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CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. - Not many fans can say that they've formed a band with one of their musical idols, let alone a marriage.That's exactly where Nicki Bluhm finds herself, recording and touring with husband and fellow musician Tim Bluhm and their band, the Gramblers."We've just been touring nonstop for about a year," Nicki Bluhm said. "We've been really busy doing that, and somehow found time last spring to record a bunch of new songs. We just put out two singles, 'Little Too Late' and a song called 'Ravenous.' Those are tracks off the new album."The two come from widely differing musical backgrounds. Tim Bluhm is a founding member and front man of San Francisco rock band the Mother Hips. He and university dorm-mates in 1989 formed the band in Chico, Calif., and grew into popularity in and around San Francisco in the 1990s. "I sort of fell into rock 'n' roll by accident as soon as I went to college," he said. "It was an accidental thing. It wasn't really my plan, but it took over my life."He has had numerous side projects, including the Skinny Singers with Jackie Greene. A dedicated producer, he also produces recordings for his bands and other artists.Nicki Bluhm, on the other hand, never stepped onstage until after meeting her spouse-to-be. While she loved to sing ever since she was a child and had started playing guitar around age 17, she had never taken her music in front of strangers."Singing's something that's always been on my radar, although singing in front of people was not," she said.Nicki Bluhm first laid eyes on her future husband and band mate as a teenager, attending Mother Hips shows in the Bay Area. "I knew of Tim for a long time," Nicki Bluhm said. "All my boyfriends when I was in high school and college loved the Mother Hips, so I started going to Hips shows when I was a teenager. Of course, I saw Tim and I was pretty blown away, just by the way he looks, and his songs, the way he plays. I kind of developed this crush on Tim at an early age."Nicki Bluhm was a familiar face at Mother Hips shows, but it took some time for her and Tim to join forces."She was a pretty avid Mother Hips fan," Tim Bluhm said. "She would come backstage and hang out. She was a known character at Mother Hips shows. It wasn't until a few years after that that we really had a personal connection."It was New Year's Eve 2005 that the two really hit it off, after he listened to her vocals for the first time."The first time I heard her sing, my producer's mind, I couldn't forget it," Tim Bluhm said. "I knew she had something a lot of people would like, including me."Just as I suspected once we sunk some work into this thing and we made a record, we were invested in it," he said. "We started dating, and got really serious as a couple. That wasn't really a plan, it just sort of happened. I just wanted to help her develop her talent, that was obvious to me and was really special. At that point I don't think she even understood what it was. I mean, there's people that try so much harder than she does and don't make anywhere close to the impression she did."Impressed with her vocal ability and energy, Tim Bluhm encouraged his new girlfriend to bring her talent in front of audiences. He produced her first album in 2008, "Toby's Song.""At first she didn't really have the ambition, she was sort of lukewarm on the whole concept of being the singer in the band," he said. "She's more modest than that, it didn't really work for her. It took her awhile to come around to that. It took a lot of positive feedback from the world, which she got as soon as she started singing in front of people.""I started by myself just playing guitar and singing and I very quickly realized that that was way too scary," Nicki Bluhm said. "So I called up Deren Ney, who is my friend from childhood. I knew he was a great guitar player. I asked if he wanted to play some gigs with me opening for Skinny Singers, which is Jackie Greene and Tim Bluhm. We played shows as a duo for a little while, until I released 'Toby's Song.' When we played that album release party I wanted the set to sound like the record. We couldn't really do the record as a duo because there's drums and bass, a lot of stuff you can't do with a duo. So I got a band together, and the rest is history."With the Bluhms and Ney joined by Steve Adams (bass), Dave Mulligan (rhythm guitar) and Mike Curry (drums), the Gramblers were formed.The band is now heading out on a nationwide tour and preparing for the release of its first album. Nicki Bluhm has released two records to date that feature members of the Gramblers (among many other musicians), but were released under her name only, she said."The last two albums, you'll notice, were called Nicki Bluhm, not Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers," the singer said. "We used our band members of course, although Dave Mulligan was not in the band then, so he's not on the record. They are Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers songs, but for whatever reason we called them Nicki Bluhm. We did have quite a broad collection of musicians play on both of those albums."While not officially titled yet, the new album is fully recorded. It will most likely be self-titled, Tim Bluhm said."We recorded it at Tim and my studio in San Francisco at Mission Bells," Nicki Bluhm said. "We'd been on the road so much touring that we were really warmed up when we went in to record, which is a great time to go in the studio, when you've been playing together a lot, just kind of gelling together. Timing wise it was really special for us, we'd just been spending so much time together. The recordings really highlight that. We did a lot of it live in the studio, all playing our instruments at the same time. I think that adds a little bit of spirit, it's not so calculated. I think it really reflects our time spent together on the road and touring."The two singles recently released, 'Little Too Late' and 'Ravenous' are available on iTunes and the band's website."We're super proud of this new record, it really shows the direction the band is going in," Tim Bluhm said. "We'll be on the road for 200 days or so, on a succession of long national tours. It's nice to see the offers keep coming in."One such offer came from Crystal Bay Casino, where Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers will play on Saturday. The Bluhms share a deep appreciation for Lake Tahoe and its environs, and have played often in the area. Nicki Bluhm sat in with Soulive at the Snowlive music event at Crystal Bay on Feb. 23. "We were up there last weekend, I sat in with Soulive," Nicki Bluhm said. "It was the last night of their four night run. It was awesome, really nice guys, getting to meet them and play with them and Papa Mali and George Porter, it was really cool. Big crowd, it was the biggest crowd I've seen at CBC before. I was really surprised. I got onstage and it was just like a sea of people, I've never seen it like that."Both Bluhms also played at Sugar Bowl on Sunday with Simon Kurth of Huckle, hitting the slopes in between 45 minute sets."They wanted the music to stretch throughout the afternoon," Tim Bluhm said. "It was awesome up there, it was super bluebird, everything was perfectly groomed."Despite recent trips to Lake Tahoe, the Bluhms are always keen to return."We're always treated really nice," Nicki Bluhm said. "People in Tahoe seem really supportive and into music. Hopefully we'll get a good crowd out there, have some fun. There'll be lots of harmonies, lots of electric guitars and keys. Hopefully folks will come out and we'll have a good time."
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Very spacious apartment, decorated with taste and in a classic and comfortable style. Located on a 2nd floor, in a very quiet street, Progreso Street, in the center of the city. A few meters from the Plaza Militar and close to the Tram stop of the Plaza Weyler, as well as of the Military Government, the Town Hall and the street of the Castle, the city's commercial area. Very close to the Centre Health and Social-Services Santa Cruz and to the Centre of Health Dr. Guigou and the Park Clinic.
Living-dining with 32-inch flat screen TV, Internet WIFI 50 Mb and telephone with local and national calls / three bedrooms, the main type suite with double bed, the second with a single bed and the third with sofa-bed (twin) / two bathrooms / kitchen equipped with microwave, hob, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge, electric hot water boiler, blender, toaster, electric juice Squeezer, kettle, coffee maker and other basic cookware, cutlery and crockery / hair dryer / iron and ironing board / bedding, duvets and towels / elevator / garage in the same building.
Only 500 mts. from the Park García Sanabria ("green lung" of the City).
The Parque Marítimo César Manrique swimming pools complex, the Central Bus Exchanger (Intercambiador) and the Auditorium, are 6 minutes by car.
Las Teresitas white sand beach and San Andres fishing village are 10 km.
Las Gaviotas beach is below Las Teresitas beach, but has a more complicated access.
Shops and Boutiques, Bakeries, Bars, Restaurants, Banks, etc. around the area.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife has many places with WIFI free (city center, parks, restaurants, bars, etc).
City of La Laguna, 10 kms. / Las Caletillas-Candelaria beach, 16 kms. / Puerto de la Cruz and Loro Parque Zoo, 40 kms. / Icod de los Vinos, 57 kms. / El Teide, 67 kms. / Aquatic Siam Park in Las Americas, 76 km / University Hospital, 7 kms. / Tenerife North Airport, 12 km / Tenerife South Airport Reina Sofia, 63 Kms.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a city of 222.271 inhabitants (2011) and has the typical services of a Spanish capital of provinces of medium type.
From the Central Bus Exchanger (Intercambiador) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, depart buses for all the Towns of the Island (the official Transports Company is TITSA).
Also you can go to the apartment from the Airport by taxi. You can hire this service from home. This service, it's easy and safe, although obviously it's a little bit more expensive!. The price from Tenerife South Airport to the apartment is around 78.00 euros (for more info, please contact with the owner).
In any case, the best way to visit Tenerife is renting a car (not are expensive in comparison with other tourist locations).
We can't recommend a car rental company in particular, but you could calculate on-line a quote for your stay (for more info, please contact with the owner).
Please keep in mind that a car will allow you to have many possibilities, because Tenerife is an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (known as the Island of Eternal Spring) and "find" good weather and a "summer" temperature, even in the month of January, can be a matter of a few kilometers.
Please remember that in order to complete this contract that we will give you the day of your arrival, with the keys of the apartment, you should send us your personal data (name, full address and Passport or Identity Card number).
Also, if you need an invoice, send us the fiscal data of your company.
In order to know in advance if your flight has any delay and to track by Internet, we will also ask you to provide us the name of the airline and your flight number.
To coordinate the delivery of the keys, you should send us a text message (sms or WhatsApp) to our mobile phone, once you have collected your baggage at the airport and you are ready to go to the apartment (normally takes about 45 minutes to reach the apartment by car from the Tenerife South Airport and 20 minutes from Tenerife North Airport).
Please note that the date of your arrival you must deliver to us in cash, 100.00 euros as security deposit that will be returned the day that you leave the apartment, once revised housing and provided that you return it in the state in which it was found.
Check In: at 18.00 hs., but flexible.
Check Out: at 10.00 hs., but flexible.
And, finally, keep in mind that all you can see in this announcement (equipment, distribution and location of housing, services offered, etc.), is what you will find when you reach the apartment... the only thing we ask is that you treat it as if it were yours!.
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Underbar lägenhet. Stor, fräsch och snyggt möblerad. 2 st stora fina badrum.
Hela Santa Cruz på gångavstånd.
Hit kommer vi gärna tillbaka.
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The appartment was even more beautiful than it was in the pictures! It is at the boulevard en close to all things you need (restaurants, beach, supermarket, bakery). We got detailed information about our arrival before arriving (including a detailed description of the route from the airport to the appartment) and the welcome in the appartment was well organized. From the appartment you can easily access the highway and thereby reaching all parts of Tenerife.
El apartamento dispone de todo lo necesario para disfrutar de unas vacaciones excepcionales, hasta lavavajillas (que no indicaban en la descripción), ropa de cama, toallas (incluso para la piscina), sombrillas, sillas de playa...
y un plus: una amplísima terraza y con unas vistas magníficas al mar.
A la anfitriona no tuvimos oportunidad de conocerla,nos recibió una amiga, encantadora por cierto, pero siempre estuvo atenta a lo que necesitaramos.
Como ya te dije Pilar, un placer y nos encantaría repetir.
Tenemos un dicho que como en la casa de uno no se está en ningún sitio. Pues no es real yo e estado en mi casa de la Candelaria igual que en la mía .
Gracias Pilar por tu amabilidad y tu facilidad para consultar cualquier duda.
El apartamento perfecto tanto en situación como en limpieza y equipamiento. Pilar la anfitriona perfecta. Siempre atenta a cualquier necesidad y disponible para lo que sea. Una propiedad muy recomendable. Muchas gracias a Pilar
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INWOOD - A female driver lost her life in a single-vehicle accident on Interstate 81 Thursday evening.
According to police, a report of a reckless and speeding driver in the northbound lanes was received shortly after 9:30 p.m. Minutes later, an accident took place near the northbound on-ramp at the Tabler Station Road exit.
The car, with license plates matching those from the reckless driving call, was found in the median on its roof. According to police on the scene, it had struck a parked Jefferson Asphalt truck and a small bulldozer.
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A female driver lost her life in an accident on Interstate 81 Thursday night.
The area of the interstate is an active construction zone; however, police report, no construction workers were injured in the accident.
The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene. Her identity was not released Thursday night, pending notification of next of kin.
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The Stetson women's tennis team (1-0) defeated Flagler College (0-1) by a score of 7-0 on Saturday afternoon at the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center. The Hatters won all three doubles matches in addition to the six singles matches in their season opener.
"It's a great start to our season to be able to earn a convincing win against a good team like Flagler," Director of Tennis Pierre Pilote said on Saturday.
Stetson started the match strong, sweeping all three doubles matches to take a 1-0 lead. Freshman Andrea Crespo (Valencia, Spain) and junior Diana Bukajeva (Riga, Latvia) were the first to finish in doubles, defeating Hanna Goetsching and Thaisa Pereira by a score of 8-2.
Junior Lindsey Cable (Gainesville, Fla.) and freshman Eveline Lepinay (Quebec City, Quebec) secured the doubles point for Stetson by defeating Ankia Cohen and Krista Ingrilli 8-2. Senior Sara Lazarevic (Calgary, Alta.) and senior Jen Miller (Tampa, Fla.) finished the sweep by defeating Esther Santiago and Barbora Sebkova 9-8 (4).
"Our doubles team played well, but I know that we still have room for significant improvement," Pilote said.
In singles play, Cable got the Hatters off to a good start by defeating Gabby Scammacca 6-0, 6-0. She was followed shortly thereafter by Miller, who defeated Anika Cohen 6-2, 6-0. Clarke Tatje then defeated Pereira 6-0, 6-3 to secure the victory for Stetson.
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Hulu Selangor By-Election & Malaysian Mentality
Najib has gone on the offensive with his strings of PR efforts hoping to convince mostly non-Malay voters of his new vision - New Economy Model. Barisan leaders and the coalition friendly media agencies have played up Najib's vision and policies. The sad part is this country will not get better merely through visions and policy announcements but lacking in actual implementation.
Najib had announced numerous big sounding initiatives e.g. the Government Transformation Plan, New Economy Model, 1Malaysia and several others. He had formed a number of committees and work groups. His most controversial decision was to appoint APCO as his government's international PR consultants.
What is lacking is a report card. His administration is facing a tremendous challenge to provide full details of his reform pledges. Hence, the claims of Najib's gaining popularity over these announcements is weird and worrying.
Why so? First, are Malaysians so gullible? Malaysians should be focusing more on the results than announcements. However, slogans have proven to be very marketable in Malaysia.
On the flip side, Pakatan led state governments have been less than innovative and fresh with their governance approach. Pakatan Selangor under the leadership of Khalid Ibrahim is seen as lack of dynamism and new ideas. There is also a serious concern over the support he gets from his own party.
The outcome of Hulu Selangor by-election should provide some lessons for Pakatan. They, especially PKR, need to be more careful with their membership recruitment process, candidate selection mechanism and leadership promotion within the party. Pakatan states cannot merely depend on the misdeeds of Barisan to win elections.
Barisan's excesses are already well known but the opposition coalition must capture the people's confidence that they are able to hold the leadership mantle if given an opportunity to do. Good riddance to PKR because the defectors are mostly from leaders and members with dubious record and low credibility.
Pakatan needs to show how they can govern differently.
It may not be a bad thing if Pakatan losses this by-election. It should not stay complacent and just hope for Barisan's poor perception to win elections.
Pakatan must win over some Barisan's hard core supporters if it wants to form the next federal government.
Hulu Selangor is a also a test of Malaysian mentality. If voters in Hulu Selangor are not committed on reforms, then there is still a long way for this country to become a fully developed country. Race, social morality and developmental politics are key to the HS election.
Power corrupts and should not be perpetuated in any democracies. We need at least a change of government but can Pakatan delivers us more hope and trust?
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Hi all,
This is a EXTRA MILE of effort I'm bring for everyone here before the RESULTS are OUT tonite.
"I PREDICT BN to win by 500-1500 votes"
Why??? My analysis are as followed:
During the last election, many members in the BN coalition who are voters in Hulu Selangor was rather UPSET with the previous administration headed by PAK LAH. Many of these voters of whom by-right should have translated their votes to BN actually DIDN'T come out to vote. For those BN coalition members/voters in Hulu Selangor who had exercised their voting rights actually SPOIL their VOTES or voted for the Opposition.
If we look back to the last election result, there are as many as 1000 odd UNDI ROSAK & 99% of these UNDI ROSAK was due the reason said above. Take MCA as an example, in Hulu Selangor itself there are already 8000 odd votes into BN's pocket but was spoilt in the last election due to disagreement factor within MCA itself.
Now that MCA had consolidated itself with CHUA SOI LEK's leadership, MCA is now UNITED & STRONG with most MCA voters in Hulu Selangor voting back for BN again. Based on solely on this factor, BN will automatically have at least 7000-8000 votes into their tally (this have NOT include MIC's share).
Thus, if the last election's majority was just a mere 200-300 votes...we can be assured this time round, BN will have a MINIMUM of 7000-8000 extra votes coming from the CHINESE alone to offset this previous 200 odd majority claimed last election by the Opposition. If we put it into numbers.....8000 Chinese votes from MCA members minus 300 majority votes of last election = 7700 votes for the BN. This of course had NOT include MIC's share of which I predict will add on another +/- 1000 odds.
As such, I expect BN to win by a rather SLIM majority of NOT EXCEEDING 2000 votes. Well, of course I will be EXTREMELY DELIGHTED to see BN proving me wrong by obtaining an excellent 5000 majority votes & above.
All these at the moment merely remains SPECULATION & no Political Analysts will DARE to argue my points. Just let see how things will end up in less than 4 hours from now....
It's either YOU BETUL or I BETUL.......Good Luck!!!
- bennyloh said...
- Justin Choo said...
But not morality, shame on him @ http://blackandwhite999.blogspot.com/2010/04/shame-on-you.html
My COMMENT/PREDICTION posted at 5:48PM is indeed CORRECT & PRECISE.
I DON'T need to be RPK or even any so-called POLITICAL ANALYSTS who spent MILLIONS to learn Politics overseas.
My WISDOM & INSTINCT speaks for itself!!!
Call me GOD OF POLITICS!!!
TQ to Zahid Ibrahim for carrying the PAKATAN Battle flag!!!
It is not easy to go against the BN with full support of government machinery. Everyone knows that and the fact of getting 20 over thousands vote is not an easy job!!!
I was in Hulu Selangor for the whole campaigning weeks as I was raised there and let me tell you that with all the BN resources, it is unbelievable and yet it happened that PAKATAN still garnered 20k over votes. So the future is bright and a little bit more effort on the awareness campaign PAKATAN will be in PUTRAJAYA.
Keep the spirit alive brother.
Sometimes the people will have to fall flat to get up to new life.
And BN will see to that this country will fall flat - economically, socially and morally.
Just we will rise from the ashes the hard way.
Malaysians vote with their feet not with their brains.
- Chong Kok Wai said...
it shows once again Money Talks Bullshit Walks
Hulu's election shows profoundly:
1.Najib's persistency.Just like Perak.If he wants to win and take it, he will go out of his means to ensure victory!Selangor state is next.
2.Why high profile PKR man lost to a newcomer in politics? My bet is that KKB have been badly neglected by PKR after the last election.
3.It is a good wake up call to the present PKR YBs.You will be next to go come the next GE if you ignore your constituency!
I guess the reasons why PKR lost were as follow :1)The area is mostly rural and the people want development which BN tackled precisely.2)PKR did not stress on this point(development-probably lack of fund).3)The PKR candidate is quite unknown to the rural folks-this is a minus point.4)The piecemeal campaign works by the component parties of PKR.
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PKR is lucky to have minimised the loss to 1,725 votes, which represents only 3.6% of the total votes.
Apart from the monetary handouts that were conditional on voters voting for BN, which could have swung 1,000 votes or 2% to BN, I can find some solid reasons why PKR and Zaid could not convincingly swing the voters in their favour:
1. Constant harping on the APCO issue by Anwar Ibrahim. It is not relevant to Hulu Selangor and also the nation although a case can be made that the US$23m is tax payers money. It is as if Anwar and the PR coaltion were waiting for a big fish issue to drop from the sky for them to raise up as an election issue.
2. When you want to win rural votes, be careful to select someone they can identify with. Zaid is more of an urban success story. If he was a kampung boy to riches story, there was little meat to chew on.
3. PKR did not respond strongly to the character assasination of drinking alcohol. So what if Hishmamuddin or other members of cabinet drank in the past? They are not standing for election in Hulu Selangorlah.
3. The New Economic Model, even if it is a PR ploy, was good PR for BN. The Opposition could not counter with a simple counter punch but instead responded with several disagreements with the thick report. Fence sitters throughout the nation are still waiting for the NEM Part II and may be willing to give the benefit of the doubt until then.
4. As far as the Indian voters were concerned, Kamalanathan was the underdog (overlooked by Samy, mocked by the Opposition for kissing hands, etc). The truth about his university degree is also contentious and inconclusive
5. Is the name of the game among Islamic conservatives still: who is a better Jew basher? Anwar seemed to have gone overboard by calling the head of APCO a Jew. Wonder what the Christian Malaysians thought about that when majority of them love the Jewish people. We know that God hates and judges countries that condemn the nation/people He loves.
So my conclusion is: the long-term strategy of Pakatan Rakyat may be commendable but the tactics displayed in this by-election are just too weak and sometimes irrelevant to certain quarters of Msians.
Apart from some soul-searching, Pakatan Rakyat needs a big rebranding push and hire some smart socio-economists in their team.
Its ok to have lost. We are not disappointed because the BN/UMNO has lavished M$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to buy the rakyat votes.
Zaid/PKR will bounce back and kick these unethical and corrupted BN politicians and their rich cronies.
We will be back.
The BN win solely by Rosmah factor.
The 900 odd vote returned to BN also because Samy Vellu did not insist in having his deputy as candidate. Umno leader had make a good choice for Kamalnathan and Rosmah had won the heart of many ladies vote. The PKR had not being able to convince the 700 odd null vote but that is the best they are able to do at the moment.
Pekasa Ibrhim was very quiet before the results are out so not to anger the indians and chinese votes.Now that its over and BN won, be prepared to expect rise of the titan again calling for the destruction of all pendatang especially the indian beggars and chinese prostitues.Good luck to these people,you ask for it.
I like this blogger comments:-
MACC dare not even take actions against that 2 lame froggies from Perak and how can the rakyat expect them to take actions against Mr C4, ooppps..sorry the PM. If they do, they will all die standing, literally. The very first day it was created by that sleepy flip flop lame duck guy, it was doom for failure. With so so many obvious cases that involve corruptions and murder to name a few, they just dont have the guts or just turn a blind eye.
PKR lost, but no big deal. The voters of U. Selangor at least got milllions$$$$$$$$$ provided those rich rich politicians and their cronies kept their promises.
As a matter of fact, they should thank our great ZAID for those $millionssssssss.
PKR will bounce back much much stronger.
If more that RM100 Million was used to buy back HS, guess how much will be needed to buy back Selangor. More than RM 1 Billion. Guess where the money comes from.
It is true that Money can kill.
TOKZ, your praises of the great porn star comes to naught. the chinese in hulu selangor are not porn fans hahahaaaaa


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For the third time this season the Stetson women's tennis team defeated an opponent that the Hatters had never topped before. This time Illinois State came in with a 2-0 record all-time against Stetson, but left with a 6-1 defeat as the Hatters improved to 9-1 on the season Tuesday at the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center.
"I am extremely pleased with the level of play today against an excellent Illinois State program," Stetson Director of Tennis Pierre Pilote said. "Coach Hoover prepares his teams very well, and today was no different. To be able to win 6-1 against such a strong program with one of our top players out [sophomore Andrea Crespo] illustrates the depth of our team."
Tuesday's victory was Stetson's ninth in a row after opening the season with a loss at 24th ranked Florida State. The streak ties the Hatters for the program record, also having won nine straight back in 1994.
Stetson started the day by prevailing in two out of three doubles matches to earn the first point of the contest, also for the ninth straight time. Senior Lindsey Cable and sophomore Eveline Lepinay improved to 7-1 in doubles with an 8-1 win at the number three position to get things going.
After senior Diana Bukajeva and freshman Isabella Fernandez fell at number one doubles for just the second time all year, sophomore Cari Berry and senior MayaBlue Stauffer-MacDowell won 8-5 at number two to secure the points for Stetson.
It was Lepinay again getting the Hatters out to a good start in singles play, winning 6-2, 6-1 at number six to extend Stetson's lead to 2-0. Freshman Carolina Meregalli then won 6-4, 6-1 at number five to make it 3-0.
After cruising to a 6-2 win in set one at the number one position, Bukajeva fought to a 7-6 (7-4) victory in set two to earn Stetson its fourth point and clinch the match for the Hatters.
Illinois State's Sierra Stone defeated Berry 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (10-8) at number four, Fernandez won 6-1, 6-7 (4-7), 1-0 (10-4) at number two, and Stauffer-MacDowell came back to win 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 at number three to give Stetson the 6-1 triumph.
"I have no doubts that Cari would have prevailed if she could have played a full third set," Pilote said in reference to the Hatters just missing out on another sweep. "She played great tennis coming back from a 0-4 deficit in the second set."
Stetson will continue action this weekend with its first Atlantic Sun Conference matches of the year. The Hatters go on the road to take on USC Upstate on Friday, and then challenge ETSU on Saturday.
"This match was another opportunity for us to improve before our conference schedule begins, and I believe that we improved again today," Pilote said. "We are exactly where we want to be before starting conference play. The team is confident and looking forward to the challenges ahead."


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As some of you know, until the last couple of years, I was poor as shit. The first 18 years, I was a kid and couldn't do anything about it. The next 17, I was still a kid and wouldn't do anything about it. I take full responsibility for that, and I don't point a finger at anyone for the way I lived. I dug my own hole.
But along the way, a few miracles happened (including landing a job that doesn't suck), and I've finally found myself living the way I always pictured a normal person would: bills paid, groceries in the fridge and two gold-plated nude statues of myself standing proudly in my front yard.
But as anybody who's been through the poverty gauntlet can tell you, it changes a person. And it doesn't go away just because you're no longer fighting hobos for their moonshine. For instance ...
#5. You Develop a Taste for Shitty Food
When You're Poor ...
Shockingly, when you're buying food based entirely on 1) how long it keeps and 2) how cheap it is, you wind up with shitty food. When I was growing up, we knew that the first of each month was grocery day. That's the day that our food stamps came in. Nowadays (in the U.S., anyway) it's all done on an ATM-type of plastic called a link card that gets reloaded with "food only" money on the first of every month. But the idea is still the same: new month, new food. So when our food money arrived, to avoid multiple trips to the grocery store and burning shitloads of gas that we couldn't afford, we bought our entire month's worth of groceries all at once and stored it like fucking squirrels. When you do that, you need shit that won't spoil.
Like assloads of beer.
Forget about fresh produce or fresh baked goods or fresh anything. Canned vegetables are as cheap as a gang tattoo, and every poor person I knew (including myself) had them as a staple of their diet. Fruit was the same way. Canned peaches could be split between three kids for half the cost of fresh ones, and at the end you had the extra surprise of pure, liquefied sugar to push you into full-blown hyperglycemia.
If it wasn't canned, it was frozen. TV dinners, pot pies, chicken nuggets ... meals that can be frozen forever, and preparation isn't more complicated than "Remove from box. Nuke. Eat." Because of that, by week two, half of everything we bought would be freezer burned. Just like with the canned food, you grow up thinking that this is the way it's supposed to taste. It's not that you grow to like it, necessarily, but you do grow to expect it.
Once You Escape ...
To this day, my kids won't eat fresh green beans. There's such a huge difference in texture and taste compared to the canned version that they're honestly like two different foods. None of us will eat homemade macaroni and cheese. If it doesn't come out of a box, it tastes weird. And the list is a mile long. We've eaten these things for so long, we've grown to prefer them to the fresh version.
"Awesome, seafood night! Is it someone's birthday?"
People who have never been poor love to point out overweight people in the ghetto and sarcastically exclaim, "Yeah, it really looks like she's starving!" And they have no idea that the reason many of them have weight problems is because everything they're putting into their bodies is dirt-cheap, processed bullshit. Grab a TV dinner and look at the nutritional information.
Fresh food is expensive and takes forever to prepare. It goes bad quickly, so it requires multiple trips to the grocery store per week, which is something most impoverished people can't do. And since all of those time-saving frozen meals are high in salt and fat, they take up residence in the expanding asses of the people who can't afford anything else.
When you finally get to the point where you can afford those grocery trips and fresh ingredients and have the time to prepare them, your taste buds freak the fuck out. They're not used to it. Vegetables are supposed to be squishy, aren't they? Is chicken supposed to have this texture?
"And who put all that green shit on my plate?"
No, it's not like you're eating food for the first time, staring at asparagus in wide-eyed bewilderment, not knowing whether to put it in your mouth or rub it on your skin until it absorbs right into your body. But a lot of this new stuff sucks by comparison because it's not what you've been trained to eat -- the flavors and textures are all wrong, and there's a real temptation to keep eating the same shit until it stops your heart at age 43.
#4. Extra Money Has to Be Spent Right Goddamn Now!
When You're Poor ...
Every poor person I knew got a big check one time a year in the form of their tax return. They made just enough money to file taxes, and made little enough to claim "earned income credit," which is a tax credit that can dramatically boost your return. For my ex-wife and I, it meant getting around $5,000 at the end of January. And just like many poor people, we'd be broke within days of cashing that check, our living room sporting a new TV. Or we'd replace our old computers and all of our furniture. There's a reason many poor people blow through that money instead of saving it for future bills.
When you live in poverty, you're used to your bank account revolving very tightly around a balance of zero. Your work money comes in and goes right back out to bills, leaving you breaking even each month (if you're lucky). That's the life you've gotten used to. It's normal for you.
Put down the calculator, asshole, it equals zero. It always equals zero.
When a windfall check is dropped in your lap, you don't know how to handle it. Instead of thinking, "This will cover our rent and bills for half a year," you immediately jump to all the things you've been meaning to get, but couldn't afford on your regular income. If you don't buy it right now, you know that the money will slowly bleed away to everyday life over the course of the next few months, leaving you with nothing to show for it. Don't misunderstand me here, it's never a "greed" thing. It's a panic thing. "We have to spend this before it disappears."
Once You Escape ...
Have you heard those stories about lottery winners who are bankrupt within a year or two, despite winning millions? That's because they can't turn that off. They can't shake the idea that the money is perishable.
And I'm not going to lie, if I had an unexpected check show up right now, I'd drop all of that fucker right into a new car and a computer for my kids. But for the most part, I've kept my head clear where those rare pockets of money are involved. My truck broke down last week, and for the first time, I was able to get it fixed without having to call my friends for a loan. The reason is because I've learned to manage that money a little better and not spend it in a blind panic when I fall into some.
OK, maybe I redecorated my living room, but I needed a new chair.
That's the key, though. When you don't have the extra cash, you don't know how to handle it when you do get some. When you escape that level of poverty, and you find yourself having extra money for the first time, you eventually learn how to manage it. I can watch people play guitar all day and get the basic idea. But unless you put one in my hands and make me start strumming, I'm never going to learn how to play the damn thing. Like anything else, it takes practice, and the poor never get the chance.
A similar problem is ...
#3. You Want to Go Overboard on Gift-Giving
When You're Poor ...
Even if you're not poor, you can already guess this part. You don't get many gifts, and the presents you do receive usually aren't as cool as what your friends are getting. And fuck all that "Christmas and birthdays are about being with good friends and family" noise. You don't have to be a spoiled shithead to like presents. That's half the fun of being a kid on those days. It doesn't make you a materialistic asshole; it just makes you a normal kid.
But what a lot of parents don't realize is that when they're openly worrying about bills within earshot of their children, the kids worry, too. When they hit a certain age, they start to make sacrifices on the family's behalf, and they feel guilt for the rare small luxuries they're allowed. I remember going shopping toward the end of our poverty streak, and I told my kids to pick out new bedspreads so we could get rid of their old, ugly ones. My oldest son looked around for a second and then said, "Thanks, dad, but I don't really need one."
"I can just cover up with some leaves. I'll be fine."
I made it a point after that to keep the adult problems in the adult world. They have enough stress just growing up. They don't need to worry about things that are beyond their control. Not for several more years, anyway. But being the provider of the household, it makes you feel like a failure. And like anything else, that makes you want to overcompensate.
Once You Escape ...
So, for the last two years, we've gone overboard on gifts on the holidays. I remember all the years that we couldn't afford to give them even a quarter of the things they asked for, and I swore I would make that right. So we spent about double what a normal person would consider reasonable. And then went back to buy more.
We will not rest until you are buried under the crushing weight of our generosity.
After we exhausted our bank account, my fiance and I looked at the number of boxes around the tree and pointed out that it didn't look like all that much. So we waited until our next check and went back for more.
We overcompensated so much in the other direction that we damn near drove ourselves back into the poorhouse. I think pretty much anyone who escapes poverty goes through this for a short time. If not with gifts, then with other showy forms of spending -- fancy clothes or new furniture or a car you can't afford. It's like you're trying to rub it in the face of your past self. "Eat shit, poverty!"
And strangely, when you're not going over the top on stupid shit, you have the opposite problem ...


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on March 5, 2013 - 1:42 PM
Buffalo firefighters Tuesday morning battled a two-alarm fire in a large vacant building on Genesee Street, fire officials said.
Firefighters responded to a 12:26 a.m. alarm at 1655 Genesee St., a large two-story brick building between Moselle Street and Bailey Avenue. Fire officials called for extra equipment in fighting the fire at the roughly 100-by-100-foot building, before sounding a second alarm later in the morning.
The blaze left an estimated $100,000 damage. The cause remains under investigation.


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Calvin C. Waire, 86, of Union and formerly of Attica, passed away Sunday evening, Dec. 9, 2012, at Grandview Medical Center, Dayton.
He was born Feb. 24, 1926, in Attica, to Lester and Gladys (Moyer) Waire. He married Angeline M. Gaietto Oct. 25, 1947, at St. Mary Catholic Church, Tiffin, and she preceded him in death Dec. 12, 2004.
Survivors include a son, Robert J. (Debbie) Waire of Richmond, Va.; son-in-law, David P. Evans of Clayton; sister, Bernice Mira of Florida; and three grandchildren, Catherine, Elizabeth and Michelle.
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He also was preceded in death by his parents; son, Ronald J. Waire; daughter, Lou Ann Evans; and two brothers, Burdell "Les" Waire and Donald Waire.
Calvin was a member of St. Paul Catholic Church, Englewood, and was a co-owner of Toll House Tavern, Union, for years. He farmed and retired from American Standard after 35 years. He then moved to Union in 1988 where he was a member of the VFW. He also belonged to the American Legion, Bloomville. He enjoyed traveling the world and cruising the United States. Calvin was a U.S. Army veteran, serving in World War II where he received a Purple Heart for wounds received in action in France March 15, 1945.
His Mass of Christian burial will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tiffin, with the Rev. Joseph Szybka officiating. A rosary will be prayed 20 minutes prior to Mass. Burial will follow at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery, Tiffin, with full military honors conducted by the United Veterans Council.
Friends may visit with the family 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, at Hoffmann-Gottfried-Mack Funeral Home & Crematory, 236 S. Washington St., Tiffin, OH 44883, (419) 447-2424.
Memorial contributions may be made to Calvert Catholic Schools and St. Joseph Catholic Church.
Condolences may be sent and the guestbook signed at www.hgmackfuneralhome.com.


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When the black spheres filled the sky, anyone caught beneath them would vanish in a flash of blue-white light. Huddled indoors, the survivors were unaware if what was happening in their neighborhoods was happening worldwide.
Josh is trapped at home with his father, whose sanity is starting to erode from the endless confinement. Megs struggles to survive in a hotel parking garage where she sees human nature at its worst. For both of them, food, water, and time are running out.
And hovering patiently above them is an extraterrestrial enemy that has inexplicably declared war against humanity…
"Exceptional and unexpected, Pod is a gem not to be missed." –The Entertainer (Kennewick, WA)
"Solid, straighforward sci-fi." –Booklist — Eloquence quotes
The seed of POD was a dream, which I then turned into an 8000 word short story told from the point of view of Josh, a fifteen year–old boy. My friends liked the story but wanted it to be longer, so I added another protagonist in a different setting and decided to turn it into a novel. That was a big step for me because up to that point I always considered novel writing like climbing Mt. Everest—a cool thing that crazy people did.
Are there particular books or movies that influenced you?
I've been a scifi fan since my father read War of the Worlds to me as a kid. In high school I read everything I could from Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark. One of my favorite books from that era was John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids, which may explain my foray into a post–apocalypse world. I also love strong cross–over YA voices like William Golding's Lord of the Flies and J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, which probably inspired my choice of a YA protagonist. And in films, I have to go with Alien as one of my favorites—especially Act I and II, when the characters have no idea what they are up against. That is when the movie is most terrifying, and that is the effect I hoped to achieve in POD.
We've seen the alien invasion stories before, but what makes your book unique is the claustrophobic feeling that you evoke. What made you focus so closely on so few characters?
Rather than focusing on so few characters, what I really did is create an environment where everyone is isolated. We can't see what is going on beyond our field of vision which intensifies the fear of the unknown. Then I focused on two protagonists, each in different environments—Josh in a house in a small town with his OCD father and aging dog. And Megs, alone in a parking garage attached to a hotel in LA that has been taken over by bad guys. This allowed me to write two stories: a character study and a survival / adventure. It was the best of both worlds for me since I'm a fan of both genres. Meanwhile, I kept the aliens in the background as brooding, ominous threat.
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I am grateful for the reviews and there is definitely a part of me that 1) can't believe it happened to me, and 2) that I won't be able to do it again. My wife, a librarian, reminds me that there are more stars out there to earn. And I remind myself that the only way to survive in a publishing world that is fueled by equal parts creativity, talent and luck, is to write the very best book I can, put it out there, and hope that it grows wings and flies.
What's next?
I'm chest–deep in writing POD 2 and having a lot of fun along the way. My goal is to offer a new twist on the post–apocalypse theme. All I can promise is there won't be any zombies or vampires. So here's to climbing Mt. Everest…again!


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The 2030 plan is a mixture of good and bad. The most problematic proposals would let the city continue to subsidize development in waterways and floodplains, harming irreplaceable marine habitats in the waters around the city.
This policy will make the city more vulnerable to the rising sea levels, more violent windstorms, severe storm surges and flooding that the plan acknowledges are coming with climate change. The city is overdue for a hurricane like Katrina. When it comes, as many as 3 million people may have to be evacuated to shelters, the plan says.
Retreat from the Coast?
If New York wants to be a model for other cities and for sustainable development around the globe, it needs to limit subsidies for sewers and other infrastructure to support development in flood-prone areas, and end subsidies almost entirely for construction in or on the waters around the city. Climate scientists refer to such policies as a "retreat from the coast." These sensible measures are completely missing from the plan.
PlaNYC proposals for protecting New Yorkers from looming storm and flooding threats are weak or counterproductive. Having the city planning department, which advocates waterfront development, continue updating the Federal Emergency Management Agency's floodplain maps will do no good if the information is unreliable, if citizens can't get it or use it easily, or if officials ignore it in budget decisions. PlaNYC's proposal to complete the city's application to FEMA for discounted flood insurance could just create incentives for development in floodplains, putting people in harm's way.
Building out into the water is even riskier than building in upland floodplains--and far more environmentally destructive. The waters around the city provide invaluable habitat for an astonishing variety of species. Habitat loss and destruction is the single most important factor in declining global fisheries, and a recent study warned that worldwide fisheries stocks will collapse by 2048 unless the way we use aquatic resources changes. With fisheries the most important source of essential protein for the world's malnourished populations, we need to halt all possible in-water construction. The great Hudson River system (including waters around the city) is one of the most important contributors to East Coast fisheries. Its natural ecosystems can sustain and renew themselves forever--but only if public officials leave aquatic habitats alone.
When a Park Is Not A Park
The plan pledges to promote parks, recreation and waterfront access and revitalization. But the administration has used this same rhetoric before to cloak its support for misplaced development and other habitat-threatening ventures on and in the water. New water and sewer infrastructure, paid for with skyrocketing ratepayers' fees, may be extended out into the water to serve the catering halls, sports complexes and multiplexes proposed as part of the so-called Hudson River Park project. PlaNYC's proposed mini-power plants and new brownfields programs could be used to subsidize this kind of misplaced, non-water-dependent development in the water as well. The way plaNYC mischaracterizes the 1972 Clean Water Act to support using public waterways for "recreation" is especially disturbing, since football fields, stadiums and huge playing fields that don't need to be in the water could be sold as "recreation."
PlaNYC's unexamined premise is that the City must grow by nearly a million people by 2030. This is a questionable assumption for a coastal city built primarily on islands, and especially for Manhattan, which is nearly impossible to evacuate in catastrophes. New York's top public spending priority should be making the city safer and better for all the people who live and work here already--maintaining an unparalleled existing mass transit system in good repair; keeping its superb stock of existing housing affordable; reducing class size until every child can read. Using taxpayers,' ratepayers,' straphangers' or drivers' money to expand the city at its periphery for a wealthy few would be gross misallocation of public resources--both natural resources and limited public funds.
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UCLA has consistently ranked as one of the best universities in the world, but it is no more immune to racist demagoguery than is Ole Miss. According to the campus newspaper, The Daily Bruin, and the Los Angeles Times, someone recently posted a racist, sexist message outside the offices of both the Vietnamese Student Union and the Pacific Islanders Student Association.
UCLA campus cops told KNX 1070 Newsradio that the two incidents seemed to be linked, and that a hate-crime investigation was underway.
Then there is a third incident outside Powell Library. Again, according to the Daily Bruin, a racist, misogynist message was scrawled on a wall that read: "Asian Women are White-Boy Worshipping Sluts."
The missive outside the Vietnamese Student Union looked as though it was done by a texter: "asian women R Honkie white-boy worshipping Whores."
And last year, almost immediately following the most devastating tsunami in Japan's (and Asia's) history, Asian students were singled out in a viral racist rant on YouTube called "Asians in the library." (See attached video.)
Asian American voters favored President Obama over Mitt Romney by 76 percent to 23 percent. Republicans are in a quandary as to these numbers. Asian Americans have demographic characteristics that would seem to make them natural supporters of the Republican Party: By large margins they support low taxes, fiscal austerity and traditional family values, and oppose affirmative action (especially in higher education). These are all Republican mantras and mainstays.
A study done by the Pew Research Center last summer, titled "The Rise of Asian Americans," summed up the socioeconomic and political position of most Asian Americans:
"Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are more satisfied than the general public with their lives, finances and the direction of the country, and they place more value than other Americans do on marriage, parenthood, hard work and career success … They are more likely than all American adults to be married (59% vs. 51%); their newborns are less likely than all U.S. newborns to have an unmarried mother (16% vs. 41%); and their children are more likely than all U.S. children to be raised in a household with two married parents (80% vs. 63%)."
According to this study, Asian Americans generally do not rely on the act of voting or seek government solutions to problems or issues that they think they can solve on their own. For them, voting is "expressive" rather than instrumental. That is, they do not vote their interests in the same way that others might. They do not ask, and certainly don't demand, that the government actually do anything. Thus their overwhelming support for Obama has little to do with his policies and everything to do with him personally. Asian Americans confirmed and affirmed Obama as America's leader, but they did not and do not expect a return on their investment in him.
Think of it this way: Asian American votes for Obama were a matter of applause for him as an actor on a stage, with them as the audience. They do not seek to direct or produce the play.
And Asian Americans, according to the Pew study, do not feel that racial discrimination is a particularly salient problem for them as a group. There is a high rate of intermarriage between Asian Americans and whites, which serves to confirm their belief that anti-Asian racism and discrimination are only negligible acts performed by atypical Americans, and is not the structural or systemic problem that blacks and browns complain of.
Increasingly, the Republican Party is perceived by all so-called minorities as the party of not just white people but of Southern white people especially. Asian Americans live mainly on the East and West Coasts and in medium sized to large cities. They tend to find Southern white people as culturally alien, especially in the sense that their anti-intellectualism is an immediate turnoff. Southern Republicans tend to be hostile to science, for example, particularly evolution and global warming. To most people, even marginally educated ones, but especially highly educated Asian Americans, evolutionary biology and man-induced climate change are virtually self-evident facts of life.
The old guard, white male ruling class recognizes that it is losing its grip on power in this nation-state. The would-be heirs to that power are on college campuses today, and also fear that perhaps their "birthright" is being taken from them.
White students have to resent the fact that the leaders in all of their "hard science" classes are usually, nowadays and for almost a full generation, Asian students. These Asian students tend to set the grading curve ridiculously high, from a "normal" white student's perspective.
To rub salt into the wound, now comes word that Asian Americans voted three-to-one for Obama. The Republican parents of many white students insist that Obama is anti-American and is the sole reason for America's problems, whatever they may be. This attitude is, of course, imparted to their college-age children, and is made manifest in acts of racial animus, again whether at Ole Miss or UCLA.