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From the opening thunderclaps of "A Bruise Upon The Silent" which crecendos into a glorious chat and gregor accompanied by the philharmonics of a darker place, a void. Then "The Promise" explodes in your lulled existence with a force of earlier said thunderclaps. It rolls on with the sandstorm twists and confusions that fill the ears with a sense of urgent desparation. "Hurt & Virtue" bounces like a METAL STUDDED WRECKINGBALL tumbled loose from it's chain and hammering upward and downward on the helpless concrete below. Gears shift mid song to a thorougbred gallop and winds you down an unlit road at neckbreak speed. Put on headphones and then close your eyes at 3:55 of track 3 and you can actually feel the music taking you down an old dirty winding road by horse carriage wheels bouncing on gravel at that aforementioned neckbreak speed! "An Enemy lead the Tempest" is pure technical death metal ala In Flames or groovier Six Feet Under. Double bass drums batters your ears in a stereo smackdown. An aural massage you can't miss at 2:40 of track 4. The grandiose vision that is the theme of this epic is being fully realized by this point and like a good book you can't put it down. By the time you get to the eliptical wrangling of "Thy Serpent Tongue" 's opener sets you on a new journey than takes on more of an urgency from Tongue to the death metal of "Carrion" and through to the arrival of the Mighty Egyptian empire in "Doberman Pharoah." Grand is this portion of the journey! HOLD THY HEAD DOWN WHEN IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PHAROAH! A serpent kisses your stunned lips as the Doberman visits "Babylon" and the sultry tempations of Babylon are dangled for the listener to accept or reject. "A Scarlet Witch Lit the Season" on your way through this journey but you run into the darkness that is "Mannequin" This is one of the true beasts on this cd. A metallic monster that just jumps on you and devours. A highlight. "Thank God The Suffering" in a lurching dragger than makes your white knuckles bleed. When we reach the "End of Daze", the clouds open above the skies as the trumpets sound the coming of the days of revelations. This is not an end but only a beginning. The Journey may have ended but it is not permanent but only a respite. Cradle of Filth have left me pondering. It will leave you pondering the same. And you. And you. Hail The Filth! This is five star entertainment.
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This is the first Cd that i heard by COF. To tell the truth i really do like them. The CD from the first song to the last is like a horror theatric show done in music. I'm not much on alot of black metal and gothic metal but this band is in a catergory all by themselves. I like the style they present their music. I just got this Cd today and have heard it front to back. I was impressed considering i heard they are not really good and the screaming gets old. But Dani mixes everything up pretty good i think. They are the type that requires a taste for but i do like the way they put it together and for anybody that want a ride through the darkness then i say get this band and try them out. A real good starter for a person just curious about COF.
Cradle of Filth are great. Too great, I guess, as people in recent times seem to condemn them, saying things like, "Their not TRUE Black Metal," and other such rubbish. That's fine, if high production value and amazing musicianship lowers a band in the public eye, then its no wonder the public is busy listening to worthless radio-friendly electro-pop with bottom-of-the-barrel "entertainers" with good stylists and expensive dance teachers. But if you try to say Cradle are "commercial," you need to get your head checked. Their stance on Christianity alone should eliminate that from anyone's mind, but the music is even further proof.
So, on to the point at hand; Damnation and a Day. A concept album. The black sheep, as it were, of the music business. Usually reserved for prog bands(that being, more overly talented musicians not getting their due, much like Cradle) and few others. But Dani Filth's lyrics, aided by a band of more than capable musicians (the guitarist, Paul, and Adrian the drummer being two true stand-outs in musical talent) are more than up for the task. The use of electronic elements is tasteful (an odd word to use to describe these guys, but somehow fitting) and they incorporate a few interesting and fitting samples. All together, a very enjoyable listen musically, further enhanced by the vocal workings of the demon-possessed Filth, and unbelievable range of background vocalist Sarah Jezabel Deva.
Lyrically, Damnation and a Day is written like a masterpiece novel, a powerful tale of the TRUE 'original rebel,' Lucifer, cast out of Heaven for displaying emotion against God's will. Broken up into 4 'acts,' the story take us from the fall from God's grace, to Lucifer's temptation of Man (complete with historical and other biblical references) to his eventual position of ruler of Hell, all the while the Earth above falling to the evil nature of Man Lucifer manifested. The sheer AMOUNT of lyrics alone make this album a great READ, as I myself have spent a few hours reading over and over just the lyrics, amazed at Mr. Filth's ability to memorize these short stories to be performed night after night in a concert setting. Just another testament to the talent and passion possessed by the band.
I don't believe in Heaven or Hell or any other divine idea of the Christian myths, but I still find Lucifer to be one of the most intriguing and strangely endearing characters in the history of the written word. If the Bible has given us one good thing, it's been all the things revolving around this character. To be predestined to be without feeling or emotion, and condemned for displaying the traits of "God's Children," Lucifer is a misundertood anti-hero, a paragon of the nature of humanity, and that nature is NOT pretty or refined, it is bestial and self-serving. He is removed from Heaven for finding love, further proving my theory of "God" as a jealous, child-like deity, one not worth worship, but as an example of how NOT to be. This album by Cradle of Filth is by and far, one of the most brilliant CD's in my collection, and something I believe everyone with an interest in any kind of metal should give a listen to.
People who are into other extreme music, meaning not Korn or Disturbed, will find the utter beuty and sheer delight in listening to this epic album. This album is well written, well produced and well recorded with no shortcuts taken. You will find it overwhealming from the guitar riffs to the vocal acrobats that Dani Filth puts you through. The best thing about Cradle of Filth is that it doesn't bore you with the popular and mainstream songwriting form. Songs actually build and have more to them than just an A and B section. the arrangements go beyond just your guitar bass and drums by adding a choir, orchestra and solo female vocals.So take this album home darken your room (or listen on a stormy night) and kick back with your favorite beer and smoke and enjoy the next 76 minutes for it will take your mind soaring with all the dark imagry it beholds.
I will admit, i am not a HUGE cradle of filth fan, nor was i ever. However since roughly 1995 ive kept my eye on COF so to speak. Every album that comes out by COF caught my attention and i always ended up listening to a few songs, but never buying an album. I didnt buy them mostly becasue they were overpriced and hard to find and becasue i just never found a reason to buy one. but ive always enjoyed their odd charm. Recently i saw "damnation…" …, so i picked it up and after 3 straight through listenings, i can say that COF is a solid band. The first thing that i noticed was dani's banshee'esque screams, which can throw one off upon a first listen, and the excellent song structure that the band posesses. One more thing that throws me off is the opera-like choir singing that at times soungs a little cheezy. However, if you sit down uninteruppted (like in a car ride) and listen to most of the album straight through. You will be taken on a excellent and interesting musical ride. The addition of a full orchestra greatly adds to the sound and the songs which are fair in length take bounds and leaps and are not repetative, keeping the listener enthralled for the whole 77 minutes. So, if you're into metal and are looking for a completly different experience then this album is for you, but i must warn, that this album is not for everyone nor was it written for everyone. This isn't a song to song album, but a full concept connected album covering everything from classical pieces to blastbeats and screams of agony. So if youre not a fan take a chance and you just might find a nice treat for your ears…and if youre a fan of COF this album will meet all your demands. Enjoy.


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I turned this plate for a wedding present for a freind. the picture that is burned in the center of the plate was the picture on the invitation. I havent used a wood burner in a wile so I think it turned out prety good. On the back of the plate I burned A JR and the year like normal Thats what I normally use my burner for. Then i desided it needed something more so i did the dragon fly.
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Very nice and I'm sure it will give them many years of enjoyment.
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That's awesome.. Excellent woodburning.
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|Klir deems Fort Fest 'a wonderful promotion of local history'
|Friday, August 30, 2013 12:00 AM
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Memorial Hall Coordinator Dr. Wesley Klir said that Fort Fest was a wonderful promotion of local history and an excellent showcasing by re-enactors.
"It was contagious, sharing and educational experience and celebrating what Fort Jennings has become," Klir said excitedly.
Klir said the Carriage Horse Ride was a big success. The displays in Memorial Hall drew a huge attendance with almost 400 visitors signing the guest registry.
"One person, a young man, made a comment when leaving the displays," Klir reiterated the young man's quote. "I have never been more proud to be part of this community."
Klir's shared his sentiments with the patron.
"They walk among us quietly," he said with pride, "those who have made such a great impact."
For those who visited the Ohio MIA/POW displays at Memorial Hall and the "Eyes of Freedom" display at the Fire Station, some attendees indicated they never realized what they [soldiers] went though.
"People gained a greater understanding for what great fortitude being a soldier was," Klir stated.
In addition, Mayor Jim Smith and village council members want to thank all the Fort Jennings Park Board Members who made Fort Fest a huge success. Included is Board President Jerry Siefker; Vice President Derek Kaverman; Secretary Jan Klausing; Chris Nichols; Diana Osting; Greg Metzger; Jake Berelsman; Jason Dickman; Katie Etgen; Kari Amstutz; Missy Young; Monica Bruskotter; Nate Wannemacher; Scott Aldrich; and Tim Fitzpatrick. They would also like to extend special thanks to Encampment Coordinator Julia Wiley and Memorial Hall Coordinator Dr. Wes Klir.


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Bismarck-Henning's Andy Bott opened his senior season with a second-place individual finish at the Tiger Kick Off Classic at Lake of the Woods Golf Course in Mahomet.
Bott, who was eighth in last year's Class 1A state tournament and a runner-up in 2011, shot a 3-over 75 on Monday, finishing three strokes behind Champaign Centennial's Christian Khachturian, who carded an ever-par round of 72.
Khachturian, a previous East Central Illinois Junior Golf champion, helped his Chargers claim the team title with a score of 317. Bradley-Bourbonnias was second (320) and Mahomet-Seymour was third (327).
Bismarck-Henning was the top Class 1A school in the tournament with a fifth-place finish as they Blue Devils had a team score of 332. Joining Bott in the top-five individual golfers was Bismarck-Henning teammate David Warren, who shot a 5-over 77 to finish fourth. Other scorers for the Blue Devils were Noah Campbell (84) and Logan Reifsteck (94).
Danville High and Oakwood were also in the tournament.
The Vikings were 10th with a score of 378. Christian Montgomery had the best round for Danville with a 93, while Reed Krynski had a 97, Jon Brinkley chipped in with a 98 and Tristan Wolfe rounded out the team scoring with a 103.
The Comets were 14th out of 16 teams with a score of 417. Brandon Rowe had the low round for Oakwood with an 84, while Traig Huchel was next with a 96.
Bismarck-Henning and Danville High will compete in a dual match this afternoon at Turtle Run Golf Club in Danville.
Cornjerkers fall to Warriors, Wildcats
ROSSVILLE — Ryan McGill shot a team-best 46 on Monday but it wasn't enough as Hoopeston Area lost to Watseka and Donovan in a triangular at Hubbard Trail.
McGill was just one shot of the medalist honors collected by two golfers from Donovan and one from Watseka.
After the 46 from McGill, the Cornjerkers got a 49 from Tristyn Trosper and then came Anthony Shore (51) and Chase DeVore (54).
In the girls competition, Holly Morgeson of Hoopeston Area had a 62 and Keirsten Wilson shot a 72.
West Vigo 5, Covington 0
COVINGTON, Ind. — The Trojans got off to a rough start as the Vikings won four matches in straight sets, and the fifth by forfeit.
Covington (0-1) won just 10 games in the four matches with Ethan Snyder and Amit Shah each winning four games in their losses at No. 1 and 3 singles respectively.
Dans pitcher, manager receive postseason honors
DANVILLE — A record-setting Prospect League season led to the Danville Dans collecting a pair of awards on Monday.
Left-hander pitcher Troy Conyers was named the Roland Hemond Prospect of the Year, while Jason Watson was named the Manager of the Year.
Conyers, a sophomore-to-be from the University of San Diego, was 5-1 with 1.53 ERA this summer and he struck out a team-high 60 batters, which was good enough for second in the Prospect League, while walking just 18.
"The Danville Dans have had 22 alumni who have went on to the Major Leagues and it would be a pleasure to add Troy Conyers to that list some day,'' said Jeanie Cooke, managing partner for the Danville Dans.
Watson, who is the head coach from Dickinson State University in North Dakota, led the 2013 Danville Dans to a Prospect League record 41 victories and the team also set a league mark with a 11-game win streak in early July. Danville was also ranked as high as No. 11 in the Perfect GAme USA's weekly rankings of summer collegiate baseball teams.
"This was an exciting season for the Dans,'' Cooke said. "Jason has guided this team of great guys to many achievements this summer.''
Springer claims DCC club championship
DANVILLE — Brett Springer's 2-over 73 on Sunday carried him to an 8-shot victory over Nick Webster in the Danville Country Club Championship.
Springer, the golf coach at Danville High, opened the two-day tournament with a 1-under 70 on Saturday and he was 1-over 143 for the two-round tournament. Webster had a 73 on Saturday and a 78 on Sunday to finish with a 9-over score of 151.
Joe Legg (162) won the first flight; while Inder Rakalla (168) won the second flight.


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The Forensic Anthropology Center 2013 summer short courses
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The Forensic Anthropology Center (FAC) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is happy to announce our 2013 summer short courses for students and professionals.
Field Methods - May 28-31, 2013
Outdoor Recovery - this course is taught twice - June 3-7, 2013 or June 10-14, 2013
Human Identification - June 17-21, 2013
Forensic Taphonomy - June 24-28, 2013
Participants may sign up for multiple courses if they wish. Please see our website, http://fac.utk.edu/courses.html, for course descriptions, fees and registration materials. Contact Dr. Dawnie Steadman for additional information at email@example.com.


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CATEGORIES Theatrical Reviews, New in Theaters, Review Roundup, Features, Reviews, CinematicalWelcome to President's Day Weekend, where the multiplexes are stocked with a few pounds of new product, including an FBI espionage drama, a family-friendly kidventure flick, another Tyler Perry concoction, a flashy supehero epic and a sweet 'n' sunny rom-com. Dig in!
Breach -- 80 positive / 22 negative reviews at RottenTomatoes.com.
Pro: "There are some neat, almost delirious scenes of suspense, most of which play against cliche." -- Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Con: "A movie that urgently asserts itself as a spy thriller, but can never quite escape the Bureau's true preoccupation with who is getting the window offices." -- Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News
Pro: "While Breach plays effectively as a cat-and-mouse espionage thriller, its real drama derives from the murky moral and ethical frontier it crosses." -- Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Con: "The big suspense sequence revolves around whether Hanssen will notice that his briefcase has been moved a smidgen, hardly on a par with Goldfinger giving 007 a laser beam vasectomy." -- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bonus! "Has real excitement and true craft behind it, which is just one part of the reason why it's such a pleasure to watch." -- James Rocchi, Cinematical
Bridge to Terabithia -- 66 positive / 12 negative at RT.com.
Pro: "A painfully grounded tale of the stripping away of naivete that is adolescence, and how heartbreakingly excruciating an experience that can be." -- MaryAnn Johnason, The Flick Filosopher
Con: "One wonders if the makers of Bridge to Terabithia actually have something against all the people who loved reading Katherine Paterson's award-winning book as children." -- Chris Barsanti, FilmCritic.com
Pro: "Mark my words: it is that rarified breed of masterpiece with a shelf life destined to span many generations." -- Dustin Putnam, TheMovieBoy.com
Con: "The whole affair has been unnecessarily coated in computer-generated magical kingdom fairy dust, no doubt in deference to the perceived needs of a young audience in a post-big screen "Chronicles of Narnia" environment." -- Mary F. Pols, Contra Costa Times
Bonus! "A heartfelt, respectful and remarkably well-done film." -- Kim Voynar, Cinematical
Daddy's Little Girls -- 9 positive / 25 negative at RT.com.
Pro: "Happily, Perry's strength as a filmmaker is that he genuinely loves his actors, and they love him back." -- Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Con: "An almost cruel slickness has replaced the rough-edged enthusiasm, giving Perry's faith-based medicine an awfully bitter aftertaste." -- Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Pro: "You come to a film like this knowing what you're going to get. And you can't say Perry doesn't deliver." -- Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic
Con: "There's nothing in the film I would consider "inspirational" or "educational," as Perry's sycophants would like his critics to believe these venomous pictures are at their core." -- Brian Orndorf, OhMyNews.com
Bonus! "Often heavy-handed without much lighthearted comedy to provide respite." -- Jette Kernion, Cinematical
Ghost Rider -- 13 positive / 43 negative at RT.com.
Pro: "Whether you like it, hate it or just don't get it, this at least makes "Ghost Rider" an intriguing, witty/nutso acting experiment from beginning to end." -- Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News
Con: "Despite all of the flames and devastation that fill just about every frame, "Ghost Rider" is free of any sense of excitement." -- Dan Lybarger, eFilmCritic.com
Pro: "Sure, it may fall under the heading of a guilty pleasure, but there is nothing wrong with that -- few movies can even make that much of a promise." -- Pam Grady, Reel.com
Con: "You would have to be somewhere beyond deep-geek to defend "Ghost Rider"'s unholy melding of religious mumbo-jumbo to motorcycle worship, western folklore, father-son psychology, and Elvis Lives wish fulfillment." -- Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Bonus! "Every plot turn is slavishly predictable, and certain lines of dialogue telegraph themselves. The CG effects are all too obvious and cheap-looking, especially the ghost head..." -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Cinematical
Music and Lyrics -- 84 positive / 46 negative at RT.com.
Pro: "There are an unusual number of two-person scenes, giving the actors the chance to show their charm, work off each other and develop the nuances of interaction." -- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Con: "Blatant lack of onscreen chemistry indicates, however, that nobody really wants to see these two make out..." -- Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Pro: "Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant should work with each other more often." -- Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
Con: "It's all rather nauseatingly pleasant, hard to find offensive but easy to get sick of -- sort of like an insipid pop song." -- Josh Bell, Las Vegas Weekly
Bonus! "Disposable, even if you are left with it stuck pleasantly in your head for the next few days." -- James Rocchi, Cinematical
Next week: The Abandoned, Amazing Grace, The Astronaut Farmer, The Number 23 and Reno 911: Miami.


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The Falcons released reserve C Rob Bruggeman on Tuesday. He had been with the team since 2009, spending last season on the practice squad. He played in Sunday's loss at Pittsburgh.
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With DT Jonathan Babineaux coming off the suspension list, the Falcons needed to create a roster spot. Bruggeman may return to the Atlanta practice squad if he is not claimed by another team on waivers.


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5 Star Lone Eagle Condo!Ski In/Ski Out, Exclusive/Quiet 3009 in Keystone
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 8
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community Lone Eagle
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$ 903 - $ 5,943 / week
$ 3,612 - $ 23,772 / month
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Five Star Condo in Lone Eagle, Unit # 3009
Save: 25% off ALL your Ski Equipment when you rent this amazing condo. Up to 30% off transportation. Local merchant discount 10% to 25%. See details below or ask when you make your reservation. We offer REAL discounts you will use.
Unit Size and Quality: *****(5 Stars). This 1200 square foot unit has been beautifully decorated by the owner with modern finishes and clean lines. When you enter the condo, you will notice the gourmet kitchen with granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, and slate floors. Any cook will enjoy cooking a meal away from home in this well-equipped kitchen. Six people can comfortably enjoy the living room and warm up by the large, gas fireplace. Your friends and family will also enjoy the new 55 inch HD LCD TV with surround sound while watching your favorite movie or TV show. The master bedroom features a king sized bed, new 32 inch HD LCD TV + DVD, and private bathroom with over sized tub and a separate frameless glass shower. Open the windows in the Spring, Summer, and Fall and enjoy the sound of the Snake River below. The second bedroom has two comfortable twin sized beds as well as a new 32 inch HD LCD TV. The living room sleeper sofa will sleep an additional two people if desired. If you need to do some work away from home, you will enjoy free broadband internet access. If you need extra sleeping capacity, we can provide high quality air mattresses upon request and portable cribs.
Views **** (5 Stars) The many windows and the balcony will allow you to enjoy views of the Snake River, beautiful trees, and mountains in the distance. Lone Eagle has a partially covered balcony at the back of the building if you want to watch the skiers come down to the base of River Run.
condo rental amenities
Building Quality and Amenities *****(5 Stars) Lone Eagle is a 5 star Platinum-rated building. It is one of only two buildings in Keystone that is truly ski-in/ski-out. Walk down to the lobby. Pop on your skis and you are on the slopes! It is the newest building in Keystone. It features 58 exclusive condos. The small size of the building allows guests to quietly enjoy the many amenities that Lone Eagle has to offer. Enjoy no hassle parking in the access controlled, heated parking garage under the building. If you are traveling with friends and family, you can gather in the lobby sitting areas and enjoy the fireplace or sit outside on the partially covered balcony and enjoy the mountain views. There is also a year-round heated pool and 8-person hot tub that is used exclusively by Lone Eagle guests. You can also enjoy the steam room and fitness facilities located on the first floor. Over sized ski lockers are also located on the first floor to store all of your equipment.
If you are traveling with friends and family, we can also help you book Lone Eagle 3015, 3020, 3021, 3024, 3042 & 3050.
Proximity to Activities ***** (5 Stars) Ski down to the lift, which is approximately 50 yards away & ski right up to the building at the end of your day. Ski lockers are just inside of the skier entrance at the back of the building. Lone Eagle is also just a short 2-3 minute walk into the heart of village where you will find restaurants, shops, and ski/bike rental facilities.
activities and attractions in Keystone Colorado
Best Transportation:
Taking the shuttle? Save BIG with Summit Express! 1 to 4 passengers $55, 4 to 8 $45 more than 8 $40. This is 20% to 30% less than the same service from the big boys! Nobody can come even close to this deal!!! We negotiated the best deal for you and ZERO kickback for us.
Why Rent From Us?
We are the personal property manager of the owner. We are a local family owned business.
Conventional wisdom says that you get a better deal if there is no manager involved. This is largely untrue in a high mountain environment like ours. Either the owner is using a management service on the side and ultimately building this cost into the rate or they are leaving everything to chance. Little problems are a BIG deal at 9,000 feet above sea level and in subzero temps. We are there if you lose your key. Being locked out of your condo in sub-zero temps is no fun. This is not a scare tactic. Every year we help several hundred guests with lock-out problems.
Rent Me: We now offer XBOX 360's, Playstation 3's, Nintendo Wii's and the iPad 2. Let your kids have a blast while you relax. We deliver and setup the devices for you. iPad 2's are connected to all the Wi-Fi signals in Keystone Resort. So take it where you want and have FUN! Bring your own games or get them from us.
Guaranteed Best Price:
If you like to look for deals, then help us stay current with our deals. We will pay you to do your research. If you find a better deal on a comparable property, then provide us with clear evidence and we will beat the deal by 10%.
Our rates are as good as the best you will find. You are gaining peace of mind and losing nothing. Your vacation is meant to be enjoyed. We are here to make your experience hassle free.
Fees and Taxes
We are required by law to charge tax on your stay.
We want to be clear, taxes and cleaning fees are not included in the posted rates. We will send you a quote with the breakdown of all costs, so you can see EXACTLY what you are paying.
Many of our competitors build their fees into their rate. This means that YOU are PENALIZED every day you stay with them because you keep paying for the same service over and over again.
Please make an apples to apples comparison. If you present us with a legitimate and comparable quote from someone else, we will beat it by 10%.
Things to do in Keystone:
Keystone is the premier destination for various events, festivals and one-of-a-kind attractions. These include things such as Mardi Gras, Wine Festival, Beer and Blues Festival, Full Production Concerts, Discovery Days for kids, Art Shows, a real ice castle at the top of the mountain for kids and adults to explore, panning for gold, bungee jumping, and much more. Additionally, you can enjoy Mine Tours, Historical Bus Tours, ATV tours, Four-wheel drive tours, Snowmobiling, horseback riding and sleigh rides. Check out our website for more details on events taking place during your vacation.
Activities include championship golfing (2 courses in Keystone), Mountain biking (down, not up), Wild Life Tours, the best hiking in North America, White Water Rafting, Fly Fishing, and boating, just to name a few. There also Keystone festivals almost every weekend during the summer.
vacation rental rates
Late Ski Season (April 13 - June 13) $238/night
Summer (June 14 - September 11) $149/night *3 night minimum*
Fall (September 12 - October 31) $149/night *2 night minimum*
Early Ski Season (November 1 - December 19) $199/night *2 night minimum
Thanksgiving (November 26 - November 30) $279/night *4 night minimum*
Pre Christmas (December 20 - December 24) $499/night *3 night minimum*
Christmas/New Year (December 25 - January 4) $819/night *4 night minimum*
Peak ( Excludes MLK/Pres ) (January 5 - March 7) $549/night *3 night minimum*
MLK Weekend (January 17 - January 20) $659/night *3 night minimum*
Presidents Day Weekend (February 14 - February 17) $659/night *3 night minimum*
Spring Break (March 8 - March 30) $699/night *4 night minimum*
Value Season (March 31 - April 12) $249/night *2 night minimum*


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Relating to an actual, specific thing or instance; particular.
Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real.
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These are some of my babies. The orange hibiscus is a double. The pink/red one is a beautiful gladiola and the last is the lilly. They are all so pretty. I wish I could get more pics of the gladiolas, I have many two tones now open also. Purple,white/ periwinkle/red.
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|Letters to the Editor
|Monday, October 29, 2012 1:29 PM
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing
This allowed Hitler to get on with his murderous ways in Europe during the 30s and 40s.
Someone said "First they came for the unborn but I was already born so that didn't concern me, then they came for the handicapped but I wasn't handicapped so I wasn't worried, then they came for the aged but I was young and didn't care, then they came for the Jews but I wasn't a Jew so that wasn't any concern of mine, but when they came for me no one was there to help me.
Don't wait till they come for you. Fight the good fight with your vote. Consider the unborn, protect religious freedom and all constitutional rights and defend marriage as a union between one woman and one man as God intended for the procreation and the education of children.
Ed Luersman,
Fort Jennings
Some Republicans continue to make false statements about President Obama's leadership and what has been accomplished during his term in office despite the obstructions most Republican office holders in the House of Representatives and the Senate have practiced.
The following are facts:
Under President Obama, all the money used in the Bank Bailout Bill of 2008 signed by President Bush have been recovered plus $13 billion in interest.
Regulations, transparency and restrictions have been put into effect on these bailed-out firms and their top executives to prevent what happened leading to the 2008 crisis from happening again.
The Affordable Care Act did not and will not lead to the government takeover of health care. It put needed rules and regulations into the existing health insurance market, putting people and not insurance companies in charge of their health care. Government has not taken over health care but is protecting all Americans' rights to health care.
The president has strengthened the border and laws concerning illegal immigration into our country. There are fewer illegal border crossings than ever before. Those who are already here, have been given a legal path to citizenship, which they must follow if they wish to remain here.
President Obama has not asked for new gun restrictions. Not one law-abiding citizen has had a gun taken away. In fact, under President Obama, national parks and Amtrak has been opened to the legal possession of guns.
President Obama respects all religious beliefs and is committed to religious freedom for all and also to the rights of all women, including access to contraception, regardless of where they works. Those religious organizations objecting to providing contraception need not do so but their insurance company must offer free contraception.
Auto manufacturing, parts suppliers, dealers, communities and businesses have benefitted greatly under President Obama's leadership in saving the auto industry in spite of most Republican leadership. Senator Voinovich supported the president in accomplishing this.
President Obama improved the GI Bill with the most generous benefits in the history of this great nation.
He doubled funding for Pell Grants, helping millions more students to afford a college education.
The middle class have lower taxes than when President Obama took office. He signed 18 tax cuts into law for small businesses.
There is much more to be done but under President Obama, we are moving in the right direction. Send a message to Congress to support and assist the President to move this country forward and not commit to obstruction.
Our country and the people in it are still and will continue to be the greatest on earth, regardless of the outcome of this election. God bless America for its greatness and honesty.
Charles P. Sampson Jr.
To the vandals who destroyed and damaged our political, religious freedom and pro-life signs this weekend:
We have not trespassed on your property and destroyed and damaged the political signs that you have displayed which are supporting your candidate and causes. So why have you seen fit to destroy and damage our political, pro-life and religious freedom signs and trespass on our property?
If you think this will stop us from supporting our causes and our candidates, you are sadly mistaken. If you are juveniles and/or teenagers and think this was a funny joke, we feel sorry for you.
People can disagree strongly with each other concerning the abortion issue, religious freedom and politics. Resorting to this type of childish and immature behavior is ridiculous. We'd rather see matters settled at the ballot box than in this manner.
At first glance, it looked as the damage was caused by the wind. When I looked closer, I found that there were holes in some of the signs (which were still attached to the sign holders) and some of the sign holders had been broken apart. Then I knew it was not wind damage. This was deliberate vandalism.
Sincerely yours,
Mike and Marlene Wrasman


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HEIMA is a smart home user interface. It is a project I did for my honours degree at UCLAN. The idea was to create an easy to use, BS-free and intuitive interface that would control all of your connected appliances and act as a smart home hub.
PS I apologize upfront if the GIFs are taking a bit too much time to load. If you feel an urging need to kick my arse for that. feel free to do so via email, Twitter, comment or any other mean of modern communication. Cheers!Branding, UI/UX2013
This is the result of a 3m. collaborative work on BBC student brief for D&AD 2013.
You can find the brief itself here - http://ge.tt/9SP5C8c/v/0?cUI/UX, Web Design2013
HUB is a result of a 3 m. self-initiated student brief I did in UCLAN. THe idea was to create a special place on the web where students of or particular school of Art, Design and Performance could socialise. By this I mean share the knowledge and experience, communicate, show off the work they have done or are in the process of doing. The HUB would be a perfect place that would eliminate the need of using web services that aren't quite meant to be used by students the way the are. HUB would have messaging. discussion, learning material, project revision and blog platforms all under one roof and wrapped into a nice and clean package.
Images I've used for the tiles are courtesy of their respective owners and used here only for presentational purpose.Interaction Design, Web Design2012
An unused monogram I've designed for photographer name Rich Graham.Graphic Design2012
A logo I did for a landscape slash nature photographer Tyson Poeckh.Branding, Graphic Design2012
Guys from Fastline media asked me to refresh a logo for a landscape photography collective called Timescapes.Branding, Graphic Design2012
Logotype I did for a photographer Eric EsterleBranding2013
A redesign of Brian Muldoon Photography website. A portfolio website for
Scottish photography company which is currently the biggest one in the Scotland.Web Design2012
Student project on a design brief at UCLAN.Print Design, Illustration2012
Birthday greetings card.Graphic Design, Illustration2012
It's the second part of the branding brief we've been given in the university.Web Design2012
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A woman was out walking her dog Saturday morning when a man reportedly tried to abduct her, Prince William County Police said.
Police responded to the incident at 8:27 a.m. to the incident on the 13960 block of Jefferson Davis Highway in Woodbridge, just behind the Rodeway Inn. The 46-year-old woman reported that she was walking her dog in the lot adjacent to the rear of the Inn when an unknown man approached her. He grabbed her shoulder, but she was able to pull away. The man fled without saying a word.
The victim did not report any injuries.
The suspect was described as a male between 30 and 35 years old, Hispanic, about 5'7", around 175-180 pounds, with shoulder-length, unkempt hair and an unshaven face. He was last seen wearing a lime green jacket with blue lining around the neckline, black pants, red hooded sweatshirt and light-colored cowboy boots.


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As a few of my regular readers know, I am currently involved in a modest self-promoting fundraising effort. I'm trying to scare up $1500 to pay for a short east coast book tour for my second major left-progressive critique of the Obama phenomenon. The new volume is titled The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (order at http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/ books/ BookDetail.aspx?productID=243410). It is a follow up to my summer 2008 book Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008), ), a volume that the eminent left political scientist and author Adolph Reed Jr. called "a much needed burst of clear, brisk conceptual air that cuts through the fog of fantasy and wish-fulfillment. [Street's] meticulously researched, carefully argued analysis of Obama's career and his politics," Reed wrote, "performs an important task of demystification. It is also an eloquent and bracing reminder that progressive agendas will not be advanced through vesting hopes and aspirations in candidate-centered politics, that there is no quick and easy substitute for the task of building a serious, institutionally grounded, working-class based political movement —from the bottom up and top down." The fundraising project can be surveyed and responded to) at www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulstreet/the-lefts-fiercest-critic-goes-street-on-obama.Please do not hesitate to help out if you wish to see my effort at radical truth-telling on the Obama phenomenon/presidency get a better hearing and achieve more visibility than they have so far [1].
Demystification is as required as ever today regarding Obama. A recent New York Times "New Analysis" feeds the media's longstanding myth of the president as some sort of "left"-leaning "progressive" by absurdly wondering if he will "be willing to refashion himself as a pragmatist who will compromise" on his supposed "taste" for big and activist, egalitarian government "in exchange for small victories"[2]. A recent poll finds that 55 percent of likely American voters think "the word 'socialist' describes the president either 'well' or 'very well.'"[3] This disturbing mass belief (fed by the right and dominant media) about the in-fact "deeply conservative" [4] corporate-neoliberal Obama exists despite Obama's strong service to elite corporate and financial interests who are well represented in his administration and who paid for so much of his presidential campaign, which set new corporate fundraising records. Like my previous one, my new "Obama book"[5] is dedicated among other things to demonstrating and documenting Obama's corporate, state-capitalist essence. Anyone who thinks the president is a "socialist" needs to examine the actual meaning of that term (which is never defined in a way that most actual socialists would endorse in the standard polling procedure) and look more closely at his actual record.
Here is some local context for my attempt to raise a comparatively small amount of money dough to take an actually left grassroots critique of the fake-grassroots Obama administration on the road this August. I currently reside in the rather overly Obama-friendly campus town Iowa City, Iowa, where Obama design work is still visible on the backs and windows of Volvos and Priuses and BMWs at the food coop, which employs a wine buyer who makes regular trips to southern France. Iowa City is home to the University of Iowa. In March of 2008, the "Distinguished Lecture" Series at the "liberal" University of Iowa gave the monumental war criminal and top Republican political strategist Karl Rove 40,000 taxpayer dollars to come sit on a couch and trade insults with liberals and others for one hour at the school's Memorial Union in Iowa City. Yes, forty grand: more than many of the university's full-time staff made in an entire year for one hour of vicious nothingness and lies from a smiling, shameless master of war and plutocracy – a man whom his boss George W. Bush once aptly nicknamed "Turd Blossom."
(The crowd for the Rove event was quite large. I asked Rove (i) how many Iraqis he thought had been killed by the U.S. invasion launched in March of 2003 – the 150,000 or so proposed by some groups (e.g. Iraq Body Count) or the 1 million plus calculated by the British medical journal The Lancet and (ii) what percentage of whatever death measure he picked he was willing to take good Republican "personal responsibility" for. Rove picked the smaller number and dismissed the rest of my question as "an insult to our wonderful troops." He was later chased out of his post-lecture dinner and from Iowa City by antiwar activists who had come to arrest him. The activists stood outside his restaurant with bullhorns yelling "Karl Rove you are surrounded, come out with your hands up." The next day a nice young white middle class liberal kid – a fellow who turned out to be a major Obama fan – complimented me on my exchange with Rove but was taken aback at my response: "Thank you. However, I worry that this sort of event where we beat up on a big bad Republican just reinforces this sense that Obama is going to come in and make it all better. He's not going to do that – trust me.")
In the summer of that same year, the "progressive" head of Iowa City's main independent bookstore refused to hold an author event for my first "Obama book." She said it "scared" her to see an author criticizing the Democratic candidate from the left. Never mind that the very polite book in question recommended voting for Obama in contested states or that the book had strong endorsement on the back cover from the world's leading intellectual – Noam Chomsky, who filled Iowa City's large downtown Englert Theater to capacity in April of 2006 (a tornado rolled through town a few days later) – and other noted progressive thinkers like John Pilger, Charles Derber, and Reed. In late January of 2009, around the time of Obama's inauguration, a left wing staffer at the bookstore had to fight to have my book included in a display of books – some quite vile and inferior – on the Obama phenomenon and campaign. The display included the right wing lunatic Jerome "Swift Boat" Corsi's paranoid, racist, and neo-McCarthyite "bestseller" Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality [6].
Last November that same bookstore held a big talk and signing event at the Englert for a vapid book called The Audacity to Win – an opportunistic volume by Obama's campaign director David Plouffe. Plouffe at that time was busy denouncing left progressives for criticizing the corporatist nature of the administration's health "reform." The local Democrats said that his book was "the ultimate insider story of what many consider the most brilliant campaign ever run, by the man who helped design it and made it happen. David Plouffe was not just the architect of the campaign that put Obama in the White House," the Johnson County Democratic Party claimed, "he also built a grassroots movement that changed the face of democracy itself"[7].
That was a bit much. One of the more nauseating things about the Obama campaign in critical early Caucus-endowed Iowa (the focal point of presidential politics in year before the quadrennial elections) was its repeated insistence on presenting itself as a popular social movement. In reality, of course, it was a carefully crafted big money, candidate-centered marketing and campaign operation – one in which the "grassroots" operatives (door and phone canvassers and Web handlers) took their marching orders and talking points from the top down. I attempted to attend the Plouffe event but was turned away since I would not pay $40 for a copy of the book.
In his book and at the Englert Plouffe bragged about his campaign's role in disseminating the story of John Edwards' "five hundred dollar haircut." Edwards (and not Hillary Clinton)finished second to Obama in Iowa, advancing an angry economic populist campaign — endorsed by Ralph Nader on MSNBC in December 2007 [8] — claiming that only an "epic fight" with concentrated wealth and corporate politicians of both parities could win big progressive change. He mocked Obama's conciliatory belief that the country's problems were due simply to partisan nastiness and he ridiculed Obama's "naïve" promise to negotiate politely with Republicans and big corporations for things like health reform and the reduction of carbon emissions. Obama's response to Edwards in a debate in Des Moines: "We don't need more heat, we need more light."[9] We've seen who Obama's "light" bringers have been: the Wall Street financial lords, the leading energy corporations and the masters of military industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower left office warning us about. The haircut hit hatched by the Obama campaign was meant to discredit Edwards' insistent critique of Obama and Hillary Clinton as "corporate Democrats."
Last March Obama came to Iowa City to celebrate his then just-signed health "reform" bill. He made a surprise visit to the same bookstore, where he was met by the store's manager Jan, who was known to complain about Obama a bit but who in this moment smiled very widely and said to him "WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU." This event was recorded with a big photo on the front page of The New York Times [10]. What are campus town "progressives" like her most "proud of" I wondered: the bombing of Bola Boluk, the record-setting transfer of taxpayer $ to parasitic Wall Street behemoths, the betrayal of the Employee Free Choice Act (of labor), the vicious undermining of the Copenhagen climate talks, the record-setting Pentagon budget, the cold escalation (in defiance of majority opinion) in Af-Pak, the "five-front terror war" (Glenn Greenwald) that includes Somalia, Yemen, and Ethiopia, the invasion of Haiti in the name of relief, the support of a vicious right wing coup in Honduras, the roll over of Bush's police-state policies, the health "reform" that only insurance and drug companies can love, the enhanced removal of immigrants from employment, the appointment of Wall Street friendly centrists to the Supreme Court?…all of the above?
On the same day of Obama's visit to Prairie Lights I put on some nice clothes and went down to the University of Iowa Field House outside where Obama was giving a speech on behalf of his health bill. There were 200 or so happy Democrats and Obama fans with posters ("We Love Our President") in front of the building and 200 or so angry "Tea Party" volk ("Save Freedom, Stop Marxism") on the other side of the street. Local television reporters and cameras were all over the place. I went up to one pair of female reporters and said "hey …are you going to give any coverage to actual left perspectives? Not all the criticism of this bill is from the right, you know." They said "yes, of course we will" and "filmed" 2-3 minutes with me. I was very polite and concise. I hit the basic points on how and why it was a conservative and inadequate bill – a sell-out to the big insurance and drug companies – from a true progressive standpoint. I made sure to smile and stay calm, on point. The clip never ran. The TV spots on the evening news out of Cedar Rapids and Davenport were all about the conflict between the "left" represented by Obama and the right (the "tea party" people…who I spoke with at some length and found close to insane). By the local news accounts the only people who had any real or relevant problems with Obama's bill were "the tea party," whatever that term really designates.
Here is another local anecdote that reflects in its own silly little way the dangerously narrow and rightward spectrum of acceptable debate that can result from such skewed news coverage. Two months ago, I was in the Laundromat on Bloomington Street just off downtown Iowa City, putting some wet clothes in a coin-operated dryer. I caught sight of an old wooden school desk-chair where a political debate seemed to have broken out. Someone had written the following on the top of the desk in a dark black pen: "'War is Peace'- Barack Obama, Oslo, Norway, December 2009." "War is Peace" comes from the democratic socialist George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty Four. In Orwell's tale, it was a nonsensical phrase (along with "Freedom is Slavery" and "Love is Hate") that the totalitarian state capitalist government of Oceana seeks to implant in the minds of its subject populace through constant repetition. "Clever," I thought to myself, reflecting that at least one resident of Iowa City got it that Barack Obama has, as the left author and journalist Jeremy Scahill noted last year, conducted a "U.S. foreign policy that…in many ways advances the interest of the American empire in a way the Republicans could only have dreamed of doing"[11]. I wondered if the author of the Laundromat commentary had read Obama's Nobel acceptance speech, in which the "peace" president gave what the Associated Press rightly described as "a robust defense of war" [12]– consistent with Scahill's observation in Chicago last year (at the annual meetings of the International Socialist Organization) that Obama "is a brilliant supporter of empire who has figured out a way to essentially trick a lot of people into believing they're supporting radical change…Obama," Scahill added, "is an incredibly Orwellian character. He can make people think that war is peace."
There was an interesting message from a liberal written next to the "War is Peace" scribble on the Laundromat desk, however. "Leave your politics to FOX 'News,' 'cause you're really bad at it asshole." Someone else (in different handwriting) had circled the comment and written "Racist Tea Bagger." The writers of these critical messages were under the preposterous impression that anyone who criticizes the militaristic Obama's qualifications for a great peace prize must a right winger of the racist FOX News and Tea Party variety.
It's a tiny and restively juvenile episode, to be sure – this Laundromat graffiti story, but I do think it is symptomatic of something bigger. For many, the phrase "Obama's critics" equals "the tea party," FOX News, and the right more generally. Left criticism and opinion is officially invisible or close to it. In Chicago last May, 10,000 people came out to march on City Hall in an impressive multi-racial and multi-generational display of popular opposition to the corporate-privatizationist school agenda promoted by Barack Obama, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, corporate Chicago, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. The demonstration did not gain significant media coverage. As the Chicago Labor and Arts Festival Blog reported, "'Save Our Schools' was the predominant slogan, as perhaps 10,000 people marched from the Board of Education to City Hall and back. A crowd large enough to flow into the streets and stop the downtown rush hour traffic along Clark Street. Yet the evening news had no time to report this major event, instead concentrating their journalism on canned reports of an elderly couple trapped inside their home by years of accumulated debris and waste. As tragic as this story is, it is dwarfed by the anger and actions of the people of Chicago fighting to withstand a government intent on trapping our young people in the debris of their educational system."[13] Meanwhile the dominant media had been abuzz with stories about often small gatherings of angry white guys showing up at post offices and car dealerships to proclaim "tea party" war on "leftist" Obama "socialism."
Multi-colored masses coming out in large numbers to oppose top-down state-capitalist policy from the bottom up – that's folded into what the late great radical historian Howard Zinn called "The Unreported Resistance." They are unworthy protestors as far as the reigning news and commentary authorities are considered. Comparatively small scale protest on behalf of a harsh, right wing version of the status quo – now that's front-page news.
Making the actual Left and left critique invisible in the media is one of the one of the many ways the power elite plays us, with help from local "progressive" authorities (i.e. Prairie Light Books and the Johnson County Democratic Party) in one-party academic-military-industrial towns like Iowa City.
A final local anecdote. Three weeks ago or so I was walking into the Iowa City Public Library on a warm summer evening. In a large conference room off the main hall I noticed a big meeting. I went into to check it out. A doctor was speaking – a man dressed up in medical garb. He was part of a panel presenting on the Democrats' health "reform." He was explaining that the legislation passed was a great progressive victory – a landmark bill, something we should all embrace with pride. And yet "some people," the doctor noted with raised eyebrows, "think it wasn't enough, that it didn't do enough." This – the bill passed – was the most we could have hoped for, the doctor explained. Imagine! Some people want everything!! The mostly senior audience nodded in cowed agreement. I raised my hand, reminding this collection of venerable campus-town liberals of a September 2009 New York CBS poll showing that there was a remarkable CBS-New York Times poll conducted in late September of 2009. Fully sixty-five percent of more than 1,000 Americans randomly surveyed by CBS and the Times responded affirmatively to the following question: "Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government-administered health insurance plan – something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and over get – that would compete with private health insurance plans?"[14] The point of my comment was I think clear: the doctor in front was telling us that majority opinion is irrelevant in the U.S. when it comes to the making of policy by the government, which is identical with "the people" in democratic theory but controlled by the wealthy Few in plutocratic reality. It was a point the people in the room did not seem ready to engage. I proceeded into the book collection area.
Such is one of the many prices of manufactured Left invisibility. If you can help (even in a small way) with my own personal effort to make Left critique and prescription more visible in U.S. political and intellectual culture, please go to www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulstreet/the-lefts-fiercest-critic-goes-street-on-obama and throw me a dollar or two (or ten or 200). You can also look at my new Web site, timed to the publication of my latest book: www.paulstreet.org. I finally have an answer to the countless people who have asked me "do you have a Web site?" It's not quite at the level of http://www.whitehouse.gov/ but it's pretty damn good and I am indebted to Jamaal "Sgt. Justice" Bell for his remarkable work on it.
Paul Street ([email protected])will be interviewed on Latin Waves CJSF 90/1 FM (listen online:http://www.cjsf.ca/pguide/grid/description.php?ID=126 ) at 9:30AM Pacific Time/11:30CST/12:30PM Eastern) on Saturday, July 24. Street will speak on his new book The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power at the restaurant and bookstore Busboys and - 5th and K 1025 5th St. NW, WDC 20001 on Monday, August 16th, 2010 6:30 to 8 PM. Street will speak at the Wooden Shoe Bookstore at 704 South Street in Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, August 17th at 7PM and at Bluestockings Bookstore, a Worker-Owned Bookstore, Fair-Trade Café, Activist Center at 172 Allen Street m NYC, NY (in the Lower East Side of Manhattan) and Wednesday, August 18 at 7 PM For future dates in Springfield, New Jersey and Boston, see http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulstreet/the-lefts-fiercest-critic-goes-street-on-obama/posts
1. The project needs to raise $1500 to be a go but can be funded well beyond that if contributors choose. If contributors wish to extend my tour or move in into a different region (I have been hearing from comrades in the Northwest and Midwest in recent days) that is not out of the question.
2. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Obama Pushes Agenda, Despite Political Risks," New York Times, July 15, 2010. This childish theme of "left" Obama really or potentially moving to the "pragmatic" center goes back a long way in the New York Times and other "mainstream" news outlets. See, for example, Susan Davis, "Obama Tilts Toward Center," Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2008; Michael Powell, "For Obama, a Pragmatist's Shift Toward the Center," New York Times, June 27, 2008; Janet Hook, "Obama Moving Toward Center: Democrat Edging Away From Left on Some Issues in Effort to Woo Independent Voters," Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2008.
3. Thomas Rhiel "55 Percent of Likely Voters Think Obama's a Socialist," Talking Points Memo (July 9, 2010), at http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/shocking-poll-55-percent-of-voters-think-obamas-a-socialist.php
4. As Larissa MacFarquhar noted as early as May of 2007 in a New Yorker portrait titled "The Conciliator," the solutions offered in Obama's writings, speeches, and town-hall meetings were "small and local rather than deep-reaching and systemic." At the same time, Obama became practically notorious in mid-2007 for addressing deep social problems with no policy at all, preferring to substitute empty political platitudes and soothing bromides of hope and togetherness for concrete policy action proposals. "When he talks about poverty," MacFarquhar noted, "he tends not to talk about gorging plutocrats and unjust tax breaks: he says that we are our brothers' keeper, that caring for the poor is one of our traditions." Such refusal to advance large reform – e.g. single payer health insurance on the Canadian model – reflected what MacFarquhar found to be Obama's "deeply conservative" take on history, society and politics: "In his view of history, in his respect for tradition, in his skepticism that the world can be changed any way but very, very slowly, Obama is deeply conservative. There are moments when he sounds almost Burkean. He distrusts abstractions, generalizations, extrapolations, projections. It's not just that he thinks revolutions are unlikely: he values continuity and stability for their own sake, sometimes even more than he values change for the good. Take health care, for example. 'If you're starting from scratch,' he says, 'then a single-payer system'—a government-managed system like Canada's, which disconnects health insurance from employment—'would probably make sense. But we've got all these legacy systems in place, and managing the transition, as well as adjusting the culture to a different system, would be difficult to pull off. So we may need a system that's not so disruptive that people feel like suddenly what they've known for most of their lives is thrown by the wayside'…Asked whether he has changed his mind about anything in the past twenty years, he says, 'I'm probably more humble now about the speed with which government programs can solve every problem. For example, I think the impact of parents and communities is at least as significant as the amount of money that's put into education.'" MacFarquhar found that Obama's "deep conservatism" was why "Republicans continue to find him congenial, especially those who opposed the war on much the same conservative grounds that he did." She noted that some of Bush's top fund-raisers were contributing to Obama's campaign and observed that Obama garnered 40 percent of the Republican vote in his 2004 Senate victory. See Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Conciliator: Where is Barack Obama Coming From?" The New Yorker (May 7, 2007). For an early description of Obama as "vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal," see Adolph Reed, Jr., "The Curse of Community," Village Voice (January 16, 1996), reproduced in Reed, Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (New York, 2000). For evidence in support of MacFarquhar's judgments three and fourteen years ago, see Street, Barack Obama and the Future and Street, The Empire's New Clothes.
5. The quote marks are because the real subject matter of both books is U.S. political culture and social history, not Obama (who I have never found particularly interesting) per se. I think I would have written at least one book on the presidential election and/or the first year of the post-Bush II presidency if the winner of the election had been Hillary Clinton or John McCain.
6. Paul Street, "The Madness of Jerome Corsi," ZNet (August 25, 2008), read at http://www.zcomm.org/znet/viewArticle/18540
7. http://jcdems.org/wp/?p=269
8. Here is a YouTube clip of Nader's endorsement of Edwards on MSNBC's "Hardball" on December 17, 2007 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElQ3xUxSBiU; Mike Aivaz and Muriel Kane, "Ralph Nader supports Edwards' anti-corporate message," Raw Story (December 18, 2007) at http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Nader_likes_Kucinich_thinks_Edwards_looks_1218.html. In Nader's view, "the question" for Iowa and New Hampshire primary voters was "who's going to fight for you?" "The key phrase" in Edwards' campaign, Nader felt, "is when he says he doesn't want to replace a corporate Republican with a corporate Democrats. That's very key. He raises the issue of concentration of power and wealth in a few hands that are working against the interests of the vast majority of American people" (see the YouTube clip at 1:43), "You have now excluded Barack Obama from the progressive coalition," Matthews said. Nader's reply:" He's excluded himself by the statements he's made, unfortunately… [statements that] are extremely conciliatory to concentrated power and big business" (see discussion in clip at 7:15).
9. Edwards and Obama in Des Moines are quoted in Mike Davis, "Obama at Manassas," New Left Review (March-April 2009).
10. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/obama-stops-to-browse-at-a-bookstore/
11. Jeremy Scahill and Anthony Arnove, "Rebranding War and Occupation," Socialist Worker (June 17, 2009), read at http://socialistworker.org/2009/06/17/rebranding-war-and-occupatio n
12. Ben Feller, "Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize With Robust Defense of War," Associated Press (December 10, 2010).
13. Lew Rosenbaum, "Chicago Teachers, Students, & Parents Rally Against Budget Cuts," Chicago Labor & Arts Festival Blog (May 26, 2010) at http://chilaborarts.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/chicago-teachers-students-parents-rally-against-budget-cuts/
14. New York Times-CBS Poll, "Confusion Over Health Care," survey of 1,042 adults, September 19-23, question number 57, p. 15 of 26, poll results at http://documents.nytimes.com/new-york-times-cbs-news-poll-confusion-over-health-care-tepid-support-for-war#p=15


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FORT MILL — Since moving to Fort Mill a few years ago, Lisa Faircloth has been openly critical of the towns annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.
Not this year.
Faircloth, who became part of the solution and volunteered to serve on the committee organizing the event, is excited about Fort Mills official observance, called A Day of Service.
The committee came up with a program that not only honors the memory of King with speeches and music previously the meat and potatoes of the towns observance but with a demonstration of the late civil rights leaders call to citizens to work to collectively to help make the world a better place.
A Day of Service begins 10 a.m. Monday with a gathering at the Fort Mill Church of God on Academy Street and include a keynote address by Fort Mill resident Sammie Potts. It will conclude with a reception at the Fort Mill History Museum, where exhibits on prominent local African-Americans will be featured. In between, attendees can participate by lending a hand in several service projects: a cleanup of the George Fish Memorial in the Paradise community; helping with the Adopt-A-Stream program; or by bringing nonperishables to donate to the Church of God food bank and personal care items for the Fort Mill Care Center.
I like it because thats part of Dr. Kings vision of all people working together for the common good in our cities, our states and our local communities, said Faircloth, who is also the organizing chairwoman for the nascent Fort Mill chapter of the NAACP.
We should make it a day on, not a day off, she said about the national holiday celebrated on the third Monday of January.
King was born Jan. 15, 1929, and died April 4, 1968, after being shot by an assassin after delivering a speech in Memphis, Tenn.
Typically, a brief program consisting of a speech and a song or two from a local choir is held in front of Town Hall. That was something Faircloth was certain she wanted to change.
That was a big concern, it being outside, she said. I said, Out of respect for Dr. King, is it possible to have it indoors? This allows more people to participate and numbers may increase. Children might want to come, grandparents might want to come and this makes it more inclusive.
Faircloth credits her fellow committee members, Town of Fort Mill Events and Media Coordinator Kimberly Starnes in particular, for being open to change. And it was Starnes, she said, who came up with the idea of incorporating service into the program.
Im elated Kimberly has the vision to make this a great community event and was receptive to new ideas and that Fort Mill has someone in her who can focus her energy and creativity on this great event, Faircloth said.
Starnes said residents can expect the annual MLK Day event to evolve.
The change in the MLK event was prompted by several factors, including the Fort Mill History Museums desire to hold a reception after the towns event, the towns dedication to continuously expand our events and the committees enthusiasm and ideas about how the event could be built upon, she said. It would be wonderful to see this event continue to grow.
Capping the celebration will be the museum reception and exhibits.
We thought this is a nice affair and it would be nice to top it off with a social event with refreshments and to be able to highlight some of the local African-Americans who have contributed to the history of Fort Mill, said Ann Evans, the museums executive director.
The museum will turn the spotlight on the lives of four late residents: Lucy Phifer, a local midwife and care giver; John Sanders, a local historian and community leader; Solomon Spratt, a former plantation overseer and successful farmer; and Elliott Littleton Avery, principal and educator at the George Fish School, which was available to African-American students in Fort Mill during segregation.
Admission to the museum will be $5 or free with a canned good to donate.
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Also on Monday, the United Churches of Fort Mill will celebrate King with a program at 7 p.m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 300 Steele St., in Fort Mill. Everyone is welcome.
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WASHINGTON — The Montgomery Ruritan Club will sponsor a ham and beef shooting match Sunday beginning at 12:30 p.m. with a closed beef match at 2:30 p.m.
Prizes include ham, beef and other cuts of pork. All proceeds will benefit the Montgomery Ruritan Club Park improvements, community betterment and charitable donations. Free ham and beans and cornbread will be served. Ruritan Club workers are reminded to report for usual work assignments.
WHS cheer clinic on Wednesday
The WHS cheerleaders winter cheer clinic will be Wednesday for girls grades K-6 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Lena Dunn gym. The attendees will learn a cheer to be performed at half time of the WHS basketball game on Jan. 11.
Cost is $20. Registration is being extended to the date of the actual clinic and the next 50 registrants will be guaranteed a shirt. After that it will be on a first come basis for any remaining shirts.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1KO4RuYpY8...h?v=R1KO4RuYpY8 Nonito Donaire vs Rafael Concepcion Highlights
I just saw this vid and all i could think about was if it was Rigondeaux instead of Rafael. Will Nonaire's left hook be less effective because of Rigondeaux's southpaw stance and shoulder roll?. Marroquin hurt him with a few left hooks. This guy wasn't really slick at all and was making Nonito run around the ring, his face may not have showed anguish but running back like that with your hands down seemed like some survival mode tactic.
Idk if people are giving my dude Rigondeaux a good chance. I can confidently say that Rigondeaux will win by KO. But anything can happen.
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Watched the Narvaez fight. I remembered it. And yes, Donaire was not impressive. Especially with the kind of physical advantages he had. He looked HUGE in comparison to Narvaez. It was interesting to hear Max rag on Donaire and praise Narv. His B.A.D. days...once upon a time when he was more objective, honest, and less of a cheerleader for the "house" fighter.
C, I'm trying to win the FightHype Jr. Featherweight championship belt...then I'll move up to Featherweight...clean out the division, and sit on the throne for 30 more months, then I'm gone! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
I'll have to watch the Narvaez fight again without catching an ulcer, because that's exactly what it gave me the first time around. Lmao at your weight class conquest...you'll be there sooner than you think!
Anyone dealing or has dealt with conte is suspect. Period.
Right. I'm still curious as to what really happened. I heard that Donaire's wife had a lot to do with it, but why though? Donaire's whole, "year round testing" fluff could be in jeopardy, which is the reason that he may have declined any type of confrontation during the split. NOBODY parts ways with Conte without conflict.
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Spacious, corner-unit house (2200 sqft), located in South Orange County, only a short drive away from world famous Laguna Beach on California's Riviera. Enjoy all Laguna Beach has to offer without paying the overpriced rates!
This large house has 2 stories and 3 bedrooms (2.5 bath) and a spacious, open layout. It readily accomodates 5-7 though much larger groups have stayed here previously. It is private, on a small hill with wide open views. A patio and garden allow you to enjoy Aliso Viejo's pleasant and sunny climate.
Built in 1998, the house is well maintained and recently remodeled, with a beautiful kitchen and nice clean interior.
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Realised i had let my reel go without an update for a while now, so i added a bunch of new projects.
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Totally forgot to post this on my blog last year, so thought i would post it now (better late than never, ay?)
Little ident commissioned by the Computer Arts Collection team. The aim was to create something refined, minimalistic and simple that reflected the collection.
Sound design by the great guys over at Echoic.
Guest speaker at After Effects + Cinema 4D meetup group
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Heineken – Future Bottle Design Challenge
Working together with Shoreditch based start up 'Knock Knock productions', we won the pitch to create this animation for Heineken's 'Future Bottle' campaign. We pulled together a great team and completed this animation to a tight deadline. The main thing was that it was great working in such a motivated environment.
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Mike Conley led a balanced attack, finishing with 15 points and seven assists, as the Memphis Grizzlies handled the San Antonio Spurs, 104-86, in Game 4 of the Western Conference quarterfinals.
Darrell Arthur supplied 14 points off the bench and Tony Allen netted 12 in a starting role for Memphis, which now has a commanding 3-1 lead in the series and will try to close it out on Wednesday in San Antonio.
It's a shock for many reasons, not the least of which is that we're talking about the Spurs. Other than the Lakers, who's more playoff-tested than the Spurs?
The Spurs fell apart in the third quarter. They turned the ball over seven times after doing so a total of eight times in the first half. The Spurs took just two free throws in the entire quarter. Meanwhile, Memphis was able to dominate the second-half thanks to hot shooting and a bewildered Spurs defense.
Wednesday, the Grizzlies will be the fourth No. 8 seed to take a two-game advantage into a potential series clincher since 1984 and look to be the first 8-seed to win a first-round series since Golden State did it in 2007.
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Times are changing in agriculture. The past few years have shown record prices, but now corn and soybean prices are near break-even levels for many farmers.
As these factors change, Rod Osthus, president of the R.C. Thomas Company, a seed sales training firm, says producers need to adapt. "Do you know how many businesses and farmers are caught in the paradigm of the 20th century?" he asks.
Osthus, who spoke at the Tomorrow's Top Producer conference on Jan. 28 in Chicago, Ill., says many farmers are caught in what he calls the ag cycle. "This is 'farmers always do what they've always done'," he says.
This ag cycle, Osthus says, affects farmers in these ways:
"Luckily, every farmer can get out of the ag cycle by following four key steps," Osthus says.
1. Recognize your business is caught in the ag cycle (the past).
An example he gives is that 95% of farmers don't want to plan for next year's crop, especially seed varieties, until after harvest. "That's too late," he says. "When the planter stops rolling, you need to start planning."
2. Stop relying on analogical thinking to make decisions (the past).
In many areas of farming, consistency doesn't exist, he says. Every farming year is unique, and past successes don't guarantee future successes. Additionally, Osthus says, technology changes everything so fast that you can't keep up.
3. Develop a plan to increase production by 30-50% in five years (the future).
"Bushels trump everything," Oshthus says. "It doesn't matter if markets go up or down; your only protection is bushels." With this being the case, he says farmers should do everything possible to produce as many bushels as possible.
He says these are the top five factors to producing a top crop:
4. Change your circle of influence.
Osthus says you should think about who are your biggest assets but aren't officially part of your business. "Who's on your team?" he asks. "Who is giving you advice right now that can help you achieve your goals?"
He says all of these people, who range from bankers to crop insurance salesmen to your broker, fall into roughly four areas: production, crop insurance, grain marketing and ag finance.
"These specialists need to work together and help you make the right decisions," he says. "As a farmer, you need to get rid of the word independent. The word these days is interdependence."
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A suicide car bomber blew himself up in the parking lot of a top security compound in central Cairo on Friday, killing at least four people in one of the most high-profile attacks on the state in months, security sources said.
According to Reuters, the early morning explosion damaged the Cairo Security Directorate, which includes police and state security, and sent smoke rising over the capital, raising concerns that an insurgency was gathering pace.
Tensions were rising in other parts of Cairo, which has seen numerous protests and street violence since the army deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July after mass protests against his rule.
Fierce clashes broke out between Morsi supporters and security forces on the road leading to the Pyramids of Giza, where about 2,000 Islamists gathered. Some burned tires and hurled petrol bombs at police, who responded by firing tear gas.
Clashes were also reported on Friday in Suez City, Ismailia and Alexandria.
Hours after the first bomb attack, the capital and its environs witnessed two smaller blasts.
A crude explosive device killed one policeman and wounded nine others in another Cairo neighborhood, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Security sources said a person driving past security vehicles had hurled a hand grenade in their direction.
In Giza, a large district on the outskirts of Cairo, a third explosion went off near a police station. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Later in the day reports emerged of a fourth bombing in Cairo in which one person was killed, according to AFP which cited police officials in its report.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which came a day before the third anniversary of the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak and raised hopes of a stable democracy in the Arab world's biggest nation.
Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, who is in charge of police, called the bombings a "vile terrorist act" aimed at spreading panic ahead of Saturday's pro-military rallies. "But people will only increasingly insist ... and join the masses in millions" on Saturday, he told reporters at the site of the bombed police headquarters, according to AP.
The office of interim President Adly Mansour vowed in a statement after the attack that it is determined to "uproot terrorism" and said it could be forced to take "exceptional measures." It did not elaborate.
On its Twitter account, the Muslim Brotherhood posted a message in English condemning the "cowardly bombings in Cairo, express condolence to families of those killed and demand swift investigation." There was no similar one in Arabic.
After ousting Morsi, army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi unveiled a political road map he said would bring elections and calm to Egypt.
Security forces have killed hundreds of Brotherhood members and jailed thousands more, including top leaders.
Authorities have branded the Brotherhood a terrorist group, accusing it of involvement in the militant violence. The Brotherhood has denied any link. But the branding has helped fuel a wave of popular sentiment against the group and in favor of the military.
Islamists are trying to use Saturday's anniversary to build momentum in their campaign of protests to "break the coup."
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From the Old Welsh Morcant, a compound name thought to be composed of the elements môr (sea) and cant (circle, completion) or can (white, bright).
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The Morrígan ("terror" or "phantom queen") or Mórrígan ("great queen") (also known as Morrígu, Morríghan, Mor-Ríoghain, sometimes given in the plural as Morrígna) is a figure from Irish mythology who appears to have once been a goddess, although she is not explicitly referred to as such in the texts.
She is associated with sovereignty, prophecy, war, and death on the battlefield. She sometimes appears in the form of a crow, flying above the warriors, and in the Ulster cycle she also takes the form of an eel, a wolf, and a cow. She is generally considered a war deity comparable with the Germanic Valkyries, although her association with cattle also suggests a role connected with fertility, wealth, and the land.
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