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Secret ValentineShe was not sure how she had been dragged into her current situation, did not want to know. But she was very sure it had something to do with how her younger sister would give her those despicably adorable puppy-dog eyes.Secret Valentine3 years ago in Romance More Like This
Lightning hated it, but at the same time it amused her.
Serah had been looking around the store for ages, trying to find a decent Valentine's Day present for her boyfriend, Snow Villiers. Lightning would roll her eyes every time Serah would fuss over what would be a good gift. At times, Lightning would give her opinion only to have Serah lecture her about how special Valentine's Day was.
The older Farron refused to hear another lesson about the Day of Hearts and remained silent for the rest of the shopping trip.
She watched as her younger sister went from shop to shop, isle to isle, in search for something that would be perfect for Snow. Lightning had to scoff; what was the point of this Valentine's Day? It was nothing but a word that signals to couples that it was th
LightisYour lips press to mineLightis4 years ago in Visual & Found Poetry More Like This
You kiss me passionately
Yet gently
Your hands around my waist
My hands around your neck
You part for a second
Moving your lips to my neck
Once they make contact
I feel a shiver
And I pull you closer
I kiss your forehead
You pull away and look at me
Our eyes meet
And we kiss again
My red lips on your soft ones
My blush grows
My face gets hotter than usual
You pined me to the wall
The moons light shining on us
Making your dark blue hair hair glow
Your amazing blue eyes glow in the dim moonlight
My pink hair shines
And my clear sapphire eyes shine
As your hand makes contact with my skin
I can't help but kiss you
You make me feel more about you than I usually do
You make me feel like your princess
You tell me 'You love me'
And I tell you 'I love you'
Then you pull me back in your grasp
And kiss me once again...
Forever Gone Chpt.1 Pt.1Forever Gone Chpt.1 Pt.13 years ago in Settings More Like This
Forever Gone
Chapter 1- A Far Off Memory
Part 1- Surprise
The greatest journey lies ahead. Hold onto your friends, you'll never choose a wrong path.
The pain came before the yelling. Not normal pain. The pain of needles being forced into your skin, and multiple tubes shoved down your throat. Pain of a broken heart and a shattered soul. Bright lights above me all I see are black and white coats, with the silhouettes of those wearing them. Before their faces come into view
I'm sitting in the back of a classroom. Chemistry. Not the best way to start the day. The test is over and the noise of those in the class is killing me. Will it ever end? The dreams are back. They've been gone for two years, and after all of this time why come back now? Not just the people in coats but the boys. Seven of them, if I think about it. I see two versions of them, young and old(er). I can never make them out. I'm not sure who or where they are, but someday I will. As for now, I'll hav
SNK: One Sweet Love (Levi x Petra)"Good morning, Heichou~"SNK: One Sweet Love (Levi x Petra)1 year ago in Short Stories More Like This
Levi awoke at the energetic, high-pitched voice calling behind him. He didn't want to get up from bed today. He just came back from another expedition outside the walls.
"Heichou?" The voice continued to call him, but he simply moaned and covered his head with the sheets.
The girl calling behind him, started to get irritated. He had a big day behind him and he refused to get out of bed. He wasn't always that way, she thought. The Corporal knew the value of time, and he knows how much work he needs to do.
She thought of a way to wake him up rather than calling him out. Physical contact was out of the option, because she got a blow job on the face when she did that the only other time he refused to get out of bed.
A small smile crept out. "Heichou, Eren came to your office and messed with the paperwork."
In no time, he sat up of bed, looked at the girl with a deadly glare, and stated in an authoritative voice,
RokuNami: Winter's Icy Soul Snow was pouring down from the sky at an alarming rate. That, coupled with the wind, made the conditions outside unbearable. Roxas sat on the floor in front of the fireplace, enjoying the warmth that radiated from the flame. It would have been the perfect if it weren't for the fact that his blond angel, Namine, hadn't arrived yet. She was supposed to come over and spend the day with him, but she never showed up and he was starting to get worried. He ran his fingers through his spikey, blond hair as he dialed her cellphone number with his other hand.RokuNami: Winter's Icy Soul4 years ago in Romance More Like This
The phone rang a few times and Roxas heard a click. "Hey, it's Namine. Sorry I can't take your call right now. Try again later. Love ya!" her answering machine said.
Roxas waited for the beep and left his message. "Nami, where are you?
61. Fairytale61. Fairytale3 years ago in Drama More Like This
Once upon a time, in the Kingdom of Twilight, there lived a girl and a boy. They hadn't quite seen seven years, and they were childhood sweethearts. One day, the Royal Council sent soldiers to take away the prettiest young female in the land, that she may become a living doll, The Queen of the Kingdom, cursed until the day she dies. Right in front of the boy's eyes, they snatched her up and threw her in a carriage, where the two would forever be separated.
"Ah, finally out of that rat hole that is Fort Radiance," the young man began, then adding a sarcastic laugh, "Radiant, definitely. That place had the worst conditions that make a pig pen look like a palace."
"Ah, but didn't you love the home cooked porridge? Lumpier than our grandmother's cooking!" the other male, said. The two were walking side by side, gathering what little provisions they had before setting out on the road back home. The dark stone walls rose high above them, making the young man feel trapped yet protected
The World Ends With You--RebirthLight.The World Ends With You--Rebirth3 years ago in Romance More Like This
She blinked, and the world came into focus. Crowds of people walked the street in front of her. Indistinct chatter filled the air. A soft breeze blew through the air. She felt the comfort of Mr. Mew, who was safely in her arms, and hugged him tighter as she stood up. Looking around, she realized she was at the Statue of Hachiko.
Reaching up to tuck some of her hair behind her ear, she realized she was wearing glasses. As she looked down at the clothes she was wearing, it finally hit her.
I'm back. For real this time
Her thoughts were confirmed when a rather frustrated-looking kid looked her way. His face instantly turned to one of ecstasy when he saw her (or rather, her cat) and he immediately ran towards her.
"Shiki!" Neku genuinely smiled as he came to a halt in front of her.
"Neku!" Shiki smiled as well.
"We're really " Neku started excitedly, then stopped, as if he was afraid to believe it was true. "We're really back? This isn't just another Ga
Insane To No EndInsane To No End2 years ago in Profiles More Like This
Halloween was on its way, while everyone else laughed and joyed over the holiday as a time to dress up and eat enough candy to make one throw up, Sora tried to get a grip on reality. His brain shifted in and out of its normal state and submerged itself into the deepest depths of darkness. His mind showed him things he did not wish to see; a white girl screaming in the forest for her mother, a man running away from something that the visions never showed, the love of his life being chopped up in to tiny pieces by his own hand. Repeating over and over and over until his head burned and his body ached. He would blank out for entire periods, missing the lesson or the test and getting detentions for stuff he thought he never did.
The things they said he did were horrible. Once he stabbed someone with a pencil, he was told that he threw a desk out of the window, and that he tried to kill one of his more hated teachers with his bare hands. And he woul
VenFuu:Ch.1 Love Song RequiemVenFuu:Ch.1 Love Song Requiem4 years ago in Romance More Like This
Disclaimer: "I do not own Kingdom Hearts. All rights of characters are reserved by SquareEnix & Disney."
Chap 1: Love Song Requiem
Fuu was always a sick girl, from what Ventus could remember. No not sick as in mentally unstable, or having heinous thoughts. When he said sick, he meant physically impossible for her to be anywhere. He had never been to the hospital so much in his life until she came along. It was his first day of high school when he first met the mysterious and quiet girl.
He could remember it like it was yesterday; memories of a time when her smile was always faint, but visible in his eyes. It was raining that day too; when the weatherman had promised sunny skies. And now more than anything, he wished it were true for the rest of his life.
Ventus looked up at the menacing building in fear, high school, how much he despised this upcoming day. The blond had no right to complaint though; at least his foster siblings Aqua and Terra were attending the same
The World Ends With You--Realization Part IIEverything will be fine. Trust me.The World Ends With You--Realization Part II3 years ago in Romance More Like This
He awoke to the sound of a voice to find he was in his own bed. "Lullaby for You" was still playing on his Ipod. He turned it off and listened for any other sounds, however, the apartment was dead silent.
It was just a dream.
Checking the digital clock on the nightstand beside him, he found the bright red numbers read 6:00. He groggily made his way to the window and opened the curtains, despite the fact he almost always kept them closed to separate his room from the outside world. The sight of the pale sun rising above the horizon snapped him awake.
It's six o' clock in the MORNING!? Jeez, how long did I sleep for?
Accounting his abnormally long time in the dream realm to the fact he had potentially been sleep deprived for the last three weeks, he switched the lamp on his nightstand on and bounced back onto his bed. Propping himself up on his elbows, he took some time to look around his room.
The dark blue walls were plastered wit
One shot thingy~One shot thingy~2 years ago in Romance More Like This
EDIT: I'm deciding to make this a multi chapter story~ And knowing me it'll be a while before the first chapter is up but I swear to you all this will be accomplished. ^_^ PS. This is not the last chapter...merely the second to third to last chapter ^3^
Author's notes are inside these two things~ ---→ / \
RinxLen One shot:
Kinda Fluffy? :3
(Rin's POV)
"God Rin! Why can't you suck it up and deal with it! Len doesn't love you! You're just lying to yourself if you think that he'll ever like some as low-life and self centered as you!" I buried my head into my knees, remembering those words coming from Miku I've known that for a while now He'd never love me; I'm his twin for crying out loud! But still the words had cut at me like a knife. So I left. And being so stupid and filled with rage, I forgot a jacket. I started to feel my tears freezing on my cheeks and quickly swiped them off with my hand. How does she know? I mean, we're talking about Miku here- Miss Bubbly and naïve!
I sig
The World Ends With You--Realization Part I"Who was that guy who was about to kiss you?"The World Ends With You--Realization Part I3 years ago in Romance More Like This
Eri expectantly looked at her best friend for an answer. Her large eyes looked so excited, Shiki almost wanted to tell her everything: about actually dying, about the Reaper's Game, about stealing her appearance (well maybe she'd leave that part out), and most importantly, about meeting Neku and the rest of her new friends.
But there was no way Eri would believe her.
So, she figured she would tell Eri the truth. Or, at least, part of it. It wasn't technically lying if she left some er, most of the parts out, right?
"I met him a little while ago at the Statue of Hachiko. His name is Neku. Neku Sakuraba. "
Eri looked at her incredulously.
Shiki stared blankly at her friend. What else was there to tell? That was the simple answer to her question. "Uh we're meeting again in a week so you can meet him then?"
She watched as Eri slowly cal
The World Ends With You--Realization EpilogueWhere's Eri when I need her?The World Ends With You--Realization Epilogue3 years ago in Humor More Like This
Shiki had made her way up to Eri's room to find it completely empty. It was already dark outside. Where could that girl be? Shiki was dying to tell her best friend everything about her first date. She sighed happily just remembering. Following their first kiss, she and Neku had walked to Ramen Don for dinner. Shortly after, he had taken her to a small ice cream place he knew, where they shared a cone of paopu fruit-flavored ice cream. It was arguably the best thing she had ever tasted.
When five minutes had passed and Eri still hadn't returned, Shiki finally gave up on waiting. Picking up her clothes, she was about to go change out of her dress when Eri finally burst through the door.
Um. Wow.
Eri's typically perfect tresses were in complete disarray, and her hat was haphazardly poised atop her head. The bright yellow vest she always wore was noticeably wrinkled, as was her short green skirt which, Shiki couldn't help but notice, was
Carnivale Crystallis"Lightning, come on or we won't be able to meet up with Serah and the others in time!" cried Hope from downstairs.Carnivale Crystallis5 years ago in Urban & Spoken Word More Like This
"In a minute! Just... let me get some things before we head out."
"Alright, will meet you at the rail stop." Hope said as he rushed out the door. He could tell it was going to be an amazing day.
Lightning sighed as she took a glance at her closet. It had been so long since she had ever opened it, after what had happened to her all these years. The long battles, the people that she met... it felt strange to come out now and wear something that wasn't part of her life. It just didn't feel comfortable.
Guess some things never changed huh? as her hands raised up and picked out her choice. Hopefully, today might bring some new light into her life.
When Hope saw Lightning head towards the rail stop in her summer outfit, he couldn't help but stare in shock. The more he looked, he couldn't help but let out a giggle, much to Lightning's annoyance.
"What? Can't I c
Lightning's Man Chapter 1Chapter 1: A Blind Date?!Lightning's Man Chapter 15 years ago in Introductions & Chapters More Like This
Lightning was sitting on her couch watching television- with boredom. Things have been a lot calmer ever since Cocoon was saved from the Sanctum. Her younger sister, Serah, was still engaged to Snow Villiers, and they would get married in a few months. Serah suddenly came walking in and said to Lightning's face, "Lightning. You need a boyfriend!" "What?! Where did that come from?! That was so out of the blue!" exclaimed Lightning.
"Well," said Serah, "I'm getting married in a few months"
"Why do you need to remind me of that? I already know."
"Well, isn't it strange-"
"You getting married to Snow- yeah, that's very strange."
"No, not that. I'm 18, and you're 21. Also I'm getting married before you. Don't you feel sad in any way?"
"No. You know Serah, I don't need a man to make my life complete." said Lightning trying to see the television past Serah's head.
"But Lightning," said Serah, "I want you to be happy and not die alone!"
"I'm already happy being single
Staying MemoriesStaying Memories4 years ago in Romance More Like This
Title: Staying Memories
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Time Frame: after 358/2 Days and KH II
Characters: Riku, Xion
Summary: "And the memories themselves will never go away", she said and closed her eyes forever, while her body disappeared in flashed light.
Note: It's my first fan fiction I ever wrote in English. Please be kind and fair to me
Disclaimer: All characters are copyrighted by Square Enix and Disney Entertainment! I don't own them!
Rating: no rating needed
Two hundred. It's been that many days since I fought that Roxas boy and brought him to DiZ. It happened a lot since then. So much that I cannot explain on each detail. But since a while I have that dream
A dream About that raven haired girl, in her black coat holding a Keyblade.
How can that be? I am sure, I don't know her but somehow she looks so familiar to me.
Every time I have that dream of that girl, my heart feels filled with warmth and I know my mouth forming a soft smile.
Her short hair is gently wav
My Christmas Present Part 1My Christmas Present Part 13 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
A Kingdom Hearts Christmas - Sonami
Christmas, the time of giving, the time of joy, the time of spirit. That's how Sora Mathers and his girlfriend Namine Osaki thought of it. But, they always had the same Christmas ritual every year -Spend Christmas Eve with their families, and renuite on Christmas Day- until once, Sora changed all of that, and that's what this story is about.
It was Christmas Day, and Sora and Namine reunited after spending the day before with their relavives.
"Let's start with your gift to me Sora." Namine said.
"Wel..." Sora was trying to form a response, "... mine is very special, to special to share it right now. How about mine first?"
"Ok..." Namine was a bit confused. What could be so special for her? "... here it is." She handed him a small box.
Sora opened it and found a T-shirt of his favorite band, "Wow, thanks Namine." He said.
"Your welcome." Namine smiled, "Now let's see you're 'special' gift."
"Here we go." Sora handed her a round box wrapped in purple.
Kingdom Hearts Chronicles: Will of The Arcana Ch 1Kingdom Hearts Chronicles: Will of The Arcana Ch 13 years ago in Settings More Like This
Chapter I
"Read it and weep men. Four Kings." Luxord said as he place his cards on the table. Xigbar slam his cards and pout. "Can't believe this drunken bastard's beating me again." "See ya old coot, I warned you. You shouldn't have place bets on Luxord. When it comes to gambling, this guy never loose." Axel exclaim. "Especially when he's Bacchanalian as a Greek's fraternity house." Zexion added without looking up from his book. "Maybe you ladies should play something easier." "Like Go-fish?" Axel snap his fiery fingertips. Luxord laugh as he collects the rest of the poker chips. "Luxy? How can you play so good?" Demyx spoke as he flick earwax from his finger. "Well." Zexion added again without looking up. "Well what??" Demyx look at Zexion at a perplex state. "How could you play so well, Demyx?" Zexion offered to correct his grammar.
Yours to HoldYours to Hold3 years ago in Romance More Like This
Cloud was having a nightmare in the middle of the night, when suddenly, Tifa went to his room to see what was wrong with him.
Cloud was fighting in his sleep and Tifa does her best to wake him, but as much as she tried she couldn't. The dream was too deep and the more he struggled, the more intense the nightmare became. The dream was tormenting him and he growled in anguish as his breathing became increasingly agitated.
It is said that when a dream is too intense, it's better to let the person who is dreaming to wake up slowly, otherwise the dreamer will not be able to distinguish reality and could cause a severe trauma.
Tifa felt helpless for not being able to help and stayed with him until he could calm down. Cloud on the other hand, was still fighting in his sleep and Tifa tried to reassure him stroking his face with her hands.
"It's okay... Everything will be all right... I promise." She whispered softly.
Little by little, Cloud's breathing began to calm down slowly. Tifa wiped the
Checkmate FanfictionCheckmate Fanfiction3 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
I slammed my hand on the table, frustrated with another loss of chess. How many times have I versed this guy, and yet lost to him so many times? I moved part of my green hair to the side, demanding him another rematch.
He just arranged the chess board to its original state, and made me go second. Ugh, I can't hold my jealousy any longer! Why does he have to be a good chess player?!
'Hey, what's making you fight so well?' I ask, looking at his white chess pieces. He shrugged and moved his knight. I cringed and realized my mistake, wishing I could undo my moves. But with a few moves, he had taken a least a quarter of my pieces.
Both of my knights were taken out, and I heard my foe secretly sneering. I gave him a small glare, but he pretended that he didn't do anything. This killing me so much, can't I just beat him once? Ah, there's no more time left.
I only have two of my pawns, a tower and the king. The foe however had only lost four or five pieces. With my thoughts wandering, I didn't
SnK: Your Criminal (LevixPetra)SnK: Your Criminal (LevixPetra)1 year ago in Romance More Like This
"Officer Ral, this is Erd. There was a report of a robbery in the Shiganshina district about five kilometres away from your current location. I'm sending you the coordinates right now; we'll meet you there in about twenty minutes."
Petra grabbed her police uniform, fastened on her gun, and opened the front door where her car was parked. She turned on the car engine and stepped on the pedal, taking a deep breath and reversed out of the driveway. "Got it," she said into her communicator. "See you there."
When she got onto the road, she turned on her siren and sped past the line-up of cars that were waiting for the traffic light to turn green. Making a sharp right turn at the second intersection, Petra managed to get to her destination less than ten minutes and pulled up right outside the house where the robbery happened. She stepped out, straightened her uniform, and walked up confidently to the front door.
The first thing Petra saw when th
Farewell....Farewell....3 years ago in Settings More Like This
Dearly Beloved......
If you are reading this I can say that I am no longer within the realm of the living. I just feel out of place ever since I join the Organization. I have always known I wasn't like one you guys. When upon reading this letter, you may know I am not myself any more. The experiment has proven to be an utter failure. Roxas, please remember I have always love you. But I'm not sure if we Nobodies can really prove the existence of love since we were born without heart. In fact, I am not sure if I am capable to be a Nobody myself. I never had a heart to begin with and I know I couldn't obtain one even if I try. Please stay with Axel through the hard times the future may come. The next time you see me...I will be taken a different form than what you normally see. Roxas, you have a purpose to live and that is inside your true self. I will be waiting at the usual spot, on top of the Twilight Town Clock Tower. I ask you...no....I
Once Upon a DecemberOnce Upon a December3 years ago in Romance More Like This
Disclaimer: "I do not own Kingdom Hearts. All rights of characters are reserved by SquareEnix and Disney. Minus Sol, Vennis, Soren, and Aimee, they belong to me and Jen."
Once Upon a December
With the seasons here, children all over the world were bustling with excitement. They continued to write their letters to Santa, hoping to earn his favor in being added to his list. So many anticipated in seeing the jolly old man, including a certain young three.
Roxas and Namine waited in line with their kids to see Santa Claus. The mall was packed with people and decorations, spreading the rush of the holidays all around. It was noisy and crowded, the type of scenario you would want to avoid during Christmas Eve. Even so, the large tree that hung in the middle of the mall, did well to brighten their spirits from the stress. Good old Saint Nick took children upon his lap one by one, proceeding with the traditional task in asking what they wanted for Christmas. They were nearly there, and little
Guess"A cat."Guess3 years ago in Romance More Like This
"Try again."
"A dog."
"A giraffe."
"A heartless."
"A frog?"
"Is it Axel?"
There was a snicker. "No, Naminé, it's not Axel "
"Oh, Roxas! Just tell me already!"
"Does that mean you give up?"
A smirk.
A frown.
"Yes, I give up."
The words were like music to Roxas' ears. As his fist pumped triumphantly into the air, he exclaimed, "I win again!"
"You only keep winning because you draw so horribly, Roxas," Naminé pointed out with a
giggle that followed.
"It is a rose, Naminé See?" The male blonde pointed to the details of his poorly drawn sketch. "There's the petals,"-and he would point to the red scribble scrabbles-"This is the stem," and he pointed to the long stick- "and there's the hand holding it!"-and he pointed to a square with five rectangles sticking out of it.
Naminé laughed, seeing no way whatsoever in which such a strange pile of scribbles could be a hand holding a rose.
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Final in 12
Series tied 1-1 (as of 7/19)
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Seattle | 2 | Final in 16 |
LA Angels | 3 | |
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Game 2: Saturday, July 19 | ||
Seattle | 3 | Final in 12 |
LA Angels | 2 | |
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Game 3: Sunday, July 20 | ||
Seattle | 5 | Final |
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Coverage: FSW
9:05 PM ET, July 19, 2014
Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Anaheim, California
Logan Morrison hits go-ahead double in 12th; Mariners hold on for win
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Angels have played 9 hours, 21 minutes of baseball in their first two games following the All-Star break, and their pitching staffs have thrown a total of 779 pitches in 28 innings.
Each team has a marathon victory with one game left in the weekend series.
Logan Morrison hit a go-ahead RBI double during Seattle's two-run 12th inning, and the Mariners hung on to beat the Angels 3-2 on Saturday night -- less than 24 hours after Los Angeles won the opener 3-2 in 16 innings.
Felix Hernandez's dominant run
Felix Hernandez has now recorded 12 consecutive starts with at least seven innings pitched and two or fewer runs allowed. That's tied for the longest single-season streak by an AL pitcher in modern history and one shy of tying Tom Seaver's MLB record.
Consecutive Starts of 7+ IP, 2 R or Fewer
Single Season Since 1900
Single Season Since 1900
Tom Seaver | 13 | 1971 |
Felix Hernandez | 12* | 2014 |
Mike Scott | 12 | 1986 |
Chief Bender | 12 | 1907 |
*Active streak -- Elias Sports Bureau |
"I don't think our guys are tired. They're resilient," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said. "It's hard to win games at this level regardless of who you're playing. We just happened to be playing the team with the second-best record in baseball.
"It was tough, but just like last night, in about five minutes, we've got to turn the page and get ready for (Sunday)."
Joe Thatcher (0-1) gave up a leadoff double in the 12th to Kyle Seager before Morrison drove him in with a hit down the left field line. Pinch-hitter Justin Smoak drove in pinch-runner Willie Bloomquist with an infield hit.
Dominic Leone (3-2) pitched one-plus inning for the victory after taking the loss Friday. Leone was pulled after giving up a leadoff homer to David Freese, but Charlie Furbush got three outs for his first save in four major league seasons.
Los Angeles remained 1½ games behind AL West-leading Oakland.
Howie Kendrick legged out a leadoff double in the Angels' ninth after his line drive ticked off the glove of shortstop Brad Miller and into short left field. But Brandon Maurer struck out Freese and retired Efren Navarro on a popup before Chris Iannetta struck out for the fourth straight time.
Five-time All-Star Felix Hernandez yielded an unearned run and just two hits over seven innings in his duel with All-Star snub Garrett Richards. This was the 12th consecutive start in which the 2010 AL Cy Young Award winner threw at least seven innings and allowed two runs or fewer, tying an AL record.
"I knew it was a tough matchup against Richards. He's been hot for a while," said Hernandez, who struck out nine and walked four. "I just wanted to go out and compete and make my team win. You've just got to make pitches and try to get people out."
The Angels' only hit through the first six innings was a leadoff double to left-center in the fourth by All-Star MVP Mike Trout. Hernandez, who started for the AL in the All-Star game, took a 1-0 lead into the seventh and walked Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton with none out before giving up the tying run.
"I felt very bad to walk two in a row twice," Hernandez said. "It's just not me. I've just got to be more consistent. That's when I get into trouble, when I walk people."
Miller made a diving stop of Kendrick's single behind second base and threw wildly past first base, allowing Pujols to score. Hernandez minimized the damage by fanning Iannetta with runners at second and third. Iannetta is 2 for 20 against Hernandez.
"You have to remember that he's pitching on short rest because he threw on Tuesday, but his stuff was sharp, like always," Pujols said. "He's a warrior. He's going to go out there and give you everything he has. We didn't have many chances and they didn't have many chances, either.
"Richards was tough, too. They both threw a great game."
Richards, who came in with the same 11-2 record as Hernandez, allowed a run and three hits in eight innings and struck out seven. The right-hander retired his first 15 batters on just 49 pitches and struck out the side in the fourth before giving up a leadoff double in the sixth to Dustin Ackley and a line-drive RBI single by No. 9 hitter Jesus Sucre.
"That will be probably something I'll carry with me the whole year. But it is what it is," Richards said of being left off the All-Star team. "There's nothing you can do about it now, so I'm just going to go out every five days and try to win a ballgame.
"Tonight I gave us a chance to win, and that's first and foremost for me."
Game notes
Hernandez has allowed only two home runs to the last 456 batters he has faced over 16 starts and 118 2-3 innings. ... Huston Street pitched a scoreless ninth in his Angels debut following a trade Friday with the San Diego Padres. He became the Angels' 29th pitcher this season, tying the franchise record set in 1996. The Angels made room for Street on the active roster by optioning 1B/DH C.J. Cron to Triple-A Salt Lake. ... Angels SS Erick Aybar sat out because of soreness in his groin, which forced him out of Friday's game. ... Hamilton again was done in by Seattle's over-shifted infield as 2B baseman Robinson Cano threw him out from the outfield grass his first two times up.
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Scoring Summary
6th | J Sucre singled to left, D Ackley scored. | 1 | 0 | |
7th | H Kendrick reached on infield single to shortstop, A Pujols to third, J Hamilton to second, A Pujols scored, J Hamilton to third on throwing error by shortstop B Miller. | 1 | 1 | |
12th | L Morrison doubled to left, K Seager scored. | 2 | 1 | |
12th | J Smoak reached on infield single to third, W Bloomquist scored, E Chavez to third, B Miller to second. | 3 | 1 | |
12th | D Freese homered to center (401 feet). | 3 | 2 | |
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Game Information
Stadium | Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Anaheim, CA |
Attendance | 40,231 (88.5% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 4:07 |
Weather | 73 degrees, partly cloudy |
Wind | 8 mph |
Umpires | Home Plate - Alfonso Marquez, First Base - Paul Schrieber, Second Base - Adam Hamari, Third Base - Ted Barrett |
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Garrett Richards allows a slugging percentage of .324 in at-bats ending in pitches in the strike zone, which leads the league among qualifying pitchers. Robinson Cano has a slugging percentage of .573 in at-bats ending in these types of pitches, which is 78 points above the league average among qualifying batters. | ||||||||
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The other night, a source who lives in Oakland, California, sent me an SFGate article from December 5, 2013:
For a short time in July, downtown Oakland looked like a ghost town marked by boarded-up windows and graffiti after rioters, angry at the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, swept through the area with masked faces.
But while other small businesses and shops replaced their glass and cleaned up their storefronts within a few weeks, Sears, one of the city's biggest retailers, still looks practically abandoned almost five months later ...
Neighbors have spent the past few months asking the store's managers and the city to fix the storefront, but have gotten no results.
"I walk past it every day - it's depressing," said Gilbert Lara, 46, who lives a block away. "It really affects the quality of life in that area because the building's such a huge presence there."
Sears, though, has no plans to fix the problem. Howard Riefs, a company spokesman, said that because the windows are difficult to replace, the store has no time frame for when repairs will begin and end.
As the images on Page One and throughout this article show, Sears still hasn't acted, at least not in a meaningfully aesthetic way, to rectify the situation. The blight still exists.
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The Playlist Miner
The Spotify Web API team pushed out a new feature recently that extends the search API to include playlist search. With this new feature it is now possible to search across all of the popular public playlists created by Spotify users. To try out the new search capability I created a new web app called The Playlist Miner.
The Playlist Miner is a web app that will create a Spotify playlist for you by finding the top songs in all of the playlists that match your criteria. Say, for example, that I want to create a dinner party playlist. First, I find the top playlists that match 'dinner party' with The Playlist Miner:
The Playlist Miner will find up to the top 1,000 most popular playlists that match dinner party. It shows them to me, giving me a chance to refine my query to focus in on the exact type of playlist that I am interested in.
For this first try, I see lots of Christmas-oriented playlists ('Tis the Season after all), but since I'm looking for music for a post-holiday dinner party, I'd rather not have holiday music in the playlist. So I refine my query to find non-Christmas oriented dinner party playlists like so:
The resulting playlists are suitably non-Christmasy.
I like the look of these playlists so I hit the Find Top Tracks button and The Playlist Miner will scour through all of the matching playlists (290 of them in this case) and find the most frequently appearing tracks.
Once the top 100 tracks are found, I can save them to Spotify as my own playlist.
Selecting Prefer more distinctive labor and delivery tracks adjusts the track order for popularity so that tracks that are more distinctive to the particular playlist context will rise to the top. You can also use logical operators to focus in on the exact type of playlist you want to. You can search for "work out" OR workout NOT running to find workout playlists without running in their titles/descriptions.
Under the hood – The Playlist Miner uses lots of bits of the Spotify API – user authentication, playlist search, playlist reading, playlist saving and more. The app is a an API calling beast – aggregating all the tracks from a thousand playlists requires 1,000 API calls. It's a testament to the Spotify Web API that it doesn't even blink under the load. You can play with the code on github.
It's fun to use The Playlist Miner to explore the quirkier aspects of how people listen to music. There are ironing playlists and sleeping baby playlists. There are playlists for getting psyched and playlists for Labor and Delivery. With the Playlist Miner you can pull from all the playlists created for a particular purpose and build your own. Give it a try.
The Million Songs of Christmas
No other holiday dominates our listening like Christmas. During this season, we are exposed to a seemingly never ending playlist of Christmas music. So its no surprise that there's a huge amount of Christmas music available on Spotify. How much? Let's take a look.
How much Christmas music is there?
It is actually quite hard to pinpoint the exact number of Christmas songs. First, every week during the holiday season thousands more Christmas songs are added to the set. Second, some songs are seasonal – is Frosty The Snowman a Christmas song? Not literally, but it gets a lot of play at this time of year, even by the antipodes. Finally, there are a number of other holidays and celebrations at this time of year such as Hanukkah, Boxing Day, New Years, Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, and Festivus that we want to include in this category. So when I say "Christmas Music" I'm referring to western music that is played primarily during December. There's probably a better term to describe this music, but terms like seasonal, and holiday have their own special baggage – perhaps something like music coincident with the northern hemispheric winter solstice is the most precise description, but lets stick with Christmas music just to keep things simple. So how much Christmas music is there? In early December 2014, crack music + data nerd Aaron Daubman dove into the Spotify + Echo Nest music catalog and found 914,047 Christmas tracks – that's just under a million Christmas tracks. Let's unwrap this dataset to see what we can find.
First, some basic stats: Those 914,047 tracks represent 180,660 unique songs and were created by 63,711 unique artists – from Aaron Neville to Zuma the King. The top 20 artists with the most Christmas tracks in the Spotify catalog are all pre-Beatles artists:
Artists with the most Christmas Tracks
# | Name | Count |
1 | Bing Crosby | 22382 |
2 | Frank Sinatra | 17979 |
3 | Elvis Presley | 12381 |
4 | Nat King Cole | 11613 |
5 | Johann Sebastian Bach | 8958 |
6 | Dean Martin | 8000 |
7 | Perry Como | 7529 |
8 | Ella Fitzgerald | 6428 |
9 | Mahalia Jackson | 5883 |
10 | Mario Lanza | 5377 |
11 | Johnny Mathis | 5036 |
12 | Rosemary Clooney | 4538 |
13 | Peggy Lee | 4450 |
14 | Harry Belafonte | 4054 |
15 | The Andrews Sisters | 3567 |
16 | Louis Armstrong | 3481 |
17 | Gene Autry | 3411 |
18 | Doris Day | 2985 |
19 | Pat Boone | 2767 |
20 | Connie Francis | 2500 |
Yes, that's right, Bing Crosby has 22,382 different Christmas tracks (!) in the Spotify catalog. Now, a little digression on what we consider to be a unique track. Music, especially popular music, is released in many forms. A very popular song, such as Bing Crosby's White Christmas, may appear on a wide range of albums – from the original studio release to a plethora of Christmas Compilations and artist 'best of' albums. Each of these track releases may have different album art, different rights holders and regional licenses. Thus, even though the audio for White Christmas may be the same on each of the release, we consider each release as a different track.
White Christmas
Let's take a closer look at Bing Crosby's White Christmas. In our catalog of nearly a million Christmas tracks, 2,196 of them are Bing Crosby's classic. I'll say that again, just because it is a rather phenomenal fact – there are 2,196 different albums on Spotify that contain Bing's White Christmas. It is hard to believe, so I created a web page that contains all 2,196 of the albums so you can see them all. Click on the image below to load them all up (warning – with 2000+ album covers it's a bit of a browser buster).
White Christmas isn't the only uber-track of the holidays. Here are the top 25 Christmas tracks based upon the number of times they have been released on an album:
The most released Christmas tracks
# | Name | Count |
1 | Bing Crosby – White Christmas | 2196 |
2 | Eartha Kitt – Santa Baby | 1286 |
3 | Elvis Presley – Blue Christmas | 1285 |
4 | Frank Sinatra – Jingle Bells | 1121 |
5 | Harry Belafonte – Mary's Boy Child | 904 |
6 | Bing Crosby – Silver Bells | 881 |
7 | Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song | 870 |
8 | Frank Sinatra – The Christmas Waltz | 811 |
9 | Rosemary Clooney – Suzy Snowflake | 788 |
10 | Bobby Helms – Jingle Bell Rock | 779 |
11 | Elvis Presley – White Christmas | 738 |
12 | Judy Garland – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | 735 |
13 | Frank Sinatra – White Christmas | 703 |
14 | Frank Sinatra – Christmas Dreaming | 696 |
15 | Frank Sinatra – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | 695 |
16 | Elvis Presley – Silent Night | 688 |
17 | Elvis Presley – I Believe | 664 |
18 | Frank Sinatra – Santa Claus Is Coming to Town | 660 |
19 | Louis Armstrong – Zat You Santa Claus | 598 |
20 | Dean Martin – The Christmas Blues | 575 |
21 | Frank Sinatra – Mistletoe and Holly | 568 |
22 | Louis Armstrong – Cool Yule | 566 |
23 | Frank Sinatra – Silent Night | 563 |
24 | Bing Crosby – Jingle Bells | 560 |
25 | Elvis Presley – Santa Claus Is Back in Town | 559 |
You can see all of the releases for Elvis's Blue Christmas and Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby here:
So there are lots of copies of Bing Crosby's White Christmas and Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby out there – but what are the most common Christmas songs overall? Which ones have been recorded the most by any artist? The following table shows the top 25:
Most recorded songs
# | Name | Recordings |
1 | Silent Night | 19041 |
2 | White Christmas | 15928 |
3 | Jingle Bells | 14521 |
4 | Winter Wonderland | 9524 |
5 | Joy to the World | 9093 |
6 | The First Noel | 8731 |
7 | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | 8511 |
8 | O Holy Night | 7925 |
9 | Hark The Herald Angels Sing | 7727 |
10 | The Christmas Song | 7673 |
11 | Away in a Manger | 7544 |
12 | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | 7524 |
13 | O Little Town of Bethlehem | 7480 |
14 | Santa Claus Is Coming To Town | 6851 |
15 | I'll Be Home for Christmas | 6844 |
16 | O Come All Ye Faithful | 6273 |
17 | Deck The Halls | 6057 |
18 | Silver Bells | 6044 |
19 | Ave Maria | 5847 |
20 | What Child Is This? | 5755 |
21 | We Wish You A Merry Christmas | 5619 |
22 | It Came Upon A Midnight Clear | 5019 |
23 | Sleigh Ride | 5004 |
24 | Blue Christmas | 4688 |
25 | Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! | 4598 |
Of course this data may be confounded by the uber-tracks like White Christmas that have thousands of versions by a single artist, so lets look at the most recorded songs by unique artists – that is, we only count Bing Crosby once for White Christmas instead of 2,196 times. When we do that the top 25 changes a bit:
Most recorded Christmas songs (Unique Artists)
# | Name | Recordings |
1 | Silent Night | 7406 |
2 | Jingle Bells | 4485 |
3 | Joy to the World | 3593 |
4 | White Christmas | 3592 |
5 | O Holy Night | 3536 |
6 | The First Noel | 3181 |
7 | What Child Is This? | 3150 |
8 | Away in a Manger | 3140 |
9 | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | 2871 |
10 | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | 2823 |
11 | O Come All Ye Faithful | 2675 |
12 | Hark The Herald Angels Sing | 2638 |
13 | Angels We Have Heard on High | 2494 |
14 | Winter Wonderland | 2489 |
15 | The Christmas Song | 2398 |
16 | We Wish You A Merry Christmas | 2281 |
17 | Deck The Halls | 2274 |
18 | O Little Town of Bethlehem | 2197 |
19 | We Three Kings | 2048 |
20 | Santa Claus Is Coming To Town | 1837 |
21 | It Came Upon A Midnight Clear | 1768 |
22 | Ave Maria | 1705 |
23 | Auld Lang Syne | 1603 |
24 | Silver Bells | 1599 |
25 | I'll Be Home for Christmas | 1577 |
The songs in green are the songs that are unique to each list.
Artists with the most number of unique songs
Bing Crosby is at the top of the Most Christmasy artists mainly because of the widespread re-issuing of White Christmas. But if we look at unique songs (i.e. White Christmas only counts once for Bing Crosby), the top Christmas artists look very different – with classical composers, Karaoke 'artists' and music factories topping the charts:
Artists with the most number of unique songs
1 | Johann Sebastian Bach | 3681 |
2 | Bing Crosby | 1462 |
3 | The Karaoke Channel | 1098 |
4 | George Frideric Handel | 903 |
5 | A-Type Player | 835 |
6 | Frank Sinatra | 816 |
7 | ProSound Karaoke Band | 762 |
8 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 691 |
9 | SBI Audio Karaoke | 641 |
10 | Mega Tracks Karaoke Band | 577 |
11 | ProSource Karaoke | 539 |
12 | Ameritz Karaoke Entertainment | 508 |
13 | Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra | 506 |
14 | Elvis Presley | 472 |
15 | Perry Como | 440 |
16 | Karaoke – Ameritz | 428 |
17 | Nat King Cole | 413 |
18 | Ameritz Karaoke Band | 397 |
19 | Merry Tune Makers | 385 |
20 | Christmas Songs | 370 |
Current popular Christmas crooner Michael Bublé, with 31 unique Christmas songs has a way to go before he makes it on to the most-unique-songs-recorded chart.
Speaking of Karaoke – there's lots of Christmas Karaoke – 23,472 tracks to be precise. The top 25 Karaoke songs are the classics:
Top Karaoke Christmas Songs
# | Name | Count |
1 | White Christmas | 345 |
2 | Winter Wonderland | 333 |
3 | Silent Night | 312 |
4 | Jingle Bells | 309 |
5 | Last Christmas | 258 |
6 | Silver Bells | 219 |
7 | Blue Christmas | 204 |
8 | Santa Baby | 189 |
9 | The Christmas Song | 185 |
10 | Jingle Bell Rock | 172 |
11 | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | 171 |
12 | Please Come Home for Christmas | 163 |
13 | Little Drummer Boy | 163 |
14 | Sleigh Ride | 156 |
15 | O Come All Ye Faithful | 154 |
16 | Here Comes Santa Claus | 150 |
17 | Feliz Navidad | 146 |
18 | All I Want for Christmas Is You | 146 |
19 | O Holy Night | 144 |
20 | I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus | 143 |
21 | Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree | 135 |
22 | Santa Claus Is Coming to Town | 126 |
23 | Frosty the Snowman | 125 |
24 | Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer | 121 |
25 | We Wish You a Merry Christmas | 118 |
Top Terms
We can build a good list of seasonal terms by finding the most frequently occurring words in song titles. Here are the top 75 or so, as a word cloud created by wordle (stop words are removed of course).
Longest Christmas song name
There are lots of very long song names in the set of Christmas songs – the longest is this Christmas medly.
A great song for testing how well your music player UI deals with unusual titles.
One would think that with a million Christmas tracks we'd already have more than enough Christmas music – but, it seems, we still like new Christmas music. Ariana Grande's recently released Santa Tell Me is climbing the streaming charts (currently #44 at charts.spotify.com).
Plus, there's seemingly no-end to the variety of Christmas Music. If White Christmas with Bing Crosby is not your style, then there's Blue Christmas by Elvis.
And If that's not your thing, maybe you'll enjoy Red Christmas by Insane Clown Posse.
The Mobile Infinite Jukebox Survey results
Over the last six months or so The Infinite Jukebox had a link to a survey about features peopled would like to see in a mobile version of The Infinite Jukebox. Since then, over 10,000 people have taken the survey. Here are the results.
The survey was linked to directly from the Infinite Jukebox. The questions asked were:
Since the text in link to the survey was "Interested in a mobile version of the Infinite Jukebox? Then take this one minute survey" it is no surprise that 99% of all respondents are interested in a mobile version of the app.
The split between Android and iOS aligns with other iOS vs Android metrics out there on the webs.
As for how much people would be willing to pay, 64% would be willing to pay something for the app.
This was a bit surprising – 70% of folks want to play music from their own collection, and only 11% are interested in playing music from a streaming service like Spotify or Rdio.
The final question was an open-ended question asking about what other features would you like to see in the Infinite Jukebox. Many of the responses were about what features would like to see in the current web version, while many were about what features should be in a mobile version. Some of the more common results are here:
Common new feature suggestions
- Background playing
- Offline playling
- No Ads
- Simple tuning options
- Playlist support
- Choose song length
- Time limits per song
- Infinitise multiple songs
- Color schemes
- Volume controls
- Social features (voting on best tunings)
So, you may be wondering where is the mobile version of the Infinite Jukebox? It is coming along, all the hard coding bits are done, but it has been very much a spare time project. I do hope to release it sometime in the near future. Here's a short clip of the app in action:
Thanks to everyone who took the survey, its been quite informative.
The Ultimate Thanksgiving Playlist
On the annual drive to Thanksgiving dinner I've tortured my family with Alice's Restaurant too many times over the years. Arlo Guthrie's classic is still, in my mind, the classic Thanksgiving song, but there has to be more. So this year, I set out to expand my repertoire of Thanksgiving music – to build the ultimate Thanksgiving playlist. To do so, I looked through the top 300 or so most listened to Thanksgiving playlists on Spotify and found the top 100 songs that most frequently appear in all of these playlists, after discounting for popularity. Here are the results: The Ultimate Thanksgiving Playlist:
This is six hours of Thanksgiving music. All the classics are there, from Alice's Restaurant to We are going to be Friends by the White Stripes. It should get you through the Thanksgiving drive, the meal, dessert and maybe even an after dinner snack.
However, if you want to synchronize your cooking and your music listening, there's no better way then to hop on over to Time For Turkey for your basting+music needs.
And since the Christmas season starts immediately after the last piece of pumpkin pie has been consumed, lets not waste time breaking out the Christmas playlist. Here are the top 100 songs appearing across the most popular 1,000 Christmas playlists: Top Christmas Songs
How Students Listen
The Spotify Insights team took a deep dive into some of the listening data of college students to see if there were any differences in how students at different schools listen. We looked at a wide range of data including what artists were played, what songs were played and when, what playlists played, what genres were played and so on. We focused mostly on looking for distinctive listening patterns and behaviors at the different schools. The results were a set of infographic style visualizations that summarize the distinctive listening patterns for each school.
It was a fun study to do and really shows how much we learn about listening behavior based upon music streaming behavior. Read about the study on the Spotify Insights Blog: Top 40 Musical Universities in America:How Students Listen
Outside Lands lineup
I'm on my way to Outside Hacks - a hackathon tied in with the Outside Lands music festival. Since many hacks at the hackathon will be related to the festival it is pretty important to have a machine-readable version of the artist lineup for the festival. However, I couldn't find any online. Since I had an hour in the airport lounge, and the airport actually has decent WiFi, I thought I would try to be a good hacker citizen and generate an easily parseable lineup.
A little python + some BeautifulSoup and a bit of Echo Nest Rosetta Data and I have created an Outside Lands lineup JSON that includes links to artist pages, plus Echo Nest, Spotify and Rdio IDs. The JSON is hosted online at:
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It's about time to get on the plane. If you can think of other interesting data to add to the lineup json let me know and I'll try to add it before the hackathon.
Most Distinctive Fourth of July Songs
Independence day is just a few days away so I spent a bit of time over the weekend digging into the data to see what are the most listened to songs on the Fourth of July. Eliot wrote a great piece about the data for the Spotify Blog: The Most Distinctive Fourth of July Songs in the 50 U.S. States. Here I dig in a bit deeper.
From a musical perspective, The Fourth of July is a very interesting holiday. It's a big summer outdoor party – and the music reflects that. On the Fourth, people listen to patriotic songs, BBQ songs, popular songs, party songs, songs about place and history. People listen to wide range of genres, from rock and pop to folk, country, marches, and new weird america. To see what music people listen to on the Fourth I went through about 5,000 playlists that people have created that have 'fourth of july' in the title. I aggregated the songs across all of these playlists and created a playlist of the top 100 or songs.
As you can see, the playlist is a mix of US-centric music and summer party music – which is a pretty good reflection of what people actually listen to on the Fourth of July. But I wanted to go a bit further and see what music was particularly distinctive for the Fourth of July – as compared to any other summer outdoor party playlist. To do this, I collected the top most frequently appearing songs on the Fourth of July playlists and scored each song by calculating the ratio of the play counts that occurred on July 4, 2013 in the U.S. vs. play counts for the song during the following weeks. Songs that were played much more frequently on the Fourth than during the rest of July get a much higher score. Ranking songs by this ratio yields the list of distinctive Fourth of July Songs:
I think it is a pretty good list of the music that we listen to more on the Fourth of July than on any other day. There's a John Philip Sousa march, Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land, Katy Perry's Firework, lots and lots of country music. Some artists appear more frequently than others – Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp and Lee Greenwood are Fourth of July favorites.
I'm always interested in regional differences in how we listen to music, so I looked at the listening in each state in the U.S. to see which of the core Fourth of July songs was listened to more. If you look just at the most popular Fourth of July song in each state the results are pretty boring – the most popular song in 46 out of 50 states for July 2013 was Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus – but if you look at the distinctive score (the ratio of plays on the fourth to plays during the following weeks), you get a more nuanced view of how people listen to music. Of course we represent this as a map:
So the real question is, are these playlists generated by data mining any good? As actual playlists to listen to, I don't think so. They are too incoherent, with jumps that take you from a sappy country song, to a teen pop song, to a march that will give you iPod whiplash. Compare the playlists above to a human-curated Fourth of July Playlist:
This is a much more listenable playlist. However, I think the data mined playlists do provide an excellent starting point – a big pool of Fourth of July songs. With a genre and popularity filter these could be turned into decent, listenable playlists. Similarly, give this pool of Fourth of July songs to a team of music curators and they can build some pretty fantastic Fourth of July playlists for every type of music fan.


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What to do about drug dealers in building...
I live in an apartment building with a set of drug dealers sharing one apartment. There are three of them in a 2 bedroom apt. I know they are drug dealers because there is always someone coming to their house for like 2 minutes then leaving, there are weed bags laying around their door, and the drug smells come from the apartment on a regular basis.
What I'm asking is that how do I get them evicted? I'm scared for my safety and the safety of my daughter who comes home from school alone. One time my daughter left her keys in the house when she was going to school so she knocked on their door to ask to use the phone to call me at work. She says one of the guys opened the door with a gun in his hand. I guess he thought someone was coming for them or something. How do I complain about them without them knowing it was me?
Have you spoken to the landlord? The last thing you personally want to do is get involved in any way (other than talking to the landlord). You do have a right to move if conditions are intolerable or dangerous, however, so I'd give my 30 days notice and get out.
I would think twice about reporting this to my landlord. I've known landlords that passed along the name of the person who snitched. Drug dealers HATE snitches.
That could create problems you do NOT want to have to deal with.
Here are some methods other people have used to 'encourage' drug dealers to move away. If this doesn't work then your only option will be to move. No point in endangering your daughter's safety because of retaliation.
"on 11/22/2005 I had a problem on my street. Drug dealers felt comfortable and residents felt pressured to stay inside and do nothing. I anonymously wrote letters to all of the neighbors telling them where the activity was, who was involved, how to report it online to the police department, and who to call. It made everyone aware and the drug dealers got scared (since they lived there too). It was fun to see them so scared and we have had no trouble with them again."
How to Make Your Neighborhood Drug-Free
Officer Moves in, Drug Dealers Move Out
D.A.R.E.-Drug abuse resistance education
For sure call the police and skip the landlord.
Be patient, I've tipped off police and nothing happened for a month. Then a big bust went down with multiple homes being raided all over the state. They had to wait even after my tip as it was a much bigger problem than just one apartment.
I'd also call when the traffic is busy, ask the cop to sit outside for a while and observe.
Thank you all for your help! I got the dealers out and here is how I did it, this was all back in June:
My apartment complex started a neighborhood watch program with the local police. They gave everyone a flyer about the meeting and to list any comments or suggestions to be discussed at the meeting. I filled out the form without using any of my information. I only noted that there were drug and prostitution activities in the building I lived in (I believe prostitution was going on because almost every night they would bring different girls home). About a week later they were packing up their pickup truck and moving out! Yeah their stuff fit in a pickup truck.
I don't know if they had planned on getting evicted all this time or what but God gave me that flyer as an opportunity to rat them out. Now to deal with my loud neighbors downstairs... LOL
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Columbia County 4-H Club members are in the midst of their annual Vidalia onion fundraiser and they hope the community will support their efforts.
According to Shirley Williamson, county extension coordinator with the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, there are more than 2,500 4-H members in Columbia County.
There is no fee to be a member, so fundraisers such as this are important to the success of the program.
The 10th annual Home and Garden Show will take place from Feb. 27 through March 1, at James Brown Arena. Brian Santos will discuss faux finishes and painting tips.
Santos will give two presentations on faux finishes – one on Feb. 28 at 11:30 a.m. and the other on Feb. 29 at 3:30 p.m. He will share painting secrets on Feb. 27 at 4:30 p.m., Feb. 28 at 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and March 1 at 12:30 p.m.
Betty Crowther has gotten a jump start on spring for the past 14 years, and this year is no different.
Crowther starts germinating seeds well before the last frost of winter, tending to the seedlings with the gentle care of a mother.
"I have been seriously growing seeds indoors for about 14 years," said the Evans resident. "I originally started with seeds I collected from friends' gardens and enjoyed the experience of watching them germinate and grow so much that I started growing all of my annuals for my many containers from seeds."
There's a volunteer opportunity just around the corner for those who enjoy being outdoors. Mistletoe State Park will hold an Arbor Day clean-up program on Friday, Feb. 20.
"Arbor Day is a day set aside to inspire people to plant, care for trees and celebrate trees," said Mistletoe State Park Program Assistant Brenda Bettross. "We have done Arbor Day programs in the past, but it is not an annual program.
Winter is a gloomy time of year for most Southerners who thrive on heat and sunshine.
For local gardeners who enjoy the blooming plants and bushes that accompany those summer days, there are a handful of winter blooming plants and shrubs that can carry them through until spring planting arrives.
Among them are winter jasmine. Native to China, the deciduous shrub grows 6 to 8 feet wide and 3 to 4 feet high. It can climb trellises, but looks best tumbling down a bank or hillside or tumbling over the top of a retaining wall.
The cold, blustery days of winter can decrease the chances of survival for our feathered friends, particularly with the unseasonable temperatures that much of the country is experiencing. There are several ways, however, to help native birds survive freezing temperatures.
"Native birds can usually survive what Mother Nature brings, but their chances of survival increase if you stock a bird feeder," notes an excerpt from the Old Farmer's Almanac.
Registration is now open for the third course in the Gardening Study School series being offered by the National Garden Clubs Inc. and the Georgia Garden Clubs. Two previous courses were offered last year, although individuals aren't required to have attended the first two courses to register for the upcoming program.
The third course, which costs $80, will be offered Feb. 27-28 at Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church in Augusta.
Every year, during the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, dulcimer strummers get together at Mistletoe State Park for a weekend long jam.
Among the groups participating in the annual event are the Garden City Strummers, a local satellite of the North Georgia Foothills Dulcimer Association, which has approximately 20 satellites around Georgia and its border states.
Foster Olson has long known that good things come from the Earth. In fact, as owner of Grovetown Farm and Gardens and Clyde's Fresh Produce, the Grovetown resident has been tilling soil and planting crops ever since he was a child.
"I grew up in Columbia County," said Olson. "My granddad was a dairy farmer and a truck farmer. My mom grew up being a truck farmer."
Certified University of Georgia Beekeepers Ann and Keith Powell of Lady Bees Hives and Honey will hold a beekeeping class on Saturday at Grovetown Farm and Garden.
The two-hour class will begin at 2 p.m. and will serve as an introduction to beekeeping.
"Beekeeping is a growing hobby in the CSRA, as well as throughout the U.S.," said Keith Powell. "With the demise of lots of wild honeybees to pests, viruses and colony collapse disorder, we hope to increase the number of bees kept by concerned beekeepers."
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Prince Sues 22 Fans for Copyright Infringement
January 28, 2014 09:01:45The litigious star is unhappy that bootlegged version of his live performances were made available for free download.
'New Girl' Taps Prince for Post-Super Bowl Episode
December 13, 2013 10:12:15The episode reportedly will take place mainly at Prince's star-studded party and could feature his live performance.
Prince Set to Headline 20th Annual Essence Festival
December 04, 2013 02:12:34The 'Breakfast Can Wait' singer is going to perform at the upcoming festival set to be held at New Orleans' Mercedes-Benz Superdome on July 3-6, 2014.
Prince Premieres 'Breakfast Can Wait' Music Video
October 12, 2013 11:10:59The Purple One enlists dancer Danielle Curiel to star and direct the dance-filled video for his new single.
Prince Enlists Dave Chappelle for 'Breakfast Can Wait' Artwork
August 20, 2013 11:08:21The Purple One makes use of the comedian's 'Chappelle's Show' impersonation for his single artwork.
Prince Joins Twitter, Post His 'First Selfie'
August 15, 2013 01:08:48The 'Purple Rain' singer takes over 3rd Eye Girl's account to announce his presence on the micro-blogging site.
Prince, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jennifer Lopez Among Academy's New Members
June 29, 2013 08:06:52'The Hangover' director Todd Phillips, 'Resident Evil' star Milla Jovovich and 'Rush Hour' actor Chris Tucker are included in a list of 276 Oscar voters.
Judge Orders Investigation Into Paris Jackson's Well-Being
June 08, 2013 09:06:33A judge, who gives guardianship of Michael Jackson's children to Katherine Jackson, orders an investigation into the children's well-being to determine whether changes are necessary.
Janelle Monae's 'The Electric Lady' to Feature Prince and Miguel
June 08, 2013 09:06:08The cover girl of this week's Billboard magazine will collaborate with the 'Diamonds and Pearls' singer and the 'Girls Like You' performer in her new album which is due out in September.
Gwyneth Paltrow 'Nearly Died' Due to Miscarriage
March 18, 2013 12:03:31The 'Iron Man 3' actress opens up to Daily Mail about the miscarriage during her third pregnancy which almost killed her.
Justin Timberlake and Prince Close SXSW 2013 on Separate Venues
March 18, 2013 11:03:25The 'Suit and Tie' singer opts for an intimate concert at the Coppertank Events Center, while the 'Purple Rain' hitmaker rocks a bigger venue at the club La Zona Rosa.
D'Angelo, Elvis Costello and More Salute Prince in Carnegie Hall Tribute
March 09, 2013 01:03:24A host of the Purple One's contemporaries come to pay tribute to him in an all-star benefit show.
Prince to Be Honored With Billboard Icon Award
January 19, 2013 11:01:27The 'Purpule Rain' singer and renowned musician is set to receive the honor during the Billboard Music Awards on May 19 in Las Vegas.
Prince's New Track 'Same Page, Different Book' Leaked
January 09, 2013 01:01:43A mysterious Twitter account posted the link to the pop-rock superstar's latest recording.
Prince Tribute to Be Staged at Carnegie Hall
December 21, 2012 11:12:18The upcoming all-star concert on March 7, 2013 is set to honor the renowned musician.


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I've found a couple of threads here about specific beers and how long they remain good (and that's obviously subjective) in kegs at say 40 degrees and under pressure. "Best before 60 days" seems like a sort of conservative consensus. Since I'd like to ultimately get some variety going, but can only drink so much, what beers would be good choices to keep a bit longer in those conditions? I'd like a variety anyway, and I would guess IPAs would be towards the shorter life, stout longer. What about say a Cal common? Would it last longer than say a pale ale? Or am I overthinking this?
if it's a hop forward beer time is not on your side. i try to kick my hoppy kegs in under 30 days even if it means giving growlers away to my neighbors.


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HYDERABAD: Sanaa Bhambri made short work of Septi Mende 6-2, 6-2 in the pre-quarterfinals of the $10,000 International Tennis Federation women's circuit tournament at the Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh complex here on Wednesday. The only other Indian to join Sanaa in the round of eight was Isha Lakhani, a 6-2, 7-5 winner over Korea's Cho Jeong-A.
Sanaa effectively shut her opponent out of the contest, her thumping returns of serve rendering the Indonesian's foremost weapon quite ineffective. Though slightly built, the Delhi southpaw called the shots against her stocky rival, after distancing herself with a 4-1 lead in the opening set.
Easy for Stefanie
Stefanie Voegele's fine run continued on court one, as she steamrollered Punam Reddy 6-0, 6-3. With aces aplenty and an impressive array of serves, there was never a doubt of the Swiss lass' dominance in the first set.
Punam showed resistance in the second set, the lanky Hyderabadi even broke her opponent in the third game. That resilience was however short-lived as Voegele's relentless assault showed no signs of a let-up, forcing Punam to cave in.
The results (Indians unless specified): Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Sanaa Bhambri bt Septi Mende (Indo) 6-2, 6-2; Mariana Muci-Torres (Ven) bt Kim Hae-Sung (Kor) 6-2, 6-2; Debbrich Feys (Bel) bt Kim Ji-Young (Kor) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; Isha Lakhani bt Cho Jeong-A (Kor) 6-2, 7-5; Stefanie Voegele (Swi) bt Punam Reddy 6-0, 6-3; Liu Amber (U.S.) bt Kelsey Sundaram (U.S.) 6-4, 6-2; Liu Wan-Ting (Chn) bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-1, 6-1; Yi Chen (Tpe) bt Ragini Vimal 6-0, 6-2.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Cho Jeong-A/ Kim Ji-Young (Kor) bt Kim Hae-Sung (Kor)/ Mariana Muci-Torres (Ven) 7-5, 6-4; Sanaa Bhambri/ Isha Lakhani bt Janaki Gunuganti/ Kelsey Sundaram (U.S.) 6-2, 6-2; Debbrich Feys (Bel)/ Stefanie Voegele (Swi) bt Lee Wei-Ping/ Septi Mende (Indo) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Yi Chen (Tpe)/ Liu Wan-Ting (Chn) bt Parija Maloo/ Nigora Sirojiddinova (Uzb) 6-0, 6-0.


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Here at the _floss, we love Scrabble and have written about it often. Among others, there's Stacy's post on Scrabble words that will help you win, my post on how Alfred Mosher Butts, inventor of Scrabble, couldn't spell very well, and even a quiz by Jason Plautz testing your knowledge of 2-letter words. One of the topics we haven't really covered, however, are those big point-getters—the words that earn the most points and the people who've played "˜em. But before... READ ON
After posting about a Lego machine that solves Rubik's Cubes this week, I've been wondering how fast people can do it. Here are some impressive Rubik's Cube-related finds from YouTube! 3-Year-Old Solves Cube in 114 Seconds The title pretty much says it all. This young Chinese girl has mad speedcubing skillz; the two adults next to her (one has just a 2x2x2 cube) can't keep up. 10.56 Second Solution - Yu Nakajima According to speedcuber Yu Nakajima, he holds the third-place world record... READ ON
People of Earth, BEHOLD! I bring you CubeStormer, your new Rubik's Cube-Solving Overlord! CubeStormer is allegedly the world's fastest "speedcubing" robot made entirely from Lego Mindstorms RCX parts. It uses a Lego webcam to scan the faces of the cube, Cube Explorer software running on a PC to solve the faces, and a whole bunch of pinchy/grabby Lego bits to manipulate the cube. My favorite part? The blinkenlights all over the edges. The blinkier the better, as far as robots are concerned.... READ ON
In what is nominally a book review, chess grandmaster (and lately, politician) Garry Kasparov discusses how computers have changed chess. Famously defeated by IBM's Deep Blue in 1997, Kasparov railed against computer chess in the 80's and 90's, but now he has some perspective on the matter, and shares his deep knowledge of the subject in The Chess Master and the Computer. This is a really interesting article for those interested in chess, computers, or other games (like poker) where computers are... READ ON
There are so many furnishings and household items inspired by video games that you'd think hardcore gamers must be home decorating freaks. I think it's more likely that almost all of us would like at least one thing in our homes to represent pure fun. Or maybe two things. Here are ten possibilities. 1. Tetris... READ ON
If you're reading this post, you probably love trivia and game shows as much of the rest of us _flossers. So chances are you've watched at least one episode of Cash Cab on Discovery Channel, right? And chances are you've wondered whether it was rigged or not. Well, the short answer is no, it's not rigged. The more complicated answer is: eh, sometimes sorta. Mixed in with my narrative below, you'll find seven first-person accounts I scooped off the Web to give you a clear understanding of how the show,... READ ON
So I'm an MC Frontalot fan from way back. In fact, my second-ever blog post for mental_floss mentioned the man, the legend, the nerd -- and the awesome documentary about him, Nerdcore Rising (now available on DVD, and highly recommended). Well, my man Front has done something amazing and powerfully nerdy -- he has embarked on a journey to quit smoking using the power of Dungeons & Dragons. How, you ask? Let me excerpt a bit from his "Dorknotes" blog: 2. Keep a d20 in your pack of cigarettes. If it... READ ON
Here's a brief talk by Scrabble Jedi Master Mehal Shah on simple techniques for kicking butt at Scrabble. It's from Ignite, an event series in which presenters give very brief (five-minute) talks as their slide decks auto-advance every fifteen seconds (that means 20 slides total). There is no backing up, pausing, or digression. You'll be amazed how much Scrabble strategy Shah can share with you in just five minutes. Discussed: how to play clean, and how to play dirty. See also: 30 more... READ ON
YouTube user DarthGollumKong apparently has two things: a lot of manual dexterity and a lot of time on his hands. In the YouTube video below, he demonstrates a feat that I would have said was impossible -- playing all four parts in the video game Rock Band at the same time: guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. Now, the first three of those were set to "easy" difficulty, but he did keep the vocals on "medium" (though his singing comes out as weak and distracted due to all the fiddling he's doing with both... READ ON
One of my favorite video games of all time is The Secret of Monkey Island, an adventure game published by Lucasfilm Games in 1990. Monkey Island successfully combined humor, adventure gaming (walking around, picking stuff up, talking to people), and terrific music. It was also notable in its emphasis on fun and puzzle-solving -- you can't die, and puzzles are always solvable. It's sort of a low-key game in that sense: though there is some light swashbuckling, it's never about jumping or clicking fast... READ ON
M&M's stands for "Mars & Murrie's," the last names of the candy's founders.