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PROS: Has good size and strength. Shows some pop off the snap, able to get position and seal the edge for the backside cutback. Shows good mean streak and finishes his blocks. Seems to relish going after linebackers on the second level. Has decent technique when working in pass protection. Delivers a punch in pass protection on the edge and is decent when adjusting to the stunt. Flashes potential as a cut blocker as well.
CONS: Lacks athleticism and needs to improve his footwork. Struggles to match up with speed as he's not consistently quick off the snap in pass protection. Opens up his stance too early and sometimes has trouble locking on to defender. Needs to also improve his hand placement when working as a run blocker. Will whiff on some blocks on the second level.
OVERVIEW: Tepper has the size you like and shows the mean streak to use it correctly. He started this past year at left tackle, after missing all of the '08 season with a pectoral injury. Previous year he started every game at right tackle. Before then he was a reserve, although his playing weight was much closer to 340. As a freshman he missed all of that season before he broken his ankle when he was hit by a car, as he stood up to some hooligans accosting a female friend of his. He managed to get hooked on painkillers in the rehabbing process.
NFL FORECAST: Tepper's collegiate career is not one that I'm sure many players would want to mirror, but at least from his on-field demeanor he seems better for some of the adversity he's faced and plays hard. He reminds me quite a bit of Tyson Clabo, because of their size and mean streak. CLabo played mostly left tackle in college too, but is a much more natural fit on the right side. I think Tepper is the same way. I think he's good enough that if a coach can enhance and polish up his technique, he could be a serviceable stopgap left tackle in the starting lineup. But I think his best position is probably the right side. He's a guy that I think will sit the bench for a few years, but can eventually work his way into the starting lineup, assuming he uses that time to improve his technique. Because while he's athletically limited, with his size and strength he can overcome some of those limitations if he were to play with much better technique and hand use.
ATL FORECAST: Tepper fits well in Atlanta because of the Clabo comparisons. I think he can come in and develop for a year or so behind Clabo at right tackle, and potentially project well as a swing tackle. His mean streak should endear him with a guy like Boudreau. And while I don't think he would be a good option to start, as I said earlier, I think he coudl be a good stopgap starter if he were to make significant improvements to his technique over the next few years. Eventually, he could be a starter at right tackle on a similar level as Clabo is today. I think he can also stick as a swing tackle, and I don't think would be any worse than Svitek is currently in that role. Bottom line, I think Tepper is good enough to stick in Atlanta as a reserve, with potential down the road to be a decent starter.
VALUE: Tepper merits a late round pick because I think he's good enough to stick as a rookie and has some upside to develop as a starter. Ideal target round would be the sixth.
Mike Tepper, OT, California
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My background is wide ranging covering sales and marketing roles over 30+ years mostly in the tech /marketing sectors. I am interested in the why of projects and the quality of thinking as technology is now very much a commodity. What we do with that thinking is what makes the difference. Developing social capital and communities of interest is the best way to grow our businesses in a sustainable way. This requires collaboration, empathy, and genuine care for customers. Customers only care about the results not really the technology so much. Also involved in business as unusual and commercializing new products & services. Proud father of 1 outstanding daughter and keenly interested in her education and public policy & economics.
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Frederico Santos begins his fourth year as head coach of the UNC Asheville volleyball program.
The former Bulldog assistant came back home in June of 2011 after serving as head coach at Barry University in Miami for three seasons.
Santos has quickly showed that the winning tradition of UNC Asheville volleyball would continue under his guidance.
Last season, the Bulldogs finished with a 17-14 overall record and 7-7 mark in Big South Conference play. The season was highlighed by winning the WCU Invitational which included a win over ACC foe Boston College. Senior Rachel Wells led the nation in digs in 2013 and earned a tryout with the U.S. National Team.
In 2012, the Bulldogs had a 12-20 overall record and 7-7 league mark. A young Asheville squad battled through a tough schedule and some injuries to advance to the semifinals of the Big South Championship for the seventh time in the last eight years. Despite being seeded sixth, the Bulldogs upset third-seeded High Point and just missed advancing to the championship with a close loss to second-seeded Coastal Carolina in the semifinals. Along the way, Asheville thrilled its fans with exciting volleyball as the Bulldogs went 5-1 in five-set matches, including a perfect 4-0 mark at Justice Center.
In his first season, despite only having 10 players and being picked to finish in seventh place in the Big South Preseason poll, the Bulldogs finished 15-14 overall and fourth in the league. Asheville advanced to the semifinals of the conference tournament and finished runner-up in two in-season tournaments.
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Excellent quality!11/12/2009
Well worth the money - very pleased!
A surprisingly good tripod11/7/2009
I received the item with full surprise. With over 25 years of photography experience, I would rate it 4.5 stars. Performance: it comes with two snap-in plates. It can be fast snap in, and with an additional lock-in botton, it is very stable. The plateform has a level bubble to ensure the even surfacing. The handling is pretty smooth. The leg is conventional with plastic locks, easy to release but steady for performance. Due to its height, The leg is widely spread once it is fully opened. However, the leg can be adjusted to a smaller angle by the central lock. Endurance: not sure yet. It looks or feels to be fairly heavy duty. The only thing I am not so sure is the release lock that is made of plastic. I do not know how long the plastic lock would last. One thing I should point out is that this tripod is fairly heavy. If you are looking for a light-weighted one to carry with on your hiking, this may not be the right one. It does not come with a soft case. Overall, this is a surpriseingly good tripod, better than what I expected and better than what I have bought before with much less money I paid. If you are taking serious photographs/videos and need a kind of heavy duty tripod, this one could be a good try.4 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful
Awesome tripod!11/4/2009
Fast delivery. I ordered it on a Wednesday & it was delivered on a Friday! Very nice tripod, i was a little skeptical because it was only $29.99 but now that i've had it for a week i'm very satisfied. If you're in need of a tripod don't hesitate because this is the one to get!0 Helpful | 1 Not Helpful
Great Value for the Money11/3/2009
Very sturdy tripod and well built. The neck adjustment could be a bit smoother. The only negatives I have is that with the legs fully extended it has a very large footprint. It would be better if they didn't spread so wide, to make up for the loss of stability a locking nut on the leg stabilizer would work. It could use a handle attached at the center column to make it easier to carry also. Overall though its a very good tripod and well worth the money.
Great tripod10/10/2009
This is the sturdiest tripod I have ever touched! I thought they sent me the wrong one. I can't imagine it ever breaking or wearing out. Great for a video camera, because it moves so smooth. Great value. My only complaint - it feels like it weighs more than 6.2 lbs.8 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful


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Welcome to Yokoji
We are an internationally renowned Zen Center located in the beautiful mountains of Southern California.
Yokoji provides a place for people from all walks of life to practice Zen Buddhism. There are many ways you can do this.
Every Sunday we run introductory classes in zazen (Zen meditation). Throughout the year there are events, often on weekends, which focus on various aspects of Zen practice. We hold sesshin (silent meditation retreats) almost every month of the year, ranging from 2-7 days.
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The Merval Index fell 0.4 percent to 2,474.8.
Grupo Financiero Galicia SA (GGAL AF) fell 2.6 percent to 3.04 pesos, its sixth day of losses and its longest losing streak since December 2009. Argentina's largest consumer lender had its recommendation cut yesterday to "underweight" from "buy" at Banco Santander SA.
Mirgor SACIFIA (MIRG AF) rose 8.2 percent to 64.9 pesos, the biggest advance in two months. The Argentine producer of automobile air conditioning systems is gaining as investors buy the stock before a Dec. 16 deadline to participate in a 2 million pesos rights issuance, Marcelo Olguin, chief economist at Buenos Aires-based brokerage firm SBS Soc. de Bolsa, said in a telephone interview.
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Trees are very useful data structures. With little effort, we can think of several situations trees are useful for. Think of ancestry trees, your computer file system, and how about a tree of all possible solutions to a chess game.
In their general form, trees are data structures in which data is stored in nodes. Nodes are connected together with edges.
Queues are dreadful in real-life when you have to wait in line for an hour or two. But in data structures, they are very useful and simple to implement.
Queues follow a very simple design concept: First-In-First-Out or FIFO. In other words, items arrive first into a queue are processed first.
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A stack is a data structure that resembles a stack of of boxes. The first box you put on the floor is the last to be removed, and the last box you stack up is the first to be removed. This is what we call First In Last Out or FILO.
- Push is the operation to add items to a stack.
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Linked Lists
Linked lists are data structures that store data in such a way that each element has a reference to another element in the list.
Any linked list invariant must support some basic operations:
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We implemented the following example for a driver's license structure:
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Remember our driver's license example we discussed in an earlier post. A license holds several pieces of information:
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Address: Near Dean Street
Date Of Birth: 03/08/1978
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structure is mentioned in C++ context, in fact, we are talking about a feature of the language that enables the programmer to create data structures that can represent data grouping like what you would find on a license, library card, price tag for a product, a card game card, etc.
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Great Basin Province
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Sonoran Floristic Province. [citation needed]
The Great Basin Province[2] is a floristic province of the Madrean Subkingdom (floristic region), in the Boreal Kingdom (floristic kingdom).[2] It is located in the Western United States.
It generally corresponds to the Central Basin and Range ecoregion and the Great Basin physiographic section.
The province includes xeric deserts — with < 10 in (250 mm) annual precipitation; and less xeric habitats — with > 10 in (250 mm) precipitation, access to aquifers, and/or in riparian zones.[3] Madrean Sky Islands are found at higher elevations, with montane habitats.
- Deserts
The larger deserts of the Great Basin Province are: the Great Basin Desert (39,505 square miles (102,320 km2) in Nevada; and the Great Salt Lake Desert (4,000 square miles (10,000 km2) and Escalante Desert (3,270 square miles (8,500 km2) in Utah.
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- Great Basin shrub steppe — Deserts and xeric shrublands biome ecoregion
- Great Basin montane forests — Temperate coniferous forest biome ecoregion''
- Central Basin and Range ecoregion — Level III ecoregion (EPA)
- Northern Basin and Range ecoregion — Level III ecoregion (EPA)
- Colorado Plateau — typically treated as a subprovince of the Great Basin Province as a floristic and ecoregion. Sometimes differentiated into the Colorado Plateau and the Kaibab Plateau, as in the EPA Level III classification.
- ^ tbd. "Ecoregions of North America". USGS Western Ecology Division. Retrieved 2010-04-27.
- ^ a b Lentz, David L. (editor). Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas. ISBN 0-231-11157-6. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
The southern border of the Great Basin Province is marked by the replacement of sagebrush by Larrea and Ambrosia (creosote bush and ragweed) … floras of arid regions [within the Madrean Subkingdom] are excluded and treated with either the Boreal Subkingdom (Great Basin Province) or with the Neotropical Kingdom (Mexican Xerophylic [Sonoran] Region).
- ^ Bryce, S.A; et. al, Ecoregions of Nevada, Reston, Virginia: USGS NOTE: The poster depicts the California northern point of the Mojave Basin & Range ecoregion at pixels 453 horizontal & 1151 vertical (interpolates to 37.28N,117.71W in the Last Chance Range, N of Sulfur Rd).


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DAMASCUS, Syria — Two suicide car bombers struck Syria's army command headquarters today in Damascus, killing four guards and engulfing a key symbol of President Bashar Assad's embattled regime in flames, state media and witnesses said.
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Green Outdoor Dinner Party No real surprise I love GREEN! I also happen to have a huge design crush on the quatrefoil shape seen above so when I discovered this fun fabric months ago - I snagged it up for a party design! Hosting dinner parties is one of my favorite ways to celebrate so I designed a green outdoor dinner party with this fabric and touches of Easter/Spring decor. Hope you love it … { read more }
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Fall "Acorn Themed" Dinner Party Tablescape
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Green Your Tailgate Party!
If you're visiting after seeing today's Tennessee Mornings segment - Welcome! - Enjoy more tips on greening your tailgate below! Be sure to also visit Broccoli Cupcake for more on the healthy tailgate foods you saw this morning! Green Your Tailgate It's easy to go green and enjoy game day with these simple tips! Get creative with your table covers! We love the idea of using grass … { read more }
Seascape Dinner Party: Blues and Greens
Seascape Table As summer comes to an end, it is the perfect time to grill out by the pool with your friends. Make it unforgettable by styling a fun seascape table setting! Think blue and green! This table setting will put a smile on any neighbor's face, as they say down south, "come on over and sit a spell". Courtney and I had a blast styling this table while visiting our best friends in … { read more }
Fairy Birthday Party
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Kym Reinstadler, SCN Feature Writer's curator insight, February 4, 10:31 PM
How many times have you, as a school communicator, been asked to describe 21st Century learning? If your audience isn't teachers and school administrators, eyes tend to glaze over real fast. Here's an infographic that simplifies the concept with opposites. Presentation of the information looks like notes a fifth-grader might take in school, which quietly urges parents, " You can understand this, too." A good one to add to your communications toolbox.
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What does 21st Century learning mean to you and how important do you think the shift between traditional to 21st Century learning is to student achievement?
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How the medium matters in deep digital reading and how we can improve on it.
Pamela Hills's curator insight, November 18, 2014 5:24 PM
This is something had not thought about. The digital world has changed many things And this is one we have over looked .
Qwertynomics's curator insight, November 29, 2014 4:32 PM
I love this Digital Citizenship Infographic. It is nice and clean and would look great in any classroom.
Sandra Delgado's curator insight, May 8, 2014 5:32 AM
I LOVE this poster-like infographic showing the very important role of the Teacher Librarian. Thank you, Ms. Valenza!
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Record interviews about people's lives and pass wisdom from one generation to the next
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Teaching Information literacy skills still important although students are proficient in use of technology.
Anita Vance's curator insight, February 2, 2014 10:46 AM
more data for our discussions - students are more comfortable with technology, but less able to locate good information or decipher data they have found.
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Beautiful looking edition of 500 copies that gathers re-worked, re-edited versions of material that previously snuck out on CD-Rs from Drone Disco and Heavy Blossom: "Hototogisu - the duo of UK experimentalist Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Sunroof et al) and New York-based-guitarist Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards/Zaimph/GHQ) - are all about impact, about taking the physical aspect of sound and hallucinating it to the point of abstraction, so much so that for all of the complexity of their music it often sounds like it's standing still, simply hanging in the air and vibrating without anything approaching a 'plot' to bring it to a point. By contrast, Burning Star Core, the trio of drummer Trevor Tremaine, Robert Beatty on electronics (both of whom also play in Hair Police alongside Mike Connelly of Wolf Eyes) and C.Spencer Yeh on violin and electronics, are more overtly propulsive, usurping 'classic' rock form via electronics and drums but still focused on momentum, on the jam as a form of structural gravity, on the unfolding of action via development over time. This all-improvised studio meeting is the perfect reconciliation of both tendencies, of Hototogisu's obsessive layering of strata after strata of violently conceived noise and of Burning Star Core's epic, post-Kraut thunder-punk style. Bower has long been on record about his opposition to anything approaching 'dialogue' in improvised music, favouring a senses-devouring simultaneity over anything that might pass for actual exchange, so it's no surprise that there is little on this new record that sounds even close to conventionally improvised music. Instead, it feels more focused towards the zone where energy begins to spontaneously birth form, where the monomaniacal pursuit of the nowhere zone bears fruit in the shape of a music that transcends its constituent parts while being totally based around – and rooted in - the individual response to the moment. BXC play it ginchy and garage-pop right from the start, simultaneously inverting and amplifying Bower and Bassett's vertical constructs with drums that sound like they might have been lifted straight from the most flower-power parts of the Silver Apples' back catalogue and bass patterns that are as tactile and rock-anchored as Can's Holger Czukay. To hear Hototogisu's music given this kind of injection of dynamic energy makes them seem more obviously sourced in 'classic' rock music than you might otherwise have guessed, with a dense, implosive sound that feels like a hyper-distilled take on all of rock's most outlaw aspects, the feedback that makes you feel like you could explode in a ball of electricity, the anti-gravity effect of heavy fuzz, the seductive, alien tongues. It's certainly the most 'garage band' side that either of the groups have cut to date, albeit in the form of a Gnostic, post-acid re-think where the vibration is more important than the outer forms, where energized enthusiasm makes for a more fundamental guiding principle than verse/chorus/verse and where the only direction left is out. Which is another way of saying it feels genuinely bad-ass. In an era where even the best groups seem polite, pro, participatory, democratic, this is music that is disregarding in its overwhelming power, exhilarating in it irresponsible spontaneity. And in an underground scene where self-conscious notions of avant-garde and 'free improvisation' have long displaced any concept of an intuitive rocks off-style, well, it feels like a re-connection to the source. So file this one closer to Kill City or Sticky Fingers than Persian Surgery Dervishes or The Black Album and feel the gravity of your whole record collection shift." – David Keenan.
Limited edition of 100 copies documenting a live solo show from Marcia Bassett that took place 6/6/06 in Hasselt. 28 minutes of thick, frozen air, slow brain-bloating highs, and thunderous ecstasy peaks. One of the darkest/densest blats from Marcia to date and highly recommended. Comes in wraparound colour pro-printed sleeves.
The first ever release from the Hototogisu duo of Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Total/Sunroof) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards) that even approaches being 'generally available', Green is a real CD - not a CD-R - pressed up for the group by the sainted Ed Hardy of Eclipse records and available in an edition of 1000 copies complete with a suave full-colour booklet reproducing a bunch of the duo's art. Anyone whose mind was blown by the vision of this pair powering their way through one of the most magical/unforgiving sets of Subcurrent 2005 will find plenty to drown in here. Tracks are shorter than on previous releases, though even more obsessively detailed. There are points where the cacophony is so insanely oversaturated that the noise starts to sound as if it's spontaneously giving birth to language: you start hallucinating words and sentences, almost as if the film protecting you from a constant bombardment of information-heavy environmental radiation has been blown apart. Green also features some of Hototogisu's most straight-ahead death/doom metal moves. Although they're not quite Skullflower, the first track features snatches of classic death metal riffs alongside the stomach-punch of a cheap drum machine and on their theme song, the beautifully ferocious "Heavy Blossom", Mick Flower of Vibracathedral Orchestra plays drums. Alongside all the iron first action, there are some beautiful moments where Marcia and Matthew's voices melt into ribbons of pure white light and the whole thing floats to the ceiling. A modern classic, and possibly the best Hototogisu album to date. Highest recommendation.
Brand new full-length recording from the duo of Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Total/Sunroof et al) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards/Zaimph/GHQ) features a more rock-reverent take on the kind of vertical screens of impossibly detailed overtone that defined their earlier albums, with Marcia's viola slow-burning fluttering afterimages of neon spirals deep into the air while Bower's guitar/microphone worship generates repeat-ascensions of overloaded ecstasy tone. Something grittier, more immediately tactile, that makes this their most dramatically meat-based orbit of hallucinated space/time vectors to date. Highly recommended.
Limited edition LP (500 copies and already completely sold out at source) from the duo of Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, GHQ, UN, Zaimph et al) and Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Sunroof!, Total). This one is just totally monolithic, with deliriously over-amped guitar/electronics/vocal ecstasy building to plateau after plateau. Only their third vinyl release, this one features three massive slabs of feedback-illuminated deliverance that flatline rock modes with the most thunderous application of avant-aggression. Totally beautiful.
Edition of only 100 copies one-sided LP from UK underground legends Skullflower: only 'officially' available direct from the label, White Wolf presents a torrential side-long epic from Matthew Bower and co that takes off where Fushitsusha circa Tokyo Flashback 3 left off, with buzzing armies of transparent guitar oblivions dissolving in endless vectors of fuzz to the point that they generate hallucinatory arcs of classical string elegies, sounding a symphonic threnody w/a distant euphoric metal backbone. Bower's recent work has been particularly amazing and the combination of classical scale and full in-the-red guitar violence is exceptionally potent here. Limited supply, obviously, comes in a white sleeve with a hand-stamped obi strip.
Split LP of 333 copies with two tracks from Matthew Bower's Skullflower – one long, inchoate feedback ritual and a shorter martial drums/guitar tattoo – paired with new material from Limepit, a black noise/vocal/drone group with connections to Heavy Blossom recording artists Sarah's Charity. Silkscreened covers with insert.
Necessary culling/upgrading of a bunch of tracks from the mid-90s by this major UK underground outfit, the brainchild of Anthony Di Franco of Ramleh/JFK/Skullflower et al: Voyages presents devastatingly re-mastered tracks from OOP releases like 1997's Astronomy, 1994's Nova Feedback and 1995's Ax II. Ax's sound was extremely prescient, somehow tying together the kind of endlessly postponed cathartic metal of SunnO))) with thudding fists of electricity and bass heavy boombastics, birthing a thug-punk take on Butthole Surfers-play-Suicide that would appeal to fans of the most esoteric Zaimph sides as much as the early Zos Kia rituals. And the material has never sounded better, benefiting from a clarity and punch that is truly ear-lacerating.
New vinyl collection of stray tracks and unreleased jams from this great UK underground group with a side that restores the full session featuring Matthew Bower (Skullflower at al) on guitar that was recorded at JTI on 29/1/90, two nights before Skullflower recorded the Xaman album at the same studio: JfK was the brainchild of Anthony Di Franco of Ramleh, Skullflower, Ax et al and they played a bizarre mutant form of thug-psych that took drum machines and monstrous acid bass and devoured them with shots of pure electricity. Think The Cramps, Chrome and The Buttholes given a furious post-Broken Flag dressing down. La Bas gathers a buncha choice shots into the void, including their great Temple Of Set/Sexodus 7" that came out on Fourth Dimension in 1992 alongside eight otherwise unavailable recordings and the tracks with Bower on guitar – including a previously unreleased alternate take of "Sexodus 90" – see him at his most iconoclastically testifying. Also comes with two more bonus tracks unique to the vinyl. A key piece of the puzzle from the depths of the UK underground. Recommended!
Devastating early live show captured on limited to 250 copies one-sided vinyl, only 'officially' available as a bonus LP with the 4xCD art edition set of early Skullflower albums released on CD by Dirter: this one documents the early Skullflower line-up in massively form-destroying glory, with Matthew Bower joined by Stefan Jaworzyn (Ascension/Whitehouse/Shock et al), Gary Mundy (Ramleh/Broken Flag) and Stuart Dennison live at the Bull & Gate in London on October 7th 1987.
Much anticipated hook-up between these three trans-Atlantic monsters. One-side each and then a third monster inter-band jam. Leopards side is a classic haunt, with wraiths of hovering drone peaking in eye-rolling vocal confusion, while the Mouthus track is a fabulous punk trouncing of fuzz-impacted guitar and clattering electrified skin. Sunroof! jams are the real highlight though, especially the doofily-named "Cortez Tha Killa" that features Matthew Bower on repeat-riff nirvana while Mick Flower of Vibracathedral Orchestra lets his wrist fly with some of the most insane and righteously piloted post-Young acid delirium of anyone's career. Too fucking much. Final big-band side presents a beautiful void of spooked eternity, with shadow forms moving in and out of earshot like so much hallucinatory cumulus. Comes in a full-colour gatefold sleeve, already sold-out at source, so move it.


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Posts for April, 2006
Lighting up Miller Park
The main set of panels hang from an upper deck and run from foul pole to foul pole. In addition, a LED board has now taken the place of the old scoreboard on the left-field wall.
The light from the panels is so bright that Major League Baseball has rules on how they are used while the game is in progress. According to Milwaukee Brewers officials, once a batter steps into the batter's box, the panels have to remain static. That is, they can stay on, but they can't pulsate or show action.
Approximately 10 different sponsors have purchased ad time on the big light boards.
Speaking of sponsors, at least one new advertising sign is up in a prominent place at Miller Park. TCW Funds has a sign out in the outfield. TCW is principal owner Mark Attanasio's Los Angeles investment banking firm.
Attanasio meets the press
On Monday morning, he met with members of the media and took questions for a few minutes. As he sat down, he noticed there were fewer reporters around. "You can tell that it's my sophomore year. Fewer media," he said.
Which is just fine with Attanasio. He wants the focus on the team and the players, not him. Last week, though, Sports Illustrated ran a small story on him, calling him "The Savior."
Attanasio's style is not bombastic. He is quick to spread the praise around to his lieutenants, including General Manager Doug Melvin, manager Ned Yost, and front-office executives Rick Schlesinger and Bob Quinn.
On Sunday, Attanasio worked the crowd at Fan Fest. On Monday, he said he was surprised that so many fans kept referring to the new ballpark.
New ballpark? Miller Park has been open since March 2001. But Attanasio said the reference to a new park was an affirmation that people have noticed the changes.
There are the bright LED boards inside the stadium. There is the new picnic area out in right field. And, in a nod to our alleged cheap-skate ways, the free game program appears to be a hit already.
Attanasio also said he enjoyed the fact that expectations for the club are high this year. Some baseball experts are writing and saying that the Brewers might be a playoff club.
Earlier, Attanasio made reference to pitcher Ben Sheets. Sheets told Attanasio that pressure is good for the player. If there was no pressure and the games didn't mean anything, it wouldn't be fun.
Attanasio said he feels the same way.
Pssst! Frozen Four is sold out
The Bradley Center, the site of the NCAA men's ice-hockey tournament, made it official on Tuesday. There had been a slight chance that one or more of the four teams in the tournament might not need its allotment of tickets.
But hockey fans at Maine, the University of Wisconsin, Boston College and North Dakota snapped up the tickets.
You can always check with a ticket broker, or the usual sites on the web. For more information on the tournament itself, go here
Mixed blessing
Under other circumstances, Jeff Simmons might be jumping up and down and shrieking like a 12-year-old girl at her first concert.
Ten days ago, he was an aspiring Indy-car driver who had a few possibilities that might have come through for a ride in the 90th Indianapolis 500.
Now suddenly he's in top-flight equipment with a top-notch team that has proven itself very capable of winning next month.
Unfortunately, it took Paul Dana's death to change Simmons' outlook.
Simmons, 29, was introduced Tuesday by Rahal Letterman Racing as the replacement to Dana, a former rival of his in the Indy Pro Series development division who died in a racing accident March 26.
"That's what's made this whole situation so fantastic but so difficult at the same time," Simmons said. "I was trying to put together a deal. Who could I run with? What was the best option?
"And then all of a sudden the best option comes to me. But the manner in which it happened makes it all bittersweet."
So as much as Simmons would like to climb up on a tabletop and scream, "AWESOME!" he also wants to let everyone know that he races in Dana's memory.
It's a balancing act. But Simmons has done his job well so far.
Racing Sausages hit the big time
That's because the sausages are headed to ESPN studios in Bristol, Conn., to film their first national television ad.
The ad will be part of ESPN's award-winning "This is SportsCenter" campaign. The often hilarious ads are used to promote SportsCenter telecasts and anchors.
The ad is scheduled to be taped today and will air later this summer.
According to the Brewers, the tentative script calls for the Racing Hot Dog to take the lead role in the ad, with supporting positions for the other three. The ad will feature ESPN anchor Steve Levy and will take place in the company cafeteria.
In the ad, Hot Dog, played by WHO KNOWS, deals with accusations of cannibalism when he chooses a hot dog as his lunch meal.
Wisconsin State University Panthers?
How does Wisconsin State University grab you? Like it? Yes? No?
If you want to hear more, stop by the Ernest Spaights Plaza on campus at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Want more information? Check this out.
Still have Big Hair? Read on
The Milwaukee Brewers are debuting their Retro Sundays this Sunday. That means the team will wear the blue pinstripes and will be sporting the classic (unless you disagree) "Ball-In-Glove" logo.
But the Brewers can't help themselves. In addition to the retro uniforms, the team will be adopting a different theme from the 80s for every Retro Sunday. This Sunday it's Big Hair.
During the game, scoreboard video and ballpark music will highlight the 80s, and fans will be eligible for prizes.
Gorman Thomas didn't have Big Hair when he played in the 80s. He had scruffy hair and the classic (unless you disagree) scruffy look. But Thomas will be on hand for the game, too.
Following the money at the Frozen Four
But none of the schools made any money out of it. In contrast to the much larger and more lucrative NCAA men's basketball tournament, all of the revenue generated at the Frozen Four goes back to, ta-da, the NCAA.
NCAA officials say all of the money is sent back to what amounts to an NCAA general fund. In basketball, all of that dough gets poured back into a pool that is then redistributed to the member conferences.
The four schools can at least be grateful that the NCAA pays for per diem and travel expenses to the Frozen Four.
Beyond that, you're on your own, Bucky. Does that seem fair?
How St. Louis built its stadium
The Cardinals took an entirely different approach to the stadium than the Brewers did. The Cards raised $320 million through private financing. The remainder came from a low-interest loan from St. Louis County. The Cards plan to repay that loan.
The Brewers rely mainly on a 0.1% stadium sales tax that is levied in five counties.
The new Busch stadium is downtown and is part of a redevelopment plan that is already bearing fruit. Outside the stadium, the Cardinals are developing a 10-acre area called Ballpark Village.
Here in Milwaukee, the Brewers wanted to stay near the old County Stadium, but little or no development has sprung up around Miller Park.
Mark Attanasio, the Brewers' principal owner, has talked about finding ways to better develop Miller Park and the area around it. But without the anchor of a downtown location, he will have his hands full finding the right formula.
Why not let athletes bet on games?
Why not let athletes bet on games? According to one law professor, this could be a good thing. $
When the Braves left town
Forty years ago, the Atlanta Braves played their first regular-season game in Atlanta after bolting Milwaukee.
Tonight, the Braves will mark that anniversary by reuniting their 1966 ballclub before the game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Turner Field.
Hank Aaron won't be there. But Phil Niekro and Tony Cloninger will be.
The Ali business
This week, the company announced that it had acquired an 80% interest in the name and likeness of Ali. No one can dispute that Ali is an icon in world sport. He may be the most recognized person in the world.
Under the deal, CKX Inc., has the rights to the name, image and likeness of Ali, some trademarks owned by Ali and the rights to existing Ali license agreements.
Ali will retain a 20% interest in the business, which will be operated through a newly formed company named G.O.A.T. LLC. GOAT, of course, stands for Greatest of All Time.
Perhaps owning an icon sounds a little creepy. But don't bet against the CKX folks. As the company's PR staff dryly puts it, "this transaction is a continuation of CKX's mission to partner with iconic content and to use its resources to preserve, protect and grow this content."
Still skeptical? Consider the fact that CKX also owns an 85% interest in the entities which own and/or control the commercial utilization of the name, image and likeness of Elvis Presley, the operation of the Graceland museum and related attractions, as well as revenue derived from Elvis Presley's television specials, films and certain of his recorded musical works.
Elvis, as we all know by now, has left the building, but his name still carries commercial weight.
So where should CKX go next? Michael Jordan? Madonna? Shaq? Let me know whose name and likeness qualifies as a corporate entity.
Class envy, racetrack style
They were scheduled to demolish the infield media center on Tuesday. I've been there once, not that it matters, and it seemed pretty nice. The place has been around for a little more than 10 years, and already it's following the Sands and the Desert Inn into oblivion.
Meanwhile, closer to home, the Milwaukee Mile management worked on and off for the better part of my 16-year tenure on this job to justify a replacement for its dilapidated grandstand and an actual building where reporters from around the globe could tell tales of the races and the city. Up the highway, Road America is undertaking some much-needed renovation this year. You can bet quite a few pennies had to be pinched to squeeze the work into the budget.
No answers here, just a question from the department of wishful thinking. Isn't there a racing equivalent to the resale store?
Tiger's excellent adventure
Woods shows plenty of drive
Tiger Woods hunkered behind the wheel of his vehicle, its motor coughing noisily. One of the world's most visible athletes was suddenly unrecognizable under a flame-retardant suit, helmet and tinted visor.
On Monday, the world's best golfer became a celebrity stock car racer in Huntly, New Zealand.
Woods, in New Zealand for the wedding of caddie Steve Williams, won the second of two celebrity stock car races on a dirt track in this small coal mining town 55 miles south of Auckland — even after starting at the back of the field.
Woods was a designated "blocker" in the first race, which also included several full-time V-8 circuit drivers. His job was to prevent other cars from passing front-runners on his team, and Woods didn't finish among the leaders in the 12-lap race.
In the second race, Woods forced his way from the back of the grid to the front.
He took the lead on the sixth of 12 laps over a 400-meter oval, and, despite a crash into the wall which left his car sparking and tires smoking, he held on to win.
Now a chance for the sort of sarcastic comment that tends to start a squabble among fans:
It's good to see Tiger take up a sport after all these years of playing games.
Go ahead . . . check it out
I had the pleasure to spend a few minutes each with Champ Car rookies Katherine Legge and Charles Zwolsman on Tuesday after their test at the Milwaukee Mile was postponed because of temperatures in the 40s and wind gusts to match.
Legge, as serious as she is about racing, has an engaging personality and a fantastic sense of humor. It's probably not meant for general consumption, but she does a marvelous impression of A.J. Allmendinger doing a good-natured but not quite so p.c. imitation of a NASCAR victory lane.
Zwolsman, asked about his preparation for his first oval-track run, a daunting task for a lifelong road racer, deadpanned that he'd packed extra underwear. (Don't forget; this was with someone he'd met all of 3 minutes earlier.)
I know, I know. Champ Car is filled with foreigners, and American fans can't be bothered to even learn how to pronounce their names, much less appreciate their talent. And the races are boring parades . . . without all the built-in bathroom breaks a dozen caution flags provide.
Listen, I'm not saying that open-wheel racing is better. I'm just saying that there are parts of the sport that are too frequently ignored or put down by people who call themselves racing fans.
There interesting people worthy of a look at all levels, from the Al Schill and the gang at Slinger Speedway to the gentleman Dale Jarrett and the rock star Dale Earnhardt Jr. in NASCAR to everywhere in between. Expand your horizons. Step outside your comfort zone. Take the opportunity to watch them and to get to know them. $
"United 93": Why Not Now?
I dunno. But ready or not, here it comes.
Another question might be, why should the harrowing film "United 93" be seen differently than terrorism based "entertainment" like "24" and "The Unit?" Because it really happened? Aren't those shows more obviously exploiting our real world fears and sensitivities? Isn't nightly news coverage of violence in Iraq just as upsetting? And wasn't there already a TV movie about United Flight 93, which was hijacked on Sept. 11 and which crashed when its passengers resisted the terrorists?
Or is it actually the "big screen" that is the problem? Film is a more tactile, emotional, Dolby digital, larger than life and in your face experience than TV not to mention real life. So will those who watch it on DVD at home be somehow be more detached?
We've all been made vulnerable by 9/11 we are all sensitive to it in different ways. While TV commercials for "United 93" alone made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and my eyes welled with tears during the film itself, I never felt tramatized, exploited or used. Does this make me calloused or jaded?
I think the Zapuder film is one of the most important films ever made. I show it to groups of students every year and they gasp, along with me all these years later, at the head shot, or "the pink mist" as it was called in "Jarhead."
Time does not heal all wounds.
Just because Pres. Kenedy was killed 40 plus years ago doesn't make watching the Zapruder film any less powerful or upsetting of an experience. Just because Sept. 11 happened not quite five years ago, doesn't make it too soon to examine it from every perspective possible. In fact, it feels necessary to do so.
I remember sitting in my parents' living room watching Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald live, as clearly as I recall watching the World Trade Center towers collapse on a TV in the press room at the Toronto Film Festival. But just because we all share such pivotal experiences communally doesn't mean everyone feels the same about them.
"I would never go see that movie," said Randy Manis, senior vice president of acquisition for THINKfilm, an independent film company. "I don't think that's my Saturday night. I said for months no one will ever go see that. But I saw the trailer in a theater and I could tell that people were wrapped up in it."
Milwaukee screenwriter Tom Matthews is of a similar and even more critical mind.
In an e mail he wrote that "the dramatization of any event for commercial consumption … is by definition exploitive regardless of the filmmaker's intentions." Matthews wrote that "it seems grotesque to me that we are already trying to reduce 9/11 to speculative melodrama. The people whom moviegoers will watch suffer and die in 'United 93' are probably still receiving junk mail from computers not yet alerted to their murders. Is it really time already to help ourselves to their deaths in the name of art and commerce." And, he wrote, since much of there is to know about what happened that day has already been revealed, "that just leaves morbid curiosity" as an excuse to make or see the film. It's a valid and sincerely held point of view.
But its an often sad fact of life that seeing is believing. And perhaps it is a flaw in our culture that in turning every personal and national tragedy into TV movie of the week spectacle we devalue them. But I find it telling that many families of people who died on United 93 cooperated with the film, as if even they needed to see evidence of something they already knew.
Racetrack debate, New York style
People on both sides packed the meeting, which was ultimately postponed after a city councilman ended up in a headlock.
You can read more in NASCAR Scene Daily. $
For your viewing pleasure
"American Stock: The Golden Era of NASCAR 1936-1971" was five years in the making. It was created by John W. Warner IV and narrated by his father, Sen. John W. Warner III (R-Va.) According to promotional materials, the documentary "is the only independently produced, authentic view of the history of stock car racing and the rise of NASCAR that exists on film today."
The series, listed at $69.95, can be purchased online or by calling (800) 405-9514. It also is to be available at amazon.com May 9.$
Fans of each other
But did you know or do you remember that Fingers was a huge fan of drag racing?
Fingers recently hooked up with Top Fuel driver "Hot Rod" Fuller, a golf-course encounter Fuller relives in a story on the NHRA's website.
When Hollywood and Talladega collide
Comic actor Will Ferrell was busy all weekend pitching his upcoming movie "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby." He stopped in the media center for a question and answer session, the the speedway staff was nice enough to pass along a transcript. Some of the highlights . . .
"I don't know if there's one individual driver because Ricky's kind of all the drivers and none of them all at the same time. He kind of came out of my brain, which is a messed up place."
"I really didn't know that much about it. We really kind of recognized that no one had taken advantage of placing a comedy in the NASCAR world and didn't really even know if it would be possible, but that is kind of
where we started, as more of just as a leaping off place. I am definitely a fan and find myself with the TV on every Sunday, just keeping tabs on things."
"It wasn't necessarily funny to us to extend what people might think the stereotypes are in the race world. It is a sports comedy. But at the same time, we just wanted it to be outlandish with obviously fictitious characters in the racing world and still photograph the racing with the same intensity that you would find in a really dramatic racing movie. So we kind of have a combination of both going on here."
"Absolutely. My motto is: when Alabama calls, you pick up the phone. If we had the opportunity, we'd be more than happy. Can we use your house as a location?"
"Oddly enough, we looked at Kramer vs. Kramer, which we heard had some great driving footage, but it's not a racecar movie which I thought it was. I thought it was about two drivers named Kramer. So wasted a lot of valuable research time doing that. We did watch 'Six Pack' with Kenny Rogers. But we watched Days of Thunder, actually. We just basically wanted to see how they shot things and just out of curiosity and the
fact that John C.Reilly makes his comeback in this movie."
"You know what, there isn't. There is actually a song that we filmed that Ricky and Cal sing, but it is not in the film, it will be on the DVD. I guess that is the closest thing to a ballad."$


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Community Status Updates
My review of the Steve Austin/Dolph Lundgren movie "The Package"; http://www.subba-cultcha.com/film/the-package/Mar 08 2013 04:14 PM
fhqwhjoshThe pull quote's nice, but this one's better:
" . . . requires little in the way of deduction beyond 'why is Stone Cold Steve Austin hitting that guy with a claw hammer?'"
Mar 08 2013 09:24 PM
SkummyThe guy who got me the job actually used that exact line as the pull quote to sell it to the editor. I wish they'd used it on the website.
Mar 09 2013 01:32 AM
The RabbitmanSo what's the latest on Skummy's package?
Mar 10 2013 05:11 AM


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|Table of Contents
|Vol. 53, No. 1, 2001
Issue release date: January–February 2001
|Section title: Original Paper
Acoustic and Intelligibility Characteristics of Sentence Production in Neurogenic Speech DisordersWeismer G. · Jeng J.-Y. · Laures J.S. · Kent R.D. · Kent J.F.
Department of Communicative Disorders, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisc., USA
Published online: 12/21/2000
Issue release date: January–February 2001
Number of Print Pages: 18
Number of Figures: 6
Number of Tables: 4
ISSN: 1021-7762 (Print)
eISSN: 1421-9972 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/FPL
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between scaled speech intelligibility and selected acoustic variables in persons with dysarthria. Control speakers and speakers with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson's disease (PD) produced sentences which were analyzed acoustically and perceptually. The acoustic variables included total utterance durations, segment durations, estimates of the acoustic vowel space, and slopes of formant transitions; the perceptual variables included scaled speech intelligibility and severity of speech involvement. Results indicated that the temporal variables typically differentiated the ALS group, but not the PD group, from the controls, and that vowel spaces were smaller for both neurogenic groups as compared to controls, but only significantly so for the ALS speakers. The relation of these acoustic measures to scaled speech intelligibility is shown to be complex, and the composite results are discussed in terms of sentence vs. single-word intelligibility estimates and their underlying acoustic bases.
© 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel
Number of Print Pages : 18
Number of Figures : 6, Number of Tables : 4, Number of References : 43
Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica (International Journal of Phoniatrics, Speech Therapy and Communication Pathology)
Founded in 1947 by R. Luchsinger, M. Seeman and J. Tarneaud
Official Organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)
Vol. 53, No. 1, Year 2001 (Cover Date: January-February 2001)
Journal Editor: S. Fex, Lund
ISSN: 1021–7762 (print), 1421–9972 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/journals/fpl
Published online: 12/21/2000
Issue release date: January–February 2001
Number of Print Pages: 18
Number of Figures: 6
Number of Tables: 4
ISSN: 1021-7762 (Print)
eISSN: 1421-9972 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/FPL


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Happy Weird Wednesday! Let's dive right into this week's wacky links, shall we?
An 8.8-pound chocoholic fish is slowly getting weaned off his diet of Kit Kats. [Orange]
Reggie Watts is an odd but catchy pitchman for Nando, a Portuguese and Mozambican restaurant. [Laughing Squid]
What do the private chefs of famous leaders have to say about their high-profile employers? [YouTube via Eater]
Brush up on your espresso jargon with this handy dictionary. [Serious Eats]
Tara Parker-Pope of The New York Times writes about the dangers of alcohol withdrawal in light of Amy Winehouse's death. [NYT]
In the middle of Manhattan, a pop-up farm turns a stalled construction project into an bounty of fresh vegetables. [GOOD]
This depressing birthday cake belongs in CakeWrecks' arsenal. [Happy Place]
Duane Perara enjoys a Coca-Cola in 48 different cities in 36 countries; this incredible video clip documents his journey. [HuffPost Food]
A sustainable skyscraper could soon meet 20 percent of London's food demands. [Inhabitat]
Love grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup? Why not blend them into a single sandwich? [TreeHugger]
Like their real-life counterparts, these camera cookies will add 10 pounds to your figure. [Foodiggity]
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