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7 things every woman should have in her purse
An Emmy award winning stylist told me exactly what I should carry in my purse this party season.
by Nikki Ogunnaike
I caught up with two-time Emmy award winning stylist and costume designer, Soyon An, and she gave me the scoop on exactly what I should be carrying (aside from minimal makeup) in my purse this holiday party season. Since she's worked with everyone from Jordin Sparks and Mariah Carey to Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift we should all consider this advice as a gift from the styling gods. Here's what she suggested:
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Travel size Static Guard: Aside from its keep-clothes-cling-free use, you can also tame flyaway hair by spraying Static Guard on a brush before styling your hair or you can spray it on your fingertips and use it to tease and add volume to your hair. Who doesn't love a 3-in-1 product?
Static Guard, $3, drugstores nationwide
Fashion tape: Strapless dress on the move? Use this to keep your top in place. If you hem falls out, you can also use this to reinforce it. As for that pesky lint or dog hair on your shirt, sticky tape will remove it in a snap. Soyon recommends keeping about six pieces in your purse.
Hollywood Fashion Tape, $9, walgreens.com
Mini brush or comb: After dance (or drink) number 3 you'll probably want to get your hair in order.
John Frieda mini hair brush, $6, target.com
A small notebook and pen: I love my iPhone as much as the next gal, but let's be honest -- sometimes it fails you. Keep these old school instruments of communication on you so you can slip that cute guy your number.
Moleskine, $10, threadsence.com
Mints: Quick! You're caught under the mistletoe. Pop one and you'll be ready to go.
Emergen C packets: Well...because you can never be too careful with all of those mistletoe-induced smooches.
Emergen C, $5, walgreens.com
Travel size Crazy Glue: 'Tis the season of rhinestones, but one false move and those suckers will pop off. A tiny dab will put it right back in its place.
And if you're wondering what size bag you should carry all this stuff in, allow me to introduce you to this grey glitter Camridge Satchel number. A little splurg-y, but trust me, you'll get a ton of use out of it.
The Cambridge Satchel Company Satchel Glitter, $180, bloomingdales.com
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Jeremy Stockton, 31, now of Manchester pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of simple assault and resisting arrest as part of a plea deal with county prosecutors. He entered his plea on Monday in Rockingham County Superior Court, the same day he was scheduled to go on trial. County prosecutors initially sought an enhanced simple assault charge against Stockton because the deputy was acting in the line of duty, according to court documents. That charge was punishable by up to two to five years in state prison.
The plea agreement allowed Stockton to avoid the possibility of a state prison sentence and plead guilty to misdemeanor charges, court records say. Prosecutors dropped the felony assault charge as part of the agreement.
Stockton received a deferred one-year jail term that will be suspended if he remains on good behavior for the next 12 months, according to terms of the agreement. On Jan. 19, 2012, Stockton kicked the door closed to his home at Cluff Crossing Road in Salem as Deputy Scott Peltier was trying to enter the residence, according to prosecutors.
Peltier was transported to Exeter Hospital and treated for swelling and a deep contusion to his right hand, the sheriff's department said. Stockton fled from the scene after slamming the door on Peltier, the sheriff's department said. Salem police responded to the home and assisted deputies with apprehending Stockton near his house. Stockton was initially charged with felony second-degree assault and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. But a grand jury indicted him only on the simple assault charge and resisting arrest.
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November is National Adoption Month
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010There are 114,550 U.S. children are in foster care, waiting to be adopted. They have been removed from their homes as victims of child abuse, neglect or abandonment and are left without a family. Last year, 29,471 children turned 18 and left the Foster Care System without an adoptive family. November is National Adoption Month and you can make a difference.
The "30 Days of Amazing Children: Explore Adoption!" initiative presenting children in foster care who dream of being adopted by forever families was unveiled yesterday, Noevember 1, by Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon and Florida's Chief Child Advocate Jim Kallinger.
A different "Amazing Child" available for adoption in Florida is being featured every day during National Adoption Month in November on www.adoptflorida.org. Many of the featured teens, sibling groups and children with medical needs are depicted on videos as they talk about themselves and their hopes to become part of a loving family. About 850 children are available for adoption on any given day in Florida, and more than half of them are teenagers.
"Floridians are encouraged to visit www.adoptflorida.org during November and become acquainted with children available for adoption and their dreams of belonging to a family," Secretary Sheldon said. "These are Florida's children. Their futures depend on actions that all of us can take to raise adoption awareness and recruit loving adoptive families."
"When children in foster care are adopted by a permanent family, they feel loved, secure and positive about their future," Chief Child Advocate Kallinger said. "The many adoptive parents I have met are equally overjoyed to add these wonderful children to their families. We just need to keep spreading the adoption message."
Children in foster care who do not achieve permanency with a family before transitioning out of care at age 18 are at higher risk of being arrested, becoming teenage moms, dropping out of school and becoming homeless. Over the past three and a half years, Florida has safely reduced the number of children in foster care by nearly 11,000, or 36 percent, through adoptions, permanent guardianships and reunification with parents.
Nearly 50 adoption celebrations and finalization ceremonies are being held throughout Florida this November. Go to http://www.adoptflorida.org/adoptionmonth4.shtml to find out about events in the Miami area.
While private forms of adoption can cost upwards of $30,000, adopting one of Florida's children in foster care costs little or nothing. The benefits include a monthly adoption subsidy for the family, health benefits for the child, and free college tuition at a Florida public university, community college or vocational school. The federal adoption tax credit recently was raised to $13,170 per child and is refundable, meaning eligible taxpayers can receive it regardless of whether or not they owe taxes for that year.
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Tournament Rules, Guidelines, and General Information
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Simulator Tournament Applications: OPEN Welcome to the Smogon Tournaments Forum! This thread lists rules that all who wish to participate in Smogon's tournaments must follow, and also acts as a guide to acceptable practices within the forum. Please make sure you read through the entire thread at least once. Signing Up for a Tournament Before getting into this, it should be noted that signing up to play in a tournament is a commitment to playing. If you don't think you will be bothered to build the required teams to play, or you are going on a holiday in a week, please do not sign up. Tournaments will generally take a couple of months to finish, to give a general idea of the amount of time you may need to dedicate. You are expected to log in at least once every couple of days and preferably daily, and should be available for battle reasonably often. If you are only available for a few hours a week, live tournaments such as the Smogon Tour are more suitable. If you sign up to tournaments and repeatedly fail to play your matches, you risk being given a Warning and / or banned from playing in tournaments. Signing up for a tournament is extremely simple. All you have to do is read the first post to make sure you understand the rules, then post saying "in" or that you want to join. If the tournament requires you to do something else like submit teams before the first round, you should try to do that as soon as you can. If you have any questions, you may either post them in the thread or contact the host privately. Note that Smogon's hosting rules require most tournaments to accept the first 62.5% of players that sign up, and then randomize the remainder of the players, so if you posted before someone that got in and you didn't, this is the most likely reason why. The reason for this is that basically every tournament uses a number of participants that results in no byes and either two or three players in the final round (32, 48, 64, 96, 128, 192, 256, 384, or 512), and for tournaments that fill up quickly, we don't want to eliminate the chance of participating for those in unfortunate timezones. Even if you don't get into a tournament, if the host is efficient and willing to do it, you could ask to be substituted into the tournament if someone drops out or goes missing. If you missed out and are interested in joining, simply post in the current tournament thread or send the host a PM stating that you would like to be a substitute if possible. Playing in a Tournament Once you have signed up and the host posts Round 1, it is strongly recommended that you contact your opponent immediately by sending them a VM on their profile, or a PM if you prefer (though this makes it more difficult for the host to track who is more active). Let them know when you think you will be ready to play, your timezone (assuming you set it when you joined, it should appear at the bottom of every page on the forums), and maybe your availability if you know what that will be. For a more detailed description of what is recommended, there is a guide that details How to schedule a battle. Try to respond in a timely fashion whenever your opponent contacts you. If someone misses a scheduled time and the match is in danger of going uncompleted by the deadline, the host will nearly always award the win to the player that showed up, so scheduling a battle is a sure way to avoid being eliminated by inactivity. Don't be lazy! Here are some rules we enforce for players in tournaments. There is a good chance you will receive a Warning or potentially be banned from tournaments if you fail to adhere to these:
These rules explain what you aren't allowed to do before and during a battle, and what standard rules must be followed. Definitions of Standard Clauses: (these clauses apply across all Smogon tiers)
Simulator Glitches: Any battle mechanics not properly implemented in the simulator used for a tournament battle are fair game, unless explicitly banned by that tournament's rules. Illegal movesets that are not restricted by the simulator fall into this category as well. However, this does not include faulty tier scripts; for example, if there was a bug in the BW OU tier script that allowed you to use Drizzle and Swift Swim on the same team, taking advantage of this would result in disqualification in that battle. If a game breaking glitch is discovered, we will make a blanket tournament ban on that glitch via an announcement in the Tournaments forum until it is fixed. Ghosting: The player in a tournament battle should be the one making their own decisions. Do not tell a player what move to make in a tournament battle (i.e. do not "ghost" them), and do not make your moves based on another person's suggestions. If we are made aware that someone playing a tournament battle is making some of their moves based mainly on the suggestions of someone else, punishments may be handed out to both parties involved. Identity: Pretending to be another player in relation to a tournament battle is strictly prohibited. Do not try to impersonate or play as another player. Rule Breaking: If a player breaks a rule during a battle, they are disqualified from that particular battle. If it was a single battle in a series, they will still have the opportunity to play the rest of the series. Draws: If a battle ends in a draw in an elimination tournament or another tournament format that is unable to handle draws, there should be a rematch between the players with the option for both players to change teams. Forfeiting: A player may forfeit their battle during or after the battle, as long as the result has not been confirmed by the host. If a player forfeits before a battle commences in the first round of a tournament, they are eligible for substitution if appropriate. We highly recommend that you do not forfeit your tournament battles just because you got lucky, but we do not enforce this. Host / Tournament Director Decisions: The host may make a judgment call on the outcome of a battle with a disputed result, even if one player has broken the rules. If you believe the host has made an unjust decision, you may inform the Tournament Director responsible for the tournament of the situation and request that they make a final call on it. Sportsmanship: If a player displays exceedingly poor sportsmanship before, during, or after a tournament battle, they may be disqualified or otherwise punished. Hosting Hosting a tournament here on Smogon is one of the greatest ways to increase your involvement within the community. Some individuals believe hosting is as simple as updating a few match results, posting new rounds and calling it a day, but there is much more to it than that. Decision making is an important aspect of tournament hosting, and in addition to simply updating match results, you will almost always be required to make judgment calls regarding player activity, coin flips, and substitutions, among many other things. This may sound daunting at first, but once you get your get feet wet and overcome the hurdles presented by the busy first rounds, it tends to be smooth sailing onwards. Once your tournament comes to a close and a winner is crowned, you'll be wanting to do it all over again! Not so fast, though. Before hosting a tournament, there are a few things you must do. The following sections will help you become familiar with what is expected of you when hosting a tournament. Upon reading, you will also come across some handy tips and tricks related to tournament hosting to ensure that your tournament will run as smoothly and efficiently as possible. Before applying to host a tournament, you should check if tournament applications are open or closed. If they are closed, it's likely because there are enough tournaments lined up in the tournaments listing queue, making additional applications unnecessary. Once the queue decreases in size sufficiently and ongoing tournaments start to finish up, tournament applications may be opened again, allowing you to submit an application to host a tournament. Tournament Ideas While we generally permit any kind of applications as long as they involve playing Pokemon on simulators (or over Wi-Fi for Wi-Fi tournaments), there are some guidelines you can follow to increase the chances of your tournament being approved by the tournament directors.
Once you have an idea down, go to the Tournament Applications forum to post a thread (Note: Threads in this forum can only be viewed by the author, the Tournament Directors, and Super Mods+. The details provided in your threads are private from the public). The application should outline the details of your tournament, including any special rules and clauses, and other information you deem important for us to know. The application should preferably be formatted in the same manner as your intended OP. The Tournament Directors will deliberate the status of the application in the thread. After posting the thread, do not reply unless prompted by the Tournament Directors. If your idea is approved, congratulations! The Tournament Directors will give you instructions in the thread for when to begin your tournament. If your tournament was not approved, the Tournament Directors will provide a brief explanation as to why it was not approved. Do not let this discourage you from sending further applications in the future. However, do keep in mind that you will not be allowed to send in an application again for the tournament you requested. There are a number of responsibilities placed on the host to ensure a tournament will be successful. Here are some general rules, tips, and recommendations that will hopefully help make your tournament a success. Failure to adhere to any of the rules will result in a warning and being banned from hosting future tournaments on Smogon. The sign up thread & subsequent rounds Sign up threads must last for a minimum of 24 hours to give people from varying time zones a chance to sign up for your tournament. Two or three days is a normal length of time to keep your thread open for registration, and you should generally keep to that length unless you are close to reaching 64, 96, 128, or 192 players. If you have 104 players and sign ups begin to die down after a day or so, you probably will not reach 128 players. If this is the case, close the sign ups, make the tournament 96 man, and post round 1 (read the First Come, First Serve section below to see how you should determine who gets admitted into your tournament). If you are very close to one of these numbers and you want to get your tournament started as soon as possible, you may want to ask people on IRC or the Smogon server to join in order to fill the last few places. You should not give out byes in order to reach a good number, but if you feel it is necessary, contact a Tournament Director and explain why, and we may grant you permission. For each round of your tournament, including the sign up period, list the rules for your tournament, a link to this thread, and the username of the Tournament Director you sent your application to at the top of your post. Do not let members who are banned from joining tournaments, are banned from the forum, or have a status of "I Could Be Banned!" under their username join your tournament. If a player becomes banned or close to being banned during a tournament, you do not need to disqualify them. If your tournament is currently in Round 1, you may substitute them out, but otherwise you should allow them to finish competing. You may sign up to play in your own tournament, but only if your tournament does not require you to be given any kind of submission by the players (e.g. battle logs, teams, tournament-related choices). First Come, First Serve All tournaments that don't have a specifically approved sign up method will use First Come, First Serve for the first 62.5% of the players, and then the host must select the last 37.5% from the remainder at random. Here is a table to help you understand how this works: To get your player list:
We tend not to use seeded brackets and instead stick with generating each round's random pairings as the previous round finishes. This is a simple to understand method and helps to avoid scouting of known future opponents. Here is a bracketmaker for generating random pairings. When you post a round, be sure that all of the participants in a tournament have their usernames spelled correctly. Deadlines and Extensions This is an extremely important point. No-one likes a tournament that drags on for ages. In order for your tournament to finish in a timely fashion, each round must have a strict deadline. The maximum length of a round is two weeks, unless longer deadlines are explicitly approved by a Tournament Director. However, not every single round will need two weeks to finish. Usually, round one takes the longest to complete, so setting a two week deadline for the first round of your tournament is acceptable. Later rounds, however, should preferably be a week or so long, to encourage participants to complete their matches sooner and get the tournament moving. This partly depends on the format of your tournament. For example, if it is one that requires the players to team build in every round, you can give slightly longer deadlines. Deadlines may be extended at the host's discretion when necessary, such as in cases where many battles are incomplete. Try to avoid making a habit of doing this, and restrict any extension you do give to a maximum of three days. One way to avoid a few uncompleted matches from holding up the entire tournament is to post the next round with a couple of uncompleted pairings (e.g. (Player1 vs Player2) vs Player3). Activity and Disqualifications As a host, it is part of your responsibility to ensure your tournament's participants are actively trying to do their matches. If a player has shown little to no activity in attempting to get their game completed, you have the right to substitute them out for another player. If the overall activity in your tournament is low, it may be in your best interest to send out private messages to the participants in your tournament in order to find out why their activity is low. Eventually, you will most likely have to make activity judgment calls with a few pairings, unless each round of your tournament has a 100% match completion rate, which is rarely the case. In order to make the fairest call possible, here are some guidelines:
Follow these guidelines and you will be well on your way towards becoming a well-known and respected tournament host! Tournament Directors Below you will find a list of the current Tournament Directors for both simulator and Wi-Fi tournaments. Should you have any tournament-related questions, please don't hesitate to contact a Tournament Director. Additionally, if you ever have the urge to submit a tournament application, whether it be for simulator or Wi-Fi, send them to one of the respective Tournament Directors listed below. Simulator Wi-Fi Official Tournaments Smogon's official tournaments are held at least once annually and are defined as tournaments which award the winner(s) with a profile trophy. They run according to the Major Tournament Schedule. Current hosts are listed to the right of the tournaments; contact them if you have any questions about the tournament.
These events generally occur once a year and are given sticky threads.
Banned from Hosting Tournaments Banned from Joining Tournaments
Trophies are awarded to the winner or winners of Smogon's Official Tournaments as well as The Pokemon Company International's Video Game World Championships. These trophies appear below the username in the postbit alongside badges, although they do not carry the same privileges that badges do. However, they are highly coveted and prestigious due to the extremely competitive nature of these tournaments. Check out the Badge & Trophy FAQ for all the current trophy holders. Official Smogon Tournament - An annual best-of-three, single elimination Standard OU tournament in the current generation. Usually reaches 512 competitors and is largely considered the most prestigious tournament in online competitive Pokemon. Smogon Tour - Designed to test competitors across a variety of metagames, this tournament involves playing the three most recent generations' OU tiers. It is hosted over the course of several weeks during which players compete in live tournaments to accumulate points. The 16 players with the most points after 9 weeks make the playoffs where they duke it out in three generations to determine the champion. Smogon Frontier - A Standard OU tournament where players challenge Frontier Brains, a collection of the best players among Smogon's staff members, and try to defeat them to win their frontier symbol. Those skilled enough to win 12 symbols earn the green trophy. World Cup of Pokemon - One of Smogon's oldest and most prestigious team tournaments. Players team up with fellow countrymen and face off against other teams in Standard OU in the attempt to bring glory to their nation. After a preliminary round of divisional play, the top 8 countries are matched up head-to-head based on their success in the opening round. Each member of the winning team, including substitutes, earns a blue trophy. Note that the WCoP trophy is not permanent unlike other trophies; only the current WCoP champions hold the trophy. Smogon Premier League - The second of Smogon's two major team tournaments. Players are drafted in a live auction and then compete against other teams each week. Nearly every one of Smogon's officially supported metagames, past and current, are represented in this tournament. After 9 weeks, the top 4 teams battle it out in the playoffs to determine the SPL champions. Each member of the winning team, including substitutes, earns a red trophy. Note that the SPL trophy is not permanent unlike other trophies; only the current SPL champions hold the trophy. Official Smogon VGC Tournament - An annual best-of-three, single elimination VGC tournament utilizing the current ruleset outlined by The Pokemon Company International. Nearly analogous to the Official Smogon Tournament, this is Smogon's most prestigious VGC tournament and attracts hundreds of competitors. Smogon Grand Slam - A multi-tier competition that's comprised of 5 separate tournaments: the Ubers Open, the UU Open, the RU Open, the NU Open, and the LC Open. Players score points based on how well they do in each tournament, and the top 8 players make the playoffs where they face off in a best-of-five in the aforementioned tiers. TPCI's Video Game World Championships - The Pokemon Company International, a corporation owned by Nintendo, hosts the Pokemon Video Game Championship Series each year. The series is made up of regional tournaments held in person around the world in which thousands of players compete. Smogon recognizes the achievements of those who win the series' World Championships by awarding them with a white trophy. Tournament Listing and Queue The Tournament Listing contains a compendium of tournaments, hosts, and winners that you can find browsing the tournaments section. It is updated usually at least once every two weeks, but usually more frequently. 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Some people are a tad meep for their stereos
I have a pretty good stereo at home (insert brandnames here: Paradigm, Denon, NAD). I have good sound, but the problem is finding good music that's worthy of all that equipment.
Really, the music is under-engineered nowadays. I think the best record I have so far in that respect is Jean Michel Jarre's latest audio DVD, but that's only because he created all that music in the early 80's and had some 20 years to reengineer it...
By the way, I think a lot of the top electronic/trip-hop/whatever talent (like NIN, Prodigy, Portishead, Moby) do obsess enough with the quality of their music to make high-end listening worthwhile.
Pop, on the other hand, is abysmal. It's designed for listening through boomy cheapo in-ear headphones. Not to mention that they compress the living meep out of their samples and even voice.
Any other recommendations?
Interesting. I never heard of this JMJ person before, and this notwithstanding I wonder if there's some similiarities betwixt himself and The Orb?
Similarities? SIMILARITIES?!?!?!?!
JMJ is the grand-daddy of all electronic music, a dude which really pushed the envelope. He's a contemporary of Kraftwerk (whose sounds are too mechanical in comparison) and Tangerine Dream (whose music was way too spaced out, and still is, to make sense for me).
Depeche Mode, Armin van Buuren and many other fine folks in the know worship this dude.
You probably heard his music before without even knowing. Oxygene, Equinoxe, and Magnetic Fields are the recommended albums. The album that I was referring to is Aero, from 2004. I think it has most of his hits, and works best in a surround sound setup. So if you really want to push your receiver to the limit, this is the one to buy.
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My wife and I would like to celebrate our wedding anniversay by wild camping somewhere relatively high in the Lakes/Peaks/Snowdonia. I've done similar in the past albeit a few years ago however my wife has mobility issues (bad back & hips) so a trek into the wilds wouldn't really be a good idea!
What we'd like is a spot relatively remote to get the wild camp-feeling but within a couple of km of the road so she doesn't have to push too hard.
Just to nip things in the bud; yes, we have assessed her actual abilities, strengths and possible complications/problems and decided on looking for a happy medium (hence the request for advice).
I have been told about Seathwaite having some good spots but I don't know that area at all and am not too sure.
Anyway, any help/advice would be appreciated.
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If you drive up to the Gospel Pass that gives you easy access to the hilltops. If you pitch late and strike early you could camp more or less anywhere on top. The summit of Twmba is a nice spot to watch the sunset on a fine day.
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In the Lakes, you could drive up Longsleddale, park at Sadgill, and set off up the lane towards Gatesgarth Pass. After about 3km and 250m ascent you reach Brownhowe Bottom where there are pitching opportunities either right next to the path or in the old quarry levels just up to the left.
Or from the lower Duddon valley, parking south of Ulpha, there are some great spots by little tarns in the Dunnerdale Fells, not very high but knobbly, interesting terrain.
For Snowdonia, I'd look at the Anafon valley. Fantastic scenery, but particularly for the unfit/injured/kids etc a wide range of places you can stop and camp at when you feel tired/sore without being tied to a specific destination.
Park above Aber just off the A55 on the North Wales coast (follow the road past the falls up to the small car park at it's termination SH676717) and follow the obvious easy track or the riverside path up towards the lake.
There are potential flat and sheltered campsites (right next to the river and surrounded by steep valley sides and mountains) all the way up the valley, starting from within a mile or so of the carpark (SH682713) or depending how the back's holding up right up at the lake (SH699697).
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DHS golf coach Bosco Selchow said the course was being re-seeded for winter and was not in the best of playing conditions. Still the two teams played and Marana Mountain View beat Douglas 170-187.
Andres Rico led Douglas with a team low of 44. Brothers Eric and Martin Valenzuela each shot a 45, Adrian Vildosola shot 53 and Jake Salmon followed with a 56.
On Thursday, Sept. 20, the Bulldogs hosted Buena in a match that was rescheduled from Sept. 6.
Buena beat Douglas 165-172.
Salmon played his best match of the year and tied Buena's Jimin Yoo for the match low shooting a 38.
Vildosola followed with a 44, Robbie Romero shot a 45, Martin Valenzuela a 45 and Rico a 46.
Coach Selchow said he was very happy with Salmon's score and hopes he can keep it up the rest of the season.
"I felt the other kids didn't play as well," the coach said. "We missed our target score by six strokes."
In order to make state a team must shoot a score of 166 three times at home and twice on the road.
The Bulldogs have made the target score once on the road already.
As far as the Sept. 18 match the coach said he's got to take it for what it is and move on.
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Candies by Vletas on North First street is one of the stops many local residents make for their Valentine on the special day.
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congrats on having the strength and willpower--your going to be one of the FEW that we look up to !!!!!!!
Emotioonal detox as i've read in a number of juice fasting sites is one symptom that your body is releasing toxins, changing, cleansing, renewing, and allows your "optimal well being" of who you are to surface.
it can pronounce itself in many ways--i hear alot of people say they feel melancholy, free, relaxed, energized and a better sense of everything around them. i can't remember who was it but one member had crying outbursts for no reason--personally, b/c i tend to believe in the whole metaphysic theories, i believe that the body's cells and energy are the "blueprints" of our lives.
all the life experiences whether emotional, physical, metal etc can be released and i tend to believe that "fasting" to heal the body, does just that. i believe it's the language of our body saying "set me free" everything being gracefully connected again. :)
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In case you missed it this morning, here is Senator Paul's floor speech in opposition to Sec. 1031 & 1032 of the National Defense Authorization Act, S. 1867. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjVgWNzQnk Following that was a subsequent "debate" between Senators John McCain and Rand Paul over the detention of American citizens in places such as Gitmo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUHh1iqe43w During part of [...]
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In case you missed it, this exceptionally frightening exchange between Senator Paul and Senator McCain began after Senator Paul spoke in opposition to Section 1031, which would allow the indefinite detention of American citizens. {11:00:54 NSP} (MR. PAUL) { NOT AN OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT } MR. PAUL: MY QUESTION WOULD BE UNDER THE PROVISIONS, WOULD [...]
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There's been a lot of controversy around two specific sections of Senate Bill S. 1287 "The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)" that was rushed to the Senate floor today. They are sections 1031 and 1032, which are both related to the detention of terror suspects. Section 1031 would apparently give the President the power to [...]
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jimi Hendrix recorded everything. More than 40 years after his death, though, the tape is finally running out.
"People, Hell & Angels," out Tuesday, will be the last album of Hendrix's unreleased studio material, according to Eddie Kramer, the engineer who recorded most of Hendrix's music during his brief but spectacular career. That ends a four-decade run of posthumous releases by an artist whose legacy remains as vital and vibrant now as it was at the time of his death.
"Jimi utilized the studio as a rehearal space," Kramer said. "That's kind of an expensive way of doing things, but thank God he did."
The 12 tracks on "People, Hell & Angels" were recorded in 1968-69 after the Jimi Hendrix Experience disbanded. There's a changeable roster of backing musicians, including Buddy Miles and Billy Cox, who would briefly become Hendrix's Band of Gypsies. Stephen Stills, recently of Buffalo Springfield, even popped up on bass on one track.
It was a difficult period for Hendrix as his business and creative endeavors became entangled, and he retreated to the studio to seek inspiration.
"Jimi used that time in the studio to experiment, to jam, to rehearse, and using this jam-rehearsal style of recording enabled him to try different musicians of different stripes and backgrounds, because they offered a musical challenge to him," Kramer said. "He wanted to hear music expressed with different guys who could lend a different approach to it. And as part of this whole learning curve, what emerged was this band that played at Woodstock in '69, that little concert on the hill there."
Many of the songs have been heard in different versions or forms before, but the music here is funkier than his best known work — at times sinuous, at times raucous. Horns pop up here and there. He's a cosmic philosopher riding an earthbound backbeat on "Somewhere." He's a groovin' bluesman enveloped in a bit of that purple haze on "Hear My Train a Comin'." He challenges a saxophone to a fist fight on "Let Me Move You." Then he channels James Brown on "Mojo Man" and ends the album as if shutting down an empty cinder-block club on a lonely stretch of dark highway with "Villanova Junction Blues."
Hendrix died not long after making the last of these recordings. He'd already disbanded the players and was working with the Experience again in 1970 when he died of asphyxia in September 1970 at 27.
The last of the studio albums was timed for the year he would have turned 70. But in the 43 years that have passed since his death, he's remained a fixture in American popular culture in much the same way Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash have endured. Still a radio staple, his image and music pops up often in commercials. There's a biopic on the way with Andre Benjamin tackling the lead role. Even his out-there sense of fashion remains relevant.
Driving that image is the continued importance of his music, inspiring entranced young guitarists to attack his work in an endless loop of rediscovery over the decades. Tastes and sounds may change, but Hendrix always remains close at hand. Continued...
Maybe it's because he was so far ahead of his time, we still haven't caught up.
"He was a psychedelic warrior," said Luther Dickinson, Grammy-nominated singer-guitar of the North Mississippi Allstars. "He was one of those forces that pushed evolution. He was kicking the doors down. He was forcing the future into our ears."
For Dickinson and his brother Cody, it was Hendrix's post-apocalyptic psych-rock epic "1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" that blew their minds. But he means different things to different musicians. He played the chitlin circuit in the South before being discovered as a rocker in Europe and his music was also steeped in the blues, R&B and jazz.
"As a songwriter, he had the thing like Billy Gibbons (of ZZ Top) and a few current guys like Dan Auerbach or Jack White," Dickinson said. "They have the ability to take a near-cliche blues guitar lick and turn it into a pop hook. Hendrix had that. That was one aspect. Also, he wrote some of the most beautiful guitar melodies. His ballads, there's nothing to compare them to. Obviously he learned a lot from Curtis Mayfield and R&B music, but he took it so much farther."
It's that soulful side that first inspired Michael Kiwanuka, a young singer-songwriter who grew up in London thousands of miles away from Dickinson's home in Hernando, Miss., yet was seized by Hendrix just as forcefully.
He first saw Hendrix in a documentary that was paired back to back with his performance at Woodstock. Kiwanuka was 12 and new to the guitar. He experienced a lot of sensations at once. First, there was the music. He wasn't drawn to the rip-roaring psychedelia the Dickinsons favored, but the R&B-flavored classics like "Castles Made of Sand" and "The Wind Cries Mary." The child of Ugandan immigrants also was amazed by Hendrix's natural hairstyle, which closely resembled his own.
"I'd never seen an African-American, a guy of African descent, playing rock music," Kiwanuka said. "I was listening to bands like Nirvana and stuff at the time. That's what got me into rock music — the electric guitar. Every time I saw a modern black musician it was like R&B, so I'd never seen someone play electric guitar in a rock way that was African. That inspired me as well on top of the music. And you think, 'Oh, I could do that.'"
"People, Hell & Angels" will likely continue that cycle of discovery. And though it may be the last of studio album, it won't be the last we hear from Hendrix.
"This is the last studio album, but what's coming up is the fact that we have tremendous amount of live recorded concerts in the vault," Kramer said. "A lot of them were filmed, too, so be prepared in the next few years to see some fabulous live performances, one of which I've already mixed. We're waiting for the release date — God knows when — but at some point in the future there's a ton of great live material."
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