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I actually did pump after every feeding....because mine LO would only nurse on one side at a time before falling back asleep....and at that , she did not even empty that breast.
So I pumped and froze. I had to have pumped milk for daddy to feed her once a day anyway.
And at a week old I would offer every 2 hours at least, rather than 3. That should help too.
You're doing fine - just let that other side fill up a little bit and try to deal with the engorgement and not pump so your body adjusts to what your baby needs sooner.
If at any point your baby seems to want more milk after finishing one side, just offer the other side. As long as you nurse on demand and don't introduce formula because you're worried baby isn't getting enough your supply will adjust to meet baby's needs after only few days.
I had to do block nursing with YDD due to significant oversupply, and then ODD only wanted to nurse from one side so YDD also only got one side from 3-7 months old. At that point she started needing a little more time on the breast to settle down before nap and bed, so I would offer her both sides before she slept. My supply adjusted to meet her needs.
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Rev up the engine again as the nation's No. 9 offense and
No. 3 scoring attack should be just as good again as long as
star quarterback Brian Brohm is fully healthy after tearing his
ACL late last year. Considering his mobility could be a problem
early on, it's not a positive that the Cards have to break in
two new tackles. Even so, the line should be fine with several
good options and two great returning starters to work around in
guard Kurt Quarterman and center Eric Wood. The backfield is one
of the best in the nation going three deep with pounder Michael
Bush coming back for his senior year and speedsters Kolby Smith
and George Stripling as good as any backups in the country.
Mario Urrutia leads a big, fast, and very talented receiving
2. West Virginia
3. Rutgers
4. Pitt
5. South Florida
6. Connecticut
7. Syracuse
8. Cincinnati
How will Brian Brohm respond from
his torn ACL? He'll be ready for the season opener, but rust
might be an issue early on. Hunter Cantwell is a strong, tough,
experienced backup who can keep the offense moving if anything
happens to the franchise star, but there's not much to rely on
after him with Bill Ashburn needing a little bit of experience
and receiver/quarterback Patrick Carter more of a pass catcher
than a passer. Thanks to the tremendous receiving corps and the
great backfield to take the heat off, all the quarterbacks who
play this year will thrive.
2. West Virginia
3. Pitt
4. Connecticut
5. South Florida
6. Rutgers
7. Syracuse
8. Cincinnati
Running Backs
That holler of excitement you heard a few months ago was the
Louisville coaching staff when Michael Bush announced he was
returning for his senior season. The big, bruising touchdown
maker will be among the nation's leading scorers, but he won't
be in the Heisman hunt with Kolby Smith and George Stripling
taking away too many carries and too many yards. Speed isn't an
issue for this group with home-run hitting ability down the line. A little more production in the passing game would be
nice, but that's nitpicking.
2. West Virginia
3. Rutgers
4. Connecticut
5. Pitt
6. South Florida
7. Syracuse
8. Cincinnati
Most teams would have major problems after
losing receivers like Joshua Tinch and Montrell Jones, who
combined to make 110 catches last year, but Louisville will be
more than fine as long as Mario Urrutia can turn into a
consistent target. Harry Douglas is good enough to pick up
the extra work that will come his way, and reserves Patrick
Carter, Scott Long and Chris Vaughn would form one of the Big
East's best receiving trios for just about any other team in the
league. The tight end situation is solid with Gary Barnidge good
enough to make a big leap in overall production as a receiver.
2. South Florida
3. Pitt
4. West Virginia
5. Rutgers
6. Cincinnati
7. Syracuse
8. Connecticut
Offensive Lines
West Virginia
There might not be a more athletic line on a top 25 team in
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they're amazing for the Mountaineer running game because of their
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2. Rutgers
3. South Florida
4. Louisville
5. Pitt
6. Syracuse
7. Connecticut
8. Cincinnati
South Florida
The USF D will be the best in the Big East if the line is
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already strong secondary. If Mike Jenkins and Trae Williams
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very close number two.
2. West Virginia
3. Louisville
4. Pittsburgh
5. Connecticut
6. Syracuse
7. Cincinnati
8. Rutgers
Defensive Lines
West Virginia
The line should grow into one of the strengths of the
defense with size and depth. The one thing missing is a sure-thing pure
pass rusher, although Johnny Dingle is expected to become one. There's
good experience despite the loss of all-star Ernest Hunter, and there
should be enough quality depth to do come up with several different
2. Louisville
3. Pitt
4. Syracuse
5. South Florida
6. Connecticut
7. Cincinnati
8. Rutgers
South Florida
The 1-2 punch of Stephen Nicholas and Ben Moffitt is one
of the best in the nation and should combine for close to 200 tackles
and over 30 tackles for loss. Pat St. Louis is the unsung third member
of the group, but he finished second on the team in tackles. The
reserves haven't gotten a lot work since the front three have been so
good, and there's a huge drop-off from the first to the second team.
2. West Virginia
3. Pitt
4. Loiusville
5. Connecticut
6. Syracuse
7. Cincinnati
8. Rutgers
Defensive Backs
South Florida
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be even better with the league's best corner tandem in Mike Jenkins and
Trae Williams and helped by the return of Danny Verpaele after missing
last year with a broken foot. How strong is the USF secondary? The
team's fourth leading tackler last season, Carlton Williams, is a
backup. There's excellent speed and athleticism among the reserves with
several good options to form a good rotation.
2. Connecticut
3. Pitt
4. Syracuse
5. Louisville
6. Cincinnati
7. West Virginia
8. Rutgers
Special Teams
1. Louisville
If the kicking game isn't the best in the Big East, it'll
be close. Arthur Carmody is one of the nation's best placekickers, and
punter Todd Flannery has a steady, strong leg. However, he'll be pushed
by Gabe Mullane when he hits camp. The return game was
decent last year, but nothing special with Montrell Jones handling all
the duties, and now it'll be up to receiver Harry Douglas to handle most
of the kickoff returns after averaging 29.3 yards on seven tries last
year and quarterback/receiver Patrick Johnson, a transfer from Georgia
Tech, to handle the punt returns.
2. Connecticut
3. Syracuse
4. West Virginia
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James O'Keefe, a right-wing performance artist known for his undercover videos that supposedly "expose" progressive "fraud," has released a new video falsely accusing conservative Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) of "excluding whites" from protection under his new Voting Rights Amendment Act (VRAA), a distortion of this bipartisan bill that has already been repeated in the National Review Online.
O'Keefe's new video shows him mysteriously dressed in camouflage, dancing to New Order's "Round and Round," and ultimately "confronting" Sensenbrenner at a town hall meeting about supposedly alarming anti-white language in the VRAA. Sensenbrenner, as he has in the past, began working on both sides of the aisle on this new VRA legislation last year, after the Supreme Court gutted crucial voter suppression protections in Shelby County v. Holder.
In the video, O'Keefe lectures Sensenbrenner on his own bill, claiming that "[i]n the legislation, it seems to contain language that explicitly removes white people from the protections of the Voting Rights Act." Sensenbrenner interrupts O'Keefe to correctly point out that the law "does not do that. There is nothing targeting people by race in the Voting Rights Act." O'Keefe eventually accuses Sensenbrenner of "doing the work of [U.S. Attorney General] Eric Holder and the race-hustlers with this language in the bill."
Immediately after President Barack Obama nominated the highly-qualified and widely respected Debo Adegbile to be the next assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice, right-wing media attacked this top lawyer of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for purportedly being a "racialist."
Writing on an obscure right-wing blog, J. Christian Adams, a frequent Fox News guest who served in the highly politicized and disgraced Bush-era DOJ and "whose claim to fame as a federal lawyer seems to be his penchant for accusing black people of discriminating against whites," accused Adegbile of "racialis[m]" and the venerable NAACP Legal Defense Fund of a "radical racial agenda." From a November 14 post on Pajamas Media:
Adegbile hails from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, an organization that has pushed a radical racial agenda including attacks on election integrity measures, opposition to criminal background checks for hiring, and racial hiring quotas for state and local governments.
Adegbile's name was mentioned as a possible nominee to the federal bench. Because of his advocacy for racialist policies, such a nomination would face serious confirmation difficulties. But in Eric Holder's Justice Department, nakedly racialist policies are standard fare, and Adegbile will fit right in.
This is an an-your-face nomination. This is the White House sending a message to Republicans and conservatives that the radical racial policies of the Justice Department will continue full speed ahead.
[I]n the Obama Justice Department, the law is not as important as the cause. And with Adegbile, the cause is racialist.
In another context, the venue and content of this thinly-veiled insinuation of so-called reverse racism could be easily ignored. Unfortunately, on the topic of executive and judicial nominees of the current president, Adams' attack is disturbingly similar to the same sort of race-baiting that jumps from little-read blogs to prominent right-wing platforms like Fox News, the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, and even the mouths of GOP congressmen engaged in the ongoing blanket filibustering of the president's diverse nominees.
Accusing select presidential nominees of racialism or anti-white bias is a tired page of right-wing media's playbook against those who litigate and uphold longstanding civil rights precedent, a body of law that tends to help most those systematically disadvantaged by racism. This rant has been directed with more or less subtlety at Labor Secretary Thomas Perez (who previously led the DOJ's Civil Rights Division), Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Attorney General Eric Holder.
Assumedly, these charges have some sort of salience with those unfamiliar with American history and basic civil rights law.
Fox News promoted a conspiracy theory that the racist fringe group known as the New Black Panthers is the secret driving force behind legal action taken against George Zimmerman, the man who killed 17 year-old Trayvon Martin.
Conservative race-baiting activist J. Christian Adams, who gained conservative fame after Fox adopted his false smear that the Justice Department dropped charges against a black defendant accused of voter intimidation due to racial bias, appeared on Fox & Friends on July 15 to comment on Zimmerman's not guilty verdict.
Adams quickly demonstrated his New Black Panther fabulist tendencies. He baselessly claimed that the NAACP has "teamed up with" the New Black Panthers after the NAACP urged the Justice Department to pursue civil rights charges against Zimmerman. Adams then claimed that the New Black Panthers "were the spark behind" the investigation into Trayvon Martin's death after local police failed to arrest Zimmerman for weeks, adding that "the Justice Department responded to their demands." After Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy asked why it seems that "the Department of Justice is taking their marching orders from the New Black Panther Party," Adams recited a litany of cases in which the Justice Department intervened where minorities may have been adversely affected and claimed that they demonstrate "a radical racial agenda" from Attorney General Eric Holder. Adams concluded by asking if Holder "will listen to the New Black Panthers" when deciding whether to file civil rights charges against Zimmerman.
Despite Adams' paranoid conspiracy theories that found a home on Fox News, the New Black Panther Party is nothing but a small racist fringe group. The Anti-Defamation League calls the organization "the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist black militant group in America," but notes that the group's attempts to do large-scale action have fizzled. The Southern Poverty Law Center has similarly labeled the group "a virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization."
Right-wing media have a long history of leveling charges of anti-white bias at President Obama's nominees and appointees of color, smears that have now formed the basis of Republican attacks on Labor Secretary nominee Thomas E. Perez.
Fox News and Fox Business are butchering civil rights precedent and the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in their continued campaign to suggest President Obama's nominee for Labor Secretary, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez, doesn't want to protect white people.
Following the pre-existing practice of smearing President Obama and his administration as hostile to whites and biased toward people of color, Fox has joined right-wing media in attacking Perez for his enforcement of long-standing civil rights law and advocacy for Hispanic immigrants. This right-wing campaign against Perez has focused on the Civil Rights Division (CRD), which under Perez's supervision has been very effective at using the VRA to protect historical victims of voter suppression.
President Obama has nominated Thomas E. Perez as Secretary of Labor. Right-wing media used this announcement to push false attacks about Perez based on his service in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and other civil rights work and advocacy.
Right-wing media are again alleging that President Obama's potential Department of Labor nominee, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez, may have committed perjury in connection with the right-wing's New Black Panther Party voter intimidation non-scandal. But the internal Department of Justice (DOJ) report that they are citing to support these claims actually (once again) debunks these accusations.
The right-wing claim that political appointees within the Department of Justice (DOJ) improperly directed the outcome of the New Black Panther Party fiasco has already been repeatedly disproven, most notably by DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and now by DOJ's Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The discredited accusation, initiated by right-wing activist J. Christian Adams, was revived in 2012 by his discredited associate, Hans Von Spakovsky, after a federal judge awarded attorney's fees to a conservative advocacy group that had obtained emails relating to this case through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Von Spakovsky immediately analyzed the opinion, saying of statements from the judge relating to Perez's 2010 testimony on the New Black Panther Party case to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights:
But what is most disturbing about this court order is that it strongly suggests that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez essentially lied in sworn testimony... A less diplomatic judge might have said that Perez testified falsely in his hearing testimony before the Commission on Civil Rights. In other words, he may have committed perjury if he knew his statements were false when uttered.
Now that Perez's Labor nomination is being floated and following the release of the Inspector General's review of the Justice Department's Voting Section (which is overseen by Perez), National Review Online columnist John Fund revived Von Spakovsky's accusation, calling the 2010 testimony "clear dishonesty." Describing Perez as "loathsome," the American Spectator likewise informs its readers (again) Perez "may have committed perjury[.]"
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) bills itself as an event convened to "crystallize the best of the conservative thought in America" that will showcase "all of the leading conservative organizations and speakers." Media covering CPAC 2013 should know that the conference's speakers, from the most prominent to the lesser-known, have a history of launching smears, pushing conspiracy theories, and hyping myths about the validity of President Obama's birth certificate.
Conservative media's Charlotte Allen recently wrote an extensive cover piece for The Weekly Standard that relies on discredited right-wing activists Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams to attack the Department of Justice's renewed focus on properly enforcing the Voting Rights Act. But while conservative media typically advances these sources and their debunked myths, it is disturbing that mainstream coverage of the Supreme Court case of Shelby County v. Holder is relying on von Spakovsky and not disclosing his highly unreliable background.
Allen, responsible for a piece dubbed "The Stupidest Thing Anyone Has Written About Sandy Hook" by lamenting in National Review Online that no men or "huskier 12-year-old boys" were available to protect the "feminized" victims of the Newtown massacre, takes on the "politiciz[ed]" DOJ under President Obama in her story for the The Weekly Standard. In the article, Allen manages to repeat most of von Spakovsky's and Adams' stale misinformation of years past, ranging from the non-scandalous New Black Panther fiasco and non-existent Fast and Furious conspiracy, to DOJ's "belligerent stances" on enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. Allen also successfully writes over 6,500 words on the alleged "politicizing" of DOJ without divulging von Spakovsky and Adams were poster children for such conduct when they worked for the DOJ under George W. Bush, disparages U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder because his "people" are not black enough to claim civil rights history, and finally undermines her main thesis by admitting that - under any presidency - DOJ follows the policy preferences of the White House.
Ultimately, however, that Allen uses the collected works of von Spakovsky and Adams is unsurprising. What is troublesome is that mainstream outlets are also publishing the opinions of von Spakovsky and Adams as the "conservative" perspectives on Shelby without disclosing their extremist background.
Rush Limbaugh promoted the accusation that Democrats were using The New York Times to pressure the Supreme Court into rejecting the current constitutional challenge to the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, which he claimed would fuel Democratic voter fraud. But Limbaugh ignored the fact that support for the Voting Rights Act has historically been, and currently is, bipartisan and the odds of in-person voter fraud are rarer than getting "struck by lightning."
During the February 5 edition of his show, Limbaugh aired a segment titled, "Democrats Move to Make Voter Fraud Easier," in which he declined to get into the "specifics" of the actual case, instead alleging a partisan conspiracy was underway to "facilitate Democrats winning elections" through "fraud." Among other inaccuracies, Limbaugh apparently was unaware of the accounts of voters unable to exercise the franchise, the eleven states that already permit election day voter registration, the "correlation-causation" fallacy of assuming greater turnout means voter suppression does not exist, and the fact that in-person voter fraud - the rationale behind requiring unnecessary and redundant photo ID - is a myth.
Instead, he attacked a New York Times article that reported a recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis of the 2012 election that concluded "blacks and Hispanics waited nearly twice as long in line to vote on average than whites":
RUSH: So what is this all about? Well, you have come to the right place. This article is motivated by three things. First, the Supreme Court is about to rule on the Voting Rights Act in a few weeks, so the New York Times is leaning on them. The New York Times knows that the justices of the Supreme Court value the opinion of reporters and editors at the New York Times. And so the Times is getting its marker down on what it wants the court to do in relationship to this Voting Rights Act case that's coming up. And without getting into specifics, what they want the justices to do is find it possible, make it possible for more Democrats to vote, make it easier for more Democrats to vote.
Notice there's nothing here about Republicans being in these long lines. The whole premise of the story, long lines equal long waits, equals people leaving the line and going home and not voting, which equals lost votes for the Democrats, which equals, "We can't have that." And so the Voting Rights Act case, without getting into specifics of it, the New York Times is putting down a marker for the justices so that they can keep in mind what's really important about the Voting Rights Act, and that is to do whatever is necessary in their ruling to make it possible for fraud to continue, to make it possible for registration and voting on the same day, same place, to take place, to happen, or whatever is necessary to facilitate Democrats winning elections.
Opponents of effective voting rights enforcement have taken to right-wing media outlets to allege that the Department of Justice engaged in "collusive," "illegal," and "crooked" acts for its role in the determination of whether a California county and the state of New Hampshire qualify to opt-out of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). But these allegations of "trickery," most recently pushed by National Review Online contributor Hans von Spakovsky, ignore that DOJ is complying with the text of the VRA as interpreted by the courts.
Two former Bush administration DOJ officials have accused the department of acting improperly in the successful removal of Merced County, California, from the voter protection requirements of Section 5 and the ongoing consideration of such an opt-out for New Hampshire. Writing on the right-wing blog PJ Media, J. Christian Adams argued that in the Merced case DOJ had "ignore[d] the law" and "conned" a federal court as part of an "elaborate legal ruse" to preserve the VRA in Shelby County v. Holder, the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a claim that Section 5 is unconstitutional. Continuing this attack, von Spakovsky accused the DOJ in the National Review Online of similar "deception" and "manipulation" of the VRA in its considerations of the New Hampshire case, again in order to "manipulate the Supreme Court in the Shelby case." A conservative advocacy group immediately adopted their argument and filed a motion to intervene in the New Hampshire case, as was predicted by election law expert and law professor Rick Hasen:
I expect this argument to get a lot of play.
The great irony here, for those who don't follow this issue closely, is that you have people who oppose section 5 of the VRA complaining that DOJ is making it too easy for those jurisdictions subject to its preclearance provision to escape from the Act's coverage.
Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Southern jurisdictions who illegally denied citizens the right to vote during the Jim Crow era - and subsequent jurisdictions that engaged in similar conduct - are forbidden from changing covered election practices without federal approval. There is a legal opt-out to Section 5, by which jurisdictions can "bailout" of the "preclearance" requirements by proving they are no longer breaking the law. To encourage successful bailouts, Congress increasingly "liberalized" this process. Similarly, the Supreme Court in its last VRA case -NAMUDNO v. Holder - "rewrote" the bailout requirements to encourage even more use of the process.
Nevertheless, right-wing activists have successfully placed the Shelby case before the Supreme Court, which could release all covered jurisdictions if Section 5 is declared unconstitutional. Adams and von Spakovsky, who quote anonymous sources and internal DOJ documents to support their arguments, argue that DOJ has "designed" a "legal strategy" to avoid this outcome by aggressively following NAMUDNO.
Beyond the unremarkable fact that the DOJ - the defendant in Shelby - would prefer not to both lose the case and part of the most effective civil rights law in history, Adams and von Spakovsky misrepresent the bailout cases to claim neither Merced nor New Hampshire qualify. Adams complains that the extensive DOJ investigation of Merced's bailout request revealed that the county should have submitted certain past election changes for preclearance and because the county "settled" a Section 5 case, it was ineligible for bailout. But Merced's counsel responded to Adams' accusations, pointing out that "case law under Section 5...holds that the preclearance obligation can be retroactively satisfied":
Mr. Adams is simply incorrect about the Lopez litigation. There was no "settlement"; the County won that lawsuit outright, having summary judgment granted in its favor. See Lopez v. Merced County, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3941 (E.D. Cal. Jan. 16, 2008). Thus, the County was not disqualified from bailout by virtue of the provision relating to consent decrees entered within the last 10 years. 42 U.S.C. § 1973b(a)(1)(B).
[R]egarding the submission of a number of historical voting changes for preclearance in connection with the bailout, there are a number of points to be made:
Section 5 itself provides that oversights in preclearance compliance may be forgiven in a bailout action if they were "were trivial, were promptly corrected, and were not repeated." 42 U.S.C. § 1973b(a)(3). In other words, Mr. Adams's implication that Section 5 has a "no tolerance" standard--and that the Attorney General is therefore ignoring the command of Congress--is refuted by the text of Section 5 itself.
"[P]ost hoc" preclearances are typical in connection with bailout, seriously undermining the notion that such an approach is part of a vast conspiracy to save Section 5.
Adams subsequently admitted "retroactive" preclearance was possible.
Von Spakovsky repeated Adams' claim that states seeking bailouts must not have "failed to submit for preclearance...voting changes they have made" over the past ten years, without acknowledging the retroactive preclearance that may occur for New Hampshire. Von Spakovsky used this misleading point as proof that New Hampshire is actually less qualified than Shelby County for a bailout, because New Hampshire allegedly has more unsubmitted preclearance requests than Shelby County did. But the footnote from the Shelby case on appeal that von Spakovsky partially quoted for the uncontroversial rule that unprecleared voting changes - absent retroactive approval - preclude bailout, explicitly notes that Shelby County's primary problem was DOJ's objection:
Although the Court did not permit discovery into the question of Shelby County's bailout-eligibility, it is clear -- based on undisputed facts in the record -- that Shelby County is not eligible for bailout. Under Section 4(a)(1)(E), a jurisdiction is only eligible for bailout if, during the ten years preceding its bailout request, "the Attorney General has not interposed any objection...with respect to any submission by or on behalf of the plaintiff or any governmental unit within its territory." 42 U.S.C. § 1973b(a)(1)(E). The Attorney General concedes that, in 2008, he interposed an objection [.]


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Great work Filip! I hope they send out Marmite to the kiwi elite authors due to the shortage outbreak
Congrats my friend! I hope to get that box too soon And hell yeah Siddharth is a kick ass reviewer
Congratulations! I bet you're super happy to be an elite author!! I love the stickers and the cup!
Yay! So glad it got to you safe and sound! Very glad you did a Tim Tam Slammer too, there is nothing better.
Looks great~ I like the T-shirt and notebook.
Congrats Filip. It's so cool that you learned to code from tuts+ and now are an elite author
Hmmmm , Tim Tams ; I knew it's not the glory or fame or money , it's all about Tim Tams !
Congrats for your hardWork's reward
Wish you all the best and many many more ..!
I've got the same package yestarday! Unfortunately I'll be home in two months, so it's waiting for me.. Can't wait to wear this t-shirt. I wonder if someday when I'll be walking down the street someone will recognize what this logo means
@Tauris aren't you from Poland btw?
Congrats! And.. where is your face?
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Cicero If the Marcellus girls volleyball team was not accustomed to the unique pressure of playing in a state tournament prior to Tuesday night's opening-round match with Section V champion Wayne at Cicero-North Syracuse, it got comfortable in a hurry.
The Mustangs beat the Eagles in four sets, not only advancing, but giving long-time head coach Hy Bryant his 300th career win at the school.
Bryant had achieved those first 299 wins, and a host of Section III Class B titles, without going further than regional play until Marcellus moved to a fall schedule this year. And this on top of the 563 wins Bryant's teams at Onondaga Community College amassed in the 1980s and '90s.
However, the lack of state tournament experience didn't mean that Marcellus lacked big-match toughness, something that Wayne quickly found out.
In a lopsided opening set, the Mustangs rolled to a 25-14 win. Though the second set proved closer, Marcellus won it 25-22, allowing itself a cushion as Wayne won the third set by that same 25-22 margin.
Closing it out, the Mustangs won the fourth set 25-17, finishing off a match where Jessica Cost set up points with her 20 assists, to go with seven digs.
Up front, Nicole Fletcher had 10 kills and four blocks, adding nine digs, while Devon Landers had six kills and five blocks. Allie Massara added four kills and nine digs as libero Brittney Valentine recorded 18 digs. Tori Bingham had three aces, three kills and eight digs as Tabby McBride earned eight digs.
Marcellus goes to the Buffalo suburb of Amherst to face Section VI champion Albion Saturday at 4 p.m. The winner there advances to the state final four at Glens Falls on Nov. 19-20.
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NEW DELHI: An 18-year-old girl who had come to the Capital looking for a job was allegedly lured and criminally assaulted by a young man and his three friends at Sabzi Mandi in North Delhi on Sunday night. The police have managed to trace and arrest all the accused with the help of the registration number of the young man's car which the victim managed to jot down.
According to the police, the case came to light when the girl approached the Kashmere Gate police station in the early hours of Monday and narrated her tale of woe. She also gave them the registration number of the Maruti Wagon-R car used by the accused. The police managed to trace the address to Roshanara Road in Sabzi Mandi and arrested the accused. They have been identified as 22-year-old Jatin Handa, Gaurav Gandhi (21), Prateek (18) and Chanakya Dua (21). The car has also been seized.
The police said the girl had left her home at Modinagar in Uttar Pradesh around 1 p.m. on Sunday apparently following a tiff with her family. She boarded a bus for Delhi and reached the Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) at Kashmere Gate around 4 p.m.
While she was aimlessly walking down the road, a Wagon-R pulled up next to her near the Roshanara Road roundabout around 5-30 p.m.
The driver, who later turned out to be Jatin Handa, asked her if she needed help. When the girl told him that she needed a job and an accommodation, Jatin assured her all help. Apparently convinced by his offer, she got into his car.
Jatin then drove the car to many places ostensibly trying to help the girl, the police said. However, after dark he brought her to a small office on Roshanara Road -- which turned out to be the office of Jatin's brother who was out of station -- and "requested" her to put up there for the night for want of a better arrangement. Around 10 at night the other three accused joined Jatin. They then allegedly took turns to criminally assault her.
Around 3 a.m. in the middle of the night the accused forced the girl into the Wagon-R and drove her to ISBT where they asked her to get down.
As they drove away, the girl hired an auto-rickshaw and began following the car. She managed to note down its registration number and went to the nearest police station. The girl was taken for a medical examination at Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital on Monday where the assault was confirmed.
The police said she was now being counselled. A police team has been sent to Modinagar to find out why exactly she left her home. In the past eight days, this is the third incident in Delhi of a woman being criminally assaulted by men.
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He played his cricket bravely. "It is in my blood," Mohinder Amarnath would say when narrating us stories of his cricket conquests.
Nothing irritated him more than timidity on the field. Bowl a bouncer, Amarnath will hook. When he was appointed as a National selector, with an assurance of a four-year term, Amarnath accepted the assignment with sincerity. But soon he felt extraneous pressures and lamented the decline in the system. He was perturbed with a particular force dictating things.
Need for change
When the team was struggling in Australia, Amarnath was convinced the team needed a change at the top. "A captain must justify his place. Dhoni doesn't. Often he allows the game to drift with his defensive tactics. A captain has to be aggressive and lead from the front. My reasons were cricketing and nothing personal against him," Amarnath insisted.
The former India all-rounder claimed he had the support of all the other selectors. "We were united on removing Dhoni as captain."
What hurt Amarnath most was the lack of support from many of his former colleagues. It was evident that Amarnath was not enjoying the job. "It can be suffocating," he had remarked once.
"I will work with dignity. If it means losing my selection assignment, so be it. I am chilling (in Goa)," his infectious laughter conveying his relief.


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Good morning! I'm in a scent that pretty much has been in my wardrobe the last ten years! (better start getting to the bottom of this one soon,I guess!)Sotd is Allure.Hope you all have a nice day.
Thread: SotD Sunday 6 September
Absolutely craving a sweet oriental today, and this 'spice bomb' seemed to fit the bill quite well:
Lorenzo Villoresi ALAMUT
Have a good Sunday!
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"Perfume is the dream that carries me."
There is always the sky to look at
Good morning! I'm in a scent that pretty much has been in my wardrobe the last ten years! (better start getting to the bottom of this one soon,I guess!)Sotd is Allure.Hope you all have a nice day.
Versace pour Homme
Have a wonderful Sunday !
My SOTD is Aramis - New West Skinscent for Men (vintage).
Top Notes: Calone, Bergamot, Geranium Leaf, Mint
Middle Notes: Rosemary, Sage, Oregano, Lavender, Bay Leaf, Nutmeg, Juniper
Base Notes: Patchouli, Sandalwood, Cedarwood, Moss, Musk
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Guerlain Insolence
Have a lovely Sunday, all!
"I felt something so intense, I could only express it in a perfume." - Jacques Guerlain
Today is a Baghari day! I have come to love that fragrance. It goes with anything in any kind of weather.
Dior Homme
Have a wonderful day.
Eau D'Amouage by Amouage from a sample
fruit and jamy
Wearing Film Noir by Ava Luxe to bed
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Still chuckling, having just read AromiEroticis review of Allure Homme!
Love an honest commentary.
Brooklyn for me today, inspired by ComDiva! She's so right about it being a more interesting feminine/slightly boring masculine.
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Still groovin' on yesterday's S'nS...besides, it's grey and cloudy and I need me something dashing and romantic...SO-O-O-O-O-O....
That's Eau de 4 Voleurs
".....woodsy notes of cedar and clove, and intimates spicy conviviality with bergamot, lemon, clary sage, basil and juniper. Named after a Provençal legend...." from the site.
Gotta dig that spicy conviviality!!
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"The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering." Lao Tze
Aramis Havana today and I boldly added an extra spritz. Time to show the scent barbarians what a sublime fragrance is all about
These things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, the Truth--Buddha
Hi, N_Tesla...was your birthday happy, honey ?
I was a butch broad yesterday, in Yatagan, La Reine de Butch, naturellement. ;-)
Last night, JWM.
Early am- Miss Dior.
Post shower, it will be Samsara parfum.
B and I were too traumatized yesterday to do much more than cry, after 10 hours of drive and dropping J off at Princeton..
No matter WHAT you've heard- no matter how much anticipatory work you've done-
No matter how well-balanced you are-
NOTHING prepares you for the loss. Nothing.
Our sense of sorrow was magnified, for me-
By travelling roads I'd taken so many times with my own mother [ soon my first anniversary of her death], including the one 37 years ago, when she brought me to Boston.
All week long, the Divine had sprinkled my path with frequent allusions, events, reconnoiters that added to the warp and weft of the loom .
The incremental effect was pretty devastating.
So far, B and I are being gentle with each other, and very tender.
We are pretty sad. ..
Off to Ikea, to buy J a teapot and a small area rug.
Love you all ;-)
Hugs to you, Chaya.
Back in Musc Ravageur today, I seem to be addicted.
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Hugs to Miss Chaya, the tenderest thoughts to you and Mr.Chaya. And don't you worry, J. will be back to his mama.
Vintage Jean d'Albret Casaque.
Continuing my Chanel Bender, this morning's shower with the No 5 Bath bar and a healthy spritz of the No 5 Edt for good measure. I needed this lift!
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Kicking back with Bigarade Concentree.
L'Occitane Honey & Lemon. I decided to order the 2007 (non-shimmer) version, and I'm glad I did. It's very pretty, and it has already elicited a compliment (a rare bird in the Midwest). It's gourmand, but unlike most of my gourmands (which feel like fall/winter scents), this one feels like summer.
From L'Occitane:
TOP: Italian lemon, Cinnamon
HEART: Honey from Provence, Caramel
BASE: Vanilla, Patchouli
I'm wearing Yves Rocher's Désir de Nature , a friendly green floral that smells like a sunny summer morning. Mandarin, Crushed Mint Leaves, Headspace Daphne, Lily-of-the-Valley, Cedar.
Parfums de Nicolaï 's COLOGNE SOLOGNE
Very nice cologne for very warm and sunny day, like today !!!!!
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Clarice Lispector ( 1920-1977) - Perfumes da Terra / Earth Perfumes
Aw, bless you, Chaya. It can't be easy to let go when you've loved them and looked after them for so long. I've been thinking of you, honey. Big hug.
Nice one, Quarry, on your new speaking engagement. Woo hoo!
I'm looking forward to some visitor-free time to get out house back in order after a summer of constant upheaval. I'm also going to be doing a bunch of work with Small to get her up to speed in kindergarten. (Geez, who expected to be playing catchup when she's only just started going?) And as part of my general tidying up campaign, I hope to get to sort through my samples and start testing properly again. Hopefully I'll learn a lot too.
Anyway, my SOTD are both courtesy of the incredibly generous Petruccijc (Thanks so much, Joe!) and tie in to the SnS. I couldn't really join in yesterday, but today I have Opium Pour Homme on my left wrist (butch!!!!) and Arpege Pour Homme on my right (lovely! A really nice light woodsy fragrance that is perfect for women). I am really enjoying this and will keep going with the masculines for a few days more until I have exhausted Joe's generous care package. My hubby has even sniffed at the Opium Pour Homme appreciatively and he's notoriously fragophobic!
"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future." Coco Chanel
I'm streamlining my collection http://community.basenotes.net/showt...29#post1219729
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I'm going for gentle and comforting today with Pacifica's Malibu Lemon Blossom, from a little solid sent by a fragrance friend. Here is the short description from the Pacifica website:I'm liking it a lot! Tempted to order some of the body butter in this fragrance.This fresh scent captures the free spirit of the Pacific Ocean with lemony Litsea Cubeba, flowering Angel's Trumpet, fresh herbs and salty sea breezes.
Speaking of gentle and comforting, sending hugs to you, Chaya. You sound like an extraordinary mother.
Putting my trusty camera through its paces after being away for repair - the camera, that is, not me - and it's as good as new. It never was a great quality one, but just sometimes I get really nice results with it.
DA&GL for my Sotd.
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I'm wearing Keiko Mecheri Peau de Pêche. Very pleasant and pretty white peach scent. Plus the sandalwood drydown is lovely. Shame that it is hardly detectable - only when I press my nose into the crook of my elbow and inhale deeply, very deeply.
Love the avatar, Lilybelle!
Today it's Nocturnes by Caron. Smells extra fab today.
I send thee this sweet perfume a fragrance to the fragrant, as one would offer wine to the god of wine.
It was Patchouli 24. Then the anti-patchouli SO said "eeeew!" and since I'm spending the day with him, I layered New Haarlem over it. Patchouli and coffee. Kind of works.
Hugs for Mama Bear Chaya -- your children are lucky to have you.
SOTD is Le Temps d'une Fete. Have a great Sunday, all!
One of my favourites for today: Esteban's Colère d'Epices. Just gorgeous. The only thing I don't like is the name, I find it no choleric at all.
Top notes: cadamom and ginger
Heart notes: clove, cyclamen and heliotrope
Base notes: musky base, benzoin and amber
Big hugs to Haunani , Chaya, and Brielle.
Congrats to Quarry, sorry I didn't mention it yesterday!
I'm testing something I've been wanting to try for a while, Alien.
I know this bottle is much maligned, but I think it's great!
I'm going to interject my own lil annoying SA story here because sometimes they are just too much. So for my DH's bday this year I wanted to get him a new cologne. I approached the men's counter in my local Nordstrom and told the young SA as much, to which he muttered under his breath, "This is gonna take forever.." So he made me a few half-filled samples. DH and I decided on the one we liked best, and bought it elsewhere. Well, the SA has since moved to the women's section and I periodically ask for a 'fume samp when I go in to buy my face cream or makeup (depending on how much I spend). The girls are always gracious and fill the vial (1.5 mls, roughly) up to the top. This guy, at this time, when he asked if there was anything else he could get me, and I gave him my request, says in a not very friendly manner, "I thought you looked familiar," and proceeded to give me a half-full vial of Alien. So I left thinking, is it so hard to part with half a ml. of a tester when you just got a decent commission off my face cream? Seriously.
I feel like I should buy a 'fume from him just to placate him.
Anyways, hope you're all having a good Sunday, sorry for the rant.
O de Lancome
Notes: lemon, mandarin, jasmine, honeysuckle, sandalwood, wild rosemary (from lancome-usa.com)
O de Lancome is immediately refreshing, with a burst of lemon, lime, bergamot, and green notes which have grassy, slightly bitter overtones. The citrus phase of OdL is mercilessly short, and on skin, plays itself out within 20 minutes. During this time, oakmoss, galbanum and orris come to the front, giving a more earthy feel to the composition. The moss and orris are a bit grungy at first, and along with the galbanum, are probably are the main contributors to the bitterness detected earlier. In the heart, there are some faint florals, and to my nose smells a bit like dried rose petals mixed into orris root powder. The late development is dominated by the moss and orris which give a bit of a leathery impression. The deep drydown is mostly a slightly sweet amber musk. OdL is classically beautiful citrus-green chypre which is very light, but wonderfully orchestrated. The bright citrus start is not so long as to be irritating, and is perfect for a quick lift. The mellow heart and base are a soothing counterpoint to the citrus "punch", and brings the pitch down gently into a cloud of diaphanous green powder. Lovely.
Miller Harris Tangerine Vert
Notes: sicilian green tangerines, grapefruit, lemon, marjoram, geranium, orange, cedar, moss, sweet musk (from millerharris.com)
Tangerine Vert starts with orange, tangerine, a mellow herbal accord, and soapy notes over a soft, sweet, but slightly leathery masculine musk. The structure of this fragrance is very much in keeping with traditional Eau de Colognes, except that TV is actually an EDP. As such, the top citrus notes are orchestrated to last a relatively long time. The scent is probably bolstered by synthetic citrus compounds, although the effect is a strikingly real tangerine fruit--juicy, sweet, acidic and vaguely bitter. TV is not a complicated or challenging fragrance. Despite its bright citrus quality, TV is actually quite calming, especially on days that are a bit hectic or anxiety-ridden. There is something about citrus that immediately catches one's attention, taking the focus off of nervous tension and putting the mind into the moment. TV successfully evokes "Tangerine" while being refined enough to wear as a personal fragrance. It is a great all-around, all occasion, warm weather scent, suitable for men or women.
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Sunnyfunny, that is probably what he wants--he's laying on the guilt trip. Ignore him and look for other SA's to deal with!
Hubby's away on a Boys' Camping Weekend (which is actually fatty BBQ and booze) so I'm happy to wear whatever he hates. Tonight it's Dior's classic Poison - I LOVE the punch!
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Sacre by Caron today. Old fashioned in a way, and beatiful :-) I feel extra spesial feminine in this one.
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Caswell Massey Jockey Club tonight. With this frag and a voice I could join a Barbershop Quartet and just sing and sing..
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Yeah, I think you should buy a bottle from that nasty SA's put-upon rival...right in front of him, the weasel.
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SoTD is Jo Malone Honeysuckle and Jasmine. I don't like this one.
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For sale. Carnal Flower and Vero Profumo Onda.
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Continuing with my embarrassing series of wearings of full bottles I've purchased but haven't worn yet, I'm wearing Elizabeth W Vetiver, bought on a whim because it was cheap and decently interesting.
The top was vanilla and patchouli, sweet but not too sweet. Eventually, a dry, dusty vetiver came in under the sweet top, paired with a pinch of citrus. The sweet, creamy feel combined with the citrus give this an Italian feel, with the vetiver acting more as an herbal mixture and providing just a touch of a balancing force to all that creamy sweetness.
To compare it to something more well-known, it's kind of like Hanae Mori's HM for men with vetiver and patchouli.
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Sunday's SOTD was a Wiggle Perfume oil in Honeysuckle & Sweet Tea - very pretty scent - sweet but not sickly or food-y, that lingers on the skin for quite a while but doesn't have much sillage.
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Sunnyfunny - I saw your note in the month's purchases thread. I'm glad that you got the bottle you wanted & that snotty SA didn't get the sale. (I do not ever ask the snotty Darphin-then-Sisley SA in Honolulu's NM to help me. I'll just find someone else on the floor... or I'll call the fabulous SA at NM San Diego.)
All the chatter on Fracas has given me encouragement to try my sample, so there you go...
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(((hugs))) Chaya! My mom has told me she felt the same way, both when I went away to school and again later when I moved all the way across the country to live with DH. We talk on the phone and send packages, but I still feel so sad that she's back in Florida without me. My aunt (her brother's widow) lives with her part of the year (my mom is twice divorced), but I wish I could be home more often to help with chores, take her out to dinner, or just hang out and chat.
Sunnyfunny, next time you're buying face cream, I would be sure to mention that SA's attitude and the comments he's made to another employee. There's no excuse and Nordstrom expects better from their employees.
DH and I drove down to Gilroy so he could get a particular book he needs for his next Buddhism course. The outlet stores were nearby, so I went to Fragrance Outlet and did a little sniffing. I finally got to L'Or de Torrente, but it had a vanilla, anise, gourmand thing going on that I don't love, so I'll pass even though I love the bottle. And, actually, the bottles isn't quite as swell in person as it is in print.
Left wearing Aramis for a Day Two SnS. Sadly, DH doesn't like the chypre family on him much (or orientals; he prefers citrus and fougeres). He loved the bottle design for Mont Blanc Presence, but didn't like the juice. Poor guy had the same thing happen with Givenchy Pi. I need to find him some classic smelling juice in a super cool bottle. Ooh, frag shopping, yay!
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Two Barclays ATP World Tour Finals contenders, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Tomas Berdych, will come face-to-face on Saturday in the China Open semi-finals.
Top seed Tsonga proved to be too strong for former World No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero, beating the Spaniard 6-3, 6-4 on Friday. Tsonga hit nine aces and won 74 per cent of his service points for victory in 71 minutes.
"I'm surprised to have played like this," said World No. 7 Tsonga, who is spending his 76th week in the Top 10. "That was just amazing. Everything was working. I'm just very happy to go through this round, because it's never easy to play against this guy. Tomorrow will be exciting for sure. It's going to be another match [against Berdych]. We have a lot to win tomorrow, you know. Both of us have to win tomorrow for the [Barclays ATP World Tour Finals]. I think it's going to be a good match."
Earlier in the day, Berdych swept past former World No. 7 Fernando Verdasco of Spain 6-1, 6-0 in 66 minutes. The third seed lost the opening game and is now 6-1 lifetime on hard courts against Verdasco. Berdych started the week at No. 8 in the Battle for London, on 2,350 South African Airways 2011 ATP Year-To-Date Rankings points, and has yet to drop a set in his three matches. With his lower-ranked Finals rivals losing early in Beijing and at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo, Berdych continues to add valuable points with four spots left up for grabs in the English capital.
"I felt really good on the court and played really well," said Berdych. "Hard court is much more suitable for my game style. I can play more aggressive, I can give him much more pressure, less pace on the court, and then he starts to do more mistakes, more unforced errors. It's the game what I want to play; that's why the result was how was it. London is really too far ahead. I want to be ready for my semi-final tomorrow, and that's it. I'm not thinking about any other points or anything or qualifying for London."
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Ivan Ljubicic, the 32-year-old Croatian, continued his mastery over Mikhail Youzhny with a 7-6(4), 6-7(4), 6-2 in two hours and 52 minutes. Having reached the Moselle Open final (l. to Tsonga) two weeks ago, the World No. 26 is now 7-1 lifetime against Youzhny and through to his third ATP World Tour semi-final of the season.
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"I felt like if I was feeling the ball a little bit better today. I could have won much it more easier, because I felt he was struggling from the beginning," Ljubicic said. "But my shots just were not there, and I had to end up just pushing the ball in and running and trying to make him miss as much as possible. That was the only thing I could do for basically set and a half, too. In the third, I kind of let it go a little bit more and tried to take initiative in the rallies here and there. Not too much, but just kind of to change the rhythm a little bit. I guess he was tired as well in the third set, and it worked out well for me."
Ljubicic will meet his friend, doubles partner and countryman, Marin Cilic, on Saturday. Cilic battled past Kevin Anderson, ranked six places lower than Cilic at No. 31 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings, 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-1 in two hours and 24 minutes.
"I think we played against each other this year in Wimbledon first round, and Ivan won that match," said Cilic. "But I believe I'm playing well at this moment. I watched his match and he was playing really well and got through that match really well. I think definitely tomorrow is going to be interesting and tough match for both of us. I think he's again hungry to win and playing well. For me, it would mean a lot to come back to the final again in Beijing and try to look for my title."
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- The full DelFest lineup was announced and it looks excellent. Sarah Jarosz, Missy Raines & The New Hip, and Old Crow Medicine Show are just a few of the acts playing the festival.
- CMT Edge premiered Shovels & Rope's new video for their song, "Birmingham."
- The CMA Foundation donated $1.2 million to benefit music education programs in Nashville public schools through the Keep the Music Playing campaign.
- American Songwriter is streaming "Rehearsal," a new song from Old Man Markley.
- Chet Flippo writes about Mindy McCready in his new Nashville Skyline column.
- Here are a couple Nashville Scene features worth reading: Jewly Hight's piece on The Mavericks and Andrew Clayman's on Tift Merritt.
- CMT's Craig Shelburne interviewed Sunny Sweeney.
- AmericanBluesScene.com posted an interview with "the King of the Chitlin Circuit," Bobby Rush.
- Johnny Reid, Dean Brody, and Taylor Swift are among the nominees for this year's Juno Awards, which will be held in late April. k.d. lang will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
- Richard Thompson of Bluegrass Today profiled songwriter Bob Amos.
- Dave McKenna of The Washington Post reviewed Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale's recent Birchmere show.
- Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis stopped by the Here and Now studios to talk about their new record, Cheater's Game.
- American Songwriter premiered a new Shannon Whitworth video.
- There will be an all-day concert at SXSW on March 16 to benefit Keep It Goin', an "initiative to continue Levon Helm's legacy and create a musical landmark at his barn in Woodstock, home of The Midnight Ramble."
- Bluegrass Today posted a new video from Wood & Wire for their song, "Mexico."
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Interesting articles from Jewly Hight and Chet Flippo.
I could've lived without reading the Flippo article though. I'm not sure it needed to be written, but maybe that's just my weak sensibilities speaking.
I'm curious about what made the Mavericks come back together, since Raul Malo seemed to make it quite clear that their relationship was too damaged for reconciliation in the interview that was posted at The9513 a few years ago. I'm looking forward to the new album and hope they stay together this time, though I've grown to really like Raul Malo's solo work.
In that interview with Sunny Sweeney at CMT News Craig Shelburne wrote the following: "Although she parted ways with the Big Machine Label Group over the summer, Sweeney remains focused on a career in country music." Now wait a minute! Sunny is still on the Republic Nashville imprint website with her own page that is current and up to date. Also, if Sunny didn't have a label affiliation, I don't think she'd be planning her new album project. Yes Big Machine did move Sunny over to their Republic Nashville imprint a couple of years ago, but was she really dropped? I don't see any proof of that…
I think it's time Del McCoury started hosting Del Fests all over the country! His first franchise location should be somewhere near Los Angeles, and NO Ed Helms cannot buy himself a stage slot! (lol)
Taylor Swift a JUNO Award nominee? I'd didn't even know she was Canadian, eh! (lol)
"I'm curious about what made the Mavericks come back together, since Raul Malo seemed to make it quite clear that their relationship was too damaged for reconciliation…"
Are you really surprised? My guess is that Malo saw that there's still a lot more demand for the Mavericks than for him as a solo act.
Heck, the way their solo careers are going, I'll lay 2:1 that within the next, oh, 2 years, we'll see a Brooks & Dunn reunion concert.
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These green or green-collar jobs will create new opportunities for American workers, but commonsense tells you that as the nation switches to cleaner, renewable forms of energy, some jobs in the energy sector may become obsolete.
Last week, results of a study on Spain's experience with government subsidizing of green jobs were released. The study- "Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources" - was prepared under the direction of Dr. Gabriel Calzada, an economics professor at the Juan Carlos University in Madrid. Researchers found that for every renewable energy job that the state manages to finance, Spain's experience cited by President Obama as a model reveals, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created.
While researches said that it was "not possible to directly translate Spain's experience with exactitude to claim that the U.S. would lose" the same number of jobs, the report noted it was highly likely that this is the outcome that America faced.
"At minimum, therefore, the study's evaluation of the Spanish model cited as one for the U.S. to replicate in quick pursuit of 'green jobs' serves a note of caution, that the reality is far from what has typically been presented, and that such schemes also offer considerable employment consequences and implications for emerging from the economic crisis," the report summary noted.
The study found a number of temporary jobs were created - two-thirds were in construction, fabrication and installation - and one out of 10 jobs were more permanent positions of actual operation and maintenance of renewable forms of energy.
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Roger that. My apologies. Your post, however, quoted mine, not the other.
From the Practical Sailor pic and caption that I showed above, it sounds like there's a design deficiency with the Spinlock that makes it more likely to malfunction.
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In India two months after he was forced to skip the Jaipur Literary Festival, controversial author Salman Rushdie on Saturday hit out at the Congress, suggesting that his presence there was blocked because of "useless electoral calculations" and told Rahul Gandhi that "it did not work."
The renowned author, who has been castigated by fundamentalist Muslim groups for his book The Satanic Verses, said blocking his presence in Jaipur "led the Congress party down the road" in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
Participating in the India Today Conclave, he said the India "deserves to be led by better leaders than is being now."
"It did not work, Rahul"
Referring to the controversy that surrounded the Jaipur Festival in January, which forced him to skip the event, he said: "What happened there is not Deobandi bigotry... It was pretty useless electoral calculations. It did not work, Rahul [Gandhi]."
He suggested that this "led to the debacle" of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh.
"The Indian electorate is smarter than these politicians... People can be whipped as in the Jaipur Literary Festival," Mr. Rushdie said, adding that 95 per cent of Muslims were not interested in violence and that would be true for Hindus too.
Mr. Rushdie, who spoke at a session with the theme 'Liberty versus: I am what I am and that's all that I am,' said the culture of "offendedness is growing" in India.
Citing the opposition by fundamentalists to the late M.F. Husain and other artists and writers, he said: "It seems everyday there is a piece of bullying by groups of Muslims, Hindus… Voices are being silenced… The chilling effect of violence is telling and it is growing in this country."
Regretting the public apathy against such measures to silence free expression, the renowned author contended: "People are asleep. You need to wake up."
He underlined that "freedom is not tea party, freedom is a war... Freedom is not absolute, it is something which somebody is there to take away. If you don't defend, you will lose it."
On his presence in India again as promised by him two months ago, he said: "This seems normal that a writer of Indian birth, who loves this country, turns up to speak. This is normal. But it is abnormal that he is prevented. That danger is growing."
Talking about the stiff opposition by some fundamentalists to The Satanic Verses written 24 years ago, the London-based writer questioned: "Who gives the people the right to attack me."
He said he was extremely shocked that the writers who read from The Satanic Verses at the Jaipur Festival to express solidarity with him were not defended and were still in the danger of being prosecuted.
He took a dig at the Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh, Omar Abdullah and Akhilesh, besides Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan for not turning up at the event reportedly because of his presence.
"Some politicians suddenly discovered that they had a ridiculously overcrowded schedule," he said.
Mr. Rushdie focussed much of his attack on Imran Khan, who openly declared that he was boycotting the event because of his presence, and accused him of taking the backing of mullahs and the army to become the ruler of Pakistan.
"Immeasurable hurt is caused to the way in which Muslims are seen by the terrorists based in Pakistan to act in the name of Islam, including those who attacked this country from Pakistan, backed by LeT, with whom Imran Khan wants India to sit down and talk," he said.
"Immeasurable hurt is caused to Islam by the presence in Pakistan of Osama bin Laden for so long... Recent evidence provided by Wikileaks shows Pakistan army and officers of ISI were in regular contact with Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad [near Islamabad], he said.
Mr. Rushdie said Mr. Imran Khan should rather talk about the immeasurable hurt caused by such acts rather than demonise a book written 24 years ago.
Taking a dig at Mr. Khan for refusing to share dais with him, Mr. Rushdie said: "There was a time when I would feel scared of Imran Khan on the cricket field... Times have changed and it seems it is Imran who is afraid of facing my bouncers now. May be his hook shots are no more what they used be."
He said Mr. Khan had a "playboy" image in London about two decades ago and added "The Satanic Verses is something I would put a substantial bet that Imran Khan has not read even."
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Mr. Rushdie said: "If Imran really wants to have a debate on Satanic Verses, I am ready to discuss with him any time, anywhere." However, after a pause, he added, "but not anywhere, that would be dangerous."
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Tampa Bay defensive tackle Roy Miller is inactive for the Buccaneers' game against the Philadelphia Eagles after not practicing most of the week because of a head injury. The fourth-year pro was replaced in the starting lineup by Gary Gibson. As expected, quarterback Michael Vick and running back LeSean McCoy are inactive again because of concussions. Vick has missed the last four games, while McCoy has been sidelined three weeks. Receiver Greg Salas, running back Chris Polk, safety Kurt Coleman, tackle Matt Kopa and defensive tackle Mike Patterson also are inactive for the Falcons. Cornerback LeQuan Lewis, running back Michael Smith, linebacker Najee Goode, receivers David Gilreath and David Douglas and defensive tackle Matthew Masifilo are inactive for the Bucs. --- Online: http://pro32.ap.org/poll and http://twitter.com/AP-NFL
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Poor weather forced last weeks cancelation but nothing could hold back today's Master Gardener's Spring Plant Sale Extravaganza.
Shoppers lined up at 7 AM to get a chance at a variety of plants from Petunias to hanging baskets.
Organizers enjoyed the busy morning and plenty of items sold out quickly.
County Extension Agent Jamie Hancock said, "The Tomatoes were the best and then the hanging baskets for Mother's Day. The
Hostas always go immediately, but we have a lot of things that people are picking at. I see people planning each year and bringing people and sending them to get certain items, It is really a lot of fun.
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