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To fully understand the origins of ska and trace its unique musical elements we must understand some important parts of Jamaican history. The island of Jamaica was first visited by Europeans in 1494 by Columbus. The British won the right to colonize and began shipping slaves from the west coast of Africa to work on newly set up plantations. By 1807 there were over two million Africans in Jamaica working on English plantations in the most brutal systems of slavery in the world.
The slaves tried hard to hold on to their African philosophy and established their own system of beliefs and values in their slave communities. Some forms of African music, such as the Burru were allowed by the white masters who believed it would help the slaves to work faster. At times the slave musicians were also called upon to entertain the white masters. The type of entertainment provided by the slave musicians followed a carnival tradition and allowed the oppressed performers to dress and act like kings, queens, lords and ladies for the amusement of the white masters. In the 1960's this tradition was continued by performers who adopted royal titles such as 'Prince' Buster, 'Lord' Tanamo, 'Duke' Reid to name a few.
Often this carnival type of entertainment was combined with the Quadrille which was a dance set popular in Europe in the late 18th century and was taken to the slave colonies by plantation owners.The dance was transformed by the black population where it exhibited a more distinctive African bounce quality as well as an expressive tone of derision. Critical social commentary has been important aspect of ska lyrics since its earliest inceptions.
After the emancipation of slaves in 1834, Jamaica experienced a revival that gave birth to two religious sects that had an influence on the birth of ska. Pukkumina maintained African derived elements in its rituals and used body sounds such as clapping and stamping for rhythmic support. Over breathing was also used as both a two beat vocal percussion rhythm and to induce a trance like state in the performers. The characteristic 'hup, hup, hup...' and 'Ch-Ka-Ch-Ch' vocal percussion is still a feature in ska music. Examples can be heard in The Skatelites 'Guns of Navarone', Madness' version of 'One Step Beyond' and more recently Pete Porker in 'Chemical Imbalance'. The other religion was called Zion Revival and was popular in areas of Jamaica with a concentration of Europeans. Revival music is characterised by improvised vocal harmonies and changing patterns of rhythm in clapping and stamping and drumming that accompany the songs. European elements such as brass band music, brought by British troops; and sea shantys, brought in by British sailors also influenced the sound of revival choruses. There are literally hundreds of choruses used to accompany all occasions such as 'Let us Break Bread Together', a thanksgiving song and 'Dip Dem, Bedward' a baptismal chorus.
Mento is generally considered to be a fusion of African rhythm and European tunes and was most popular in the 1940's and 50's. It is an acoustic music that was often performed in streets. It is performed on portable instruments such as guitar, banjo, African thumb piano (kalimba) and bongos. Musically, mento is similar to the Caribbean Rhumba style. The basic rhythm follows the 3+2+2 pattern and there are strong accents on the last beat of each bar. 'Dis Long Time Gal', 'Water Come a Me Eye' and 'Banyan Tree' are example of traditional mento songs. Mento tunes are used over and over again with new lyrics commenting on topical situations and sometimes innuendo such as the Jolly Boys' 'Touch Me Tomato'.
The brass band tradition originally brought to Jamaica by British Troops gradually became incorporated into some areas of Kingston. Most importantly was the music program at Alpha Boys Catholic School, in West Kingston. Alpha Boys was a catholic reform school where morals and strict order ruled, but more importantly it had a great brass band. Although mento was popular amongst the lower classes, Kingston's small middle class population had been familiar with American and English Jazz since the 1930's. The teachers at Alpha Boys included Jazz in their music education program. Many well known Jamaican musicians were educated at Alpha Boys including Tommy McCook, Don Drummond (The Skatelites) and Rico Rodriguez (The Specials).
After leaving school some Alpha Boys began performing in Jazz Big Bands that drew on the influence of American stars like Duke Ellington and Count Basie. But it was the smaller American Rhythm and Blues (R&B) bands that became the most important influence to Jamaican musicians. American R&B radio programs broadcast from Memphis, Maimi and New Orleans were able to be picked up on AM radios in Jamaica. These programs were refreshing and relevant to Jamaican audiences who had grown tired of BBC radio replays favoured by the National broadcasting company 'Radio Jamaica'.
Growing radio audiences led to the birth of the Jamaican recording industry. At the same time portable dance music operators running 'Sound Systems' competed for public popularity. Sound System operators were an enormous influence on Jamaican youth as they controlled what people listened to and the import of R&B recordings. The two most important were Duke Reid and Clement Dodd. Reid was known as 'the Trojan' after the Trojan flat bed truck he used to transport equipment. It is believed the Dodd's nickname Coxsone was taken from his favorite Yorkshire cricket player. Throughout the 1950's these two conducted a musical war. This war escalated to the point that rough nuts known as 'Dance Hall Crashers' were employed to attend the competitors sound system parties, trash the joint and fight with the club goers. These club goers were called 'Rude Boys' and they were the primary listeners and fashion setters in the dance hall scene. More about 'rude boys' later.
Like mento before it, ska was born out of a combining musical elements. Both mento and jazz were combined to produce a new style that was initially called 'Shuffle' Popular shuffle hits were recorded by Neville Esson, Owen Grey and the Overtakers. The newly set up recording studios were always on the look out for the next new sound. With the popularity of American R&B artists like Fats Domino and Louis Jordan many Jamaican performers incorporated the 12 bar blues chord progressions and boogie bass lines with mento guitar rhythms. Increasing emphasis was placed on the offbeat rhythms of mento.
The offbeats became shorter and more detached. These distinct syncopated rhythms were sounded on guitar and piano. The new style of music became known as ska. The first person to record this 'ska' rhythm was Ernest Ranglin when performing with Cluet Johnson (Clue J.) and the Blues Busters
One day he was trying to get the guitars to play
something, and him say 'make the guitars go Ska!,
Ska!, Ska!' And that's the way the ska name was born.
(Bunny Lee in Johnson and Pines. 1982 .49)
Clue J was well known for greeting his friends with a call of 'Love Skavoovie'. Many believe the name of ska is a shortened form of this greeting.
Ska quickly became the most dominant form of music in Jamaica. Its success coincided with the independence and the departure of the English in 1962. There was a new attitude towards indigenous music. Ska was already enormously popular in Jamaica and music producers attempted to export it to the rest of the world, a move that was supported by the government. It was the national music of Jamaica and was demonstrated to the the world at the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York. The Jamaican delegates included Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, Jimmy Cliff , Prince Buster and dancers Ronnie Nasralla and Jannette Phillips who taught the world the moves for the 'Backy Skank', the 'Rootsman Skank' and the 'Ska'.
Early ska dance movements and some lyrics were influenced by the religious revival era. Songs such as 'Wings of a Dove' performed by both The Blues Busters and The Wailers, 'Oil in My Lamp' by Eric Morris and 'King of Kings' by Jimmy Cliff are revival tunes with lyrics that are sped up. 'Israelites' by Desmond Dekker also features revival characteristics in the lyrics. Other ska lyrics were pop orientated and feature very little Jamaican patois. These songs were either nonsense lyrics such as Eric Morris' 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'Solomon Gundie' or romantic such as Delroy Wilsons' 'Dancing Mood', which was one of the first songs to bridge the gap between ska and it's slower successor Rocksteady (more later). In stark contrast are the political ska lyrics that reflected the social concerns of rude boys.
As mentioned earlier these youths were the primary listeners to ska in Jamaica. They were rebellious out of work and reacted against economic tensions. They emulated Hollywood gangster fashions by wearing black suits, thin ties and pork pie hats, the type of look that is still seen today in Taritinos movies 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction'. Rude Boys often lived outside of the law and were also sometimes called 'Scofflaws' (people who belittle the law). Ska lyrics at the time reflected the life and times of Rude Boys. Some examples include The Soul Brothers' 'Lawless Street', The Heptones' 'Gunmen Comin to Town', Desmond Dekkers' '007 Shanty Town', Dandy Livingstones' 'A Message to You Rudi' and Prince Busters' 'Judge Dread' who handed out 400 year sentences to Rude Boys.
Clement Dodd backed a young group who envisioned themselves as rudies - The Wailers Bob Marley, Bunny Livingstone (Wailer) and Peter Macintosh (later shortened toTosh). It was a picture of Peter Tosh from an early Wailing Wailers album that inspired the Jerry Dammers Two Tone artwork, more later.
The way rude boys danced to the music also influenced the ska sound. They rhythmically pumped their arms back and forward and adopted a more menacing posture than the traditional style demonstrated by Ronnie and Jannette. As a result the music became more menacing. Bass lines became more syncopated rejecting the easy going walking boogie style. More evidence of the continual evolution of this musical style.
By 1966 in Jamaica many audiences had grown tired of the insistent ska beat and tempo. Around 1966 the beat of ska was slowed and rocksteady was born. Some say that it was a particularly hot Jamaican summer that led to this more relaxed style but the real reason for this change can be traced once again to the continuing influence of American R&B. By the mid 60's R&B was developing into the smoother soul styles of Motown, Memphis and Philadelphia soul. Jamaican musicians responded to this with their own slower smoother styles. The most notable hit of the rocksteady era was 'The Tide is High' by The Paragons. In the 80's this was covered by Blondie and was one of their biggest hits. The influence of another religious revival, Rastafarianism led to further musical developments of ska and rocksteady and reggae was born. As we know Reggae has dominated the Jamaican music scene since.
The BIRTH OF BRITISH SKA
Ska went to England with the immigrants of the early 1960's and was initially known as 'Bluebeat'. The first international ska hit was 'My Boy Lollipop' by Millie Small. It was recorded in England in 1964 for Island Records and featured a young English Mod Rod Stewart, just beginning his own music career on Harmonica. Ska gained popularity amongst the Mod scene and several hits followed including 'Guns of Navarone' by the Skatalites, 'Carry Go Bring Come' by Justin and The Dominoes, and 'Rudy, A Message to You' by Dandy Livingstone. In 1969,
'The Israelites' by Desmond Dekker became the first Jamaican produced recording to become a number one hit in Britain. Other big ska chart hits in 1969 included 'Monkey Man' by Toots and the Maytals, 'Long Shot Kick De Bucket' by The Pioneers and 'Liquidator' by The Harry J Allstars. It is interesting to note that these hits had all been recorded several years earlier in Jamaica and gradually crept into the UK charts over a long period of time.
In 1979 ska enjoyed a revival of popularity. Initially the ska revival was an English phenomenon, but gradually spread to the rest of the world, including Australia. The most notable bands associated with the second wave of ska popularity were The Specials, Madness, The Beat, and The Selecter. All these bands recorded their first albums for 'Two Tone Records', a label established by The Specials keyboard player Jerry Dammers. The label was named after the two tone tonic suits worn by the original ska stars of the 1960's and also reflected the multi racial membership of the bands signed to the label. The trade mark of the company was based on a negative photo of Peter Tosh from an early Wailing Wailers album cover. This 'Rude Boy' logo became affectionately known as Walt Jabsco.
The Two Tone artists relied heavily on the first wave ska stars attitudes and philosophy. The Specials took their name from the 'special' one off recordings made for the early sound system operators in Jamaica and 'Madness' are named after a Prince Buster song. The bands did not attempt to conceal their musical dependence either. They quite rightly believed that if it was a good song you might as well play it. At the time, some fans believed that the cover versions were actually originals. Listed below are some of the classic cover versions by Two Tone bands.
Rudi, A Message to You Dandy Livingstone The Specials
Too Hot Prince Buster The Specials
Monkey Man Toots & The Maytals The Specials
Guns of Navarone The Skatalites The Specials
One Step Beyond Prince Buster Madness
Madness Prince Buster Madness
Can't Get Used to Losing You Alton Ellis The Beat
Whine & Grine Prince Buster The Beat
Carry Go Bring Come Justin Hinds & the Dominoes The Selecter
The popularity of these cover versions led to a demand for the original recordings and suddenly Symarip's 'Skin head Moonstomp' was in the charts exactly ten years after its first release. Also interesting is the fact that Prince Buster has made more money from royalties paid by cover artists than he ever made from his own album sales.
The two bands also paid tribute to the original ska performers by using musical material from the original recordings. This music was adapted, rearranged and used as the basis of a new original tune. Sometimes, just the lyrics of songs were used to inspire a new song. Listed below are some examples.
Al Capone Prince Buster Gangsters The Specials
Judge Dread Prince Buster Stupid Marriage The Specials
Earthquake/Freezing Up/ Prince Buster The Prince Madness
Orange Street/Ghost Dance
Longshot Kick De Bucket/ Pioneers Skinhead Symphony The Specials
Liquidator/Skinhead Moonstomp.
Despite the fact that it relied on pre-existing ska songs, the sound of the Two Tone era was fresh and new. The punk rock era had set new musical rules and second wave ska incorporated this energy. Two Tone recordings are characterised by faster tempos, fuller instrumentation and a harder edge than original 60's ska. All the Two Tone bands were young and from working class backgrounds and so the lyrics reflect their concerns: school, work, politics, crime, racism and having fun.
Although enjoying a massive revival in Britain, Europe and, too a lesser extent, Australia, Two Tone ska did not make an impact in America. Bands such as Madness and The Specials were considered 'too English' probably due to their lyrics reflecting their own political and social concerns and the English dance hall type antics of the live shows that was far removed from the demur American stadium rock popular at the same time. Recently ska has enjoyed another wave of popularity. The third wave exists in many forms and combines many different
styles of rock with ska rhythms and instrumentation. Bands such as Hepcat, New York Ska Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Jamaica and The Stubborn All Stars play traditional first wave styled ska. In contrast is the sound of Operation Ivy, Rancid, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Reel Big Fish who favour a harder 'ska-core' sound that is heavily influenced by punk. And there are thousands of bands playing every style in between. Although the sound of these bands is varied, the musical characteristics of the original ska can still be heard although sometimes it is not as obvious.
The Skatalites
Desmond Dekker
Judge Dread
and The Wailers.
I enjoy Two-Tone and Third Wave of course, but it's the first wave that always gets me.
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- 1 graham cracker crust (9 inches)
- Additional whipped topping and baking cocoa, optional
- 1. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and cocoa. Beat in milk and vanilla until smooth. Fold in whipped topping. Spoon into crust. Cover and freeze for 20 minutes. Garnish with additional whipped topping an cocoa if desired. Yield: 8 servings.
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1 slice: 262 calories, 9g fat (0 saturated fat), 6mg cholesterol, 121mg sodium, 41g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 3g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, 2 fat, 1/2 fruit.
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Paxton takes spring RHS golf inviteApr 18, 2014 By Bruce Tippets, Sports Editor
Easton Paxton played steady golf on his home course to take the Riverton Invitational by two strokes Thursday afternoon at the Riverton Country Club.
Paxton fired a 73 in the 18-hole tournament. He is a freshman for the Riverton Wolverines.
Par for the Riverton course is 72.
After Paxton, Corban Hill from Kelly Walsh and Sheridan's Jack Mavrakis tied for second.
Both shot 75.
"Easton probably regrets two holes," RHS coach Lars Flanagan said. "If he would have played those two holes like he knows he can, he would have shot a score in the high 60s, which would have been great for this time of the year."
The tournament was played in almost perfect playing conditions.
"It was the best day so far this spring," Flanagan said.
The Wolverines play the Green River Invitational next Thursday.
"I'm not to worried about the team competition because we just have to play better," Flanagan said. "We still have to remember that this is only the second week of spring golf.
RHS team second
The Wolverines finished 10 strokes off the pace to end up in the runner-up position in the boys team standings.
Kelly Walsh scored a 325. RHS had a 335. Sheridan finished third at 339.
"I was disappointed with our play, but I'm going to take some of the responsibility," Flanagan said. "In practice, we need to work a little harder and be a little more focused on details and fundamentals."
Two years ago, Kelly Walsh won the Class 4-A state title. RHS won the team championship in the fall, with Paxton taking the individual medal as well.
"Kelly Walsh still has a lot of those kids there," Flanagan said. "This is their last spring together. They are a very good team in the spring or in the fall."
RHS teammates Jayd Dion and Jordan Yowell each shot 86 for the Wolverines.
Kendra Miller had a 112 for the RHS girls.
"We all need to find our game a little bit," Flanagan said.
The Lander Tigers finished sixth in the boys team standings with a 362.
Lander's Trey Massey led the Tigers with an 86.
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1. Easton Paxton, Riverton, 73; 2. (tie) Corban Hill, Kelly Walsh and Jack Mavrakis, Sheridan, 75; Drew Petrie, Kelly Walsh, 76; Jackson Rolling, Thermopolis, , 81; (tie) Kaleb Spiva, Natrona, Austin Rush, Thermopolis, 83; Michael Layton, Kelly Walsh, 84; (tie) Trey Massey, Lander, Jarrett Barr, Natrona, Jayd Dion, Jordan Yowell, 86.
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Easton Paxton, 73; Chris Quayle, 90; Jayd Dion, 86; Jordan Yowell, 86; Jaden Nyberg, 92.
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From Alexander to Alivia, the letter A has dominated baby names in recent years.
This past week was different. Could we be ushering in a new era of D and E names? Or is it just coincidence that three celeb birth announcements for baby boys started with the letter D this week?
With favorites like Ella and Emma, it comes as no surprise that the letter E is currently the fifth most popular letter for girls' given names in the US. For boys, D ranked #5 last year (behind J, A, C, and M) while E came in at #8.
What does that mean for expectant parents? If you're after a truly stand-out name, it might be worth considering a lesser-used initial, like H, T, O, or F. Alternately, a really unusual name, like Avalon or Arden, isn't so strange when lots of little girls are answering to Ava and Allison.
D and E names could hit that sweet spot – familiar, but not overused. Or they could be catching on, ready to eclipse A in the next few years.
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This week, Appellation Mountain's Abby Sandel looks at the sometimes hidden meaning of names –the associations that often go beneath and beyond their literal meanings.
It's easy to look up the meaning of a name.
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A former manager at a Las Vegas beauty supply shop pleaded guilty today to federal charges that he set the business on fire in September.
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We returned from the trip in late August and then I had to whip the kids into gear. We home school, but it doesn't mean that we don't slack off at times. So, we had to establish routines. We've been doing really well until this week. A stomach virus decided to stop myself and my eldest in our tracks. We'll get back into gear next week.
In the meantime, some things have had to take a back seat to genealogy. My two eldest and I finnally finished two quilts we started after the Joplin, Missouri tornado struck the town two years ago. Seems I have a knack for making things complex. So glad the project is complete. This year, my fourth child receives a quilt for Christmas (family tradition) and I hadn't started it yet. I found a simple pattern in in three weeks I had the top done. My eldest daughter said, "Why didn't we know about this pattern two years ago?" (I know, right?)
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The St. Paul city council voted unanimously Wednesday to oppose a plan calling for a half-cent sales tax to pay for a Vikings stadium.
The proposed billion dollar replacement for the Metrodome would be built in Arden Hills. A countywide sales tax, including St. Paul, would pay for about a third of the cost.
City council president Kathy Lantry says the city doesn't oppose a new home for the team.
"This isn't about slamming the Vikings at all. the Vikings are a statewide asset. It's the financing structure that's before us that's the problem," Lantry said. "Let's be clear: I think the Vikings certainly are an asset to our community.
"It's not about them. It's certainly not about not wanting to build a new stadium. That's fine, too. We just have to find a different way to pay for it,"
The seven-member council took up the matter because the Ramsey County proposal for the stadium would impose a half-percent sales tax on the city. That would give it the highest sales tax in Minnesota, which the council opposes.
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...I'm 33. The last time I peed the bed was in college (and that was just a freak one-time incident where I'd been so sleep deprived that my body didn't wake me up for some reason when I needed to go). And no, I wasn't drunk either time. Has this ever happened to any of you as adults? Or is there something wrong with me?
I urinated the bed last night
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Bedwetter! Shame, shame, shame!
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If it happens again, I would talk to my physician. Once, not so much. Never happened to me. Close though.
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Yeah. A couple of times. Can't recall exactly why though I think one was an anxiety dream and the other i think i was so deeply asleep but dreaming about peeing. Who the hell knows? It happens. But you feel stupid about it. I know I did. It will pass and some day, when it happens to somebody else and they post about it here, you can reply like this and think 'what.ever.' Don't sweat it. It happens.
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It's never too early to get that prostate checked, OP - and by a doctor, not some dude who's got his dick up your ass....
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When I'm extra tired or sleep deprived I'll fall asleep on my back and snore. But I've never peed myself, even when drunk. Maybe you should wear adult diapers to bed when you know you're extra-tired just in case.
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[quote]Has this ever happened to any of you as adults? Or is there something wrong with me?
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O-o-o-o-o. Wrong wet dream.
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Put a clothespin on the head of your dick when you retire for the evening.
Problem solved.
You are so welcome!
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Run home before your mother hangs up your sheets for all the neighbors to see!
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[quote]It's never too early to get that prostate checked, OP - and by a doctor, not some dude who's got his dick up your ass....
But dude said he was a doctor...
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It has happened to me. I'm in my 40s. Not often though. In my dream I can't find a place to pee, or the bathroom is locked, or something is preventing me from getting to a toilet. FINALLY at the end of the dream I find a place to pee and pee very powerfully for what seems like hours and I wake up peeing all over myself.
I have trained myself that when I have these dreams to wake myself up and go to the bathroom.
...and now I know I'm going to have that dream tonight and not make it to the bathroom in time...
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You may also want to have your blood sugars checked.
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I once did that about 10 years ago when I got trained by an idiot trainer who pushed me too hard. My quads were killing me and i peed the bed in my sleep.
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Was tired all the time and lost 30% of my kidney function for a while.
A friend did this when he didn't wear his BiPAP one night. He stops breathing for half a minute at a time so I'm not surprised he peed the bed.
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Happened to me once in my 30s - visting my parents. How embarassing to tell Mom that I wet the bed. :(
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That's not normal. See a doctor instead of posting that shit on DL.
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I wet the bed as a child, intermittently to around 10 yrs old. I peed my pants on my first day of school. I had weak bladder/sudden urge to pee all of my life. It was a minor problem; I did the peepee dance or the locked leg walk to the bathroom. My sisters had great fun trying to make me laugh when they noticed me stiff-legging it to the bathroom - if I laughed there was a good chance I'd pee on the floor.
In my 20's, I started having 'the bathroom dream'. They're so realistic - I'm sitting on the toilet but the pee is uncontrollably spraying all over the floor and I start to freak out - this is when I wake up, mid-stream, in bed. I fly to the bathroom with pee streaming down my leg. I still have them about 2x a year.
At this point in my life, I have to wear a pad when I leave the house cause I leak urine and once the stream starts, I really can't stop it. I also keep a waterproof pad under the bedsheet, in case of accident. I'm a mess; luckily I live alone. Oh, I'm female.
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Nothing says lower order than those who use the construction "I ___ myself."
You did not shit yourself -- you shit *on* yourself.
You did not urinate the bed -- you urinated *on* the bed
You piss *on* yourself, or *in* your pants.
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R18, I love you! No topic is off-limit to "oh-dear"-ing, is it? Right on.
|by Anonymous
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I don't think I've peed the bed since I was 7 years old.
But I agree with some other posters here that if you are having a dream about peeing, it would not be a surprise to wake up wet.
OP, I don't think you should worry about it. But if it keeps happening, go see your doctor.
|by Anonymous
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Thank you, R18...and here I was wondering all afternoon what class I'm in.
|by Anonymous
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[quote]You did not urinate the bed -- you urinated *on* the bed
How is it considered urinating *on* the bed when technically the urine seeps down into the mattress?
|by Anonymous
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OP, did a roommate or someone put your hand in a basin of warm water while you slept?
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Piss is hot! . . . . at least the first couple seconds, that is
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I tinkled the bed a bit once under the influence of Ambien.
|by Anonymous
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What did you do with the wet mattress. Thrown it in the dumpster, I hope.
|by Anonymous
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what about drooling? Over the past few months, I've noticed that I'm drooling a lot in bed. It's GROSS, and I don't know what to do about it. It generally only happens if I sleep on my stomach, btw. WTF?!
|by Anonymous
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The the family dog starts pissing itself, that's when it's time to get out the shotgun.
|by Anonymous
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I dated someone who did this while drunk. It was super annoying. When he got drunk, I made him, I put him on the bathroom floor. Thankfully, he hardly ever drank and was a wonderful guy otherwise.
I wouldn't worry about it, OP. It's really not that big of a deal.
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Did you ever find the cause of this?
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R27 I do that sometimes too. I guess you don't swallow as much while sleeping and the saliva pools up.
|by Anonymous
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Kill yourself now, Mary OP, and save yourself and your loved ones needless suffering down the road....
|by Anonymous
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That must have hurt.
|by Anonymous
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Are you sure someone didn't dump warm water on your sheets in the night?
|by Anonymous
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I'm always afraid I'm going to wet the bed because I have pee dreams at least once a week. I'm dreaming about peeing and I'm afraid I'm going to end up doing it in my sleep. And of course every time I wake up my bladder is almost bursting. Maybe that's why we dream about that because we have to go to the bathroom and our body's natural system (I'm guessing a full bladder) isn't working right and isn't waking us up
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[quote]Are you sure someone didn't dump warm water on your sheets in the night?
I once shared an apartment with two other guys and one of them had a waterbed. I arrived home before him each day and would pour a little water on the bed. He was always looking for the leak.
|by Anonymous
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Urinating a bed must be even more painful than passing a kidney stone.
|by Anonymous
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It has happened to me. I'm 18 years old and I have not wet the bed since I was a small little kid. I was having a dream that I was peeing but my body didn't wake me up. It was the weirdest thing ever.
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Maps of the city of Lewes show a peninsula of land behind old Lewes High School and Shields Elementary that is nearly surrounded by the city limits. Its only access is through the city, but for many years, Highland Acres, a 56-home community, has remained part of Sussex County.
That may soon change. While discussing possible water and sewer connections with the Lewes Board of Public Works June 26, residents of the community said they may be interested in annexing into the city.
Following the meeting that night, a group of residents submitted a petition to city hall expressing its desire to join Lewes. City Manager Paul Eckrich said the matter will be addressed at the Monday, July 14 city council meeting.
The debate was brought to the table because some infrastructure in the community is aging and beginning to fail. Many residents are experiencing problems with their septic systems, and they opened a dialogue with the BPW to connect to city services.
In order to do so, Highland Acres residents had two options: get 100 percent participation to sign a pre-annexation agreement or get five residents to sign a petition for annexation and submit it to city hall for consideration. They chose the latter.
"It's a very complicated process that can be made a lot simpler if we take the suggestion and get a petition for annexation right up front," said Highland Acres resident Dave Bernheisel, who acted as emcee for the meeting. "Then lots of other things will fall into line."
Eckrich said residents from 19 Highland Acres properties signed the petition.
At the BPW meeting, City Solicitor Glenn Mandalas suggested Highland Acres consider annexation, but, he said, the city would not put pressure on residents.
"It's an option, and I think in some ways could make this process move more quickly," he said.
Highland Acres does not have a homeowners association or an established group that has the legal authority to speak on behalf of all residents. To create one now would be nearly impossible, Mandalas said.
"Generally you find an opposition group that doesn't want a homeowners association," he said.
Without that group in place, the pre-annexation route becomes very difficult. Typically, Mandalas said, pre-annexation agreements are signed by developers who plan to build on the outskirts of the city. Wolfe Runne and Wolfe Pointe on Gills Neck Road each have a pre-annexation agreement with the city but have remained outside the city limits.
By signing a pre-annexation agreement, a community gives power of attorney to the mayor, who may vote to annex the community at his or her discretion. Mandalas said former Mayor Jim Ford was reluctant to use that method of annexation if he was aware there was opposition. Lewes generally has no track record of hostile annexations through pre-annexation agreements, he said.
If the annexation process moves forward with Highland Acres, the city will set up an annexation committee, which has 90 days to prepare a report.
"My expectation in this instance is that they would not take nearly 90 days," Mandalas said.
From there an election will be scheduled, where residents from Highland Heights will cast a vote in one booth and residents of the city will cast a vote in another. If a majority are in support of annexation, it will move forward.
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Harare - The farm of former Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith has finally been taken from his family by Robert Mugabe's officials.
Mugabe's lands ministry has given Gwenoro farm, where Smith lived with his family for nearly 50 years, to a "university" in central Zimbabwe.
It was on this farm in central Zimbabwe, 225km south-west of Harare, that Smith's ashes were scattered after his death in Cape Town five years ago.
His long-time farm manager, Owen Jarman, said on Thursday: "The two adjoining farms were taken about 10 years ago, but we all hoped this one, the small home farm, would survive. But it didn't, and we were told in September we must go and so that is what we are doing."
Jarman managed the 1 618-hectare farm when Smith went to live in Harare after his wife, Janet, died in 1994. Smith left Zimbabwe after his only child, Alec, died in 2006 and went to live near his stepchildren in Cape Town.
Smith bought Gwenoro, which means "place of the kudu", in 1948, the year he married and won a parliamentary seat for the Rhodesia Front party, which claimed that it would preserve white rule.
Smith was a successful beef and citrus farmer, but lived in a small, rather shabby house on Gwenoro.
Jarman said he is packing up the farm, trying to sell off some of its moveable assets, such as the about 500 cattle, and paying retrenchment packages to workers.
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[TELEVISION WATCH] All the pre-game buildup was about Kyle Martino working "Between the Benches," but the star of the
debut of MLS on NBC Sports Network was Englishman Arlo White, who was as good as his billing. For more on what we learned from the FC Dallas-New York opener.
(Along with learning for the first time, from watching the lead-in, that there is a sport called Red Bull Crashed Ice.)
NBC clearly is committed to its first year of MLS coverage, and it had White and Martino prepared.
More so than other play-by-play men on MLS's national broadcasts, White, whom the Sounders had recruited from the BBC in 2010, largely stuck to play calling, identifying players as plays developed and interjecting tidbits based on the pace of transitions. It's the style that he used in Seattle, where he worked on his own -- and simulcast the Sounders' broadcasts on television and radio. (Tell me -- how many announcers could identity FC Dallas owner Clark Hunt, his head down in his smart phone, to the left of MLS Commissionser Don Garber and U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann.)
That Martino was down on the field, not next to him up in the booth, actually helped as White maintained control of the broadcast, mostly calling on Martino during appropriate pauses in the action. Martino's location on the sidelines was supposed to add to the broadcast but most of what he added was based on the work he had done preparing for the game, not what he saw.
After Zach Loyd's opening goal, scored after the Red Bulls failed to clear a free kick into the penalty area, Martino noted that Red Bulls coach Hans Backe talked about the Red Bulls being the worst team in the league on set pieces but Martino added that they weren't working on them in practice the day before the game.
If Martino tried to demonstrate the benefit to being close to the action, it backfired in the middle of the first half when he said that viewers would be "surprised" what they'd see on replays of Jair Benitez's foul on Juan Agudelo and that the Colombian defender should have been red carded, not issued a yellow card, for "[getting] his elbow high and [getting] him in the face." Well, the replays showed the foul wasn't nearly as bad as Martino said it was.
Mostly, White kept the broadcast flowing, calling on Martino by name when he wanted his analysis. But White would jump right back into the action, keeping Martino from rambling. They almost got caught off guard on the second Dallas goal when Martino went on about Thierry Henry dropping back into middle as Roy Miller coughed up the ball that led to the Dallas breakaway. But White didn't miss a beat, calling Blas Perez's name as the player on the ball as the Panamanian led in Ricardo Villar.
NBC didn't use Martino's position on the field to do any in-game interviews, but it did allow him to chat with Backe before the start of the second half to get what New York hoped it would do after the break. It built up Martino as NBC's insider analyst, not simply a guy with a mike.
NBC produced both a pre-game and post-game show to go along with the halftime segment hosted by NBC SportsTalk host Russ Thaler and former Robbie Earle.
Before the game, Earle talked about how Daniel Hernandez had "one of hardest jobs in MLS" playing in front of the FC Dallas backline in its 4-1-4-1 formation and having to mark Henry. A minute later, he explained Dallas would stick to a "rigid 4-4-1-1" formation in contrast to New York's more flexible approach.
Earle also struggled at halftime when talking about what FC Dallas needed to do in the second half. Getting Brek Shea wide made sense, but getting more out of Fabian Castillo on the ball wasn't going to happen. After a promising 25 minutes, the young Colombian had limped off with a knee injury in the first half. Earle appeared nervous, repeatedly looking down at his notes as he rattled off names of players on the contenders in the two MLS conferences.
Thaler and Earle brought on Shea for its postgame segment, but Thaler struggled with the name of 2010 MLS MVP David Ferreira, who is injured and whose place Villar took in the lineup. "Daniel ... Ferreira," Thaler said, as he set up Shea to describe Villar's sweet goal.
But most fans will forgive NBC for these minor flaws if they get the kind of work out of White each week that they did in Week 1.
P.S. Henry remains an enigma. He is one of the best quotes in MLS -- when he is in the mood to talk with the press. He was very much in a better mood before the game than he was afterward.
He gave great responses to Martino's pre-game questions. What can he carry over from his successful loan spell at Arsenal? "Well, nothing ..." What was the importance of the opening game to the Red Bulls? Henry noted how he watched Real Salt Lake -- whom the Red Bulls will play on the road next week -- on Saturday night at Los Angeles. "They looked pretty good so we have to find something pretty good today." And the Red Bulls' expectations going into 2012? "Every wants to win it, but LA, Salt Lake and other teams are ahead of us."
But he wasn't as expansive afterward in the locker room. How do the Red Bulls bounce back? "Win games," Henry said. "And score more goals than the opponent."


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College Football Top 25 Weekend Recap – Week Three
Week Three is in the books, and it was an exciting one featuring a slugfest between two top five teams, the end of the nation's longest winning streak and a bunch of outstanding individual performances. Here is this week's wrap-up from the top 25.
#1 Oklahoma 23, #5 Florida State 13
Oklahoma's defense dominated the game, holding the Seminoles to just 27 yards rushing, forcing three turnovers and getting six sacks. Oklahoma sophomore receiver Kenny Stills had seven catches for 125 yards, including the eventual game-winner, a 37-yard jump ball reception for a touchdown with 7:00 to go in the fourth quarter.
College Football Top 25 Weekend Recap – Week Two
While many of this weekend's games were just tune-ups for showdowns to come, there were several great battles to keep things exciting, including Michigan's last-second win over Notre Dame, South Carolina's shootout victory over Georgia and Auburn stuffing Mississippi State at the goal line to win their 17th straight game.
With that, here are the highlights from the top 25 and other games of interest this week:
Minnesota Head Coach Jerry Kill Hospitalized After Sideline Seizure During Game
University of Minnesota Golden Gophers head football fcoach Jerry Kill spent Saturday night in a Minneapolis hospital after suffering a seizure on the sidelines during the waning moments of his team's 28-21 loss to New Mexico State.