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Heather Ellis, SS, Junior, Worth County
STATS: Runner-up for Player of the Year. Played a gold glove-like season at shortstop and batted .547 with a .618 on-base-percentage. She also belted five homers, drove in 29 runs, scored 40 runs, stole 17 bases and finished the season with 47 hits in 30 games.
Kimmy Lee, IF, Junior, Worth County
STATS: Was an invaluable infielder, playing wherever they needed her around the diamond, and batted .520 with a .555 OBP. She scored a remarkable 56 runs in 30 games, stole 20 bases and also hit for power, belting three homers and driving in 22 runs from the leadoff spot in the lineup.
Lauren Potts, IF/P, Junior, Worth County
STATS: As an infielder and pitcher, was one of the big reasons Worth had such a big season. She batted .429 with a .505 OBP. She hit two homers and drove in 34 runs in 30 games, scored 24 times and also stole six bases. She was the winningest pitcher on the team, going 8-2 with a 2.92 ERA while striking out 46 batters.
Bailey Ponder, P, Junior, SGA
STATS: Went 13-1 with a 1.27 ERA and 78 strikeouts to lead SGA to its first region fastpitch title.
Jenna Kitchings, IF, Freshman, SGA
STATS: Was the ideal leadoff hitter, batting .540. She also stole 25 of 26 bases.
Heather Grebel, 1B, Senior, SGA
STATS: Batted .540 to lead the Lady Warriors in hitting and was a gold glove at first base.
Hayley Chappell, C, Senior, SGA
STATS: Batted .363 while handling the tricky pitchers for SGA.
Anna Laine Brock, P, Freshman, Sherwood
STATS: Threw two no-hitters and went 14-4 with a 0.99 ERA, while striking out 134 batters in just 92 innings. She also batted .380.
Kaylee Dixon, SS, Senior, Sherwood
STATS: Led the team in doubles, triples and batting with a .420 average after making the move to shortstop to help SCA's short-handed team.
Kristina McNutt, C, Junior, Sherwood
STATS: Batted .389 and drove in 25 runs while handling the pitchers at SCA.
Payton Couch, 3B, Senior, Sherwood
STATS: Led the team with two home runs and 28 RBI, and batted .321.
Madison Ragan, IF/P, Freshman, Randolph So.
STATS: Played everywhere and was a dominant pitcher as well, averaging 1.5 strikeouts per inning. She batted .520 with a .700 on-base-percentage and hit four home runs and eight doubles in 13 games.
Morgan Hilton, 2B, Senior, SGA
STATS: Part of the glue in the infield with a gold glove at second base and also hit 350 for the season for the Region 3-AA region champion Lady Warriors.
Lindsay Whatley, SS, Senior, Randolph So.
STATS: Batted .440 with a .620 on-base percentage and made only two errors all season.
Lindsay Tompkins, P, Senior, Lee County
STATS: Went 16-11 with two shutouts and a 1.32 ERA. Tompkins, last season's Player of the Year, struck out 65 batters in 154 1/3 innings, and also batted .347 with 14 RBI.
Natalie Shiver, C, Junior, Lee County
STATS: Batted .357 with a .423 OBP and drove in 20 runs. She struck out only five times all season, and was even better behind the plate, where she did not make an error and threw out 100 percent of the runners (12-of-12) that attempted to steal on her.
Jessi Jones, CF, Senior, Lee County
STATS: Batted .288 with 17 RBI and four stolen bases. She did not make an error all season
Hailey Scott, SS, Sophomore, Lee County
STATS: Led the team with a .356 batting average and a homer. Scott also had a .371 OBP and drove in 11 runs and stole 11 bases.
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At approximately 9:30 pm Halifax Regional Police responded to a call of a motor vehicle accident involving a motorcycle and a car.
The motorcyclist was travelling north on Wyse Rd from Nantucket when a vehicle was exiting the parking lot of 118 Wyse Rd. and collided with the motorcycle. The driver of the motorcycle, a 38 year old male, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries where he was treated and released. The two people in the vehicle were not injured.
The driver of the car, a 58 year old male, was issued a ticket for failing to yield the right of way. The driver of the motorcycle was issued a ticket for driving with a revoked license.
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Joe Knucklehead, the host of the podcast American Knucklehead, is just your average American bowling alley technician. But he has a few things to say about the state of the USA. I recently interviewed him on the Occupy Movement, the 53% and more:
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You've been talking a bit lately about the Occupy movement. There's this online counter-movement of conservatives called the "53%" who claim to be subsidizing the Occupy movement via taxes. They say that the protesters need to "stop whining." What do you think about this — is it a real populist sentiment, or just more divisiveness?
Naw, it's a total PR ploy. The guy that dreamed it up, Erick Erickson, is a woofer blogger, CNN talking head, and radio talk show host. I'd say he's been amazingly effective at providing a pointless distraction.
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Housing Boom Trickles Down to Materials - Research Report on Cemex SAB de CV, USG Corporation, Eagle Materials, Inc., Vulcan Materials Company and Texas Industries, Inc. PR Newswire NEW YORK, March 1, 2013 NEW YORK, March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Investors Alliance announced new research reports highlighting Cemex SAB de CV (NYSE:CX), USG Corporation (NYSE:USG), Eagle Materials, Inc. (NYSE:EXP), Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC) and Texas Industries, Inc. (NYSE:TXI). Today's readers may access these reports free of charge - including full price targets, industry analysis and analyst ratings - via the links below. Cemex SAB de CV Research Report Mexico-based Cemex, the world's largest producer of ready-mix concrete, is seen to benefit from the US housing boom as the economy improves, even if the company has been struggling with losses as of late. The company met expectations on its revenue for Q4 2012 at $3.71 billion, but missed greatly on earnings per share with a loss of $489 million or 43 cents per share compared the projected loss of $47 million or 9 cents per share. However, Cemex expects to sell between 1 and 3 percent more cement in Mexico, the United States, Latin America and Asia in 2013, which could offset the expected weak sales in Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. In addition, the company focused on a refinancing package aimed to improve debt management and capital structure last year, as well as addressing its required amortizations. The Full Research Report on Cemex SAB de CV - including full detailed breakdown, analyst ratings and price targets - is available to download free of charge at: [http://www.investors-alliance.com/r/full_research_report/3ed1_CX] -- USG Corporation Research Report Another company poised to bounce back with the US housing recovery is building materials maker USG, as prices of wallboards is expected to rise as demand grows and capacity utilization increases. In fact, the company was able to post solid growth in Q4 of 2012, with 12 percent year over year growth in revenue at $815 million, with a much smaller net loss of just $13 million or 11 cents per share, compared to the same quarter the previous year's loss of $100 million or 95 cents per share. Higher wallboard shipments and its increased average price helped achieve these numbers, as well as the $55 million it gained from the previous sale of its European operations. USG expects the total revenue for fiscal 2013 would be $3.5 billion with an operating profit of $340 million with expected growth in residential construction and sales of its premium wallboard products, as well as its unique pricing strategy. The Full Research Report on USG Corporation - including full detailed breakdown, analyst ratings and price targets - is available to download free of charge at: [http://www.investors-alliance.com/r/full_research_report/728e_USG] -- Eagle Materials, Inc. Research Report Eagle Materials, known for manufacturing and selling wallboards and cement, reported 43 cents in earnings per share for Q3 2012, barely missing analyst expectations of 44 cents, while revenue came in at $164.70 million, compared to estimated $154.78 million. In comparison, the company posted 20 cents earnings per share the same quarter in 2011, while revenue was 33 percent lower. The company's bright spot was its Gypsum Wallboard and Paperboard business, which saw its operating earnings up 362 percent year over year at $24.8 million. Meanwhile, analysts predict that Eagle Materials will post an average of $1.65 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Investment bank Sterne Agee upgraded the stock from "neutral" to "buy" last week. The Full Research Report on Eagle Materials, Inc. - including full detailed breakdown, analyst ratings and price targets - is available to download free of charge at: [http://www.investors-alliance.com/r/full_research_report/678c_EXP] -- Vulcan Materials Company Research Report Construction materials maker Vulcan Materials also expects better numbers as the housing market improves, expecting earnings growth supported by improved pricing, aggressive cost control, and some volume growth. The new federal highway bill passed in July last year is also seen to provide stability and predictability to future highway funding, indicative of future growth in future contract awards. In addition, demand for aggregates is seen to rise sharply this year, particularly in private construction and residential housing. To compare, Vulcan reported revenue of $608.4 million in Q4 2012, short of the expected $619.4 million, while it posted a loss of 28 cents per share, in comparison to the estimated 10 cents per share. However these numbers were much better than in the same time in 2011, with growth in almost all business segments. Zacks puts the company at a "neutral" rating, with a price target of $58. The Full Research Vulcan Materials Company - including full detailed breakdown, analyst ratings and price targets - is available to download free of charge at: [http://www.investors-alliance.com/r/full_research_report/3ac0_VMC] -- Texas Industries, Inc. 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When Europeans first came to Australia, land was taken over from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for farming, gold mining and the development of the many ports and towns that exist today.
Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were pushed to the fringes of townships whilst others were completely removed from their homelands and placed on missions and reserves. A lot of evidence of sites originally used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been destroyed or removed.
However, there are still many cultural heritage sites remaining which show the way Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people lived, where they ate and where they made tools and implements.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander occupation sites can be identified by things like middens, which are refuse heaps that contain large amounts of leftover shell (from meals of shellfish), stones, charcoal and bones.
Middens tell us what type of food was eaten and which areas people inhabited. There are also mythological sites, ceremonial sites like bora rings (a raised platform of circular dirt), open-air sites of camp sites, workplaces and burial grounds.
Some burial grounds are in the ocean – they were covered by the last major sea rise more than 15,000 years ago. Occupation sites are still very important places for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. These days Indigenous cultural heritage and stories are often incorporated into mainstream tourism activities.
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Prom Night Dumpster Babies!!! #2 Dodgeball Team
The up high down low dodgeball league had its fifth game last night and the Prom Night Dumpster Babies went up against the F.A.G.S., and we won!!!!
*UPDATE* We are now #2 after last nights victory!!!!!!
We finally got some shirts, and they are pretty awesome.
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Senior Lamrcus Joyner said he wouldn't define his role this season as cornerback or safety, he's just a defensive back.
The All-ACC safety will line up at corner, nickel back and some safety as well this spring for Florida State. Joyner said he came back to finish his degree and help show versatility for NFL teams.
While he enjoys football period, Joyner couldn't help but smile when asked about the one-on-one competitiveness of playing cornerback, where he lined up as a freshman.
"At cornerback my philosophy is no man wants to fight with a man that's willing to fight for 60 minutes, the whole game," Joyner said. "It's fun because you get to run all day, and I love running. I love playing physical and its like testing another man's manhood, so it's either me or you."
So far this spring Joyner claims it's been all him, and if a wideout does catch a ball it's because he cheated. Not because he got beat.
"He is so competitive, golly," FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher said. "Every time somebody catches a ball 'Coach he pushed!' He never gets beat. That's a great thing. I love it, he's the ultimate competitor."
Joyner mulled a jump to the NFL after the Orange Bowl, but said he felt he still had things left to accomplish in Tallahassee.
He discussed the decision with Fisher and new defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, and said he felt like if he returned that playing corner was something he wanted to have the opportunity to do.
"It's really an experiment," Pruitt said. "He wanted to do it. It was as much his idea as it was anybody's. Probably he feels that he's got a chance to market himself a little better. He's been a good player at the safety position, but he was a high school corner and him choosing to come back for his senior year, showing he can play out there on the perimeter plus at safety, because in the NFL they only carry [53] players or however many it is I don't even know, but it's not a lot. So the more positions you can play the more value you create for yourself."
Joyner didn't want to just show scouts he could play safety and corner, but he also is set to graduate from FSU in December. So showing playing corner this upcoming season wasn't the only factor that lead to his return.
"All my life people are always going to say 'You're undersized.' Whether I'm at safety or cornerback," Joyner said. "So I knew the odds were against me from the beginning. So that wasn't the reason I came back. I felt unaccomplished.
"I didn't get a degree, I came to college to accomplish more than just going to the NFL. I just believe that going back to cornerback that yeah it may prep me for the next level by showing my versatility. So yeah it'll probably enhance my chances, it was a lot of things that played into that, not just feedback."
The decision isn't just the best one for Joyner personally he says, but it's also what's best for the team moving forward.
"It also opened up room for young players like Karlos Williams to get on the field and have an impact for this team," Joyner said. "It was best for the team."
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first carriage drive
Well last week I went on my first carriage drive. Actually I organised a lesson for one of my guests and accompanied him before having a quick go myself.
We imagined a lesson would consist of going around a track and practising stopping, starting, left and right BUT NO!
Withi the first 5 minutes after having thn basics explained we were given the reigns, the proffessional giving advice. We went up through a national park for an hour or so and then down into a stadium to practise a real obstacle course.
I must say the horses were extremely well behaved but what a great introduction to carriage driving.
I'll do it again.
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A group calling for immigration reform held a protest in front of Rep. Scott DesJarlais' office Sept. 6.
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This week, the Daily News Journal posted this question online: Do you see any possibility that Congress will approve comprehensive immigration reform before the mid-term elections in November? Why?
Gery Donovan: I know three reasons why they should not:
1. As Obamacare is proving, comprehensive anything it is just another word for fiasco or too big and complex to work. It also allows a lot of places to hide things (like Obamacare did).
2. As Pres. Obama has proven with Obamacare and the executive version of the dream act, you cannot trust him to enforce the laws as they were written. In other words, you cannot trust this president (nor any other president) with any more power.
3. Apparently, we are willing to spy on Americans in the name of security, but not actually secure our borders. I will never trust this administration to secure our borders no matter what the law states. If both parties are not willing to secure our borders on principle alone, then I don't trust the government to do what's right.
Gunner Miller: This is what...the hundredth immigration reform? Every president seems to have one and not one does anything but make headlines and enemies. Immigration reform is simply "how do we get rid of all of the people who entered illegally and not look bad doing it"? If we can't control our borders and if a sob story or technicality will allow someone to stay, than we have issues that reform will not fix, just cover.
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Posted 8:43 AM 9/13/2013 : "Obama Clown" Makes Appearance in Mid-Missouri Friday
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Superman (casting, rumors, pix till release)
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Why does Superman need a vehicle anyway?!
They frequently make movie tie-in toys which don't actually appear in the movie (assuming your tongue wasn't in your cheek with the question).
Of course, the Superman Lives script had some sort of vehicle for a depowered, back-from-the-dead Supes, as I recall.
Tongue was most certainly in my cheek as I'm sue the toy is simply for that, a toys, and not to be something that's in the movie. But even as a toy it opens a lot of questions, most of them starting with "Why?" It's also hardly the first vehicle introduced for Superman in the toy line. But he's
he doesn't need a car or a powered flight suit!
Indeed. I could never understand that myself. Ditto the various Spider-man toy cars and helicopters we see too - but it's even more so with Supes.
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skatePHX x Rayne Limited Edition Decks
The time has finally come ! The skatePHX x Rayne collab project has begun. Make sure to get your hands on one of these bad boys as quickly as you can! We have created both Darksides and Savages with a limited edition graphic, and they are available now through Sidewalk Surfer in Scottsdale, as well as online at Rayne ! Get them while you can because we cant promise they will be around for long!!! Thanks so much for all of your support!!!


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GigaomHighspot, led by Microsoft vets, nets $9.6M to hone sales pitches
Highspot, which says it can guide marketers into what content to send to which customers and when, now has $9.6 million in new funding. Read more »
Highspot, which says it can guide marketers into what content to send to which customers and when, now has $9.6 million in new funding. Read more »
Mountain View-based Play-i is launching a crowdfunding campaign to produce simple robots that can help kids as young as five years old learn basic concepts behind programming. Read more »
Microsoft vet and data platform VP Ted Kummert is joining Madrona Venture Group as a venture partner. As VCs aim to boost their enterprise investments, they're snatching up talent from big… Read more »
On the heels of a successful Kickstarter campaign for its smart posture sensor, LUMO Body Tech on Wednesday announced that it had raised $5 million in a Series A round led… Read more »
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MaxPoint Interactive, which helps advertisers target potential customers who live in specific neighborhoods, has raised $8 million. The comp… Read more »
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ONLINE FABRIC SALE TO NOV. 29th
Britex Fabrics loves everything about silk and it shows. Silk is a natural fiber that is usually derived from the mulberry silkworm's cocoons. Silk has it all; it is smooth, soft, strong, and lustrous. Silk is ethereal for a summer frock, and just as smart for a winter frock-coat lining. We delight in traipsing about to find you the most chic Italian silks, natty necktie silks, brilliant jacquard silks, and airy sheer silk chiffons.
Animal-esque Chocolate & White Silk ChiffonA silk chiffon fabric, in a animal-esque pattern of chocolate brown and white -- is that a zebra or is it a leopard? This would make a chic and easy beach sarong, worn with a simple black maillot and wide-brimmed straw hat. 100% silk. This fabric is 54" wide.$39.99 $20.00
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Nations To Be Paid To Stave Off Logging
Saturday December 15, 2007COUNTRIES will be paid to protect forests from logging, with the Bali conference adopting a proposal for the successor to the Kyoto Protocol to embrace deforestation.
Cia Does It Again - Badly
Tuesday December 11, 2007THE US Central Intelligence Agency is again mired in controversy. It admitted last week that it had destroyed videotapes of what it calls aggressive interrogations - and human rights advocates call torture - of terrorism suspects. Now, the spy organisation is adopting diversionary tactics, by seeking to portray its congressional critics as accessories after the fact. A leaked story alleges that legislators, including the present Democrat Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, were ...
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RBC: Manufacturing cost rise for Apple heralds several new products
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Costs are up 18.5 percent year-over-year, signaling additional products
An analyst with RBC Capital Markets has told investors that a strong increase in Apple's manufacturing costs means that the company is gearing up for more than just refreshes of existing products. Amit Daryanani has noted that Apple's component and manufacturing costs are up 18.5 percent despite generally-falling component prices, suggesting both Apple's raised expectations about the success of the iPhone 6 (which may or may not comprised two new models) and the alleged "iWatch."
Apple is spending an additional $5.6 billion on other factors involved in new product introduction (such as advertising and capital assets), an increase of 300 percent year-over-year, notes AppleInsider. This is on top of a spike in research & development of $425 million last quarter, for a new record R&D total of $1.6 billion, along with a rise in "tooling" (new manufacturing) commitments. All told, Apple's manufacturing expenses topped $15.4 billion last quarter.
Daryanani feels sure that some of the extra spending is devoted to the new product he thinks is most likely to debut in the near future, the iWatch fitness device. Such a device -- presumably along with an updated iPad -- is expected to be unveiled to the public some time after the rumored September 9 iPhone event, presumably in October. He believes that Apple will sell as many as 56 million units of the new iPhone (or iPhones) in the December quarter alone.
He also noted that despite vastly increased spending on thing such as dividends and stock repurchases, the company continues to manage to grow its cash pile -- though an ever-increasing percentage of it is being held overseas due to it being foreign-based revenue. Thanks to Apple's slowly-increasing success in foreign markets and its own plundering of US cash reserves to pay for things like dividends, the company has $164 billion in cash as of the end of June, a 12 percent increase year-over-year -- though the bulk of it ($137.7 billion) was held by its foreign divisions.
Apple has already told investors and analysts that it plans to further increase spending this year, but Daryanani's estimates are backed up by recent SEC filings. In all, Apple plans to spend $11 billion in capital expenditures this quarter, with some of that money going to build or remodel some 35 stores. RBC is maintaining its $110 price target for AAPL, and Daryanani noted that given Apple's P/E ratio and cash reserves, the stock in his view continues to be undervalued, despite reaching another record high on Monday.


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House Price Growth: Dallas (NOT Phoenix) Leads the Way
Michael Neal / NAHB / July 31, 2013
Following 19 consecutive months of year-over-year declines, house prices registered their twelfth consecutive year-over-year increase in May. Over this twelve month period, the S&P/Case-Shiller House Price Index – 20 City Composite grew by 12.2% on a not seasonally adjusted basis while the 10 City Composite rose by 11.8%. House prices in Phoenix registered their 9th consecutive month of year-over-year returns above 20.0% in May, rising by 20.6%. House prices in San Francisco (24.5%), Atlanta (20.1%), and Las Vegas (23.3%) also experienced year-over-year house price growth above 20.0% in May.
Rapid house price appreciation since the housing bust has received much attention, and based on this Phoenix has often been identified as a leader in housing market recoveries. But recent rapid price appreciation is a more nuanced phenomenon than this suggests. Housing markets currently experiencing the most rapid price appreciation tend to also be the markets that fell the farthest from their peaks. In contrast, markets with slower current house price appreciation, for example Dallas, are reaching new peaks in house prices, suggesting a more credible claim of market recovery.
The increase in house prices from the trough following the housing bust is highly correlated with the decline in house prices from the peak during the housing boom. As Chart 1 illustrates, house price growth following the housing bust has been strongest in cities that experienced that largest house price declines. According to the chart, Las Vegas and Phoenix were among the areas that experienced the largest peak-to-trough declines. These cities are now among the leaders in house price growth according to the S&P/Case-Shiller House Price Index – 20 City Composite.


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If the Poorman expected Dr. Drew to stand by him, he was mistaken. Pinsky stuck with KROQ, and his stock kept going higher, first with Riki Rachtman as his new co-host, and later with Adam Carolla, with whom he would take the show to MTV and co-author a tie-in book. The Poorman still talks about Pinsky with the kind of anger that can only come from a place of lost camaraderie.
"It's funny seeing [Pinsky] on TV now," he says. "He's suddenly become his dad, with his gray hair and his self-righteousness. And the thing that'll always be in the back of his peanut is the fact he had to use somebody else's show to get his career going. Am I bitter about it? I will never not be bitter—it'd be like somebody getting their car stolen and watching 'em drive in front of your house in your stolen car every single day. I invented the whole concept, and anybody could host it. I call it the rhesus monkey theory: A rhesus monkey used to be able to pilot spaceships—you can put anybody in there, and they'll be able to glom off the publicity. It's an automatic publicity machine."
The Poorman sued KROQ for his legal due, but the station moved for a summary judgment, and the case never went to trial. "I had a really bad lawyer," the Poorman says.
Dr. Drew could not be reached for comment for this article, but a Los Angeles Times article from August 1993, shortly before the Poorman received his walking papers, hinted at some tension between the two, with Pinsky quoted as saying of his co-host that "the reason I am lucky enough to be welcomed into this environment and listened to by these kids is because I tolerate the impish child [the Poorman]" and that he was "very uncomfortable" with the show's tone. The article implied Pinsky martyred himself for the show in hopes of doing good, describing his voice as being "filled with anguish" while discussing the show and saying he "puts up with the show's shenanigans because he believes in Loveline as a place for young people to turn to on their own turf, free of charge, paperwork and embarrassment."
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It's a cool Friday evening in Newport Beach, and in keeping with expectations, the Poorman is 45 minutes late. In the lot opposite his house, a massive tour bus is parked, driven by a tall, Goth dude who goes by the name Chris Motion. This was supposed to be the "Bikini Bus," but only one of the bikini girls, a busty model named Charlene, has shown up; the rest decided to drive their own cars, possibly uncomfortable with hanging in the back of a bus with an all-male crew. But Charlene isn't intimidated, and the crew are courteous; the Poorman's regular director—25-year-old Dorian Coss, who met the Poorman when he was trying to get his band's CD some airplay—may look like a ladykiller, but he has a regular girlfriend, so hitting on the bikini babes isn't an option.
It's dark by the time the Bikini Bus heads for Knott's, with exactly one bikini babe, the Poorman, a small crew of kids who can't be older than their early 20s ("If you put my personality with their head, then I'd probably be hookin' up more," says the Poorman) and one Weekly reporter. Perhaps they should rename this vehicle the Jockstrap Jaunt.
We enter Knott's via the back way, parking beside a slatted fence beyond which one can glimpse inside a horror maze full of strobe lights, eerie music and a monstrous mad scientist periodically emerging from the darkness to snatch at passersby.
The girls gradually arrive, having braved all kinds of traffic—one stays just long enough to take one of the free bikinis offered by a TV sponsor, then leaves without explanation. "It's the bikini flake factor," explains the Poorman. "I think what you see with a lot of girls, they just want to be pampered models. I mean, to me, with Bikini Beach, they gotta show some character. That's why it doesn't work with everybody." He has hired seven girls for the night with the expectation that maybe five will stay. We're already one down, and another has not shown up yet.
It took KROQ a decade to fire the Poorman, but his subsequent employers proved to be much quicker on the draw. Power 106, Star 98.7 and KIIS-FM were among the major LA stations to hire and fire him—though the latter only dropped him as part of a mass layoff of Rick Dees' staff. During his KROQ days, the Poorman used to insult Dees, branding him "Dick Cheese," but he changed his tune when a steady paycheck as Dees' sidekick was offered. "I'm sort of a hooker for the business," he admits.
A casual observer might assume the Poorman has had a career death wish, but, he says, if he did, it wasn't conscious. "While I'm doing it, I'm like a little kid on the mic, and you don't really think about all the people listening—you're just having fun. Off the air, I'm a mellow, relaxed guy. Just get a mic in front of me—I don't know what happens. It endears me to people who follow my career, but it's a double-edged sword."
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Our paparazzi caught sex goddess Eva Mendez getting half naked at the lake. Consequently, all the guys had to hop in the water so their girlfriends wouldn't see the huge bulges in their swim trunks caused by those long, gorgeous legs and her booty crack slip. We all know she wasn't planning on swimming today after taking 2 hours getting her hair and make-up done and picking out the perfect pair of wedges to compliment that new bikini(as if her body didn't do it justice enough.) And she sure as hell doesn't need to work on her tan… You know every other female out there wants to kill her for revealing that body in front of their men for no other reason than to soak in the admiration. These female stars seem to be suffering from a lack of self-esteem and respect nowadays. They need more and more affirmation from the public. Well, at least we know Ms. Mendez isn't suffering from an eating disorder as well…her ass cheeks cant hardly be contained as we speak!!
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Weather in Thailand in September
Hot and wet or hot and dry?
For much of Thailand September sees a general improvement in the weather. The rain starts to back off in more provinces while the temperatures continue to fall (ever so slightly). The islands in the southern Gulf of Thailand are your best bet in September while Bangkok and Central Thailand see a last blast of heavy rain before the rains really back off.
Bangkok and Central Thailand
The weather in Bangkok in September, along with Central Thailand, sees a sharp increase in the rain — in Bangkok is increases by over 50%, but after September the rains beat a speedy retreat. The waterfalls in Kanchanaburi can be especially impressive this year — almost as memorable as the flooded streets in Bangkok! Temperatures remain very warm.
Eastern Thailand
Finally! September sees an almost halving of the rain on Ko Chang. It is still going to be raining most days, but nothing like how it was coming down in August. From here onwards the rain continues to back off, forming a steady decline to the glorious November, December, January period. If you can put off your trip here for a month, do so.
Northern Thailand
September sees the rainfall levels begin their steady decline as the wet season prepares to wind down. The daily minimum and maximum temperatures don't change much from the previous month though — you'll need to wait another month before the first signs of a serious cooling will begin. If it has been a very wet wet season, then flooding in Chiang Mai and other urban centres may occur, along with rural flooding if the major rivers break their banks.
Northeast Thailand
While most provinces in northeast Thailand will see a further reduction in rainfall in September, some provinces, notably Buriram and Khon Kaen, see an uptick in rainfall before drastic drops across the region in October. By northeast standards, the temperatures are becoming more moderate.
Southeast Thailand
September on the Gulf islands can be lovely. It is the last month of especially good weather before the wet months of October and November. Yet again, the islands of Ko Samui, Ko Pha Ngan and Ko Tao remain the best choice weather-wise in September. This time of year the Gulf Coast mainland is actually a little wetter than the islands.
Southwest Thailand
September is the wettest month of the year on the Andaman Coast. The seas will still be rough and the rainfall heavy. Surfers may be able to catch some waves on Phuket in September — good for surfers, but that is about all. On a positive note, the weather should improve somewhat in October, so if you can, organise to spend September on the Gulf Coast and October on the Andaman Coast.
Stuart McDonald co-founded Travelfish.org with Samantha Brown in 2004. He has lived in Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, where he worked as an under-paid, under-skilled language teacher, an embassy staffer, a newspaper web-site developer and various other stuff. His favourite read is The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton and he spends most of his time in Bali, Indonesia.


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So, you may recall that as a part of Judge Otis Wright's Prenda sentencing, he ordered that a copy of the ruling be submitted in every other case involving Prenda:
For the sake of completeness, the Court requests Pietz to assist by filing a report, within 14 days, containing contact information for: (1) every bar (state and federal) where these attorneys are admitted to practice; and (2) every judge before whom these attorneys have pending cases.
In one Prenda case (involving AF Holdings again) in the Northern District of Georgia, the defendant, Rajesh Patel, and his lawyer, Blair Chintella, submitted Judge Wright's ruling themselves to the court in the case. As pointed out by Fight Copyright Trolls, Prenda's local counsel in Georgia, Jacques Nazaire has filed one of the most ridiculous filings we've ever seen yet in all of the Prenda filings. It argues that the court should not allow Judge Wright's order to be entered into the docket because California recognizes gay marriage and Georgia does not. I'm not joking…
The defendant has filed a copy of that Order hoping that it would be viewed as a mandate by this Court. However, the defendant's attempts to issue this mandate should fail for the following reasons.
First and foremost the undersigned respects the California decision and believes that it was rendered in the best interest of the residents of California.
Nevertheless, this instant case is pending in a Georgia District Court and it is trusted that any decision rendered, whether for or against the plaintiff, will be done so in the best interest of the residents and practitioners of Georgia.
While this Court may or may not agree with some of the issues presented in the California case, unbeknownst to the defendant, the California case will not necessarily become a mandate on this Court. It is solely within the discretion of this Court to follow or not follow the decisions made in the California case.
The defendant should realize that California has different laws than Georgia, a different Governor than Georgia; a different legislative body than Georgia, different business needs than Georgia and different views than Georgia and as such all of its decisions cannot serve as a mandate for Georgia.
For example the California Courts have legalized gay marriage. Perry v. Schwarzenegger 704 F.Supp.2d 921 (N.D. Cal., 2010);Certified question, 628 F.3d 1191 (9th. Cir.); Answered 52 Cal.4th 1116 (2011) Affirmed, 671 F.3d 1052 (9th Cir.) Such a decision cannot serve as a mandate on Georgia Courts to legalize gay marriage as well.
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It doesn't stop there. It notes that California courts have different immigration rules and (randomly) that NY has different gun rights. Basically, it throws out every hot button issue that stereotypical conservatives might disagree with stereotypical liberals on.
Of course, all of that is meaningless. While it's true that Judge Wright's ruling is in no way a precedential ruling for the Georgia court, it's still a ruling about federal law, not any specific state law. And the ruling itself is about flat out misconduct (including potential racketeering and tax evasion claims) by the plaintiff in this case, because of actions in a nearly identical case. That's not about California having a "mandate" over Georgia. It's about very relevant additional information that the court should know about.
Nazaire then goes on to list out a ridiculous parade of horribles that he claims would happen if the Georgia court "followed the aforesaid California Order" including that law firms wouldn't be able to use boilerplate text any more. This makes absolutely no sense at all. First of all, the inclusion of Judge Wright's order is not about having the Georgia court "follow" the order, but adding additional important information about the parties in this particular case. Separately, the idea that adding a California ruling into the docket suddenly means lawyers wouldn't be able to cut and paste any more… just doesn't make any sense at all.
Nazaire then tries to argue, incredibly, that there is no "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that Alan Cooper's signature was forged. Earth to Nazaire: that ship sailed a long, long time ago. It also leads to this completely random attack on the EFF:
Prior to filing the document, the undersigned contacted Prenda Law to find out whether or not Mr. Cooper would be available to testify at trial but was advised that they could not locate Mr. Cooper. The undersigned was advised that Mark Lutz and Peter Hansmeier would be available to testify as witnesses. Had the undersigned realized that the Electronic Frontier Foundation was hanging with Mr. Cooper, he would have been able to track down Mr. Cooper and questioned him about the documents. It turns out that Mr. Cooper was a caretaker of one of the properties of a Prenda Law member and had left said property in August, 2012.
Therefore, even if the undersigned had placed a knife to the throats of each of Prenda's members, none would have been able to give him Mr. Cooper's contact information at the time on November 5, 2012 when Plaintiff commenced its law suit. It is certainly not the first time a company has lost contact with an agent (or alleged agent as stated).
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Wow. Honestly, this one needs no commentary. It speaks volumes (of insanity) for itself.
And Nazaire is not done. He also argues that Patel's lawyer, Chintella, was "one of the two star witnesses in the California case" (which, um, isn't true) and then claims that this is an ethics violation in Georgia.
This whole filing really is quite remarkable, but certainly seems to fit in to the growing pile of "Prenda crazy" filings in various cases around the country.
See the whole filing on the next page…
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney, following his doctors' orders as he recovers from a viral illness after falling ill in Japan last month, has rescheduled some U.S. dates on his world tour, including the June Atlanta date at Philips Arena.
"I'm sorry but it's going to be a few more weeks before we get rocking in America again. I'm feeling great but taking my docs' advice to take it easy for a few more days," McCartney said in a statement released on Monday.
He is expected to make a complete recovery.
The 71-year-old Grammy-winning musician canceled his sold-out "Out There" tour dates in Japan and a concert in South Korea after being hospitalized for the illness.
The tour will resume in Albany, N.Y., on July 5. Concerts are scheduled from June 14-26 in Lubbock, Texas; Dallas; New Orleans; Atlanta; Jacksonville, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; and Louisville, Kentucky, have been rescheduled in October.
The Atlanta date is Oct. 15.
All tickets for the original shows will be honored for the new dates, according to the statement.
McCartney and drummer Ringo Starr are the only surviving members of the Liverpool band that shot to international prominence and made their U.S. television debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show" 50 years ago. The group's last public appearance together was in 1969.
After the group split up, McCartney formed the band "Wings" and has also had a long and successful solo career.
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Such Great Music: Call Me Maybe
Am I aloud to admit that I actually like this song? Yes, it gets stuck in my head and that can be totally annoying plus Zane sings it too. I saw this Jimmy Fallon bit with the Roots and it's funny and awesome at the same time. Watch the guys from the Roots…you notice something funny each time you watch it again. Oh and can I also admit that I like One Direction? Okay, confessions are done!
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Kansas City Chiefs President Carl Peterson announced on Wednesday that the club has agreed to terms of a three-year contract with DE Khreem Smith, adding him to the club's 53-man roster from the practice squad. Per Chiefs policy, no other terms of the agreement were made available. In addition, Kansas City added S Erick Harris to the club's practice squad.
Smith (6-3, 254) originally joined the Chiefs practice squad on September 3rd. He entered the NFL in 2004 as a rookie free agent with Baltimore, but was released prior to the start of the regular season. Smith signed with Minnesota a year ago and spent the first 16 weeks of the 2006 campaign on the Vikings practice squad, before being promoted to the active roster for the final week of the season. Smith also attended training camp with the Vikings in 2007, but was released on September 2nd. Prior to entering the NFL, Smith saw duty in 2006 with the Chicago Rush of the Arena Football League and the Memphis Xplorers of Arena2 in 2005.
A native of Miami, Florida, Smith was named second-team All-Big 12 as a senior at Oklahoma State in 2003. He played three seasons for the Cowboys after transferring from Garden City (KS) Community College. Smith prepped at Carol City High School in Miami.
Harris (5-11, 208) began his professional football career in Arena2 as a member of the Amarillo Dusters in 2005 and Alabama Steeldogs in 2006. He also played with the Rhein Fire of NFL Europa in the spring of 2006. Harris entered the NFL when he was signed to Philadelphia's practice squad at the conclusion of the 2006 season and remained there for the balance of the postseason. He attended training camp with Philadelphia in 2007, but was released prior to the start of the regular season. Harris returned to the Eagles practice squad for one week on November 11th.
Harris originally began his collegiate career as a wide receiver at Liberty University and prepped at Crestview High School in Crestview, Florida.


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Ghost Beach Make Waves With "Tropical Grit-Pop"
If you're a musician hoping to get people to talk about your music, there are a few ways to help shape how people will discuss your output. The easiest way is to invent and stick to a genre of your own, which is something Ghost Beach have accomplished. Although the New York City duo of Josh Ocean and Eric "Doc" Mendelsohn are both a young band and haven't indicated any real distaste for genres in the first place, the pair have identified as "tropical grit-pop" on their Facebook page and in interviews. Along with helping them promote a distinct idea of sound, the tag is largely apropos.
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On Blonde, their debut record released in March, the pair craft a 1980s-leaning, synth-driven sound along the lines of MGMT, Passion Pit and the Naked and Famous that's definitely upbeat enough to sell it as "tropical" and hook-oriented enough to click with "pop." Gritty? The production is too clean to really go with that, but when the other two components of the genre work so well, we'll let that part slide. "I grew up basically with the beach as my backyard, so I've always been into beach culture. I grew up surfing when I came back from school," says Ocean, the group's 28-year-old lead vocalist, referencing his upbringing on Fire Island, a New York island outside of Long Island.
To go along with that, Ocean has also lived in Hawaii, and both Ocean and Mendelsohn have been out to Venice Beach a lot, so it's not coincidence that Ghost Beach's music so often channels the brightness associated with such terrain. "For us, the whole beach and summertime thing is sort of escapism," Ocean says. "Music, for us, is like therapy, and we're trying to find that positive thing."
Landforms by shorelines aside, Ocean has also spent his life growing up with music. At around age 3, he got a drum set; at 6, his first guitar. His parents always listened to music, exposing him to the likes of Paul Simon and Bruce Springsteen, and even as a little kid, Ocean remembers digging Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana. His single favorite singer and band are Sting and the Police--the gist of whom you can catch in Ghost Beach's placid moments and Ocean's high notes. "When I was a little kid, I saw Sting play the bass on Saturday Night Live and that's what made me really want to play the bass," Ocean says. By middle school, sure enough, he made it to that instrument.
As he grew older, he had a major infatuation with Epitaph Records/Vagrant Records/Fat Wreck Chords-style punk bands like NOFX, Face to Face and Millencolin. But it was getting a hold of the music-making program Pro Tools--a product he bought using gift money he received for graduating high school--and catching a performance by downbeat electronica duo Frou Frou that would really shape the path Ghost Beach would head down. During the concert, Frou Frou ran a pair of desktop Macs from the stage. "It made me realize, 'Wow, they're doing all this stuff with computers. I really want to get into that,'" Ocean remembers.
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Lamar County School District Superintendent Ben Burnett is feeling better about the situation at Oak Grove High School following the damage done there by the tornado which struck the Pine Belt on Sunday.
"I'm very encouraged right now," he said.
Burnett said teachers would be returning to the school Wednesday, with students back in class Thursday.
Clean-up at the high school got underway today, with debris cleared from the parking lot and front of school.
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Preparing his highly anticipated project, TrapSeoul, Lowkey Rie$ introduces his self produced release "Briana." The track features Atlanta emcee, Forte Bowie. Through the production of The Legion, both emcees relay their take on 'Briana' and deliver the underlining message "stop tricking off on these scandalous females." Catch this track performed for the first time this weekend if you are in Atlanta for the A3C Festival.
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Digital Music: Can You Hear Above 16-bit/44.1kHz?
Dave Hamilton walks right into the line of fire today, detailing and explaining the differences between 16-bit and 24-bit audio bit depths, as well those between sample rates of 44.1kHz and 192kHz. Like The Beatles said about love, Dave says about 16-bits: it's all you need.
Sponsor: MacX DVD Ripper Pro Giveaway
I'd like to thank Digiarty for sponsoring TMO this week with a great giveaway of MacX DVD Ripper Pro. This normally sells for US$59.95 but this week you can get it for free via our special link. They are limiting this to 10,000 copies, so act quickly to be sure you get one of them.
Kairos T-BAND Smart Band: Make Any Watch a Smart Watch
One of the big issues among us watch geeks that are also tech geeks has been merging our desire to continue to wear our favorite analog watch(es) while simultaneously getting smart watch features. Seems the folks at Kairos had the same concerns and have been hard at work concocting the T-Band - a smart band for your existing watch. They've got three models, one of which even features a OMOLED display right in the band for $179. It's just now beginning its Indiegogo campaign but will fund even if they don't hit their $50k goal (but I'm guessing they will).
How To Clean Up and Rebuild Apple Mail Data [Yosemite Update]
Occasionally Apple Mail becomes slow and corrupted and simply needs to have its indexes cleaned out and rebuilt. We cover this pretty regularly on Mac Geek Gab and have updated our support article detailing the steps to include every OS up through Yosemite.
How to Enable Apple's SMS Relay on your Mac or iPad
When Apple announced iOS 8 at WWDC one feature was met with great applause: SMS Relay. This allows users to send and receive Text Messages (i.e. the "green bubble" messages) on our Macs the same way we've always been able to send and receive iMessages. SMS Relay is made possible by using your iPhone as the conduit between your Mac and the SMS network. Now that you have both iOS 8.1 and Yosemite installed (you must for this to work), there are just a few more steps to follow to activate this, but they're pretty simple.
TMO Daily Observations: 2014-10-20
Spotify announces its upcoming family plans and iOS 8.1 is due out pretty much the moment this podcast stops recording. Two special hosts (and one missing host!) make for this very unique TDO.
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Included with the announcement of new iPads yesterday we saw Apple SIM, a multi-carrier-capable SIM card baked into the cellular models of the new devices allowing customer choice of data carriers. There are some limits, of course, mostly that carrier partners thus far only include three US carriers: AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. If you want to use overseas data partners or don't have a new iPad, well, you're out of luck with Apple SIM. GigSky, however, has been allowing this functionality for almost two years, providing a multi-carrier data SIM usable in over 100 different countries, included here in the USA. You simply launch their iOS app and buy whatever data you need right inside the app. In many countries your GigSky SIM will get you 10MB of free data, enough to get a quick glance at your email and, if necessary, buy more data. No more getting off the plane and having to hunt down a SIM. Just head straight to your hotel room and GigSky has you covered. GigSky SIMs cost just US$19.95, and a la carte data options begin at $10. Definitely worth checking out.
Macworld Expo's Hiatus Leaves a Gap ... and Creates Opportunity
Dave Hamilton has been attending Macworld Expo for decades, both as an attendee and then as part of his professional life. He's sad that Macworld Expo is gone, sure, but he's not surprised. In fact, he sees this as an opportunity opening itself up to our market.
Apple's iPhone 6 Plus: A Perfectly-Sized Portable Device
Dave Hamilton has kept us all apprised of his decision-making process in choosing his new iPhone model. He's finally settled on the iPhone 6 Plus, but it wasn't nearly as easy a decision as he originally predicted, and he explains why.
How-To Make iOS 8 and iPhone 6 Work With Google Voice
Many users of the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models are finding it impossible to re-link with Google Voice for voicemail. When entering in the classic **004*1[GV-Number]# sequence users are seeing a "Setting Registration Failed" message instead of the happy success note. Our testing leads us to believe this is a limitation of the new NFC-capable SIMs in the new iPhones. Regardless, Marcel Brown sorted this out and you have two ways you can enable Google Voice on your new phone. First is to call AT&T and have them set up "conditional call forwarding" for you, or you can set up the 3 big use cases all by yourself with some slightly different commands. "234567890" in Marcel's examples would be replaced with your Google Voice number, including area code:
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A service for developers combines music recommendation and streaming.
A new partnership between "music intelligence" platform Echonest and streaming music service Play.me lets developers create apps that offer new ways to find music and stream whole tracks for free. The deal can be used to create an app that streams up to five hours a week of music from a catalog of three million tracks; once the weekly streaming limit is reached, users have to pay up $10 a month for unlimited streaming–a pricing scheme identical to competitor Spotify.
Music Explorer FX is just one of more than 70 that already take advantage of Echonest's application programming interface (API), which feeds data to apps from a vast catalog of artists and tracks. The API maps connections between similar songs and artists, is available to any developer who signs up for an Echonest API key. Through the deal with Play.me, Echonest's service can be used to stream tracks from labels including Sony, EMI, and the Orchard. Overnight, online music stalwarts Pandora, Last.fm, and Grooveshark find that they have dozens of competitors built by small teams and even individual coders. "App developers are, we believe, the future of this space, says Echonest's CEO, Jim Lucchese. "They are the future of [music] retail."
Developers don't sell music under the new deal, but they get a cut whenever a user signs up for the Play.me streaming service through their app. This makes them, in essence, sales affiliates for Play.me, and by extension for all the labels whose music it aggregates.
Developers have always been able to cut deals with record labels individually, but that process was prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. By obtaining blanket rights to stream all the music in its catalog, Play.me has eliminated that headache. "From a lawyer standpoint, an API is a very efficient contract," says Lucchese. "It's as if you said, 'Here's my stuff, and here are the rules, and as long as you play by the rules, we're good to go.' "
Using the API that allows access to Echonest's database, five students at Olin College of Engineering were able to put together, in a single semester, a mobile app that explores unexpected connections between bands. The result is the Slice app for Android. The app uses a spinning, color-coded wheel to make it easy to hop from one artist to the next. The goal is to create something more dynamic than traditional Internet radio offerings by giving users a different way to explore the relatedness of artists and genres.


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The GOP Will Sell Their Hideous Agenda With Fresh New People
I don't believe the Republican Party is dead. They may have lost the presidential race with a lackluster candidate. But their bench is deep. It's packed with talent and charisma. In the coming year, the GOP will be making their horrifying policy arguments with an exciting new group of people.
Although Mitt Romney failed to connect at the convention, many of the speakers on that stage were clearly emerging stars at the beginning of what promise to be long careers making backward social policy and disastrous fiscal decisions. Susana Martinez, Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley, and Chris Christie inspired the crowd with their wit, charm, and obvious talent. They're going to use those skills to put an entirely novel spin on their appalling right wing views on abortion and gay marriage. Backed by depressing corporate ghouls like the Koch brothers, they will no doubt find a riveting way to promote extreme deregulation and strip social services bare.
Believe me, these people will spend the next election cycle appearing all over the media, flirting with young-earth creationism and shilling for the NRA. They're really going to shake things up with the interesting, awful things they believe.
I even think one of these four are going to give the GOP response to the State of the Union. He or she will perform beautifully: Look for an impressive personal story of gumption and triumph against all odds coupled with a disingenuous apology for letting corporations cheat and poison us under the guise of some stupid slogan like "getting the government off your backs," but with totally different words. And then Peggy Noonan will praise the "energy" or "verve," and if the speaker is Latino, she'll write about how she really likes Latinos, and it will be condescending and creepy, but it will make people feel just great.
All over this nation, these people are going to be generating the kind of passion they did at the convention when Susana Martinez talked about having a .357 Magnum as a young girl, and the audience erupted into one of the longest ovations of her speech, which really ought to sicken anyone who isn't a complete sociopath, only it doesn't.
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Response to paulbibeau (Original post)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:11 AM
JaneyVee (14,402 posts)
1. Chris Christie hates his own party, Bobby Jindal thinks his party is "stupid", at this rate
the GOP will have to nominate Joseph Kony in 2016.
Response to JaneyVee (Reply #1)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:19 AM
paulbibeau (703 posts)
2. You know what they won't change about the Republican Party?
The Republicans.
When you have a party made up entirely of the kind of people who ruin Thanksgiving dinner, you're always going to be in trouble.
Response to paulbibeau (Reply #2)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:22 AM
JaneyVee (14,402 posts)
4. Yup, and their rabid hate-filled base of rejects & neanderthals is a turn off for many Independents.
Response to paulbibeau (Original post)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:21 AM
Bluenorthwest (38,882 posts)
3. Yeah, not dead but also, all those suprelatives you use seem way overstated...
'Wit, charm, talent' and you insist that they WILL put 'an entirely novel spin on their appalling right wing views'. Not that they will try to do so, you say they WILL and it will be entirely novel! You insist that they will 'shake things up with the interesting things they believe'. You also say 'awful' but the message is that they will shake things up, oh yes...
You tell us this: "All over this nation, these people are going to be generating the kind of passion they did at the convention."
I just don't see it. You seen smitten by a batch of clunky, atavistic, unappealing politicians. The passion they generated at the convention lost them the election...you seem to think it was historic political genius.
Not buying it.
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Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:23 AM
paulbibeau (703 posts)
5. Satire.
Response to paulbibeau (Reply #5)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:27 AM
Bluenorthwest (38,882 posts)
7. Ah, that's better then.
I just read an OP almost exactly like it that was not satire.
I love the line in thread about 'people who ruin Thanksgiving' that is golden...
Response to Bluenorthwest (Reply #7)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:33 AM
paulbibeau (703 posts)
8. To be fair, it's very dry...
And when you make the argument that the GOP is too vicious and crazy to appeal to Americans, there's always that sneaking doubt... because how much insanity and viciousness have Americans historically put up with? That's the disturbing line of inquiry. There are times when CNN headlines look like Onion headlines.
Response to paulbibeau (Reply #5)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:31 AM
justabob (3,065 posts)
11. I was wondering
Reading your post, I was wondering if you watched the same convention I did. I saw none of that... except a lot of the "guys that ruin Thanksgiving".
Response to Bluenorthwest (Reply #3)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 10:23 AM
JaneyVee (14,402 posts)
6. Its satire.
Response to paulbibeau (Original post)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:28 AM
farminator3000 (2,115 posts)
9. wha happen to the funny? i still like it, tho!
dave barry interview-
Whats your preferred literary genre? Any guilty pleasures?
I like nonfiction, mostly history. My guilty pleasure is tough-guy-loner action novels, like the Jack Reacher series, where the protagonist is an outwardly rugged but inwardly sensitive and thoughtful guy who, through no fault of his own, keeps having to beat the crap out of people.
he has a really good 2012 in review column, too.
But then, WHAP, we were slapped in our national face by the cold hard frozen mackerel of reality in the form of the hugely popular new reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which, in terms of intellectual content, makes Jersey Shore look like Hamlet.
i had this idea a while ago- i was gonna give it to you, or we could write it right here on this thread-
have you seen the biden + the gun guy video? 'how are you gonna protect our babies' , and he whips out the AK-47 or AR-15 or ASS-007 as his 'baby'?
i have this image in my head of him having tea with Gandhi...discussing politics, perhaps...
Gravel crunched hesitantly under the wheels of the 4x4 as it ground to a stop in front of the ashram. Behind the long black barrel protruding from the driver's window sat the 21st century approximation of a man, brim lowered, frown on. He lumbered in, past the "Where there is love there is life" greeting sign, leaving a gleaming wad of chaw spit in the flower bed.
maybe uncle joe shows up with a buzz on?
Response to paulbibeau (Original post)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:30 AM
farminator3000 (2,115 posts)
10. "When you have a party made up entirely of the kind of people who ruin Thanksgiving dinner"
precisely. party poopers!
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12. You are so correct. And they will infiltrate the Dem party ..be alert! nt


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