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By Tom Breihan on March 10, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. EST
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EMA: The Grey Ship
EMA is Erika M. Anderson, former frontwoman of the California noise-folk band Gowns. That band-- led by Anderson and ex-boyfriend Ezra Buchla-- released only one album, 2007's harrowing Red State, but their intense live show provided enough legacy for any group. According to Anderson, the group "self-destructed" last year (more on that below). And now the singer and songwriter is readying her first solo album, Past Life Martyred Saints, for release on May 10 in the U.S. and June 4 elsewhere via Souterrain Transmissions. Listen to the album's recently Playlisted seven-minute-plus opener, "The Grey Ship", above.
As EMA, Anderson largely does what she did in Gowns; she balances ear-scraping noise with simple, direct folk melodies and bruising, desperate lyrics. But she does it with more focus and assurance now, and the noise only augments the emotional punch of the songs instead of getting in the way. On the album's most damaging moments, she'll repeat a frightening, evocative phrase like a mantra: "I wish that every time he touched me left a mark," "20 kisses from a butterfly kni fe," "I'm just 22; I don't mind dying." And she delivers these leveling phrases with direct, memorable melodies. It's the sort of album that lingers long after you hear it.
We recently interviewed Anderson via e-mail, and our Q&A is below:
Take Cover: Toro Y Moi: Underneath the Pine
By Ryan Dombal on March 10, 2011 at 2:05 p.m. EST
Notable album covers help to define artists. With Take Cover, we aim to track down the most striking sleeves and get the stories behind them.
For the latest edition of Take Cover, we caught up with Toro Y Moi's Chaz Bundick to talk about the polarizing image on the front of his BNM'd new album, Underneath the Pine. It turns out the photo-- a self-portrait taken by the one-time graphic design student in a hotel bathroom-- was the indirect result of an unlikely birthday present. Bundick explains the rest below:
5-10-15-20: Ride's Andy Bell
By Tom Breihan on March 9, 2011 at 10:50 a.m. EST
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Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "Dinomutt Dog Wonder" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.
For this edition, we checked in with former Ride singer and guitarist Andy Bell, 40. The new reissue of Ride's shoegaze classic Nowhere recently earned our Best New Reissue designation. Since that band's breakup in 1996, Bell led Hurricane No. 1 and played bass with Oasis, and he's now a member of Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis project Beady Eye.
The Flaming Lips Are Making Gummy Skulls Now
By Ryan Dombal on March 4, 2011 at 12:35 p.m. EST
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In January, Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne talked about his band's plan to release scattered songs in unorthodox ways across this year, rather than working on a full album. "The dilemma is whether we're going to release it on vinyl, cereal boxes, or some of it on toys that we make," he told Rolling Stone. Earlier this week, Coyne gave us some more details on the forthcoming releases, in between rehearsals for a Carnegie Hall performance as part of Philip Glass's annual Tibet House benefit show. And his plan is even more insane than you'd probably expect.
In about three weeks, the band will self-release an as-yet-untitled, four-song 12" featuring Neon Indian. Not too crazy. But then, in April, they'll start selling gummy skulls. We'll let Coyne explain this one: "It's a life-sized human skull completely made out of edible gummy bear stuff. It also has a gummy brain inside of it and, inside of that, there's a USB flash drive that has three new songs on it. It's pretty outrageous."
Click on to read more about the specialized gummy heads (along with a pic of a prototype) and possible future collaborations with James Murphy and Jimmy Page:
5-10-15-20: Scritti Politti's Green Gartside
By Tom Breihan on March 4, 2011 at 11:50 a.m. EST
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Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "Mister T" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.
For this edition, we checked in with longtime Scritti Politti mastermind Green Gartside, 55. Gartside only picked tracks released in the years when he was the various ages, and he decided not to pick anything for ages five and 45.
The new career-spanning Scritti comp Absolute is out now.
Rising: Dirty Beaches
By Ryan Dombal on March 3, 2011 at 1:35 p.m. EST
Dirty Beaches mastermind Alex Zhang Hungtai was born in Taiwan, but he doesn't have a home. Moving from place to place throughout his life due to a fractured family, the 30-year-old singer-songwriter sometimes felt adrift. In a recent phone interview, he described a stint selling real estate in China during his mid-twenties as "a weird displacement upon displacement." And that same feeling can be ascribed to his music, which layers coats of lo-fi grime over tracks that sound like relics from the early days of rock 'n' roll. Many of his songs come off like Elvis Presley relics recorded through the wall of a skeezy motel.
Hungtai started pursuing music seriously about five years ago after moving to Montreal, and has released a few 7" singles leading up to his debut LP, Badlands, out March 29 on Zoo Music. (Listen to album highlight "Sweet 17" above.) Click on to read our Q&A with the singer, who talked about connecting with David Lynch, not connecting with Facebook, and rude interviewers:
Director's Cut: The New Pornographers: "Moves"
By Tom Breihan on February 24, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. EST
From Fiona Apple's "Criminal" to Tyler, the Creator's "Yonkers", great music videos are bursts of sound and vision that leave an indelible impression. Director's Cut is a Pitchfork News feature in which we chat with music video directors about their creations. The men and women behind the camera are often overlooked in today's YouTube era, but this feature aims to highlight their hard work while showcasing the best videos currently linking around the internet. A little behind-the-scenes dirt couldn't hurt, too.
Tom Scharpling is a longtime fixture on New York's comedy scene and the host of the cult WFMU radio program "The Best Show". Last year, he directed his first video, for Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' "Bottled in Cork", viciously parodying the idea of a punk-rock Broadway musical and making heavy use of a cast of comedy figures. (Read our Director's Cut interview for that video here.) And for his follow-up, Scharpling ups the ante even more, turning the New Pornographers' "Moves" into an extended trailer for the most cliche-heavy, debauched rock-star biopic imaginable.
The cast is absolutely packed with comedy names and indie actors, many of them playing actual New Pornographers. Paul Rudd, Bill Hader, Ted Leo, Kevin Corrigan, Horatio Sanz, Julie Klausner, Wyatt Cenac, John Hodgman, Todd Barry, John Oliver, Donald Glover, and others show up, usually engaged in some socially despicable action or other. At the center of everything is Superchunk/Mountain Goats drummer/Scharpling comedy partner Jon Wurster, who turns in a manic, over-the-top performance as New Pornographers leader Carl Newman-- or some excess-addicted alternate-universe version of Newman, at least.
We once again talked to Scharpling-- who is currently planning more videos with Titus Andronicus and Superchunk-- about his New Pornos clip. Watch the video and read the Q&A below:
Rising: Nicolas Jaar
By Tom Breihan on February 11, 2011 at 5:45 p.m. EST
Nicolas Jaar: "I Got a Woman"
Nicolas Jaar is a New York-based 21-year-old who does a lot of things that young dance producers do-- plays shows in clubs around the world, remixes dance artists, runs a small record label called Clown and Sunset-- but he doesn't really make dance music.
Born to artistic parents, Jaar listened to everything from minimal techno producer Ricardo Villalobos to hip-hop mastermind Madlib to Portuguese fado music, Ethiopian jazz, and Pink Floyd while growing up in Chile and NYC. And on debut full-length Space Is Only Noise, coming February 14 on Circus Company, he works a lush, meditative style that depends more on silence than on beats-- check out highlight "I Got a Woman" above for proof. Pianos, guitars, and voices blur into electronics, all of it melting into a soft, drifting haze somewhere between Air and Portishead. It's a deeply relaxing, satisfying piece of work from someone seemingly way too young to be making music this mature.
We recently spoke with Jaar, currently a comparative literature student at Brown University, while he was gearing up for a show in Berlin. Our interview is below:
5-10-15-20: Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite
By Larry Fitzmaurice on February 10, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. EST
Photos by Steve Gullick
Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "The Greatest American Hero" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.
For this edition, we checked in with 34-year-old Stuart Braithwaite of post rockers Mogwai. The band's new album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will-- featuring the track "San Pedro", above-- is out February 15 on Sub Pop and a day before in Europe via Rock Action.
Battles Talk Lineup Change, New Album
By Ryan Dombal on February 9, 2011 at 10:50 a.m. EST
From left to right: Ian Williams, John Stanier, Dave Konopka. Photo by Stefano Giovannini; photo below courtesy of Warp Records.
When I spoke with berserking Battles drummer John Stanier about the group's then-in-progress second album in June 2009, he said: "It would take years for us to finish if we had unlimited time to work on it." Fast-forward almost two years and the experimental rockers are finally finished with their follow-up to 2007's much-loved Mirrored. The as-yet-untitled record is tentatively due in early summer on Warp. But its gestation didn't come without setbacks-- in the middle of a studio session last summer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Tyondai Braxton left the band.
On a slushy day last week, I met with Battles guitarist-bassist Dave Konopka at a classy, dark-wooded restaurant in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn to chat about the lineup change and the now-trio's new material. Recorded at the same Rhode Island studio (Machines With Magnets) and with the same engineers (Keith Souza and Seth Manchester) as Mirrored, the new album really came together in the months after Braxton's departure. And while it includes reworked tracks written when he was still in the band, Braxton is not featured on the record at all.
To help fill Braxton's absence, Konopka, Stanier, and multi-instrumentalist Ian Williams asked a few guests, including Boredom's Eye, to lend vocals to some of the new songs. The final result feels like "more of an accomplishment than Mirrored" partly due to its stressful creation, Konopka said.
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My endo wants me to have a radioactive iodine thyroid scan. I'm allergic to shellfish so I'm a little nervous about it. He said it should be fine. I'm just wondering if anyone with a shellfish allergy has had one and how it went.
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Hi gozround,
Welcome to our board.
I've had the scan several times but as far as I know, I'm not allergic to shellfish.
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Thanks for the replies!
I told the scheduler when I called about my allergy and she said she'd check with a tech. My doctor said the amount of iodine in the pill is so small it shouldn't matter...I just don't know if I'm allergic to the iodine or something else in shellfish. I may see if I can take Benadryl or something before the scan.
|Thu, 08-19-2010 - 11:15am
Touching base with an update: I had the scan and had no problems with the radioactive iodine. :) I should be hearing about the results in a couple of days.
Thanks for all your feedback and support!

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Growing up during the great depression, my Grandma had a simple motto: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without! This motto applied to her household and the backyard garden as well. Gardening more out of necessity than pleasure, Grandma had an array of thrifty tricks she used to make sure she maintained her garden with the least amount of expense. These tricks required nothing fancy, only simple household items everyone has in their pantry. If you are gardening on a budget, take a look at these 7 thrifty tips!
- Old hosiery. Do you have old or worn out nylons around the house? Don't toss them! Hosiery can be used to tie plants to their supports. Because the nylon is soft and flexible, it won't damage plants as they grow. By using old hosiery to line the bottoms of flower pots, you allow the water to drain out but keep the dirt in. Last but not least, slip them over ripening fruit so critters can't nibble on it.
- Coffee Grounds. By sprinkling coffee grounds at the base of plants, you create a scratchy surface that slugs and snails won't want to cross. It will also repel certain species of flies. Adding coffee grounds to your soil will also help improve the drainage! Not a coffee drinker? Most coffee shops will give you their grounds for free if you ask!
- Bar Soap. The strong scent of basic bar soap repels deer from eating your plants. It can be grated around ground plants or broken apart and put into a piece of hosiery and hung from tree branches. Bar soap with a strong deodorant scent seems to work best.
- Aluminum Pie Tins. Don't toss that pie tin from Sunday night's dinner! Rinse it well and reuse it instead. Pie tins are great for scaring garden pests away! The annoying noise they make when flapping around in the breeze, mixed with the flashes of light they reflect, can scare away pests and critters. Just poke a hole in them, add some string, and hang them from branches or shepherds hooks.
- Milk caps. After you chug that gallon of milk, save the cap. Fill it with beer and place near slug-vulnerable plants. The slugs will be attracted to the beer and meet their demise instead of eating your plants.
- Newspaper. Don't toss that daily newspaper; it has a ton of garden uses! It can be shredded and added to your compost pile or placed in areas to snuff out weeds. Just dampen and secure it with rocks over any area where you wish to kill weeds or even grass. I have heard of people crumpling the paper into balls and setting the balls in the plants to trap earwigs.
- Styrofoam Packing Peanuts. Since styrofoam is not recyclable, it is important to find a way to reuse it. Packing peanuts are a great way to improve drainage in potted plants and act as a filler. Before adding soil to the pot, add your packing peanuts. They will act as a lightweight filler allowing you to pick up your pot easier, allow water to drain through, and save you money on soil since you won't be needing as much.
So make Grandma proud. Gather up your household items and head to the garden! Even if you are lacking a green thumb, you will be adding some green to your wallet with all of the money you will be saving.
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I tried about anything to combat slugs on hostas the only thing that worked is going out at night about 8pm with a flash light and pick them up manually i did it about 2 years ago still doing good took only 2 pickings about 15 minutes but less frustration and does not look weird like coffee grinds or egg shells or dyer sheets i tried before
Sprinkle crushed egg shells around the base of plants and the slugs will not cross because it's sharp and therefore will not eat your plants!! Also if you see slugs, sprinkle with table salt and they melt like the witch on Wizard of Oz!! My son liked helping me do this when he was young!!!
Grandmother Pizzaz used to always tell me: "Wear clean underwear because you never know when you'll be killed in a car accident".
The actual saying is…when you'll be in a car accident, not killed in one!…LOL
By the way…where's Grandpa?
drunk snails in the garden ;0) now that is funny
#5 is exactly what i needed!!! The snails are have a buffet in my garden!!! well tonight they are goin' to the bar!!


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Not sure it is all that great really. Ukraine have two games against San Marino so that is a certain 6 points and then their other 2 games are at home. It could well come down to the England game in Ukraine.
Not sure it is all that great really. Ukraine have two games against San Marino so that is a certain 6 points and then their other 2 games are at home. It could well come down to the England game in Ukraine.
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"The committee discussed the issue of illegal bowling actions, and believed that there are a number of bowlers currently employing suspect actions in international cricket, and that the ICC's reporting and testing procedures are not adequately scrutinising these bowlers."
- Even the ICC's own official press release thinks things must change
Yeah but if Montenegro had won yesterday then we would still be looking good for 2nd, Ukraine winning opens it up quite a bit.
Yeah they really should be able scrap their way unconvincingly through, would be really quite pathetic if they don't even manage 2nd spot. Not actually beaten anyone approaching decent yet though so you never know.
Should get 2nd now and all on the game in Ukraine. Says it all about how ordinary we are that we are worrying about qualifying from this group.
It must be irritating to follow a side which always leaves it so late to qualify. The gun sides are already there
I know. Iran are a great side.
Am disappointed for Uzbekistan, was looking forward to them making the World Cup, can't see them doing it now.
**** it. I'm gonna go. Will take Burgeinho too. Be a trip he will cherish all his days.
WWCC - Loyaulte Mi Lie
"People make me happy.. not places.. people"
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." - Samuel Johnson
"Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself" - Tony Benn
Lucky kid.
Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ?
With the English bid I said: Let us be brief. If you give back the Falkland Islands, which belong to us, you will get my vote. They then became sad and left
Just dawned on me this arvo. He's sport and football mad. Goes all right at it, and this is maybe the last chance for a while, given Australia's side is aging. Would be the trip of his life. I'll do the last group game and of course our quarter, semi and the final where we beat Argentina 2-1
He'll love it. Brazil a great country, but it is scary. He and his sister will learn a lot and appreciate things more.
And by "football mad", I mean the kid asks himself "What would Messi do?" for most life situations.
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Wow! My measurements are all about an inch or 2 lower.
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She runs so well and so fast. I am really proud of her!
My husband and I agreed to allow her to have a laptop(of her own) if she wins a certain number of meets (a fair number of course). This is an agreement she enjoys and is ready to accept the challenge!
It makes me wonder what I should do to reward myself once I run a greater distance.
Should I revamp my goals?
Should I strive to run a marathon?
Hmmm. Please provide feedback.
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More Racism at a Prominent Liberal Blog
They're at it again, folks. Another prominent liberal blogger – this time, Daily Kos alumnus Billmon – has used Photoshop to disparagingly blackface someone. In this case, the proprietor of the Whiskey Bar blog has likened CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer to a minstrel (hat tip to Hot Air, image on the right) all due to the Situation Room host's reference to Lynne Cheney. The following is taken directly from Billmon's blog entry on October 29:
BLITZER: I have been covering the Cheneys for many years, including on a day-to-day basis when he was the defense secretary during the first Gulf War and I was CNN's Pentagon correspondent . . . I was surprised when she came out swinging on Friday, surprised . . . at her sniping at my patriotism.
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Translation: Oh Lawdy! Massa's wife so mad she even beatin' on us house slaves now. What dis ol' world comin' to?
Hmmm. So, Wolf Blitzer is now a "house slave". Amazing. Alas, we shouldn't be shocked by this, as left-wing blogger and fellow Daily Kos alumnus Steve Gilliard had previously posted the following picture of Maryland senatorial candidate Michael Steele:
Makes one wonder what's in the water over at Daily Kos to make the alumni so overtly racist. Of course, lest we not forget the following picture of Joe Lieberman displayed at the Huffington Post by Firedoglake blogger Jane Hamsher. For those that have forgotten, Hamsher was working closely with Kos himself to win Ned Lamont's nomination in Connecticut:
Yes, these folks sure are tolerant, aren't they?
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Remember when the Czech Republic scored an unexpected goal to get back into their game against Russia? That didn't last very long! They would probably be down by six or seven goals if it wasn't for Aleksandr Kerzhakov, but all losses count the same. Alan Dzagoev scored his second goal of the game to make it 3-1, and Roman Pavlyuchenko -- who replaced Kerzhakov -- added another to put Russia up by three goals.
Pavlyuchenko was a subject of ridicule for his poor finishing in his time at Tottenham Hotspur, but he made an instant impact when he entered this game. He set up Dzagoev for his goal with a fantastic pass in the 79th minute, then blasted a shot of his own past Petr Cech in the 82nd minute. Seeing as Kerzhakov appears to have contracted the yips, Pavlyuchenko could take over as Russia's starting striker going forward.
We have live coverage of the game in our Russia vs. Czech Republic, Euro 2012 StoryStream. For more on Euro 2012 and the entire world of football, follow @SBNationSoccer on Twitter.


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Gibson County jail officials are working to stop the spread of MRSA a type of staph infection. It's common in correctional facilities across the country, but can't be treated with normal antibiotics.
"Usually it will kind of look like a spider bite or a boil or a pimple and so when that reddened area comes open and you get that thick yellowish discharge, that's where it's really contagious," Hornby said.
MRSA is spread easily through skin to skin contact. Jail officials say some inmates have low immune systems and some don't practice good hygiene, which make ideal breading grounds for the infection.
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Would it stop you if she had?
Since the founding of the Republic.
They don't need no stinking facts!!!
You insist? Why didn't you say so before? I'm sure she will bow to your demands no matter the toll on her!!
I have a feeling she's going to be placing a lot of unreturned calls.
By all means, don't respect Hillary's own decisions on the matter . . . yes . . . pressure her to stay in even if she decides to throw her support behind Obama.
You'll proving that you don't have any more respect for her than for the Party.
on a comment on The Truth About the Michelle Obama Tape over 6 years ago
You're going to have to do better at hiding your Repug predilections if you don't want to . . .
Inside and out? Do you know her personally? If not, how could you possibly know?
And the Patriots still have a chance to win the Super Bowl.
No doubt sh'es a formidable candidate. But it is over. Russert suggested this morning that a sufficient number of supers will declare for Obama when the polls close tomorrow.
on a comment on Clinton to Endorse Barack Obama this week over 6 years ago
on a comment on They've done it, again. over 6 years ago
Man, I'm tired. I read right over the "pen."
Well the diarist should be happy now that we've reached the penultimate trashing. The trashing will be over soon.
comment on a post They've done it, again. over 6 years ago
on a comment on Want Unity? Start By Condemning Hate-Speech over 6 years ago
What exactly did he say that's sexist?
The Clinton campaign clearly displayed a sense of entitlement at the outset of the campaign. While I don't think it was racially motivated, it was palpable.
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What could the candidate do to convince you? I've seen you say before that you will never vote for him.


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CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Cavaliers forward Anthony Bennett had his tonsils and adenoids removed to help improve a sleep condition.
Bennett, the No. 1 overall pick in last year's draft, underwent successful tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy procedures at the Cleveland Clinic on Tuesday, the team said. Bennett had a disappointing rookie season with the Cavs, averaging just 4.2 points and 3.0 rebounds in 52 games.
He got off to a slow start after missing most of last summer as he recovered from shoulder surgery. He began the season out of shape and then it was revealed Bennett suffers from sleep apnea and asthma.
The 21-year-old Brampton, Ont., native is expected to make a full recovery in time to play on the Cavs' summer league team in Las Vegas.
Cleveland is looking for a new coach after Mike Brown was fired Monday for the second time by owner Dan Gilbert.
It was Canada's night at the NBA Draft as four players from north of the border were selected.
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02 September 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sailed with a Polynesian voyaging canoe crew, whose mission is to spotlight the need for action on sustainable development by going around the world using only traditional navigation methods.
02 September 2014 – World leaders have not sufficiently addressed climate issues, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change Mary Robinson said Tuesday highlighting the urgency of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building climate resilient communities.
01 September 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his alarm at the announcement by Israeli authorities to declare nearly 1,000 acres of land in Bethlehem as so-called "state land."
01 September 2014 – Journalists covering conflicts must be afforded the highest degree of protection, a group of United Nations and international human rights experts said today, adding that the recent attacks, ongoing kidnappings, and arbitrary incarcerations of media professionals around the world must be condemned.
01 September 2014 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has strongly condemned the deliberate killing of 12 civilians in the western province of Farah for which the Taliban has claimed responsibility.
01 September 2014 – United Nations officials today urged an immediate end to the acts of violence and abuses committed against civilians in Iraq, particularly against children and people from various ethnic and religious communities, as the Human Rights Council met to discuss the ongoing crisis.
01 September 2014 – Despite being endowed with renewable energy sources – like wind, sunshine and waves – small island developing states remain heavily reliant on imported fossil fuels, a practice that the United Nations says can be reversed through durable partnerships.
01 September 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday again called for the release of 44 Fijian peacekeepers seized in the Golan.
31 August 2014 – Calling small island developing nations a magnifying glass for vulnerabilities around the world, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the international community to support sustainable development in these countries through multi-stakeholder partnerships.
31 August 2014 – The United Nations said on Sunday that all 72 Filipino peacekeepers formerly surrounded by armed elements in two different locations in the Golan are now safe.


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Salon 127's elegant waiting room welcomes visitors with comfy leather furniture, a painting of a flowery courtyard, and a table stacked with magazines. Once they've completed the latest dessert-island quiz in Newsweek, guests make their way to one of the styling stations, which are separated by privacy-boosting partitions with built-in mirrors. The salon's multitalented team then gets to work making over clients from head to toe with services that range from color applications and hair-relaxing treatments to facials and mani-pedis.
Birdie Hyatt has been known to take up to five hours meticulously handcrafting Poetic Justice-style braids at Divine Diva's. The highly skilled stylist has more than a decade of experience, including working in fashion shows and music videos. And at Divine Diva's, clients see firsthand the care she takes as she transforms ethnic hair with weaves, dreadlocks, goddess braids, and silk press styles.
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Marble Shiva Battling the Elephant 35"
Item # 17bm11
Price: $4250
Please take a minute and click here to tell us about your experience with Lotus Sculpture, our customer service and how you like your statue. We appreciate your feedback!
Buying these Ganeshas were a dream of mine for so long and I'm glad I did. Kyle was absolutely wonderful to deal and my Ganeshas came rather quickly and beautifully packaged. They are treasures on my altar and already I'm thinking of my next purchase. Thank you Lotus Sculpture for your wonderful service.Reviewer:Aman Pillay (Auckland, Auckland, NZ)
I have been looking at this statue for years, and knew deep down that I wanted to add it to my collection of other Lotus Sculpture statues. This antique statue is unique (estimated to be between 50 and 200 years old) and was offered to me at such a special discount that I felt overwhelmed when I opened the box, carefully packaged by Kyle and his team. When I looked at Goddess Meenakshi I smiled, because her nose is slightly crooked just like mine! I knew immediately that I am part of her and she is part of me. She is now sitting proudly on a dresser beside another antique statue of Shiva. Their respective heights are perfect. The love couple is complete! Thanks to Lotus Sculpture and Kyle Tortora for his generosity and for giving me this one chance opportunity to be connected to what is close to my heart. May Lotus Sculpture be prosperous!Reviewer:Jenny Wolkowicki (Roselle Park, NJ, US)
In all of my interactions with the owner of Lotus Sculpture, I experienced respectful communication, clear organization and overall excellent customer service. Thank you. I love the piece I bought from you.Reviewer:Amy Nosek (Bowen Island, British Columbia, CA)
Kyle with Lotus Sculpture, worked with us to find the best situation for our new swimming pool. We purchased two beautiful Buddha Heads that now stand on our pool columns overlooking the pool. Beautiful!!! We'll continue to shop here for more special Buddha's.Reviewer:David A. Kress (Chandler, AZ, US)
LOVE IT. I can feel the energy of it. VERY BEAUTIFUL! Thank you! Namaste, FabienneReviewer:Fabienne Diaz (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US)
This Buddha is going to be a gift and it will make a lovely gift. It arrived on time and well packed. Good job.Reviewer:Angus Vail (Salem, OR, US)
We have been shopping at Lotus Sculpture for a good number of years and we have always been pleased with our purchases. As you perhaps know, buying the statues is the first step and "energizing" them at the temple is another step and the latter is important for "bonding" with the statue and to "take the metal" out of it. Putting the "deity" in the statue is a time-consuming and costly step, depending on the temple one chooses. It could range between $100 - 300. Fortunately the purchase of the statue itself at Lotus Sculpture makes it a great first experience and the next steps are equally moving, organizing the trip, purchases for the real deity, costs to the temple and swamis etc. I wished that some of the statues were more affordable, but then I understand that you offer quality product and that you run a business, not a temple. At the most a payment plan should be offered (pardon me if it is, I am not aware of it) instead of putting the item on a credit card. Personally, I do not like to associate my statues with credit. I see every item that you sell as divine, at least the path to an incredible experience with the "other" world, be it Hindu or Buddhist. Thanks for the great opportunity for shopping at Lotus Sculpture. I received the Yantra and will have it consecrated at the Kali Temple in Burtonsville, MD. We have also bought: Kali blessed in Burtonsville, MD, a.k.a Miss Kitty The Goddess with the mirror (she is now Meenakshi, blessed at the Murugan temple of North America, a.k.a Babe Ganesh, a.k.a Bongo on drums, blessed at the Ganesh temple, Queens Muruga and his peacock,a.k.a. Murray, blessed at Palani Andavar's shrine, Murugan temple of North America. The peacock lamp They have all been blessed and contrary to popular belief, I do not have a special shrine or altar in my house, I place them wherever I desire in the house, bedroom, living room and I do not feel disrespectful towards them. I figure, if they can see me in form and formless, what difference does it make whether they are in my bedroom or in a special part of the house dedicated to them? I do not believe in strict adherence to rituals. I do not possess these statues for religious purposes only. We offer them the food we eat on a daily basis. They also have special names. They make us happy, we love them. The represent beauty, a presence of something divine or more, I do not know. I know that they love us and smile in turn, NOT ALL THE TIME and that is how I know that the deity is here with us. They sometimes show sadness. Basically the relationship with them is an endless labor of love, cooking for them, celebrating birthdays with them, buying fruits for bongo, gardening for them and so forth. The experience is unbelievable.Reviewer:Jenny (Roselle Park, nj, US)
Kyle Tortora provides a great service in making these murthies available, and best of all, he has a deep understanding of Hinduism and Buddhism, and the esoterics of worship. I've recently bought my second murthy from Lotus. Kyle maintains an outstanding inventory of beautiful statues in all materials and sizes and his prices are extremely reasonable. Shipping was super fast! His customer service is among the best I've ever encountered. Thank you Lotus Sculpture!Reviewer:Gayatri Rajan (CANYON, CA, US)
Having gone to India to purchase statues many times, spending days trying to find good craftsmanship and then arranging the import is no more ! The wood sculpture that I bought for my husband for our fifth wedding anniversary was so much better in person than even in the pictures. Thank you Lotus Scuplture ! I will be purchasing more in the future for sure.Reviewer:Gopal (Tampa, Florida, US)
- Materials: Black Marble from Bihar, India
- Total Height Including Base: 35 inches
- Widest Point: 19 inches
- Base Width & Depth: 12 x 10 inches
- Weight: 69 pounds
- An awesome sculpture of Shiva battling the elephant in the Gajasamharam pose
- The marble has its own energy that adds to the Shiva carving
- The base has two yalis carved into it
- One of kind! Nothing like this will be carved again!
This sculpture is called Gajasamharam - "Shiva Battling the elephant. This pose has all the grace of a Nataraja sculpture. Shiva seems to balance on the head of the elephant with his one leg as the other is lifted up as though he were skipping. His body is thrown back in ecstasy with his arms spread out in a fan of seeming joy. His fangs are exposed showing him to be terrifying. Shiva again displays his dualistic nature by being both joyous and terrifying at the same time.
The surrounding ring around Shiva is the carcass of the dead elephant. The four feet of the elephant dispersed around the skin of the dead elephant. The dead skin of the elephant is a marked contrast from the Nataraja sculpture's cosmic arch. There is a small "O" that is formed by the elephants tail on top of the sculpture. In his left hand he holds a cobra, and a scalp.
The base with all its detailed work is a 360 degree pleasure! The base is carved hallow. In the front of the sculpture there are two narsis, A narsi is a mythical lion like beast used in south Indian sculpture. Carved into the the foundation of the sculpture in bas-relief between the two narsi are two yali. A yali is a mythical animal with body of a lion, tail of a peacock and the trunk of an elephant. On either side of the base are two carvings of Shiva's bull, Nandi. On the back of the base is one large face of a narsi. All the fine detail work fully covers the base from every angle.
The Stories Behind the Sculpture: In Varanasi, India there was a demon in the form of an elephant who was harassing the saints and devotees of Shiva during their prayer. Shiva then destroyed the elephant-demon for the lack of respect. Thus the name, Gajasamharam, Sanskrit for "Killing the Elephant."
Another story with Shiva battling an elephant is part of the story of the Nataraja. There were rishis and priests living in the forest known as 'Tharukavanam', they became very arrogant as they had mastered all the 'Vedas', 'Agamas' and 'Shastras' and could raise powerful creatures from the sacrificial fires to do their bidding. Lord Shiva wished to show these rishis their limitations and appeared as a handsome mendicant with Vishnu as his wife 'Mohini'. This created chaos in 'Tharukavanam' as the wives of the rishis fell under the spell of this charming, handsome mendicant while the youthful rishis fell for the allure of Mohini. The older rishis became very angry and wanted to destroy the pair. They raised a sacrificial fire, 'Homam', from which appeared a tiger which was directed at the pair. Lord Shiva killed the tiger, peeled off its skin and tied it around his waist. They raised an elephant which they sent against Lord Shiva, which Shiva destroyed. Then the rishis produced a poisonous serpent, which Lord Shiva caught and wore around his neck. The rishis also sent a demon, 'Muyalakan', against Lord Shiva whom he crushed under his feet. Then the rishis sent the sacrificial fire against him which he put on his left hand. The rishis having lost the fire sent the Vedic 'mantras' which the Lord wore around his ankles. At this the rishis conceded defeat and the Lord revealed himself by dancing the 'Oorthava thandavam' with his matted hair unfurling in all eight directions and the world reverberating to his steps.
About the Black Marble: The black marble, called sange-rathek, is found in Jhansi, in the state of Bihar, India. The stone is known for its wonderful deep black/blue color and the colored purple and yellow veins that flow through the stone. Looking into a piece of sange-rathek is like staring into deep space and seeing distant galaxies. It is a very unique and wonderful stone. Sculpture is very rare to find in this stone because there are seldom pieces of raw stone large enough to accommodate a full-sized sculpture.
About Shiva
Shiva was originally known as Rudra, a minor deity addressed only three times in the Rig Veda. He gained importance after absorbing some of the characteristics of an earlier fertility god and became Shiva, part of the trinity, or trimurti, with Vishnu and Brahma.
Shiva wears a snake coiled around his upper arms and neck symbolizing the power he has over the most deadly of creatures. Snakes are also used to symbolize the Hindu dogma of reincarnation. Their natural process of molting or shedding their skin is symbolic of the human soul's transmigration of bodies from one life to another.
Shiva's female consort and wife is Parvati; because of his generosity and reverence towards Parvati, Shiva is considered an ideal role model for a husband. The divine couple together with their sons - the six-headed Skanda and the elephant headed Ganesh - reside on Mount Kailasa in the Himalayas.
His guardian is Nandi (the white bull), whose statue can often be seen watching over the main shrine. The bull is said to embody sexual energy, fertility. Riding on its back, Shiva is in control of these impulses.
He often holds a trident, which represents the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu. It is also said to represent the threefold qualities of nature: creation, preservation and destruction, although preservation is usually attributed to Vishnu.
As the destroyer, Shiva is dark and terrible, encircled with serpents and a crown of skulls.
Shiva often wears sacred Rudaksha beads, perhaps a reference to his earlier name Rudra.
The crescent moon Shiva wears on his crown, besides being a symbol of Kama the goddess of nightly love, also represents the bull, Nandi, a fertility symbol.
Shiva holds a skull that represents samsara, the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Samsara is a central belief in Hinduism. Shiva himself also represents this complete cycle because he is Mahakala, the Lord of Time, destroying and creating all things.
Shiva is represented in a variety of forms. One such form is as a lingam. The ovoid shape is a representation of the absolute perfection of Lord Shiva - if that which is beyond form had to be given form, the lingam would be the closest form to the mystical experience of the absolute perfection of Shiva. Shiva is often pictured in a pacific mood with his consort Parvati, as the cosmic dancer Nataraja, as a naked ascetic, as a mendicant beggar, as a yogi, and as the androgynous union of Shiva and Parvati in one body (Ardhanarisvara).
Another example of Shiva's apparent synthesis of male and female attributes is seen in his earrings. He wears one earring in the style of a man and the other as a female.
Shiva's third eye is a symbol of higher consciousness. It is also a weapon he uses to destroy his enemies by emitting a fire missile which has the power to incinerate the three worlds. He can also kill all the gods and other creatures during the periodic destruction of the universe. Shiva's third eye first appeared when Parvati, his wife, playfully covered his other two eyes, so Shiva opened his third eye emitting his destructive missile endangering the three worlds.
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White, red and black marble statues are easy to take care of as they just need some annual upkeep to keep them looking as they did when they were first carved. Here are some easy tips to keep your White, red and black marble statues from Lotus Sculpture looking like the gods they are:
- Dust the statue as needed to prevent dirt build up
- To make the statue shine use a cotton cloth to buff the sculpture
- You can use a small amount of natural oil such as coconut oil or olive oil to further polish the sculpture
- Use a tooth brush to get into the hard to reach spaces of the sculpture
- DO NOT TOUCH the painted surfaces of any of the white marble statues. This will damage the painting if done often
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This sculpture is in our Oceanside, California store and ready for immediate packing. Shipping is calculated from Oceanside, California after the purchase. This piece is too heavy to ship via UPS ground and will be shipped using R&L Freight Carriers. Approximately 3 working days are needed to pack the sculpture in its own custom wood crate. If you place your order online shipping will show in the order as $0. Shipping will be calculated based on the weight of the sculpture and the distance from Oceanside, CA to determine the shipping price. Shipping will then be added to the total after the order is placed. Please call 760-994-4455 or email us email@example.com for a shipping quote.
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This sculpture is in our Oceanside, California store and ready for immediate packing. Shipping is calculated from Oceanside, California after the purchase. This piece is too heavy to ship via UPS ground and will be shipped using an international freight service. Typically we use TNT Special Services as they give the most competitive rates. Approximately 3 working days are needed to pack the sculpture in its own custom wood crate. If you place your order online shipping will show in the order as $0. Shipping will be calculated based on the weight of the sculpture and the distance from Oceanside, CA to determine the shipping price. The shipping quote will be emailed to you and no charge will be made without your approval. Shipping will then be added to the total after the order is placed. Please call 760-994-4455 or email us firstname.lastname@example.com for a shipping quote.
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Our statues all over the world using both TNT and DHL as they are the most reliable and least expensive options for our international customers.
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