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20 Greatest Alternative/Punk/New Wave Albums Ever Made.
- 1. Frank Black Teenager Of The Year : This album has no weaknesses. It is filled with squeeky punk anthems, melodic and hypnotizing. A masterpiece.
- 2. Depeche Mode Music For The Masses : Truly a wonderful album. Deeply intricate synth work with the darkness and melancholic mood that makes M.L. Gore a songwriting genius.
- 3. The Smiths Louder Than Bombs : Twenty four classic new wave songs from the Morrissey/Marr collection. "Panic", "Ask", "Half A Person", and the untouchable "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" are some of the great songs on this delicious work.
- 4. U2 Achtung Baby : This selection might stir a few debates with my colleagues here at Listolgy, and I welcome that. U2 had many great records, but this one is at the peak of their songwriting. A great album.
- 5. The Pixies Doolittle : The continuaty of this album is precise, and the raw energy of Black Francis' voice and the hypnotic squeals from Joey Stantiago's guitar, make this an unforgettable album.
- 6. The Cure Disentegration : This album is to The Cure what Achtung Baby is to U2. They just had it all working here.
- 7. Guided By Voices Alien Lanes : This album represents to me what songwriting and melodies are supposed to be like. Twent eight non stop alternative classics.
- 8. Butterglory Downed : I dont know if there is a better album to have been released. The vocals of Matt and Debby are emphasized by the amazing music behind them.
- 9. The Police Zenyatta Mendatta : This is, no doubt the best thing this trio evr did. I cant tell you how many copies of this I've owned in the past.
- 10. Guided By Voices Bee Thousand : This twenty four track classic is filled with power pop anthems that sound like modernized Beatles songs. Don't believe me? Go buy it.
- 11. The Pixies Surfer Rosa and Trompe Le Monde : Two uniquely different recordings that produce the same result. Flight to a new level of understanding and being. Gems.
- 12. Depeche Mode Black Celebration : This CD is appearing at number twelve when it could be the best one of the lot. That should tell you exactly how hard it is to make a list like this. some of the most hauntingly beautiful songs in the history of sound recordings.
- 13. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses : This is one of those albums that when you hear it for the first time, it slaps you around like a step child. Brilliant musicians with brilliant music.
- 14. Morrissey Bona Drag : Everyone of his classic solo radio releases is on here. This is so good.
- 15. The Smiths The Queen Is Dead : The first song which is the title track, sets us up for what is to follow. A bunch of great songs. "There Is A Light There Never Goes Out" and "Bigmouth Strikes Again" are two of many wonderful songs here.
- 16. Janes Addiction Nothing Shocking : This album is one that should be put in a time capsule and released 100 years from now, so the new aged youth can be educated on music. Summertime Rolls...need I say more?
- 17. Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream : They went down hill fast after this one, but this one is solid through and through. Great emotional songs with powerful vocals and guitar riffs.
- 18. Joy Division Still : here are some of Joy Division's best live performances of their great classic punk songs. This album makes me want to mosh in a pit from hell.
- 19. X Wild Gift : Filled with punk classics. This one rocks. Twice as good as Los Angeles.
- 20. R.E.M. Green : My favorite from these guys. Pop Song 89' and Stand are two prime examples of this highly artful and creative work. Songwriting at high on this album.
Honorable mentions: Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bullocks, Meat Puppets II, Sonic Youth Goo, Dirty, Experimental Jetset Trash and No Star, REM Life's Rich Pageant and Pixies Come On Pilgrim.
So where are the great punk albums? and U2/the Police punk/alterantive/new wave c'mon.
Yes U2 are new wavw and so are The Police. How old are you, anyway? Sorry, no Social D., or Femmes , or Bad Brains.
Although I disagree with some of the selections on here, as you knew I would, I think every album on the list belongs on the list. Tallus, some people have a broader notion on what this genre is and what's included in it. I personally feel that the punk genre is not limited to minor threat and iggy & the stooges, but includes a much wider spectrum. You have your opinion, we have ours....we just happen to think that you are wrong.
Odd list, this one. Frank Black ranks higher than the Pixies, Morrissey gets an album above The Queen is Dead, and R.E.M. is represented by the mediocre Green! Depeche Mode at 2 and 12? Still over Unknown Pleasures and Closer? The Smashing Pumpkins even made this list?
Still, you do include Achtung Baby, The Stone Roses, and Wild Gift, so all is not lost. :)
Interesting, but I have to conclude that our tastes are closer in films than in music. Besides, I don't think I'm half the prog rock fan other lists seem to indicate you are.
Fun list.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Yes. It's fun, eclectic, and very well done. When I say that I would never put it at the top of a list such as this, I am certainly not saying that it isn't a terrific album. I'm only saying that I can think of more than 20 discs that I like better, including at least 2 Pixies albums.
But to have the term 'new wave' in the title and then not include even a single Elvis Costello album...tsk, tsk...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Elvis had at least 5 albums that are simply masterpieces. And I think Styx, Alan Parsons, and Rush may (just maybe) have four good songs combined. You see? It's a personal thing.
My original comment was mostly pointing out that it was odd to see a Frank Black album above The Pixies, simply because most folks I know who like the former love the latter. But then, on second thought, Black's cult status does seem to generate an attraction that makes most of his die-hard fans quite avid, so perhaps it really isn't all that odd.
Like I said, fun list.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Alan Parsons, Styx and Rush are three of the greatest artists of all time. There was changes, bridges, and more than 4 notes that made up their unforgettable melodies. Opinions are like A holes bro'. Take a deep breath, I'm on your side.
I assumed as much. You didn't think I was upset, did ya'?
You know, when I originally made my top 100 albums list, I had only had the Stone Roses for about a month. As time passes and I listen to it more, I wish I had placed it even higher on my list. A truly addictive album...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
No, I didn' think you were upset Les. I think you're passionate about the arts. That is what makes being a colleague of yours at Listology a treat. You're simply da' bomb homey. Speaking of The Stone Roses album, I agree. There is not a weak cut on that album.
" You're simply da' bomb homey. Speaking of The Stone Roses album, I agree. There is not a weak cut on that album."
I can say the above with utter truth as well. You are da bomb, and The Stone Roses is a fantastic album.
I'm thrilled you're here, jblack!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Good list. I especially applaud the inclusion of The Pixies' Doolittle, Janes Addiction's Nothing's Shocking , and U2's Achtung, which by the way I must agree is U2's pinnacle. Haven't heard the Frank Black or Butterglory, so no comments on those, except, what does Butterglory sound like?
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Boshoff out of Currie Cup
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Expected to be out for 12 weeks.
The Lions have been dealt a huge blow with Springbok flyhalf Marnitz Boshoff ruled out of the entire Currie Cup season with a fractured arm.
The Lions, against all injury odds, put on the performance of the opening round when they defeated the Bulls 41-13 in Johannesburg on Saturday.
However, coach Johan Ackermann will have more injury headaches other than Boshoff who is due to undergo surgery on Monday and is expected to be out for 12 weeks.
Both Anthony Volmink (shoulder) and Lloyd Greeff (knee) are also expected to be out of action for the remainder of the Currie Cup tournament.
Other members of the Golden Lions backline Alwyn Hollenbach (shoulder) , Michael Bondesio (knee), Courtnall Skosan (cheek bone) and Deon van Rensburg (ribs) are all recovering well and are expected to return to action in the upcoming weeks.
Meanwhile, in the forwards, and on the positive side, Julian Redelinghuys (calf) is also expected to be available for selection again soon.
There are still more concerns over a few players with bumps and bruises with the Golden Lions set to release a comprehensive medical update soon.
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Hello, I'm Auntie Social. I haven't posted here before, so wanted to say hi. I started paper scrapbooking in 2005 and switched to digital this year. I'm now starting to make some kits and am doing some scrap4hire too. In my other life I work as a counsellor. Looking forward to learning more about designing everyone here!


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Pictures showing a nude Jlaw have been leaked as part of a selection of photos in the second such release of hacked personal videos of celebrities by Reddit User's and other online sites such as Huffington Post.
The list of stars involved in the leak also includes actress Aubrey Plaza and model Kate Upton. New pictures of Hayden Panetierre have also been leaked in this latest collection.
It is not clear when the pics were from but research into the hacks are currently in progress by the police.
A few weeks ago over 100 stars were phished by a group of hackers who stole over a hundred of naked pics and sex videos from their personal accounts and leaked them to the public.
The original leak also included stars Arianna Grande, Kirsten Dunst and Victoria Justice.
Reps for Jennifer Lawrence made an announcement on her official website saying they were investigating.


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The window remains open and the Reds have already moved swiftly to capture several signings - so this week's Kop 10 feature examines Liverpool's most successful periods of transfer activity.
With Luis Alberto, Iago Aspas, Simon Mignolet and Kolo Toure all joining the club in recent weeks, we've dedicated our Wednesday countdown to some of the Reds' greatest buys.
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Wimborne Choral Society concert at The Minster
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Wimborne Choral Society's concert on Saturday 15th March at 7.30pm in The Minster, with conductor Christopher Dowie, presents Schubert's Mass No 2 in G and Mozart's Mass in C minor.
Soloists are Julie Dawn Lloyd, Cathy Murray, Tim Trenchard and Hugh Sutton, with organist Graham Scott.
Tickets are available from 01202 603569 or from Square Records, 14 High Street, Wimborne – or on the door


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Lies and Truth
To the Editor:
I should like to reply to Samuel McCracken's review of my book, Nine Lies about America [Books in Review, August], not only because he has, in several crucial ways, misunderstood my book but also because he taxes me with not having written a different book:
1) Mr. McCracken says that I rest my case on the accusation of genocide against America "almost entirely on a refutation of the charge that the police of America have conspired to wipe out the Black Panthers. But the charge of genocide against America goes well beyond the Black Panther question." I was not using the Black Panther "genocide" falsehood simply to refute the charge of genocide against America. I was asking why such a significant sector of the most prestigious media believed that there was such a police plot without first checking it out. Why did this "genocide" lie circulate so successfully for so long? I didn't answer these questions, largely because it would take another book to explain the problem of advocacy journalism in the American press today, but I allowed A. M. Rosenthal, managing editor of the New York Times, to answer them in part.
I didn't deal with American treatment of Indians, blacks, and Vietnamese, which Mr. McCracken would have had me do, because genocide means something quite precise. What I was arguing against was the trivialization of the concept of genocide and its transformation into a cheap political epithet; as, for example, a statement by the New York City Urban Fellows (in a 1971 American Assembly document) that, "We recognize that everyday government is a party to genocide by its inaction and the active intent of some of its agents." I didn't go into too many details about black genocide, largely because it doesn't exist, any more than "genocide" exists against North Vietnam. A government which, after all, fires rockets, downs jet planes, holds several thousand Americans prisoner, owns tanks and howitzers, inflicts vast casualties against the soldiers of Japan, France, America, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and the Philippines, a government which has the strength to refuse to negotiate except on its own terms, is hardly a government whose people are victims of genocide. It is a cruel war and, by now, an absurd war, with all kinds of atrocities on both sides, but when someone calls the war in Vietnam genocide, I ask how many tanks did European Jewry operate and how many rifles did the Katyn forest victims own?
Mr. McCracken says that the cry of genocide against Vietnamese and blacks (allegations with which he does not agree) "present a more substantial problem than that of the Panthers, and are a good deal less easy to dispose of." Among whom? The whole point of the accusation of genocide against America is to make it appear that it is Americans who are genocidal, not merely their government, and that Americans therefore are unredeemable. That is why James Baldwin in his recent No Name in the Street can write that Americans are "the most dishonorable and violent people in the world" and why he can play his own little "genocidal" game: "[I]t is not necessary for a black man to hate a white man, or to have any particular feelings about him at all, in order to realize that he must kill him."
Mr. McCracken says the one allegation he does agree with is that genocide was visited on the Indians. Assuming that this was the case, what has it to do with America and Americans today? My ancestors were dodging pogroms in the Ukraine when this was going on. The millions and millions of Americans whose ancestors came from other parts of the world in the 19th and 20th centuries are no more responsible for the massacre of the Indians than Mexicans today are responsible for the Aztecs who made a hecatomb of human hearts to appease the rain gods. Why is all this nonsense brought up now? Why does Earl Ubell, the radio and television commentator, write that "we are a nation with the blood of genocide on our hands"? Why does he ask: "Will white Americans somehow find their way back to the rationale of destroying whole peoples in the name of God, capitalism, and law and order?" Why does he publish such rot? Yet supposing I haven't "disposed" of the problem of genocide against blacks, Indians, and the North Vietnamese? What then? I do not understand the point.
2) My second lie—"the Bomber Left is a moral force"—leads me into difficulties, Mr. McCracken says, because all I do is prove that leftists "countenance from other leftists behavior they will not tolerate from rightists, but what else is new?" Shouldn't this kind of double-standardism, in its latest, post-Stalinist phase, be exposed? If Mr. McCracken's "but-what-else-is-new" judgment is valid criticism, then what point was there in exposing the fellow-traveling Left in the 1930's? After all, this kind of double-standardism goes back to the French Revolution at least, so what else is new? It may be old-hat but it is worth pointing out that a New-Left spokesman a few months ago was defending, after all we've learned, murder with a political purpose. Recently, Professor Staughton Lynd—I am quoting an AP dispatch from Toronto, June 21, 1972—defended the "bombing of a United States Army research building at the University of Wisconsin [as] a political act, no matter how misguided." He (and others unnamed in the story) so testified at the extradition hearing in Canada of a young revolutionary who was charged with "murder, sabotage, destruction of government property, conspiracy, and arson in connection with the bombing in August 1970 which resulted in the death of a physicist." Lynd said, according to the AP dispatch, "the bombing was similar to other such incidents designed to rid universities of complicity with the American government in the Vietnam war. He urged that Canada refuse to send Armstrong back to Wisconsin to stand trial." So what else is new? When a leading historian, a charter member of the critical intelligentsia, defines as a political act the bombing of a building which resulted in the death of an innocent man, it's worth putting it on the record, name, date, and place. That it's been said before and will be said again (do we exculpate COMMENTARY from the charge of "what else is new?")—well, somebody has to supply the raw material for others to purify into theory and motivation.
Far more troubling is Mr. McCracken's argument that while the Bomber Left's belief that they "are rebelling against an illegitimate government . . . does not say much for their intelligence . . . it does not of itself discredit their moral purpose." Without intelligence, there is no rationality and without rationality can there be a "moral purpose"? Moral purpose—for what? Human conduct without intelligence is a defense of the acte gratuit, a defense of thinking with the blood. Intelligence and moral purpose are inseparable, otherwise every political assassin and those, like Eldridge Cleaver, who promote assassination, have a moral case. "The scientists involved in espionage," said a lady writer during the 1950's, "have been very few, indeed, and misguided as they may have been, they have acted on principle and not for personal gain." What was their moral purpose and what was the moral purpose of the young man whose bomb—unintentionally—killed an innocent physicist ("no physicists are innocent"—the defense rests)? Lynd could easily make a case—and did—for the moral purpose of the young bomber but, surely, Mr. McCracken would not accept that kind of argument.
3) My critic says that in treating the third lie—"the American worker is a honky"—I do not deal with "the more plausible charge that the working classes tend to be racist." Here is just what I was arguing against, the creation of an abstraction called "the working classes" and then imputing to this vast number of people an ethos called "racism." It is the sin of the working classes, just as their other sin is a lust for money and possessions since they should be liberators not spenders. And why shouldn't the "working classes" be racist just like any other "class"? What about their moral purpose, even though it might not say much for their intelligence?
In America there is no one "class" more racist than any other. The whole "class" concept in American society, particularly, is so full of pitfalls that the concept itself borders on a kind of "racism." Stanley Ossowski in his Class Structure in the Social Consciousness has argued that our society is characterized by "nonegalitarian classlessness," something which Professor Earl Latham has defined as "a form of social inequality without social stratification, with much overlapping, without clearly differentiated social and economic functions, unlike the concept of class with which Marx worked." Why does fashionable advanced liberal opinion still talk about "the working classes"? To document the charge of "honkyism"?
4) Mr. McCracken's final point is that "Beichman's reliance on the idea of the lie is itself the source of the book's major weakness. For often he is exposing not willful misstatements of fact—which is what I take a lie to be—but rather inadequate or irrational interpretations, and sometimes these interpretations are not so much even irrational as based on values with which he disagrees."
Here I feel Mr. McCracken and I differ profoundly because of our different concepts about the word lie. A lie in culture—and that is what my book is really about—is not only, nor can it ever be, a mere misstatement of fact. A lie in culture is easy to accept and hard to refute because you're dealing with "meta-facts," and there are no empirical data. Take, for example, this phrase from Book World (January 16, 1972): "This nation is perilously close to collapse." What does this mean? That America is more perilously close to collapse than, say, Ghana, Bulgaria, Ceylon, China, Albania? What does the word "collapse" mean in this context? When the writer says "collapse" does he mean revolution, anarchy? Collapse into what? When a distinguished writer says that "the great virtue of economic depression is that it combines a very low degree of opportunity with a very high degree of motivation," it is not something refutable; it is a rather ghastly perversion of human values. When President Kingman Brewster of Yale said two years ago that a "black revolutionary" could not receive a fair trial in America, that was not only a misstatement of fact but also a lie in culture. When another university president says the American people have "embrace[d] Hitlerism" and a New York Post columnist says America and South Africa are about the same, are these just misstatements of fact or a disagreement over values? These are some examples from my book of not merely willful misstatements of fact but willful distortions of reality. I am sure a case could have been made out for Hitler's allegations of Jewish control of the German economy; the allegations were of course irrational and based on values with which we might disagree, but were they any less a lie because they contained a bit of "truth"? The devilish thing about lies in culture is that they are designed not to be refuted. . . . A man who says a country is "perilously close to collapse" is using a marvelous symbol whose content is nil because, as has been stated again and again (most recently by Irving Howe in his review of George Steiner's In Bluebeard's Castle in the February COMMENTARY), a theory that cannot be refuted cannot be demonstrated.
My last argument with Mr. McCracken, as I said at the outset, concerns the fact that I have not written another or a different book: "Having, moreover, charged the intellectuals of the radical Left with lying, Beichman seems more or less content to leave their motivations unexplored." I am not more content nor am I less content. I just did what I did, feeling a certain inadequacy in dealing with the motivations of thousands upon thousands of individual Americans.
Arnold Beichman
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts
Samuel McCracken writes:
Although I have long cherished the fantasy that some day an offended author will send these columns so devastating a rejoinder that the offending critic will fall upon his knees and beg forgiveness, in reality authorial response tends most often only to confirm critical stricture. Such I fear is the case on this occasion.
1) Part of the disagreement between me and Mr. Beichman depends upon the fact that I appear to take his chapter headings more seriously than he does. His first chapter, to judge from its heading, deals with the lie which says that the United States is a genocidal country. Now this lie, far from being an invention of Mr. Beichman, is very widely told indeed, generally in the form of a charge that the country has behaved genocidally toward a very large number of groups, most prominent among them Indians, blacks, and Vietnamese. I wished—and still wish—that Mr. Beichman had dealt with the charge as it is generally made, rather than with one of its special cases, one at that which has already been definitively refuted. Citing my judgment that the common allegation of American genocide against blacks and Vietnamese is a more substantial charge than the one about the Panthers, Mr. Beichman asks, "Among whom?" Among, of course, the sort of people who go about believing that America is a genocidal country, in short among those he is writing about and against. Among these people, the story of the plot against the Panthers is by no means the gravamen of the indictment for genocide. It would seem only reasonable to expect Mr. Beichman to deal with the gravamen rather than with its second cousin.
2) As to the Bomber Left, I still suspect that Mr. Beichman devotes more time and space than is strictly necessary to demonstrating left-wing tolerance of left-wing violence. Not, as he appears to say, that I don't think such tolerance depraved in the extreme, but rather because I think behavior which is no more than what one expects from political extremists of all sects can probably be dealt with rather less ponderously. To respond to his second objection, it seems to me that there is a profitable distinction between A, who tries to overthrow the government because he disagrees with it, and B, who does so because he thinks it illegitimate. Unless one denies the right of revolution at any time or in any place (as I presume Mr. Beichman does not), one needs some way to oppose those who would bring down the government in a welter of blood over an increase in subway fares without telling others that they must not try to get rid of Stalin. Naturally, to approve of efforts to get rid of Stalin is not to approve of all those who believe that they rebel against illegitimate authority, but it is to shift one's disagreements with some of those who would bring down the present government from the domain of democratic theory to that of fact.
3) Here, Mr. Beichman loses me altogether. He says, if I read him correctly, that he does not deal with the lie that the working classes tend to be racist because he does not believe it to be true, Now, I had thought that his whole book was about a series of statements which Mr. Beichman does not believe to be true, and that his reason for selecting these in particular from all the vast realm of the false was that they are being widely retailed by certain sorts of people who ought to know better. If one were to exempt from discussion all those lies which one believes to be false, it would seem that one would have to seek some subject matter quite other than lies.
4) Mr. Beichman may misquote Kingman Brewster less violently than some others have, but misquote him he still does. Brewster did not declare that a black revolutionary could not get a fair trial in America, but expressed his skepticism as to whether he could. Hindsight may tell us that Brewster's skepticism was ill-taken—as most certainly it was if by "fair trial" he meant acquittal—but there remains a considerable difference between a declaration that such will not at some time in the future be the case and expression of uncertainty as to whether it will be. Mr. Beichman's targets are constantly guilty of blurring just such distinctions, and it behooves him to avoid what he deplores in others.
Apparently we do disagree as to what makes a lie: it seems to me that there is again a crucial distinction between saying that which one believes or knows to be false, and believing and saying that which others believe or know to be false. That American academics can believe the sort of balderdash they have been saying is as alarming to me as the idea that they may say it though not believe it; but the two phenomena are distinct in nature, and require distinctive analysis and remedy.
5) I presume that any unfavorable criticism, however mild, can be seen as a demand for a different book, and thus disposed of as not quite cricket. The hard fact is that any critic's wish that a book had been better is of course a wish that it had been different: the two desires are quite inseparable.
I am finally surprised that Mr. Beichman should feel inadequate to the task that I would set him: he has, in the book he has written, judged that thousands and thousands of individual Americans do not believe within themselves what they say they do; to do what I would have him do, to consider further why they should so behave, may require different powers, but hardly ones of a much greater magnitude.


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Eventista: Outdoor party timeWritten by Brittany Craig | | firstname.lastname@example.com
From graduation celebrations, Independence Day festivities, pool parties and luaus to family reunions and anniversary and birthday parties, there are many reasons to host a backyard party this summer. Here are some ideas your guests are sure to enjoy and remember.
- Announce it! Stir up excitement for a party friends will surely anticipate with festive invitations. Check out the stock at Fiddle Stix Boutique or Paula Brown Shop. Both shops carry print-at-home options and offer printing services.
- There's nothing like standing in the hot summer sun to kill a good party, especially in those cute shoes we ladies wear! Be sure to have plenty of seating by creating groupings throughout your patio or backyard. Venture out from the typical chairs and tables by adding cushions or pillows to garden walls, or lay down brightly colored blankets and oversized pillows.
- As the sun sets, be sure to set the mood with candles. Position them along walkways, garden borders and patio tables. Place candles in canning jars and wrap wire around the neck to loop them onto branches. You can find some chic classics at garage or rummage sales. For a little color, hang lanterns in various shapes and sizes.
- Run clotheslines in patterns above your patio or pool. For a safe and easy way, drop LED lights in the lanterns before guests arrive. They'll last all night!
- Accentuate your colorful garden and landscape. Coordinate your décor and highlight your blooming bed of flowers with colorful pillows, glassware and linens. Or if you are more streamlined and manicured, accent with modern, contemporary touches, monochromatic schemes and milk glassware.
- Bring the garden to the table with fresh bouquets. Or buy cut blooms in similar garden colors to accent the house and patio tables.
- Nothing says summer like good ol' fashion barbecue. Jazz it up with a tapas-style menu. Serve smaller portions that are one or two bites. It will cut down on your silverware so guests can munch and mingle. Create stations inside the kitchen and out on the patio. This allows you to control temperature sensitive items so they don't sit too long in the sun.
- Mix it up! Premix two specialty drinks, ready in pitchers for easy serving. Chill wines, beers, sodas and waters in large metal tins, or thrifty buckets. Station them throughout the yard and in the shade.
- Keep plenty of ice on standby for both chilling drinks and serving.
- For large parties, rent an ice cooler from a local party supplier, like Meredith Party Rentals. You'll even have room for ice cream!
- Now, shake it! An iPod and some mixed CDs are always a good standby, but why not feature something special like a steel drum band or Spanish guitarist? Invite local artists to come for a few hours and treat your guests to something truly entertaining.
- You've set the mood with your lighting, music, décor, scrumptious menu and thirst-quenching drinks, but don't forget to add a few "toys". Simple lawn games like Cornhole, and lawn checkers make for a good time. Take it one step further and bring your entertainment council outdoors! Project your game on a screen or large white sheet. When the sun goes down, you could be bowling in your back yard or hitting golf balls!
- Keep unwanted guests away by having plenty of bug repellent with sprays, torches or candles. I recommend Swan Creek Candle Company's lemon-grass fragrance. It's a pleasant scent you can use indoors or out that repels bugs and mosquitoes.
- Check the facilities. If your party is large and you are on a septic tank, schedule pre-party maintenance.
- Stock-up on plenty of toilet paper and add a few flowers or candles.
- Plan out your menu and serving ware. Some items can be prepared and cooked the day before.
- Organize by creating a checklist and recruit friends and family for help.
- Come party day, all you have to do is finishing touches and pour yourself a cocktail!
Brittany Craig is the principle event designer and coordinator for Crowning Celebrations. She specializes in wedding and social celebrations. Follow her Eventista blog at www.crowningcelebrations.blogspot.com/.
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Brad Shinn, Hatfield, Pennsylvania
One of the very first airplanes Brad flew on was a DC-6, he says. He scratchbuilt flaps for Heller's 1/72 scale DC-6B and gave it United decals from Liveries Unlimited.
Looks Real Nice; a great subject skillfully constructed and displayed
Looks awesome, I bet it was fun to fly, looks good!
Looks just like the ones I used to see when I was a kid. Great Job!
Very, very good. Your mastery of the metallics is appreciated. And it's nice to see realistic smoke markings from the engine.
Brad's models are really great.
Thanks guys!!
My first flights to Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands was via DC-6 of North West Airlines. I'm working on a kit from that era. Your picture will help guide me on some of the details. Very nicely done


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New CUSO is a "natural extension" of ORNL FCU and Y-12 FCU's mortgage programs.
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This is where I installed from. Earlier I figured out how to install binutils (cool), and found my XFree86-4 file. Now I taught myself how to use vi, and changed 'nv' to 'nvidia'. Also I learned about su to become root.
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Program wants a "Summary Sheet" for my writing sample, help?
Posted 21 January 2012 - 09:14 PM
I'm finishing online submissions for a program this weekend (all online documents are to be uploaded by 11:59 p.m. Monday, January 23rd). This was supposed to just consist of double checking ALL format requests, reading everything over again a few more times, and then submitting. However, I just read some fine print that stipulates that the writing sample is to be "12-25 pages, including summary". That's the first time that I've laid eyes on the "including summary" qualifier.
What would you include in a summary?
The sample is comprised of a few sections of my MA thesis. The thesis was 100+ pages, so I was sure to include the intro, as well as a content note on the cover page, table of contents and bibliography to contextualize the piece. I'm at a 25-page limit right now, so I guess I'll start with weaning out a page from somewhere... I was considering, for the summary page, my thesis abstract and then a little paragraph describing the chapters that I've included and their role in the project. The "Introduction" chapter contains an in-depth description of how the thesis unfolds and what each chapter accomplishes, so I could also make reference to this on the summary sheet (for example: "for further elaboration on the contents and role of each chapter, see "Introduction", pages 9-12 of this writing sample") Or is that too much?
I'm kind of low on steam, your insight would be very much appreciated!
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Is it possible that you are overthinking this? Does the application actually ask for a summary of the contents of the writing sample or does just state that anything that is part of the writing sample be within the 25 page limit? FWIW it sounds like the content note you have on the cover sheet as well as the introduction would suffice as a "summary", so just keep everything within the limit and I think you're good to go!
Thanks for the feedback fuzzylogician!
To the question of whether or not I'm overthinking this... Yes, I would concede that that is certainly a possibility!
The program's application webpage specifies that the contents of the application include transcripts/GRE/SoP and "Writing Sample: A paper (12-25 pages, including summary) which the student feels represents his or her best work must be uploaded."
Not a lot of detail... I spoke with a friend of mine applying for the same program, and she said that she just wrote a page on the content of the sample; she admitted that she liked my idea better to use my abstract as a thesis summary and then just a sentence or two on the role of the chapters that i picked to represent the wider work. So I think I'll go with a harmonized, cover all bases approach: keep the title page intact (as you recommend), and use the "summary" page for summation of both the big project and the chapters that appear in the sample; and I'll edit out a page from the biblio (i'll just rip some sources that don't make any sense as a stand alone; i.e. ones that don't add anything to someone's understanding of the project without the context of the chapter in which they appear).
And I'll try to freakin' relax!
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Sometimes "abstract" and "summary" are used interchangeably, but they're actually a little different depending on the nature of your work. Hopefully whatever you decided to submit will do the trick!
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Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA), an independent public university serving 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students in Nacogdoches, Texas, implemented Oracle Exadata Database Machine to be able to improve registration and student system reliability, while staying current on hardware support.
With an Oracle Exadata quarter rack supporting SFA's enterprise resource planning (ERP) and student information applications, the university can now support up to 2,000 concurrent users, an up to 8X capacity increase over its legacy system, with response times between three and 10 seconds – enabling students to register for classes more quickly with virtually no system bottlenecks or downtime.
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WILSON, N.C. — The Barton Art Galleries and the Barton College Friends of Visual Arts is pleased to sponsor "Mapping to Achieve Your Best Art" Workshop, led by professor emeritus of art and artist-in-residence J. Chris Wilson. This two-day event will include a lecture by Wilson on Tuesday, March 19, from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. On Wednesday, March 20, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., there will be appointments on the hour (by reservation only) for individuals to create their own personal mapping plan with the assistance of Wilson.
The Mapping Workshop will be held in Case Art Building on the campus of Barton College. There is no cost for the lecture or the individual mapping appointments, but reservations are required. Please contact Bonnie LoSchiavo at 252-399-6477 or email email@example.com to make your reservations for one or both days.
"Mapping means to plan or delineate, especially in detail or arrangement," Wilson explains. The planning process for creating your best art will be covered in Wilson's lecture on the first day of the workshop and individuals in small groups will plan their personal mapping process during appointments scheduled for the following day. "The mapping process will highlight the need to clearly establish objectives, the value of using a successful problem solving process, the necessity of creating your best visuals, the importance of establishing a fool proof color concept, and how to effectively add the finishing touches to a painting or other medium," Wilson continues. "Further, the purpose is to become intentional in the art process and personal artistic development. The payoff for successful mapping is better art, less frustration, and a greater, more fulfilling, joy in the creative process. The Mapping Workshop will be equally valuable for any artist regardless of their medium."
For those who participated in the Mapping Workshop at the Arts Council of Wilson in summer 2012, the lecture on Tuesday, March 19, will be a summary review of that all-day workshop. For new participants, the lecture will be essential to be introduced to the importance of successful planning before beginning a work of art.
On Wednesday, March 20, appointments on the hour (reserved in advance of the event) will provide an opportunity for individuals to create their own personal mapping plan with the assistance of Wilson. Participants may choose to bring images or photographs of their work as a planning tool. Each participant should finish the workshop with an individualized, short-range and long-range art plan that will lead to increased success and the production of art.
Wilson, having served on the Barton College faculty for 38 years, was named professor emeritus of art in spring 2012. With a passion for bringing art into the community, he has been involved in symposia, community presentations, and publications on art, decorative arts, and historic preservation. Wilson has also served on the boards of the Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council, the Arts Council of Wilson, the Board of Advisors for Preservation/NC. He currently serves on the board of the Blount Bridgers Museum/Hobson Pittman Memorial Foundation and the Board of Directors of Preservation/NC.
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He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia, where he also completed post-graduate work, with Lamar Dodd as his major professor. He has exhibited throughout the Southeast and all across North Carolina. Wilson's art is represented in numerous public and private collections in the United States, especially in the Southeast, and in England, Japan and Saudi Arabia.
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"A couple of years ago the social media press release was all the rage", writes Mark Evans. He suggests that PR and marketing people believed, "the social media release would revolutionize everything".
As someone who was on the front lines of the Social Media Press Release development for a couple of years, I have no idea what he is talking about.
I think that, yes, there was a little bit of excitement amongst a segment of social media nerds (myself included) about how the SMR was a nice update to the traditional news release, but I'd hardly call it a "rage".
Even now, with the Social Media Release business seemingly good for CNW Group (my former employer), Marketwire, Pitch Engine, and probably a lot of other companies, I'd still be hesitant to call it "raging". (In the comments on Mark's post, CNW's Amanda Laird does point out that the SMR is CNW's fastest growing product.)
As recently as last year at PodCamp, there was still confusion from people about what an SMR even was.
No one ever said the SMR would "revolutionize everything".* If I remember correctly, most of the talk was about how the SMR was part of the evolution of the traditional press release. It was a natural move. Today, most people would agree that online newsrooms that can incorporate multimedia elements are where this has evolved to. I tend to agree with that, but I'd even say that a news release with links to multimedia content follows that same evolution.
In the comments on his post, Mark adds "personally, I've found that many clients are using micro-sites or creating Web pages that include a press release, high-res photos and graphics and video instead of using a social media press release." If these micro-sites or web pages with news and multimedia content aren't SMRs or a close relative, then I don't know what they are. They certainly aren't radically different.
What I do agree with Mark about is that the important part of media relations is the social part—the relationships with reporters, the reaching out to known contacts.
I've always advocated this approach, and I'm happy to see that CNW continues to do so. (A single tear rolled down my cheek when I read that blog post.) In fact, this approach is even embedded in the name of this tool—it is called a SOCIAL media release for a reason.
Maybe I'm wrong about all this, though. Maybe I did miss the SMR party a few years ago. Maybe the PR world has given up on providing the media with compelling images, audio, and easily shareable video. Maybe everyone has gone back to plain-text news releases, delivered via fax and horseback.
*I was definitely pretty excited about the whole SMR thing when it first came out. If you can find evidence of me saying that it would "revolutionize" PR or news releases, I'll buy you dinner. If you can find evidence of anyone else saying it would "revolutionize" PR or news releases, I'll buy you a beer.
Although I wasn't able to attend PodCamp Toronto this year, I've been doing my best to catch up on some of what went on there. One of those sessions was a live recording of Inside PR, and I just got a chance to listen to it today.
During the course of that recording, one of the audience members told Inside PR that she had recently listened to a webcast where the moderator asked the panel of PR pros what a a Social Media Press Release was, and that they couldn't answer (the fact that a panel of apparent PR professionals couldn't explain what a SMR was is another blog post altogether…).
Fortunately, the Inside PR guys were able to answer the question for her, and I really like their answers.
David Jones made the point of saying that the Social Media Press Release (though I prefer the simpler term Social Media Release) is really just "an online, electronic press kit" and that "it is a place to put multimedia content around your client's traditional, static, text press release."
"It is just an easy place to point people to get content," he adds. This is similiar to what Martin Waxman says when he notes that the Social Media Release isn't a magic bullet – just because you've created a release with multimedia content around doesn't mean it will result in coverage for your client. It is a part of a strategy (see #4 on Mitch Joel's list of ways to pitch a writer), but only one part and not the whole thing.
I would also like to add to Terry Fallis' point about breaking out and seperating the quotes in the release. It does make it easier for people to quickly see what is being said and by whom, but I think it is only a stylistic choice. Seperating the quotes can be dones just as easily in a traditional news release, and it all comes down to what the writer thinks the best way to tell the story is.
If I remember correctly, some of the early thoughts on styling a SMR called for breaking out the quotes and providing the information in point form. Again, they are both just stylistic choices.
On a related note, I'm impressed with the quality of the live-recordings of Inside PR. The audience participation also really adds to it, and I think the team should look for more chances to do these.
Over the past few months, I've given a lot of thought to Social Media Releases. They are a great tool, but only if used correctly. In the few years that they've been out, there have been a lot of different types and styles, successes and failures, but no real agreed-upon strategy for how to use them.
I think it is time we should start thinking about how exactly to use them, and less about the actual form they should take. My recommended strategy for a course of action when including a Social Media Release in a communications campaign includes four points: Monitoring, Message, Media, and Media Relations.
1.) Monitoring: Paying attention to what is being said about your brand or organization has always been recommended as a first step. As has been said before, social media is a conversation. Just as you would wait until your turn to speak in a real-world conversation, and then say something relevant, you should do the same in an online conversation. Monitoring will help you ensure the timing, nature and relevancy of your message.
2.) Message: This is what the core of the release is. It is why you are making an announcement. It is what you are hoping your audience of bloggers and the online community will care about enough to engage with. As April Dunford recently wrote in the blog post entitled "A Skeptic's Guide To Social Media Press Releases":
"You need to answer the question "Why is this interesting right now?" What is it about your announcement that makes it important information to share right now? If you can make your news relevant to a broader audience than experts in your space, you are well on your way to spectacularness."
If you can't think of a reason why your announcement would be interesting to anyone, you're probably not going to get a lot of media attention.
3.) Media: One of the coolest things about a Social Media Release is that you can include photos, audio and video to accompany the text of the release. However, this doesn't mean that a JPEG of the CEO's head and a television commerical uploaded to YouTube constitute great multimedia content. Instead, you should think about your target audience and what might appeal to them. If it is a product launch, including images of the product in use and with a plain, white background would probably be beneficial to bloggers that might use them. Similarly, including a short video of the product in use might do wonders (but keep it short).
My thought is that a Social Media Release should provide value to the intended audience. The text portion should provide value in that it is informing them about something new. The accompanying media should either reinforce this value, or provide value on their own. One of the reasons I believe that the video CNW Group produced with Mark McKay got picked up online (here and here, for starters) is because it provided educational value by teaching people what a Social Media Release was. Similarly, April Dunford mentions in her post that she also provided a white-paper that showed other companies how they could start a green program in their organization.
4.) Media Relations: Contacting journalists has always been a part of traditional public relations, and it should continue to be a part of public relations in the blogging age. Just because the audience you are trying to reach is online and you might never see them in real life does not mean that you can simply blast them with email. In fact, a huge part of the Social Media Release is the social aspect, and the fact that it is able to connect you and your news with so many people. Research and follow blogs that are relevant to your news – just as you might have different traditional media contacts for different types of news, you will probably want to reach out to different bloggers as well.
5.) Monitoring: As with any communications plan, monitoring success and following up where necessary are an important part. In the case of a campaign involving a Social Media Release, monitoring should include not just checking to see where it got picked up and how it was used. I included Monitoring as both first and last on the list because it marks the beginning of a new communications cycle.
I hardly think that the Social Media Release is the only tool for communicators to reach an online audience, but I do think it is a good one. If you have any thoughts, suggestions or criticisms of my "4M Theory" I'd be happy to hear them.
(As with all of my posts on BlogCampaigning, this reflects my own personal thoughts and opinions. These may not necessarily be the same as those held by my employer, CNW Group).
If you're involved in PR and social media you've probably heard people talking about social media releases, social media news releases or even social media press releases and the accompanying acronyms.
In the olden days, journalists were called 'the press' (an example of synechdoche) because the primary form of media was the newspaper, which was printed on
If Google trends is anything to go by, the majority of people still think that those releases that go out on the wire are called 'Press Releases.'
However, most modern-day communicators will probably agree that this is an antiquated term, and that we should be calling these 'News Releases' or 'Media Releases' instead.
So, that gets rid of the term 'Social Media Press Release' and its ugly acronym "SMPR."
We're now left with Social Media Release and Social Media News Release, and I'm going to argue that the former is better than the latter.
I'm fine with calling a traditional release a News Release or a Media Release, and I think you'll agree with me that calling it a Media News Release or a News Media Release is a little bit redundant (and referring to it as just a 'release' sounds odd unless you're talking to people from the industry).
So why do we need to refer to PR's hottest new tool as a Social Media News Release? Yes, it has a bunch of fancy Web 2.0 features that enable it to be easily shared. That aspect is covered by adding "Social" to the front of 'Media Release.'
I'd actually be happy with either Social News Release or Social Media Release, but I think that the latter sounds better.
So, can we agree to standardize the name as Social Media Release?
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Philosophy is a practice at Hamilton, where your professors will encourage you to be engaged and to apply your training beyond the classroom. For instance, philosophy majors have developed and taught philosophy mini-classes to their peers and to local high school students.
Maybe it's harder to make choices when your interests blanket the course catalogue, but Chris Bousquet '16 found a way to fit things in. He double-majors in philosophy and government; at one point he was thinking maybe physics and government or French and government. He entered Hamilton College as a Schambach Scholar, which means he has a stipend to do research in a subject of his own choosing. He went with math.More >>
For a major, Bousquet was attracted to intellectual challenge of philosophy. Writing an essay can require hours of sitting in a room thinking about what a philosopher says and then formulating a response. "It's a very tough but a very rewarding process," he says.
His writing has improved (he's a tutor at the College Writing Center and writes for a website dedicated to long-form pieces), as has his ability to construct and analyze an argument. Bousquet formerly harbored the thought that he should study something more practical than philosophy. His coursework squelched that concern.
"I'd say more than any other group of classes I've taken here, the philosophy classes have had more influence on the rest of my abilities, the rest of my capacities to think, basically," he says.
When Sean Sullivan '07 spent a semester in Hamilton College's New York City program and interned at ABC News Production, he was en route to a career. The internship led to another the following summer with ABC News "Nightline." "And that's where I fell in love with journalism. There was never a dull day. And I felt like we were telling important stories that people needed to see. It was hard work, but a really great experience," says Sullivan, who went on to a number of journalism jobs and now covers national politics for "The Fix," a Washington Post politics blog.More >>
Sullivan majored in philosophy, a decision inspired by his Technology and Alienation class with Richard Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy professor of philosophy.
"That sealed the deal for me. We had some great discussions in the technology and alienation class and looked at philosophy through the lens of film. It opened my eyes and showed me that philosophy really isn't this arcane subject area – it's about all the everyday things we do," Sullivan says.
His studies have come in handy. "Being a student of philosophy is about thinking critically, and doing a lot of reading and writing. Which is a lot of what I do in my job now," he says.
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Prop 8 Ruling: Open Thread
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From yesterday's ruling that Prop 8 is unconstitutional:
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.
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what I've been reading...
On Colorlines:
Prop 8 Judge: Ruling Changes "Understanding of Gender" and
Marriage Equality Without Borders: Prop 8 and Immigration
(and also celebrity reactions via The Atlantic)
Did someone say "Comments Policy"?
Kjerstin Johnson, editor-in-chief
Did someone say "Comments Policy"?
I couldn't be happier about
I couldn't be happier about the decision.
ps- when will i ever again be bedfellows with Paris Hilton and the Terminator?
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan May Get To Hear It
The ruling striking down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional is wonderfully worded. There is an excellent chance the case will be appealed up through the Circuit Court and on to the Supreme Court. Elena Kagan has been confirmed by the United States Senate becoming the fourth woman in U.S. history to serve on the Supreme Court and may eventually have the chance to write an opinion on the case.
I think it will inevitably
I think it will inevitably reach the Supreme Court. Once it's there I think we have a good chance of winning. Presumably the Swing vote, Anthony Kennedy will quite possibly side with the liberals. He has grown quite cosmopolitan over his tenure on the court and has ruled favorably in several gay rights cases before (he wrote the court opinion in Lawrence). There's no way of telling how the case will turn out of course. But there is a good possibility we may get a happy result.
Congratulations to all the
Congratulations to all the people of California who are one step closer to full and true equality today. There's still a lot of ground to cover, but hopefully the near future will bring similar progress to everyone waiting for it across so many other states!
a war of attrition
It has to be noted that it was inevitable to have prop 8 fail at the end. The war of attrition between the people who want more equality, versus the people that want to deny them that fundamental right will be always won by the people that are more motivated and/or more just in their political requests.
On the matter of justness, clearly, allowing a portion of the population to have the same rights as the majority, is the clear, proper response, and most everyone will soon see it to be the case.
On the other hand, in regards to motivation, again, gays and lesbians have much more vested interest in the matter, whereas, mom-and-pop types of "righteous" people that seek to deny this right, are less likely to pursue their silly ideas for too long.
So in short, if the issue has been raised to the attention of people enough times, they will finally accept that gays and lesbian people are just the same as everyone else, and let them be whatever they want to be.
So, fear not, fellow humans, we progress, alas, sluggishly.
I've been reading the text of the decision
It's pretty awesome: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/us/20100804_prop8_decision.pdf
My favorite parts are where it shreds any claim to relevance the proponents' witnesses might have had and this quote: Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.
If they want to get married
If they want to get married ,I don't see why can't they do it,what is unconstitutional?
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The punchy opening chords of "Researching the Blues" prove that despite their growing age, the McDonald brothers haven't lost their prowess and can still rock unabashedly. The next track, "Stay Away From Downtown", follows with Hüsker Dü-inspired speed-riffs and the album's catchiest chorus. "You better stay away from downtown, yeah yeah," warns Jeff McDonald. Is this an anthem for 5 o'clock traffic?
At its best, Researching the Blues is a thrilling reunion record, but, like most Redd Kross albums, the tracklist isn't flawless. "Dracula's Daughters" and "Meet Frankenstein" float by without memorable moments or melodies; "One of the Good Ones" relies on an oft-recycled song structure, as does "Choose to Play". They aren't bad songs, only unremarkable ones. The album's compressed sound quality hampers some tracks, as well. Delectable sing-a-longs like "The Nu Temptations" are crushed by bad production: There's no depth or separation between the lead vocals, background vocals, and lead guitar (strangely enough, Neurotica, released in 1987, also suffered from tin-can production).
Researching the Blues peters out after a strong start, though this is fitting of Redd Kross, a band that has always been so close to success—critical, commercial, or otherwise. A couple more radio-friendly hits, and the McDonald Bros. would've been household names back in the '90s. While it's still a worthy comeback for a band way past its prime, Researching the Blues is similarly only a few solid tracks away from greatness.
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" 'You got too old. You got to go,' " Williams said his supervisor told him. "That's devastation. I couldn't see how he could have the heart to do it."
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ELIZABETHTOWN - The town of Elizabethtown must do a better job keeping track of its funds and fuel, a recent audit has determined.
The office of New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released their report last week of an audit that noted significant shortfalls in the way the town maintains records of gasoline pumped from bulk storage tanks at the town highway garage and Cobble Hill Golf Course.
The audit, which scrutinized records from January 2008 through April 2009, also found failure on the part of supervisor Noel Merrihew and his bookkeeper to keep accurate financial records and submit them to the town board for annual review.
Cash account balance tests for December 2008 and March 2009 found "discrepancies between the bank statement and general ledger balances that could not be explained, ranging from approximately $260 to $140,260,"
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"The improper transfer of expenditures makes it difficult for town officials to prepare their budget and makes the use of the budget almost pointless," it added.
Auditors recommended that Merrihew and his bookkeeper attend training to learn how to properly use the town's financial management software and emphasized for accurate records to be submitted regularly to the town board for review.
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The audit also examined records pertaining to the usage of gasoline and diesel fuel purchased by the town.
Town fuel usage has been a point of contention in the past as some Elizabethtown residents have criticized Merrihew and other town officials for using tanks at the Cobble Hill Golf Course to fuel vehicles used elsewhere than the golf course.
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