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For Peterson, no regrets in playing
Adrian Peterson would have been forgiven for sitting this one out.
Two days earlier, Peterson's 2-year-old son was killed in an alleged case of child abuse in Sioux Falls, S.D. The alleged assailant is in jail, and Peterson rushed to the hospital Thursday to see the child before vowing to play against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.
Even after his Minnesota Vikings were thumped 35-10 by the Panthers and booed off the field by their home crowd, Peterson said he never wavered in his decision to play.
''I was set on it,'' said Peterson, who was held to 62 yards on 10 carries. ''I just look at things and I don't ask people to understand my mindset and how I think. Anything bad, I try to take good from it. That's the way I approach life in all situations. I never thought about not playing. It was all about just going out there and praying that I have the strength to get through and help my team. That was my focus.''
Fans held signs that read ''Stay Strong 28'' and ''Prayers for Adrian,'' and several teammates offered hugs and well wishes before the game for their MVP.
''I just prayed and asked God to give me the strength just to get through the game, just play and focus,'' Peterson said. ''And for the most part, I did. It was a terrible way to lose, but we can learn from this, make some corrections and get back on track.''
The Vikings (1-4) delivered as flat of a performance as they've had in recent memory to fall even further back in the muddled NFC playoff picture. Matt Cassel was intercepted twice, the defense was burned for big play after big play and the Vikings trailed 28-3 with 6 minutes left in the third quarter to send fans heading for the exits.
The stout Carolina defense made things tough for Peterson. He was able to rip off one run of 31 yards, but was bottled up for the rest of the afternoon and was held to his lowest yardage output since Week 2 last season.
Peterson declined to discuss the relationship he had with the boy, who lived with his mother in Sioux Falls. The mother's boyfriend, Joseph Patterson, is charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery.
''Can we focus on football? I'm not really trying to get into details on that,'' Peterson said. ''We just got blown out by (25) points. So let's focus on football and what the Minnesota Vikings can do to get better.''
Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said he thought his star running back handled himself well during the trying circumstances.
''It's a difficult, difficult situation and there are a lot of people trying to support him within in the organization, his teammates as well,'' Frazier said.
Panthers safety Mike Mitchell, who had two interceptions and a sack, sought out Peterson during the game to offer some words of encouragement. Mitchell said he mentioned to the deeply religious Peterson the Bible verse Jeremiah 29:11 about God providing hope for the future.
''I told him that to keep that in his heart as he continues to take this challenge going forward,'' Mitchell said.
Peterson said he is leaning on his teammates and family to help him through, and he will continue to look to the football field as a shelter, as he has throughout his life during the toughest of times.
And the Vikings will have to lean on Peterson if they hope to get things turned around before it's too late.
''In life situations, and in football, you've got to continue to believe,'' Peterson said. ''We've got to get everyone with that same mindset, to believe no matter what the circumstances. We're 1-4. We've got to believe and have faith that we're going to be able to turn it around and accomplish our goals. That's the way I think. We just have to get everyone thinking the same way.''
NOTES: Viking S Harrison Smith (turf toe), LB Desmond Bishop (right knee sprain) and CB Xavier Rhodes (ankle) will all get MRIs on Monday. ... Vikings TE Kyle Rudolph registered career highs with nine catches for 97 yards, including a 23-yard touchdown in garbage time.
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Return with me to the days when Goodwin was executive editor at the News. On his watch, reporter Juan González was discouraged from following up his major scoop about the Twin Towers attack. González had discovered that the air around the collapsed buildings was dangerous, despite official assurances to the contrary. Then all hell broke lose. As my colleague Cynthia Cotts reported, News editors "buckled under pressure from federal and local authorities"including a deputy mayor. And as González would later recount, when News metro editor Richard Pienciak formed a four-reporter team to investigate the toxic threat, he was removed from his post.
González soldiered on, "to the obvious displeasure of the paper's top editors," he wrote in Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse. Getting follow-up pieces into the paper "became a tense and emotionally draining battle," and they usually ended up on the back news pages. Now that a summary of studies has concluded that 9-11 was "the largest acute environmental disaster" ever to befall New York, González has been vindicatedand the News is taking credit.
"News Told You So," read the header on González's May 25 column. But the text reminded readers that Giuliani and his health commissioner had tried to "kick [the story] down." Since this piece appeared two days after Goodwin's Rudy gush, one could read it as a middle finger righteously raised. But what about the News itself. Why did it retreat under Goodwin's command?
More than reflexive deference to the government may have been involved. Seven months before 9-11, Giuliani played a major part in getting one of his commissioners a new job as president of Hunter College, though she lacked prior educational experience. That president, Jennifer Raab, happens to be Goodwin's wife. Readers of his Giuliani endorsement might have found that fact salient, but it went unmentioned in Goodwin's column. "My wife has her own credentials and career, I have mine," he told Press Clips, adding, "My experience with the Voice in recent years is that the facts stand no chance against the onslaught of ideology and prejudice."
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In a special drive against electricity bill defaulters, the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSDCL) disconnected 54,000 connections in the Pune zone over the past 25 days.
Out of the total defualters, MSEDCL has permanently disconnected electricity supply of 5,000 defaulters for not paying a total Rs3.53 crore outstanding amount.
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In The Cardboard Valise, cartoonist Ben Katchor tries to decode the human impulse toward travel—and rouse the readers of graphic novels from their 'somnambulistic trance'
If Ben Katchor were a tour guide, he'd be broke. Not because he wouldn't know his stuff, but because he'd lead his groups into strangers' apartments and then slip out the bathroom window. He'd run over a fire hydrant as a preamble to a story about the architect of the city's first waterworks. Then he'd blow up the waterworks.
Katchor isn't a tour-guide, he's a cartoonist (the only one to be named a MacArthur "genius"), but fortunately it means he's available for bookings on a weekly basis if you read the rags smart enough to carry his strips. Or you can go on the grand tour and buy the collections, the most recent of which is The Cardboard Valise.
Anyone familiar with his work will recognize his grotesque eccentrics (or maybe his eccentric grotesques), the off-kilter angles and depths of field in every panel, not to mention the banal objects granted strange value and the wonderful prose. It is so unmistakably Katchor that there is an initial fear that it might be a bit stale.
Yet Katchor has left behind the inventive urban landscapes of his previous collections, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer (1996) and The Jew of New York (2000), and abandoned all but the most cursory nod toward a linear narrative for a surreal travelogue from the entirely invented islands of Outer Canthus. There is an exhilaration and freedom here—a license to invent and destroy.
The plot, such as it is, really isn't the point. Characters might stick around, but more likely they'll give a speech and never show up again. Impermanence is really the only constant—languages change, dictionaries deteriorate from overuse, an island suddenly evaporates.
Nothing illustrates this sense of impermanence better than the book itself. The outside is brilliantly colored and bears suitcase-like handles—it would fit comfortably on any coffee table—but open it and flanking the collected strips is another narrative telling the story of books going from trees to press to pulp. It is a book aware of its own mortality.
This might be a bit disturbing to the bibliophile, but of course the comic strip is a transient medium meant for the recycling bin, and what magic does a binding grant against entropy?
On the eve of his book's release, Katchor spoke to Tablet Magazine about the book's genesis, the problem with most graphic novels, and his trouble with the word "Jew."
Where did The Cardboard Valise come from?
It was produced as a weekly strip for newspapers and ran for about two years. The book is a collection of those strips in the order they originally appeared, to preserve the sense of free-associative invention that went on each week. The original pages were annotated and expanded upon with some new material.
Julius Knipl and The Jew of New York were both grounded in real places. The Cardboard Valise, to put it mildly, is not. Why the departure—if you feel it is one?
After eight years of working on the Julius Knipl series, I wanted to take a vacation from writing about an imagined, 20th-century North American city, and so I began a new weekly strip based upon surrendering to the touristic impulse. I wanted to undercut that sense of being grounded, or trapped, in a place and culture and feel the momentary sense of freedom and disorientation a tourist experiences went he arrives in a new city or country.
All of these cultural constructs are invented; feeling grounded is just another way of saying we grow lazy and lack the energy needed to keep reinventing the way we do things. Of course, it's much easier to invent cultures with ink on paper than through full-scale construction in the street.
So, changing places is just an excuse?
After the first few hundred Knipl strips, my stories had very little to do with him—the stories just appeared under his name for no good reason. Also, I felt that readers were becoming too attached to the character of Julius Knipl—he became a cozy surrogate uncle—and I wanted to end that unhealthy situation.
Why is it unhealthy for the readers to become attached?
I don't want my readers to be lulled into a trance of passive entertainment. I'd like them to consider how the invention of each weekly story relates to their own life and then, hopefully, think of ways of rewriting the narrative of their own situation. They should be reminded constantly of the fact that my strips and their lives are invented situations that can be edited or rewritten—not accepted as in a somnambulistic trance.
Is that why you do away with the book's initial setting, Tensint Island?
I abruptly destroyed Tensint Island to jar the readers awake from such a narrative trance. That's why the collection avoids the development of a comforting narrative thread and why characters and situations are discarded as quickly as they are established. Some readers will miss the opiate effect found in many "graphic novels."
The titular valise seems to be a bit of a metaphor for the flow of your work—"It's terrible weight, [pulling] him along in a direction slightly different from the one he had intended to follow"—but it also is presented as a bag meant for refugees, but appropriated by tourists. Is there a bit of a self-critique in that?
I'm swayed by my own taste in images and language and other mental baggage. It's something very evident in serial writing, but visible across any body of work. My collaborations in music-theater have really produced narrative solutions that are not mine, nor my collaborator's, but a sensibility that's a surprise to both of us. That may be why much creative work today is done in teams. The private suitcase may have had its day.
You've said before that you wrote The Jew of New York because the Forward wanted a more explicitly Jewish strip. There aren't any Jews in Valise, but is there implicit Jewishness?
The editors of the Forward did not want to run the Knipl series because they felt that it was not specifically Jewish enough—at least that's what they told me—and so I told them that I'd produce a new strip called The Jew of New York.
I chose that title to convince the editors that it was a specifically "Jewish" strip, and they fell for it. The story has as much to do with the development of the market economy in the 1830s and American theater as it does with the funeral customs of Ashkenazi Jews. How do you know that there are no Jewish characters in The Cardboard Valise?
Good point. I suppose I was thrown off by the lack of dairymen singing about tradition. So, are there Jews? Does it matter?
At this point in history, the word "Jew" by itself doesn't tell me anything. Using the word by itself is just a lazy way of categorizing the multifaceted history of the world. Anti-Semites deal in such gross generalizations.
In the make-up of some of my characters there is an echo of Jewish history or culture, but in a quantity and of a quality that you might not recognize because of its mixture with a thousand other historical details. If the make-up of human character can be unraveled it's only on that kind of a microscopic level. The labels of ethnicity and national identity are fraudulent simplifications perpetuated for criminal and/or business purposes.
For instance, purposes like those of The Purple Gang, or a daily online magazine of Jewish ideas, life and culture?
Hopefully, you're not trafficking in bootleg whiskey or gross generalizations.
What are you working on now?
A history of dairy restaurants [for Nextbook Press] and a show for music-theater about the New York Public Library on 42nd Street.
How are you researching the dairy restaurant history? Eating out a lot?
By studying world history, I'm beginning to understand how and why this form of public eating came about. As food may be the most ephemeral of cultural artifacts, to reconstruct the taste of a blintz in the Famous Dairy on 72nd Street, c. 1970, one must go beyond eating.
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You just bringing up names to make Pete look good. Fact is...he never faced a single player you listed above in 2000, and facing no top 10 players. 1999 he faces Andre, who didn't show up by serving 44% 1st serve.
And besides, there's nothing you can say Roger wouldn't of take down any of those players, or they would beat today's players. All we have known facts are their records and titles.
Would you even try to argue todays grass court field is even adequate, never mind strong. Before Wimbledon each year who do you list as the contenders, or the guys you think have a good shot even make the semis. It is hard to even pick 4 guys to make the semis each year as there arent even 4 viable people to do that amongst todays grass court field. Basically in 2004 and 2005 you said Federer, Roddick, and Hewitt are really good on grass, god knows who else would do well though. Since 2006 you say Federer, Nadal, and maybe Roddick are who you think will do well at Wimbledon, again who can even think of others. Murray wasnt even on the radar on grass until this year, Djokovic isnt thought of as a top grass courter, Nalbandian and Safin never were (their making a final and semi of Wimbledon somehow is comical and a reflection how anyone can do well on grass today as there are hardly any top grass courters existing).
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Airdrie Savings Bank is a small commercial bank operation in the Lanarkshire and Glasgow areas of Scotland. It runs 8 branches throughout this area, with its head office in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire. Total assets of the bank at 31 October 2006 were £126 million with reported profits of £0.555 million.
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Airdrie Savings Bank is the only remaining independent Savings Bank in the UK. It operates on mutual principles, has no shareholders and is instead governed by a Board of Trustees, appointed to represent the interests of depositors and to ensure that the Bank is managed properly.
In addition to Airdrie, there are branches in Baillieston, Bellshill, Coatbridge, Motherwell, Muirhead, Shotts and Falkirk.
Airdrie Savings Bank was formed as part of a movement to bring banking services to the wider community in 1835. A board of trustees from the local community act as board of governors. Similar banks were set up throughout the United Kingdom. Eventually most of these were brought under the umbrella of the Trustee Savings Bank, which was subsequently floated on the London Stock Exchange. Airdrie was the only Savings Bank not to join this scheme.
In August 2010 it was announced that a new branch would be opened after a cash injection of £10 million, from a group of Scottish entrepreneurs who support the bank's mutual model. Sir Angus Grossart, Sir David Murray, Ann Gloag, Brian Souter, Sir Tom Farmer and Ewan Brown each provided £1 million. Soutar stated that "Airdrie Savings Bank represents what Scottish banks once stood for - security of funds, a focus on savings and outstanding personal service". He went on to say that: "We believe the mutual principle is fundamental to the integrity of the bank. We are doing this because so many Scots are dismayed at what has happened within the banking sector".[1]
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|Rev John Carslaw
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|Rev Andrew Ferrier
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|William Neilson, JP
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|James Davidson, JP FRIBA
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Yep! Hostel is an unique hostel, situated in the center of Budapest, in the magical 7th District, very close to the popular pedestrian areas like Vaci utca, Raday utca, with easy access to the main Metro lines, and a lot of bus, trolleybus and tram stops. It's very central location makes Yep Hostel a prime choice for travellers who are really looking for convenience and comfort. Lots of local restaurants, night & music clubs, pubs and cafes can be found nearby. Major cultural and historical attractions such as the National Museum, the Saint Steven Basilic, the Grand Synagogue, the Andrassy Bulevard, the Opera, the House of Terror, few thermal baths and a lot of pubs and clubs like the famous Szoda Cafe or Budapest's best retro pub, called Szimpla Kert are also only a stone's throw away.
We offer you the choice between great ensuit apartments, a nice and well designed double rooms, four bedded rooms and eight bedded mixed dorm, all with a very pleasant atmosphere. After a hard day or hard night you can enjoy SAT-TV from the comfort of your own bed. Yes, you see well on the pictures, in Gipsy Wigwam dorm we built very romantic, native indian tepees, as a private units in the dorm. You can't find yet similar accomodation in Budapest.....
We have a fully equipped kitchen in the hostel, in which a stove, fridge, freezer, microwave oven, coffee machine, toaster, turmix machine, dishes and cutlery can be found. We offer you for free of charge the coffee, tea and cocoa! Other food and drinks you can buy downstairs at the non-stop supermarket. We provide you endless free Internet by using our PC or using the Wi-Fi. The common room is well equipped and well decorated, helping to provide a pleasant atmosphere which will make your stay fun and memorable. In the lobby we have wide screen cable TV, HI-FI, DVD-CD player, table football, etc...
Our listed ensuit apartments are located near to Yep! Hostel, where you have the freedom that comes with your own place. We supply all the basic utilities you need, like private bathrooms, equipped kitchen, phone, satellite TV and even wireless internet access!
We offer a cheap airport pickup for our guests.
You will be invited to share a free welcome drink such as Palinka, or a glass of Tokaji Aszu.
Disponibilité et tarifsPour vérifier la disponibilité et les prix, veuillez sélectionner vos dates puis cliquez sur "Mettre à jour les dates"
Installations & Politiques Auberge
- Accueil 24h/24
- Sécurité 24h/24
- Adaptateurs
- Les transferts depuis ou vers l'aéroport
- Location de vélos
- Parking à vélos
- Petit déjeuner non inclus
- Télévision par câble
- Café
- Téléphones à carte
- Salle commune
- Ascenseur
- Plans de ville gratuits
- Accès gratuit à Internet
- Wifi gratuit
- Salle de jeux
- Sèche-cheveux
- Sèche-cheveux à louer
- Douches chaudes
- Accès à Internet
- Cuisine
- Blanchisserie
- Linge de lit inclus
- Casiers
- Casiers à bagages
- Supérette
- Parking
- Lampe de chevet
- TVA inclue
- Machines à thé / café
- Bureau des excursions
- Serviettes à louer
- Serviettes incluses
- Lave-linge
Politique d'annulationCette propriété a une politique d'annulation de 1 jours. Si vous n'annulez pas dans cet intervalle de temps, vous devrez payer des frais d'annulation du montant de la première nuit de votre séjour.
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A. - You arrive by metro or by train to Keleti Train Station (Keleti PU)
From the International Train Station, called Keleti Pu. travel two stops by Metro II (the red line) or by BUS N.7 or N.73 to ASTORIA Station, turn to the right on Karoly Korut, walk 100 meters to Grand Synagogue, follow your way on the left side of the Synagogue in Wesselenyi utca, walk aprx. 200 meters and you will arrive to a pink coloured house on the right side of the street. You can find the main entrance easily, it is a large bronze gate, near of the cake shop, oposite of Szoda Cafe. You have to ring on the bell 16, by simply typing 16.
B. - You arrive by international bus to Nepliget Bus Station
This is a stop on the METRO 3 (also called BLUE line or just M3) line. Go to the DEAK FERENC TER metro station (this is the meeting point of the three METRO lines we have in Budapest), come up, walk 200 meters to the Grand Synagogue, turn left into Wesselenyi Utca, walk aprx. 200 meters and you will arrive to a pink coloured house on the right side of the street. You can find the main entrance easily, it is a large bronze gate, near of the cake shop, opposite of Szoda cafe. You have to ring on the bell 16, by simply typing 16.-Please note: You will need 1 ticket/person, the price of a ticket is 350HUF.
C. You arrive by plane to Liszt Ferenc Airport (formerly known as Ferihegy Airport)
* From the AIRPORT travel by PUBLIC TRANSPORT BUS number 200E to Kobanya Kispest - the terminal of METRO 3 (BLUE metro line, also marked M3). Take this METRO line to DEAK FERENC TER, (this is the meeting point of the three METRO lines we have in Budapest), come up, walk 200 meters to the Grand Synagogue, turn left into Wesselenyi Utca, walk aprx. 200 meters and you will arrive to a pink coloured house on the right side of the street. You can find the main entrance easily, it is a large bronze gate, near of the cake shop, opposite of Szoda cafe. You have to ring on the bell 16, by simply typing 16.
-Please note: You will need 2 tickets/person for this travel. One ticket costs 350 HUF. Keep your validated tickets for possible controls! It takes about 90 minutes to get to YEP! HOSTEL.
** Another possibility (from the Airport) is our cheap partner taxi, which can pick you up at the airport. The driver will be waiting for you at the airport with a sign: YEP! HOSTEL and he will bring you to the HOSTEL. It takes about 45 minutes to get to the Hostel.
Please let us know if you need the taxi transfer, and in this case we will need some details about your flight.
*** The third option is the airport minibus. You can order this service at the airport and they will also bring you to the building, but you have to wait a bit longer and you will travel with other passengers. The price is: 3200HUF/person for one way or 5500HUF/person for return.
D - You come by car,
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Overall State champions.
Those are three simple words that describe Starkville Academy's goal for the 2012-2013 season.
The Lady Volunteers begin the journey toward that status today as they face Prairie View in a 3 p.m.
matchup at Mississippi College.
As game time nears, enthusiasm is sweeping throughout the Starkville Academy team and its coach.
There is no "I" in team.
There is definitely no "I" in Lady Volunteers.
When it comes to the Starkville Academy Lady Vols, they exhibit the highest level of teamwork that can be witnessed on the basketball court.
The Mississippi State baseball team was coming off a big weekend in which they collected four wins.
Keeping focus for a midweek game after that type of weekend is usually a concern.
The No. 9 (Collegiate Baseball) Bulldogs answered those concerns with seven-straight hits in the bottom of the first on their way to a 13-2 win over Rhode Island Tuesday night at Dudy Noble Field.
It wasn't quite the formula for success that the Starkville Yellowjackets were looking for against the Columbus Falcons Tuesday night.
Columbus kept expanding a lead on Starkville with eight runs in the first four innings and went on to win a 9-5 decision at Yellowjacket Stadium.
It was the first loss of the season for SHS under Brian Jones, who saw his team fall to 2-1.
Mississippi State and Kentucky have played some good basketball games in the last few years.
There has usually been a championship or a berth into the NCAA Tournament on the line.
This time around Kentucky is the only one looking at this game as one step closer to the postseason.
The Mississippi State men's basketball team had a glimmer of hope heading into last Saturday's home game against Vanderbilt.
The Bulldogs (7-19, 2-12) were in the game late against Alabama last Wednesday, but ended up dropping a 64-56 decision.
MSU played well down the stretch and Bulldog head coach Rick Ray was hoping it was going to carry over when the Bulldogs hosted the Commodores.
Alison Owen has been waiting a long time to get back into the circle.
The Mississippi State redshirt junior has made quite an impact so far in 2013 for the Bulldog softball team.
It was proved to be true for Owen again last weekend and she got attention for it on Monday.
Owen was selected as the Southeastern Conference Softball Co-Pitcher of the Week.
It was an easy stroll in the park for the Mississippi State baseball team on Sunday.
The No. 12 (Collegiate Baseball) Bulldogs cruised to an easy 8-1 victory over the Samford Bulldogs in the final game of the Diamond Classic presented by Polk's Meat Products at Dudy Noble Field.
Heading into the final game of the Class AAA State Tournament, the pressure was on for coach Glenn Schmidt and the Starkville Academy Lady Volunteers.
It's easy these days to strike up a conversation about the Starkville Academy Lady Volunteers and their accomplishments this season.
While attending the Diamond Classic at Mississippi State on Friday, one of the topics of conversation was Starkville Academy girls basketball. For those who don't know, the Diamond Classic is a baseball event and hoops was the subject being talked about.


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India Chapple stabbed to death early Saturday in Southeast
India Chapple, 26, was stabbed to death early Saturday morning in Southeast D.C., Metropolitan Police say. About 10:45 a.m. Saturday, police arrested Tracy Mathis, 30, and charged him with second degree murder.
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Police are investigating a fatal crash that happened Saturday in Loudoun County, a Virginia State Police spokesperson said.
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U.S. Park Police have released a sketch of the person who they believe sexually assaulted a woman in a park near Georgetown University on April 1.
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Vets bike around Annapolis for 10th Annual Soldier Ride
More than a dozen veterans rode in honor of the 10th Annual Solider Ride, which is a series of bike rides in several location across the U.S. The Wounded Warrior Project sponsors the ride and provides the customize equipment to participates for free.
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D.C. police: man stabbed within blocks of Cherry Blossom Parade
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Car carrying 8-month-old goes up in flames after Md. crash
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nutrients from different depths in the soil, or microbes that specialize on different substrates.
It is likely that diversity influences ecosystem function through a wide range of mechanisms. Some are structural (rooting depth), some behavioral (feeding time), and some biochemical (optimum temperature for an enzyme).
Human activities have tended to reduce the diversity of organisms and ecosystems, in some cases dramatically. The widespread use of limited numbers of cultivars has rendered many of our agricultural crops potentially very sensitive to disease outbreaks or climate fluctuations. The same concern exists for commercial livestock. Now, in an era of rapid global changes driven by human actions, the role of diversity and the processes that maintain diversity take on dramatic new importance. Many kinds of human impacts on the natural world, especially landscape fragmentation, climate change, pollution of air, soil, and water, and stimulation of biological invasives, threaten to decrease biological diversity. At the same time, the novel habitats these impacts create may need the maximum possible biodiversity if they are to cope effectively in the novel conditions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that a global average warming of as little as 2°C could commit 30 percent of the world's species to extinction. We do not know the mechanism, the timetable, or the consequences, nor do we know the features that make some communities extremely resilient, while others collapse with only modest forcing.
Our ability to sequence DNA rapidly and inexpensively is increasing exponentially. This promises to provide the capability to extensively characterize the diversity of species and to allow predicting its functional consequences. We have begun to be able to determine the DNA sequences of complete simple ecosystems, and this will inevitably progress to more complete and interesting communities and organisms. These tools, combined with advanced techniques for analyzing the physical and modeling tools of ecology, offer the potential for huge breakthroughs in coming decades. A clearer picture of the role of diversity in ecosystem functioning will make it feasible to specify the diversity level required to secure sustainable provision of key services. A clearer understanding of existing diversity and the factors that lead to extinction should enable a suite of strategies for protecting diversity in key areas.
For this challenge, there are opportunities for the biological and physical sciences to interact at a range of levels. Physics will be able to extend the tools needed to quantify diversity quickly and cheaply, which is crucial for understanding the consequences of altering diversity for ecosystem functioning.


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...I notice my favorite genres change.
(I started gaming in the mid 80s w/Atari)
My favs went from sports and platforming, to RPGs and Puzzle. I now need some mental challenge/stimulation with my games.
How about you?
I grew up playing on the SNES. I played platformers, SMW and DKC, mainly.
Got a PS1, played a mixture of platforms, RPG's, Racing.
PS2: mainly RPG's.
Gamecube: Simulation, RPG's.
Wii: Hack & Slash, Platformers, Simulation.
PS3: Shooters, Open World, Action/Adventure, RPG, Racing...
360: Shooters, Open World, Action/Adventure, RPG, Racing, Fighting, Hack & Slash, Platformers, Simulation, Sports, Strategy...
My handhelds usually have RPG's, Simulation, Hack & Slash, etc.
We didn't have a lot of money when I was a kid, so I only owned SMW and DKC. We rented a game or two a month for a few days, but they didn't have a lot of choice. Same when I had a PS1, mainly demos, but I would use whatever money I could to buy FF games, and other RPG's. We were much better off when I had a PS2, would get games quite often. A lot of RPG's.
Could afford my own stuff throughout this gen and have been able to play a whole range of games. I wouldn't say my tastes in games has changed, I just have a restriction on how many games I could play.
GT: Zichu PSN: Zichu NNID: Zichu1
I favor whatever I haven't played much of recently, with the exceptions of fighting and stealth games, which are eternal. Fighting games because the competition never ends, and stealth because there are too few stealth games and I need more, forever.
I still have the same favorite genre RPGs and TPS
GT: Evil Metalbeast
I started with JRPGs (Final Fantasy IV, Chrono Trigger), and they're still my primary genre. I also played platformers, fighting games, and action games back then and I still play them now. So I wouldn't say I've changed much.
"In peace, vigilance. In war, victory. In death, sacrifice." ~ The Grey Wardens
I'm 33 and really got into gaming with the NES and Sega Master System. Even back then, the first RPGs I played-- Phantasy Star, Dragon Warrior, and Final Fantasy-- quickly became my favorite games.
Over the years, what has changed is I got away from platformers. As a kid, I was great at the Wonder Boy games, but going back and playing Monster World off the arcade, even with save-anytime, I was horrible. Got away from racing games too. Don't play point-and-click adventures much these days simply because the genre has about died. This generation, have a little more interest in shooters, but still only ones that have elements from other type of games I like, like loot or big open worlds.
During the SNES era, I started getting really into RPGs, and I considered them to be intellectually superior to other genres.
I now realize a good shoot-em-up or fighting game is at least as mentally stimulating as an RPG, and I tend to prefer them due to the shorter play sessions and typically better pacing.
Although my preferences now lean towards short and fast-paced games, I enjoy a little of everything.
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Well-said posts - some interesting perspectives.
I'm young, and I noticed a shift between Handheld and console games, can
t even play more than 5 minutes of my favorite legend of zelda game ( Links awakening DX) without dropping it and playing something on my console. Seems like I just got spoiled on graphics, I can't play any GB game, and had trouble playing super metroid (my first time ) , 2d games are just meh now for me, and it's sad.
GT- Neon KnLght
This world is not made for Kings, only Knights.
If you have a PC, Antichamber is on sale on Steam. It's an excellent puzzler.
Maybe God made a monkey that doesn't like to think it's a monkey and lies a lot.


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CoMMA's 2012 season kicks off with the BackPorch series in July with our MainStage series starting in August. Between the music, musicals, comedies, dramas and Christmas events, you're are sure to find something you'll love! Get a season pass and come enjoy all our great shows at an even greater price!
In the Heart of the Blue Ridge…in the Heart of the Foothills…in the Heart of Morganton…
"Feel the Beat" …atCoMMA.
Welcome to MainStage Morganton, 2014-2015, and what promises to be another stellar season on the CoMMA stage. The stars not only come out but they truly shine as the talents and stories come to life in grand fashion in Season 28.
If you are a past or current MainStage Season Subscriber, you know the value that goes with being in that same seat show after show, year after year. Beyond a savings that isnearly 45% off the single ticket price, there are new and exciting benefits that undoubtedly enhance the performance attendance experience for all season ticketholders.
This season, for the first time, join us at Stage One, apre-performancewine receptionprior to four events for all MainStage season ticketholders. At one hour prior to the stage lights going up, party with other MainStage'ers on the CoMMA mezzanine for some light refreshments and lighthearted fellowship. Stage One is just how we say thank you for your continued dedication and support.
As for the season itself…Begin by sitting back and relaxing under the willow oaks in the summer fun BackPorch series. The MainStage season opens with country music star and Grammy winner, Pam Tillis, followed by four national Broadway musical tours, incredible concert performances throughout the year, including a holiday spectacular with legend BJ Thomas, and closing in May with Blood Sweat and Tears...There's not a theatre standing that offers what our Morganton performance place brings to the city. Each event promises to please and awe. Who else can put a ventriloquist act with "Mutts Gone Nuts" and make it work? Who else boasts the unknown, "THE SHOW 3", but CoMMA? Look through this brochure, do the math and compare…CoMMA has no rival.
And if just perhaps the MainStage Morganton season package is not for you, we hope you will join us as a single ticket buyer through 2014 and 2015. All the seats are good, and one has your name written on it! But remember, CoMMA tickets are reserved seating, so there are more choices the earlier you make your purchase.
It's really simple…call the CoMMA Box Office or come by and make plans for a season of joy, laughter, and most of all, rhythm…like you've never experienced before.
"Feel the Beat…"
Bill Wilson, Director
MASTERS OF MOTOWN has been called the most entertaining history lesson ever performed! This show authentically reproduces the look, choreography, style and sound made famous by a record label that was relatively unknown at the time but went on to profoundly influence the history of popular music. The performance goes beyond the music to preserve the integrity of the entire Motown experience. For many, MASTERS OF MOTOWN is the ultimate stroll down memory lane. For younger generations, the show offers a way to experience a period in our country's past that produced many of the greatest music acts ever recorded.
The show features a completely live performance with seasoned musicians and world-class performers from The TFC Band. This group has toured extensively world-wide for more than 30 years, performing at private events, festivals, casinos, corporate events and military bases from coast to coast and overseas, including tours of Europe and Africa. After having toured together for decades, The TFC Band created the MASTERS OF MOTOWN show in 2008 as a way to heighten the experience for their fans and deliver the full package—a stage show which captures the sights, sounds and feel of the Motown era.
Based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the 10-person cast of MASTERS OF MOTOWN has performed to numerous sold-out audiences and garnered rave reviews across the country at venues ranging from community theaters and universities to performing arts venues and concert halls.
Martha Reeves Medley
Marvin Gaye Medley
Smokey Robinson Medley
The Supremes Medley
Platinum - $27
Gold - $24
Silver - $22
Youth - $17
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Recording Artist PAM TILLIS has been a formidable force in country music since her first single hit the charts in 1990. She has racked up 14 Top Five hits including six that hit #1, and has sold over 6 million records. An accomplished songwriter, PAM has had her compositions recorded by artists as varied as Chaka Khan, Martina McBride, Highway 101, Juice Newton and Conway Twitty. She was one of the first women in Nashville to produce her own album, and she was awarded the coveted Female Vocalist of the Year by CMA in 1994. In 1999 PAM showed her trademark versatility by being the first female country entertainer to ever star in a Broadway Musical when she appeared in Smokey Joe's Cafe. PAM was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2000.
PAM TILLIS can tell you what it is like to win big awards, run a record label, sing on Broadway, and sell platinum records, but she'd much rather change the subject to the future. "I've traveled a million miles in my career," says TILLIS. "The next million don't scare me a bit."
Gold - $26
Silver - $24
Youth - $21
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25 years. Hundreds of shows. Plays. Musicals. Concerts. Dramas. Comedies. And some things that can't be categorized! Thousands of performers and thousands of spectators have passed through CoMMA's doors since 1986, and we look forward to thousands more! Check out out past seasons below.
"Infectious and unbridled energy.... it blows the roof off..." - Jeff Johnson, The Chicago Sun Times
THE OFFICIAL BLUES BROTHERS REVUE recreates the live concert experience, integrating the humor and songs from the original film and subsequent albums. Produced by Judy Belushi Pisano and Dan Aykroyd, the Revue pays homage to Chicago's rich history of blues, soul music and gospel in the true spirit of the original BLUES BROTHERS. Under the musical direction of Paul Shaffer, Jake, Elwood and the high-energy eight-piece Intercontinental Rhythm & Blues Revue Band lay down a big sound, performed with the passion and precision of the original BLUES BROTHERS. Fun for all ages, THE OFFICIAL BLUES BROTHERS REVUE strikes the right balance of humor, music and mayhem featuring Wayne Catania and Kieron Lafferty as Jake and Elwood.
The characters of Jake and Elwood Blues, created by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in 1978, were initially imagined as frontmen for a fictitious American blues and soul band. Since their film debut in 1980, the irreverent characters have resonated with people around the world and the BLUES BROTHERS have catapulted into a cultural phenomenon and musical, comedic, and cinematic legend.
Platinum - $27
Gold - $24
Silver - $22
Youth - $17
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THE SNYDER FAMILY BAND of Lexington, NC, features the talents of siblings Zeb and Samantha Snyder. Their dad, Bud, backs them on upright bass. Mom, Laine, occasionally joins in with harmony vocals, and eight-year-old Owen also makes special appearances singing or playing guitar. THE SNYDER FAMILY BAND delivers a fresh and exciting sound in a family-friendly show that is sure to delight all ages and audiences.
Single: $10.00
Senior/Youth: $6.00
+ 6.75% NC Sales Tax
OH WHAT A NIGHT! is an exciting musical revue written by Motown producer and creative consultant George Solomon, directed by award-winning producer/director Michael Chapman with choreography by Paul Holmquist. Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk like a Man, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, My Eyes Adored You, Working My Way Back To You, Let's Hang On and Who Loves You are just some of the many hits you'll enjoy from the dynamic songbook of those boys from Jersey, FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS.
In 1990 FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. To this day their unique and irresistible music continues to thrill all ages. The personable cast of OH WHAT A NIGHT! stay true to the original recordings without trying to mimic or impersonate the group...And their interpretation of these classic hits are so true to the original recordings that it must be pointed out that the cast is singing live and not lip-synching. The end result is a show as fresh and relevant today as it is nostalgic for the purists. The audience gets to know and love four dynamic talents and cheer them on with each exciting, individual performance.
This exhilarating family-friendly musical revue has been thrilling audiences with great choreography, boundless energy, humor and, of course, instantly recognizable classic pop songs that have become timeless.
Gold - $24
Silver - $22
Youth - $20
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It was a great adventure last season - and we are just crazy enough to do it again. Take a chance and be one of the only ones to know what THE SHOW 2 is in the new MainStage Season.
As has become tradition, no one in the audience will know what THE SHOW 2 is until the curtain opens and the stage lights come up. We'll keep the secret until then ... and hope you will once the curtain closes on THE SHOW 2.
Platinum - $22
Gold - $19
Silver - $17
Youth - $12
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As one of the nation's premiere ventriloquists, DAVID will make you believe that anything can talk! A 20-year veteran entertainer, DAVID'S humor and stellar tech¬nique keeps audiences laughing from start to finish.
DAVID brings to his show a wide range of comedic characters including lovable, but blunt Aunt Tilly, a 94 year-old spinster; quick-witted trouble-maker, Mack Elroy with his laid-back sidekick; Buford the Beagle; and rounding out the cast, Vern, a slightly misguided albino Vulture. Be prepared for a few surprise appear¬ances from members of the audience!
Disorderly duo, Scott and Joan Houghton and their hilarious pack of pooches have created a comedy dog thrill show like no other. Expect the unexpected in this top-notch presentation that includes: incredible high flying frisbee dogs, tightwire dogs, dancing dogs, magic dogs and of course, the one and only . . . Sammie the Talking Dog!
Since 1985, comedy duo Scott and Joan Houghton have brought their unique blend of physical comedy and circus arts to audiences from Las Vegas to Tokyo. They spent three years with country star Lee Greenwood at his theater in Tennessee and seven years as the featured comedy act at Dolly Parton's Theaters in Branson, Orlando and Myrtle Beach.
In 2005, the duo turned their attention to a creating a comedy dog act. Their nine amazing canine partners are all adopted from animal shelters and rescues. MUTTS GONE NUTS is sure to unleash havoc and hilarity as the Houghtons attempt to match wits with their mischievous mutts in a family-friendl y performance that is leaving audiences howling for more!
Gold - $18
Silver - $16
Youth - $15
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"I've always been a fan of using music to create a strong emotional connection, and I know these performances along will do just that." - JOHN
Twenty five years and 50 plus recordings into his multi-faceted, ever-evolving musical career, JOHN TESH is finally ready to swing—not metaphorically as in the cliché "for the fences," but literally. On his new Big Band collection and accompanying public television special distributed by APT titled "John Tesh Big Band Live!" the keyboardist fronts a full blown ensemble and horn section playing Great American Songbook classics. The projects mark an all-time first for the lifelong musician—letting his lead vocals shine front and center. For the four-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Grammy nominee, these projects are unique creative departures from his rich history as a composer and performer of "sports music," new age, contemporary jazz and inspirational works. More importantly, and in a deeper sense, they mark a return to his musical roots.
Tesh's highly successful and varied career path includes a 10-year run as anchor on Entertainment Tonight, six hit public television specials, including his landmark Live At Red Rocks in 1994, a string of #1 radio hits, his popular nationally syndicated radio show "Intelligence For Your Life" in which he has 14.5 million listeners, and a high profile advertising and marketing company. His musical accolades since releasing his debut album Tour De France in 1988 include seven million units in total sales; a Keyboard Magazine Award; a 2003 Grammy nomination for "Best Pop Instrumental Album" for his double CD The Power of Love; and gold certification for his Live At Red Rocks album.
With his latest musical ventures, Tesh not only pays homage to his early days as a musician, but also fashions a journey inside the jazz, big band and swing music that shaped the world from the early to mid 20th Century. Recorded at Capitol Records Studios in Hollywood, where Sinatra recorded many of his most enduring sides, John Tesh Big Band features exciting new arrangements of nine standards and three familiar Tesh originals. Tim Landers, Tesh's musical director for the past 25 years, chose Tony Guerrero and Willie Murillo, two veteran jazz trumpeters, to do the 25 piece horn arrangements and orchestrations, respectively. The classic selections include "The Summer Wind," "I've Got The World On A String," "The Way You Look Tonight," "Blue Skies," "In The Mood," "Sway" and "Beyond The Sea." The re-imagined Tesh originals are "Barcelona," "Spanish Steps" and "Give Me Forever."
Platinum - $42
Gold - $37
Silver - $35
Youth - $32
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The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in this all new production of the musical phenomenon, "JEKYLL & HYDE". Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and featuring a thrilling score of pop rock hits from multi Grammy and Tony nominated Frank Wildhorn & double Oscar and Grammy winning Leslie Bricusse, "JEKYLL & HYDE" has mesmerized audiences the world over.
An evocative tale of two men – one a doctor, passionate and romantic – the other, a terrifying madman; and two women - one, beautiful and trusting –the other, beautiful and trusting only herself. Both women in love with the same man. Both unaware of his dark secret. Their story unfolds in this gripping musical thriller resplendent with a sumptuous score including the unforgettable, "This Is the Moment", "Someone Like You" and "A New Life".
"Lush, appealing and genuinely moving" proclaims The Daily News, "JEKYLL & HYDE" is back. Don't miss it!
Gold - $35
Silver - $35
Youth - $32
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MATHEMAGIC – Starring Bradley Fields
Friday Nov. 22 | 10:00 am – School Performance
"Among the top magicians in the entertainment world." - Tennessee State University
"Captivating and amazing!" - Smithsonian Institution
Actor, director and one of the most acclaimed magicians in the world, Bradley Fields began professionally at the age of fourteen. Working as apprentice to actor-magician, Jack Adams, Bradley began performing in schools, nightclubs, theaters, and on television. Using comedy, mime and characterization, Fields developed a style so original, that he became the first magician to appear in rock concerts and at such legendary nightspots as New York's Gaslight, the Bitter End, Washington's Cellar Door and Chicago's Quiet Knight. Newspaper critics at the time compared him to Marcel Marceau, Charlie Chaplin, and Harpo Marx. Variety said, "What was once standard boite fare is now a real novelty."Fields impresses with his work and he walks off to much appreciation." The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle called him "New York's funniest magician."
Platinum - $15
Gold - $15
Silver - $15
Youth - $15
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You ain't seen nuthin' like this! THE CLEVERLYS hail from a remote part of the Ozarks near Cane Spur, Arkansas. This off-the-wall country/comedy band has us wondering if they are on the level or completely off their rocker. It's just pure fun...especially if you have a little 'country' in your roots...and they play some fine music, too.
CHARLYHORSE, a favorite on CoMMA's BackPorch, comes to the "big stage" for their first time. Superb musicianship accompanied by perfect harmonies make this a great opener on any stage.
Gold - $23
Silver - $21
Youth - $20
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The letter sweaters may only make a brief appearance at each Lettermen performance, but THE LETTERMEN harmony is non-stop. From their first hit in 1961 - - "The Way You Look Tonight" - - through current hits of today, the sound is undeniably Lettermen. 18 Gold Albums worldwide and scores of top singles attest to a popularity that has endured through several generations.
With over 10,000 sold out shows to their credit, THE LETTERMEN are constantly sending valentines to their audiences with each note of every love song. Versatility of group members and personal tastes let each display a variety of musical styles - - adapting through years to include whatever the current trend may be.
International audiences attest to the universal appeal of THE LETTERMEN. Successful tours abroad have included visits to Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia. The music of these true entertainers transcends all language barriers as it romances the soul, and warms the hearts of millions.
Whether singing acapella or backed by an entire symphony orchestra, THE LETTERMEN theme still remains the love song. Lending that well-known harmony to every arrangement, they have proven love ballads have an appeal that knows no boundaries and will continue to stand the test of time for many years to come...
The current Lettermen consist of Tony Butala (The group's founding original member), Donovan Tea (an accomplished singer and songwriter who joined the group in 1984), and Bobby Poynton (who first joined the Lettermen in 1989 and recently returned to the group). Their recording career continues going strong with their latest albums: "Best Of Broadway", and "Live in the Philippines". Other releases include "All I Ask Of You" - "Everything I Do (I Do For You)" - "Unchained Melody" - "Wind Beneath My Wings" - "My Heart Will Go On" (from Titanic), and some of Donovan Tea's own songs, "One More Summer Night" - "When I Look At Children", and "She's A Woman."
Platinum - $27
Gold - $25
Silver - $22
Youth - $17
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A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads.
And a trip down the aisle
you'll never forget!
Over 50 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make MAMMA MIA! the ultimate feel-good show!
Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings 3 men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago.
The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone's having the time of their lives!
With more productions playing internationally than any other musical, MAMMA MIA! is the World's No.1 Show!
Gold - $57
Silver - $55
Youth - $53
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Announcement: CoMMA is hosting a food drive through Dec. 22, 2013, to benefit Burke United Christian Ministries. With a donation of five non-perishable food items, CoMMA will sell Puddingstone tickets for "Buy One, Get One Free!" Donations will be accepted for BUCM even if tickets are not purchased. Food items can be dropped off at CoMMA from 12 noon to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday through Dec. 22, 2013.
Puddingstone formed first as a trio, consisting of percussion, hammered dulcimer, harp and flutes. It has grown to a 6-7 member band and now includes vocals, guitar, synthesizer and sometimes fiddle.
Our name says it all – PUDDINGSTONE is a conglomerate of many different stones. The genres we play range from Americana such as fife and drum, Celtic, folk, New Age, Flamenco, Renaissance and even some classical such as Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring and Pachelbel's Canon. What makes a PUDDINGSTONE arrangement recognizable is the unique sound.
We have a dazzling array of ancient and modern instruments including hurdy gurdy, gemshorns, & viola de gamba as well as electronic wind machines and drum sets. The combination of the ancient and acoustic instruments with the electronic instruments is what gives us our signature sound.
We have been hailed as the "best kept secret in North Carolina". Our members all have professions that are additional to being musicians. Our professions include physician, teachers and business owners.
We have a very loyal following in North Carolina and are looking to expand our presence throughout the southeast. We performed in July 2007 as the kick-off group for the Best of Our State weekend sponsored by Our State Magazine. We were also featured on their events calendar with a photo in the March 2008 edition to promote our Luck 'o the Irish concert March 15 which featured the St. Joseph's Irish Dancers. A favorite concert for our fans is the traditional Christmas concert given at Old Salem, where people have been coming to see us for many years and consider it the start to their holidays.
PUDDINGSTONE performs for many different types of events - full length community concerts, chamber concerts, weddings, receptions, corporate events and more. The size of the group can be changed to accommodate space and budget requirements. Choose a trio, quartet or the full band to add the extra touch of excitement live music brings to any event.
Platinum - $10
Gold - $10
Silver - $10
Youth - $10
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With over 70 million records sold, BJ's vocal versatility is as apparent today as it was when he recorded his first hit in 1967, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.
Since the mid-1960s, BJ THOMAS has become one of the most recognized and respected voices of the American musical landscape. He has impacted many areas of popular music with 15 Top 40 pop hits, 10 Top 40 country hits, 5 Grammys, 2 Dove awards and 15 Gold and Platinum Records. He is the only artist to successfully move to the top of three music genres not as a crossover and also have crossover success.
"As a singer," BJ states, "I have the chance to lift the spirits of the audience and make them feel good, at least for the evening."
Gold - $28
Silver - $26
Youth - $23
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Not only were the strings for a great deal of the PvP announcements in the files, but some of the sounds files are as well. We have a quick look at a view of the voice clips from the PvP Vendor. The last clip seems to be a little different than the rest. The announcement sounds have two voices, one different from the PvP Vendor, and one that sounds the same.
DiabloFans Quote:
- May you ever be victorious!
- This is how it works—to the winners go the spoils!
- Winning is about persistence. Persistence and finely-crafted weapons.
- I've considered giving a little something to the losers, but then I realized I like being rich.
- Sometimes I travel so much that I almost forget which town I'm in... but I still know a warrior when I see one!
- All hail the victorious fighter of... Wait... Where are you from again? (forgetful, not dismissive)
- (The last sound is not listed, and may be old.)
Important Information on Key Drops
Lylirra hits the forums with two very important facts about key drops:
- You will need 5 stacks of NV for the key to even have a chance to drop
- with 5 stacks and MP 10 the key has a 100% chance to drop
I don't want to weigh in on the current argument of whether or not drop chances should be affected by Monster Power level just yet. Obviously, we think it's a good idea and worth trying out, but if you feel differently, then I'd definitely like for you to continue discussing your thoughts on that topic. If you don't like it, tell us why. (Or, if you DO like it, be sure to weigh in too.)
I killed the act 3 keywarden on MP 10 once and the key didn't drop. (didn't have any NV stack though)
You'll need five stacks of NV in order for the keys and the demonic organ pieces to drop.
We felt this was a reasonable requirement, otherwise players could simply farm the keys in a lower MP, then set their game to MP10 and farm bosses for guaranteed drops. With the five stack, players will at least need to be able to kill monsters in that MP level in order to benefit from the increased organ drop chance.
Information on Character Copies
[blizzquote author='Blizzard' blue='http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/237798-character-copy-questions/' battle='http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6713911788#4']We're reducing the reset period between character copies from 7 days to 72 hours. The change should apply retroactively, so this means that if you copied your characters over last Friday, you should be able to copy them again once the change is implemented.
So, basically (going forward), once you copy over your characters, you'll be able to copy them again 72 hours later.
Also, when the character copy becomes available, do we have to delete the current character that's on the PTR prior to copying over again, or will it just over write the current one with the one being copied from the live server?
You won't need to delete your characters. The copy system will just overwrite your current set automatically.
One more thing to keep in mind that the character copy system uses "snapshots" of your characters to copy over the data from your Diablo III account to your PTR account. At the moment, snapshots are taken once every 24 hours, so if you make some changes to your characters (i.e. buy or sell items) right before you copy them to the PTR, those changes may not get transferred over.
This is pretty standard, so if you buy a piece of gear that you really love and want to test it out on the PTR, you may want to wait a little bit before you copy your characters over.
Is the profile update a sign that the snapshot was renewed?
It's probably a good sign, but I can't give you a 100% guarantee -- not without poking around further. I can try to get that information for you, but it may take some time.
Blue Posts
[blizzquote author='Blizzard' blue='' battle='']MP and Act 1
At MP1 or higher, anything that used to drop only in Act III or Act IV of Inferno can now drop in any Inferno act (so Acts I - IV). (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
PTR Issues
We're still looking into Error 12 and Error 82, by the way. I don't have any updates to share about our progress, but we definitely know that players are still getting those errors and we're working to resolve them as quickly as possible. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
PTR Does Not Effect Live Servers
The Public Test Realm allows players to play, preview and test upcoming content to give feedback on new features and systems, and to find and report any bugs which may occur.
But, to coin a phrase, what happens in PTR stays in PTR. In other words, nothing that happens there will affect your live characters, their items, experience etc. It's completely separate, and when the test ends, your PTR characters are deleted. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)


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Filed under: Democrat Corruption, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Islam, Media Bias, Military, National Security, Progressivism, The United States, United Kingdom | Tags: ISIS, ISIS Recruiting Video, Recruiting for Brides
ISIS is depending on their videos to appeal to young Muslims who may be convinced to join the fight. The violence portrayed in many of them has encouraged hundreds to make their way to Syria to join ISIS. The Islamic State's best recruiting tool is youth boredom. ISIS is offering excitement, a chance for young Muslims in the West to get back at the prejudice against Muslims that they may feel, and they find the extreme violence portrayed on the video thrilling and exciting. Just as we find movie portrayals of special effects exciting. But the reality is something else.
There are currently 3 young women, teenagers, from Britain currently making their way to Turkey and Syria to become brides of ISIS. There are at lest 8 impressionable schoolgirls that were attracted by websites recruiting brides, who have disappeared. A couple of them are already widows. Hundreds are proposing to ISIS fighters.
Have you ever been a member of the military, and gone through basic training? If so you will enjoy this newest ISIS recruiting video meant to strike fear into the hearts of the West. I can't embed the video, so you will have to follow the link. The music is annoying, but the camouflage is priceless.
We need some evidence and videos of the setbacks being inflicted on ISIS and al Qaeda to counter their propaganda. But that may be another part of the Obama strategy that isn't understood.
Filed under: Freedom, History, Military, The United States, United Kingdom | Tags: Commander in Chief, George Washington, The American Army
Imagine, you just turned 43 years old, and suddenly you find yourself Commander in Chief of a ragtag American army, such as it was. The battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill had already been fought when Washington arrived in Massachusetts, and had established that the British could not break out of Boston. Once Washington placed the captured British cannon on Dorchester Heights, the British evacuated by sea.
Washington had been named Commander in Chief by the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia in June 1775. He was forty-three years old. There was not yet any American army for him to command, only the militias ringing Boston, but the delegates of the increasingly rebellious colonies were seized by fury for action and for war. "Oh that I was a soldier," wrote John Adams, a radical lawyer from Massachusetts. "I will be. I am reading military books. Everybody must and will, and shall be a soldier."
Adams never became a soldier, but Washington had already been one. He had served in the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War twenty years earlier, rising to the rank of colonel. In his old age, Adams would describe Washington's selection as a political compromise—a southern commander, to lead what would at first be a mostly New England force—engineered by congressional wise-men, including Adams. But Congress did not have many other officers to choose from, Israel Putnam, of the Connecticut militia, was, at 57, too old. Artemas Ward, the commander of the Massachusetts militia, was incompetent and suffering from the stone.
The state begins in violence. However lofty the ideals of a new country or a new regime, it encounters opposition, as most new regimes and countries do, it must fight. If it loses, its ideals join the long catalogue of unfulfilled aspirations.
At six o'clock on the evening of July 9, 1776, the soldiers of the main American army, stationed in New York, were paraded and read the Declaration of Independence. General George Washington, Commander in Chief, hoped this "important event" would inspire them, though when some soldiers joined a mob in pulling down a statue of George III, he deplored their "want of order." Over the next two months the American army and its commander, orderly or not, were unable to offer much in defense of the Declaration's sentiments. …
During the summer, the British assembled, on Staten Island and in the harbor, the largest expeditionary force of the eighteenth century: ten ships of the line, twenty frigates, and 32,000 regular troops. On August 22, most of those troops began moving to Gravesend Bay on Long Island, in what is now southwest Brooklyn. Anticipating a possible landing there, Washington had posted more than a third of his own force of 19,000 men on Brooklyn Heights, and on a line of hills to the south. But he expected the British to attack him on the harbor side of his position, where they could bring the guns of their ships into play. On the morning of the 27th, the British slipped a force through the hills five miles away in the opposite direction and hit the American front line from before and behind.
These are excerpts from Richard Brookheiser's Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, which he calls a moral biography, which has two purposes: to explain its subject, and to shape the minds and hearts of those who read it—by showing how a great man navigated politics and a life as a public figure. Brookheiser says "If Washington's contemporaries were too willing to be awed, we are not willing enough. …We have lost the conviction that ideas require men to bring them to earth, and that great statesmen must be great men. Great statesmen are rare enough in their world. We believe they are mythical, like unicorns." They are not.
According to recent studies, our kids don't know anything about George Washington, nor do most adults. There is some speculation that the problem is big fat books. People are more apt to read thin books that don't scare them about the time involved. Answering that need is a new short biography by the great British historian Paul Johnson. The paperback is only $8.71, and a hardback is available.
ADDENDUM: The picture above is a forensic reconstruction of Washington as a General, and Commander in Chief. Getting a likeness is hard. You get one thing just a little off, and you have lost the resemblance. Washington's skin was pale, we are told, and he burned in the sun. I don't think the tricorn hat gives even as much protection as a baseball cap, so I'm sure he appeared much more weathered, with squint lines (no sunglasses). His real hair was reddish. But nasty Stuart Gilbert did him real dirt down through the ages by overemphasizing the distortions of false teeth, and getting a poor likeness. Remember that, every time you look at a one dollar bill. It was deliberate.
Filed under: Freedom, History, Military, National Security, The United States, United Kingdom | Tags: George Washington, History, The Constitution
Reposted from 2010.
"Washington was keenly aware that whatever he did would become a precedent for the future. How often should he meet with the public? How accessible should he be? Could he have private dinners with friends? Should he make a tour of the new states?" He sought advice from those closest to him, including his vice-president, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, his Secretary of the Treasury. The only state occasions that any of them were familiar with were those of European monarchies.
"Hamilton thought that most people were 'prepared for a pretty high tone in the demeanor of the Executive,' but they probably would not accept as high a tone as was desirable. "Notions of equality," he said, were "yet…too general and too strong" for the president to be properly distanced from the other branches of the government." Gordon Wood tells of the dilemmas.
"When Washington appeared in public, bands sometimes played "God Save the King." In his public pronouncements the president referred to himself in the third person. His dozens of state portraits were all modeled on those of European monarchs."
We can be truly grateful that Washington was so aware that he was establishing precedent, and so careful of what he said and did. He was setting an example, and everything he did was intended to hold the new nation together, to form a more perfect union.
One simple problem was what to call the president. John Adams had discussed the problem with his colleagues in Massachusetts. They called their governor "His Excellency": should not the president have a higher title? Adams thought only something like 'His Highness' or 'His Most Benign Highness' would answer. Washington was said to have initially favored "His High Mightiness, the President of the United States and Protector of Their Liberties." The Dutch leaders of the States-General of the United Provinces called themselves "Their High Mightinesses" and they were leaders of a Republic." Madison managed to get his fellow congressmen to vote for the simple republican title "President of the United States." And that was that.
Washington was relieved when the title question was settled. But "he still was faced with making the institution of the presidency strong and energetic." In fact, said Gordon Wood, "the presidency is the powerful office it is in large part because of Washington's initial behavior."
Gordon S. Wood: Empire of Liberty; A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Europe, History, Literature, Music, Pop Culture, United Kingdom | Tags: Architecture- Art & Learning, Considering the Middle Ages, Not so Dark - Dark Ages
Professor Anthony Esolen for Prager University. We've been told that the Middle Ages, also known as the Dark Ages, were characterized by oppression ignorance and backwardness in areas like human rights, science, health and the arts? We have been misled.
Filed under: Entertainment, Freedom, Heartwarming, Humor, Military, Music, The United States, United Kingdom | Tags: "Can't Stop the Cavalry", Wish I Could Be Home For Christmas
I'm a sucker for tuba music. This song comes in many versions, this one was made seven years ago for the troops.
Filed under: Canada, Europe, Heartwarming, History, Military, United Kingdom | Tags: A Strange Interlude, An Ugly War, Trench Warfare
Here is Sainsbury's official Christmas 2014 advertisement, made in cooperation with the Royal British Legion. It was inspired by very real events one hundred years ago. The chocolate bar featured in the video is being sold by Sainsburys, a British supermarket chain, all profits go to the Royal British Legion and benefit British armed forces and their families.
The Wall Street Journal published an article on the Christmas Truce in 1914. A British soldier named Frank Richards wrote about the event:
On Christmas morning we stuck up a board with 'A Merry Christmas' on it. The enemy had stuck up a similar one…. Two of our men then threw their equipment off and jumped on the parapet with their hands above their heads. Two of the Germans done the same and commenced to walk up the river bank, our two men going to meet them. They met and shook hands and then we all got out of the trench…
Up and down the four hundred-odd miles of trenches on the Western Front, men risked their lives with similar acts, meeting opposing soldiers in "no man's land." Wary and unarmed, they made their way out of their trenches, taking steps that, a day earlier, would have guaranteed their death at the hands of sharpshooters and machine gunners a hundred yards away.
The relaxation of hostilities spread, and what has come to be called the "Christmas truce" took hold. Soon, soldiers were holding joint burial services for the dead. They began trading goods. British soldiers had been given holiday tins of plum pudding from the king; German soldiers had received pipes with a picture of the crown prince on them; and before long the men were bartering these holiday gee-gaws that celebrated the enemy's royals. Eventually, soldiers prayed and caroled together, shared dinner, exchanged gifts. Most famously, there were soccer matches at various locations, played with improvised balls.
The truce mostly held through Christmas and, in some cases, even to the New Year. It took senior officers' threats for fighting to resume, and such comprehensive battlefront peacemaking never happened again during the Great War. Courts-martial were brought against those involved later in even brief Christmas truces to retrieve the dead.
ADDENDUM: Here's a photograph of a real football game played on the battlefield in 1914 during the Christmas truce, from Twitter.


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Line Graphs and Parallel Processing in R
A few months ago I came across one of the most beautiful visualizations I have ever seen: James Chesire's Population Lines Print. What I love about it is that, in the absence of any traditional map features, the outlines of countries and continents are immediately apparent. I wanted to recreate that and create a tool for doing this with any data set.