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The Dublin Irish Festival, set on 29 rolling acres just northwest of Columbus, Ohio, is one of the nation's premier Irish festivals and a central Ohio tradition. More than 100,000 guests are expected for the Dublin Irish Festival August 5, 6 & 7, 2011.
Beer and food
Good time and the teenagers are well behaved. :-)
Great music...#Scythian
Good luck with the toilets! Ugh!
With Jamie
There's beer here. I think that's really all that matters
Get in free with a Dublin food bank canned good donation before 10 am on Sunday. Then, maybe hit a worship service like Celtic mass or U2charist
Funnel cakes, french fries and lemon shake-ups at the white tent next to Wendy's!
After seeing the Festivities come over to Salvi's Bistro! We've got great meals and great service!!!
Try the festival Stout!
Purchase your tickets online for a discount.
Dublin Tradition at its Finest! Don't Miss Out on the Bands!
Not the oldest, but the fastest-growing and coolest Irish cultural and music - especially music! - festival in the 21st century USA! Read more
Kilts are flying high in the Killian's Celtic Rock tent
German food here may be odd, but Schmidt's german potato salad is AMAZING!
Short lines in the kid zone today
Super crowded. The metro shuttle is worth it, it's free! Fun, but steer clear of the HUGE pack of teenagers!
The fish and chips for $8 at Old bag of Nails is delicious and you get a lot of bang for tour buck!
Tons of annoying high school kids who stand in the middle of the walkways! Argggg
Be sure to make your way to Gaelic Storm tonight. They are the best band of the entire weekend.
The Dublin Irish festival stout is Amazing!!!
If your drinking stick with the beer, cocktails are mostly mixers
Old Bag of Nails fried pickles are AMAZING!
VIP at the Emerald Club rocks!
The sauerkraut balls at "Hey Hey" booth have REAL horseradish; the best festival food ever!

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Firms show caution in Russian investing
Jul 6, 2009
As President Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, executives from Pepsi, Boeing and other U.S. companies announced new investments in Russia. Jeremy Hobson reports why some companies are still cautious about investing.
U.S.-Russia trade not booming
Jul 6, 2009
President Obama's first visit to Russia will focus on trade between the two superpowers. But a close look at current trading relations between the countries shows there's not a whole lot going on. Steve Henn reports.
BRIC group challenges U.S. dominance
Jun 16, 2009
The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, and China are holding their first BRIC group summit today. The countries' leaders are united in a common goal of playing a bigger part in global bodies. Stephen Beard reports.
Exploring cause of satellite collision
Feb 12, 2009
Commercial satellite companies are assessing the impact of a collision in space where a Russian craft destroyed an American communications satellite. Stephen Beard reports on the need to monitor space junk.
Russia, Ukraine work out pipeline kinks
Jan 20, 2009
Russia began pumping natural gas again, ending a two-week streak where 20 countries in the continent lost supplies. A contract with Ukraine helped patch up the issue, but not bruised reputations. Stephen Beard reports.
E.U. steps into Gazprom dispute
Jan 7, 2009
The European Commission says the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine is unacceptable. Officials from the two countries and the E.U. will meet to work through the issue. Steve Chiotakis talks to Stephen Beard in London.
Europe struggles to tap Russian gas
Jan 6, 2009
Europe is caught on the losing end of the gas dispute between Russia and the Ukraine. But while politics play a role in the squabble, money may be the main concern. Scott Jagow talks to Stephen Beard in London.
Russia, Ukraine dispute over pipeline
Jan 5, 2009
A dispute between Russia and Ukraine over natural gas is hurting supplies to other European countries. Russia is accusing Ukrainians of stealing gas, while the Ukraine blames faulty piping. Stephen Beard reports.
The rise and fall of Gazprom
Dec 30, 2008
Russian natural gas giant Gazprom thrived in the first half of the year, but fell sharply from July on. Stephen Beard reports Gazprom's year ahead is looking grim.
Russia faces deficit on down ruble
Oct 24, 2008
With the price of oil and gas plummeting, Russia's once bulging budget could be heading for a deficit. Megan Williams reports half the country's income is from oil, and production is dropping along with price.


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Heidi Klum chats making time for family and exercise despite her busy schedule
Heidi Klum making time for family and exercise despite her busy schedule
By Scott Huver and Jessica Wedemeyer
Heidi Klum isn't just a supermodel. She's also a super-mom. In addition to raising her four children, ages 3 to 8, and appearing in three reality-TV shows, she also manages a constantly growing empire of fashion and lifestyle brands -- and manages to look damn good doing it! So what's her secret?
"I plan ahead," she told reporters of managing her busy schedule while promoting "America's Got Talent." "My fitness is suffering a little bit because myself always comes last."
That may come as a surprise to anyone who's caught a picture of the German beauty's fit physique of late. But just like all working moms, Heidi struggles to build her exercise routine around her mommy duties.
"On Sundays, [my kids] do gymnastics, and while they do gymnastics, I do an hour [of exercise]," she said. "I try to incorporate gymnastics and working out a little bit into my everyday routine. Like over the weekend, we were at home playing in the pool, [so I did] a few laps with the kids. We have a big trampoline outside. We have two German shepherds, and I take them on walks. It's incorporating that into my daily life."
That's the No. 1 piece of advice the single mom would like to impart to her fellow busy moms: "Try to work it into your daily routine," she said. "That's how I do it. It's hard -- you have to get dinner on the table and get your kids to school, make their lunchboxes, everything. It's hard! So you have to try to make it work somehow for yourself."
Heidi's exercise routine isn't the only thing that's taken a backseat to her full-time job as a mom: "I don't do spas and any of that stuff," she said. "I haven't shopped in a long time. I am with my family, and my weekends are always off."
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1989: Sebadoh - The Freed Man – Deluxe Edition
It has been said that the conceptual birth of Sebadoh happened when Lou Barlow recorded "Poledo" for Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me. Revisiting Sebadoh's initial recordings in the newly compiled and reissued, The Freed Man, affirms that this statement is only half true. "Poledo" does share a kinship with the band's early work: simple ukulele chords, stark vocals, tape effects, field recordings. Still the due fame that Barlow received as Dinosaur Jr.'s bassist and co-songwriter, overshadowed the equally apt contributions of his recording mate, Eric Gaffney. With a four-track recorder, an acoustic guitar, a slew of home-made tapes, and the urge to articulate ideas that their memberships in hardcore and punk bands couldn't, Eric and Lou defined the genre that we've come to know as "Lo-Fi".
The Freed Man – Deluxe Edition is a massive endeavor assembling 52 "recordings" from the original Freed Man tapes, rerecorded material from The Freed Weed LP, unreleased material, and early single tracks. The assertion therefore, that the album can best be appreciated for its overall aesthetic rather than for its dissection into individual songs may seem counterintuitive. Yet every sound on the record belongs: every echo, pop, inebriated diatribe, confessional verse, and guitar strum. Gaffney's "Julianne" for example is a soaring, partially-realized pop song that ends with a pair of boys scheming for a "Woodstock of hardcore bands". "K-Sensa My" is sweet and haunting and imbedded behind a collection of indecipherable samples. The songs toggle from atonal and mocking ("Land of the Lords"), to melancholy self-deprecation ("Punch in the Nose") to full-fledged psychedelia ("Level Anything"). But for all of their variety, each song finds a common context with its loose craft and playful textures.
Written and, in many cases, recorded as separate entities, Barlow and Gaffney's compositions illuminate the uniqueness of each man's approach to music. Gaffney, a daring and creative force, crafts experiments that often warp melodies into trance-induced slices of pop. His most successful efforts on The Freed Man hint at a heightened level of consciousness, while other songs fall apart with overambitious arrangement. Barlow's contributions are consistent if not bare in contrast, with their loyalty to traditional pop music, and concentration on lyric writing. There's an overwhelming sense of purging in his songs, perhaps due in some part to his concurrent creative rifts with J. Mascis. His triumphant "Hung Up," recorded in 1989 and placed near the conclusion of the album, reaches a catharsis: "Let this be the last I say/Let the anger fade/No one wants to hear it." – A spiritual Christening of sorts for Sebadoh.
It would be apt to label this collection both a sketchbook and a document. All of the songs are short and often conclude their fragile melodies as quickly as they're created. They present as a slate of fertile, sonic ideas that given another year, would flourish. Together Eric and Lou would record the magnificent Sebadoh III. Having the benefit of history we can view The Freed Man as a transitional time for Barlow and Gaffney. They'd both moved from the sheer energy of hardcore and punk into a more articulate mode of creation. So for its successes and failures, The Freed Man is a good album that gives us a window to the fledgling stages of one the 1990s better bands.
2007: Michael Yonkers - Grimwood
"Welcome to the everchanging landscape of early 21st century musical excavation," began Karl Ikola's liner notes to Michael Yonkers Band's Microminiature Love. The album cemented the relationship between Sub Pop and psychedelic archivists DeStijl, demonstrating the former's strength in finding and reissuing little-known gems from the psychedelic explosion. DeStijl's Clint Simonson searches cut-out bins and Goodwills around the country for private presses, regional eccentricities and ignored basement experimenters. Often times, he finds, and conversely exposes, inventive psychedelic albums, undermining the exorbitant collector prices.
With Yonkers' first effort, Simonson unveiled a hidden classic suppressed by major label follies and Yonkers' subsequent music industry-spawned disillusionment. The Yonkers Band was like a coat of black paint over paisley rhythms with raw pre-punk psych-blues. By any means, the album would have never climbed American charts in the '60s but Yonkers believed in progression and fell for Sire's promises. The label rejected the masters to Microminiature Love and Yonkers became another major label casualty. Instead of retreating or killing his producer a la Charles Manson, he grew a beard over his John Lennon mug, locked himself in the studio and produced a dark, dreary folk album with mystical overtones. Under the influence of Leonard Cohen, Yonkers lowered his voice, stripped down his sound and constructed Grimwood, a very personal album.
Yonkers risks coming off like a prima-donna as he bears his fears to the listener but his earnestness and stern delivery ensures the message's integrity reaches the listener uncompromised. His masterful basement production sense assures each word's perfect instrumental accentuation. He either fingerpicks or strums with due respect to the lyrics, adding echoing flute, droning synth and creeping harmonica to further the dark psych feel. "Lonely Fog" lists off complaints like "I will never shine again/'til I feel the daytime sky" with a chorus of "I am lonely, fog/Very lonely." Yonkers processes his vocals to sound like a transmission from a lonely pirate radio operator and inserts a buzzing electric sound, further blackening his sparse instrumentation. His homemade guitar effect boxes, such as the wah-wah on the "Tripping through the Rose Garden," lend his electric guitar an otherworldly voice. Though darkness engulfs the album, it contains a few bright points. Yonkers shares a joke with studio musicians "The Day is Through" and the chuckling begins the dark tale. On "And Give It to You," he relays what actions he would take for his lover.
"And Give It To You" also reveals Yonkers weakness, as he tosses off the occasional dud of a couplet. The corniness of the tune's basis lends itself to parody but Yonkers only fans the flames with lines like "I'd ask my guardian angel/If it would be okay/To rent a room in heaven/If only for the day." However, a loose barroom chorus of "And give it to you" saves the song from mediocrity. On "The Day is Through," Yonkers rattles off a few weak couplets like "I will stay here for the hour/I will pick the only flower" but most of the time poetry is crisp and concise. Even when presenting weak couplets like "There is an answer/It lies in the dance," Yonkers' conviction allows the listener to oversee his lyrical shortcomings much of the time.
Michael Yonkers still creates chunks of primal psychedelica and his vast back catalog still warrants reissuing. He proved ahead of his time, as both reissued albums sold poorly upon initial release. An artist with no outlet, Yonkers is pictured throwing copies of Grimwood in the air on the back of Microminature Love feasibly out of frustration with its sales. With the reissue of Grimwood, Yonkers may just find the audience he panned for almost 40 years ago.
1973: Mustafa Özkent - Gençlick Ile Elele
Mustafa Ozkent is an old, prolific Turkish musician, still making records today, but long forgotten and swept over in the west. In 1973 he released a churning album of funky instrumental pop and jazz numbers called Genclik Ile Elele, that, when unearthed from obscurity, probably made the musical archaeologists over at the Finders Keepers label cream. It's that kind of album, one that endlessly plods along, riding some kind of universal groove that crosses boundaries and borders just to get you moving.
There are a few stand out tracks (check "Emmioglu" and "Zeytinyagli") but for the most part Genclik Ile Elele plays like one huge mash-up, sliding between minutes with a uniformity you'll either appreciate as tonally consistent, or denounce as a droning bore. Taken individually, Özkents songs crystallize differently. An air of nostalgia sets in as you're listening, and the mind starts making external connections. For most of us who've grown up in an oversaturated popular culture, Genclik Ile Elele will be attached at the hip to what its sound has come to symbolize in a modern context: that is, badasssss movies, exploitation, car chases, dirty cops, shoot outs, bumper stickers, film directors who crave the sound of '70s sleaze, lofts filled with weed smoke and so on. After a while Genclik Ile Elele does feel like self parody, even though it was created in a far less self conscious time. Thank you modern baggage. Still, it's quite a slice of that time, regardless of tainted perception, a real artifact. And jesus, look at that album cover. There is, of course, the danger of our musical ancestry becoming oversaturated with best-left-forgotten 'gems', but Genclik Ile Elele isn't there yet. It's a fun enough ride, and honestly, I can't recommend it enough for fans of the genre.
1995: Archers of Loaf - Vee Vee
Has everyone had personal soundtracks for their life and times? Was there, for instance, a record that tracked through your mind the first time you'd been dumped (Disentegration), resolved to hunt down her new boyfriend (The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste) and confront him looking like a mutant reincarnation of Ponyboy (Legacy of Brutality)? Did songs accompany your thoughts when you were cut from the basketball team ("Out of Step")? For you parents, what did you hum to your new-born child ("To Here Knows When")? Does Thanksgiving evoke Arlo Guthrie for any other Americans out there?
In 1995, if you were between the ages of 18 and 28, Archers of Loaf's Vee Vee may have worked its way into your cognitive rotation in the same manner. The band's sound, tighter than Pavement's and more angular than Superchunk's, was ideal for building anthems on loyalty and subversion. In "Harnessed in Slums," Eric Bachman barks, "Snuff the leader with the leader with the bad-assed plan/ Take what you want from the palm of his hand," and it's hard not to conjure that stout manager at BurgerFreak who fired you for stealing french fries. And that's not to trivialize the record's impact. Instead, it may be lauded for its ability to remove intellectualization from concepts like revolution and leave us with the sentiments of daily human reality.
The music of Vee Vee, jittery yet powerful, shoves any message that manages to surface over the edge. The musical devices employed range from choruses accompanied by sweeping and insistent power chords to the Archers' signature eighth-note guitar duels. Like their fellow Tar heel colleagues Superchunk, Archers of Loaf have a heritage that resides somewhere between hardcore and pop. Songs like "Harnessed in Slums," "The Worst Has Yet to Come," and "Nostalgia" possess hardcore's sheer energetic roots while sprinkling in enough melody to make it accessible to a range of audiences. Other songs -- "Nevermind the Enemy," "Greatest of All Time," "Underdogs of Nipomo," "Fabricoh" -- tip the balance in slight favor of pop with glorious results. Other tunes, like "Step Into the Light" and "Underachievers March and Fight Song," don't commit themselves enough either way and therefore falter. These moments, however, are far between enough that they don't detract from the record's overall stoicism.
All of this brings me to the most magical day of my life: I'd been short-changed at a pizzeria ("Nevermind the Enemy"), but I was hesitant to contest it because I didn't want to deter the girl seated two tables over, who, amid my friends, my cherry coke, and my greased-out napkins, had been staring at me ("Step Into the Light"). I summoned my swagger and walked to her, when the cashier called to me, "Count your change, pretty-boy?" I swiveled to him. He had paws for arms, a neck as thick as my torso, and the ink was barely dry on his prison release ("Underdogs of Nipomo"). To retaliate, I couldn't muster anything intelligent or even absurd to say to expose his empty bravado ("Let the Loser Melt"). I looked back to the table where my friends sat, to find that they'd vanished from the establishment, in search of safer company ("Floating Friends"). The girl, with eyes like Siouxsie Sioux and a pout like the Little Mermaid, could have been inside my soul, testing my courage at this pivotal moment ("Death in the Park"). But there was nothing I could do or say to retain my dignity or my 43 cents. I turned away from the cashier's smirk and the girl was gone.
This was life for a sensitive, skinny boy, living in an industrial plot of anywhere ("Harnessed in Slums"). I'd had the misfortune of leaving the pizzeria just as first shift ended at the steel plant, "Edith," "Cassandra," "Meredith Lovefingers," "cherry-boy," they'd yell to me from the entrance gate ("The Worst Has Yet to Come"). Life was a silent tremor of what it used to be, when I'd ride my bike everywhere and boys and girls had interchangeable paths to innocent happiness ("Nostalgia"). It would be simple to slip into worthlessness with this life. I had to get out ("Underachievers March and Fight Song"). There was no other way, I'd die a victim of my surroundings if I didn't. That's when I heard the motorcycle race up behind me. I turned. It wasn't a mugger or a taunter or a beggar. The rider lifted her helmet and shook her matted locks of black hair. It was the girl from the pizzeria. "You comin' to New York with me?" she asked. ("Greatest of All Time").
2007: Disciple - Come & See Us As We Are!
Back during the acid wave and its musical fallout, it was practically a rite of passage for college kids to put a band together, practice for a few years, release an album of mildly familiar songs after graduation, and basically fade into normalcy. Though this New York quintet maintained a much more active touring schedule than the typical Mom's-car-driving garage band of the day, their 1970 debut reeks of this well-established phenomenon. The powerful voice of lead singer Sandy Crespo is the one thing that sets their sound apart from the average TV show score of the day (which was a hell of a lot funkier than today's Payola OC shit, so that's not really a diss). Whatever chemistry they had developed into some decent ideas, as heavily influenced as they may have been.
The opening title track draws easy comparisons to the motif of Nirvana's 1968 opus All Of Us, and basically acts as the album's theme, while its follow-up, "Come Along," evokes a more clearheaded, laid-back Jefferson Airplane. The rolling bassline and structure from album highlight "Better Than You (Mental Song)" comes across like Love with Big Brother & The Holding Company-style psych-pop changes. And you've gotta hand it to their cover of Fontella Bass' immortal "Rescue Me," which does everything a good cross-genre homage should, giving the source material a new context without forsaking the spirit of the original. Though it ain't exactly Cream, Disciple's lone contribution to the West Coast psychedelic canon is a fairly well-executed exposition of all the many blessings they had going for them, but I think some of their grounding ideas were lost behind inadequate recording and production. One can only imagine how vivid, dynamic, and surreal this album could have been with someone like George Martin or Paul Rothchild piecing their sound together. As is, Come & See Us As We Are exists as a footnote of interest on the continually expanding musical timeline.
1982: Laurie Anderson - Big Science
From perhaps 1977-1984, music had a preoccupation with the progress of society and technology and George Orwell was to blame. 1984 created an unconscious cultural deadline for the self-examination of Western society. Rock music sang about the spawning of mega-governments, punks assaulted fascism, pop stars noted a scaled cooling of compassion, jazz captured the spirit of robots. Suddenly, the word "modern" became an esteemed concept. It instructed us to accept the reality of imminent nuclear war, to be gaudy, to indulge, to ditch your 8-track player and buy a Betamax, to compete for every decibel of laughter, scrap of land, and shade of color.
On Big Science instead of fostering these notions, Laurie Anderson observes them. Culled from fragments of her performance art opus, United States, Live, the songs from Big Science are compassionate and alarming. They describe the death musings of a commercial airline pilot over an intercom ("From the Sky"), the hubris of urban expansion ("Big Science"), the ignorance of the free-born ("Born, Never Asked"). The minimal music is loyal to her themes, melding organic brass and woodwinds with electronic beats, vibes, and melodic interludes. Most of the songs find Anderson, speaking over the music with her compelling pace and diction. "Cause I can see the future and it's a place - about 70 miles east of here," she utters in the simple, Cartesian, "Let X=X." In this essence lies the source of Big Science's magnificence. Here silence is used as artfully as words. There are empty slabs of pause, appealing to mechanistic processing and as well as warm-hearted salutations. The renowned "Oh Superman", the album's centerpiece, is complete immersion in this notion. Anderson reads her apocalyptic verse while a robot voice echoes. This interplay is chilling: like a mental duel between compassion and complete detachment. The "song" finds Anderson talking on the phone to what seems at first to be her mother then she gives pause, "OK who is this really?" And the haunting reply comes, slow over a subtle, sweet keyboard dirge, "I am the hand, the hand that takes."
The world Anderson describes, however, is far from minimal or bleak, for she also gives us texture. "Example #22" erupts with rhythm and jovial horns. German samples abound with Anderson bleating,"Honey you're my one and only, So pay me what you owe me." A bass and kick drum join the fray and suddenly the modern world is dancing. "It Tanga" jests at the connection gaps between men and women, women speaking open-ended and men repeating ageless Dylan, "Isn't it just like a woman." And that's how the sparse chaos that's presented by Big Science ends. You've been lured into a dream without realizing. Anderson has assaulted you with enough thought and silence and sound that you return society more enlightened but less certain of anything than when you left.
As "O Superman" climaxes, Anderson reaches a resolution to this societal fray and I can't help but think that Orwell would approve. It unfolds gradually in the telling, "Cause when love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom" It's a poignant conclusion for certain, but when living in a world of compromise and miscommunication, it may be the best of all things.
1982: Pauline Oliveros - The Wanderer / Accordion and Voice
"Sustain a tone or sound until any desire to change it disappears. When there is no longer any desire to change the tone or sound, then change it." - from the score for "Horse Sings From Cloud"
Pauline Oliveros has been a figure of the classical and electronic avant-garde for decades. She champions "[deep listening->http://www.deeplistening.org/site]." Her careers as writer, composer and performer have been dedicated to the exploration of music as a psychosomatic means of expanding consciousness. She has embodied that belief through contributions to numerous experimental groups and universities dating back to the San Francisco Tape Center in the '60s (where she played in the premiere of Terry Riley's In C for Instruments. Important has paid her a welcome tribute by reissuing two discs of her accordion-based material dating from the late 70's and early 80's.
Despite the liberal, un-ironic use of accordion by bands from The Arcade Fire to The Twilight Sad, in my mind the instrument still had the character of a dowdy polka prop before I heard these records. No more. Oliveros reveals the instrument's capacity for scale and dignity in this handful of expansive original compositions, which range from the staunchly minimalist "Rattlesnake Mountain" to the modernist romp of "The Wanderer: Part II".
Her music is a fine example of eschewing artifice as a means of arriving at richer art: the persistent, undulating mass of sound that she elicits from her accordion brings to mind the image of a raw sine wave – the simplest visual avatar of sound. But careful attention to the throbbing permutations of this mass reveals a robust, versatile, and shifting music that is at once inscrutable and engrossing. She capitalizes on ambient music's binary ability: it can serve as a sort of matte aural wallpaper or an unadorned gateway to new ways of imagining. According to Oliveros' commentary in the liner notes, "Horse Sings From Cloud" is intended to function as a meditative agent wherein the respirations of player and instrument respond to and align with each other. From someone else, this could seem like so much neo-Buddhist posturing, but the quality of Oliveros' work and the intensity of her engagement with these ideas preclude such facile suspicions. It's rare to find such an enriching fusion of concept, sound, and politics in the same musical moment. Don't miss it.
1970: Rita Lee - Build Up
It wasn't easy for the sunlit fuzz-funk music of Tropicalismo to make it all the way to 1970. The late '60s sent the movement's major players through everything from musical game show appearances to military dictatorship-imposed imprisonment and exile (key players like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, for example), all with minimal public support. When the '70s finally hit, rock was still finding its footing, even though it was becoming more generally accepted by Brazil as a whole. While this summary skips over volumes of details, it gives an idea of where the country was positioned musically in 1970: finally ready to accept rock with moderately open arms and prove to the rest of the world that they could rock with the best of them.
Rita Lee, of course, already had. She'd bested most of her Anglo counterparts on two late-'60s albums with Os Mutantes, lacing her bandmates' heavy sub-equatorial psych with the perfect compliment of larking alto, as well as a dark opus, A Divina Comedia, with the group that same year. Having already proved herself in that arena (she's now known as "The Grandmother of Rock" in her native Brazil) was perhaps the reason Lee decided to try something different on Build Up.
Though fellow Mutants Arnoldo Baptista and Sergio Dias both contribute to the album, those looking to hear Lee's voice in the midst of their drug-induced guitar fuzz-outs have come to the wrong place. The first notes of this record come in the form of string arrangements on opener "Sucesso, Aqui Vou Eu," which, at first glance, more closely resembles a Petula Clark Broadway number than anything in the Tropicalia canon. Hearing it for the first time, it's hard to believe you're listening to the same woman who sang vocals on a song which translates to "Hail, Lucifer" that same year -- and even harder to believe that you're actually kind of digging it. It may be '40s nightclub at a glance, but Lee was never one to walk someone else's trail, especially at this point in her career. A closer listen reveals stylistic sparks taken from all corners of the globe and plenty of twists lying just below the surface. This song foreshadows stylistically what's to come on many tracks throughout the rest of the album. Most aren't really the psych-rock jams Lee was doing concurrently with Os Mutantes, but rather conventional numbers taken and tweaked in ways as to make them totally unique.
From there, Lee dives into "Calma," shifting the mood from ocean breeze to high-speed chase at will, again keeping it all in a jazz-lounge framework. Side one continues turning the string and horn vibe on its head, while side two contains most of the 'rockers.' Given the context, the 'conventional' tracks actually end up being the least straightforward on the album. Many notable rock figures have gone the way of 'conventional' music in efforts to prove that they're capable of more than one style, but this album is one of the best examples of being able to do that without sacrificing what made the earlier music notable to begin with. All the intriguing aspects of Lee's music are present here, just in different forms. Lee continues to keep it interesting on side two with "Hulla-Hulla," which is Hawaiian from the name down. Yes, Hawaiian. Call it cheesy, but it holds up to the rest of the album instrumentally with its strong humming-it-for-days-after-you-hear-it factor. Beatles cover, "And I Love Him," gives Lee an excuse to channel her inner Janis, something she's been known to do on Mutantes tracks (see: "Meu Refrigerador Não Funciona"). It's tolerable, but given that Lee has always been the better of the two both vocally and stylistically, it's regrettable to see her feeling the need to go the drunken-blues route. Cloak-and-dagger number "Prisioneira Do Amor" leads into the album's closer, a straight-ahead rock number chock full of electric guitar, walking bass, and wah pedal.
The album is full of great rhythms and instrumental work, but when a vocalist from a previous musical outfit does a solo album, the vocal quality is sure to be dissected. Under any microscope, Lee's voice holds up to the challenge. If the album does have a few flaws, vocals aren't one of them. Her voice keeps even the less interesting tracks afloat, gliding through all the right notes while always managing to stay somewhere between a moan and a whisper. It's sexy, it's ear-candy, it's Rita Lee in her prime.
It will be difficult for most of us who first learned about Brazillian music through Os Mutantes to resist comparing the two incarnations of her music instead of just listening to it. Indeed, it may come as a disappointment to many fans that Lee appears to have traded whatever hallucinogens she was taking with Os Mutantes for a pleasant glass of wine this time around. But this shouldn't be cause for dismay -- these are two separate sounds entirely. It wasn't a Mutantes album for a reason, after all. Build Up was never trying to send us to another universe, only to make us enjoy this one a little bit more.
2000: M. Ward - Duet for Guitars #2
I've had a sort of nebulous understanding of what M. Ward sounds like and his place in the overall musical panorama for a few years now without ever actually listening to his work. Luckily, instead of being thrust into some fully formed, grand statement of a new album, Duet for Guitars #2 is Merge's reissue of Mr. Ward's apparently difficult to track down 2000 debut. And a debut it surely is. Duet is decidedly lo-fi; most of the tracks sound as if they were recorded in an open room with a few mics and an almost total absence of overdubs. There are doors opening and floors creaking all over the place. Very bare bones.
The instrumentation is just what you'd expect: acoustic guitars with a part-time electric buddy and clattery percussion. Things get mixed up with mandolin, dulcimer, and various keys, but on the whole, it makes little difference to the album's back-porch feel. As much as the set-up tells me I'm going to like it, Ward's debut ends up just being there. The album is peppered with instrumentals, which is nothing too grand as Ward rarely produces melodies of interest with his guitar. "Not a Gang" is a welcome exception with its almost Eastern guitar parts, but it unfortunately got relegated to bonus-track status. "He Asked Me To Be a Snake & Live Underground" is a Neil Young-aping, snippet of a song but remains a highlight.
My biggest problem with the record is a purely objective one: Ward's voice grates. It manages to be nasal and raspy and wavering, which proves to be too distracting. Regardless of the timbre of his pipes, Ward does little melodically to encourage. The album never really presents any memorable ideas, and M. Ward sounds exactly as expected. Never a good thing when someone's never listened to you before.
1964: Sweet Emma and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Sweet Emma and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
In writing about music, we often discuss the powers of influence and novelty. In favor of these, a concept that's been overlooked is the role of heritage in the creation of music. This concept describes something so entrenched in a particular culture that its expression is preserved and treasured. Yes, it's also a banal concept historians like to use, and that's too hefty for any music review of reasonable length. Still, heritage is something all forms of music possess, even if it's not acknowledged or, furthermore, felt. On the self titled, live recording, Sweet Emma and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the spirit of heritage is cradled, heralded, honored, and impossible not to sense. The recording takes jazz, America's most idiosyncratic art form and fosters it in New Orleans, America's most idiosyncratic city (sorry citizens of Red Haw, it's true). The result is music of both movement and reflection: there are celebratory pieces for the dancehall as well as mournful spirituals.
New Orleans Jazz, rising in the early 1900s from the blues and ragtime sounds that pervaded the American South, is the first incarnation of the Jazz genre. Its most fundamental elements included bass, banjo, woodwinds, and brass. Whether spectacular or solemn, the music sought to celebrate the human experience. Sweet Emma pays complete homage to this notion. Recorded live at Preservation Hall in New Orleans, the record reels in slow with the introduction of each player and instrument. The band then launches into "Clarinet Marmalade," a roaring piece that epitomizes the New Orleans Jazz experience: bursts of clarinet, trombones and trumpets that double, then run contrary to each other, with drums, banjo, bass, and piano pacing the action. Amid all of this, there's little showmanship: each player is a master of a single instrument, and each is given ample and equal space. "Ice Cream" and the ubiquitous and important "When the Saints Go Marching In" continue the tradition in this vain. The slender and aged Sweet Emma herself takes vocal responsibilities on the monument to unrequited love, "I'm Alone because I Love You," and the funeral standard, "Closer Walk With Thee." Drawing the listener in further is the charismatic MC work of trumpeter Percy Humphrey.
Regardless of the precise context of each of the selections on Sweet Emma, the overall tone is one of resounding celebration. In this sense, it finds kinship with Irish folk music. Both forms insist to us that a life lived, whether tragic, common, or heroic, should be documented and honored with a sense of joy. Three years after the recording of this record, Sweet Emma suffered a stroke leaving the left side of her body paralyzed; 40 years later, Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans leaving a swell of catastrophe and loss. In spite of these, Sweet Emma, like the city she loved, remained true to her heritage. Unmoved, she crept back up to the stage, sat at her piano, and played on.


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Report: Blu-ray Sales Falling Short Of Expectations Even As Prices Decline. Are you still buying?
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Posted June 08 2011 - 04:40 AM
I answered "on release date" but here's the caveat: if I really like the title and can find a reasonable street date price (usually Amazon or Best Buy release week sale) then I buy. If it's a catalog title that I know will be discounted within a few months, I'll wait on it. I'd say most of my purchasing is 65% the former, 35% the latter. I buy BDs at roughly the same rate I bought DVDs. The main reason for any decline is the comparative lack of catalog titles on BD (as opposed to DVD). If the studios opened the floodgates on their back catalog, I'd be buying a lot more. Also, I don't know how anyone can draw definitive conclusions based on 2009-11 data. I'm sorry, am I the only one stuck in America's worst recession since the Great Depression? Think that's skewing the sales charts a bit?
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Posted June 08 2011 - 04:53 AM
Originally Posted by Carlo Medina
Also, I don't know how anyone can draw definitive conclusions based on 2009-11 data. I'm sorry, am I the only one stuck in America's worst recession since the Great Depression? Think that's skewing the sales charts a bit?
Good point.
#3 of 373 OFFLINE
Posted June 08 2011 - 04:58 AM
Same here, on both points.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 05:12 AM
I regularly buy Blu-rays, but they don't come out in the same numbers as the DVDs did in the prime of that wave. Yes, disc sales are down - but that's also due to the overwhelming majority of catalogue material having already been released over the past 14 years - some of them more than four or five times. At a certain point, most consumers already have the big titles they want, and aren't about to repurchase them. I am willing to repurchase if there is something interesting on the Blu-ray, or if the transfer is going to make that much of a difference. If this is a movie that I can live with on DVD, I'm happy to stay with the copy I already have. And yes, the recession of the past several years has played a part in the problem. As the economy gets better, I think we'll see that situation improve and sales will increase again - but not to the level that DVD hit at its peak. I'm still not sold on online viewing - Blu-ray is simply better all the way around in terms of picture, sound and extras. And as I've said before, if your only way to access a movie is to download it or get a key registered online, you'll have a big problem when your internet connection goes on the blink, as happens a lot with Time Warner, for example. In that event, you'll go back to the way we used to be entertained: With a nice book.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 05:33 AM
Release something I want, I will buy. Impulse buying and blind-buying are things of the past for me. I'll usually wait until someone wants to get rid of a used copy on Amazon - there's no sense in paying close to full retail on street date. Finally, I think the strategy of measuring sales from month to month is silly. I don't buy the same number of movies during the same week in March every year. However, I do buy a lot of stuff between late August and early October when studios release their Horror titles.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 05:37 AM
I agree with all the comments so far. There's been a major uptick in my BD-buying lately, but that's entirely due to Blockbuster's 5-for-$20 sale and going-out-of-business sale (at one local store).
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Posted June 08 2011 - 05:47 AM
I buy more blu-ray discs than the number of DVD I bought in, say 1999 and 2000. If it's a movie (or TV series) I really want, I always pre-order; if it's a movie I already have on DVD (and not in my very-top-must-own-list), I may wait for some discount. The exception are most Criterion BD's: their high price is very rarely matched by their quality, so I definitely wait for a substantial discount - in most cases. Cees
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Posted June 08 2011 - 06:02 AM
I'm buying, but not nearly as many as I did on DVD and I wait for big discounts. I also don't repurchase catalog titles that I've already got on DVD since I really don't see that much of an improvement to compensate for the additional cost of the discs. DVD's look great projected on my 96" screen. I'm actually still purchasing more DVD's, including new releases, than BR's. The only time I usually go for the BR is if the price is very close to the DVD price. I recently purchased "The Mechanic" on BR at $16.99 which was just $2 higher than the DVD, but purchased "Red" awhile back on DVD because the BR price was significantly higher even for the bare-bones, non-HD audio, disc.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 06:06 AM
I answered Yes on Release date, and for the most part that holds true for New Titles that I want or Catalog titles that I don't already have. On catalog titles I already have it can be on release date if it's a title that is one of my favorites, but if I'm replacing a DVD I may wait until a good sale. Also if it's a box-o-junk set then I may get the UK version without the box, or wait until it's released here without the box. And I really liked and used the Warner Red2Blu & DVD2Blu trade in programs and would love for other studios to do similar programs, it allowed me to upgrade to Blu on a budget AND then use that budget to buy other titles on Blu-ray, which as I see it is a win-win. One other thing, on sets that seem over priced like the Superman set I ordered that from the UK at a much lower price, or getting a particular diffrent cut of a title on an import or getting something like Tora, Tora, Tora imported since it hasn't been released here yet. There are so many more purchasing options today that studies like this may not take into account all the ways someone might buy a Blu-ray disc, especially if it only covers US sales. That's the nice thing about the internet, we aren't tied to what local stores may have in stock or the prices that they have on what they do stock. I love being able to find exactly what I want, wherever that might be. PS. I'm not sold on the whole Internet Streaming thing either. Especially after AT&T put in the download limits. But the quality just isn't what I'm interested in when I want to watch something.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 06:19 AM
I don't buy as many as I once did, but I still buy quite a bit. Flat out, disposable income is spread much thinner then it was when DVD was a hot commodity. I assume quite a few people pass on rebuying titles on BD because they already have the DVD
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Posted June 08 2011 - 06:25 AM
I think I am buying them faster on Blu-ray than I did on DVD, and I am upgrading my favorites from DVD to Blu-ray. Occasionally, I find a receipt stuck in one of my old DVDs. They frequently were bought for $15 to $20. I replace them with Blu-rays (usually) at a cheaper cost for more quality. It's interesting how I spent more on laserdiscs per title; less on DVDs and now less on Blu-rays. I voted day of release.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 06:25 AM
I still purchase a mix of catalog and new releases with catalog being the main focus. Depending upon the initial price and desirability of the title I may wait for a discount price (such as a Deal of the Week or Goldbox) on amazon. Also, I am being a little more selective with my purchases these days compared to my earlier purchasing habits with DVD. I still upgrade a fair amount of catalog titles that I owned on DVD - but only if the price point is one that I consider reasonable. - Walter.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 06:48 AM
I needed the option: Wait for heavy discounts AND buy less than I used to with DVDs. At $5 as long as I will watch it once but at $10-$15 I need to be sure it will get multiple playings.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 07:09 AM
My purchases are almost exclusively catalog titles. I'm fairly selective, but if it's a movie I like, I'll buy it on BR.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 07:12 AM
I buy more blus than I ever did dvds. The pq just looks more "worth it" to me on blu. And I do more blind buying than I ever did with DVDs for nicely restored and well reviewed classics on blu-ray. My price point tends to top out at $20, although I certainly love and sometimes wait for the sub $10 sales... Blu-ray is not quite the cash cow that DVD was ten years ago, but it's still a very profitable format for studios and pretty much the only game for physical format in town that has strong growth.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 07:26 AM
I'm still buying, but not nearly the way I used to buy DVDs. The recession is one obvious reason for my change in purchasing habits. But another one is this: when I started collecting DVDs, I was able to get my hands on all sorts of movies I had never owned before, in their OAR (which was reason alone to upgrade from VHS for me). Now that I've got all of these DVDs, with more limited resources at my disposal, it's hard to justify buying another copy of something I already have and can watch, when the DVDs still fall into the "good enough" category. If it's something I've never owned before, I'm more likely to get it than if it's something I had on DVD, but I'm still waiting for either a good discount, or for when I feel like watching it - I used to buy things right away and keep them on the shelf knowing I'd get there eventually, and I don't really do that anymore. Even were it not for a recession, having a big DVD collection has helped me get a better perspective on how often I watch certain things - so I'm buying less and less of titles that I might only watch once or twice - most of the things I have on Blu, I'm either gonna get many viewings out of to the point that it pays to own it instead of renting it once a year, and/or they have extensive special features making the purchase worthwhile. Also, not every Blu-ray title is up to the standards it should be - "Spartacus" is a good example of this. This would have been a Day 1 purchase for me, but after hearing how bad it was, I opted for a rental, and decided that it wasn't an upgrade on my Criterion DVD. There's a title I would have loved to have bought but just wasn't done well enough to justify it. That's not to say that I won't be buying Blu-rays in the future; hopefully at some point some sanity will be restored to the economy and it'll be easier to do these these things. But I think the sheer number of DVDs I have that remain unwatched or barely watched, more than any other single factor, is the reason that I'm far less of an impulse buyer than I was 5 or 10 years ago.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 07:33 AM
For big new releases I will buy when released (2-3 titles a month). Based on the budget I have started being more selective when it comes to catalog. I would love to eventually replace my DVDs, but the price has got to be right.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 07:42 AM
I currently have about 715 blu ray titles. I'm not ready to throw in the towel, I hate streaming and Digital Copies. I love having the disc and love having a film library. Honestly, I cannot imagine a world without any type of physical disc to own and hope I a right. My opinion is we will have a big splurge continuing through this year and early next year of catalog titles. After that I think studios will release Day/Date and catalog essentials leaving lower tier titles either never to be released, or to be licensed out to indie companies. The studios really have themselves to blame somewhat, the format war delayed any kind of enthusiasm by consumers, they have really taken too long to get many big titles released and they treat it still like a niche. Universal had to support only HD DVD even though the numbers were not encouraging vs. what Blu ray was pulling in. Warner releases beloved titles like Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind it expensive box sets only at first instead of affordable $20. editions that casual buyers will pickup. To consumers it looks like some kind of niche product and not anything they need to consider. Disney and Paramount have just been awful regarding their classic libraries. We are 5 years into the format and Disney hasn't released Mary Poppins? At this point will we ever see it or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or any Touchstone films ever again? I'd love to have Ed Wood on Blu ray. Is that being considered? They have not release a Touchstone catalog title all year! Maybe Criterion? I cannot Imagine Mill Creek releasing that title. Paramount could not make up their minds, first both formats, then HD DVD and back to Blu ray. Not to mention the lack of catalogs from them. Most of what they released is nearly out of print because of slow sales. That is because nobody wants to pay $24.00 for Hot Rod or re-buy Fatal Attraction or Grease at such a high price. Catalog titles need to start at $20.00 price point for A titles and $15.00 or less for lesser titles. Granted they have been doing well this year. But considering how they have publicly quoted that they were reevaluating the Home Video division it may end this year. We will probably only get Day/Date titles. I do think Sony is really the best of amongst the major studios, probably because it was their baby. They have been consistent with PQ, with affordable pricing and they release day/date almost all of the Sony Classic Pictures titles. Outside of Criterion they are tops with Foreign Language films and I love them for that. I think the DVD only Sku's will cease quickly and new release DVD's will only be in a combo pack with Blu ray. It seems like the new trend. Hopefully Blu ray will continue to remain for years to come.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 07:52 AM
I buy newer stuff I want on Blu-ray. I don't necessarily wait for discounts, nor do I always buy on release day. Just whenever I want a particular title, I get it when I can. If it's something I want that I know will never get a Blu-ray release, like a videotaped TV show from the 70's or 80's, I go ahead and buy the DVD version. Don't have enough bandwidth for reliable streaming.
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Posted June 08 2011 - 08:35 AM
I agree with Josh. If the DVD I already have is good enough, why spend more money? On the other hand, if the Blu has a great new transfer or a lot of new and interesting extras, then I'll repurchase. But I have gotten much more choosy. And I can see why Adam is smart enough to wait that extra month to see who will actually sell the disc at a reasonable price.
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A scheduled discussion on MetroFM about the ANC national elective conference was cancelled because the party was not invited to participate, the SABC said on Wednesday.
"In this case, you know the issue was the discussion about the ANC. Our view is simple: you need the ANC to be part of that discussion. We are not banning anyone," said SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
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A month after Indiana hired Curt Miller away from Bowling Green as women's basketball coach, Kaila Hulls decided to follow her former coach.
IU officially announced Monday evening that Hulls, the 2011 Indiana All-Star and H-T All-Area Girls' Basketball Player of the Year from Bloomington South, will transfer from BG and begin classes this summer in her hometown.
"We are excited about Kaila's decision to return home and become a member of the Indiana Hoosier family," Miller said in a news release. "She is an outstanding player but more importantly an amazing person that will represent the university on and off the court. Kaila will be an outstanding building block for the next chapter of IU women's basketball. She is a tireless worker, a fierce competitor and has great 3-point shooting ability. She is also a former Indiana All-Star, showing our continued commitment to recruit the best in the state of Indiana."
The 5-foot-11 wing averaged 20.1 points and 11.7 rebounds as a senior at South, choosing to sign with Bowling Green over Indiana and Butler. She is the Panthers' all-time steals leader, second in scoring behind Beth Morgan and second in rebounding behind Megan Payton.
But she never played a game with the Falcons, suffering a torn ACL just days after winning the 3-point contest at Bowling Green's Midnight Madness event.
Hulls' brother, Jordan, is a member of the Indiana men's team, and grandfather John Hulls was a member of Bob Knight's coaching stuff in the early 1970s.
Btown Mom #1
Will she be able to play in 2012-13 or will she have to sit out a year?
Nat Hill IV #2
This is an amazing turn of events for IU women's basketball.
Give him a break #3
What happened to the Hoosier morning feature where you'd give us daily links to news about IU basketball and football. I think you did one or two after Ryan left and that was it. Will that return? I've enjoyed it.
Give him a break #4
Oh yeah, also, go Kaila! That will be fun to see her playing for the Hoosiers.
Jeremy Price #5
Hoosier Morning will return very soon, like Tuesday.
Hoosier heart #6
HOO HOO HOOSIERS! If she is half as good as Jordan, we are in business.
Mike #7
I also wonder if she will be eligble this coming season? Could someone find this out and let us know? Way to go Curt Miller, go after the Indiana girls. This state is full of great talent that the previous coach would not recruit. Coach Miller understands that Indiana girls can play this game, he recruited Indiana when he was at his previous location. I have said all along that he was the answer! Along with the junior commitment we recieved a couple of weeks ago, Miller is off to a great start!! Keep up the good work Curt.
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I am guessing she will have to sit out and will be able to play the next three years. I could be wrong.
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Oops – should have proofed before I hit send. I am guessing Kaila will have to sit out the 2012-13 season and will then be able to play the following three seasons.
Mike #10
She has not played yet due to her injury last year, that means she will have all 4 years of eligibility coming. The question is, will she be able to play next year? I am wondering if the NCAA will waive setting out a year as they normally due when a player transfers because she sat out this past year when she was injured?? IU should appeal that if the NCAA makes her sit out another year.
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Mike – I'm guessing that's not the case (i.e., I'm guessing she will have to sit out next year & will only have 3 years of eligibility remaining), but I hope I'm wrong. Does anyone know if there's any precedent for this?
Jeremy Price #12
A short update here: I spoke with Kaila and her parents last night. They will file an appeal with the NCAA to become immediately eligible, citing the fact she never played at Bowling Green, the coach who recruited her not only left, but went to her hometown, and the doctor who performed her knee surgery (Dr. Greg Fox) is in Bloomington to aid her recovery. But there is no way to know the outcome and no timetable on the decision. It could take all summer.
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Jeremy, asking the NCAA to do something logical and reasonable, that might benefit an honest student-athlete, is simply asking too much. I have no confidence that corrupt organization or the overpaid fools that run it will do the right thing by Kaila.
john ross #14
chiggity check yoself…… mike is correct, she will have 4 years playing for hoosiers. The past year she didnt play at Bowling Green and when you transfer and set out a year, you dont lose that year. She may not even have to sit a year. She has 4 years of playing time left, that we do know.
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John Ross – you are correct that when you transfer and sit out a year, you don't lose that year. However, unless you get some sort of waiver from the NCAA, you only get 5 years to complete your 4 years of eligibility. Kaila has already used her redshirt year (at BGSU in 2011-12). Unless the NCAA grants the Hulls family's appeal, Kaila will only be able to play 3 seasons if she sits out '12-13. I think Jeremy Price would back me up on this.
Jeremy Price #16
Yes, generally speaking you get five years to play four. The exceptions being an appeal such as this or a medical redshirt approval for a sixth year of eligibility.
Nat Hill IV #17
"Jeremy, asking the NCAA to do something logical and reasonable, that might benefit an honest student-athlete, is simply asking too much. I have no confidence that corrupt organization or the overpaid fools that run it will do the right thing by Kaila."
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Digital wouldn't have evolved as quickly, and certainly wouldn't have caught on at the speed it has, if he hadn't spearheaded various processes in sound, VFX, editorial and cinematography ... but since those changes haven't always necessarily improved matters, but did make it possible to work much faster or at a greater volume of output (note I'm NOT grouping digital compositing in with this, because that seems to have been a win-win through and through), and since it has been in service to films that percentagewise seem significantly inferior to their predecessors ...
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Rollo, Rolf, Hrolf(noun)
Norse chieftain who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931)
Origin: Latinization of the equivalent of the English Rolf.
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a Norwegian, who became the chief of a band of Norse pirates who one day sailed up the Seine to Rouen and took it, and so ravaged the country that Charles the Simple was glad to come to terms with them by surrendering to them part of Neustria, which thereafter bore from them the name of Normandy; after this Rollo embraced Christianity, was baptized by the Bishop of Rouen, and was the first Duke of Normandy (860-932).
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