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The Diviners
Libba Bray YA/Bray
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
Lullaby: A Waterson Novel
Amanda Hocking YA/Hocking
With the help of Daniel, Harper is determined to get her younger sister Gemma back from the clutches of a dangerous clique of beautiful girls she has joined, and as Harper continues to search, Gemma's powers grow along with the temptation to enter her new friends' magical world.
Wake: A Waterson Novel
Amanda Hocking YA/Hocking
In the quiet seaside town of Capri, sixteen-year-old Gemma enjoys a close bond with her sister Harper and a growing attraction to next-door neighbor with Alex, but everything changes when, after partying with newcomers Penn, Lexi, and Thea, Gemma discovers she has powers that will force a terrible choice.
The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson YA/Johnson
Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
Keeping the Castle
Patrice Kindl YA/Kindl
In order to support her family and maintain their ancient castle in Lesser Hoo, seventeen-year-old Althea bears the burden of finding a wealthy suitor who can remedy their financial problems.
Every Day
David Levithan YA/Levithan
Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
I Hunt Killers
Barry Lyga YA/Lyga
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his "Dear Old Dad." Believing he can fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, Jazz helps the police catch the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist," but in doing so, he discovers he may have more in common with his father than he thought.
Melissa Marr YA/MarrCarnival of Souls
A centuries-long war between daimons and witches sets the stage for three teens caught up in a deadly struggle for power and autonomy in the exotic and otherworldly Carnival of Souls, the mercantile center of the daimon dimension.
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Lish McBride YA/McBride
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
Dead To You
Lisa McMann YA/McMann
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
The End Games
T. Michael Martin YA/Martin
In the rural mountains of West Virginia, seventeen-year-old Michael Faris tries to protect his fragile younger brother from the horrors of the zombie apocalypse.
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness YA/Ness
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill–an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
Wicked Intent
Kenneth Oppel YA/Oppel
When his grieving father orders the destruction of the Dark Library, Victor retrieves a book in which he finds the promise of not just communicating with the dead, but entering their realm, and soon he, Elizabeth, and Henry are in the spirit world of Chateau Frankenstein, creating and growing a body.
Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure
James Patterson YA/Patterson
Max, Fang, and Dylan, reeling over the disappearance of Angel, must embark on a final adventure that will lead them to the ultimate fight.
Shadow on the Mountain
Margi Preus YA/Preus
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.
The School for Dangerous Girls
Eliot Schrefer YA/Schrefer
Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.
Liar & Spy
Rebecca Stead YA/Stead
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater YA/Stiefvater
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own–and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor YA/Taylor
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters–the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
Days of Blood & Starlight
Laini Taylor YA/Taylor
Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is and finds out how far her loyalty to her people will go.
Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein YA/Wein
In 1943 a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must survive while keeping secret all that she can.
Where Things Come Back
John Corey Whaley YA/Whaley
Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.
Teens' Top Picks
Meg Cabot YA/Cabot
Pierce, trying to unravel the mysterious death of someone close to her, finds herself drawn to a dark stranger, even though she believes he may be a killer.
Real Live Boyfriends: A Ruby Oliver Novel
E. Lockhart YA/Lockhart
As a senior at her Seattle prep school, Ruby continues her angst-filled days and copes with the dilemmas of boyfriends, college applications, and her parents' squabbling, but comes to realize that her "deranged" persona may no longer apply.
The Treasure Map of Boys: A Ruby Oliver Novel
E. Lockhart YA/Lockhart
A Seattle sixteen-year-old juggles therapy, running a school bake sale, coping with her performance artist mother, growing distant from an old friend, and conflicting feelings about her ex-boyfriend and potential new boyfriends.
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Rachel Cohn & David Levithan YA/Cohn
Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas time in New York, neither knowing quite what–or who–they will find.
Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan YA/Cohn
When her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Molly moves from Indiana to California, to live with her newly discovered father, a Hollywood megastar, and his pampered teenaged daughter.
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins YA/Collins
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen YA/Dessen
Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner fighting demons of his own.
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green YA/Green
Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered.
Why We Broke Up
Daniel Handler YA/Handler
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.
Withering Tights
Louise Rennison YA/Rennison
Self-conscious about her knobby knees but confident in her acting ability, fourteen-year-old Tallulah spends the summer at a Yorkshire performing arts camp that, she is surprised to learn, is for girls only.
Green Mountain Book Award Winners & Nominees
A readers' choice award designed to introduce Vermont students in grades 9 through 12 to some excellent books for their pleasure reading.
Anna Dressed in Blood
Kendare Blake YA/Blake
For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.
Beauty Queens
Libba Bray YA/Bray
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green YA/Green
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Rachel Hartman YA/Hartman
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson YA/Johnson
Rory, of Benouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
I Hunt Killers
Barry Lyga YA/Lyga
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
HoldMe Closer, Necromancer
Lish McBride YA/McBride
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern YA/Morgenstern
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness YA/Ness
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill — an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
This Dark Endeavor
Kenneth Oppel YA/Oppel
When his twin brothers falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixer of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs YA/Riggs
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous — and who may still be alive.
The School for Dangerous Girls
Eliot Schrefer YA/Schrefer
Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.
Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater YA/Stiefvater
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein YA/Wein
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all she can.
Vampires/The Supernatural
Love bites…
Franny Billingsley YA/Billingsley
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
Tempted: A House of Night Novel
P. C. Cast + Kristin CastYA/Meyer
This highly addicting series offers a unique twist on the standard vampire story….These books will have the reader laughing hysterically and sobbing unreservedly –sometimes all at once.
Switched: A Trylle Novel
Amanda Hocking YA/Hocking
When Wendy Everly was six years old her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her, and eleven years later Wendy learns that her mother was right and that she is actually a changeling troll, who, at the age of seventeen, must be returned to her rightful home.
Breaking Dawn
Stephanie Meyer YA/Meyer
Continues the story of the human Bella and the vampire Edward whose love is threatened by their difference, a werewolf named Jacob, and other outside influences.
Blood Promise
Richelle Mead YA/Mead
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story
Adam Rex YA/Rex
After Doug Lee is attacked by a vampire he is forced to remain overweight and fifteen for eternity and as he attempts to prove himself to the new Indian exchange student, Doug must navigate high school and avoid a persistent vampire hunter.
Jessica's Guide to Eating on the Dark Side
Beth Fantaskey YA/Fantaskey
Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Catherine Jinks YA/Jinks
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them–until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.
Dystopian & Steampunk Novels
Dystopian novels are stories about horrible societies. Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction and speculative fiction. It often features elements of fantasy.
The Hunger Games (Series)
Suzanne Collins YA/Collins
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capital where young boys and girls are pitted against each other in a televised fight to the death.
Ally Condie YA/Condie
Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves.
Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen
Richard Paul Evans YA/Evans
Fifteen-year-old Michael Vey, born with Tourette's syndrome and special electromagnetic powers, joins his techno-genius best friend and an alliance of other "electric" teenagers to battle powerful foes in the jungles of Peru, where Michael learns the Order of Elgen's plan to "restructure" the world
I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore YA/Lore
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a 15-year-old who has hidden on Earth for 10 years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
The Rise of Nine
Pittacus Lore YA/Lore
John–aka Number Four–continues his quest to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before the Mogadorians can, and, with time running out, Number Six goes off alone while John teams up with Number Nine.
The Games
Ted Kosmatka YA/Kosmatka
In a future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, genticist Silas Williams uses a supercomputer to design a new genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten, but the result is a highly specialized killing machine that he may not be able to control.
Lauren Oliver YA/Oliver
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
Lauren Oliver YA/Oliver
After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive "the cure"–an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love–but Lena alone manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters, and although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love.
Across the Universe
Beth Revis YA/Revis
Amy, having been cryogenically frozen and placed onboard a spaceship which was supposed to land on a distant planet 300 years in the future, is unplugged 50 years too early. She finds herself stuck inside an enclosed world ruled by a tyrannical leader and his rebellious teenage heir and confused about who to trust and why someone is trying to kill her.
Scott Westerfeld YA/Westerfeld
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
Scott Westerfeld YA/Westerfeld
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
M.T. Anderson YA/Anderson
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff YA/Rosoff
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
Graphic Novels
Words and pictures…
The Eternal Smile: Three Stories
Gene Luen Yang YA741/YAN
A collection of three graphic stories featuring Duncan, a charming prince hoping to win the princess's hand; Gran'pa Greenbax, a greedy old frog who longs to find true happiness; and Janet, a busy working woman who thinks she has found true love with a Nigerian prince who contacts her through an email asking for her help in liberating his family.
Trouble Maker 2
Janet Evanovich and Alex Evanovich YA741.5/EVA
Barnaby, Hooker, Rosa, Felicia, and their St. Bernard, Beans, travel to the Florida Keys to find the wooden manequin that belongs to the wooden hand they have found, but their boat is stolen and Barnaby and Hooker have to "borrow" a boat and figure out who is sending them ransom notes to get their own boat back.
Benjamin YA741/BEN
Orange has become so disillusioned with herself that she decides her only option is to kill herself, but a mysterious man stops her just in time and convinces her that she has everything to live for.
Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol YA/Brosgol
In this graphic novel, Anya, embarrassed by her family and lacking confidence in her body and her social skills, finally finds a friend after falling down a well, but quickly learns there are drawbacks to having a ghost for a friend.
Refresh, Refresh
Danica Novgorodoff YA741/NOV
While their fathers are fighting in the war in Iraq, three teenagers–Josh, Cody, and Gordon–are on the brink of graduating high school, but struggle to make the big decisions about their futures.
American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang YA741/YAN
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.
The Plain Janes
Cecil Castelluci YA741/CAS
After a bombing in the city, Jane's parents move to a suburb where she befriends a three outcasts–all named Jane–and starts a group called People Loving Art in Neighborhoods which tries to enrich their community with art but instead is viewed as a threat.
Marjane Satrapi YA741/SAT
Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime.
My Boyfriend is a Monster: I Love Him to Pieces
Evonne Tsang YA741.5/TSA
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a school project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.
My Boyfriend is a Monster: Made for Each Other
Evonne Tsang YA741.5/TSA
When Maria meets the new boy at her high school, Tom Stone, the two feel a connection, but Maria finds it hard to get to know Tom, the son of Persephone Falls, Alaska's new funeral director. After learning that Tom is not Franklin Stone's real son and that the family is into recycling in a new way, Maria finds herself having to fight to keep her new boyfriend.
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Below Market Rate (BMR)
and Below Market Price (BMP) Purchase Programs
The Town of Los Gatos Below Market Price Housing Program (BMP) allows low and moderate income households the opportunity to become homeowners. It has a limited number of homes, typically condominiums or town homes, which are sold at a price below the current market value. In return for the ability to purchase a home at a below-market price, participating homebuyers agree to restrict the price at which they may resell the unit in the future and the unit must remain owner-occupied. The Town of Los Gatos also has a limited number of rental units available.
For more information regarding the BMP Program and eligibility requirements, please visit the Los Gatos Below Market Price website at www.losgatosca.gov/bmp or call (408) 361-4664.
BMP Program Interest List Application.
The Mountain View Below-Market-Rate (BMR) Program provides the City of Mountain View with a supply of affordable housing for households who work or currently live in Mountain View. The main goal is to provide an affordable, safe, clean living environment for those families and individuals making a contribution to Mountain View and its residents. These Guidelines can be found in Chapter 36 of the City Code.
For more information about the program please visit www.ci.mtnview.ca.us or call (408) 361-4664.

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The 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games will see spectators, athletes, officials and the world's media descend on the city.
During the Games, there will be changes to the way the city's road network operates - including the introduction of dedicated Games Lanes - ensuring that athletes and officials can arrive at the venues safely and in good time.
There will also be special traffic management and parking plans in place around the 14 Games Venues.
It's important to plan ahead for your journey during the Games.
Keep up to date with Traffic Management plans for Glasgow 2014 here.
View the dedicated Games Route Network (GRN)
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Arriving: We flew in from Atlanta, GA and stayed at the Holiday Inn Express that was about ½ mile away from the port. We considered walking over to our ship, but were told that our ship could be up to 2 miles away from the port entrance so we went with Holiday Inns bus service. I think it was $10 each, but I do know within 5 minutes of purchasing the tickets someone convinced me that we should have took a cab telling us "It would cost about ½ of what your paid". So it goes.
We arrived at the port about 11:15 am and the boarding process took 45 minutes. Was the slowest check we encountered in our cruise history, no problem since we had 14 days onboard?
The ship: From the moment we first stepped on the ship we were simply amazed, The Eclipse is such beautiful ship. It was decorated for the holiday's which added a nice touch.
It has a very nice layout and easy to navigate. The person per public space is low compared to the other lines we sailed on, so even thought there were around 2800+ passengers sailing we never felt crowded. It didn't take long for us to realized this was the nicest ship we ever been on.
We stayed in cabin 7290 which is a on the starboard side. It is a hump cabin and our room stewardess told us the balcony was about 50% bigger than the standard balcony. We were able to fit our huge suitcases under the bed and we had plenty of room for our clothes. It is real close to the elevators and was very quiet. Spent time on the balcony each night of the cruise.
The gym was really quite large for the number of people that actually used it, so that was a nice change. On a number of ships we have been on there simply isn't enough equipment for the number of people.
Food: We went to the MDR just about every night. We were seated with four other people who we developed a close bond with over the 14 days we were there. The food was excellent, the best we have had a sea, and the service was great. On RC we tend to be disappointed with the MDR for one reason or another and usually end of at the buffet so this was a nice change.
Celebrity was really pushing the Specialty Restaurants. They had a guy greeting people after our dinner in the MDR. He had a signup sheet and if you seemed the least interested he would try to close the deal. We didn't do
Any of the Specialty Restaurants but 3 of the people at our table went to the Tucson Grill and said it was excellent.
We did the Ocean View for breakfast and lunch. Food was good there too. They had an Italian, Mexican and Indian section that I enjoyed. The coffee was excellent. Very strong, the way I like it.
Entertainment: The entertainment in the Theatre was very good. We didn't go to a lot of the shows on this cruise but we caught most of the Celebrity Shows, the last one was a Cirque du Soleil type production which was excellent for a cruise ship. If you decide to see just one show I would recommend that.
They also had different performers through out the ship that were pretty good. I really enjoyed the 3 violin players.
I also went the Casio on most nights and yes they do have a few 1 cent machines so I was able to keep my losses to a minimum. Was nice to have a smokeless Casino. The prices for alcohol were reasonable $8.05 for a glass of wine with included tip.
Disembarkation -- We walked right off the ship at 8:15 with no delays. We carried our luggage as we thought we could get an earlier flight home. They did run out of coffee in the Ocean View Cafe. I shared a table with 6 other people that last day and one person came back to the table and said "they are out of coffee" Since it was so early it didn't register and 5 minutes later I went to get some and they still didn't have any. That was a first.
Other: Pool- nice added touch with the cushions on the lounge chairs. The wait staff will walk by once in awhile but not the constant "Can I get you a drink" that we see on Carnival and RC. This was also true with the photographers.
Conclusion: We loved the Eclipse and first thing I did when we got home was book Celebrity Solstice for 8/2013 and Celebrity Equinox for 1/20/2014.


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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Local developers and business advocates came together Wednesday night for a public forum at the Lansing Center to update the community on the progress of the multi-million dollar, mixed use Red Cedar Renaissance project. "We're trying hard to get this moving along," said Joel Ferguson, project developer and MSU trustee chairman who estimates the project will bring thousands of jobs to the area over the course of the next few years. Ferguson and project partner Frank Cass of Ohio-based Continental Real Estate Companies say redevelopment of the old Red Cedar Golf Course just south of the Frandor shopping center in Lansing will include market-rate housing, retail establishments, a medical facility, restaurants and entertainment outlets. Before work can begin, however, the Ingham County drain commissioner must finish studies and site surveys to ensure the environmental feasibility of the project, as it sits on the Red Cedar River. "We're not only going to clean the water, but we're going to create jobs," said Drain Commissioner Pat Lindemann. "This is a spectacular opportunity for us to increase the quality of life and the opportunity for citizens of this community."More public forums will be held over the course of the next few months. About 50 people were in attendance at Wednesday's meeting. For more information on the Red Cedar project, click here.
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World's 10 largest earthquakes
Published: Apr 11 2012 09:11:28 AM EDT Updated On: Aug 04 2014 10:14:34 AM EDT
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 398 people in China. Here's a look at the world's 10 largest earthquakes.
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Redlands planning commissioners approved the Redlands Village Shopping Center on Tuesday, to be anchored by a new Stater Bros. Market that neighbors say they are eagerly awaiting.
They currently shop in a small, aging Stater Bros. across the street from the center-to-be at Wabash and Lugonia avenues. Or they drive up to Yucaipa to shop at a bigger, newer Stater Bros. at Oak Glen Road and Bryant Avenue.
Some of the residents, and some Stater Bros. employees, attended the Tuesday afternoon meeting to urge the Planning Commission to approve the shopping center, which the commissioners had sent back to the drawing board two weeks earlier. The commission wanted more landscaping, more pedestrian-friendly elements and more architecturally interesting features on the shops.
All of those issues were resolved, but the CVS pharmacy proposed for the northwest corner of Wabash and Lugonia probably will spark a battle down the road. Well, it's Redlands, so it more likely will be a polite discussion that could turn stern at times.
Commissioners Gary Miller, the panel's chairman, and Julie Rynerson Rock both had concerns about the pharmacy's layout, from where the entrance would be to whether the drive-through should be at the intersection's corner and whether it should be two lanes wide.
"We still don't know very much about what's going to occur on that site," Rock said, referring to the pharmacy's pad in the shopping center.
Miller said he didn't think the proposed 15 feet of landscaping at the corner would be enough and that the drive-through should be one lane at most.
The commissioners want an entry statement at the corner, which is at the Redlands city limits, and Lewis Retail Centers and Stater Bros. Markets said they are trying to comply. Lewis redesigned the drive-through site to be about five feet below grade level and added landscaping to further conceal it.
George Ray, representing a company that is the preferred developer for CVS, said he recognized that the location of the pharmacy's porte-cochere, which would cover the drive-through, would be a hot topic for CVS — and for the commission — when the store's specific design is presented.
"The design layout is an integral portion of our project," Ray said. "The ability to move that … will have a devastating effect for CVS. "
As he and Miller talked, Ray explained that CVS has a prototype for its stores in suburban areas. In other words, they're all the same.
"The prototypical stores are the ones that they want to develop. That's the edict that I've been told," Ray said. "If they're not prototypical they're not even looking at them."
In other, less polite words, he was saying that if the commission wants to make changes, CVS may bow out.
Interestingly enough, directly across the street, on the southwest corner of Lugonia and Wabash, a McDonald's restaurant has a drive-through. It's right on the corner and it's about five feet below grade level.
I went out to look at the shopping center site on Tuesday afternoon after the meeting, and even though I drove through the intersection and then parked in the McDonald's portion of the lot, I didn't notice the drive-through at first. As drive-throughs go, it's inobtrusive. The CVS drive-through would be bigger, but probably would have more concealing landscaping.
Commission Vice Chairman John James pointed out during the meeting that the commission was approving just the center with two drive-throughs, not the specific design of the CVS pharmacy site.
"I think (that corner) will still be attractive even though there may be a drive-through there," James said. "I think it will not look like a drive-through. I think it will look like a very attractive entry for the city."
Commissioner Ken Jeske echoed those comments.
"I think part of what is driving this is the business model," Jeske said. "We're looking for successful business models."
Stay turned for round three in this interesting debate between developers who want what they want, and a city that wants business, but also wants to be attractive and unique.


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I'm a Philadelphia Eagles fan and i come from Bleeding Green Nation to ask you Vikingians a question or two..
If Brett Favre retires (or unretires again, whatever) again this year, do you think the possibility of Donovan McNabb becoming a Viking is too far out of reach? Say Favre retires, would you be happy/upset with the Vikings giving up their first for Donovan, or would you rather start Tarvaris Jackson/Sage Rosenfels? There's been some speculation that one of these things could happen, on the Eagles blog, and I just wanted to know some opinions straight from the source.


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A Mahwah daycare and early learning center is working to fuel a national reading initiative, and is asking for the community to help.
During the entire month of February, KinderCare in Mahwah will be collecting new or gently used children's books to donate to the Reach Out and Read movement.
Reach Out and Read provides books to young children in low-income communities by partnering with doctors and nurses. Through the program, pediatricians prescribe books to kids, and encourage families to read together. According to the organization's website, doctors and nurses speak with parents about the importance of reading aloud, and give kids a new book at every regular check-up from age 6 months through 5 years old.
Reach Out and Read recently made headlines when superstar Taylor Swift partnered with Scholastic Books to donate 15,000 books to the program.
Representatives at Mahwah's KinderCare location say they hope the community can add to the organization's growing library.
"We've done a book drive like this before, but just within the families of our center," KinderCare Program Specialist Heather Alesio said. "We would like to get the community involved so that we have more to donate to those in need."
KinderCare is asking residents to drop off books at its location on Edison Road weekdays this February from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
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By Ryan Houston - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) –The 25 year old stage play Beauty Shop comes to town next week. It's been shown in Los Angles, New York and next Saturday, you can see it right here in Albany.
Beauty Shop was so successful on Broadway, it beat out Cats for the number one position. If you've seen Beauty Shop with Queen Latifah, or Hair Show with Monique, this is the play it was based on.
It deals with day to day life, that women face every time they want a new hair-do. With so many different women in and out of the beauty shop, it can be a pretty unpredictable place.
"The characters are just all over the place, and my character tries to keep everything together," said star of the Beauty Shop Doris Garrett.
However, in Shelly's Garret's Beauty shop, you never know what to expect once you sit down in that chair. "Ladies know what goes on in a beauty shop. They gossip, talk about men, and sometimes talk about each other," said Beauty Shop Playwright Shelly Garrett.
"It's basically like a regular beauty shop. We talk about different things just like in a real shop," said Doris Garrett.
This 25 year old play was born after Shelly Garrett came in one day to relax. "Basically when he was at the salon, things happened. He thought it would be a great idea to write about things that naturally happen," said Doris Garrett. @
His play was so successful, it had three movie spins offs, The Beauty Shop, Hair show and The Salon. "It was real strange. All in the same year, different companies were contacting me about doing the movie Beauty Shop," said Shelly Garrett.
"All of those movies were based on Shelly's stage play. He rewrites his plays all the time," said Doris Garrett.
Even Tyler Perry was motivated to write, after watching this show over 15 years ago. "Tyler Perry said He saw the play three times when he was living in New Orleans. It's really inspiring," said Shelly Garrett.
Come on in and wash the stress of the day away and enjoy the beauty shop for all it has to offer. Tickets are selling fast. Depending on where the seat, you could end up paying $25 to $35 for a seat.
The show starts promptly at 8:00pm Saturday January 15th, at the Albany Municipal Auditorium. There will also be a matinee showing, Sunday January 16th at 3:00pm.
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Justin Bieber "Confident" Music Video Sneak Peek
Vevo has shared a sneak peek at Justin Bieber's new "Confident" music video!
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On a day in which Syria shelled the city of Homs as part of an escalated crackdown on protesters and withdrew its controversial bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, Russia once again rejected a British-led effort to persuade the U.N. Security Council to condemn the Syrian regime's use of violence. "The Security Council cannot discuss Syria," a Russian foreign ministry official told the Interfax news agency. The official claimed that the Syrian opposition was guilty of violence as well. "The opposition there was never peaceful to begin with,"he said.
Russia has called for negotiations and political reforms in Syria, but the veto-wielding member of the Security Council has consistently blocked U.N. action on Syria. Why? News reports over the last month suggest a few reasons.
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Gaymers Original Cider
Gaymers Crisp Apple Cider, cold filtered for a clean, refreshing taste. Made using English apples and crafted to create flavour that retains its distinctive qualities when served ice cold to complement the mellow apple aroma and soft fruity character.
Gaymers Original Cider is produced by Magners GB at our Shepton Mallet cider mill, in the heart of England's West Country. The production process uses the same traditional cider-making processes that date back to 1770 but in a modern, controlled environment.
How Gaymers Cider is Made
- Harvest – selection of the perfect apples
The harvesting process begins during the first weeks of September however it does not reach its peak until October and November. The cider mill will receive up to 500 tonnes of ripening apples a day throughout this period. The carefully selected varieties allow us to produce the perfect blend of apples to provide balanced juice and unique flavours.
- Juice making - the essence of great cider
The freshly harvested, specially selected British apples are delivered to the cider mill at Shepton Mallet in the heart of Somerset. The fruit is quickly cleaned using a multi stage water washing process. Once clean the fruit is chopped into pulp and pressed. During this process the apple pulp is passed through filters to separate the juice from the solid apple. The subsequent golden coloured, cloudy sweet liquid contains all the flavour and character from the apples in its natural state.
- Juice Storage – to meet our needs all year round
In order to meet the year round demand for cider the fresh juice is either immediately fermented after pressing or stabilised and stored to ensure a consistent high quality raw material is always available.
- Fermentation – when the apples become cider
At this stage the raw material is converted into cider as the yeast transforms the sugar present into alcohol. This process would naturally occur with raw apple juice, as wild yeast is present on the skins of apples. However the consistency and quality of this type of fermentation is not reliable. We therefore use our own strain of yeast, this is crucial in the final consistency of flavour and results in the definite character of all our ciders. The fermentation process takes place in temperature controlled vessels to ensure a clean vigorous fermentation to capture the full flavour of the cider apples used.
Gaymers Juicy Pear Cider, is a refreshing, easy drinking medium cider. It is made using specially selected English pears. It has a distinctive aroma of fresh pear and a refreshing smooth taste. Best served chilled or over ice.
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Gaymers Pear Cider with Raspberry flavour is a mouth watering refreshing blend of the famous Gaymers pear cider, infused with raspberry with a hint of succulent strawberry flavour. Best served chilled or over ice.
Gaymers Pear Cider with Cherry & Apple flavour is a refreshing easy drinking cider. Made from our finest pear cider complimented by the distinct aromas and flavours of cherry & crisp apple. Best served chilled or over ice.
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Gaymers County range comprises a series of finest quality ciders. Each cider is produced using apples from a single cider-growing county with its own distinctive regional flavour.
Gaymers Orchard Reserve: Newtons Vale
Gaymers Newtons Vale is made using the best quality cider apples only from our Newtons Vale orchard at the foot of the Quantock Hills in Somerset. It is a blend of 4 cider apple varieties to create a rich, mellow flavour: Chisel Jersey, Improved Dove, Coate Jersey, Stembridge Jersey.
Newton's Vale has a light amber colour with hints of sweet apple and honey on the nose. The initial sweetness gives way to a full-bodied cider that coats your mouth.
Gaymers Orchard Reserve: Stewley
This cider is made using the best quality cider apples only from our Stewley orchard in Somerset. It is a blend of 5 cider apple varieties which creates a full-bodied flavour.
It is bright golden cider giving aromas of stewed apple and citrus fruit. A good balance of flavours where ripe apples combine with slight hints of yeast from the fermentation that then lead to a slightly dry, tangy finish.
Gaymers County Series: Gaymers Somerset
This cider is crafted to reflect the character of the best cider apples of Somerset. Its is therefore, a classic Somerset Cider: Bittersweet apples flavours combined with astringency from natural tannins.
Somerset County is a light amber cider with aromas of green apple and lime. A lively and refreshing mouthfeel that combines the fruit flavour with a little dryness in a medium length fruit hit.
Gaymers County Series: Gaymers Devon
This cider is crafted to reflect the character of the best cider apples of Devon, with a hint of wood and smokiness.
Devon County cider has a rich golden colour that smells like a basket of freshly picked apples. Noticeably sweeter than Somerset with a slight hint of classic Devon woodiness that combines with but does not overpower the full fruit flavour


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I am in love with this peacoat by Kimchi for Urban Outfitters. I am a sucker for frills and ruffles and all things girly. But I especially love feminine details juxtaposed with tougher, more masculine ones. Incidentally, I was also just thinking today that I really need a short coat. All my coats are longer and really make me look even shorter since I'm constantly in flats.
The price is actually quite reasonable at $138. However. I am supposed to be saving money for our December Europe trip so I will have to quell my love for this coat. If it should go on sale though, it's so mine! Me in this on a gondola in Venice. Oh yeah.


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Hollinger's WORST case scenario simulation computes the Clippers could go ALL THE WAY.
Haha. Yup the rest of the season with ZERO wins.
Best case? 35 - 47 (I like that simulation much better)
Chance of Clipper's making the playoffs? Odds are at 0.0 %. Yup ZERO POINT ZERO. Even the miserable, only worse record than the Clippers, OKC Thunder is at 0.4% to make it.
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Posts Tagged '2010'
The Rural Alberta Advantage Interview V2 & Mother's Day – S06E34
I would never expect to start May 2011 on an awesome level because I had the opportunity to see The Rural Alberta Advantage again. This was a unique one because I had my co-host, Erica go to the show and it couldn't have made me happier to finally have a radio co-host join me at a concert. Prior to their performance, Erica and I had the opportunity to chat with Amy and Paul of The RAA and it was the usual funny interview and the first for my co-host in interviewing a band. Overall, it was a great show at Ritual Nightclub and the opener, Hooded Fang really surprised me with their set and I literally enjoyed it. Even though it was on a Sunday night, there was a good turnout for The RAA.
Mother's Day – Cantopop Songs
It's the second year that I decided to do a Mother's Day theme segment as I chose Cantopop tracks that are linked to Mother's Day. Hope you will like it and a Happy Mother's Day!
Don't forget to listen to the interview and the show on the bottom.
The May 4th show – press play to listen
The May 4th live broadcast at CKCU-FM – press play to listen and the playlist is at this link.
The Rural Alberta Advantage Interview (2011 Edition)
The Top 50 Songs of 2010 & The Holiday Shows – S06E17
Merry Christmas to all!
In case you can't check all of the four entries, I have decided to post up the four Christmas editions from my radio show. Plus, the guest co-host from Christmas Eve.
Audio from December's Radio Show
December 1st – press play to listen. View playlist.
December 8th – press play to listen. View playlist.
December 15th with guests, Digory, Hilary and Tiffany – press play to listen from the two parts. View playlist.
Part 1 – Christmas songs and past Christmas number one songs in the UK.
Part 2 – The final Wild 10 Countdown of 2010
December 22nd with guests, Erica and Marzia – press play to listen. View playlist.
December 24th – Guest co-host on The Friday Special Blend, Christmas Eve edition. Press play to listen. View playlist.
Happy Holidays!
The Year End Show – My Top 50 Canadian Songs of 2010
As we end 2010, I had a special extended show for my radio show on CKCU-FM. It was 3 in a half hour as I counted down my year end countdown in Canadian music for 2010. Even though, I didn't play the whole 50 songs as I played forty out of the fifty Canadian songs. It was due to time but saving it for January 5th, 2011. Saving the best for last.
To check out the forty Canadian songs of 2010, go to this link. Also included on the playlist and the audio were my non-Canadian music picks of 2010. Various radio shows have been playing Beach House and Vampire Weekend for their year end picks.
Near the end of the radio show, it's this time of year to play Anita Mui songs as December 30, 2003 was when she passed away.
Audio/Radio Show – The Year End Countdown Aired on December 29, 2010
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Happy New Year! See you in 2011
The Christmas Edition With A Very Merry Kind of Farewell – S06E16
Updated – December 24, 2010 (Christmas Eve)
The Christmas edition, show #4 for 2010 was a bittersweet one because I had enough time to play all kinds of Christmas songs. Started the show with the 2010 UK Christmas #1 song as it's now become a tradition for my radio show to find out what's happening elsewhere in music. I was supposed to play part of my year-end countdown but it's been pushed back. Unlike the last radio show, I didn't have too many guests on, but my co-host who joined my radio show for the 2nd season (current) made her farewell appearance because she's going back to her country. I like to say to Marzia (pictured with me) that she's been a great co-host and making my radio show interesting and also broadening some non-Canadian music as I got hooked on it. The example being The Temper Trap, Delphic and Hundred In The Hands, which I got to see at Pop Montreal. The best part for her joining my show at a unique time was playing Arcade Fire a lot. I forgot to mention that I have an American listener usually listening to my show and she enjoyed hearing my co-host and having a cute voice.
It's going to be tough without you as I will be back to hosting alone which is sometimes tough when no one is around the on-air studio.
How can I not forget another guest and former host of Horses Spilled Milk, Erica, as she dropped by to help me play some Christmas tunes. I got to play Coldplay's Christmas song, which I have been hooked until Christmas ends and then playing various versions of Fairytale of New York.
Another shout-out goes to AJ "Oh So Nice" Thompson of The New Midnight Jamz because I kept mentioning him on-air as he was listening in as I played a few R&B and Hip-Hop Christmas tunes for the humour and enjoyment.
For all the Christmas songs I played, you can check the playlist out at this link.
Thanks to Marzia for enjoying my music selection and even your music recommendations. Farewell to you.
Last, but not least, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!
Christmas Eve update, I decided to go on as a guest co-host for the Friday morning show on CKCU-FM. I kind of had some loose ends in playing some Christmas songs. You can listen from it here if you missed out.
Audio – Radio Shows on December 22nd and 24th
December 22, 2010: The Very Merry Christmas Edition – WildWorks on CKCU-FM
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December 24, 2010: Fill-in on The Friday Morning Special Blend – The Christmas Eve Show.
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The Christmas Edition With Guests & Pies – S06E15
December 15th Radio Show
What an awesome day for my radio show because I had guests helping me and enjoying their time with the songs I played to get into the festive spirit with some 80s flashback and charting history from the United Kingdom. I had DJ Digs, Hilary Duff (not the celebrity) & Tiffany Yam come in to guest co-host the radio show. Out of the three, only the two made their first time to be on live radio. DJ Digs already has a radio show on CKCU-FM but he's on during for one of the overnight shows and he's on bi-weekly. What was also crazy was that I had an extended edition for my radio show because the other show that's on from noon is on a Christmas hiatus. It was totally hectic for the 3.5 hours worth of music and hilarious talk.
You can check the playlist by clicking on this link.
The second half of the show was the final Wild 10 Countdown for 2010 and the entry for the top ten is at this link.
Thanks to Tiffany for helping out and get excited for the top 10 songs.
Pies Pies Pies
After my show, I decided to stick around for Both Kinds of Music as they had a 2nd annual pie baking contest and a 3rd annual all-vinyl show. I was added as a last minute to being a pie tasting judge. The pies they had were cherry pies. It was marvelous trying out the pies as it wasn't very sweet and tangy. Although, I got stuffed after the second pie.
Props goes out to Dick Altavista, Martha Walsh, Patricia Lever, Ron Steeds, Steve Stacey, and Steph Clementine for all the great fun.
To end things, I posted photos on the bottom of this entry. It was great to be with the people who enjoy music and food close to the holidays.
Audio to Listen
There are two parts for the December 15th show. The first part was from the regular timeslot of WildWorks on CKCU-FM.
The second part was the final Wild 10 Countdown for 2010. Apologies on the quality of the audio as I had to switch computers to record.
Part 1 (Xmas tunes and past Christmas #1s in UK) – Press play to listen.
Part 2 (The Wild 10 Countdown) – Press play to listen. Note: quality during the host break may not be great.
The Christmas Edition Continues With The Mountains & The Trees – S06E14
The WildWorks radio show on CKCU-FM continues on with the Christmas edition as I had been playing a lot of various holiday tunes from Canadiana to the mainstream ones. I know it's a bit early but I got loads of Christmas songs to choose for the next couple of shows leading to Christmas. As mentioned from the previous blog entry, I had the opportunity to see The Mountains & The Trees again in Ottawa. The photo shown above has me with a new fashion wear and with a sense of fashion almost similar to Jon Janes (The Mountains & The Trees). I'm going for the holiday spirit with the cardigan. It was taken outside of the CHUO studios.
Speaking of CHUO-FM, here's the link provided, Now Playing with The Mountains & The Trees. It's not on my blog but I provided Emma Godmere (host of Now Playing), the recording of The Mountains & The Trees playing a cover of Already Yours by Bahamas.
I was fortunate to record a segment with The Mountains & The Trees after his session at CHUO. My segment with him had to do with a song on my countdown. What I also didn't realize from last year that I got a Christmas song from Janes because I did not know he had a track in 2009 and I knew about music in 2010. It's been great to support his musical endeavor as he's had an exciting year from the touring and releasing his full length album, I Made This For You.
Onto what I played on the show, the first was the Wild 10 Countdown and in the second hour, I played a bunch of new Christmas tracks from one album called Light Organ Records: Our First Christmas. It's a compilation of musicians and bands from Vancouver playing their favourite Christmas songs. One song that caught my interest was Nat Jay's Green Trees Red Hearts. When I was commenting on someone's Facebook not too long ago, I did not check the profile of Nat Jay until I found out it's a she. I was left speechless with her beauty and looks when I added her on Facebook. I mentioned on-air that she looks like Karen O. of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I got tweet reply that it was sweet of me to say it. I also played a Christmas song from adaline. There was another compilation Christmas album by The Line of Best Fit. It's their second year to release Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada, this time it's Deux. I quickly had to download from the station's computer and played new Christmas songs by Leif Vollebekk and Basia Bulat.
Here's the music video to Green Trees Red Heart by Nat Jay.
Lastly, I decided to give a shoutout to another CKCU-FM show as I played them, Christmas In Hollis by Run-DMC.
Without further ado, you can check the playlist at this link. The Wild 10 Countdown for December 8th entry is posted up.
Audio – Radio Show for December 8, 2010
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Live From Ottawa, It's Saturday Night! The Acorn Edition – S06E13
This is a first of sorts to live blogging at a concert venue. Saturday night almost didn't happen for Ottawa's The Acorn as there were low advance ticket sales which was in danger of being cancelled for December 4th. So far, there's a good turnout at Capital Music Hall. It's good of me to take a spot from the balcony (pictured on top). As live as it gets, it's close enough for live blogging. The opening acts for The Acorn's homecoming show were Pat Jordache and Jim Guthrie.
To my own surprise, current CBC Bandwidth host, Adam Saikaley is helping out on the keyboards. Also back with the band is Howie Tsui.
What a great homecoming concert for The Acorn. They have playing some of the tracks from No Ghost and a few from Glory Hope Mountain.
Lots of hilarity coming from Rolf Klausener.
Here are some photos (being posted
as live as possible)
The Post Live Concert – Not The Live Blogging Aspect
After missing one of the encore (Blankets), I had to rush over to Florence Garden for the after party. I was not going for the grilled cheese sandwich due to stomach reasons. Stayed at the after party until 3am.
I forgot to mention that earlier on Saturday, I headed to "rival" station, CHUO to check out The Mountains & The Trees for a pre-recording for a particular radio show on Wednesday afternoons. It was great to see Jon Janes. Another nice guy in Canadian independent music.
Overall, it was an awesome Saturday for excellent music. There were so many live events happening on Saturday night. It was great to see the usual people at The Acorn show and the after party.
Apologies for the formatting for this blog entry as I was using the WordPress app on the iPad. There were issues with uploading the images as it crashed several times and it kept duplicating.
The Start of Christmas Season & The Balconies Takeover – S06E12
What a way to kick off the first of December with a bunch of awesome music and holiday tunes. I will be using tunes from A Charlie Christmas for the next couple of Wednesdays leading to Christmas. I still love The Peanuts and the classic cartoon. The worse part was using the 2006 remaster version. Next week, I should use the pre-2006 version of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
December 1st happened to be World AIDS Day. I started off with the famous Marvin Gaye cover of What's Going On by the Artists Against AIDS Worldwide. Even though the song came out in 2001, I decided to play it in tribute of the people who've lost their lives to AIDS.
I won't explain much on the Wild 10 Countdown as it will be on the other blog.
The second hour of the show had The Balconies taking over for the first half hour. It was pre-recorded and during the time when they competed for the finals of The Big Money Shot. Even though it had some interview elements, I had the trio request their favourite songs. This is considered the final music interview of 2010.
The final half hour of the show was the start of the Christmas show as I played Christmas tunes by Canadian indie artists & bands as well as the usual Christmas pop tunes. For this set, I included two Christmas songs that are not in English. One was in Japanese (Utada Hikaru) and the other in Mandarin (Mavis Fan). I played a new Utada Hikaru song because she recently released her 2nd Single Collection compilation album. This is considered her last for the time being as she will be going on an indefinite hiatus starting in 2011.
Without further ado, you can check the playlist at this link.
The Wild 10 Countdown for December 1st is at this link.
Audio & Extras – Radio Show for December 1st and The Balconies Takeover Show (Segment)
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The Balconies Takeover Show
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Since I had mentioned Utada Hikaru, here's the music video to Goodbye Happiness. The new song from Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2.
The End of November's Radio Show Came With Glitches – S06E11
Due to a slight delay on not posting up Wednesday's radio show right away for the blog. The reason was that the playlist for the November 24th edition was being incomplete. It was the on-air studio's computer causing itself to restart and I had my entries from the top 4 songs and the second hour to be gone. You can check the countdown at this link and the playlist is now posted up at this link (via CKCU-FM's website).
On the show itself, I had a surprise guest on the show as I predicted of hosting on my own and almost having a trainwreck. My co-host was unavailable due to being sick and tons of assignments.
In the second hour of the show, I finally decided to play Hallelujah for the fourth time as I was slightly pressured to play the original version of the song.
The interview I aired was Nat Baldwin in the band, The Dirty Projectors. This was considered my second music interview who's not from Canada. With Baldwin, what interested me to interview him was that he collaborated with a well-known band, Vampire Weekend. For Baldwin, he was on tour for his solo music. It was a great opportunity to interview him and I should thank, Adam Saikaley (host of CBC's Bandwidth) for putting on the show at Raw Sugar Cafe.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a photo of Nat Baldwin for this blog entry.
Without further ado, you can listen to the November 24th edition of WildWorks on CKCU-FM.
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The interview with Nat Baldwin
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An Awesome November Weekend With Grant Lawrence & CKCU's 35th – S06E10
This weekend was totally fun because it started with CKCU's 35th Anniversary weekend. It was the concert on Friday night and then the anniversary party on Saturday. The Friday concert consisted of The Steve Adamyk Band, The Flaps, The White Wires, Mike Essoudry's Mash Potato Masher & The Mighty Popo. I was unfortunate to miss out on The Mighty Popo due to time. Then the party was held the day after (Saturday) and there was excellent food as I just loved the grilled chicken. It was an entertaining night as there were panels consisting of each time period (the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s & 2000s/noughties).
Both events were at Porter Hall in Carleton University. It's been awhile that Porter Hall was used for live music.
It was great to see the usual hosts and staff at the events. There are photos that I posted but it's on Facebook, go to the public link. The link should work if you not logged on Facebook.
Onto the nice and warm Sunday afternoon, I went to Raw Sugar Cafe for Grant Lawrence's book reading event. I finally got to meet Lawrence as I was unable to go to events in Toronto with my brother. As you see the photo on top of the entry shows proof that I finally got to see him.
Overall, he was there to promote his book, Adventures in Solitude. It's not about music if anyone thinks that Grant Lawrence is all about music (actually, Canadian music0. Adventures in Solitude deals about his childhood going to his parent's cottage in Desolation Sound. Lawrence read a few chapters in the book and his experience being in Desolation Sound brings a lot of humour. Andy Swan performed a couple of songs as a break in between Lawrence's book reading.
I also did an audio interview Mr. Lawrence and expect it to be aired for Wednesday's radio show.
Last thing, how can I not forget Arcade Fire's second appearance on SNL. Good thing I got back home right after CKCU's 35 Anniversary Party. I was surprised that the band performed Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains).
The November 17th Radio Show and The Grant Lawrence Interview
I was solo hosting and I made it through the 2 hours. Starting the 2nd hour, I played a 3rd Hallelujah and it's from the 2008 winner of Britain's The X Factor, Alexandra Burke. I had a few tweets that they prefer Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah and to burst your bubble, I played it two weeks on the Funding Drive Show #2.
You can listen to the radio show by pressing play. The playlist is at this link.
The Grant Lawrence interview was light-hearted at best and hope you will enjoy it.
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The Post Funding Drive Edition with The Diamond Rings & Sheezer Interviews – S06E09
It's great to finally resume regular programming as the Funding Drive for 2010 was a successful one. The station reached its goal of $110,105. I would like say thanks to the people who pledged on my radio show as I was pretty nervous that I wouldn't get any as my show is still new. At least my radio is making progress. How can I not forget about CKCU's 35 Anniversary, that will be explained in a future entry.
The November 10th edition of WildWorks on CKCU-FM had songs leaning towards the Techno/Electronica realm. Overall, my co-host, Marzia did a good job helping me out after being absent for one show. It was an entertaining show. The first hour as usual was The Wild 10 Countdown and yes, Arcade Fire is still #1 on the countdown. The Wild 10 Countdown entry is at this link.
In the second hour, I played another version of Hallelujah and it's by Rufus Wainwright. I am totally hooked on Communion by Maximum Balloon & Karen O. (of Yeah Yeah Yeahs). There was a blast from the past song I played and it was due in part to The X Factor in the UK. One of the contestant sang Stay by Shakespears Sister on the show and it got some buzz from the UK singles chart.
The interviews aired on the radio show were Diamond Rings and the all girl Weezer cover band, Sheezer. Just good timing for Diamond Rings as he's the X3 Artist of the Month.
Don't forget to check the playlist by going to this link.
Radio Show and Interviews
The November 10th radio show – press play to listen.
The Diamond Rings Interview
It was recorded on October 29, 2010, outside of Raw Sugar Cafe. Press play to listen or download it.
The Sheezer Interview
It was recorded at Zaphod Beeblebrox with two of the members. Press play to listen or download it.


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[Ed. Note: As you may have heard, we at Japers' Rink wanted to do something nice for our readers (and Caps fans in general), while also supporting a great cause, so we went out and won at auction the guest blogging services of some of the blogosphere's most-talented free agents. They'll be around as long as the Caps are in the playoffs, so make them feel at home and enjoy their work. First up, the following from Ryan Lambert, known to many of you for his work at Puck Daddy and on Twitter.]
Full disclosure, I grew up in the city where Dwayne Roloson played his college hockey. I later went to that college. But the first college hockey game I ever saw featured what was CLAIMED to be a 24-year-old Dwayne Roloson in goal for that team. This was in 1993. So just how old IS this guy? I've conducted an exhaustive five-minute fictional internet search and found a list of things that are probably younger than Dwayne Roloson:
- The next-oldest Bolt, Martin St. Louis
- Martin St. Louis' father
- Martin St. Louis' father30
- The Stanley Cup
- The National Hockey League
- Hockey
- Composite sticks
- Wood sticks
- Wood
- The Michael Keaton movie, "Multiplicity"
- The Buster Keaton movie, "The General"
- The conflict that inspired that movie: "The Civil War"
- The Tampa Bay Lightning
- The definite article "the"
- Tampa Bay
- Lightning
- The Big Bang Theory, the show
- The Big Bang Theory, the theory
- The Big Bang
- And a dinosaur!
- And, almost magically, here's one thing that is somehow already older than Dwayne Roloson: The Lightning acting like they somehow finished with the worst record in the league and are therefore 5,000,000:1 longshots.
The thing is, too, that I'm sure I've forgotten some stuff. Help me out here, gang.


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Impressive return by IPUT bodes well for 2005April 14 2005
Irish Property Unit Trust (formerly IPFPUT) has followed through an impressive 12.3% return last year with a strong first quarter performance - auguring well for 2005 prospects.
Chairman Conor Sexton presented a compelling case at the latest annual meeting on why commercial property is one of the mainstays of a balanced investment portfolio. The IPUT property portfolio valuation at end December 2004 was €572.8m compared with €539m 12 months before.
"It may be somewhat premature to predict the likely returns for 2005, but it would not be unreasonable to suggest that returns of the order of 8% to 10% are distinctly possible," Mr Sexton commented.
Quizzed on recent performance, IPUT chief executive, Gus MacAmhlaigh, revealed that a capital return of 4% had already been achieved in the first three months of this year, hopefully signalling a return into double digits for 2005.
In 2004, the annual report reveals that the capital return for the IPUT portfolio as a whole was 6.2%, with the retail sector once again the best performing area (20.1% growth). The office sector made an improved contribution of 8.7% to overall capital growth, whilst performance from the industrial sector at 10.8% was boosted by a strong element of rental growth.
IPUT's 12.3% return for 2004 outperformed the 10.4% average for pension investments generally. The report reveals that the trust is well advanced in due diligence in respect of several substantial office and retail investments.
This includes the acquisition of the developer's interest in the offices pre-let to 02 at Sir John Rogerson's Quay.
"Considerable" portfolio rebalancing, including sales of older office properties, is likely as a result of this strategy. A fresh issue of units may also be made in the coming months to prospective new unit holders.
"In effect, we would be replacing older, 1970's office stock with new office investments that by virtue of their respective lease terms, location factors, etc possess relatively superior investment characteristics that will provide the trust with greater longer term performance prospects", Mr Sexton comments.
New lettings
IPUT activity last year included new lettings in Swords Business Campus to Hartford and Rockwell and a letting in Alexandra House to BskyB. Letting terms have also been agreed since the beginning of this year for office space in Fitzwilton House, Unit 4a Airside Retail Park, Unit M1 Furry Park and further office space at Swords Business Campus.
Yields on the market value of the trust's properties were as follows: office 5.7%; retail 2.9%; industrial 5.9% and overall 4.9%.
The Chairman points out in his annual statement that the change in the title of the trust to IPUT confirms that the trust is not exclusively available to pension funds. This has led to a number of enquiries from large charities, some of which may become unit holders in the near future.


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SportsNavi covered the pre-fight press conference for Dream 3, with the most interesting item being this little nugget of info (babelfish translated)
"DREAM. Preceding day press conference of 3 "(11 days occasion Saitama super arena) on the 10th, to be done at the hotel inside capital, as the special guest, PRO ELITE William Kelly highest execution patsy (COO) and others same company staff the Noboru platform. The Sasahara Keiichi event producer (EP) who similarly rises to on the platform, the mountain stream DREAM and K which Osamu EP directs - it announced that it keeps strengthening the cooperative relationship with 1.
As for the latest announcement Dynamite of 07 years! ! Those where furthermore it will strengthen the cooperative relationship with FEG which is built with USA, player interchange and event opening probably will keep doing together. As for concrete execution step still undecided, as for William COO, slice, the lobby roller, name of the player such as Shields was listed, the dream match actualization by the DREAM player and the ProElite player eagerly desired."
And now my translation of the translation. ProElite and K-1/FEG are looking to build on the relationship that started with the 2007 Dynamite card that took place at the Los Angeles Coliseum. They are discussing further Co-promotion opportunities and an exchange of talent with Jake Shields and Kimbo Slice as EliteXC fighters that would be desired for future Dream cards. ProElite Exec William Kelly was on hand to further comment on this development and to watch tomorrow's card. Current EliteXC fighters Eddie Alvarez and Nick Diaz will be prominently featured during Sunday morning's Dream 3 fight card.
If EliteXC is going to work with Dream, and the Dream fights are going to be aired on HDNet, it seem to make sense for Elite and Cuban's group to use this common relationship as a bridge to working together. Both companies are amassing rather large video libraries that could possibly have synergies when it comes to online, dvd, and other distribution channels. MMA Weekly has more.
Update [2008-5-10 12:20:59 by Nick Thomas]: Added more pictures after the jump.
FEG/Dream , ProElite Executives Discuss Partnership
Mitsuhiro Ishida, Caol Uno....named to the Main Event
Joachim Hansen, Eddie Alvarez (Pre-Fight Interview) named to the sub-Main
The Diaz-Inoue fight will be a welterweight title eliminator but will be fought slightly over the WW limit, due to Nick's late addition back onto the card. Inoue agreed to this modification.
Mayhem strikes his ninja pose (Photo courtesy of gbring.com)
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Twardy is...well, I honestly think he laughs at himself more than he laughs at anyone/anything else. The class is really easy, especially if you just took Media Writing (highly suggest doing this), and he is a really easy grader. He lets you submit drafts and he will help you succeed. His assignments are evenly spread apart. Good class, easy grade.
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twardy is a really boring but nice guy. this class will bore you to death, all he does is talk but no need to take notes. only 5 graded assignments and a final. he does not grade very hard so its a easy grade.
Mr. Twardy is a complete goofball, but a great professor. He's also a really great guy, and his door is always open. His class is extremely easy as long as you go (attendance not mandatory). I'll be taking him for the third time next semester. HIGHLY recommend!!
Twardy is very friendly and goofy, which makes class enjoyable. He is extremely helpful if you ask for it. His lectures are very detailed and he seems like he wants everyone to do well. One of my favorite professors!
Very interesting - developed course materials that will be helpful in real life for a COMM major. Clear expectations and fair grading. Definitely would take again.
Boring class, mostly lecture. He grades really easily but turn in a rough draft!! Everything has to be exactly the way he wants it. Not very clear on what he's talking about. Would not let me reschedule my final. Bottom line: Boring but easy
Very good. Interesting assignments that are useful in real life. Helpful professor.
Twardy is really goofy. He talks a lot and you tend to drone him out. He grades fairly and there are very few writing assignments. Class is not hard but not interesting either.
Really learned a lot about Media Writing. Great teacher.
Great guy. Lots to read, but gives great types to writers.
great guy. easy to get along with, works around everythin, fun and clear. makes class very short and easy
GREAT GUY. easy class, easy assigments, all you have to do is follow the instructions, easy to get along with and very helpful.
Mr. Twardy is the best. I wish he taught some other courses. You had weekly writing assignments and had to read the book. He provided lecture on video which helped immensely. He grades fair and promptly and is quick to return email or discussion board questions. Overall a FANTASTIC instructor. Very helpful and gives detailed feedback.
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A new year brings a new leader and
logo to the Savannah Economic Development Authority.
At Tuesday's meeting, the gavel was
passed to new Chairman Robert James. He takes over for David Patterson. They also approved a new logo and the slogan Propel Business.
James said he is excited to take
over during such an exciting time.
"We are looking forward to an
outstanding two years - there is a lot to be done - and with the outstanding
staff we have here at SEDA we know that we are going to accomplish a great
deal," James said.
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced
an expansion and the World Trade Center Savannah also welcomed new members at
the meeting.
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