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Arlington, Va. – Marymount University's men's basketball remained in the hunt for a Capital Athletic Conference postseason bid with a 67-44 victory over visiting York (Pa.) on Wednesday evening. The Saints improve to 7-14 overall and 2-6 in league play.
Antonio Rouse led the Saints with 12 points while Reed Scott added 10. Scott paced MU on the boards with six rebounds and rejected a pair of shots.
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York (7-13, 2-6 CAC) opened the game on a 7-2 run and held the lead for first half of the opening frame. Down 14-9 with 12 minutes remaining, the Saints put together a 16-3 run over the next eight minutes to go up by eight up 25-17 with just over four minutes to play. Marymount would lead by as many as 12 points in the stanza before taking a 32-22 advantage into halftime.
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Unfortunately I don't have much experience with trying to gain weight on raw. I have found for me that I am staying at a natural weight, but of course every body is different.
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Notes from the forgotten South
Zwolle, Louisiana, pronounced ZWAH-LEE, owes its existence to Arthur Edward Stilwell, a New Yorker who, like many late-nineteenth-century businessmen, dreamt of building a railroad. In the 1880s Stilwell moved to Missouri and launched his great project, a line of tracks to connect Kansas City with the Gulf Coast. The Panic of 1893 ruined him, and he sought advice from spiritual guides who suggested he look for money in Holland. He did, and while there a Dutch merchant whom he had vacationed with the summer before, Jan De Goeijen, bought $3 million worth of stock in his company, allowing Stilwell to build the first leg of what was to become the Kansas City Southern Railway, linking Kansas City to Shreveport.
From Shreveport, there was disagreement over where the railway would go next. Advisors suggested Stilwell lay tracks south to Galveston, Texas, already a busy port town, but Stilwell, guided by psychic hunches, declared that Galveston would be destroyed by a tidal wave. Instead he built his railroad through rural western Louisiana, and in 1897 it was completed. One of the towns that had sprung up along the track was Zwolle, named for the seaside town in the Netherlands where Jan De Goeijen grew up. A few years later the hurricane of 1900 obliterated Galveston.
During the early 1940s, the Nazis invaded the town of Zwolle, Holland. In 1948 the mayor of Zwolle, Louisiana, Joe B. Parrott, received a letter from De Goeijen's son, who was hiding out in France:
"I want you to know that the well-being of the Kansas City Southern, which my father has been so proud to have helped create, will have forever a place in the hearts of my family . . . The Huns destroyed [my father's hometown]. But your place is on the globe's map and shall remain there forever. In these days it is consoling to know, more than ever, that whatever may happen to Zwolle, Holland, or in whoever's hand it may someday be, Zwolle, Louisiana shall carry on the traditions of freedom. May thus it be!"
I am sitting in the Zwolle, Louisiana, courthouse, a low-ceilinged fluorescent-lit room with walls covered in posters from Zwolle's two big festivals (the Loggers and Forestry Festival and the Tamale Fiesta). I'm reading about the town's history in a big black book titled Zwolle, Louisiana: Our Story: Portrait of a Small Town, when in bursts a black woman in nursing scrubs patterned with butterflies.
Her name is Cheryl Calhoun, and with her is a husky friend dressed in purple. Cheryl runs the Foxy Lady Club, a juke joint up on Lilac Street, in the black part of town, where people come to drink beer and play pool. "It's the only pool hall we have on this side of town," she says. The club has been around for more than fifty years and never has had a liquor license. A church group recently bought the property next door, and plans to build a community center. Cheryl worries that there will be children milling about the center, close to the club, giving the town reason to shut down her establishment. She believes that if she gets the license now, the club will be harder to push out. But the only person who can help is the mayor, G. J. "Pie" Martinez, who is out to lunch.
"I understand the land was bought, and I can't go at them—they're Christian peoples," Cheryl pleads to me, "but why do they have to build a community center in this place?"
Suddenly, reading about Zwolle's history in a book doesn't seem as important as what's happening all around me. So I shut the book and head for Lilac Street.
The Kansas City Southern Railway runs through the middle of downtown Zwolle like a main street, and about once an hour a freight train barrels by, shaking the storefronts, which are drab and yellow-brown, the color of Indian corn. I cross the tracks as a train approaches and walk east out of town along North Main Street, avoiding anthills, birds hee-hawing in the thicket. At Horton Street I turn left and enter a little neighborhood. The homes are mostly tan, gray, and white trailers sitting on stilts or square concrete blocks. There's a dirt yard piled with soiled mattresses, an overturned couch in a driveway. Beat-up cars with pimped rims creep by real slow, thumping syrupy rap. I walk along the shoulder on pine needles, waving at everyone.
A red sports car stops beside me. "Sir!" someone yells out the window. It's Cheryl's friend.
"Foxy Lady is that building up there on the corner," she says.
The club has no sign or logo or address; it doesn't even have windows. Foxy Lady is a gray shack made of wood scraps. Beside the club is a field of wildflowers, where the church wants to build the community center. A sign reads: sabine community connection – neighbors helping neighbors. I knock on the club's door, then wait a few minutes. No one is around. In a vacant dirt lot across the street, under a thick-trunked oak tree with a tremendous knot at its base, are three black men sitting on stumps and stools, drinking Paul Masson brandy.
"Mise a well pop a squat and get drunk," a man named Holzy tells me, after I introduce myself. He's wearing a Kangol beret and fancy white moccasins made of alligator skin. I sit on a twisted root and Holzy passes me the brandy. A big man named Thomas Toombs surfaces from beneath a truck, where he was changing his oil. Thomas has on jeans and a dusty t-shirt and is chewing on a cigar. He asks me skeptically what I'm doing here. I tell him I'm writing a book about small towns in the South. When I show him my notepad and pens he loosens up and says, "He gonna make Zwolle a famous place on the map!"
A Jeep Grand Cherokee drives by slowly as we talk. Holzy gives the driver a nod. The man opens the door and bows, then produces a small bottle of gin from under his seat and flashes it at us, smiling. "He's my cousin," says Holzy.
A school bus stops. The driver honks and Holzy waves. His granddaughter gets off the bus and comes over to ask Holzy for a dollar. She must be twelve or thirteen, in a pink sweatshirt and ponytail. Holzy tells her he doesn't have a dollar and sends her down the road.
"Hey, you see that fence?" says Thomas, pointing across the street to the field of wildflowers with the Sabine Community Connection sign. The field serves as Foxy Lady's parking lot but is now owned by the church. I hadn't noticed, but there's a wood and wire fence blocking off the field from the road. Apparently, town workers came very early this morning and put the fence up, leaving the club without a parking lot. "That cold-blooded church!" says Thomas.
An older, bedraggled man pulls up on a bicycle.
"Pap they call me," he says, breathing real hard. "My opinion is this: Why they have to block this motherfucker up? Why can't they put a motherfucking community center in town?"
"This is kind of fucked up," agrees Holzy, and lights a clove cigarette.
"They ain't learning a damn thing in school," Pap adds. "They ain't teaching them anything, too. Now why they blocked up a black neighborhood? It's still ass-backwards."
"This is a country town," says Holzy.
"Fuck that," says Pap. "We don't care what kind of town. You get all the educated motherfuckers and now every damn thing and they the dumbest damn motherfuckers there is." Pap rides off on his bicycle.
A breeze rustles the oak leaves. Time is marching along and I tell the men I must be going. Thomas shakes my hand.
"You stop in Tallulah," he says. "Right across from Vicksburg. And you tell 'em Thomas Toombs sent you."
Holzy insists on taking me back downtown. He drives an old maroon Buick with a hula girl hanging from the rearview mirror. The car reeks of cigarette smoke. A man in a Sean John cap, who sat with us under the tree but said nothing, rides shotgun with a Budweiser. We blast rap and creep back to town, past everything I had walked by before—the mattresses, the trailer homes—then down Horton Street and back to North Main and the white part of town. Sean John makes a call on his cell phone as Holzy drops me off by the train tracks.
"If you ever come back," says Holzy, "I'll be here till I die."
Mayor G. J. "Pie" Martinez is back from lunch and in his office, picking his teeth with a toothpick. The mayor is a brawny, leather-skinned, seventy-two-year-old man wearing a collared shirt tucked into blue jeans, tan workman's boots, and a silver wristwatch. His ancestors are Spanish and he comes from a long line of lumbermen. "That's the only life my people knew," he says. "Now people are more educated. Back then they weren't so educated. I think until the 1950s we only had eleven grades." His cellphone rings, but he doesn't answer.
"Mayor must be a tough job?" I ask.
"It drives me slap crazy," he says. "We just wanna keep moving on. Everyone wants prosperity."
I follow Pie through the courtroom and into a dark gray hallway with four empty jail cells, each holding a toilet and a cot. Against the concrete wall in back is a showerhead and on the floor is a drain. "Showered 'em right here," says Pie. Offenders are now kept in a big new county facility. Pie leads me outside and around back to an even older jail, a caved-in brick building filled with rotting leaves. Inside the crumbled structure is a white man in a V-neck shirt and Diesel shoes, snapping photos with an iPhone. He's a Texas A&M nursing professor and hobby genealogist named Cody Bruce. The mayor gives him a hearty handshake. Turns out they're cousins.
Cody is here with his aunt, Betty Rivers, who is sitting in a black BMW, panting in the heat. "This is the perfect woman for you to talk to!" says the mayor. I introduce myself. She has gray hair and dark shades. Betty tells me she knows all the old stories. One involves a man who dug his way out of jail. I gaze beyond the caved-in brick building to the Dollar General and beyond that to the lumber mill, billowing smoke and dust, massive machines twirling about, stacks of logs reaching for the sun. "I can give you oodles and oodles," says Betty. "I've got a whole book."
A horn shrieks, signaling the approach of another Kansas City Southern train. It passes and Zwolle shudders. I think of De Goeijen and his hometown of Zwolle obliterated by the Huns.
Back in the mayor's office, I finally get the question out. "What did you tell the two black women who were in here before, the ones looking to get the liquor license?"
Pie laughs. "I told 'em to get a lawyer."


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Can we talk? Recently I attended The Meltdown Show and witnessed one of my favorite comedians, Sarah Silverman, drop in to test out new material for her upcoming comedy special. During Silverman's introduction, the audience discovered she was preparing for her first HBO comedy special when I turned to my friend, Eric, and said, "You're kidding me right? There's no way Sarah Silverman hasn't done an HBO comedy special before now?" Not only could we not stop discussing this topic, but spent an hour afterwards analyzing how this could have happened.
Despite writing for "Saturday Night Live," contributing to "Mr. Show with Bob and David" and "The Larry Sanders Show," appearing on the most popular late night talk shows (Letterman, Leno, Conan, Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel) at least five times each, winning a Primetime Emmy, creating the cult classic "The Sarah Silverman Program" and performing as one of the most popular comedians for the past decade, Sarah Silverman is NOW finally getting her first HBO special. Why has it taken so long? She's too talented to have "slipped through the radar."
"Sarah Silverman is a fresh, fearless and utterly original comedy voice," said HBO programming president Michael Lombard in a statement announcing her upcoming comedy special. "I'm thrilled that we can bring the humor of this unique talent to our viewers."
Growing up, watching George Carlin and Rodney Dangerfield's HBO comedy specials were a rite of passage. If you were a comedian and wanted to be known, obtaining an HBO comedy special placed you in the upper echelon and proved you were one of the best. Although the specials no longer possess the same prestige as they once did in the 80s and 90s, saying you have an HBO special is something unique nonetheless.
However, it's shocking to discover both Ellen DeGeneres and Wanda Sykes each have two HBO comedy specials while Roseanne Barr (1), Kathy Griffin (1), Joan Rivers (None), Lily Tomlin (None), Janeane Garofalo (Half Hour only), and Sarah Silverman (Fall 2013) either have one or no HBO comedy specials. Even more surprising, Tracey Ullman, Whoopi Goldberg and Sandra Bernhard possess only one woman stage show specials. All these individuals made a huge impact in the world of stand-up comedy during the past 30 years, yet they don't receive the same kind of attention they should.
Last month at the Cannes Film Festival, comedy legend Jerry Lewis infamously reiterated he didn't find any women funny and that he, "Can't sit and watch a lady diminish her qualities to the lowest common denominator. I just can't do that." It's frustrating to hear this double standard, especially with comedians like Dane Cook making a reputation and career pandering to "the lowest common denominator."
Although comedy is dominated by males, there are plenty of funny comedians, who happen to be women. Just like any form of entertainment, there's a wide variety of comedy to fit everyone's tastes no matter how tame or crude. Anyone who discusses sexism in comedy, especially if you're a woman, is chastised for complaining because "most women aren't funny." I cringe every time someone even utters those foolish words. Fortunately, I'm not alone.
Earlier this year, Sara Schaefer (MTV's Nikki & Sara Live) wrote a beautiful response regarding these misconceptions titled, "Taco At The Sausage Party" and I strongly suggest readers to check it out. There are many valid points made throughout her article including certain comedienne ratios "needed" for particular performances, male versus female styles, rude introductions and surprise reactions from "fans." Sadly, these ideas run rampant through the comedy world. Why can't someone be judged on their material and nothing else? We don't need to focus on a person's gender, sexuality, race or creed to determine if they're funny.
Going into comedy shows without any preconceptions persists as the best way to fully enjoy yourself without worrying what may or might not be said. If I focused too much on lineups I never would've been exposed to cool comedians like Hannibal Buress, Mo Welch, Jerrod Carmichael, James Adomian or Karen Kilgariff to name a few. Recently a friend asked me to name 10 of my favorite current comics and was shocked when I named five female comedians/acts including Kristen Schaal, Nikki Glaser, Garfunkel & Oates, Aparna Nancherla and Eliza Skinner. After playing clips of their material, my friend agreed they we're all funny and couldn't believe he perceived them so negatively without listening to their act simply because of their gender. Needless to say my friend has since learned his lesson, but not everyone is willing to change their mindset. The real question is, are you?
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Hello everyone, I am new to the cake world and self taught one everything so far....I am a little scared I have a four tear cake that I have to make by sunday, and now the mother wants it to smoke from the top of the cake and have each tear off set. My thought was to yuse pvc pipe down the center of the cake with cap at the bottom so the water would not come out. what does everyone think. I am freaking out :) each layer is also different. one other thing what is the trick to very moist cake from scratch
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Just say no to the recent changes, especially the smoke requests. If you don't think the offset change will stress you out you could go along with it, but if it complicates it for you then say no to that also. Don't try a new recipe now, it is too late in the game to try something new, use your tried and true recipes. Also beware of taking order changes from the mother, your customer should be the bride and groom....what if they don't want smoke and offset tiers and it is just the MOB's idea???? The order is in and paid for, just do what you had planned on and relax.
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it is a birthday cake for twins that are 7 and they have never had a birthday party before, and not a great mother that they have to live with. the step mom is doing this for the girls and I really want it to be great for them because it is like their first bithday, or at least their first birthday party.
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Hi there, I have been making cakes for many years now - firstly for family etc and professionally since 2008. The main bit of advice I would give to anyone in the early stages is to be aware of your limitations. I don't anything derogatory by this but it is sometimes easy when you want to please to agree to something which is beyond what you can comfortably cope with.
As Leah s said with all my years of experience I would be very reluctant to make a cake with smoke coming out - even less so when the request is so late.
Know what you are happy to create and be clear with your clients from the off. You don't have to do this in a negative way but instead can think about how you design the cake in terms of the work involved.
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Truly, I've refused designs when I didn't think I could do it. Especially at the last minute. I recently refused a carved cake from a long-time client. She revised her design. You can make a great cake for the girls even if it doesn't have smoke.
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Larry Leisure joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2010 with more than 30 years of experience in the health and managed care industry. He sits on the boards of several Silicon Valley health information and bioscience companies including Crescendo Bioscience, Jiff, Seriosity and Tethys Bioscience as well as Navigenics and Redbrick Health where he is a board observer.
Before coming to KPCB, he had a distinguished career in healthcare serving in a number of senior consulting and industry roles. His consulting leadership positions have included Ingenix Consulting where he led their Payer & Employer Market Group, Accenture where he was the Global Managing Partner for the Health Vertical, and Towers Perrin where he led the Managed Care practice. In these various roles he also served as client partner to many of the largest US health plans and pharmacy benefit management organizations as well as a number of the largest global employers. In 2010 he co-founded Healthspottr, a new media company focused on the acceleration of innovation in health care. From 2003 to 2007 he joined one his clients, Kaiser Permanente, where he oversaw the key market facing sales & account management functions.
He received his AB in Economics from Stanford University and his MBA in Finance from the University of California, Los Angeles.


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T&T Pro League
Brian Williams given the goodbye by Petrotrin
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The club is yet to make an official statement on the recent occurrence but Carpette's prescence on the United Petrotrin's bench in Friday night's First Citizens Cup quarterfinal bout against Joe Public was a shocker to most present.
Carpette's first match in charge was spoiled by a Grogory Richardson hattrick with Joe Public winning 4-2.
Brian's dismissal came following a poor run of form and most recently the move by out of contract Petrotrin forwards Jerrol Forbes and Beville Joseph to League leaders CLICO San Juan Jabloteh.
In 2007 Williams temporally resigned his position in support of axed team manager Larry Joseph following the transfer of Abiola Clarence to St Ann's Rangers.
However the club and Williams seemed to reach an agreement and he was back on the job but with a less than impressive cast of players, with the exception of Forbes, Keon Daniel and captain Romauld Aguillera, Petrotrin finished out of the Big Six in 2007.
But in 2008 after a revamp in his squad Williams led Petrotrin to the top of the standings with seven straight wins at the beginning of the season with Forbes finding early form, young defender Makan Hislop showing maturity and the addition of Lyndon Diaz a plus to their backline.
However in the last 12 League matches and two knockout competitions, Petrotrin have seemed to lost their shine despite holding 6th position on the League standings and to finish in the Big Six this season seems farfetched.


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Sabine Kehm, Michael Schumacher's manager, has urged fans to ignore any news regarding the racing legend's condition that doesn't come directly from her or the doctors treating him.
According to report in the French media on Wednesday, the seven-time World Champion was on the verge of 'waking up' after he was put into a medically induced coma after he suffered critical head injuries during a December 29 ski accident.
Following the report, Kehm released a statement contradicting the claims.
"I am stressing again that any statement regarding Michael's health not coming from the doctors treating him or from his management must be considered as speculation," the statement read.
"I repeat that we will not comment any speculations."
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Alabama inmate sentenced in tax fraud scheme
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Department of Justice officials say an Alabama inmate in federal custody has been sentenced for committing tax fraud while behind bars.
Authorities say David Marrero was sentenced Wednesday to 46 months in prison. Officials say 24 months of his sentence will run concurrent with his 10-year federal sentence and 22 months will run consecutive to his sentence.
Officials say David Marrero filed various false documents to the Internal Revenue Service and claimed a tax return of over $2.7 million. Authorities say Marrero fraudulently claimed that several companies withheld federal taxes from him. Officials say Marrero used other people's financial documents without their knowledge to file the fraudulent claims. Officials did not provide information on how Marrero obtained the documents.
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Driving Simulator Laboratory
Housed at the Virginia Campus of The George Washington University, the state-of-the-art Driving Simulator Laboratory is used to conduct vital vehicle and driving behavior research. The primary goal of this research is to avoid crashes and collisions on the road. This laboratory allows the Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) to perform driving experiments in a safe and controlled laboratory setting. Technical specifications for the simulator are also available.
Using a vehicle donated by General Motors Corporation, the simulator will be used to conduct research with the primary goal of avoiding crashes and collisions on the road. The lab allows for experiments on the impact of a wide range of factors, including drowsiness and road or traffic distractions. This data is then used to develop warning systems for potential hazards that might lead to crashes. In addition, the simulator could be employed in a number of other studies, such as:
The driving simulator environment is ideal for this research because it provides an environment that is both safe and replicable. The simulators can safely measure driver reaction to unsafe and even life-threatening situations. Moreover, simulators can be used in carefully controlled experimental studies, in which the experimental variables are isolated from other factors that might influence driver performance. New driving scenarios are easily created and allow the specification of an arbitrary sequence of tasks, events and performance measurement intervals. The simulator also allows the collection of data on rare but important situations in a short time frame.
Our full-featured simulator is able to provide a life-like driving experience. The visual display is a curved screen with 135-degree wide-angle field of view. In addition, auditory feedback is provided through stereo components. The steering wheel produces an authentic feeling of road grip through a generated counter torque. A validated vehicle dynamics program governs the behavior of the vehicles in the simulation.
The Driving Simulator Laboratory performs comprehensive data collection, including eye-tracking data. The data includes the complete vehicle dynamics, as well as the steering angle, throttle position, and brake position. In addition, an eye-tracking system provides accurate measurement of the driver's focal point of attention, pupil size, blink rate, and the time that eyes stay shut during blinks.


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The Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Center provides free disposal and recycling services for a wide variety of household chemicals. The service is FREE for Kalamazoo County residents, with the exception of the City of Galesburg.
The HHW Center is open three days per week year round, with no appointment needed. The Center is located off Lake Street, next to the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds. Please click Hours for more details.
Other participating municipalities with free service include Berrien and Calhoun counties, Almena and Paw Paw townships. Please note that as of November 10, 2014, Antwerp Township is out of funds and residents will need to pay to recycle materials.
The fee for Galesburg residents will be approximately $14.75. The fee for out-of-county non-participating residents will be approximately $40.75. Both of these fees are dependent on the quantity of materials brought in for disposal.
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Every day this week, Impact 89FM will post a list of favorite albums from a different member of our music staff. The author of the list featured today is Brian Garcia, host of Sit or Spin that airs on Sundays from 8 to 10pm. To hear more from Brian, you can keep up with his blog at hateyouransweringmachine.com.
1. Flying Louts – Cosmogramma
The true test of a record is what the perceived "life" of it will be. What I mean by that is how you can listen to it before getting sick of it, whether it is two weeks or 5 years from now. There are a lot of records I've enjoyed in 2010, some quickly forgotten about after my hard drive crashed last spring or I just heard something else. But if there had to be one record that burrowed deep into my music listening consciousness this year, it is undoubtedly Flying Lotus' third LP, Cosmogramma. Whether it was driving around blasting it on my crappy speakers in my Ford Focus late at night, waiting on an L stop in Bronzeville, Chicago, or letting it be the background music while studying on the second floor of the library, it fit every situation. This record is 2010.
Stephen Ellison, the Echo Park DJ otherwise known as Flying Lotus, creates a complex universe of space rhythms that loosely resemble what you could call hip-hop. But if you did, that'd be dramatically undercutting it. I like to think of it as the true modern take on Electro-funk, something Afrika Bambaataa could have only dreamt about. The deeply interwoven layers of music in Cosmogramma consist of elements of jazz, dub, funk, dance and hip-hop straight from the school of J Dilla. And if you look at the album cover long enough, you might just "see your entire future in front of you" – or whatever that quote from Almost Famous is.
There is something incredibly simple and undeniable about listening to goth-princess Zola Jesus and her EP, Stridulum. Her songs are constructed around densely layered drones of Moog synths and distorted 808 drum pads, with Nika's operatic voice soaring over top. Further creating the impression that you have stumbled on something you shouldn't be listening to. But once you see (listen) past her confrontational soundscapes, you'll find some of the most tender and tragic love songs you'll hear all year.
3. Sam Amidon – I See The Sign
Brattleboro, Vermont native and pal to Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon breathes new light into children chants, gospel hymnals, and folk traditionals (with the large exception of a R. Kelly cover) to create entirely new universes for each of I See The Sign's eleven songs. The songs never stray far from what the instruments a folk band could have used in 1928; six string acoustic, strings, woodwinds, and drums, yet the songs still sound current. Timeless, you could say.
4. Free Energy – Stuck On Nothing
These five dudes from Philly do not just embrace the kitsch that has naturally been embedded in pop music ever since Elvis sang on the Vegas strip, they move beyond it with one swift fist pump to the air. The band's sound is nothing new: riff-rock. But it's in the personal affect where this band becomes remarkable, almost like looking at old yearbook photos of yourself, slightly embarrassed but met with a smirk of pride. Maybe this band would sound completely lame to someone who actually lived in the cassette culture of the 1980s, but I was only lived one year in that decade. But who cares? And that's the point of this band.
5. Gil Scott Heron – I'm New Here
The comeback of the year that no one really saw coming or could predict, myself included. Despite the "revolution not being televised" back in the 1970's like Mr. Heron had hoped with his rare grooves over socially conscious poetic lyrics, his influence to hip-hop is now fully understood. On I'm New Here, Heron updates his early incarnations of hip-hop with a slightly dated edge of crude synths and simple drum samples, creating something that is undoubtedly raw and innovative. There is something in the analog hiss of the record that places it outside of the trajectory of hip-hop, almost like Diddy flashing his gold chains never happened. The highlight of the record comes when Heron takes Bill Callahan's "I'm New Here" and turns it into a talking blues that reintroduces himself to modern music. Everything has come full circle, Mr. Heron.
6. Gonjasufi – A Sufi and A Killer
When I first heard of the yoga instructor turned musician, Gonjasufi, he was described as something like "George Clinton remixed by J Dilla". I was sold from then on. But after repeated listens to this record, it is so much more than that. The heavily distorted analog sounds of the record range from the 1960's garage rock nuggets of "She's Gone" to the space funk of "Candylane" and "Holidays" to the eastern melodies of "Kobwebz" and "Klouds." The groove never moves from the heart of this record, creating the most memorable debut I heard all year.
7. Drive By Truckers – The Big To-Do
The long awaited major label debut from the best bar band in America finally came out this year. The Big To-Do was released on ATO records, Dave Matthews' RCA imprint that is also home to like-minded rockers My Morning Jacket. The record is, as promised, a turn towards more straight forward rock and roll, compared to the more alt. country tinged previous outings like Brighter Than Creations Dark or A Blessing and a Curse. The highlight of this record comes from the back-to-back placement of the songs, "This Fucking Job" and "Get Downtown." The former, written by Patterson Hood, is the recession anthem that you never heard that dramatizes how 'sometimes your best isn't good enough', while the latter, written by Mike Cooley, directly criticizes the jobless. Those two songs could only come from a band like DBT, with their multiple songwriters with varying takes on Southern culture. I wouldn't have it any other way.
8. Sonny and the Sunsets – Tomorrow is Alright
I like it when things seem to come off as effortless. When I listen to Tomorrow is Alright, the newest record from San Francisco, CA based musician that is exactly how I imagine Sonny playing. He strums his guitar with or without an audience, like every song has been road tested by constant touring, played night after night. The songs never seemed forced but well, effortless.
Brian's hateyouransweringmachine review of this record
9. Mark McGuire – Living With Yourself
The introspective songwriter has been around a while, dating back to about when Dylan stopped being political. The one thing that all these songwriters do the same is write these lyrics themselves and sing them in real time with the strum of their six-string. But what if you could say something personal about yourself, without having to actually sing it? What a great idea (and cop out) for all those introverted songwriters that have come and past. That is exactly what Mark McGuire does on Living With Yourself when he uses audio recordings from his family videos. On the closing track "Brothers (For Matt)", McGuire's father warns his sons to "stay away from girls, you're better off that way" after he finds out they have girlfriends at the age of five. Every time I hear that song, chills run down my spine. I feel like I share the same exact memory that McGuire does, almost like I know him. I could never say the same about Bob Dylan.
10. Grinderman – Grinderman 2
I don't listen to metal music, but I imagine most metalheads get some kind of cathartic release any time they band their head. Whenever I listened to the second Grinderman record this year, I felt that same release of frustration. That is to say, when I felt comfortable enough. Most of the time, I was just scared shitless. Nick Cave and his select members of the Bad Seeds create some of the most extreme versions of rock and roll music I have ever heard, with wailing electric guitar and violin that is loud to the point of unrecognizable. And that's just the music, the lyrics if read separately would create the same kind of reaction when they describe the bizarre takes on Americana tropes. Cave just looks back with a shit-eating grin.
Brian's hateyouransweringmachine review of this record


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Book your room at Villa Sphendone Suites
Deluxe SuiteMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 4 children, 2 infants)
Deluxe Suite (Sultanahmet)Max Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 2 infants)
4-star Istanbul guesthouse in Sultanahmet, walk to Hippodrome
Located in Sultanahmet, this guesthouse is within a 10-minute walk of Little Hagia Sophia Bath, Hippodrome, and Cemberlitas Bath. Basilica Cistern and Hagia Sophia are also within 15 minutes.
Property Features
This smoke-free guesthouse features 24-hour room service, a meeting room, and dry cleaning. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, laundry facilities, a 24-hour front desk, and limo/town car service are onsite.
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All 4 rooms boast jetted tubs and offer free WiFi and balconies. Free wired Internet and sofa beds are standard, as are LCD TVs with satellite channels.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Villa Sphendone Suites
Hotel Amenities
A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of limo/town car service and a meeting room. A complimentary breakfast is offered. This Istanbul guesthouse also offers multilingual staff, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Villa Sphendone Suites is a smoke-free property.
- One meeting room
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 4
- Number of floors - 2
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Computer station
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- Multilingual staff
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- Smoke-free property
- Television in lobby
- Free breakfast
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- Rollaway/extra beds available
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Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi , Free wired high-speed Internet
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I have been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and recently started taking Invega (paliperidone). It has been working well for me but I occasionally see what looks like Invega tablets in the stool. Should I be concerned that I am not getting the whole dose of medication since the tablet is not dissolving?
A very common concern about long acting, slow release or extended-release medications is that a ghost tablet or capsule may appear in the stool. A ghost tablet contains only the outer shell of a pill without active ingredients. When this happens a person may worry the medication did not dissolve and did not work. Finding a pill in the stool is entirely normal for long acting medications. In a recent study, over half of the people taking a long acting form of Metformin for diabetes reported seeing ghost tablets in the stool. Invega is an extended-release product. It works like a little pump as it passes through the GI tract, slowly releasing the medication contained inside the tablet shell over a certain time period. The outer shell is then expelled upon defecation.
Many long acting, slow release or extended-release tablets or capsules (usually, but not always designated CR, SR, XL, ER, LA, etc.) are formulated to perform quite normally in this manner. It is important that the tablet be swallowed whole and not crushed, divided or chewed. If the tablet is not swallowed whole, the medication will stop being long acting and will release its contents all at once. This may result in an increase in side effects or loss of effectiveness of the medication. It is important for all members of a person's healthcare team to discuss and understand ghost tablets of long acting medications.
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|Kingdom of Saints, one of the six paths you can follow at the end of the awesome DS exclusive game from ATLUS, Devil Survivor, in which you are a high school student during summer break, who gets trapped in a blockade inside Tokyo due to a demon invasion. You will have to fight the demons across the game using the COMPs, DS like devices which can summon demons you can command thanks to certain alterations in it's system.
Kingdom of Saints consists in that you, the Hero, having become the King of demons, surrender your power to God, and lead humankind to a new age of peace.


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Thursday, 1 November 2012
How To Create The Perfect Curtain Pole
5 comments:
- Teresa said...
Looking forward to learn the technique... one of my favorites in decor.
Thank you!
- 5 November 2012 at 08:27
- Corn in my Coffee-Pot said...
These are so pretty!
Just a hint of of golden gilt...make a lot of difference.
- 6 November 2012 at 06:23
- Curtain said...
Thanks for the details mentioned in the blog by you.
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There is nothing more satisfying than snugging up at home whilst it is blowing a gale outside and part of the enjoyment comes from looking out on it through the window. This enjoyment, added with the potential spectacular views throughout the rest of the year and the advancements in glazing technology, has led to the growing trend to install non-traditionally large windows which previously would not have been feasible.
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Beautiful curtain poles. Personally a curtain pole can really add a whole new feeling to a room. Thanks for the post.
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Tips for maintaining your lawn
Robomow®- Lawn care has never been so easy
Mow your lawn when the grass is dry. This prevents the clippings from clumping and leaving piles on the lawn.
Mow it late in the day rather than during the heat of the day. (Top)
Mow often, to produce short, small clippings. During the active growing season the mowing frequency should be increased to once every 3-5 days, before the grass is too long. Short clippings decompose quicker and will not cover the grass surface. If the grass gets too high, raise the cutting height, mow, and then gradually lower it over several mowings. (Top)
Follow the "1/3 rule:" mow no more than 1/3 of the length of the grass. Proper mowing will produce short clippings that will not cover up the grass surface. You may have to cut the lawn more frequently, or double cut, when the lawn is growing fast, such as in the spring.(Top)
Grasscycling reduces the amount of water needed by lawns since the clippings are about 80 - 85% water. Grasscycling slows evaporation losses from the soil surface, and conserves water. Most lawns need less water when grasscycling.(Top)
Water your lawn between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., so water has time to soak into the soil before the heat of the sun causes evaporation.
Your lawn needs 1 to 1-1/2" (3-4cm) of water weekly. Deep watering allows grass to develop a deep root system, enabling the lawn to resist disease and drought. (Top)
Too much water is not only wasteful but can also increase turf growth, which requires more frequent mowing. Let the soil partially dry out between watering. Water when the top two inches of soil have dried out. Use an object such as a screwdriver to probe your soil and measure the depth of the moisture. (Top)
Grasscycling reduces the amount of lawn fertiliser needed because the clippings provide about 1/4 of a lawn's annual needs.(Top)
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|This is certainly the most perfect city hotel we have ever stayed in. Barrett, Rm 142
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|Coming back to the Fairview after being away 7 years feels like coming home… Dorazio, Rm 103
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(Yes, it's Saturday. I lose track of time when long-lost adult children come to visit. But I wanted to get in on Jen Fulweiler's weekly blogger tradition. You can, too, if you like: see Jen's instructions at the very end of this post.)
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As my philosophy professor, the late lamented Dr. William Marra, used to say,
"Money is happiness in the abstract."
He was right: if we dedicate Black Friday to commerce,
it's not so much because we want this particular HDTV or that particular vegan leather handbag: it's because money seems to bestow the power to be happy in whatever way we might turn out to desire. It …continue reading
Nov. 24, 2011, at 8:06am
Black Friday has been encroaching on Thanksgiving Thursday for many years now, and this year, it seems, will be no different. There are some conflicting reports about the exact opening hours of various retail chains, but the trend is clear. According to one article
Sears will be open on Thanksgiving morning, while Toys 'R' Us will open its doors at 10 pm Thursday, its earliest Black Friday opening ever. Walmart's jumbo-sized supercenters won't close at all.
Many Americans are not happy with this trend, but they seem powerless to stop it. Their objections and petitions are easily brushed aside by an appeal to what consumers want. "Our guests," says a Target representative, as if it is all …continue reading
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A letter-to-parents from the headmaster at our sons' prep school today includes this reflection-inducing item:
The Angelic Doctor [St. Thomas Aquinas] describes thanksgiving as being a process, rather than an event. This process consists of three parts. First, we recognize that we have received a gift. Secondly, we honor the person who has given us the gift. Thirdly, we desire to make a return for the gift we have received.
Do I go too far in thinking that this is an admirable summation of the structure of all deep personal and inter-personal acts? The essence of personhood can almost be described in this trinitarian way. Receiving a gift; giving honor to the giver; making a return.


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On May 10, The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) web site announced changes in the
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modified crops containing pesticide genes, such as crops producing bacillicus thuringiensis
(Bt) toxins in their tissues. The Academy asked for public comment on the previously
proposed panel membership. Thanks to comment letters, one member with strong biotech
industry has stepped down, and Rebecca Goldburg, of the Environmental Defense Fund, is
added. A new 20-day comment period ends May 29.
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Another added member receives funds from a biotech industry that contracts with Novartis,
Rhone Poulenc, two Dow subsidiaries, and a host of other producers of genetically
engineered seeds. We need new comment letters that pertain to the new proposed
membership. As proposed, the panel is still weighted in favor of biotech companies such as
Monsanto, Du Pont, and Dow. Of 12 members, seven have past or present financial ties to
the biotech or pesticide industry. For example, an attorney and a scientist have represented
Monsanto and the biotech industry against federal regulators, four additional members who
receive direct or indirect funding from companies that produce genetically modified seeds,
and another serves as a consultant for the pesticide industry. Other scientists have past or
present ties to government agencies that have taken a regulatory stance that favors producers
of genetically engineered foods. Tell the NAS a panel with one representative of the public
sector--in other words, everyone--and many representatives of the biotech industry--a narrow
vested interest group--is unbalanced. Public interest activists want attorneys and scientists
who represent the public interest, as well as health, consumer, or environmental
organizations. Typically, the biotech companies are telling NAS that the panel needs more
representation of biotech interests!
Members' bios are posted on the NAS website. Some bios disclose biotech connections.
During the initial comment period, some biotech connections were not disclosed. To view
committee membership and to send comments online, go to the National Academy
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Cite the project identification number: BANR-O-99-02-A.
You can call Jennifer Kuzna, at 202/334-2396, or send written comments to
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Dear Mr. Phillips,
In light of the $25 million dollar contract between his department and Novartis, Dr.
Staskawicz took the right action in stepping down from the committee on genetically
modified crops containing pesticide genes. I commend the NAS as well for disclosing
funding sources on the bios of proposed members.
I also appreciate the addition of Rebecca Goldburg. However, NAS also added a new
member with funding from a biotech company that contracts with many of the biggest
suppliers of genetically modified plants. A panel comprising one representative of the public
sector--in other words, everyone--and many members with ties to the biotech industry--a
narrow vested interest group--is unbalanced. A balanced panel would have a
The panel should be modified to reflect a full range of views of biotechnology. Industry is
too heavily represented by individuals who work indirectly for or receive money from the
companies. The proposed panel still includes an attorney and a scientist who have
represented Monsanto and the biotech industry against federal regulators, four additional
members who receive direct or indirect funding from companies that produce genetically
modified seeds, and another who serves as a consultant for the pesticide industry--a total of
seven with professional or financial ties to companies that could be affected by this
regulation. It includes other scientists with past or present ties to government agencies that
have taken a regulatory stance favorable to producers of genetically engineered crops.
The panel should be balanced with attorneys who represent consumer, health, or
environmental organizations such as The Union of Concerned Scientists, Organic Trade
Association, Consumer Right To Know, Greenpeace, Center for Food Safety, Consumers Union, or
Citizens for Health.
The issues surrounding the future of biotechnology are of enormous importance to farmers
and consumers, who express justified concerns about ecological and food safety risks from
genetically engineered crops. Moreover, biotechnology in farming impacts the structure of
rural and agricultural economies. Given the extent of public concern, the committee must
include broader representation in the following areas:
* As it is the committee's responsibility to "review data which addresses the hypothesized
risks and benefits of these crops," it should include more scientists well-versed in the risks of
these crops. It needs more scientists from the environmental, consumer and sustainable
agriculture communities who have detailed these risks in the past.
* As it is the committee's responsibility to "examine the domestic regulatory framework in
light of the identified scientific risks and benefits," it needs regulatory experts from the
environmental and public interest community. Currently, the Committee members who are
knowledgeable about federal regulations work directly for the biotechnology industry or work
to promote the biotechnology industry.
Many scientists in the US, Europe and Asia are questioning the long-term environmental
impact of this technology.
- Ornithologists and entomologists cite destruction of beneficial insects (through Bt ingestion)
and mass death of birds that prey on these (and pest) insects.
- Ecologists cite about horizontal gene transfer to similar species of plants (through
cross-pollination), recombination of plant viruses used as the DNA transfer mechanism, and
genetic pollution of the biosphere.
- Agronomists cite the massive transformation of the biodiversity of food plant species to
- Economists note the transformation of entire rural economies from subsistence horticulture
to cash commodity agriculture.
- Physicians speculate that the enzymes and proteins expressed by the inserted or modified
genes may have adverse health effects, such as the increase in allergy to RRS soybeans found
in Europe.
More of the many scientifically credentialed critics of agricultural genetic engineering should
be included on the committee destined to provide a review of this technology in the name of
the National Academy of Sciences. I strongly urge you to reconsider the membership of the
committee to include serious critics of the technology, so as to make them at least 50% of
the membership of the committee. Such members on the committee, and an unrestricted open
debate about the full range of issues, is vital to the credibility of any report the committee
I believe the Environmental Protection Agency should continue to regulate Bt producing
plants as pesticides. They are engineered specifically to kill pests, and are therefore
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