to local food banks.
Lyrical Extinction
Wild Ones Live is an arresting reading accompanied by music, a collaboration performed as part of a live magazine by author Jon Mooallem, a science and nature writer whose book Wild Ones ruminates on the strange, ignorant, hopeful and poignant ways humans imagine other animals, and the musical project Black Prairie. Listen at your desk if you must, but if you can, pop in your earbuds and go outside for a long walk while you take it all in. [more inside]
Jazzing up Thanksgiving
Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas gets a whole lot of love, but for sheer musical enjoyment it shouldn't overshadow his work on A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Here for your cooking-soundtrack pleasure are Thanksgiving Theme, Play it Again Charlie Brown (aka Charlie Brown Blues), Peppermint Patty, and Little Birdie (incidentally, Guaraldi's own vocal, and the first time any adult voice appeared on a Charlie Brown show). [more inside]
Wormhole Radio
Scratchy Grooves For almost twenty years, starting in 1984, Bill Chambless on WVUD-FM at the University of Delaware, explored the pop music of 1900 to 1940 on vintage recordings, "scratches and all." Stream the shows at this website, migrated from the original cassette tapes and maintained by his son.
Pen Ultimate
In an idle moment, you've probably drummed on a desk with your pen. But chances are middle schoolers could show you some skills. Masters like Shane Bang and many less well-known practitioners are pushing the old idea of pen-as-drumstick - Pen Beats, aka Pen Tap - to new heights. [more inside]
"We did our first show in a bar...all of a sudden, the whole room was quiet. And then we got everyone to sit on the floor cross-legged to watch our crankies." [more inside]
Sounds with an "eternal essence"
Sometimes called the "Alan Lomaxes of India," the founders of Amarrass Records are on a mission to record and revitalize interest in traditional music from India, Turkey, and beyond. Over 100 videos on their YouTube channel chronicle their field recordings and festivals featuring artists like Lakha Khan, the Barmer Boys, Bombino, and many others. [more inside]
Kitchen Junkets and Contra Dance
Kitchen Junkets in New England homes were a wintertime venue for live music and contra dance - a social dance form that's never really faded from the region's popular culture. Often credited with keeping the form alive, scholar/musician Ralph Page celebrated the kitchen junket and other contra traditions from 1949-1984 in his hand-printed magazine Northern Junket, available indexed and fully digitized via the University of New Hampshire. [more inside]
It's a Different Nick Cave
Nick Cave's Soundsuits: Calling up echoes of wild beasts, Carnival dancers, maskers and shamans, the "soundsuits" made of a wild diversity of materials by visual artist and dancer Nick Cave have life beyond the gallery. They're designed to be used in performances and 'invasions,' creating a sense of mystery, playfulness and joyful moments of community.
Playin' in a Travelin' Band
Springsteen in the USA: 40 years of Touring as a Study in Spatial Diffusion "As a geographer, 1500+ shows over 40 years is an opportunity to map...how phenomenons such as innovation, fashion, or disease spread geographically. Except in this case the contagion is rock 'n roll."
Seems like I've heard that tune before...
There's Nothing Like a Good Old Country Song, whether it's The Great Speckled Bird, I Am Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes, The Wild Side of Life, or It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels. All I know is, There's a Grand Old Opry Show Playing Somewhere. [more inside]
American Sabor
American Sabor: Latinos in US Popular Music is a currently traveling Smithsonian exhibition exploring the wide range of Latino artists and influences which have shaped American pop music genres since WWII, from Alice Bag to Flaco Jimenez to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass to Joan Baez. The website is rich with maps, interviews, videos, and music samples.
I'm Only Going Over Home
Remembering Bill Monroe, the "father of bluegrass," on what would have been his 100th birthday. [more inside]
Alice's Restaurant
This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant; that's just the name of the song, and that's why I call the song Alice's Restaurant. [more inside]
The Revolution Will Now Be Available in PDF
"Broadside was a small underground magazine smuggled out of a New York City housing project in a baby carriage, filled with new songs by artists who were too creative for the folkies and too radical for the establishment." The entire back catalog of this influential magazine - which helped set the visual standard for underground zines until desktop publishing - is now avalable online, in PDF.
The only people who can change the world are people who want to.
Ignore Everybody: Reflections on living a creative life, via No Depression blogs.
"...A Fourth of July picnic, a Sunday Best church revival, an urban rock concert and a rural civil rights rally"
There was a historic music festival in the summer of 1969. But it's not the one that took place in Bethel, NY. The Harlem Cultural Festival ran from June 29 to August 24 that summer, presenting a concert every Sunday afternoon in Mount Morris Park (known today as Marcus Garvey Park). Three hundred thousand people turned out for the six free concerts, hearing acts like Nina Simone , Sly & the Family Stone (the only act to play both Woodstock and the "black Woodstock"), Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, The 5th Dimension, Moms Mabley and. Speakers included Jesse Jackson and "blue-eyed soul brother" Mayor John Lindsay. Security was courtesy of the Black Panthers, since the NYC police refused to provide it. Filmmaker Hal Tulchin recorded over 50 hours of concert footage, which has remained unreleased. Historic Films seems to hold the footage; it was supposed to be made into a movie to premiere at Sundance 2007, but its release seems to be continually delayed for reasons unclear. [more inside]
P.S. I Love Uke
"Nowadays a chantey is worth 1000 songs on an iPod"
Stan Hugill, often known as "The Last Shantyman," authored a book called Shanties From the Seven Seas, based on his own work experiences in the last days of sail. Influential in the folk revival, the book is one of the most important written sources for music sung aboard ships in the 19th and early 20th century, the "Bible" of sea music. Decades of chanteying in pubs and at festivals have kept many of the songs alive, but in most cases they've strayed stylistically from the verses and versions Hugill collected, or dropped out of popularity entirely. Now, one musician is returning to the source and creating a new audio archive for the original versions of the songs as written, by singing through the more than 400 songs in the book, one song each week, and posting the songs on YouTube, with commentary. [more inside]
Joyful Noise
Pilgrim Productions Presents: Voices Across America, an archive of gospel music in a variety of genres, submitted for free play and download by church groups and folk and traditional groups across the country and beyond. Style, age, and quality vary greatly, but fans of noncommercial music will enjoy hunting for the gems of blues, Cajun, bluegrass, choral, shapenote, country, vintage, and mountain gospel and more.
Revival Revival
The Folkways Collection is a downloadable, 24-part podcast series that "explores the remarkable collection of music, spoken word, and sound recordings that make up Folkways Records (now at the Smithsonian as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)."
Rockabilly Rundown
Whole Lotta Shakin' - a PRI documentary series on the history of rockabilly, hosted by Rosie Flores.
Sunday Morning Blues
Sacred Steel is a pedal-steel guitar style that evolved in the African-American Pentecostal denomination The House of God, Which Is the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth. Brothers and lap steel players Willie and Truman Eason, inspired by the electric blues and Hawaiian steel guitar of the 1920s and 30s, brought the sound to two branches of the church, the Keith and Jewell dominions. Its hallmark: "talking guitar," in which the sliding steel emphasizes and mimics the words of preachers and singers. In the 1970s, a new "Motor City" tradition began, featuring the more complicated pedal steel guitar. This body of music was known mainly in church circles until two things happened: first, folklorist Robert Stone became interested in the music and relased several CD collections. And then, church player Robert Randolph (and his Family Band) began taking Sunday morning's music out onSaturday night. [more inside]
Transpose? Naaahhh!
The Sterner Capo Museum For anyone who has found themselves reduced to the pencil and rubber band.
Do You Like American Music?
Sounds of America is a new monthly streaming audio program, a collaboration between the National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Global Sound. Up now are 3 episodes: African-American music in New Orleans, Women in American Music, and Freedom Songs of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
The Blues, Left Blue
The Uncensored History of the Blues is a fantastic podcast exploring some rougher aspects of blues history. From the Delta Blues Museum.
Who Cooks for You?
Zoomusicology, a subfield of Zoosemiotics.
This one time? At protest band camp?
HONK! is a showcase and annual festival for a "new kind of street band": motley, theatrical, activist protest groups working within the marching band tradition. From this central site, link to video and audio from twenty bands currently playing in the "honk" genre, from New York's Rude Mechanical Orchestra to to Atlanta's Seed and Feed Marching Abominables to Portsmouth, NH's Leftist Marching Band. Heavy on the brass and percussion, rousing, raucous, and fun, these bands form part of a worldwide musical phenomenon.
I believe I will, I believe I will
Waffle House Family and other classics are now available for listening in the comfort of your own home via online jukebox. No longer must you drive the darkness of the American Highway seeking that 24-hour beacon of yellow squares; no longer suck your sweet tea from the straw as you seek out original Waffle House tunes while waiting for your hash browns (
scattered, smothered, and covered, of course) to arrive. Mary Welch Rogers, wife of House founder Joe Rogers, is one of several artists who recorded Waffle House-themed songs for the fast-food chain's jukeboxes. Most were penned by Buckner and Garcia of Pac Man Fever. While you're at it, visit the shrine, and enjoy David Wilcox's song about feel the peace that's cooked in grease.
We're Not Gonna Take It.
Turn it off: The Society for Ethnomusicology issues a position statement against the use of music as an instrument of torture.
Nashville, Don't Touch My Country Music
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music Photgrapher Henry Horenstein's Honky-Tonk: Portraits of Country Music, 1972-1981 captures a sound in transition. This evocative collection of informal, black-and-white portraits of country musicians and fans in bars, backstage, and on the road illustrate a decade when smoky roadhouses and venerated venues began to give way to the more mainstream Countrypolitan or "Nashville" sound. Seminal artists like Mother Maybelle Carter and Bill Monroe mingled backstage with shinier newcomers like Dolly Parton and Anne Murray. But even as the commercial sound was dominating, youngsters mixing with old-timers sparked the first wave of old-time/bluegrass revival, and some of the artists who got started then still carry the torch for a non-Nashville sound today. In this online exhibit you can watch it all unfold.
Code Breaking
Did Anyone Really Follow the Drinking Gourd? Were you taught that slaves in the antebellum South sang this traditional song to convey coded instructions for escaping Northward? Were you taught that quilt block patterns could be read as a map to freedom, or that quilts were hung outside safe houses as signals to escaping slaves?Though these are among the most often taught stories of the operation of the Underground Railroad, current scholarship indicates that these aren't survivals of pre-Civil War African-American folklore, but legends constructed and popularized within the twentieth century, frequently by white writers and performers. In today's New York Times, these legends battle it out with fact in debate over the proposed design of a new Frederick Douglass memorial [PDF].
The Line
Steppin' is an hour-long documentary on an African-American dance tradition, most closely associated with historically black fraternities and sororities (though it's also found in high schools, clubs, and professional dance companies). Combining footwork, hand-clapping, chanting, singing, use of props, and changing configurations of dancers, it's a tightly coordinated dance form in which teams vie for honors in competitions nationwide.
'The Lost Tonal Tribe'
Awake, My Soul is a new documentary on Sacred Harp singing, an American musical tradition that's strange, beautiful, and very much alive. Previously discussed and beautifully explicated in this post.
Prison Songs
That's the Sound of the Man Working on the Chain Gang Among all genres of American folk music, prison songs may be the most viscerally compelling. They evolved from plantation songs and field hollers of slaves in the American South before the civil war (whose origins can in turn be traced to patterns found in the music of West Africa) but their tone and content is quite different. Limitless in length, bitter and pained, offering little hope of freedom or redemption, these songs were first heard during Reconstruction. Harsh and unevenly enforced laws incarcerated legions of black American men, consigning them to long sentences of labor for minor offenses like insult, fistfighting, and shoplifting. To shore up a tanking Southern economy, prisons leased convict labor to plantation owners as a low-cost replacement for slave labor. When reform efforts brought that to an end, state governments became the contractors. Sweetheart deals awarded lucrative contracts to prisons to provide labor for rebuilding the railroads and highways of the war-destroyed South. Slavery in all but name, these work conditions gave rise to a body of music that is one of the most significant antecedents of the blues. In hundreds of variants, cadenced to axe-fall, hoe stroke, or the drop of a maul, the songs set a working pace a man could sustain from dawn to dusk, while remaining fast enough to satisfy an armed 'Captain' on horseback.
Appalachian Tales
The Digital Library of Appalachia presents an online collection of music files, images, literature, and scanned documents supplied by twelve regional college libraries.
The South Bronx: A Legacy in Song
Music from Morrisania: Dr. Mark Naison, urban historian at Fordham University and principal investigator of the Bronx African-American history project, leads a musical tour of one South Bronx neighborhood from the 1950s to the present, describing how hot summers, open windows and a fertile mixing of ethnic groups influenced landmarks in American musical history -- from Tito Puente to "Watermelon Man" to KRS-One.
Shuck an Oyster, Smoke a Bluefish, Sail a Skipjack, Call a Duck, Haul a Net
Wade in the Water In 2004, Smithsonian Folklife Festival featured the maritime cultures of the Mid-Atlantic region, from Long Island to North Carolina. Now, this site gives a home on the web to the cultural documentation gathered for the festival -- music, recipes, stories and oral history, an interactive map, the occupational folklore and natural history of regional fisheries, photos, video, and more. The material, ably compiled by folklorists and educators, creates a lasting and very accessible archive of festival highlights as well as an excellent overview of the distinct coastal culture of the Mid-Atlantic. Don't miss the great menhaden net-hauling chantey Help Me to Raise 'Em (links to mp3).
It was raining the day mama picked me up from prison
So You Think You Hate Country Music? Then listen to this. The roots of American country music may surprise you. In this series of NPR programs, trace the gradual development of real country music through the first half of the 20th century. Learn how a woman's instrument of the late 1800s, the parlor guitar, became the the central symbol of country and rock; see how African-American musical forms like gospel and blues meshed with the development of country and early rock and influenced the traditional forms in turn; listen to German-Mexican hybrids of accordian style; find out why women had so many honky-tonk torch songs to sing in the late 40s. The series contains hours of content (narrative, interviews, music tracks), and a multitude of excellent links for deeper digging.
The Show Must Go On
After the Storm Sometime this weekend, you may be able to hear one of the best expressions of New Orleans' role in music and culture available in any mass media. It's American Routes, a weekly show carried on many US public radio affiliates. Programmed and hosted by folklorist and UNO professor of folklore and culture Nick Spitzer, the show normally broadcasts from a studio in the heart of the French Quarter, but has found a temporary home on a Creole/Cajun French/English public radio station in Lafayette. Spitzer told the NYT that he began planning the music for this week's show as he was fleeing the flooding city in his car, playing Fats Domino's "Walking to New Orleans." This week's show highlights New Orleans' recovery from disasters past, emphasizing the city's role as the greatest single wellspring of American music. The Crescent City, after all, has either birthed or nurtured everything from jazz, R & B, cajun and the related black-influenced zydeco, soul, blues, gospel, and rock and roll.) With an encyclopedic knowledge of American vernacular music, an utterly democratic spirit, and an unmistakeable respect and love for American musical forms and the people who create them, Spitzer has stepped forward several times this week to serve as a compassionate and optimistic spokesman for the irrepressible creative spirit of a suffering city and a culture in diaspora.
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Found this a Delicious dessert.I will have a full review on www.thepizzafetish.com very soon.
I haven't actually tasted this recipe yet, but I made it and took it to a Mother's Day picnic the other day and received a lot of compliments on it. I did make a couple of changes - I made the crust in a pie pan, and only used half of the filling. I'm going to make another crust this morning and use up the extra filling.
I used a sugar cookie dough for the crust (saw it used in a similar recipe, but liked the look of your filling recipe better). Did everything else as you have written, then drizzled melted chocolate (thinned with a little shortening) over the top of the whole thing. It got lots of oohs and ahhs at dessert time. Thanks!
This was a little taste of summer on a really cold day! We enjoyed this for dessert. I made as posted. This will be made again ~ it would be especially nice for a barbecue. Thanks for posting!
A wonderful thing to take to those pesky office potlucks. Everyone loved this.

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May 23, 2016
Recent public relations grads sweep awards
Eleven students in the Public Relations program, a specialization within the Department of Communication Studies, brought home a total of 16 awards at the state conference of the Public Relations Council of Alabama on April 20.
Kevin Franks will earn his degree in mechanical engineering this weekend, becoming the sixth family member to graduate from UAB.
Nonverbal communication expert Mark Hickson, Ph.D., offers insight into the gestures and facial expressions displayed by presidential candidates during recent debates.
Published in News You Can Use
February 26, 2016
Students go from the classroom to the boardroom to conduct multimillion-dollar fundraising campaign for area nonprofit
Five UAB students were among 50 loaned and sponsored executives who helped the United Way of Central Alabama exceed its 2015 Volunteer Campaign fundraising goal.
October 09, 2015
Allie David and Chirag Patel named winners of 34th annual Mr. and Ms. UAB Scholarship Competition
The winners of the Mr. and Ms. UAB Scholarship Competition, announced at the Hoops on the Haasephalt event, will each receive a $2,500 scholarship and serve as ambassadors of UAB in the coming year.
The winners of the 34th annual Mr. and Ms. UAB Scholarship Competition will be announced at UAB's Hoops on the Haasephalt event set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, on the Campus Green.
April 24, 2015
Honors abound for graduating students at UAB
Here's a look at the many fellowships, scholarships, honors and awards earned by the talented 2015 spring graduates at UAB.
April 22, 2015
UAB public relations group wins chapter of the year
UAB Public Relations Council of Alabama/Public Relations Student Society of America wins chapter of the year.
After graduating in spring, these exemplary students will spend two years teaching high-need students in low-income areas.
September 10, 2014
Communication professor's scholarship lauded by national organization
Published in Faculty Excellence
April 15, 2014
UAB public relations group wins chapter of the year
Larry Powell, Ph.D., spent time with an award-winning director and put his fascinating stories in a book.
Published in Faculty Excellence
April 22, 2013
UAB student to be honored by civil rights institute
Al-Farhan, an international studies major with a double minor in Spanish and communications raises awareness about anti-migrant legislation.
October 30, 2012
UAB course teaches you to be social-media savvy
The Communication Studies course will be taught in spring 2013.
October 18, 2012
Film premiere to honor Veterans Day: "A French Village Recalls 1944"
UAB to premiere faculty member's film about a French village's commemoration of a fallen WWII soldier from Alabama in honor of Veteran's Day.
Published in Experiencing the Arts
April 15, 2011
Powell, Larry
Professor of communication studies
Areas of expertise: Politics, political campaigns, political communications, polling
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U.S. inflation
Consumer prices are expected to rise roughly 3.5 percent during 2011, with a slightly lesser rise the consensus view for 2012. Weak global economic growth could lead oil prices lower, a key element in that forecast. Over a longer time horizon, the debate continues between those expecting higher U.S. inflation and those seeing a Japan-style deflation in the U.S.
The Federal Reserve
The Fed's most critical interest rate — the federal funds rate — has been at an all-time low target level of zero percent to 0.25 percent since December 2008. Moreover, the Fed's Open Market Committee has stated it expects this rate to remain unchanged until at least mid-2013.
In addition, the Fed has tripled the size of its balance sheet by buying massive amounts of U.S. Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities. The intent? To drive long-term interest rates lower. While such actions have been largely successful, weak home prices across the nation, high unemployment and a more paper-intensive lending industry — negatively affected by the Dodd-Frank financial legislation — has not led to a strong surge in mortgage refinance activity.
Housing, mortgage rates
Most forecasting economists see national home prices stabilizing by mid-year 2012, with very modest price appreciation to follow. At the same time, conventional 30-year fixed-rate mortgages have been at a 60-year low near 4.0 percent in recent weeks.
One could make a case to delay a home purchase for six to 12 months, but mortgage rates could rise enough to offset any slightly lower home price. Now may be an outstanding time to purchase a new or foreclosed property and to refinance a mortgage.
Global keys
Chinese and Indian economic growth are likely to slow somewhat, while Japan struggles with very substandard performance. High oil prices have boosted oil producing nations at the expense of user nations. The Canadian economy has slowed, while Mexico and Brazil are doing well.
However, these days it's all about a fragile European economy. Greece, Ireland, and Portugal have already been bailed out, while major anxiety about Spain and Italy exists. Even the French have seen borrowing costs rise as questions about that economy have surfaced. A possible French downgrade from its current triple-A status could send additional shock waves across Europe.
The Germans and the International Monetary Fund will face rising pressure to stem European debt contagion, even as affected nations face the real need to get spending and debt issuance under control. No other issue is more critical to global economic performance in 2012 than a solid resolution of the European debt crisis.
Jeff Thredgold is the chief economist for Zions Bank and founder of Thredgold Economic Associates, a professional speaking and economic consulting firm. Visit www.thredgold.com.
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I just re-read the OP,it still makes little sense to me,the OP describes dropping a queen as "things(in the game are) getting a bit distressed" but thats insufficient reason to resign.What then is a sufficient reason? I'd rather start a new game than play out a lost one to it's inevitable conclusion.Earlier in this thread,Doggy_Style stated something insightful,many players "resign because the game is over, as a proper contest." I think there is much truth to that statement.
Well, I didn't expect my first thread here to spark a multi-layered controversy.
Clearly the barometer and conditions for resigning are different for many, and much more routine than I had expected.
I suspect my anticipation was that playing others through chess.com was considered a learning environment, and that a too-soon resignation would have been impolite to one's opponent... which was why I never did until all avenues were exhausted.
And likewise, when a game with a stronger opponent went to 69 moves, he down to just a King and a pawn, I wasn't impatient that he didn't resign.
Oh well. Thanks for all the input... I have a better (good) understanding of the ettiquite involved here.
I would say to just play for as long as you think you have a chance to stop your opponent from winning. I think it's nice to give respect to your opponent by resigning, but it's clearly not necessary. The rules are to play to checkmate or draw.
You resign when you want to resign for whatever reasons seem adequate to you. Nobody in the world has the right to say it was either too soon or not soon enough because it's not their call - it's yours. If they don't like that then they will not like the game of chess.
Fairy_Princess wrote:
jetfighter13 wrote:
good than you might have fun with a King's Gambit or two... they rarely stay Quotidian for long
I'd agree with you, but I'm going to have to go look up quotidian first.
It means something very routine its almost an everyday occurance
@chess_gg, I take your point that I could have done as you did and just resigned (therefore the suffering was partially self-inflicted), but to be honest the thought never even crossed my mind, it was win the game now and worry about everything else later.
If you notice, is the OP the one who is saying that players here resign too early.
Well, I just never give up till the end and I dont know people think that is unpolite. I think game like real life. We should not give up, even we feel completely hopeless. I will fight till the end, even I know I will be lost. And I really like somebody who not resign too early. It is character, please dont think it is unsportmanship.
Resignation is prudent when the position is hopelessly lost. What "hopelessly lost" means is different for every player.
Very true.
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Chuck norris did practice a real combat form of karate...but most dojos are set up for business...for kids to go...where their moms will feel safe...moms aren't going go feel safe if you are doing real effective work for hand to hand combat..because kids will get hurt....karate in america by and large made itself so safe that it has very little practcal value. Will it make a kid who is teased more confident...and theirfore less likely to be teased? Yes it definitly can...I just hope that kid doesn't have to back up his confidence...because then he is likely to find out that years of doing lame punches and thousands of dollars of mom and dads money has added up to nothing.
Well you're an idiot if you think physical fitness and self disipline and even a decent hobby add to nothing. And why you feel that kids not bein effective in hand to hand combat is a bad thing beyond me. If you want to protest that it's a rip off go tell you're local sensi the things you've posted here. And PLEASE film his response
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After both Oregon and Stanford took to the locker room during halftime of a highly entertaining Pac-12 matchup, one of the greatest college football players of all time was able to have his moment. After a brilliant career, former Stanford quarterback John Elway had his No. 7 jersey retired.
And no, the Cal marching band didn't interrupt the ceremony.
.@johnelway & family watching his tribute on the video board. #gostanford pic.twitter.com/9Z7OO7n05r— Stanford Football (@StanfordFball) November 8, 2013
Took long enough, huh?
He becomes just the third player to have his jersey number enshrined by the program, as Jim Plunkett (No. 16) and Ernie Nevers (No. 1) are the other two to have received the honor.
Elway was one of the best college quarterbacks ever to play the game and was one of the guys who helped put Stanford on the map. At a time when the school was more known for prestigious academics and hosting the best and the brightest, Elway took the sport by storm and proved that Stanford could in fact blossom into a football school.
He played from 1979-1982 and completed 62 percent of his passes while throwing for 9,349 yards and 77 touchdowns in his career. When he graduated, he held pretty much every major school record for quarterbacks, and his single-game record of six touchdowns still stands.
Elway was also a two-time Pac-10 Conference Player of the Year and a consensus All-American. He finished second in the 1982 Heisman Trophy voting and was even a successful baseball player who was taken in the second round of the 1981 MLB draft by the New York Yankees (having been previously drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 1979).
Needless to say, Elway had a tremendous impact on Stanford, but he also opened doors for other quarterbacks to play this game. His dual-threat ability was unique at the time and allowed other signal-callers who rely on their feet to make plays to actually have an opportunity.
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News Corp., the media company under fire for a phone-hacking scandal at one of its London newspapers, should separate the roles of chairman and chief executive officer and make other changes, an investor group said.
The company, controlled by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch, should have an independent chair, the investor group said in the letter to the company obtained by Bloomberg News. The group, represented by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, includes Trillium Asset Management and Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment, and owns 700,000 non-voting News Corp. shares.
News Corp. is facing investor criticism amid the phone-hacking scandal which escalated on July 4, when the Guardian newspaper reported that News of the World had accessed the voice mail of murdered teenager Milly Dowler. The controversy has prompted the resignations of two executives, the shutdown of the 168-year-old newspaper and the termination of News Corp.'s bid for full control of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc.
The majority of News Corp.'s board, which is meeting today, should consist of independent directors, the investor group said. It also said News Corp. should eliminate its dual-class stock structure.
Last week, an investor group including Wespath Investment Management asked to meet with News Corp.'s lead independent director on ways to restore investor confidence. The group, which holds 1.11 million Class A shares and 201,000 of the Class B voting stock, cited "several areas of concern, including dual chairman/CEO role, a high number of inside or affiliated directors, and a dual share class structure."
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ANAHEIM -- They left shooters wide open and were beaten to the basket. Ten minutes in, UCLA was down to Davidson by 13 points. The Wildcats pushed that lead to 18 points while the Bruins were muddled at the defensive end.
But then the Bruins reduced the game to its simplest state — toughness — and the Wildcats, a mid-major team from the Southern Conference did not measure up.
Seventh-ranked UCLA came back to take a 75-63 decision in the John R. Wooden Classic on Saturday at Honda Center, pounding away as the Wildcats backed away.
"We didn't come here to play it close. We came here to win the game. We prepared to win it. We had the mindset to win it, although we didn't," Wildcats coach Bob McKillop said.
"We got outfought, and three very graphic statistics that jump off the stat sheet — they doubled us rebounding-wise, 20-0 second chance points and 21-1 at the foul line. Rebounding and foul shots are usually statistics that equate with toughness. Ben Howland has a very tough team and they demonstrated that today."
McKillop could not make the same statement about his team, which had its key piece in Stephen Curry taken away by the defensive pressure from Bruins guard Russell Westbrook. He harassed Curry, who came into the game second in the nation in scoring.
Westbrook, making good use of his quickness, gave Curry little room to get off a shot.
"'I thought Russell did a terrific job, an unbelievable job," Howland said.
"He's a tough kid and he's going to make some tough shots," Westbrook said of Curry, who is a candidate to win the John R. Wooden Award and is on the Naismith Trophy watch list. "My coaches prepared me well to guard him, just trailing him without separation and keeping pressure on."
Curry had come in averaging 26 points per game and scored 24 in a loss to No. 1 North Carolina and 20 in a loss to No. 7 Duke. But he was held to a season-low 15 points on what was his worst shooting day of the season, hitting only 6 of 19 shots (31.6 percent).
"Westbrook did a great job trying to fight through screens. I guess our screeners couldn't get a body on him," Curry said. "He contested a lot of shots and got my balance and footwork off. He did a great job chasing me all game and making it tough for me to get easy looks."
Curry was only 3 of 13 in the second half, and Davidson did not have enough offense around him to stem the Bruins after they had worked their way back into the game.
UCLA (8-1) erased a 34-30 halftime deficit in a little more than a minute, getting a jumpshot from Josh Shipp and a 3-pointer from Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, who led five Bruins with 21 points. It was the first time in 31 games, since a victory at Oregon State on Jan. 4, that UCLA had five players score 10 or more points.
It was a season high in points for Mbah a Moute, who hit 7 of 10 shots including his only 3-point attempt. "I was focused on finishing under the basket," he said. "Also, I just had open shots and I knocked them down."
The Bruins made 16 of its 24 shots (66.7 percent) in the second half. McKillop went to a zone for one possession, hoping it would stymie UCLA, give it as much trouble as it did in its loss to Texas at Pauley Pavilion when the Bruins went scoreless for a prolonged stretch and down 16 points in the first half.
But the Bruins easily beat it when Westbrook penetrated into the lane and kicked the ball back out to Shipp for an open 3-pointer.
"They came out and just hit three after three against us. That's two games in a row now that we've fallen behind by 16 and 18 — we'd like to avoid that in the future," Howland said. ''But overall, I'm pretty pleased the way we came back."
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Despite weak growth in the US on a macroeconomic basis toward the end of 2012, we have continued to see very promising signs from an industry perspectiv e, particularly in the housing, manufacturing , shipping and oil & gas sectors, key theme s we have been highlighting for several quarters ( see: ' Key Sectors To Drive Growth Over The Forecast Period ', December 03 ) .
Regular readers will know that we have been bullish the US housing sector since October 2011, and remain so as several dynamics continue to provide support. First, the residential housing market hit a cyclical low following the crisis, and still has much more room to rebound. Second, the sharp price declines in previous years, combined with record low financing costs, mean that affordability continues to improve. Third, while cheap by historical standards, house prices are now firmly in positive growth territory, providing a tailwind for homebuilders' profitability and household ( see RHS chart) and bank balance sheets, which are still healing from the financial crisis. While the rate of growth in the housing sector is likely to slow and become more uneven over the coming months, we believe that the residential construction sector will continue to improve.
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The manufacturing outlook is also positive . A fter hitting 49.9 in November, manufacturing PMI has been in expansionary territory for the last three months (a reading over 50 means expansion). This chimes well with data compiled by our Autos team . C ar and light truck production grew by 20% in 2012 , as pent up demand from during the crisis re sulted in much higher car sales. W e forecast production to rise by approxim ately 7.0% in 2013 and expect sales to return to the 16mn units per annum (for light vehicles) mark well within our five-year forecast period. W e believe that interest-rate sensitive goods like autos should benefit from record -low borrowing costs , a s well as continued improvem ents in consumer credit growth, rising wages , and household wealth.
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The shipping and freight sectors are also booming , as the US economy begins re-orienting towards the external sector . T otal container throughput at the P ort of Long Beach in California continues to rise dramatically, growing by 34 .0 % y-o-y in February. This also chimes well with what we are seeing in the mining sector, where the US i s exporting increasing ly large amounts o f coal to Asia as rising domestic production and lower consumption result in a dramatic increase in surplus production ( see RHS chart ) . Also, w ith many companies relocating manufactur ing facilities back in the US, manufactured goods exports will increase over the coming years . Lastly, we believe the US will become a n exporter of natural gas, with the development of Cheniere 's liquefied natural gas export terminal in Sabine Pass , providi ng yet another tailwind to the export sector in 2015-2016 .
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You can't move on the High Street for bared midriffs. And surprise, surprise middle-aged mothers CAN cut it in crop tops!
Crop tops are one of this summer's hottest trends. Bare midriffs were seen on the Pucci and Louis Vuitton catwalks and High Street stores are full of them.
But while teenage models with washboard stomachs have nothing to fear, can the average 40-something mother get away with wearing one?
Here, three brave writers dare to bare their bellies...
'As long as I remember not to slouch, baring my midriff is summery'
'I feel liberated and sexy'
Frances Childs, 44, is a size 10 and lives in Wokingham, Berks. She says:
Striding down the street luxuriating in the warmth of the sun on my bare midriff, I feel fantastic. With a thigh-skimming skirt and the tiniest of teeny-weeny crop tops, I look fabulous.
That was me at 21. Fast forward two decades, and that fashion staple of my youth is back. I have such fond memories of crop tops the first time around that, in a moment of euphoric summer madness, I've decided to give them another go.
First, I try on a floaty concoction that barely covers my bosom and, combined with angel sleeves, looks like something from a school nativity play. Off it comes.
Instead, I plump for a close-fitting striped crop top teamed with a tasteful pencil skirt, which I hope will see me through the day without too many stares.
I hope I look chic, but I can't quite shake the notion that I've crossed a line, morphing from respectable middle-aged mum to low-rent fashion catastrophe. At 44, should I really be wandering about in clothes designed for a nubile teenager?
Yes, I should, I tell myself firmly. I work very, very hard to maintain my relatively flat tummy, so why shouldn't I flaunt it?
But within a few minutes, I'm forced to concede this isn't just about flab. Catching sight of my reflection in a window, I am horrified to find wrinkles on my stomach. I hadn't noticed them before, because, thanks to our frightful weather, my tummy remains firmly covered most of the year.
The only way to disguise them is to stand rigidly straight. As I hail a cab in this stance, I get a lusty glance.
True, one of my admirers is stumbling about with a can of strong lager in his hand, but another chap who turns and smiles as he passes me on the pavement looks perfectly sober.
Women, on the other hand, are not so appreciative. Perhaps they think I'm trying too hard to cling on to the last vestiges of youth. One lady in the fruit and veg aisle looks at me as though I'm topless.
When I ask a friend for her opinion, she doesn't hold back. 'Well, you're far too old for a crop top,' she says bluntly.
But I disagree: as long as I remember not to slouch, baring my midriff is liberating, summery and sexy. I feel feminine and attractive in a way I haven't for years. I'm 44, not 94, so the crop top is here to stay - on me at any rate.
'One muscular young man was staring so hard, he almost fell off his bike'
'Tarty... but in a good way'
Lydia Slater, 42, is a size 12 and lives in London. She says:
I blame Jessica Ennis. Without her rippling six-pack filling our TV screens last summer, designers wouldn't have been inspired to pack their runways with crop tops.
I last wore a crop top in about 1984 thanks to the film Flashdance, which suddenly encouraged everyone to don dancewear to go to the pub on a Saturday evening. But I haven't willingly exposed my stomach in public for a decade.
I don't even wear a bikini on holiday, preferring my black one-piece. There's no part of my body I dislike exposing more than my belly.
But today's crops, I am assured, are classy. They're worn with high-waisted trousers or skirts, so you just flash a strip of waist rather than your muffin top, leaving people with the illusion that your tum is perfectly toned. You can even eat wearing them, say those in the fashion pack, who - let's face it - have a different perception of the word 'eat' than the rest of us.
I opt for a tiny striped top that ends just under the bust, worn with trousers and - for decency's sake - a jacket. The trousers were too big and sagged on my hips, revealing every inch of untoned stomach. I refused lunch, nervously checked my belly-button for fluff, and sucked my stomach in for dear life. But eventually I began to enjoy the novelty of a breeze wafting around my kidneys. And my look certainly got me a lot of attention.
One muscular young man was staring so hard, he almost fell off his bike as I sashayed out to post a letter. He might have been astonished rather than admiring, but I enjoyed it all the same.
Perhaps by daring to bare, you give the illusion you have a body worth exposing? I would never have believed it, but my crop top was making me feel slim. I went home and showed my husband. 'Do I look tarty?' I asked anxiously. 'A bit,' he admitted, 'but in a good way.'
My daughters' response was immediate, honest and unequivocal: they both burst out laughing. 'Your tummy's showing!' spluttered Rosie, seven, giving me a poke with a grubby forefinger. All the same, I think I might try one on holiday this year - but only after the kids are in bed.
The firemen all grin at me in a 'look at what that poor mad woman is wearing' way
'People stare at me in horror'
Lucy Cavendish, 45, is a size 12, and lives in Oxfordshire. She says:
It's a Thursday morning and I am in a street in South London wearing a crop top. I am not a fashionable person. I tend to hide behind a very safe capsule wardrobe. Even when I was toned in my 20s I would never have dared to bare my midriff. Yet today, it is out in the open and available for all to see.
My stomach reflects the four children I have had. It's dimpled, wobbly and unattractive. So there's a very good reason why I usually hide it under jumpers.
Before I leave the house I practise sitting down, hailing a cab, and reaching to get something from a shelf. It feels odd. Crop tops only just skim the bottom of your bra line and I am terrified something will escape and I'll end up revealing more than just my stomach. I toy with the idea of wearing a coat to cover everything up then decide that's not the point. I have to be brave.
So, when I do finally set off clad in a small, striped, woollen crop top, I feel as if all the world is doing nothing but staring at my stomach.
Then the sun comes out. Suddenly, I feel more confident. It is warm, so of course it's fine for me to be half dressed. I can feel the sun on my belly and it's exciting, swinging down the street as if I don't care a whit.
Then it all goes horribly wrong. For a start, I realise people are looking at me. I walk past a cafe full of mothers with babies. They all turn and stare in horror.
A mother baring her belly is taboo - unless, of course, you are Miranda Kerr or Lara Stone. Then, a fire engine passes. The firemen all grin at me in a 'look at what that poor mad woman is wearing' way.
I escape in to the local pub. The barman barely turns an eye but a woman having a drink behind me looks up in shock. 'A crop top?' I see her mouth at her companion.
By now I am so embarrassed I find myself crossing my arms and hunching my shoulders in a desperate attempt to cover up. My earlier confidence has gone. I look a state - too fat, too old, too mutton dressed as lamb.
The final straw comes as I walk back to my car. A van pulls up next to me and a man with a large belly wearing a too-small T-shirt leans out of his window and yells: 'Don't get sunburned love!'
And off he goes, laughing his head off. The obvious retort: 'At least I'm not as fat as you!' comes too late, and instead I run home, take the offending item off and find a nice big baggy T-shirt.
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A Journey Toward Jesus
Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him.…
As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them.
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"
Imagine eavesdropping on the conversation between Jesus and these two disciples. Consider the questions they may have asked and the answers he gave. One day in Heaven, I want to see the video!
I'll bet at least one of their questions related to that which looms large for most who read this book: If God is good…why all this evil and suffering? If God loves us, how can he justify allowing (or sending) the sometimes overwhelming difficulties we face?
I invite you to join me on a journey to discover what God has to say about this subject. I can't think of a better way to do this than by daily meditating on his Word. I've ended each meditation with a brief prayer, written from my heart. Perhaps my prayer will echo yours, or perhaps it will prompt for you a renewed conversation with God.
While exploring God's goodness in the midst of a suffering world, I've taken the most pleasure in focusing on him, exploring his attributes of goodness, love, holiness, justice, patience, grace, and mercy. Although I haven't unearthed easy answers, I'm astonished at how much insight the Bible offers.
I've beheld a God who says, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering" (Exodus 3:7). I've found great comfort in hearing God speak of a time when he could bear his people's misery no longer (see Judges 10:16). I revel in God's emphatic promise that he will make a New Earth, where he will come down to live with us and on which "he will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain" (Revelation 21:4).
Above all, in the process of meditating on this subject and writing this book, I've seen Jesus.
The first physician to die of the AIDS virus in the United Kingdom was a young Christian. He contracted the disease while conducting medical research in Zimbabwe. In the last days of his life, he struggled to express himself to his wife. Near the end, he couldn't talk and had only enough strength to write the letter J. She ran through her mental dictionary, saying various words beginning with J. None was right. Finally she said, "Jesus?"
He nodded. Yes, Jesus.
Jesus filled his thoughts. That's all he wanted to say. That's all his wife needed to know.
In the end, that's all each of us needs to know.
Lord, I so look forward to having conversations with you where I not only ask questions but, like those disciples on the Emmaus road, also hear answers from your own mouth! I'm grateful there's no need to envy the disciples, because one day I, too, will walk with you in a resurrected body, and you will open the Scriptures to me, and at last I will understand so much of what eludes me now. But until then, thank you that you are not silent! You've provided your Word, your Holy Spirit, and your people to help me understand—and grace to trust you when I don't.
Conflict with a Purpose
Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come close to me." When they had done so, he said, "I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will not be plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
"So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.…
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."
—Gene s i s 45 : 4 – 8 ; 50 : 20
After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before…comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought upon him.…
The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first.
—Job 4 2 : 10 –12
While most of my books are nonfiction, I've written seven full-length novels. Now, if I were to write a novel about lives without conflict, where characters get everything they want, where life marches on comfortably and no one ever loses anything, nobody would read it. Who likes a boring story? In fact, my central characters always face great conflict, turmoil, uncertainty, and suffering. Some die. That it makes for a far better story is my main reason for doing this. (We enjoy in fiction much that we do not enjoy in life.)
So who am I to say that God shouldn't write such things into his story, including my part?
In our lives God uses conflict not just to make the story better but to make us better. In life, not just literature, we repeatedly see that protection from conflict produces soft, spoiled, and selfish people, while enduring conflict is more likely to produce someone strong, capable, and caring.
If, in an interview with a character from one of my novels, you were to ask whether he'd like to be written out of the story, he would answer no. Nonexistence appeals to no one. Now ask him if he would like to suffer less, and he'll answer yes. Who wouldn't?
I empathize with my characters since I, too, am a character in God's story. At times I'd love to take a break from the drama. Three months off without stress would feel nice. But I also realize I'm part of something great, far bigger than myself. And I trust God not only to bring the whole story together but also to do with my part of it what he knows to be best.
Given the option while facing his trials, I'm confident Joseph would have walked off the stage of God's story. After betrayal by his brothers when he was a teenager and being sold into slavery and later falsely accused by Potiphar's wife and sent to prison, Joseph had surely endured enough for one life!
Talk to Job in the middle of his story—with ten children dead and excruciating boils covering his body, God apparently abandoning him and friends haranguing him. Ask if he wants out. I know what he'd say because he said it: "Why did I not perish at birth?" ( Job 3:11). But that's all over now. On the New Earth, sit by Job and Joseph at a lavish banquet with their Lord. Ask them, "Be honest. Was it really worth it?"
"Absolutely," Job says. Joseph smiles, nodding emphatically.
"But, Job, had God given you the choice, wouldn't you have walked out of the story?"
"In a heartbeat. I'm just glad he didn't let me."
You and I are characters in God's story, handmade by him. Every character serves a purpose. God loves a great story, and all of us who know him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.
Before we fault him for the plot twists we don't like, we should remember that Jesus has written this story in his own blood.
Father, what a privilege to be chosen by you to be a character in the greatest story ever told—and to know that one day we' ll be able to read it start to finish. Thank you for this true, unfolding drama of redemption. Thank you that in the ages to come we will praise you for not letting us walk off the pages. Thank you for accomplishing the purposes in us that at first only you, the Author, understand, but in the end, looking back, we, the readers—and characters—will too.


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Paul Barringer: They say a writer should stick to what he knows. What nonsense. What did Dickens know about French Revolutions? What did Shakespeare know about Moors in Venice? If he stuck to what he knew, we'd have no Othello, we'd have no Alice in Wonderland, we'd have no Treasure Island. You brats think that I and Miss Barrett stand up there day after day, talking about books, and the writing of books, just for the hell of it? You think it's got nothing to do with YOU? A writer creates a book. And individual creates a life. For a writer to create a masterpiece, he's got to think beyond what he knows. For an individual to create a life, even a half-way decent one, he's gotta go beyond what he knows. Go beyond the poverty, the dope the disease, the degeneracy. Go beyond the oceans to the alps... a magnificent replica of which the board of education has generously donated. Stick with what you think, and that's what you're gonna be stuck with. You may as well get out. Now! All of you... Miss Barrett's class dismissed. All of you dismissed for the rest of your crummy lives. Some of you prefer to leave by the window. I prefer to leave by the door. Punch me out. Will ya, Teach?
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Sylvia Barrett: The theme of MacBeth is that too much ambition can lead to ruthless ambition, and end up in disaster. That's what words are for - to be used. Who can tell me what "ruthless" means? Joe?
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Eddie Williams: Steps all over, like white people. I know because I'm colored.
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