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Madra Rua Pub erupted as the United States scored the go-ahead goal against Ghana in their World Cup opener Monday.
Beer rained from the air and chants of "U-S-A" thundered through the bar from the hundreds of fans embracing shoulder to shoulder in support of their team.
The U.S. National Team's following has perceivably blossomed over the past decade. Leading the local charge is a rowdy band of brothers dubbed the Holy City Outlaws, who wear their red, white and blue shield as proud as any.
The American Outlaws are a nationwide brotherhood of super fans that support the United States National Soccer teams with a feverish passion. They've been featured on ESPN and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. They lead the chants in the stands and sing the songs in the bars draped in USA jerseys and American flags. There are 144 official chapters nationwide with more than 50 new chapters added since September. When members travel into new cities from out of town, they're welcomed into the town's Outlaw chapter like members of an extended family.
Charleston's Holy City Outlaws became the 92nd chapter of the American Outlaws in September and is already thriving with well over 100 official members. Close to 50 new members have been added since February and president Mike Buytas says more are joining every day.
"It's a community of passionate people who like to have a good time," Buytas said. "You feel comfortable right away. Everybody sings the same songs and has the same discussions. Just a large group of U.S. soccer fans celebrating their passion for the game."
Buytas still remembers watching his first World Cup game while stationed on an Army base in South Korea in 1990. Just he and one other fan sat huddled over a small TV with rabbit-ear antennas. These days, with the growing popularity of U.S. soccer, especially locally, Buytas says fans have to show up early just to get into the local soccer bars that fill to capacity on game day.
With the early success of the U.S. team in this year's World Cup, local bars are preparing for even larger turnouts of official and unofficial American Outlaws as the games continue.
Madra Rua, the American Outlaws' official bar located in North Charleston, was full inside and out for the U.S. vs. Ghana game.
"So loud at one point I had to walk into the back hall," bartender Brad Doggett said. "Super busy, high energy, tons of fans, red, white and blue everywhere."
My Father's Moustache in Mount Pleasant had its highest sales day of the year and opened an outside bar to accommodate the overflow of U.S. fans.
"The vibe was amazing," manager Aaron Pauole said. "It was insane. We had people blocks away on Rifle Range Road who said they could hear the cheering and chanting."
The American Outlaws continue to absorb new members of all ages and backgrounds each week and welcome even the casual fan to join. Outlaws member Del Shaffer says soccer's increased visibility has raised its popularity in the U.S. and largely contributes to the increased support of the national teams. He says the U.S. teams are easy for American fans to support because unlike other leagues with separate conferences and divisions, the U.S. team brings together an entire country.
"Every single year, the sport is building in America and locally, and every year the fandom builds with it," Shaffer said. "The Lowcountry already has a great base for soccer. The World Cup brings everybody together with the same passion and interest to celebrate as a community and a country. And that's really what the American Outlaws are about as well."
Outlaw member John Lotterhos says it's that sense of pride that makes the Outlaws and the World Cup so special. Look closely in the U.S. fan sections at the games in Brazil and you'll see the Holy City Outlaws scarves waiving through the air. The Outlaws back home applaud their brothers in the stands the same way they cheer for their boys on the field.
"I love it. I love the sport. I love the World Cup. I love what it brings. I love the country coming together," Lotterhos said. "I want everyone to fall in love with the game and welcome new fans to grow their passion with us. It's the closest thing to actually being brothers. There's a strong camaraderie. We're all in it together like a family."
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Buffalo police say a Lackawanna man upset after he was ticketed for illegally parking on Hertel Avenue decided he wanted to get even – with a parking enforcement truck.
Ahmed M. Mosed, 43, of Holland Avenue, was arrested by Buffalo police after he allegedly punched a city parking enforcement truck with his fist and threw several objects, including a glass bottle, at the vehicle shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday.
Police said Mosed was ticketed for illegally parking on Hertel, near Colvin Avenue, and was charged with harassment after his temper tantrum on the truck.

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With the mass retirements this year now its truly a young girls sport that it was evolving to. Every GP, worlds, euros, should be won by a girl 18 or younger.
With the mass retirements this year now its truly a young girls sport that it was evolving to. Every GP, worlds, euros, should be won by a girl 18 or younger.
It's unreal that a skater like Kostner/Asada/Kim has a 12-15 point advantage over other skaters, who could be reeling off 7-triple performances while they make major errors and still place behind the top ladies. If there's any good thing about Lipnitskaia's/Hanyu's skyrocketing PCS last season, at least it will force the other skaters to ensure they go for high difficulty (3-3 and quads), which might result in more errors overall in the field, but it will elevate the sport more than Arakawa's or Lysacek's play-it-safe Olympic wins.
What about if Yuna came back and skated perfectly? Should she not win GPs, Worlds or anything since she's over 18? Or Mao? Or Gracie, since Gracie is now 18 and by extension of your logic, too old to win GPs Worlds etc. What about when Adelina turns 18? Or when Yulia turns 18? Or Ashley or Mirai or Carolina or basically the majority of international female skaters....?
I mean that no girl left over 18 is good enough to win a podium this year. And I don't see that changing in the next few seasons. Yuna and Mao aren't around and probably never will be again.
That's a big statement to stand behind. Alissa won the GPF at 22 after everyone counted her out. I wouldn't think to eliminate over 75% of competitors out of the 'winning' pool so quickly
Julia is not as good as she is hyped to be. Her jumps are iffy, and she has 'child star' practically stamped on her forehead. If she can lose to Mao, she can definitely lose to Gold.


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A small town in the middle of cornfields, the biggest excitment on a friday night is the high school football game. Where you give derections based on the one and only stop light in town. Know for more bars than churchs.
There is never anything going on in Spring Valley Illinois, well except for the football game.
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Few neighboring countries were at war so often with each other from the Middle Ages until the end of the Protestant reformation as Sweden and Denmark--in much the same way as France and Germany from Napoleonic times until World War II. For most Americans this comes as a surprise, since both countries along with the rest of Scandinavia enjoy a modern image of peaceful states that enjoyed neutrality throughout most major modern European conflicts. The many similarities in culture, language, religion, the common reputation as "welfare states" with advanced social legislation and a social security net to prevent outright deprivation have obscured much of the same differences in outlook that distinguish Americans and Brits in spite of a long common history and shared institutions.
Like the differences that led to the American Revolution and the final separation from England in spite of the presence of a large contingent of loyalists who remained loyal to their king and oath of allegiance, Danes and Swedes could not agree on the form of the union between them. The differences separating them did not constitute an ocean but a common land boundary and narrow stretches of water. What we call Southern Sweden today is known by the regional name of Skåne (with its own flag). It was both in terms of physical geography, landscape, soils, vegetation and climate a part of the Danish Kingdom from the earliest appearance of a state embracing Jutland (Jylland), Skåne across the Øresund and the main Danish islands Funen, (Fyn) and Zealand (Sjæland), lying amidst the two "Belts" in the Kattegat.
Like the case of the English governors and the American colonial houses of representation, the Swedish and Danish nobility were diverse sources of power. Growing resentment of the Union led to the desire for renewed Swedish independence and the eviction of Danish control of Skåne, a move that would award Sweden a share in the control of the narrow straits, through which European maritime traffic passed from the North Sea and the Baltic.
It also meant the end of Danish monopoly. With two such contrasting visions of their future and status, the union collapsed and war followed war from 1434 until 1720. Even with Denmark's ability to mobilize allies, most notably the Russians, the results were almost continuously successful for Sweden, and a terrific blow to Denmark's prestige and image as the leading Scandinavian power.
The result was also a strong national enmity that built upon existing resentments. A final blow was dealt when Sweden picked the winner in the Napoleonic wars and Denmark was forced to cede control of Norway to its bitter enemy, adding a final humiliation and promoting Sweden to the undisputed position as the "big brother." This diplomatic victory was bitterly resented in both Denmark and Norway as an example of Swedish imperialism.
Although Denmark proper (Jutland, Fyn and Zealand) was never conquered by Sweden, it too suffered humiliation by its archrival as a result of constant military defeats that eclipsed its early domination of the Baltic. This ignominy served as a cause of irredentist hopes for centuries and prolonged the hatred between the two countries.
To this day, the Danish royal anthem sings of a naval victory of their King Christian IV over the Swedish fleet in 1644. By contrast, the Swedish anthem never even mentions the name of the country but exclaims, "I will live and die in 'Norden'" (a term, like Scandinavia, referring to the entire region).
World War II added a modern chapter when Denmark and Norway fell to a German invasion, while Sweden maintained a profitable neutrality and allowed transport of both German troops and German-controlled Norwegian and Finnish raw materials across its territory issues, which created an additional layer of resentment, rivalry and competitiveness.
The Danes have always had a reputation among their Scandinavian colleague as being much more European, especially because of French influence, and therefore are regarded as somewhat decadent, less puritanical, lackadaisical, sloppy, and more interested in good food and pursuing beautiful women than the aloof, industrious, neat, well-groomed, rational (the Danes would add "arrogant") Swedes--or the athletic, honest, nature-loving and athletic Norwegians. Of course, like all stereotypes, there is both exaggeration and enough of a grain of truth in these images to convince observers to look for confirmation.
The popular press, especially the mass circulation tabloids, delights in playful teasing and taunting the older brother rival that sometimes reaches grotesque proportions. Although educated people regard this pandering to old prejudices as the cheapest form of sensationalism, its continued emotional long-term appeal cannot be doubted.
A favorite part of this teasing is the double-meanings employed in manipulating the two closely related languages. Danes and Swedes will often prefer to converse in English rather than speak their own languages with each other. The written form is sufficiently similar so that the general meaning of texts can be generally understand but differences in intonation, pronunciation and the distinct different meanings of closely sounding words provide an endless form of humor. Swedes have a special "Sj" sound and most Danes use a pronounced glottal stop that are difficult for non-natives to imitate.
In 1944, a Dane and a Swede, Ellen Hartmann and Valfrid Palmgren Munch-Petersen, wrote a special dictionary titled Farlige ord og lumske ligheder i dansk og svensk (Dangerous words and awkward similarities in Danish and Swedish) that should be read by anyone needing to master the neighboring language and avoid embarrassing mistakes. One can imagine the reaction of an American woman to an expression like: "I came by yesterday to knock you up but nobody was home." For an Englishman until circa 1970 this simply meant: "I came by and knocked on the door to see if you were home."
All this may seem like making a mountain out of a molehill for many foreign observers who imagine that the Scandinavian peoples are so similar they should have long ago buried the hatchet. Indeed, all the Scandinavian states remain among the most stable in the world politically. They cooperate in many economic and social areas such as the joint SAS airline and are culturally, socially and linguistically similar, but maintain a distinct sense of political separateness.
History and especially geography has determined much of their foreign policy and prevented them from following a common one or joining in an alliance. Norway and Denmark joined NATO due to their inability to maintain their neutrality in World War II, while Sweden continues to be neutral. All three jealously guard their independence. Denmark's close proximity and border conflict over Schleswig (Slesvig) prevented Norway and Sweden from considering a Scandinavian alliance before the World Wars with their prospect of German expansionism and revenge.
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5 Monster Movie Ideas Hollywood Should Be Making Next
If, like me, you enjoy horror movies, congratulations on being a convincing liar, because I fucking LOVE horror films and you'll never understand me, Dad.
Yet horror is, perhaps more than any other genre, often dissatisfying. Every year the same old monsters slouch into theaters. They are:
- Creepy kid's "imaginary" friend
- Zombies that are the true face of humanity
- Posturing vampire in need of ... ugh, such a slap
- Lunatic with an overcomplicated torture scheme
- Found footage of people who should have dropped the camera and run
- An exorcism based on a "true story"
- A remake of some '80s classic (this year it's The Evil Dead)
If we're lucky, we get one fresh film every year, like The Cabin in the Woods. If we're unlucky, it's The Wolfman. And if God feels that another flood isn't a sufficient enough punishment for our sins, it's another Scary Movie.
Never fear, Hollywood! I've run your tired-ass tropes through the forest of public domain beasties and found monsters even scarier than your go-to characters. My only rule is that no monster is allowed to be a lazy combination of other animals, like sphinxes or Kathy Griffin.
#5. Succubus
A succubus is a female demon that kills you by having sex with you. Often she paralyzes or hypnotizes her victims. In some versions, she drains off their vitality over several sexual encounters, but in others she'll straight up eat a bro. Succubi are a common hallucination of the "night hag" phenomenon during sleep paralysis -- which is exactly what it sounds like, except not as fun as getting free sex from a stranger who wants to do all the work.
Succubi are first mentioned in the 14th century, but have antecedents back far enough to put the "Oh! Oh! IIAAAA!" in Mesopotamia. Since writing about sex could ruin your reputation up until a few decades ago, they've never really enjoyed their moment in horror's forefront.
That moment is now. Today, technology and culture are in a war of self-determination and repression, meaning sex and fear go together like chocolate and OH MY GOD MY SEX TAPE JUST HIT 1 MILLION VIEWS.
There have been succubi in film, but they're usually more erotic than terrifying, or discounted for other reasons. For example, Succubus: Hell-Bent is disqualified because it has been legally prohibited since 1979 to call any movie with Lorenzo Lamas in it a major motion picture.
In fact, the only succubus to ever light up the celluloid was Hannah Fierman in last year's V/H/S, who was agonizingly eerie before she became a pissplosion of terror. Her other credits include "Demon Vixen" and "Bug-Eyed Girl."
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So you might say she's a type.
How to Make It a Great Movie
Succubi are to nightmares what RealDolls are to fantasies that are illegal in Texas. Whatever your male sexual anxiety, there's a succubus for that. V/H/S used one in a short tale of reprehensible dudebros who bring home the crazy. Taking drunk women back to their hotel to secretly film them having sex, they learn that one of the girls is a demonic sex-cannibal.
You couldn't exploit that one-off shock for a feature-length film, because there's no suspense after the first kill. But if you opted for a succubus who will slowly drain a dude dry against his own common sense, you'd get a great metaphor for people who can't leave unhealthy relationships. Then you'd have a film in which the world gets exceedingly weirder with each encounter. And if you do kill the monster, there are plenty more for sequels, since they're all daughters of the same mother, Lilith.
In the Bible's B-side tracks, Lilith was Adam's first wife, who was created from dust (not rib!), then cast out for thinking that women were equal to men, and also for engaging in forward-thinking sexual positions -- two offenses to the Lord that you might recognize as the mark of an awesome girlfriend. Bonus: She could fly!
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And organize music festivals for soulful acoustic ballads.
Like a lot of divorcees, Lilith soon found a hot boy toy: in this case, the archangel Samael. For an angel of death, he sure was fertile, because Lilith began gushing demon-babies ... so many that God threatened to kill 100 of her babies every day until she quit being so damn independent and came home to play nice. And I'm not one to tell God his business, but I've slept with more women than he has, and the way to make a woman stop resenting you is not to threaten her children.
Lilith has appeared a little bit in comics and on the show Supernatural, but usually as more of a regular ol' demon.
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The one on the left is actually an analogous goddess named Ishtar, but look, they're posing the same!
The horror is in inverting people's notions of traditional sexuality with grotesque imagery, like how Alien deliberately inverted sex and birth to unnerve its audience.
So boom: Right there, you've got all the elements for a misunderstood monster story about women's rights vs. male insecurities. Have the POV character be some suave player getting steadily dismantled by a monster who just wants to show him how great woman-on-top is. Becoming vulnerable to a woman against his own nature, either he grows as a person or he's lunch meat.
#4. Spring-Heeled Jack
The thing with Spring-Heeled Jack is that he was real -- or at least really documented. Extraordinarily tall and gaunt, he wore a helmet that couldn't conceal his burning red eyes, which smoldered for you, girl. He had a propensity for cornering women and getting grabby. So if he was some kind of alien, he must have pledged Alpha Centauri Lambda.
"Greetings, Earthlings -- take me to your kegger."
On the other hand, witnesses swore that he breathed blue flame and leaped over 9-foot walls, and how could an entire crowd of people agree on supernatural crap like that? Bullets had no effect on him, and since Teddy Roosevelt never ran from an angry mob in his life, we know it couldn't have been him.
What's crazy about Spring-Heeled Jack is how damn long people have been reporting on him -- from the mid-19th century to as recently as last year. It's not all sensational crowd mentality that's perpetuating his myth. Sometimes you just have to say yes to your heart and believe in an immortal, superpowered sexual criminal with a Cockney accent -- even if your mind knows that some prankster passed on his mantle to another.
He's sort of the V for Vendetta of sexual assault.
How to Make It a Great Movie
Jack already makes a habit of assaulting pretty young women, so he's off to a great start as a movie monster. And sure, he's steeped in Victorian lore, but with his renewed appearance, he'd be a great ultra-creeper who can get into any high-rise apartment, locked or whatever, and subsist as an unknowable urban predator -- his motives are too otherworldly to make sense.
City dwellers are locked up in taller buildings with better security systems than ever, so what's scarier than a fire-belching Other who slices through all our barriers? Squawking an electric language, this insane figure grips his victims close and gazes with burning eyes into their face for some alien purpose.
It'd prey on the same phobias as Pulse, but from the opposite end, by threatening to destroy our seclusion and not being the movie equivalent of a NyQuil overdose.
#3. The Melon Heads
Holy shucking fit, you guys, the Melon Heads are every suburban legend you ever heard crammed into one horde of creepy children (although technically, if the children are insane, that would not be a horde but a gaggle).
Now, lots of communities have stories about the mysterious people who live outside of town and just want to be left alone. And usually that's all it is: people.
But the Melon Heads are the sum of every one of those stories. They're hydrocephalic children who were committed to a mental institution, where they were abused and experimented on to become even more freakish. Eventually they murdered and mutilated their doctor, escaped their asylum for the criminally insane amid a fire, and retreated to a subterranean lair, emerging only at night to satisfy their cannibal urges.
They may also be inbred Satan worshipers.
When eating people, the Melon Heads prefer babies, because even mankind's awful history didn't invent something more ghastly than a mutant eating a baby until the recent invention of the Octomom porno.
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See, now you can't stop thinking of a vagina filled with flailing tentacles and a beak.
I don't want to blame the victim, but any baby wandering around outside the city limits at night is asking for this to happen. It's like I told that officer when I was pulled over last year for driving a truck full of babies that weren't mine. I told him, "I said, 'Hey, you! Babies! What are you doing out here at night? I'd better take you home before the hell-mutants get you.'" Anyway, that's why I wear this ankle bracelet now, but the message stands: Don't take your children out to the killing fields after sunset.
How to Make It a Great Movie
Granted, it sorta was a movie already, if you count some kids having fun in their backyard.
I'm not saying it isn't fun, just that its frothing mutant cannibal quotient is despairingly low. But is it a great movie? No. It runs a mere 50 minutes and contains enough badly acted dialogue to make Clerks look like Battleship Potemkin II: Tsar Wars.
Listen, this is not a finely honed shrieking horror like The Exorcist or The Ring, or really any scary movie about an adolescent girl. There are no subtleties to grace this narrative. What this is is an army of little bastards that chew a ragtag group of survivors to shreds.
You get James Gunn to write and direct, and you get Eric Powell to design all the little homunculi, and you start filming five days from now. Here, I'll write the opening:
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Don't worry, it's just Jeremy Renner. He's in everything.
Close it out with the revelation that all those babies were born mutated by some pollution at the factory where the whole town works and you've got yourself a ham-fisted good time.


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New Titles at Harmonia Mundi
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The year that was"It's that time of year where we take a moment to reflect on the past twelve months. As Gramophone Editor James Inverne put it: "Having won Gramophone's coveted Label of the Year award in 2010, Linn Records are not a label to have rested on their laurels. Instead, as we have come to expect from them, the slate of fine new releases continued apace."
(US) Opera Today Review: "San Marco in Hamburg: Motets by Hieronymus Praetorius" (CD) (Steven Plank, 19 Dec 2011)
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New releases for January 2012 from Hyperion Records Ltd.
Handel in Hamburg
A boisterous selection of the orchestral music Handel wrote for the Hamburg opera, some recorded for the first time. He arrived aged just eighteen and spent four hectic years absorbing the influences of this most culturally diverse of cities.
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Elvis Presley would have turned 78 this week. One wonders what he might have looked like today, had he not been such a troubled soul, one who abandoned his corporeal being in the bathroom of his by-then gloomy mansion in Memphis back in 1977. Perhaps the jelly doughnuts and peanut butter and banana sandwiches would have caught up with him by now, even if the drugs and loneliness hadn't.
Would Elvis be fat, bald and squeezing into his jumpsuit to make the casino circuit as a nostalgia act? Or would he have taken a page from the Johnny Cash playbook, and returned to his roots, releasing stripped-down albums produced by Rick Rubin that caused critics to salivate and new generations to forgive him for those awful karate moves and onstage meltdowns?
Speaking of "roots," were those roots ever really the property of Elvis to begin with? Was he simply the first white man from the South to successfully appropriate the African-American music that surrounded him growing up, and turn it into cold hard cash and a rather pitiful movie career? Many would, and have, argued as much. Others see him as simply rock 'n' roll's first and greatest star.
Me? I think he was both of these things – a rip-off artist and, for a very brief period of time, a genius. It's the early stuff that gets me, the tunes the young hopeful tracked at Sun Studios in Memphis beneath the squinty-eyed gaze of Sam Phillips, who must have known immediately this truck-driving hick was onto something, even if all he initially wanted to do was record songs to make his mama proud.
Elvis went into the Army in 1958 at the peak of his commercial prowess, avoided any genuine hard time on his tour, and emerged somehow a changed man. He concentrated on making (mostly) terrible movies, lost contact with those debatable roots and only sporadically – the '68 "comeback special," the "Memphis" album – released music on par with those earliest recordings. His story – which is likely to be told over and over again ad infinitum, just as it is echoed over and over again by desperate teen pop star after desperate teen pop star – is an American tragedy. Boy falls in love with music; boy develops serious talent; boy gets big break; boy becomes a mega rock star; boy makes his mama proud and his daddy rich; boy loses the plot; boy develops a taste for self-medication; boy feels lonely surrounded by a passel of hangers-on he mistakes for real friends; boy dies alone on the toilet.
It's a pathetic tale, one made even moreso by the religious zealotry that still surrounds Elvis, insisting on his being much more myth than man. His significance as an artist who became the first rock star can't really be overestimated, but his importance as a figure in American music can be, and has been, for what feels like forever. In terms of musical influence, Elvis doesn't come close to James Brown, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, Miles Davis or Bob Marley. To say nothing of the many bluesmen (and women) whose music he so artfully imitated, then sold to an American public largely oblivious to where that music came from. And yet, he lingers, because what he did, he did so incredibly well, particularly at the outset of his career. So we still celebrate his birthday, which feels somehow both sad and appropriate.
I compiled a playlist this week in honor of Elvis, comprising it of 10 songs that pay tribute to him in one form or another. They present, in many instances, an unflinching portrait of a fallen king. In others, they simply romanticize the myth, rather effectively, for better or worse.
"The King's Call," Phil Lynott. The Thin Lizzy frontman was genuinely devastated by Presley's death – which might seem odd, considering the fact that he was a half Jamaican/half white Irish rogue-poet whose own music didn't sound much like Presley's at all. But in "King's Call," Lynott beautifully romanticizes the Presley myth atop some stunning guitar work from Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. It's interesting to see the parallels between Presley's tragic demise and Lynott's own, which took place 10 years later.
"Porcelain Monkey," Warren Zevon. Zevon may be the finest sardonic scribbler to have emerged from the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s. He dealt with Presley rather mercilessly in this acerbic, hilarious tune from "Life'll Kill Ya": "He was an accident waiting to happen/Most accidents happen at home/Maybe he should have gone out more often/Maybe he should have answered the phone/Hip-shakin' shoutin' in gold lam�/That's how he earned his regal sobriquet/Then he threw it all away/For a porcelain monkey." Ouch!
"King of the Mountain," Kate Bush. Bush brilliantly compares Presley to Charles Foster Kane in "Citizen Kane," with this simultaneously tender and ominous tune. "Elvis are you out there somewhere/Looking like a happy man?/In the snow with Rosebud/And king of the mountain."
"Elvis Has Just Left the Building," Frank Zappa. It should surprise no one that Zappa had little patience with the idea of romanticizing Presley, who he generally saw as a marginally talented oaf with a drug problem and a messiah complex. Zappa skewers the King with this track from "Broadway the Hard Way": "He gave away Cadillacs once in a while/Had sex in his underpants/Yes, he had style!/Bell-bottom jumpsuits?/That's them in a pile/But he don't need 'em now, 'Cause he's makin' Jesus smile!" Hey, somebody had to say it!
"Johnny Bye-Bye," Bruce Springsteen. For Springsteen, Presley was both inspiration and cautionary tale. His death left its mark on Springsteen's writing, which then dealt with the myth of the King as a metaphor for the alienation that can come with stardom. "They found his body slumped up against the drain/with a whole lotta nuthin' runnin' through his veins/Bye bye, Johnny/Johnny, bye bye/You didn't have to die/You didn't have to die." 'Nuff said.
"Fight the Power," Public Enemy. Chuck D asserts that the deification of Presley is essentially a racist act and an attempt to rewrite American history in the white man's image. You can argue with him, if you like. Good luck with that.
"Tupelo," Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Cave casts the birth of Presley as a Flannery O'Connor/Carson McCullers literary mash-up. Brilliant, and completely terrifying.
"Elvis on Velvet," the Stray Cats. In which Brian Setzer decries the commodification of the King atop a smoking rockabilly tune.
"Elvis is Dead," Living Colour. See Public Enemy, above.
"Calling Elvis," Dire Straits. Here, Knopfler deftly cuts to the heart of the matter, regarding the tabloid frenzy of reported Elvis sightings around the time of the song's writing. "Calling Elvis/Is anybody home?/Calling Elvis/I'm here all alone/Did he leave the building?/Or can he come to the phone?/Calling Elvis/I'm here all alone."
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - During the presidential debate on foreign affairs on Monday, Oct. 22, both candidates left the option of attacking Iran's nuclear sites on the table. In view of the possible grave consequences of such an attack it would be enlightening to consider the reasons for it and to make sure all alternatives have been explored.
In a September 16 interview on "60 Minutes" with Meir Dagan, the recently retired chief of Mossad, the super intelligence and spy agency of Israel, said that attacking Iran now is the most stupid thing he ever heard. He also said that 1) Iran has many more nuclear sites than is reported by the media and that it would be very difficult, if not impossible to eliminate all of them, 2) Should Israel attack Iran, Hezbollah to the south and Iran to the north would rain 50,000 missiles on Tel Aviv and the rest of Israel, causing destruction that would take a long time to repair, and 3) The prime minister of Iran, Ahmadinejad is very rational; the Imam and the sectarian leaders of Iran are very rational and they have considered carefully the consequences of a nuclear strike on Israel.
In spite of all of this, Mr. Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, wants our country to set red lines, issue ultimatums and carry out preemptive strikes on Iran's nuclear sites. It is a given that attacking Iran's nuclear sites is a temporary measure and that it would not prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. So the question "then why attack?" begs for an answer; particularly since Dagan and other Israeli security experts are convinced that Iran is at least three years away from acquiring nuclear capability.
In his Cairo address Obama offered an antithesis to the use of force. He captivated the peoples of that region by expressing a sense of justice and respect of their history, religion and sovereignty. And it is the absence of such American justice and respect that is behind Iran's belligerence. For Iran has been the victim of an intrusive Anglo-American foreign policy during the past several decades. A policy predicated on preserving the oil concession and preventing the Soviet Union, during the Cold War, from encroaching on the oil fields of the Middle East.
To this end: the U.S. and the U.K. supported the unpopular Shah, engineered CIA plots that ousted the duly elected Prime Minister Mosaddeq, intervened to appoint a general as prime minister who is to the liking of the Shah, maneuvered against the emerging sectarian regime under the popular cleric Ayatollah Khomeini, supported Iraq in its eight year war with Iran and later conducted covert operations to topple the sectarian regime during Jimmy Carter's presidency, which led to occupying the U.S. embassy in Tehran and taking all it's staff hostage, until they were released at the beginning of President Reagan's administration.
So instead of bombing Iran, let us mend fences with it. And let us not listen to the warmongers who would embroil our country into yet another futile Middle East war. A grave and expensive war of unforeseen consequences. And let us give diplomacy, fair play and common sense a chance; for we may find out that peace with Iran can be achieved without firing a single shot.
Nevertheless, Iran will continue with its efforts to develop nuclear weapons; neither to annihilate Israel, nor to terrorize America, but to establish its hegemony in the Middle East and to help assert the Shiites claim of being the progenitors of the true Khalifs to Prophet Mohammad, accordingly the leaders of all Muslims.. A claim whose genesis is in their belief that their first Imam, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, was the rightful Khalif (successor) and that all their subsequent Imams, including the current Imam are the true successors of the prophet. Hence Iran's threats to attack Israel, its alliance with Syria, its support of Hezbollah and its intrusive tactics in several other countries in the Middle East. Here again, bombing Iran is not the answer. Instead, America needs to establish alliances of its own in the Middle East to thwart Iran's ambitions.
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Someone who is "all there" in a mental sense but not necessarily in a physical one.
Steven Hawking is totally screwed on man.
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German for "sexy" - can be used when one doesn't want the object of admiration to know what that means, to surprise the listener, or just to sound like you're talking in a code language and you're some sophisticated cosmopolitan.
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Teenage homosexuals who try to fit in with girls because they usually have a tiny pee-wee cannon. Also can be described as pussy middleschoolers who have been raped that don't have the testes to admit it.
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The male version of PMS. Symptoms include a dramatic increase bitch-ass-ness, whining and mood swings for no apparent reason.
Everyone watch out, John's having his mansies! Someone get him a tampon!
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(1) A boy who THINKS he's a man, but has very girly tendencies such as: watching Gilmore Girls, having little armpit hair, not being able to play sports or video games, can't face his problems and doesn't act like a gentleman.
(2) Cross between a man and a pansy.
(2) Cross between a man and a pansy.
I can't believe he thinks he's mature, he's the biggest mansy ever!
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A term used for a man that is half man half pansy. A man that is not a complete pansy, but he does have his moments.
You'd light you're ass hair on fire, but you wont jump off this cliff. You Mansy!!


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I would like to take this opportunity to let you know about your sheriff. Jeff Jaeger was born and raised in Lincoln County and has spent his entire life here working and raising his family. He and his wife Tracey operate a small farm developed to the care of rescued and abused horses. He is a very caring and compassionate man that has devoted his life to protecting his community and the people who live here.
After serving in the Wisconsin National Guard, he joined the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department in 1980. During his time, Jeff worked in all positions in the department from dispatcher to sheriff. Jeff was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1998 and worked very hard fulfilling the needs of the position. Day after day he showed the leadership ability that is needed to operate a shift in a Sheriff's Department. Jeff was one of Lincoln County's first DARE officers, a position he held for 13 years and went on to coordinate the program as a lieutenant. He continues to strongly support this program. Jeff also served on the Lincoln County Special Response Team (SWAT) for 14 years until elected sheriff. He continues to work tirelessly alongside his people in order to better serve you the public. Jeff has worked hard all those years learning about Lincoln County and you the citizens. He knows what you want. He had been there for you whenever you needed him.
Four years ago Lincoln County elected Jeff Jaeger as their sheriff. A very wise decision. Let us re-elect Sheriff Jeff Jaeger to another term, and keep a very qualified and caring individual as sheriff of Lincoln County. I know I will vote on Sept. 14 for Jeff Jaeger, Sheriff for Lincoln County.
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How To Celebrate Valentine's Day (During A Recession)
But the fact remains, in these troubled economic times, I'm no longer able to lavish Valentine's Day gifts upon my gaggle of female companions. It's a lose-lose-lose situation: They miss the oils, diamonds and wine-soaked furs to which they've become accustomed, I'm out a series of increasingly brief lovemaking sessions and the city has been cheated of the substantial revenue that would be generated by the court fees involved in the ensuing paternity suits.
That's why I've put together this guide. Here are the secret ingredients to the perfect recession-proof Valentine's Day date. Learn how to sweep her off her feetwithoutliving on the street! How to get your guy primedwithoutspending a dime! How to romance and do the no-pants dancewhilemanaging a refinance!
It's a simple system I call:
Fuck For A Buck (or "Rhyming is Fun!")*Is This Guide For You?
First of all, we must determine whether the strategies in this guide are suited to you and your lifestyle. Of the following sets of items, use a sharpie to circle which most applies to you. Please refrain from scrolling the page while taking the test, as that may invalidate your selections.
A. You wear patches on your elbows out of necessity rather than stodgy affectation.
B. You once delivered a Valentine's Day gift with a helicopter and a modified horse-harness.
A. You're reading this on a gas-powered computer by lamplight.
B. You can watch Lexus commercials where people put bows on new cars and park them in front of their date's house without saying "oh yeah, right, sure, good."
A. You consider love more precious than any earthly possession.
B. You consider every day Valentine's Day, in the sense that you use money to get sex all the time.
If you selected mostly A's, then a mixed congratulations is in order! This is the perfect guide for you, and you've probably eaten out of a dumpster for non-dare related reasons in the last month.
If you selected mostly B's, I'm sorry. You and your virile stock portfolio should look elsewhere for sex. May I suggest any bar, coffee shop or Internet dating website in the world?
My Patented SystemMany so-called "love gurus" will try and tell you that the secret to finding lasting happiness in your relationship is communication and mutual respect and admiration. These people are lying to you, all in order to line the pockets of the greeting card corporations that sponsor them.
Think about it: Who is the world's most admirable person? Most would agree Marie Curie. And who is known as an impressive and powerful communicator? Adolf Hitler. Yet their brief romance in 1928 ended in tragedy, heartbreak and the devising of a powerful Nazi super-weapon.
The true index of a relationship's stability is a healthy flow of money and gifts, which I will collectively abbreviate as "love" for the remainder of this guide. But what if a sagging economy has deprived you of most, or all of your "love," or even the stockpiles of mild affection you had squirreled away in offshore accounts? Then you've got to focus on a big, showy expression of your devotion once a year, and that annual bank transaction is fast approaching.
But don't panic. By thinking creatively, and practicing what I call "lossless replacement," you can wow your date without having to then sell their organs to pay rent.
Simply take a traditional Valentine's Day date scenario (for example, a candlelit dinner at a French restaurant) and replace it with a more cost-effective, but equally romantic substitute (for example, a handful of complimentary mints and some road flares).
This will give your date the impression of an adventurous, thoughtful Valentine's Day experience while simultaneously projecting an air of craftiness, resourcefulness and financial prudence.
Here are some more examples to get you started:
And so forth. By the time you've exhausted even half of these possibilities, you'll be several years into marriage and it will be too late for your significant other to rethink their decision.
Now, all you need to do is sink your claws into them and hang on as you slide towards a miserly retirement and lonely death.
But at least you'll have your precious money! Happy Valentine's Day!
*NOTE: This guide is not to be confused with "Fuck For A Buck: Becoming A Bargain Prostitute" or "Fuck For A Buck: Seducing Ten-Point Elks," neither of which I endorse or condone.
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When a substitute teacher unknowingly caused an elf in a second-grade Buckhannon Academy Elementary School classroom to lose his magic, a chaos broke lose in the class which quickly filled with second graders in tears.
How was the substitute teacher who had never read or heard about "Elf on the Shelf" to know that once the elf was handled he could lose his magic? An assistant principal, school counselor and aid were able to instill hope in the students that all was not lost; the elf could still be saved.
"The class was quite simply a disaster. Nothing could be done, or so they thought," Technology Integration Specialist Melissa Lampinen said, adding that a telephone application and the help of school officials was all that was needed to restore the elf's magic.
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Second-graders at Buckhannon Academy Elementary School keep their fingers crossed for the revival of an elf in their classroom who lost his magic when a substitute teacher accidentally handled him.
In the popular story written by Carol Aebersold and Chanda Bell, the elf appears in homes or classrooms where he watches everything closely, up until Christmas Eve. When everyone goes to sleep, the elf reports his findings to Santa Claus about who's been naughty and who's been nice. Without his magic, the elf would not be able to achieve this, but through the collective efforts the school officials who rushed in quickly to help, the elf's magic was restored.
Students watched closely as Assistant Principal William Phillips gave the elf an operation with the help of a downloaded telephone application. Phillips told the students that he had just called Santa who informed him of the application's existence. He said the application was only known to a few individuals.
Phillips placed four stickers in precise locations on the elf. He attempted to revive the elf with the help of the application, telephone and strategically placed stickers.
Students crossed their fingers in hope as the first attempt was a failure, because a SpongeBob SquarePants answering machine made a connection in error. Eyes fixed on Phillips and the elf in a tense moment of anticipation, the students heard a ding and other noises sound from the hand-held phone during the second attempt.
One student said, "I think I saw him twitch," and all the students' anxiousness mellowed into thankfulness and relief as they came to the realization that the second attempt was a success.
There was still the matter of returning the elf to his resting place in the classroom. As soon as Phillips touched the elf, students cried out, but Phillips assured them there was a one-minute time frame in which he could return the elf to a special location in the classroom.
Once the elf was back in place, a new kind of chaos erupted in the classroom. Students were cheering loudly and hugging one another.
Lampinen said, "I have taken away two things from the experience. First, I'm never too old to grow up, or even think about trying. The looks of the little ones just reaffirms my belief in staying young at heart and in mind.
"Second, seems to me that this school has a fine fellow serving in the capacity of assistant principal and many adults who are willing to jump in and help those in need. This principal is one who is not afraid to act outside the 'tie and coat,' and do what's needed for the children. I salute Mr. Phillips!"


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Building on the success of leveraging Virtual Server 2005 R2 for Microsoft IT's Virtual Server Utility, Microsoft looks forward to leveraging Windows Server 2008's virtualization feature to drive additional value and move virtual machines as the commodity data center platform offering.
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Fla. House votes make changes to election laws
Lawmakers get right to work on voting changes
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Florida lawmakers passed a bill that may overhaul the state's election laws.
The Florida House of Representatives voted 118 to 1 on Tuesday to make changes to the state's elections law.
The measure would allow Supervisors of Elections to offer early voting for up to 14 days, versus eight. It would also increase the number early voting locations.
The bill also takes on constitutional amendment summaries. It limits the length of those descriptions to 75 words or less.
Many voters attributed 2012's long lines to wordy ballots and fewer early-voting opportunities.
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Madison, WI (February 21, 2013) – A former Greenwood, Wisconsin teacher has won a settlement from a local teacher union and the school district for refusing to honor her rights under Act 10, and for failing to follow constitutional disclosure requirements.
In September, Amy Anaya filed two complaints with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.
Anaya was a School District of Greenwood teacher for a year, beginning in August 2011, after Act 10 was enacted. In September 2011, Greenwood Education Association (GEA) union officials approached Anaya and illegally told her that she "had to" sign the union's membership form. Anaya informed them that she had no desire to become a member of the union.
In December 2011, GEA union officials again demanded that Anaya join the union, and Anaya again informed them that she was not interested in joining. Under Wisconsin's Act 10 public-sector unionism reforms, a nonmember has the right to refrain from paying any union dues or fees as a condition of their employment.
Moreover, the U.S. Supreme Court has long held that a worker has a First Amendment right to refrain from formal union membership at any time. With passage of Act 10, no Wisconsin teacher can be forced to pay any union dues or fees as a job condition.
The union failed to provide Anaya with her U.S. Supreme Court-mandated constitutional protections and the school district deducted full union dues from her paychecks for the entire year.
Under the settlement, Anaya received a refund of most of the illegally-seized union dues.
"Teacher union bosses and school officials ignored state law and U.S. Supreme Court precedent to illegally coerce this teacher into full dues paying union ranks against her will," said Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work. "This case underscores just how important Act 10 is in protecting Wisconsin public employees from forced unionism abuses such as this."
"No worker should ever be forced to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment," added Mix. "We hope that the Governor and the legislature will work quickly to provide these protections to Wisconsin's private sector workforce, too."


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Zimp just pulled out his sack infront of the whole class!
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on March 28, 2013 - 10:12 AM
National Fuel Gas Co. is asking state regulators to freeze its delivery rates for three more years, while allowing it to earn a slightly higher return from its utility operations through a program that would split any earnings beyond its target with its customers.
The portion of customers' bills for gas delivery would not change under the plan, but fluctuating prices of natural gas and usage could affect what people pay.
The proposal to the state Public Service Commission would extend National Fuel's current delivery rates, which took effect in 2008, through May 2016, while also increasing the company's program to replace some of the older equipment in its network of pipes that bring natural gas to customers throughout Western New York.
"It's a proposal to basically extend flat delivery rates and put in an earnings-sharing proposal," said Donna L. DeCarolis, a National Fuel vice president. "The bottom line would be ongoing rate stability."
National Fuel last raised its rates more than five years ago, when a $1.8 million increase went into effect. The company said it has since reduced its labor costs by about $7.5 million through a 4 percent reduction in its workforce from its 2008 levels, while also paring its property tax bill by about $3 million by challenging its property assessments. Changes to its employee health benefits also have saved National Fuel $2.8 million.
"The only realistic means of avoiding a rate case is by increasing our productivity and simultaneously cutting expenses," said Anna Marie Celino, president of National Fuel's utility business.
While National Fuel's delivery rates – which cover the company's operating costs and profits – have been flat, the average annual bills paid by its customers have fallen by about 33 percent since 2008 because of the plunge in the price of natural gas, which is sold to the utility's customers at cost.
The average National Fuel residential customer's bill, adjusted to account for fluctuations in temperatures, has dropped by 38 percent – from $1,738 in 2008 to $1,075 last year – because of falling natural gas prices that have resulted from the surge in production from shale gas formations, such as the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania.
"We've kept delivery rates flat, except for state-mandated tax increases, while commodity costs have dropped," DeCarolis said.
Because of the drop in natural gas prices, the delivery costs consumers pay have become a bigger portion of their total bill. Delivery costs now account for 44 percent of an average customer's total bill, up from 28 percent in 2008, when consumers were paying more than twice as much for the natural gas they used.
The proposal would allow National Fuel to earn a 9.96 percent return on equity, with any earnings beyond that split evenly between the company and its customers.
The earnings that accrue to customers would go into a fund that mainly would be used to offset the need for future rate increases. National Fuel's current rate plan allows the utility to earn a 9.1 percent return on equity.
"It is more than fair for the company to retain some level of the benefits for its efforts," National Fuel said in its filing with the PSC. "The utility only earns this incentive payment so long as it does a good job of reducing its operating costs or otherwise improves efficiencies."
National Fuel, which has little opportunity to increase its utility revenues because of the shrinking Western New York population and because the vast majority of homes and businesses here already heat with natural gas, also is proposing that a portion of the earnings that could be shared with customers be used to subsidize extensions of its natural gas service to more remote portions of its service territory.
Those remote areas, where residents now heat with oil or propane, are too distant from National Fuel's existing infrastructure to justify the expense of extending utility service to those areas without a subsidy, the company said.
It said it also would expand its investment in a program to accelerate its replacement of steel, iron and older plastic pipes and mains and other infrastructure. It also would focus more investment in flood-prone areas.
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quote: Sellers fees aren't the issue why smart people avoid eBay/PayPal like the plague. The real reason is the abusive policies against sellers.
quote: considering how many companies were abusing by leaving negative feedback when it was their fault (Ie, scamming sellers)
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TWC9: VS11, HTML5, Debugging, and guest host Habib Heydarian
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This week on Channel 9, Brian and guest host Habib Heydarian discuss the week's top developer news including:
Picks of the Week!
Thanks again to Habib for guest hosting this week (and for bringing in the Roborazzi
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Is this the Charles Torres Tribute Edition? ~40 minutes!
Peter Kuhn's demos look promising. I've been interested in seeing a WP7 MIDI controller app even before UDP was available and these demos show that it IS possible to send controller data from a Mango device to a PC with very little latency, which is of course what you need when sending MIDI CC or NoteOn/Off data from a mobile device.
I'd love to see something like TouchOSC or even Control on WP7.5.
@AdamSpeight2008:Haha - when I looked up at the end of the show I had no idea so much time had passed. I could talk to Habib forever - he's a very interesting guy with a lot of smart ideas and vision for the future. I hope we can borrow him for Channel 9 more often, especially now that he's allowed to talk about some of the things he's working on.
Nice Show...
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on August 31, 2012 - 12:01 AM
Edgefest 2012 takes place at the new Outer Harbor concert site (325 Fuhrmann Blvd.) on Sunday with a packed lineup. Headliners Three Days Grace, Evanescence and Chevelle will share the bill with Halestorm, Black Stone Cherry, Cavo and New Medicine. Taken together, the lineup comprises a solid overview of contemporary alt-rock, running the gamut from Evanescence's goth-tinged metal, to the thunderous Southern hard rock of Black Stone Cherry.
Gates to the venue will open at 4 p.m., and the music will start at 5. This is the second show in the series that started last week with the much buzzed-about appearance from Girl Talk.
Tickets for Sunday's Edgefest show are $38 (Ticketmaster.com or at the Town Ballroom box office, 681 Main St.).� Jeff Miers


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Facebook Apps with New ASP.NET Template
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Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community.
This week Brady and Cory are joined by the ASP.NET team's Erik Porter. Erik explores the new Facebook Application Template—a new template for ASP.NET projects enabling rapid development of Facebook applications using ASP.NET.
During WebCampsTV On Location—a new segment on the show—Brady heads out to chat with Sayed and Mads to discuss some new projects that they have been working on, including the WebDevCheckList.
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But that's exactly what happened around dusk on Friday evening.
As tanks and SWAT vehicles rolled through the streets and cops went door to door in search of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Henneberry was outside smoking a cigarette when he noticed something amiss with the power boat he keeps parked in his driveway.
"He noticed that the tarp that had been covering his boat all winter was slightly flapping," his stepson Robert Duffy tells PEOPLE. "So he went over to take a closer look and noticed that one of the restraining straps had been cut and that there was some blood on the blue tarp."
Alarmed, Henneberry grabbed a step ladder and climbed up the boat's side to take a closer look, where he made a shocking discovery.
"When he flipped a section of the loose tarp off, he saw a pool of blood and what appeared to be a crumpled body," says Duffy.
Henneberry called 911 and within minutes police swarmed their home.
Over the next several hours, as the crackle of gunfire sounded periodically throughout the neighborhood, his mother and stepfather were "terrified."
"I couldn't get them on their home phone or on their cell phones. I was crying and thinking, 'This can¹t be how it ends,' " recalls Duffy, who wasn't with them at the time. "Finally, my sister called and said our mother had used someone¹s phone and called her and that they were OK. I cried with joy."
Hours after Tsarnaev's dramatic capture Duffy was still reeling.
"I am still shocked at everything that happened and how close to home it hit on so many levels," he says. "I see a very sick individual who has caused a lot of harm to thousands of lives and families – and that will last decades."
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NASA and
international university researchers claim that humans have thrown off the
balance between the Earth's rotation, surface air temperatures and
movements in its molten core through our contribution of greenhouse gases.
included in the study were Jean Dickey and Steven Marcus from NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, along with Olivier de Viron, from the Universite Paris Diderot and Institut de
Physique du Globe de Paris in France.
It is well
known that an Earth day consists of 24 hours, which is the time it takes for
the Earth to make one full rotation. Over a year's time, seasonal changes occur
due to energy exchanges between fluid motions of the Earth's atmosphere, the
oceans and solid Earth itself, which changes the length of a day by about 1
millisecond. In addition, the length of a day on Earth can vary over longer
timescales such as interannual timescales (two to 10 years) or decadal
timescales (10 years).
But Earth's
oceans or motions of its atmosphere cannot explain the variances in the length
of day over longer timescales. Instead, longer fluctuations are explained by
the flow of liquid iron within Earth's outer core, which interacts with the
mantle to determine Earth's rotation. This is also where the Earth's magnetic
field originates, and because researchers cannot observe the flows of liquid
iron directly, the magnetic field is observed at the surface.
have shown that this liquid iron "oscillates in waves of motion that last
for decades," and have timescales that resemble long fluctuations in
Earth's day length. At the same time, other studies have shown that long
variations in Earth's day length are closely related to fluctuations in Earth's
average surface air temperature.
In this
study, the NASA/university team of researchers has linked Earth's rotation,
surface air temperatures and the movement in its molten core. They did this by
mapping existing data on yearly length-of-day observations and fluid movements
within Earth's core against "two time series of annual global average
surface temperature." One dated back to 1880 from NASA's Goddard Institute
of Space Studies in New York, and the other dated back to 1860 from the United
Kingdom's Met Office.
to the study, temperature changes not only occur naturally, but are also affected by human activities.
So researchers used computer climate models of Earth's oceans and atmosphere to
generate changes made by humans. Then, these temperature changes caused by
human activities were removed from the overall total observed temperature
records. What they found was that old temperature data coordinated with data on
Earth's day length and movements of its core until 1930, but after that,
surface air temperatures increased without corresponding changes in movements
of the core or day length. According to the study, this deviation after 1930 is
linked to increased levels of the human contribution of greenhouse gases.
But the new temperature data that
the researchers generated (which subtracted human activity from the equation)
had a temperature record that coordinated with Earth's core movements and day
length, showing how human activity has thrown the Earth's climate off balance.
solid Earth plays a role, but the ultimate solution to addressing climate
change remains in our hands," said Dickey.
Dickey is
unsure as to why these three variables correlate, but hypothesized that Earth's
core movements might interfere with the magnetic fielding of charged particle
fluxes, which may affect cloud formation. This affects how much sunlight the
Earth absorbs and how much is reflected back into space.
research demonstrates that, for the past 160 years, decadal and longer-period
changes in atmospheric
temperature correspond to changes in Earth's length of day if
we remove the very significant effect of atmospheric warming attributed to the
buildup of greenhouse gases due to mankind's enterprise," said Dickey.
"Our study implies that human influences on climate during the past 80
years mask the natural balance that exists among Earth's rotation, the core's
angular momentum and the temperature at Earth's surface."
This study was
published in the Journal of Climate.
quote: Scientists have long known that the length of an Earth day -- the time it takes for Earth to make one full rotation -- fluctuates around a 24-hour average. Over the course of a year, the length of a day varies by about 1 millisecond, getting longer in the winter and shorter in the summer . These seasonal changes in Earth's length of day are driven by exchanges of energy between the solid Earth and fluid motions of Earth's atmosphere (blowing winds and changes in atmospheric pressure) and its ocean. Scientists can measure these small changes in Earth's rotation using astronomical observations and very precise geodetic techniques.
quote: Since total air temperature is composed of two components -- temperature changes that occur naturally and those caused by human activities -- the researchers used results from computer climate models of Earth's atmosphere and ocean to account for temperature changes due to human activities.
quote: Other possibilities are that some other core process could be having a more indirect effect on climate, or that an external (e.g. solar) process affects the core and climate simultaneously.
quote: Regardless of the eventual connections to be established between the solid Earth and climate , Dickey said the solid Earth's impacts on climate are still dwarfed by the much larger effects of human-produced greenhouse gases. "The solid Earth plays a role, but the ultimate solution to addressing climate change remains in our hands," she concluded.


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10×10, the brainchild of Tim Makower, brings together 100 participants to create 100 pieces of artwork, giving 100 different perspectives within a snapshot of London. These works are then auctioned off at a special fundraising reception evening, which this year will be held at the RIBA's headquarters in Portland Place, London.
10×10 is a unique concept, with the architects, designers and artists producing wonderful pieces of artwork inspired by the environment they help to create, as well as providing a commentary and critique on the constantly changing landscape of London.
Every year, 10×10 zooms in on a different part of the capital. This year, we are excited to announce that the theme is Brixton, giving our artists the opportunity to explore the vital role this South London district has played in shaping the city and draw inspiration from its rich cultural diversity. Once more, we modified our conventional grid to consist of 100x100m, 50x50m and 25x25m squares along a curve of Brixton's most vibrant spaces, making sure that our participants will truly be able to capture the spirit of this fascinating area.


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Hopping from one internal link to another on Wikipedia to get from an unrelated random article to a pre-selected article in the least amount of links you can. Usually undertaken whilst you should be engaging in other, more relevant activities.
Hey, where's Jon? I wanna Wikichain him. He's a Wikichaining God.
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Kurt Russell in talks for Fast & Furious 7 – report
Veteran actor Kurt Russell is reportedly revving up to join the cast of the next Fast & Furious sequel. The Big Trouble in Little China star, 62, who played a maniacal motorhead in Quentin Tarantino's 2007 Grindhouse movie Death Proof, has been linked to a role in the upcoming seventh installment of the car racing films, according to industry publication Variety – although details about his part have yet to be revealed.
If Russell signs on, he won't be the only new face to appear alongside stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker – Jason Statham will also be joining the cast after featuring briefly in the closing scenes of Fast & Furious 6.
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Cyrus, 21, brought her Bangerz tour to London's O2 arena on Tuesday night. The pop star wore a Union Jack leotard (An ode to Ginger Spice, perhaps?) and encouraged concertgoers to join in on the raunchy revelry, including her usual twerking and tongue wagging.
"She got loads of people of the same sex to snog in the audience and put them on camera on a giant screen and made a speech about how we should all just 'be ourselves,'" one source told the Daily Mail. "She said she 'hopes we are all drunk and on loads of pills.'"
The show marked Cyrus's return to the stage after suffering a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics. The trouble began April 15, when she was rushed to the hospital after receiving medication for the flu. The illness left Cyrus bedridden and forced her to postpone the remainder of her U.S. tour dates.
After Tweeting her excitement all week long, Cyrus commemorated her comeback with an Instagram.
"but first…. #letmetakeaselfie #bangerztourselfie," she captioned the photo, which shows her infamous tongue and the packed arena.
Speaking to the press early Tuesday, Cyrus denied rumors that she overdosed on recreational drugs. But during her performance later that night, she made no secret of her marijuana habits, adding shades shaped like pot leaves to her ensemble, the Daily Mail reports.
Cyrus also nearly suffered a wardrobe malfunction: A stylist was spotted sneaking behind her and adjusting her low-cut, yellow bedazzled leotard. Despite the mishap, the "Adore You" singer certainly won England's adoration – including that of one very high-profile admirer.
Lily Allen appears to have ridden a motorbike to O2 straight from the airport after attending the Met Gala in New York. The recording artist Tweeted her journey to Cyrus's show, giving it a rave review afterward.
"That was basically the best thing I've ever seen," she posted.
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For traditional recipes from the Mysore region and food from all over, with ramblings about life and kids thrown in the mix.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Corn and Black Bean Salad
Take a peek here to see at how it is traditionally celebrated by our community.
The salad here has quite often been my lunch. Filling and nutritious and with a killer cumin dressing, absolutely delicious too. I've mentioned this salad before but here it is with the recipe for Susan's event My Legume Love Affair or MLLA, hosted by Suma of Veggie Platter for it's 40th edition. Thank you both!
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1 cup corn (canned or boiled)
1 cup black bean, canned or cooked (can be subbed with any other kind of bean - pinto, kidney etc)
1 medium onion, chopped fine
1 medium tomato, chopped small
1-2 tbsp, chopped cilantro
salt for seasoning
For the dressing:
1 tbsp olive oil (or any other oil per your liking)
1 tsp Dijon mustard (or regular yellow mustard)
1 tbsp vinegar (sherry, red wine or plain white)
Juice of half a lemon
1 heaped tsp roasted cumin powder
If using fresh corn kernels, cook them in boiling water until tender or use a pressure cooker for a quicker way.
If using dry beans soak overnight and pressure cook until tender.
Whisk together the ingredients listed for the cumin dressing.
In a salad bowl, stir together the corn, beans, tomato, onion and chopped cilantro.
Pour over the salad and toss well.
15 comments:
- Prathibha said...
love this simple salad..looks delicious n filling
- October 24, 2011 at 2:34:00 AM EDT
- Priya said...
Nutritious and colourful salad..
- October 24, 2011 at 6:08:00 AM EDT
- Nalini's Kitchen said...
Healthy salad,I make this salad very often.
- October 24, 2011 at 9:04:00 AM EDT
- Bong Mom said...
Happy Diwali Vani and what a nice community you have.
- October 24, 2011 at 12:21:00 PM EDT
- sra said...
I know I'd love this salad. Glad you have people around you to liven things up. A very happy Deepavali to you!
- October 25, 2011 at 1:10:00 AM EDT
- LifenSpice said...
Happy Deepavali to you and your family dear Vani!
- October 25, 2011 at 4:06:00 AM EDT
- Vani said...
Pratibha, Nalini, Priya - thanks. hope you alla re hvaing a nice deepavali :)
San - thanks. and true. one of the things I'm gonna miss for sure :(
Sra- yeah, that helps. Hope you're having a fab Diwali.
Kay- thanks a lot. Hope your Diwali and bright and nice too :)
- October 25, 2011 at 11:26:00 AM EDT
- Jaya said...
We like this combo very much and Deepawali wishes to you and yours..hugs and smiles
- October 25, 2011 at 2:16:00 PM EDT
- Cham said...
Happy Diwali Dear - glad to hear u re in a friendly neighborhood!
- October 25, 2011 at 10:35:00 PM EDT
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- October 26, 2011 at 3:07:00 AM EDT
- Vani said...
Cham and Jaya, thank you! Hope you both are having a fun Diwali!
- October 26, 2011 at 3:09:00 AM EDT
- Maheswari said...
Simple one.Would love add a splash of mango when its on season ;)
- October 26, 2011 at 12:46:00 PM EDT
- Jay said...
very flavorful n interesting recipe vani..:P
Tasty Appetite
- October 31, 2011 at 7:57:00 AM EDT
- Vani said...
Hey, thanks for visiting and the comment, Jay.
- November 1, 2011 at 11:39:00 AM EDT
- Suma Gandlur said...
Seems like you had a fabulous Diwali. :)
It's a nutritious and colorful salad for sure.
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Well, you see, there are different types of crackapants. There's the type of person who is being a complete retard and is oblivious to what you are saying. And, in other cases, you can just call someone a crackpants to grab their attention
Justin: "Hey Mike! Stop being a crackapants!"
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