text: American (Newspaper) - January 11, 1845, Platteville, Wisconsin THE WORLW'B MY FILBERT, WHICH wrin MY CRACKERS i witx BY J. I.. MA ilrtII. PLATTEVILLE, (W. JANUARY 11, 1845. ror.vrv. I JiKiuiniC1. L. (.1. Siirndcr. lit- U. co.'ii.Mi U. POETUY. FAITH, ilOPI-5 AND ENEUtiY. DONALD MACLEOD. not Droop not wing, 11Y A- ii, it: IT, Wills, I "f li. f' 11.-H Ill-Ill ft. S. O. <-ri the lloivovcr i .-irk thy fortune.-? are tiio il is a siM'iiig', licliiuil tin a star Tin: time :nu t come for till to fail. Tiu af'.c-r i Hist apart The; oil coils' mo.--, the lights IJL-OW ice JD in.-- rouiiil the heart. Yut ihcri tliou not but A v-tcailrti t potil on tliec yliall stream TiiO tiiflit w icli (joilliatii given i i sleep, The toad uf a clrc-.un. Tlinra ini.l IlcallSi anpcaroc; to mo To la lor a noble form, Tuo .00 to be Tlic of the worm. !3ut v ns lining-. On the arcliod, bro v ayony was si own And frimi tii pak- fever-pare ictl, Broko tin liall'-atiflud moan. Vv'ron In, f. 'O brings toward him trod, Vi lio.se 1< told of s-n n (on'ii.-s t.liosc M'liicli God spirits in. M. Orn Hides ai love this'Freemnawell enough ;o ab; u- tlon that is now to you .or new and untried friends and scones "Dear mother, it is rd to part with you, Thin- Thov IVCll tllC ;h .'Voni liis brow the free from 15V lit i 'i u: AX, 'i1. MTTUN. TANU or joux I'ill llealtl her roseate flew [pain, Esull'ni; in eacli vein. Anil till th F.ternal iwrlal.-' ope, That ilr shall never fade ma I'licao ru-g 1 FAITH ami HOPE, "OO. l-'rn- i i'TON. n v, J, L N Y Natioiiul j] FLORA. is iiro, corner i I' i.1. I'l.A.'l Froi i the "Are on sure, S''lora, you love this well enough to leave mother, ?ister.i, ;nid home lor permit r, .u to add, an easy life of social ytijoyme it friends for unknown coiHioxii nsT' l-'lora' check v.-cis varyi ig through all tho ados from rose to crimson, as oai voice and eyes her ;r questioned her, and her Dry Try glingurs scarcely li-.-ld the ncc- dk: v.'ill which she w a-i cnib.'olderin; Lr ilc. Jilr.-r. Worth! igton wait- minutes, arid as Flora did not d not what you have so ;ird, I'i'a'; marriage is the most it in a woman's life. Men rry injudiciously; and, for But harder to part with Be it so, and-mny the F tithe i of the orphan bless you. my y' and Mrs. Worthingtotiha: t .iving carpet of gnh'.n far as th'; eye could reach, while; the scarcely pcrce road wound on through its bio beds and implements of female indus try, her angry passions were avraken- ed at what she thought bail-been a trick played on her by Freeman, and she in- fcernaJly resolved to maintain her own habitt and manners, atvd as early as possible disengage herself from all con- nexion with her husband's family. The elder Mrs. Freeman now approached, and kind voice invited her to take C J., "1 ne lit us1 time, i; t'lou.-aii uiilry which very unhappy seek but a through relief from the of a disairreeahlc eompan- n. mbil.ion beckons him up the t, accent lo fame, or the acqni- his time a tall forest lifted its undulating line along the he rizon, and as they journeyed on, a cl -aring began to be visible, the long v aving curl of blue smoke ascending far up in- to the serene ether. At fir it ap] cared large corn fields, then a a: J last- and en wealth ni.iy ly a log cabin built on the verge of the wood, but not close enough to i; 3 ben- efited by its shade, while felled imbcr and corn cribs, wood-she di ai cl pig- pens, obstructed the path to 11 3 otT her While disrobing, the boys placed a large pile of wood on the ample hearth, and calling on their mother make the followed their brother out. Flora looked with dismay at the heap of sufficient, as she thought, to dress a dozen dinners; but the old dame soon rolled them into order, and. a blazing (ire and the clean hearth spread an air of comfort over the dipartmcnt. Mrs. Freeman, with the dexterity of a back-woods cook, soonjproduced a supper that astonish- ed CTCII Flora by its variety and plen- ty; arid the kind and ailcctionate man- ner of the old lady to her sons, and their frank good-humor, would have concil- iated any heart but hers. She sat sul- lenly brooding over her fancied wrongs, until a real headache, which was-at first only an excuse for riot eating, drove her to bed. Freeman and his mother long conversing together, and Flo- ra saw tears bedewing the venerable check of the old toil-worn mother; but so far from softening her heart, she tried to strengthen herself iu her aver- sion to her mother-in-law. Thus Flora continued proud and cold towards her husband's relatives, >i.'i'bing for her own city home, and ri- diculing, all the sarcastic irony oi her natural disposition, every thing and every one, that accorded not with her own ideas of propriety. Freeman ili'fidijally grew rich and popular, be- come a of public business, a poli- tician, and spent but little time with his cross wife. The only friend in fact that sympathized ailments or bore with her fretfulriela was her despis- ed motheif-in-Jaw; andjw.hen ill health, the result of copfinenaent and sedentary habits, niade her at home, she was the only one who of- fered to console her or to alleviate her sufferings; for her husband had long since learbed "he should" of absence from her. Poor Flora, she hud the gem of life that gave it all its lustre from her, and no wonder every thing was dark to her. At length Flora became a mother, and through the sweet little girl that was her own image, she once more felt the stiiings toward the husband u horn she had so long treated with contemptuous aversion; but it came too late. He: scarcely marked the quiver- ing lip. the tearful eye, the changing cliL'ek of'Florii, as she' uncovered her lilde treasure to present it to him, and only remarking, that "children were he coldly left the pervades the heart of the Chris- Wo ild oncjc feel ts divine it would illuminate the path <n life even to you." tljSiiy tatherjt worilJ light the dark valley, d atiid Flora, "for it if! that 1 feel I shall shortly trend. I have thrown from me nil ''the affection thai might have life happy, and now 1 :nn to die not one ijOt eActi hinv and her voice grew hu; ky and choked by tears. Mrs. Frocmar saw she was too ill to talk, iituj so it proved. Flora died died in the prime of life, with none to regret, and onl) one higfunirtded Christian to soothe h 3r through the dark shadow. She died on the bosom of her mother-in- law, and her lust hoarse whisper was my little Flora this mystery of love." cansyinmntion ofali when a vi dent storm afosc, and for short time he ai in the storm c( and almost be.i d hit people j t all was jitfuH-and thf from lut desk ket, in 1690, From tlie United States Saturday Post. MILLEldSM, AND THE END OF THi; WOULD PROPHECIES. We s 3vcral times proposed to make the delusion of as it is termed ;he subject of an article du- ring its i ijrincr paroxisms but forbore, partly f-om a disinclination lo meddle with the faith of any man or set of men..and partly because the delusion would, -ve thought, work its own cure, by the falsification of the prophecy, in the going by of the time at which its cons mil-nation was placed. fu.lly absurd as is this conduct of Fath- er Miller and his disciples, we have no dis; osition to make it the subject of ridi< ule, although the temptation to do s( is strong; and although, per- haps, xposurc of the absurdity of such c< nduct is the argument a- gainstit. Hut we have collected to- day a list of a few of the mostpromi- it.ent t elusions of this nature in the history of the world, and present them as but a part of the experience of the past, in order to show the disappoint- ed in their expectations, that they are not the first in order of time, or the only ones, by many thousands, who have teeit carried away by such fan- cies. Without referring to the delusion of the Jews, who looked for a temporal the .of England, had not a few claimed him- self to he Moricjfch flEIM ami hisTolkw rrg.prwlaimejl him. He WHS hanged lojrj argument which if iiot nojjv usedag.-iinat error. (ifosfcHo, in foretold the rcstoiatiou pf Charles II., and the destruch'c u ef [Jondon. The first part of his prvpUccy being fulfilled gave him soihe credit as a prophet. second ips.rtj it is hardly ueccssar s.iy, is .'S3 yet unaccomplished. .Venncr, who flourished abou same tiih declared that earthly f .were irj.-p and attempted crowd his to take actual possession of tne earth, in the name of (he .Lord; were opposed by the soldiers. They fought like tigers, be- lieving t legist vcs invuhieiablc, but were ijvnrpov crcd by numbers, and Vtnncv, wiUi t arch e others, was hang- Whist t ;c mathematician, was a belicvi v In iinmcdia.tc approach of the n.ilh'mjfim and lived to the failure ,o j 'predictions. Lord Na- pier, tljclinvontor of the logarithms, also proijm-.siejl the end of the world, and ouSl Ih term, ns he had set it. Dr. iV.shop of Worcester, at ninety of age, went to Queen Anne, u idipniphcsicd that at tho end of four the Kinj; of France, would; turir Protestant, there a war af.religion, and the papacy wonlrf.b.; To corn: to a later 1761, men arrived at Co- logne- with the of ijs deck, Hebrew and, (pi They cave out they .no frdjiit'Damascus, and wcrl'' years old; anfl cied iTint Constantinople would ets so many abroad to divide attention, hi; lioiru; may beco.ne only like his so that however ;mt such a slate of a (Fairs may be, his a not he does door of the rude and lowly d-.ve'ling. There was a dark red spot on Fre jiniin's check as he approached h-.s hos. :c, and to Flora's eager quos'.ions rela ive to his family, he gave such brief: nd un- satisfactory answers that a long iilencc bad .sunk down over 'diem, and Flora not Ids: caste hi the world.hut continues i chilled bv his refcrvc. A ad run l.o occi py that position lo which his vVi'iil.'h or may entiJe him. and in: y I: his own iitsociatcs. On (.'c; i.'.rary, llio becomes but a in til'..1 cvc of the law, a crea- ture: t t inn si: vn r: AMI juiM'. m! and bee VI, JOll.X I la'L' i his relations- A! this requires devoted degree ol attachment. and loss a woman can truly say, in the (e out of a field, and in joyful has e hail- ed bis brother, while his whit head, bare legs am! arms, and '-'agge 1 trow- sers, excited a surprised stai3 fi-om I'lora. Throwing him the reir, Free- lifted liis bride to the gron id.and iii that moment an old woman j i a red flannel dress, white -j.-imbr-c c ip, and lilac to the dco d stick- ing her thumb into the si ort s cmmcd pipe she was smoking, she gnvi a loud cry of joy and grasped the hand if Free- man. 'Fiord shrank backache Dxtcml- <-.d her hand tlie next morncnf to licr, )f and only permitted the tip.1 of her tlic iii- occur it the end of the Roman Pagan Empiie, giving him also an earthly kingdom; or to tlie manner in which the cud of the crusades, and the vic- tory of the Christians over the Mos- lems vould establish that kingdom; we look later manife.statiioBS ol' the con- sequences of mistaking the promises of tlu gospel, and confounding things spiritual and temporal. Jt is to say that ttie later delusions arc but a perpetuation of the error of those who, :n early times, and saying, "1 deceived many. In :he year it was predicted rornised that the Mediterranean ____lould be dried up, that believers kindness, all the forbearing love of should puss to Jerusalem on foot, there room. From that hour Flora grew very tind fr ill., She felt she should die, and all the f 1 Mrs. Freeman rose np to reproach her. One day as she was tenderly placing her pillows, Flora drew her cheek down lo her lips, and kissing her burst into The old lady gently returned her caress, and disengaging her arm front her neck soothed Jicr jntp tran- quillity. said she tremnlou-Iy, and it was the first time she had ever thus addressed her "mother, it has been a great mystery lo me how you, who to bu Id up the new city. After what we have seen in our own time, it will readi.y he credited that Italy was till- ed w th pilgrims, waiting tbe drying up oi tfie sea to commence their jour- ney; and the misery which these per- sons fuflbrcd, and which they inflicted upon their friends and dependents by their infatuation, will easily be ima- gined. In 1524, John Stofferus, a malhc- and astrologer of Suabia, were tenderly nurtured iii your youth, !pret] ctcd a deluge, n could every brave hardships and toiljso believed that those v in this new country; and intend of ncar the sea sold out at a great sinking under it: grow healthy and hop i3oojfS ,vcrc published giving shall ho thy coui.try, and whi-i gloved lingers to corn in cont Let with thcr I'-.on goest 1 will go she had l.he hardened and .-incvvy that so and lie who owned love, nature's primal as an old German once called it waters. Boats were built and placed on t ic tops of high pillars, in which TI riiv h ovor liis M.vTTKN P1 NT roit 'IT.'.'. (.'oiiva iu-St.ri-nt, better pause, for repining after mar- i riago. is as hopeless as uiigraceful, and cordially welcomed her. It n .-vcr oc- curred to her that t limb might never is able to avail iis- nly felt disgust and surprise at her jncouth r.ot to rci cct how many sterling virtues be covered by the coarse, homespun garl SeTO- ral fine, sun-burned young mi n, all in country garb, came ro'vdinj in, and as Freeman presentee CE-ch in torn she formally curtsied lo each, ant with .a flushed cheek and contracted b xmsunk on the chair the mother of t! e family offered her. As.she looked ound on the humble, but neat d welli ng, ;he plain useful furniture, tnf ni to me in my youth. 1 loved my helicvei-s sat, with their families, bund fondly and rationally, and we' vailing for the water to come and came to this new it avwnevvl floa( thcm Many arches wore the sake of our children. Jl loved vny children, and when He, took my husband, I managed by active in- dustry to keep them together; I taught them their duty to God and to man, and instructed them by my eiample to love all mankind." uYou do not hate even me, laid Flora softly. have been vcised sometimes, contrived, witli breathing holes top, in which men might live, with waters around thcm, until the danger had passed away. ..The time fixed for the inundation proved a very dry sea- son, and the waterproof contrivances wer'i ruined by a continued drought. notwithstanding the of this prediction, we find that JJMHFcrus did not lose his faith; for he then get tlic would -buijiit in 177'I. aiul the gen- eral take place in 1778. In i'. 713 u iiermit fiigiitcned the in- hahifc.i ts-of i Trieste into the belief that the ilcsiruction of that city gener.i w-as tSie faiEh in which his pre- dictions received, that tho city was deserted to escape the destruction, j But the day passed over withou; any Calamity to any otic ex- cept'tic orjlucky prophet, when his dis to resume their found the predictor 6f !ad realised it in his own was hanged by the on.; hush ic dcst pers or orii, We h-ivcjqnotcd the above few among the very many which be adduced, to remind the; this is u no new thing under the We arc inclined to think the failure of this 1. -t, as faii t must, for people's expectations cariKO.bo' up forever, of this will cr; v, and ricn longer strive to b': wise'nbovc Miat iia written. the preceding following passage from shfim to the lian v orld ijji the tenth cen riod f to those in w sttihtj-rs wc-.liavc quoted jsbove, occur- fnjlen under our eye: rn-jujr the which fciok <Jf UKJ minds of men, none occas oiicd ,such an universal panic, nor si dreadful impressions of ter- ror and dismay, as a notion that now the immediate approach of Ch dlay uf judgment. This notion, rise from a remarkable e 10- in the! lihe Revelation-of Stj John ith the arid uul en4crtainod te.ntl the preceding cento advai icc'.l by many at thut but neyer once did I harbor such destruction of the world for the _ _ i_ L i i i 11 i. t feeling as hatred, and above all not to the wife of my first born." Flora clos- ed her eyes, but the tears were stUl stealing down the pallid "There tfa lore, the old la-i i3y ite.ven stronger than ihuman IQVC, ItUuiepure, year 15.86, and died it, iMeanwhile, Martin Strifclius pre- dicted the ebd of tbe world to take in 1533, guriug the the hour. lie was in hi preaching on the wl S j J tinu, and it-self with nraai' ing through the Euro proyinc' 'S, threw them into and proy coifcl i irh


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|Apr 09, 2011, 12:01 AM
Jon enjoyed reading your Radian story's hope you have better luck in the future its a learning curve and you will get there in the end keep at it !
As for the connectors we were just talking about this few days back Jon this is the place i bought mine http://www.micronradiocontrol.co.uk/..._linkages.html i always buy stuff of them, great web shop my DuBro Mini E/Z Connectors turned up yesterday and there much better than the stock ones, worth having the extra assurance for 2.50 ! Micron Radio customer service is also excellent ! nice to see some else from the UK on this thread don't give up mate
|Apr 09, 2011, 07:27 AM
LI, New York, USA
Joined Mar 2003
24,897 Posts
Darkening the bottom of the wings is highly recommended. If you take it out the first few times with the stock wing basically white underneath you will see what I mean. It is easy to lose sight of the wings above 1000 feet.
Completely darken the bottom. I used navy blue packing tape running from root to tip to do mine. Much more visable. May add a little strength too, but that is not the reason I did it.
While I have done nothing else, I will agree that the connector for the elevator pushrod is not super strong. I have had no problems but replacing it is not a bad idea.
I like a rubber band around the canopy. I had it pop off once. Plane flew find but it was a pain to find it.
Check all hinges of all surfaces on all the planes you will ever own every time you fly them, forever! And make sure they move in the right direction before you launch the first time each day.
|Apr 09, 2011, 10:16 AM
I've noticed lots of posts on broken wing saddles. It's pretty obvious that that would be a weak area. I know this will sound stupid, by why in the heck did the put the wing in the middle of the fuse? It creates a big hole where there is a lot of stress? I'm sure there is an obvious reason.
|Apr 09, 2011, 11:17 AM
Joined Jan 2010
3,668 Posts
The reason for the wing being where it is should be obvious. The space under it is needed for the servos and the receiver, and I think the designers wanted to keep those near the cg.
|Apr 09, 2011, 11:21 AM
|Apr 09, 2011, 11:26 AM
United States, CA, Palo Alto
Joined Dec 2007
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|Apr 09, 2011, 12:11 PM
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|Apr 09, 2011, 02:42 PM
USA, CA, Pismo Beach
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The engineering implications are that it looks good.
|Apr 09, 2011, 06:31 PM
|Apr 09, 2011, 07:02 PM
I treed the Radian
The first undisputed crash today: I flew into a tree. It was blowing 15+ kts and the Radian flew fine until I had a sooner-than-planned end. I actually thought I was in front of the tree, but clearly, I wasn't. Fortunately, no damage other than a few scuffs on the leading edge and a bent horizontal stab (which I was about to replace anyway since the hinges wore out). My paint job needs a few touch-ups but held up nicely.
|Apr 09, 2011, 07:18 PM
BTDT. I feel your pain. I had my little Mini Cub stuck so far up a tree that I didn't have an extension ladder long enough to get close to a branch I could climb on. And it was stuck in the middle of a thicket of branches. I ended up starting a thread a while back on how to get a plane out of a tree. In the end I used a hammer tied to some heavy contractor line and threw it over some of the branches. It took a long time and a lot of throws but I got it down. If that didn't work I was ready to go home and get my compound bow.
|Apr 09, 2011, 07:20 PM
Joined Dec 2009
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Me too, I would have sworn I was in front of the tree.
|Apr 09, 2011, 09:36 PM
Joined Jan 2011
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Lol, what a coincidence. Maybe this is a sign from the higher powers that I need to hang the Radian up for good. My first day taking it out since rebuilding it with a new fuse. Everything was going well until this little 3foot shrub that's out in the field suddenly SPRANG UP into a full grown tree right as I was flying over it!!!!
So now I gotta figure out a way to get it down. Well I keep a basketball in my trunk so I figure I could use that to get it out. First toss....
Yup...basketball stuck in the tree too. Wound up having to get a little rough with it cause it was caught pretty good, so I wound up breaking the tail getting it out.
But same deal with me, I guess my depth perception was off cause i was positive I was in front of the tree when it I hit it.
|Apr 09, 2011, 09:43 PM
Ouch. I got lucky hitting a nice leafy tree flying upwind so it just sort of sank in.
"Hand up the Radian for good"?? Don't speak such things on this thread.
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During his lifetime, he was denounced by then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as "that man who paints those dreadful pictures." It looks like Irish-born artist Francis Bacon, who died in 1992 will have the last laugh. His triptych, "Three Studies of Lucian Freud," painted in 1969 has fetched a whopping $142.4 million, breaking the record for a work of art sold at auction, which was Edvard Munch's "The Scream," which sold for $119.9 million in 2012.
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The recent sale is the latest in a line of major millions shelled out over for works of art. Munch's 1895 "The Scream" was bought at a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2012. Prior to that, the record holder was Picasso's 1932 "Nude, Green, Leave and Bust" that sold for $106.5 million at a Christie's auction in 2010.
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At first unsure of his ability as a painter, he drifted and earned his living as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs. He at one time admitted that his career was delayed because he had spent too long looking for a subject that would sustain his interest.
He first gained notoriety for the 1944 triptych Three Studies for "Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion" which sealed his reputation as a uniquely bleak chronicler of the human condition.
A bon vivant and straight-forwardly homosexual, he spent many of the evenings of his middle age eating, drinking and gambling in London's Soho district. Following the 1971 suicide of his male lover, Bacon largely withdrew from the London social scene to paint. He died from cardiac arrest at the age of 83.
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Well, summer is almost over, but there are still a few opportunities to catch the Vincent Hayes Trio in the West Michigan area before the leaves start falling! Catch Vincent solo acoustic Thursday September 4 @ Big Lake Brewing Co. in Holland from 6:00pm-9:00pm. On Friday, September 5, the band plays at New Holland Brewing Co. in Holland, MI. The trio plays again on Saturday October 4 at the Annual Groovewalk festival, also in Holland, MI. Time and location to be announced soon at the Groovewalk website.
Vincent Hayes is Performing at Kalamazoo District Square in August!
The Kalamazoo District Square Blues Series welcomes the Vincent Hayes Trio (incorrectly listed as The Vincent Hayes Project), on Friday August 22, 2014! The band will be rocking the house with original music from Vincent's last two releases on North 61 Records! Please visit the event website for details!
Vincent Hayes Trio at New Holland Brewery in September!
For those of you on the Lakehsore, mark your calendars for Friday September 5, 2014 for the return of Vincent and the band to New Holland Brewing Co. in Holland, MI. Check the venue website for details! See you there!
The Grind Reviewed in Blues Blast Magazine!
Thanks to Jim Kanavy for the glowing review of The Grind in the May 06, 2014 edition of The Blues Blast!
Read the full review HERE!
The Grind is Now on Pandora!
The Grind was recently accepted by Pandora Radio for inclusion in their catalog. Along with will mark the second release by Vincent Hayes to be added to the Pandora roster. The disc should be showing up any day, so just do a search and add it to your list of favorites, or make your own Vincent Hayes station!
The Grind Wins 2014 WYCE Jammie Award for "Best Blues Album"
We are excited to announce that on February 21, The Grind won the 2014 WYCE Jammie Award for "Best Blues Album", alongside Michigan's blues giants Root Doctor who tied for the winning position for their 2013 release "New Attitude." A HUGE thank you to all of the friends and fans in Michigan, and the staff at WYCE-FM, Grand Rapids for the continued support!
2013 Archive2014 Jammie Award Nominations Are In!!!
Last week WYCE-FM 88.1FM, Grand Rapids announced the 2013 Jammie Award Nominees, and I'm honored to tell you that The Grind has been nominated in FOUR categories which are-
-Best Album (All Genres)
-Best Blues/Soul Album
-Song of The Year (Things That Get Me By)
-Producer/Engineer (Bill Chrysler/Joe Sturgill/Vincent Hayes)
Though radio support for The Grind has been great around the US and the globe, perhaps the most support of any terrestrial station has been from the folks right here in West Michigan at WYCE-FM! Thanks so much to Pete Bruinsma, Matt Jarrels, Greg Saur, and the rest of the staff for the continued support and for considering The Grind for these honors! The 2014 Jammie Awards will be held on February 21, 2014 at The Intersection in Grand Rapids.
Please visit this link to submit your vote for:
* Best Album of 2013 (The Grind is listed near the bottom)
Voting Deadline: 12am Feb 1, 2014.The 15th Annual Jammies will be held at the Intersection on February 21, 2014.
Brought to you by 88.1FM WYCE and Bell's Brewery
FREE Admission; clothing and non-perishable food items will be collected at the door
See you there!
The Grind IS On Sirius/XM!!!
Once again the folks at BB King's Bluesville Sirius/XM Channel 70 have shown their amazing support by additing The Grind to rotation on the station's playlist! Huge thanks go out to Tony Colter for featuring it on Stone Blue, and to Pat St. John for spinning cuts on his nightly program! You can also request tracks by calling the station request line at 877-64-BLUES
All CD's Now Only $12.99 @ CDbaby!
To celebrate the recent Jammie nominations and Sirius/XM airplay, the price of both The Grind and Reclamation of only $12.99 has been extended through the 2014 Jammie Awards Ceremony in February 2014! Get you copy now, or save an additional 10% when you buy two!
The Grind Debuts At #1 on Michigan Roots Radio Chart!
In just a little under two weeks since it's release on August 20, 2013, The Grind has already been added to dozens of playlists on terrestrial blues radio in the US, Canada, France, Autralia, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Poland, and UK! More stations are on the way, and there will also be an additional radio promotion at the end of September to target an additional 200 College, Jamband, AA, and Roots Rock stations in the US and abroad. It's really exciting to watch something that you've put so much hard work, love and care into rise up the radio charts. As for the Michigan Roots Radio Chart, there was no "rising" to be seen, The Grind simply debuted at the #1 position on the September 06, 2013 chart! Thank you to all of the programmers/DJ's who have already begun to show such amazing support for this new release! Check out the Michigan Roots Radio Chart HERE!
"Other Side Of Town" From The Grind, to Be Featured on a Syndicated Radio Program!
But wait, there's more! Once again, the syndicated 2 hr radio program called Blues Deluxe will feature an original song on the program, for airplay on over 100 terrestrial radio stations! The program is also streamed on the player at the Roots Radio Chart website!
We are honored to be chosen among such an impressive selection of artists who will appear on the same playlist, including The Band, Fleetwood Mac, Cream, Bob Corritore, Pete Anderson and Jonny Lang! Click the link below to be taken there to listen anytime between September 22-28. You may also catch the program on your local radio affiliates who air the program!
CD Release Party at The Playhouse in Whitehall on Sept 28, 2013
We are excited to announce the date and location of the First Official CD Release Party at The Howmet Playhouse in Whitehall, MI on Saturday, September 28, 2013!
Sponsored by Killer Blues, the event will feature two 50 minute sets of original material from The Grind by Vincent Hayes and the band, as well as old favorites from their first award-winning release, Reclamation! Plenty of copies of The Grind will be on hand for purchase, and beverages will be supplied by Michigan's own Rockford Brewing Co.
Tickets for this event are $10.00, and can be purchased at the door, or by calling the Whitehall City Hall during normal business hours at (231) 894-8048
All proceeds from the tickets and beer sales go toward helping the efforts of Killer Blues. To find out more about Killer Blues, go to http://www.killerblues.net
If you haven't heard The Grind, the brand new CD by Vincent Hayes that is sweeping the blues and roots/rock world by storm, then check it out at your favorite online music source now! Help us spread the word about The Grind by sharing links on your social media walls!
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North 61 Records is pleased to announce the official release of "The Grind", the brand new, long awaited brand new CD by Vincent Hayes!Featuring ten brand new songs recorded by Hayes and his stellar rhythm section (David Alves, Donnie Hugley), recorded at Redwall North Studios in Hayes's hometown of Grand Haven, MI, "The Grind" takes Vincent and the band back to their beginnings as a power trio, and showcases Hayes's evolution as a songwriter and a guitar force to be reckoned with. The disc was produced and engineered by "soundman of the stars" Bill Chrysler (John Mayer, Lionel Richie, Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, Eagles, Christina Aguilera), and co-produced and engineered by Joe Sturgil (Four Finger Five) during the Spring of 2013, and mastered by Brian Lucey from Magic Garden Studios, who also has won Grammy's for his work with the Black Keys (Brothers, El Camino). There are eight new Hayes originals on The Grind, in addition to an interpretation of "Inner City Blues", the 1971 classic by Marvin Gaye, and the moody and dark "Not Tonight", a collaborative song penned by West Michigan singer/songwriter Joel Toppen, and arranged by Hayes and the band.
Join Vincent Hayes and Vinny Marini for the World Premier of "The Grind" on Monday, August 5 at 11:45 EST on Music on The Couch www.musiconthecouch


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I won't be posting here next year.........
I thought I'd post this now since it appears this board isn't visited as often by most folks anymore.
When my membership is up at the end of the year i won't be renewing it.
For those that may want/need to ask questions feel free to grab my email info, or ebay info. I'll be more than happy to answer questions or help out as I can.
I will most likely still lurk around occasionally, but just can't justify renewing my membership as slow as it is.
I'll still be around for a few weeks, just wanted to give an early heads up.
I sure will miss you, Hazel, but I understand. The computer help forum is my main forum- that's where I started reading and posting many years ago and have gradually started reading other forums. This forum is now a lost cause, I believe. I don't even check here every day anymore, sometimes just once a week. (Still go to the computer forum several times a day.)
Sorry to hear you are not going to post anymore. Will miss you. It is a very quiet forum.
I still like making soap, although there is not much market for selling it. It makes nice family gifts and you can make it as you like it. Shapes, colors, scents. I stocked up on the last sale at Wholesale soap. So I should be fine for the year.
Nice thing, it does not spoil, you can always use it, great for gift giving. My grand daughters like it, so with 10 girls, I have my own little market for it.
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UFT API Confusion
I just wanted to take some time to briefly go over the history of HP UFT API. One of the reasons UFT API testing can be a little confusing is that if you've done a little research on HP UFT API testing, or are trying to get started, you may not know where to start because of its history.


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Chrysler, Daimler, Cerberus: Who Got Screwed?
Hell is not a place that is usually invoked in discussing corporate mergers and acquisitions. But it has come up frequently in discussions of the unwinding merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler. When news of the sale of the Chrysler unit to a private equity fund broke, The Wall Street Journal's DealBook compared the 1999 merger […]
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Is Going Private A Passing Fad?
"The only sure thing that can be said about the past is that anyone who can remember Santayana's maxim is condemned to repeat it," Walter Isaacson wrote in Sunday's New York Times Book Review. "As a result, the danger of not understanding the lessons of history is matched by the danger of using simplistic historical […]
Chrysler Sale: Full Employment Act for Bankers
Fees tend to make everyone happy, especially the leaches at the receiving end of them. It's even more fun when you can collect them by helping one company who made 36 billion mistakes nine years ago pay another company to take the unwanted child that never should've been carried to term off its hands. Deal […]
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Daimler's $650 Million Bar Tab
There's a lot of talk today about the sale of Chrysler to Cerberus (and Lindsay Campbell's appearance on the Sopranos, and how Warren Buffett hates animals). Larry Ribstein sees the transaction as a paradigm of the private equity deal (the hound of Hades is putting up $7.4 b "in return for which it is demanding […]
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Chrysler: Blackstone To Strike First?
Blackstone may submit a bid for the Chrysler group as early as today, the Detroit News reported this morning. As of late last night no bids had been received, the paper said. Earlier reports had indicated that the bids were due on Thursday. Blackstone is said to be working with Centerbridge Partners on a joint […]
Is The Chrysler Sale A Head Fake?
We're heard all sorts of convoluted conspiracy theories about what DaimlerChrysler might really be up to with this whole "Chrysler either is or is not for sale" flag running up and down the pole. But by far our favorite comes today from the car-guys over at Jalopnik. According to the Jalopnikistas, Daimler-Chrysler CEO might not […]
GM and Chrysler: Deal or No Deal?
We just learned that you literally can't order a cup of coffee on Wall Street without hearing talk about a possible combination of General Motors and Chrysler. It's a treacherous block-and-a-half of icy sidewalks (remember, some of us DealBreakers are still on crutches) to the Starbucks on Wall Street, and we passed two different groups […]


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A ranking of 125 nations on the level of government imposed taxes and tariffs on ICT goods and services.
We are on the cusp of an IT-enabled transformation of transportation.
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This report assesses the development of a "data divide" in America.
Policy should be reformed to better integrate the national labs with regional economies.
ITIF presents a framework for evaluating and resolving cross-border Internet policy conflicts.
This report provides a snapshot of states' efforts to create open data policies and portals.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank remains vital to supporting America's traded sector competitiveness.
The Chinese government has created a broad strategy to "informatize" its economy and society.
The future economic health of the U.S. economy will depend on the strength of its national innovation system.
The FCC should take a step back and allow net neutrality to be solved the right way — through legislation.
If governments want private-sector cooperation for their lawful investigations, they should first examine their own operations.
ICT taxes and tariffs hamper economic growth.
While Japan had an advantage in hardware, the United States leads in software innovation.
For the U.S. to effectively combat mercantilism, we need to develop a Global Mercantilist Index.
We need a global, not a sectional approach to international Internet policy.
There's a pressing need to restructure the global economic and trade system.
Internet taxes designed to expand revenue are self-defeating.
Robots are actually good for employment.
If Canada ever decides to impose a "Netflix tax," it will find itself on the wrong side of a losing battle.
Stephen Ezell presented on Mexico's Innovation Ecosystem at the Wilson Center.
Val Giddings discussed the importance of continued agricultural innovation at the 2014 North Carolina...
Rob Atkinson discussed the impact of ICT growth at the "Building Blocks of the Ubiquitous Digital Single...
Rob Atkinson presented on "How the Cloud Can Drive Economic Growth" to Canada's Digital Policy...
ITIF co-hosted events in London and Brussels to assess the roots of the EU's productivity and ICT adoption...
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ITIF filed comments with the FCC recommending guiding principles for aspects of the IP transition.
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ITIF proposes comments for the New York Department of Financial Services on the BitLicense Framework.
NHTSA should hold off on a DSRC mandate until spectrum questions are resolved.
A collection of essays making the case for the progressive power of innovation and the digital economy in enabling societies to cope with new challenges.
Conventional economics provides an increasingly poor guide for economic policy and should be replaced by an evolutionary economics framework.
Rob Atkinson contributed the chapter "Public Policy, Innovation and New Technologies" to the textbook "Guide to U.S. Economic Policy."
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In a chapter for the new book Practicing Sustainability, Rob Atkinson wrote about sustainability from an innovation economics perspective.
"Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage." This new book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way and the United States is running the risk of losing.
Daniel Castro contributed a chapter titled "U.S. Federal Cybersecurity Policy" in the book "Cybersecurity: Public Sector Threats and Responses."
Rob Atkinson contributed a chapter titled chapter "Who's Who in Internet Politics" for the book "The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet."
Supply-Side Follies: Why Conservative Economics Fails, Liberal Economics Falters, and Innovation Economics is the Answer
Supply-Side Follies methodically debunks the common assumptions of conservative economics and demonstrates why it is a flawed doctrine that is setting up the U.S. for a major economic downturn in the near future.
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Work is expected to continue through May 15, weather permitting.
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Thank God, It Sounds Like the Gremlins Reboot Has Been Shelved
When we last got an update on this project, Warner Bros. was going full-steam ahead with it. Now, writer Seth Grahame-Smith says the whole thing has been shoved back once again. »
When we last got an update on this project, Warner Bros. was going full-steam ahead with it. Now, writer Seth Grahame-Smith says the whole thing has been shoved back once again. » 1/19/15 4:30am 1/19/15 4:30am
The creators of the beloved, Canadian, and CG-animated cartoon have announced that they're finally making a new ReBoot series, and I find it quite appropriate that although details are scarce, it sounds like it'll take place in the exact same world of the original! » 11/29/14 7:30am 11/29/14 7:30am
Here is an itty bitty update on the "reimagining" of the beloved CG-animated TV series ReBoot (or the ReBoot reboot, if you will). Apparently, the new show is still in the works and now has a logo and title. » 11/26/14 3:40pm 11/26/14 3:40pm
It looks like Stargate is about to lose its status as one of the major movie franchises that have never been rebooted. Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are officially returning to the world of Stargate with a "re-imagined" trilogy of films. » 5/29/14 5:11pm 5/29/14 5:11pm
What makes a reboot a reboot, and a retcon a retcon — and what makes a show one, and not the other? » 1/30/14 4:20pm 1/30/14 4:20pm
The more we hear about the Rosemary's Baby miniseries remake, the more excited we get. And now that Zoe Saldana has been cast in the lead, we're hooked. Just look at that talent behind this 4-hour feature. » 1/09/14 7:40am 1/09/14 7:40am
Is our love of character reboots a source of creative inspiration, that lets us re-imagine and reinvigorate our favorite stories? Or is it a symptom of a progressively timid nostalgia that comforts us with the familiar (but this time, with more lens flare)? » 1/08/14 7:00am 1/08/14 7:00am
Because every movie you don't care about has already been recycled at least once, Paramount has decided to begin rebooting the ones you actually do care about — starting with The Naked Gun. » 12/14/13 6:43pm 12/14/13 6:43pm
The trend of horror television will not stop — hooray! Entertainment Weekly reports that the classic 1968 movie Rosemary's Baby is getting a rebooted as a four-hour, miniseries on NBC. » 12/10/13 3:20pm 12/10/13 3:20pm
Charmed has only been off the air since 2006, but according to some buzz from the television world, CBS TV studios is planning one of those pesky, maybe-okay "reimaginings" of the WB series that starred Alyssa Milano, Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, and Rose McGowan. To the rumor mill! » 10/26/13 8:02pm 10/26/13 8:02pm
Remember ReBoot, the wacky CG animated series set inside a computer, starring a collection of green sprites who spend their days fighting Hexadecimal, Megabyte and playing the users' games? Well it's bAAAaaaaack! » 10/03/13 11:19am 10/03/13 11:19am
In this week's "Postal Apocalypse," you guys ask the tough questions about Game of Thrones, Avengers and cybernetic hand replacements, and I give you the hard answers, mostly because giving you soft answers sounds even dirtier. The mailbag is running low, so please don't forget to send your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com » 3/20/13 8:00am 3/20/13 8:00am
It's hard to find good help these days — or any day, really. If you're an evil mastermind, hiring a decent henchman to help you take over the world is usually a lot harder than the taking over the world part. Here are just a few of the most famous evil henchmen who never won "employee of the month." » 3/19/13 12:10pm 3/19/13 12:10pm
With last night's premiere of Voltron Force, the world was introduced to three new cadets who are going to be trained to eventually become pilots. Unfortunately, the three are a psychopath, a speed freak, and a nerd. » 6/17/11 4:45pm 6/17/11 4:45pm
Even big time SF authors can't resist doing fanfic. And why not? Our favorite writers are fans just like us. John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War and internet darling, probably read Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper as a kid. This tale of humans debating the intelligence of a cute, fuzzy alien species has charmed readers… » 5/19/11 2:00pm 5/19/11 2:00pm
MTV has finally released the first official trailer for their TV series reboot of the Teen Wolf franchise. So what's different from the original Michael J. Fox version? It's not just the switch from basketball to lacrosse. » 3/30/11 6:30am 3/30/11 6:30am
Could the next nostalgic movie sequel for Jeff Bridges be Starman 2? He's certainly open to it. In fact, he's got a few questions from the original he'd like answered in the sequel. » 12/22/10 6:30am 12/22/10 6:30am
A crazy internet rumor picked up steam over the weekend. Whisperings of an Edward Scissorhands remake have been floating around, with everyone's favorite unwashed vampire, Robert Pattinson, in the lead. To which we say, "No." » 6/28/10 8:00am 6/28/10 8:00am
Brace yourselves for sexy parties from a spandex-clad dystopian future, because Warner Brothers' Logan's Run movie may actually see the light of day! Beloved commercial and short film creator Carl Rinsch is in talks to direct the futuristic remake. » 5/26/10 4:23pm 5/26/10 4:23pm
Paul Greengrass is no longer tied to Fox's 3D reboot of the Fantastic Voyage. Some speculate that this is because producers James Cameron and Jon Landau were never really in love with Greengrass shaky cam style. Neither were we. [Deadline] » 5/20/10 8:00am 5/20/10 8:00am


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Alliant Credit Union Selects LPL Financial to Assist Expansion of Retirement and Investment Services
Jan 02, 2013
- Alliant Credit Union, America's sixth largest credit union in assets, announced that it is now partnering with LPL Financial, the nation's largest independent broker-dealer, based on total revenues.
Alliant Credit Union Employees and Foundation Assist United Airlines "Fantasy Flights"
Jan 12, 2012
- Alliant Credit Union employee volunteers and Alliant Credit Union Foundation provided assistance to charity related Fantasy Flights held during December at major airports across the country.
Alliant Credit Union Foundation Announces Winners Of Social Media Charity Campaign
Nov 07, 2011
- The Alliant Credit Union Foundation announces the results of the Make It Count social media charity campaign.
Alliant Credit Union Announces Financial Tip Of The Week Contest
Nov 02, 2011
- Alliant Credit Union announces a contest related to its Tip of the Week program called Money Matters.
Alliant Credit Union Employees Pull A Cargo Jet To Raise Money For Special Olympics Illinois
Oct 21, 2011
- Two teams of 20 employees each from Chicago-based Alliant Credit Union recently participated in the 2011 Plane Pull to benefit Special Olympics Illinois, held at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Employers & Employees See A Growing Need For Financial Literary Training In The Workplace
Oct 18, 2011
- Alliant Credit Union releases a white paper to help employers evaluate whether basic financial training is right for their organization and how best to implement it.
Alliant Credit Union Forms Commercial Lending Department
Sep 06, 2011
- Alliant Credit Union recently expanded its loan offerings by adding a Commercial Lending Department.
Alliant Credit Union Foundation Launches Social Media Charity Campaign
Sep 01, 2011
- The Alliant Credit Union Foundation launches a social media charity campaign to give $40,000 in grants to several charities based on votes received.
Alliant's Foundation Donates $200,000 In Fiscal Year 2011
Aug 26, 2011
- After donating approximately $200,000 to various charities and educational organizations during its first fiscal year (FY 2010), the Alliant Credit Union Foundation granted an additional $200,000 in FY 2011 ended on June 30th.
Members of Alliant Credit Union Donate Money to help Foster Youth
Jun 30, 2011
- Throughout April 2011, display materials in Alliant Service Centers nationwide asked for member donations to assist foster students with college living expenses. Contributions helped raise over $10,500.


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Competitive reality TV has had to evolve and change to keep viewers engaged. Along the way it has given us many principles to live by, as well as numerous sayings and taglines. For that, and many hours of entertainment, I'm sure we are all thankful. Two formats that always resonate with me when thinking about the parallels of small business are The Voice Australia and Recipe to Riches.
In the early stages of the competitions, the judges have to make a call on which contestants would go through and which would be abandoned back into anonymity. Consumers have the same experience when interacting with your brand.
On The Voice, success is determined by how well the contestant 'authentically' spoke to the audience. Recipe to Riches not only looks at the capacity for a brand to resonate in the market place, but asks the other critical question – can you scale? Brand values can work well in a micro setting, but can the product and your delivery of it move from a hands-on controlled environment, and be replicated for a larger market?
There is a powerful business truth in these interrogations. We don't succeed because we are the best, although we must have a measure of competence [insert market demand or engagement] to be part of the selection process. When our brands are competing in a big, noisy, crowded market, there has to be an outstanding quality that makes people choose us and our products over our competitors.
Most initial interactions consumers have with our products and brands is online, via a website, blogs, social media or a combination of all three. So ask yourself, how do you and your product represent? Do you speak authentically to your audience, walk the stage and perform in a natural, believable way especially when the performance is being mediated by technology? Can you scale to speak to hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands and still have a voice in the market?
Even search engine optimisation (SEO) is getting its lines from reality TV. Google and Bing love 'truth and authenticity' in content and 'scale' in interactions. You are 'incentivized' by higher search engine ranking when your content is fresh, authentic and endorsed by a quantum of reputable backlinks to your site. The mysterious, ever-changing Google algorithm is now attuned to site content being 'real', as in by a 'real person,' and to the most intangible of machine measurements, 'passion.'
If there was ever a deus ex machina to convey us to business success through being found online, it would surely be replacing endless key words with clear market communication that represents the real. All very fluffy and non-evidence based, I know. But this is the point. We don't make purchase decisions based on evidence, perfection or competence. We make them largely on emotional behaviour, triggered by a connection on some real, human, emotional level.
SEO is based on popularity, as is social media and competitive reality TV. Look at your content, digital collateral and social media interactions and make sure that it speaks to your audience and customer in a way that stirs emotion, builds trust and ultimately keeps you centre stage.
Dr Polly McGee has worked as a digital strategist and business consultant, freelance writer in entrepreneurship and commercialisation and has been published in Start-up Smart. She is regularly featured as an expert on Startups and women in entrepreneurship. Polly is the current Chair of Tasmanian literary magazine Island, occasional media commentator, wannabe novelist and sporadic food blogger.


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You skipped a moment of silence to listen to a Kardashian? Way to go.ReplyDelete
Why is your reporter not fired for his remark about Sarah Palin. Im a women and very offended. I will not supportReplyDelete
First a remark about xxxx on Sarah Palin and now making fun Romney's grand baby. You people are sick freaks. Just because people are not Government Slaves who like being slaves. You make fun of them.ReplyDelete
Are joe and mika so overworked that they cannot be on the air the whole 3hours and have to repeat the first half hour at 8 am thats when i changed to another program
MSNBC : You want to immediately solve your ratings slide? Here's exactly how to do it.
Give up your sychophantic devotion to Liberalism and Obama. Start being Journalists instead of Propagandists.
No charge for that; by the way. You'll make millions; and not have to pay me a dime.
So they can be another Fox Lies?Delete
I think your narrative on mid-terms is a continuation of your Al Sharpton- like teenage crush on Obammy! You Dems didn't loose because you ran away from Obammy..you lost because you couldn't run away from Obammy!ReplyDelete
I'm tired of Al Sharpton racist remarks and because his black being allowed to say them. His keeping racism alive. The lawyer for Brown said the stepfather acted on emotion when he said burn this motherf-ingdown and should not be charged with inciting the riot. wow so if the police officers who Al Sharpton lives were ruined by false accusation had a right to punch, kick and burn Sharpton house and car ? The same goes for Obama(one big ass mistake America) his not the president of the USA he goes against the American people wants and needs.ReplyDelete
I will not watch Morning Joe ever again, nor will I support its advertisers. This morning, Scarborough kept up an uninformed, racist rant about the situation in Ferguson. He cannot speak about black oppression because he is a privileged, white male. He talked about a young man who committed a crime of taking a handful of cigarillos from a convenience store as "knocking over a convenience store".
He said that the little boy in Ohio who was killed was carrying a real gun. You can't have a white male southerner talking like this when he does not have the facts. None of us has the facts because we were not there and the prosecutor decided that he did not want a trial to try to determine the truth. So black people have as much right to stick to their version of the " truth" as white racists do. But responsible journalists (not Scarborough who is neither a journalist nor responsible), must dig into our racist culture, the brutality of the police culture (and as an older white woman I have experienced it myself), the inequality of our society, and the tragic treatment of black people and their voices. Where is the compassion and the search for the truth? I don't have enough time in my life to listen to that hate-filled speech coming from someone who does not know what he is talking about. I am done with this show.
Facts.... you don't want to get yourself in trouble... obey the law...don't steal .. don't be a thug.. when a police officer gives you an order obey it ..don't go up to his car & beat him. Stop the lies people fac e reality . Obey the law like normal people. I like msnbc but on this one they are totally wrong. Fox has it right this time & I am really disapointed with everyone on msnbc. I hate fox news but they are right about this one.Delete
Would someone please tell Joe (Morning Joe), that Hands Up Don't Shoot), is still being done all across America, due to the fact that the process of justice in this country, has never been fair to African Americans, the use of the Grand Jury is the lie used to free officer Wilson... !!!!ReplyDelete
As someone who has been a long time viewer of your network and a nightly viewer of Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes and Lawrence O'Donnell shows. I can't put into a few words how disappointed I am with there coverage of the Ferguson events. I understand being bias to the left but this is not a political event this story has real life implications. Yes I know like everyone does that Fox lies about every story they do, and CNN in going to be more about who reports the story than the story itself. But I expected more truth and real facts from MSNBC and not some of the half truths and flat out lies that have been reported on these shows. It not only brings your network down to the level of Fox news but hurts the democratic party to watch this pandering to one group of viewers. I will no longer be a regular viewer of your programs anymore and will be changing my party affiliation after 39 years to Independent to distends myself from this type of misinformation. Next time try reading the grand jury transcripts and posting them on your site like the AP did.ReplyDelete
You took off 2 good shows to put mika and joe on about football I am sick of these people that think life is all about foot ball I would not walk across the street to see these idiots players playReplyDelete
Please bring Martin Bashir back your rating would go up because he ws smart, funny and should have not been fired!!!ReplyDelete


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The down-and-dirty on publishing's over-promoted technology
by Peter Bowerman
(Adapted from The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living, by Peter Bowerman. Fanove, 2007).
In a recent year, Xlibris, one of the big names in POD (Print-on-Demand), celebrated paying out their one-millionth dollar in royalties. The prior year, they helped authors publish more than 7,000 titles and sell over 300,000 books. Impressive, huh? Well, let's do the math. $1 million for 7000 titles comes out to an average royalty of $149 each. Not exactly worth bragging about…
How POD Works
In the past few years, POD has generated a huge buzz in the industry, promising to "provide the keys to the serious publishing kingdom for all those authors heretofore locked out of the game" and other lofty claims. Not really. Remember, POD isn't some "miracle" or a "publishing revolution"; it's just a printing technology, nothing more. Let's try to separate the reality from the hype…
With POD, you submit your book to a POD publisher (AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford, Xlibris and PublishAmerica are big players) in an electronic format, pay a fee (typically $400-1500 depending on the company and the marketing options selected; see below), they'll "produce" your book and load it onto their system. No physical books are printed until someone orders one (i.e., through a bookstore).
POD – The Upside
POD makes sense for three particular scenarios:
1) Authors whose goals are to get in print, say "I'm an author" and have the book available for friends and family, but without the funds to finance an offset print run.
2) Authors taking the long view. Meaning, they indeed want to be a successful writer, know full well the limitations of the POD model, but know how hard it is to attract a publisher, and want to start building a platform for themselves. In those cases, they use POD to create the best (aesthetically speaking) possible book they can, knowing that it might take 2, 3 or 4 books to finally build up a name (and perhaps attract a publisher). And POD can help them cut to the chase.
3) Larger publishers with out-of-print titles which now, thanks to POD, can be reactivated and start earning new income streams.
POD – The Downside
The POD Business Model
By definition, conventional publishers have to be selective about the books they take on because their payoff doesn't come until they sell a bunch. By contrast, because POD publishers make the lion's share of their income on upfront fees – and because web space isn't exactly in short supply – they have every incentive to sign up as many authors as possible, regardless of manuscript quality, and once signed up, virtually no incentive to promote them. Heck, they've made their money! They know most of the books won't be successful, so why expend much more effort when the returns will likely be minimal?
The Marketing Hype
POD publishers will undoubtedly pitch you on their aggressive plan to market your title – at an extra cost, of course. Don't get your hopes up. It'll be an impressive sounding menu of window-dressing. They'll promise to send a press release to thousands of potentially interested parties – a standard cookie-cutter piece, mass-mailed to people who get far too many anyway. Even if they do read it, once they figure out it's a POD book, unfortunately, that'll work against you. And here's why…
No Respect
Why are most POD books not taken seriously by bookstores, media and reviewers? For starters, with typically higher printing costs, lower print quality and usually a "no-return" policy, (i.e., less profits and more hassles), the big bookstore chains aren't exactly falling all over themselves to carry POD books. More importantly, POD is viewed as relatively "barrier-free" publishing.
Let's examine the hierarchy. At the top is a conventionally published book. A book with a reputable publishing house's imprimatur has jumped through many hoops before finally making the grade. The "book-sales-before-profits" equation ensures only the best survive.
One step down is a book like mine – "conventionally" self-published (i.e., I've paid for design, typesetting, offset printing, etc.) Yes, as the author, there's no screening process other than my decision to publish, but, on the plus side is this: a self-publishing author has to totally finance the venture – typically, $8-12K to bring a 2500-5000-unit printing to market. Presumably, that implies an at least marginal grip on reality. Few people will drop that kind of dough on a lark unless they know they've got a good product.
Then, there's POD publishing: a publishing decision left completely to the author and one with a minimal financial investment. So, quite legitimately, the key reviewers and bookstore chains ask, "What's stopping any Tom, Dick or Harriet from getting published?" Not much anymore. Hence, low barrier = low respect.
Self-published books – even done the high-end way – already fight an uphill battle for respect and credibility. Why? Because, in truth, most are inferior in content and production quality. With POD, it's a double-whammy.
Royalties, Not Profits
In self-publishing as I do it, after expenses, all profits are mine. By contrast, most POD publishers will have you sign a contract that pays you royalties and in many cases, has you turn over the rights to your creation – at least for a certain period of time. And those royalties are often based on net proceeds (after discounts to wholesalers, etc.), not retail price, reducing them even further.
Not YOUR ISBN
When you self-publish a book, you want to be the "publisher-of-record." If you're not, then that book wouldn't technically be self-published, would it? You're the "publisher-of-record" only if you own your ISBN number. Most POD publishers own the ISBN numbers for their authors' books, so they're the "publisher-of-record." Which, incidentally, is the only reason they can get away with calling themselves "publishers," and in the process, confuse unsuspecting authors into thinking they're "publishers" on the par with a real one.
You NEED Cheap Books
Commercial success with your book demands a LOT of book marketing and promotion and that means sending out LOTS of review copies. With POD, buying your own copies of, say, a $20 retail book, will cost you roughly $8-10 each (similar, incidentally, to conventional publishing, where authors typically buy their own books for 50% off retail). Add about $3 more for press kit, mailer and postage and you could go broke in a hurry. My books? About $1.50 each, making a full review package less than $5 each.
Not to mention you'll miss out on all those juicy personal book sales at events, seminars and out of the trunk of your car. With book costs around $2 each, you can afford to discount books 25-50% and still make a nice profit. With POD, no can do.
Depending on your goals, POD might be just the ticket or it could be a dead-end. Do your homework. Understand its limitations and be realistic about its pote
ntial. Read contracts carefully and ask questions about royalties, rights, minimum book purchases and artistic control. You could save yourself a truckload of disappointment.
Author Peter Bowerman is known for the award-winning (and self-published) Well-Fed Writer titles (on the lucrative field of commercial freelancing), which have provided him with a full-time living for over five years. (http://ww.wellfedwriter.com.


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Who really determines a person's destiny?
Gabe O'Brien has a pretty jinxed life. One day, after hitting his head in a car accident, he finds that he can see and hear things he couldn't. Gabe's wife hates how Gabe dosen't take responsibility in his life. A man in orange kills Gabe's grass and is surprised that Gabe can see him. Later that night, Gabe and a coworker plan to rob a man's house to get money. Then, the man in the orange suit shows up again and lets the air out of the van tires. The man reveals that Gabe's "story" is written this way. So, Gabe demands that he take him to see his writer. They arrive at headquarters: a tall building that reaches up infinitely into the sky. Gabe goes and sees his writer, Roxanne. Apparently, everyone in the world has a writer which determines what they will do. Roxanne gets annoyed when Gabe tells her that he wants to take responsibility for his own life and make his own choices. She calls upper management and Gabe pleas his case. He is given permission to live his own life and Roxanne now only has to write 5,999 life stories. Back at home, Gabe and his buddy decide to start their own business. Gabe reassures his wife and tells her he will do better. This episode is a great role for Christopher Titus. It also shows how a person should take more responsibility in their life.moreless
Good story, but they could have used a better ending.
The story was an interesting concept. It's about a man who finds out that he does not have as much control over his life as he thought he did. I personally thought that that it was good that he was able to regain control of his destiny. But, I feel that it could have ended better.
In the original Twilight Zone, the underlying commonality between episodes was the ironic ending (i.e. the guy who finally had time to read but broke his glasses). This ending was not ironic, in fact it was actually optomistic. Here's what they should have done.
Titus (I forget his character's name), gains control of his life and goes home to plan his future. But then, before he can tell his wife the good news, she shoots and kills him in a fit of rage. The irony being that Titus was in control of his own future, but his wife wasn't.
Now that, would have been a true Twilight Zone ending.moreless


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Six Clubs from Florida Premier League boast 101 college commitments
List of 2015 college commitments | Florida Premier League
CHARLESTON, S.C. (March 23, 2015) - Six clubs within the NPL's Florida Premier League have reported a total of 101 college commitments in 2015.
Those clubs are, with their total number of commited college athletes, are listed below. The complete list can be accessed here.
"We're so proud of all of these players who are taking their soccer careers to the college level," NPL General Manager Leo Garcia said. "A special congratulations also goes out to these players' clubs, who have helped mold them into the successful athletes they are."
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Boys teams competing in state cup 1st Round:
JFC 00/01 Boys Elite (U14)
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JFC 98/99 Boys Elite (U16)
JFC 97/98 Boys Elite (U17)
Boys teams with 1st Rd bye:
JFC 01/02 Boys Elite (U13)
JFC Storm teams competing in 1st Rd:
JFC Storm Elite 00/01 (U14)
JFC Storm Elite 99/00 (U15)
JFC Storm Elite 98/99 (U16)
JFC Storm 96/97 (U18)
JFC Storm teams with 1st Rd a bye:
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JFC Storm 00/01 (U14)
JFC Storm 99/00 (U15)
JFC Storm 97/98 (U17)
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JFC Teams competing in the Final Four:
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JFC 03/04 Girls Elite - Coached by Rod Miller
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JFC 01/02 Boys Premier - Coached by John Parker
U19 - Boys
JFC 96/97 Boys Premier - Coached by Jason Cooley
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Armada FC and Jacksonville FC announce major youth soccer partnership
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (February 3, 2015) – The Armada FC, Jacksonville's new professional soccer team, announced an innovative and exciting partnership with one of the city's biggest youth soccer clubs, Jacksonville FC, which will see both clubs come together to establish a dynamic structure of soccer progression in Jacksonville from youth to professional level.
The wide-reaching partnership, which includes co-branding of both clubs, will see Armada FC and Jacksonville FC team up to create a continuous "player pathway" soccer structure that seeks to develop the city's best young male soccer talent at the competitive level of the game, starting immediately with JFC's Boys U14 DA team and the JFC U12-U18 Elite level teams feeding into the Armada's growing soccer development program. The new elite teams will be re-titled the JFC Armada. Through the efforts of Armada FC, JFC and JFC's strategic partners, the goal will be to identify and develop future Armada FC reserve and first team players while nurturing some of the region's best young soccer talent.
To aid in the development of the partnership, Jacksonville FC Executive Director Eric Dade, will join the Armada FC staff as director of soccer development. Both clubs plan to work together in their pursuit of earning all age groups of the United States Soccer Federation's Development Academy.
Commenting on the partnership which marries the fourth-largest youth soccer club in Florida to Jacksonville's professional soccer representatives in the growing North American Soccer League, Armada FC owner Mark Frisch, said: "We are excited to announce this extensive partnership between Armada FC and one of the best youth soccer programs in the country in JFC. We are looking forward to combining our resources to develop some of our region's best youth soccer talents and to provide a pathway from recreational youth soccer to the professional ranks through the Armada."
JFC President, David Proehl, said: "JFC is excited to be partnering with Armada FC to help elite level boys aged 12-18 achieve their soccer goals through the USSF Developmental Academy Program. Teaming up with a professional soccer club of the standing and quality of Armada FC has been part of our strategic vision and more importantly, provides players, coaches and referees a proven pathway not offered anywhere else on the First Coast."
Armada FC General Manager, Dario Sala, added: "We are extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Eric Dade as our first director of soccer development. Eric will become an integral part of our coaching staff and brings decades of experience not only in playing and coaching soccer but also specifically in developing youth talent.
"We are excited about the possibilities that teaming up with JFC will provide in not only finding future players for the Armada reserve and first teams, but also in further developing the depth of youth learning in our region."
In addition to his new position at Armada FC, Eric Dade will continue to serve as JFC's Executive Director and US Development Academy Director said: "Having the opportunity for JFC to partner with Armada FC is extremely exciting. I am thrilled to be in a position to bridge the relationship between Armada FC and JFC's youth development. Furthermore, Armada FC's ownership, front office and soccer staff have demonstrated a passion for the game and are committed to seeing the sport grow. This in every way mirrors who JFC is and what we stand for. This partnership shows that both organizations are dedicated to having a significant impact on players, coaches and soccer enthusiasts in our community".
Dade comes to the Armada with over 28 years' experience in professional and youth soccer development. A college standout at Virginia Commonwealth University, he went on to play professionally in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) with the Dallas Sidekicks and Baltimore Blast before moving to the Dallas Burn/FC Dallas of Major League Soccer.
Dade has coached at all levels including the US Men's and Women's National Team programs at U18 and U14 level. The former JU Women's soccer assistant coach currently serves as the Director of the US Market Training Center in Florida and the US Club Soccer PDP Director (Florida) & Id2 Staff Coach.
About Jacksonville FC
Jacksonville FC, a 501c3 Non for Profit Corporation, is the preeminent youth soccer club in Northeast Florida and is home to more team champions than any other local club. Their 38-year history of on-field success includes a dynamic recreation program thereby providing the foundation for a lifelong love of the sport. Most recently JFC has produced State, Regional, National and International champions/finalists and helped provide US National Team Camp opportunities for 6 local players.
Patton Park, the home of JFC, is a 126 acre soccer complex consisting of 15 fields and host to many national, professional and collegiate teams including Jacksonville Armada FC, US Women's National Team, 2014 Nigerian World Cup Team, New York City FC, Cruz Azul FC and Jacksonville United FC.
Off the field, JFC has a philanthropic mission to improve the lives of children as they partner, raise funds and commit volunteer hours for Wolfson Children's Hospital, Tom Coughlin's Jay Fund, Downs Syndrome Association of Jacksonville, Allison Gray Broderick Foundation, Donna Foundation and providing used soccer equipment to orphanages in the Caribbean and Central America.
For any questions or inquiries on JFC, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
About the Jacksonville Armada FC
The Jacksonville Armada FC is Northeast Florida's newest professional sports team and a member of the North American Soccer League. The NASL member teams are: Atlanta Silverbacks, Carolina RailHawks, FC Edmonton, Fort Lauderdale Strikers, Indy Eleven, Jacksonville Armada FC, Minnesota United FC, New York Cosmos, Ottawa Fury FC, San Antonio Scorpions FC and Tampa Bay Rowdies.
Jacksonville Armada FC is committed to supporting youth soccer at all levels as well as all youth soccer clubs in our region and will continue to work with all clubs in addition to JFC.
For more information about the Armada FC, visit www.ArmadaFC.com. Follow the Armada FC on Twitter @ JaxArmadaFC and Facebook at www.Facebook.com/JaxArmadaFC. For more information about the NASL, visit www.NASL.com. Follow the NASL on Twitter @NASLOfficial and Facebook at www.Facebook.com/NASLfans. Fans can watch every game live at www.NASLlive.com.
JFC & JFC Storm - Class Of 2015
Congrats To Our JFC & JFC Storm Class Of 2015
Olivia Jarrell: Columbus State
Sara Urbano: Columbus State
Kennedy Singleton: Flagler College
Kaykay Harding: St. Leo University
Kayla Hancock: Jacksonville Universtiy
Maggie Glynn: Elon University
Carly Hall: Eckerd College
Mackenzie Meisler: University of North Florida
Maddie Kulik: Furman University
Natasha Enrique: Maryville College
Carly Stevens: Rollins College
Morgan Meltzer: Wingate University
Lexie Messick: Flagler College
Maddison Lipson: Flagler College
Kaelin Cote: Anderson Universtiy
Becca Palmer: High Point University
Trey Langlois: Clemson University
Patrick Harding: Jacksonville University
JFC Storm Daly & McGlynn called into US WNT U18 Camp
U-18 WNT Opens 2015 with Camp at Olympic Training Center
CHICAGO (Jan. 27, 2015) – The U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team will open its 2015 programming with a training camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California, that will run from Feb. 1-8. U.S. Women's Technical Director April Heinrichs has called up 24 players, all born in 1998.
All the players in this age group are eligible for the team that will attempt to qualify for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, but the goal for this age group is ultimately the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
U.S. U-18 WNT Roster by Position:
JUFC / Edmonton at Patton Park Stadium 8pm
JUFC vs Trinity Baptist College 7pm (Stadium)
Easter Holiday -No games