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My 52 year old Baby Boomer friend refuses to join AARP, and with it, the denial of all those discounts and perks we could be getting... like dinner at 4 PM for a dollar off. Denying her age is one thing, but perception is reality, deary.
First, this article from the Clarksburg Exponent Telegram
"Baby Boomers of Harrison County, watch the mail. There is more than likely a survey on its way to you.
The Harrison County Senior Citizens Center and the Harrison County Commission have teamed up with West Virginia University to conduct a county-wide survey of those 44 through 61 years of age. "
In the mind of the writer, we Baby Boomers are either already ancient, or on the cusp of seriously advanced age. At least I'm at the center of that age span. I'd hate to be that 44 year old who gets the "senior citizen survey."
Finally, Pat Craig at the Contra Costa Times has put his finger on the problem by embracing his age.
"As a baby boomer, one of the porkers in the python, I am expected to be in a constant state of denial about growing older. Boomers invented the youth culture, and have insisted since somewhere in the mid-'60s on being at the head of it.
We were to be forever young, and, no matter how much Keith Richards' face told us we had changed, we refused to accept it.
It's always been a losing battle, of course; we can play our eight-tracks as loud as they'll go and continue to drive our VW buses to the old familiar spots, but the fact is we're on the narrow, winding road toward Social Security and high fiber."
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Talk about an identity crisis. Sean Bean ("Game of Thrones") stars in a summer mystery drama on TNT called "Legends," about an undercover agent who may not be the person he believes himself to be. Based on the novel by Robert Littell, and adapted by the producers of "Homeland," Howard Gordon and Alexander Cary, "Legends" premieres Wednesday, Aug. 13, on TNT. Bean plays Martin Odum, a chameleon of a spy. Co-starring are Ali Larter ("Heroes") as Crystal McGuire, a fellow operative who has a history with Martin; Morris Chestnut ("American Horror Story," "Nurse Jackie") as Tony Rice, a smart, quick-witted DCO agent; Steve Harris ("The Practice") as Nelson Gates, the director of the DCO Task Force; and Amber Valletta ("Revenge") as Sonya Odum, Martin's ex-wife.


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TUCSON - Arizona football will host a #RedOut for Friday's 8 p.m. rivalry game vs. ASU at Arizona Stadium, it was announced by Arizona Athletics on Sunday. Fans are encouraged to wear red and the team will wear red uniforms and red helmets.
The Wildcats last wore red helmets during the 1980 season. Since then, the Cats have worn blue or white helmets with the exception of Sept. 29, 2012 vs. Oregon State when UA debuted its copper helmets. This season, head coach Rich Rodriguez has allowed the senior class to choose the uniform and helmet combination each week.
The UA book store at the Student Union will be carrying special edition red helmet t-shirts starting Monday, while supplies last. Value packs will be available for the ASU game and the price of a game ticket includes a concessions voucher good for one hot dog, bag of peanuts or popcorn, and drink. To purchase tickets, call 520-621-CATS, visit the McKale Ticket Office or purchase online at ArizonaWildcats.com.
Friday's game marks the final home game for 21 seniors that have helped produce a winning 26-23 record over the last four seasons and a 34-28 mark over the last five years. The group is set to make its third bowl appearance over the last four years, and for those players that were around to redshirt in 2008, they will make their fourth postseason trip in their five-year career. The last time a Wildcat senior class achieved that feat was in 1994 when Arizona participated in bowl games in 1990 and then 1992-94.
The seniors who will be honored on the field in Senior Day ceremonies before Friday's game are: Dominique Austin (DL), Addison Bachman (OL), Trace Biskin (OL), John Bonano (PK), Dan Buckner (WR), Lamar De Rego (DL), Kyle Dugandzic (P), Chris Merrill (DL), Terrence Miller (WR), Willie Mobley (DL), Greg Nwoko (RB/LB), Kyle Quinn (OL), Drew Robinson (TE), Jaime Salazar (PK), Matt Scott (QB), Elliot Taylor (RB), Taimi Tutogi (FB/DL), Christian Upshaw (DL), Jowyn Ward (DL/OL), Mark Watley (DB) and Shane Zink (OL).


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A Fred Minnick draft notice is drawing some serious attention to a major legal oversight that's arrived too late — over 102 years, in fact. A woman from Pennsylvania says that the memory of her father has been returned to the public spotlight this summer because she says that her dad — who has now been deceased for over 20 years — was given official notice that he "needs" to register for the U.S. military draft. It seems that the misspelling of his name and an incorrect birth date might have resulted in the inaccuracy. The Middle Town Press shares the surprising story surrounding Mr. Minnick and this extremely overdue error this Wednesday, July 9.
Our nation may be roughly halfway through 2014 already, but Fred Minnick has gotten a draft notice to register for this important call to duty. The catch is that he received this message a full 102 years too late. According to 80-year-old Martha Weaver, who said that her father passed away over two decades ago, she was shocked to find that the Selective Service System had sent a letter directed to her father through the mail this weekend.
She contacted the Rockland Township legal offices to inform them of the unexpected mistake, noting that her father's name had been misspelled. Instead of Fred Minnick, the last name cited it as "Minick," shares the Ponoco Record, which might have led to the oversight. The official Selective Security System notice also stated that he needed to register by a specific date, and that failing to do so would ultimately be "punishable by a fine and imprisonment."
Local media sources quickly got word of the legal error and did some research on the now deceased man. The press release regarding the "Fred Minnick draft notice" interest story says that Weaver shared her father was born back on June 12, in 1894. At the time of him turning 18, the year would have been 1912 — thus leading the public to wonder if Minnick ever actually registered for the now mandatory draft after getting his warning 102 years late.
Although she remains uncertain, Weaver believes that the mistake was caused by a possible combination of his name being misspelled on the registry notice and an incorrect birth date listed on the formal request. His birth date was wrongfully listed as a (much younger) 1994, while Minnick died in April of 1992.
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College Hockey:Knowlton's four-point effort helps Denver sweep Colorado College
Denver senior Chris Knowlton took over in the first five minutes of the third period, scoring a power-play goal and assisting another score four minutes later to help the host No. 2 Pioneers pull away for a 6-2 Western Collegiate Hockey Association win over No. 14 Colorado College on Saturday before 6,096 fans at Magness Arena.
Knowlton's second goal of the night (his eighth of the season) with 2:29 left accounted for the final margin. He finished with two goals and two assists after recording a goal in Friday's 6-5 win in Colorado Springs, his hometown.
"After a little bit of a drought early (in the season) when he was playing well, it seems like he is a threat to score every time he touches the puck," Denver coach George Gwozdecky said. "He was one of those guys we were hoping would step up and provide some scoring, because that was one of our question marks coming into the season."
The CC penalty kill was tested while facing a power play lasting 4:10 to start the third after senior Scott Winkler was sent off for contact to the head with 49.5 seconds left in the second. Knowlton fired a one-timer from in front of the CC net to beat Tigers senior goalie Joe Howe only 31 seconds into the third period to make it 4-2.
"We got a big power-play goal there," Gwozdecky said.
Being without centers Winkler and Rylan Schwartz (suspension) proved too much for the Tigers.
"We were hoping we could kill that power play off and keep it 3-2," Tigers coach Scott Owens said. "They started strong as usual in the first period, but we had a good second period until that penalty."
The league sweep, Denver's second in a row, puts the Pioneers in position to regain the Gold Pan Trophy, which goes to the annual winner of the four-game, regular-season series. CC must sweep DU Feb. 8-9 to tie the series and retain the traveling trophy. It was Denver's first weekend sweep of CC since December 2-3, 2005.
"Not having Rylan was a big factor for them," said Gwozdecky, referring to a one-game suspension for the CC senior stemming from a scuffle along the DU bench at the end of Friday's game.
The Tigers (7-5, 4-2 WCHA) killed off the rest of the DU power play, but the Pioneers benefited from a little luck with 14:59 remaining. Freshman Quentin Shore's shot was deflected by CC defenseman Ian Young's stickblade, redirecting a low shot just under the crossbar to surprise Howe, who was headed downward to stop the shot. That made it 5-2 and set the stage for a lot of end-to-end action over the final 14:59.
Colorado College controlled play for much of the second period, with the payoff coming when senior captain William Rapuzzi re-directed a hard power-play shot by defenseman Mike Boivin past Denver goalie Sam Brittain with exactly two minutes left in the second period.
Before then, the Tigers were unable to generate any sustained pressure on Brittain while failing to generate a shot during two earlier power plays.
After Denver (9-1, 7-1) took a 3-0 lead in the first, Winkler pumped in a goal only 15 seconds later to trim the host Pioneers lead to 3-1 entering the second period. Archie Skalbeck pounced on a loose puck along the boards and sent a pass in front for Winkler, who scored his seventh of the season.
"If it wasn't for a miscue between Brittain and our defenseman behind the net we may not have given them life then and it could have been a very different second period," Gwozdecky said. "We were very good in the first and third periods."
Denver senior Shawn Ostrow scored the power-play goal, batting in a pass from David Doremus that beat CC goalie Joe Howe with 2:39 left for the 3-0 margin.
Freshman Gabe Levin scored his first goal as a Pioneer, backhanding the puck into the open net after senior forward Chris Knowlton made a good pass to the unmarked left wing near the CC left post.
About seven minutes later, Matt Tabrum, son of former CC assistant Matt Tabrum, fired a hard-angle shot that went into the CC net off senior goalie Joe Howe's back for a 2-0 lead midway through the first period. It was Tabrum's second goal of the series.
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A new book celebrates the voices of our history
Through interviews with writers, activists, historians and founders of the gay liberation movement, Carolyn D'Cruz and Mark Pendleton have captured the voices of people who were at the forefront of gay activism forty years ago. The following is an extract from their book, After Homosexual: The legacies of gay liberation.
Queer communities are not always switched on to the vicissitudes of time. We are sometimes made aware of our histories, but through necessity are more often focused on the urgency of the now. We have needed to resist police, state and religious harassment based on our sex lives and our genders. We have forced politicians to pass legislation that responds to our demands. We have nursed our sick and dying, while not allowing their deaths to go unmarked. Challenging sexual norms and gender roles, we have scratched and clawed our way onto social and political agendas.
This has earned us the accusation of threatening the very fabric of society. There was a time when we would have read such an accusation as a compliment. Clearly, the measure of success for a liberation movement shifts with time. And as we fight among ourselves over our movement's goals and what kind of future we want – not only for our 'own' folk, but for the kind of world we want to live in – we have constantly had to reflect on who 'we' are.
So it is with some understandable awkwardness that in recent years queer movements in many parts of the world have begun to slow and stagnate. Fixated on the last few remnants of formal legal equality, such as marriage, it seems our movement is no longer asking fundamental questions of what sexuality and gender may mean politically, nor questioning the social mores of mainstream society. This process has left many with a warped sense of progress; with supposedly no time to look back at our history, to pause and reflect, the movement has become caught up in a campaign that has left many no longer reflecting at all.
For 'us' the promise of an emancipatory vision for altering the structures of love, sex and kinship cannot settle at the present struggle for the 'right' to exchange vows at the altar. As things progress, we feel the need to press pause, to find time to reflect on the present through looking once more at what came before and thinking again about what is to come after.
The narrative of the Stonewall Inn is common folklore now, yet the movement and ideas it spawned over forty years ago are less well discussed or understood. This is not to say that there haven't been those who have drawn on this history in similar explosions of confrontation – the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) being just one notable, but by no means isolated, example. Yet despite these moments, there is a sense that, forty years on, we are in a stalled moment when we are not quite legally equal and yet are socially acceptable in certain limited ways.
[Image] Gay liberation dance flyers.
Forty years have also passed since the publication of Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, which captured the vibrant explosions of the post-Stonewall liberation movement. The book examined what this might mean for a nascent community struggling with its new-found politicisation. As we approached this anniversary, we began to think therefore about gay liberation's legacies. We also wondered how Altman's book, reprinted, republished and translated multiple times and read by many thousands of queer people the world over, might speak to this contemporary moment. So we compiled After Homosexual.
We come 'after Homosexual' in many senses. In chronological time, we carry the movement's ideal, which arose later than the heyday of the counterculture and the wave of other projects that focused on liberation and oppression. We talked to people who had been there forty years ago, or who understood the context of the emergence of one of the great and most successful movements of identity politics.
Another sense in which we come 'after Homosexual' is through being 'in quest or pursuit of' the gay liberation movement. We did not want this project to be a volume that bundled up a past movement and permanently locked it between two covers as finished history. Instead, we wanted to think about what, if any, resonances from our pre-histories there may be for our communities now.
What brings the disparate voices in our book together is a sense that they are writing from a time well after the book Homosexual. What possibly separates them is the extent to which they are writing after homosexual identity politics, and Altman's utopian imagining of 'The end of the homosexual'.
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The final chapter of Altman's Homosexual is perhaps the most controversial, and certainly the most strident. 'The end of the homosexual' argues that if gay liberation were to run its course, it would culminate in the end of sexual categories themselves through the liberation of human sexuality. This liberation never eventuated, and marks, perhaps, the most notable slippage in the political approaches of LGBT/queer communities over the last forty years. Still, is forty years an adequate time to traverse the space between the two places of oppression on one side and liberation on the other?
The views presented in our book all attempt in different ways an engagement with that suppressed vision of emancipatory politics. In doing so, they point not to a coherent movement for liberation along the lines of Homosexual, but instead to a queer spirit that persists through those forty years. It is this spirit of resistance, of fun, of perpetual motion that indicates we do not exist 'after' the end of the project of social transformation articulated with such force by Dennis Altman in 1971; political imagination is not dead. Instead, it lives on in the hearts and minds and bodies of those who continue to question, to push and prod at social mores, and to imagine a future world that is more just. Such a future will allow for a greater freedom of gender expression and sexual desire, along with fulfilment of another ideal we have lost sight of over four decades – that social and economic justice must be central planks of any project of liberation.
It is our hope that the reader may be prompted to imagine a world that is not simply chronologically 'after Homosexual', nor 'after' in the sense of being 'behind' us. Rather we carry on the quest to search after liberation, continuing the desire to fashion something new and better. Our book does not offer a program for change, but instead reflects an openness to the idea that our movements may not be done just yet; we also join those less audible voices that suggest that perhaps formal legal equality on the grounds of sexual and gender identity may be a limited political aim.
[Cover image] Dennis Altman launching Gay Liberation Sydney (January 1972)Photos: Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives
(This is an edited extract from the introduction to the volume After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation, UWA Publishing, 2013) Available from uwap.uwa.edu.au/books-and-authors/book/after-homosexual)
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Rotating sprinklers – commonly used on golf courses, parks, or large residential areas with uninterrupted space, these sprinkler heads can spray in full circles or part circles. Because of the lower application rate this type of system works well on slopes. The spacing is between 35 to 115 feet, and operating pressure from 40 to 100 PSI. If you have large areas of lawn sprinkler systems with rotor heads is the logical choice. To operate efficiently, rotors need to be supplied with more water pressure than spray heads. The PSI level should approximately equal the space between each installed unit. There are two types of rotary heads categorized by the mechanism that causes the sprinkler to rotate. These types are impact rotors and gear driven rotors.
Impact Rotors move in a circular or part-circular pattern and water the entire area within that circle. The impact rotor is typically cheaper than a gear driven rotor and may provide the most uniform coverage of all sprinklers. The downside to impact rotors is their high maintenance requirement. When the sprinkler is in operation it rises out of its assembly to approximately 4 inches above the ground leaving an open cavity in the sprinkler case to collect debris, mud, clippings and insects. Periodic maintenance is required to keep the canisters clean and to keep dirt from causing damage to the mechanism.
Gear Driven Rotors work like this: water turn a small turbine in the base of the unit which drives a series of gears that cause the head to rotate. The gear drive mechanism is sealed from the dirt and debris and operates without the clatter of impact sprinklers. The gear driven design is the most popular in the industry in both residential and commercial use. Though the individual gear drive rotor unit is several times more costly than a spray head its wider spacing capabilities means fewer heads are needed to cover a given area.
Fixed & Pop-UP Spray Sprinklers – fixed spray sprinklers are great for shrubs and high reaching plants. They are installed above the ground on a riser and are sometimes cheaper than pop-ups. Pop-ups are the most common design selected by home owners. They are installed below the ground and the sprinkler head remains out of sight when inactive. This sprinkler solution will keep your yard aesthetically beautiful because there won't be any pipes sticking out of the yard. The spray pattern can be full, half, and quarter circle, or rectangular with radiuses from 4 to 22 feet. Spray sprinklers offer several angles of spray trajectory with application rates ranging from less than one to over two inches per hour. Spacing between sprinklers varies depending upon the specific nozzle that is installed in the head. To operate efficiently, the units should rarely be spaced further than 15 feet apart and should be supplied with 20 to 30 PSI water pressure. Because these types of spray heads discharge a large volume of water in a short amount of time (these heads discharge 2 to 3 times the water of a rotor) this system is not suitable for slopes due to the wasteful run-off.
Drip and Micro sprinklers – Micro sprinklers are perfect for ornamental plantings as well as trees and shrubs. This type of sprinkler system has a low flow rate, low application rate, small radius of 4 to 12 feet and operate with low pressures. The micro sprinkler spike usually sits around 8 inches above the ground. Drip irrigation includes emitter, bubbler, trickle and ooze. This system applies water at point locations directly to the soil using low controlled flow rates and drip emitters that discharge at a rate of .5 to 2 gallons per hour. Drip tubing includes a series of tubes that have holes opened along them at intervals. The location of the holes is tailored to irrigate efficiently in specific garden beds in which the drip irrigation systems will be buried thus
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ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police responded on Aug. 6 at 3:35 p.m. to a two-vehicle crash on Route 7 in New Haven.
Police report that Cheril O'Brien, 38, of Brandon was driving a 2013 Ford Focus southbound when the Ford completely crossed the center line into the path of a southbound 2012 GMC 1500 pickup truck driven by Jamie Reed, 55, of South Burlington, causing the vehicles to collide.
VERGENNES — Vergennes police last week dealt with several reports of domestic assaults and made an arrest in one case.
On Saturday, Vergennes police arrested Andrea Anderson, 25, of Brandon for allegedly assaulting her ex-boyfriend at a Comfort Hill residence. Police said the victim allegedly sustained a minor injury under one eye. Police charged Anderson with domestic assault and lodged her at the Chittenden County Correctional Center.
BRISTOL — A Bristol police district resident contacted police in July about a potential scam.
The resident on July 12 received a $1,900 check from New Bedford Symphony Orchestra of New Bedford, Mass., drawn on Sovereign Bank. The check was made out to the resident and attached to an enclosed letter from "Trans Financial Company (Lottery & Resource Management)" advising of a lottery winning in the amount of $250,000.
The letter requested $1,600 paid via Western Union in order to claim the $250,000 winnings.
VERGENNES — Vergennes police on July 31 arrested a city man for the second time in less than a week on larceny charges, and this time he was jailed.
Police said Tyler Flynn, 21, of Vergennes was lodged at the Chittenden County Correctional Center for lack of $10,000 cash bail after allegedly stealing a laptop computer from a second street home and selling it to a Burlington store.
Flynn, who five days before was cited for stealing copper wire and then released with conditions, was cited for petit larceny and violating the conditions of his earlier release.
ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police rushed to a three-car accident on Route 22A in Panton on the evening of Tuesday, July 30.
Police report that the three drivers involved in the crash were Duncan Sewall, 18, of Milton, Mass., in a Honda Pilot; Charles Swinton, 22, of Ticonderoga, N.Y., in a Chevy van; and Jordan Stearns, 17, of Ferrisburgh (police did not report what he was driving).
This collision left all three vehicles disabled.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police responded to a report of a fight in progress at a Seminary Street Extension residence on Aug. 5. Police said they found a man and a woman, both drunk, who had been involved in a dispute. Police said they took the woman into protective custody, while the man was taken to Porter Hospital to meet with counseling service officials because he had threatened to take his own life.
In other action last week, Middlebury police:
•Investigated a trespassing complaint at the municipal pool off Buttolph Drive on July 29.
BRISTOL — On June 24 Bristol police responded to a report of an armed robbery on South Street.
A white male wearing a hooded sweatshirt had confronted a woman as she came out of the alley behind Green Mountain Shoe and Apparel, where she had disposed of household trash. The woman was forced to the ground and to give up her wallet.
Police reported last week that one suspect was identified, but they had insufficient evidence for an arrest. Anyone with information on this matter is still encouraged to contact police at 453-2533.
ADDISON COUNTY — This past Saturday afternoon at around 1:30 p.m. Vermont State Police responded to a report of an illegal "tattoo party" at a residence on Crown Point Road in Bridport.
The troopers' investigation led to the arrest of James St. Denis, 29, of Ticonderoga, N.Y.; he was cited for tattooing and piercing without a Vermont registration.
VERGENNES — Last Friday, July 26, Vergennes police received a warning to be on the lookout for a vehicle being driven erratically. Police stopped the car on Main Street and cited the driver, 22-year-old Tristan Bartsch of New Haven, for driving under the influence, first offense.
According the Vergennes police, Bartsch's blood alcohol content was 0.188; the legal limit for driving is 0.08.
After processing him, they turned him over to a family member.
In other activity last week, Vergennes police:
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police continued their investigation into a robbery at the Marble Works Pharmacy on Maple Street that took place shortly before 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 24.
As reported last week on addisonindependent.com, a young white male whose face was largely concealed by a hoodie, cap and sunglasses made off with an unspecified amount of prescription drugs after displaying a handgun to pharmacy officials. Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call Middlebury police at 388-3191.
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ST. CLOUD (KNSI) - Most of us are trying to spend as little time outside as possible in this frigid air, but a group of St. Cloud State University students are the exception.
This week, members of the University's Phi Kappa Tau fraternity and Delta Zeta sorority have posted up along Atwood Mall for the annual Freeze-A-Thon.
The goal of the week-long outdoor sit-in is to raise money for children with serious medical issues via an organization called SeriousFun.
Scott Moehlmann, the Philanthropy chairman of Phi Kappa Tau, says the effort demands that at least two students be on hand at all times, sitting in a campus gazebo, in order to promote the cause and collect donations.
The 100 hour-long event is now in it's 13th year. This year, the students have a goal of increasing their donation total from $2000 to $3000.
Moehlmann says historically, the most support comes from students and staff of SCSU, but area businesses have donated gift cards and other items as game and raffle prizes in ther past.
All proceeds benefit the SeriousFun Children's Network, which supports camps and programs around the world for children batting life-threatening conditions.
To learn more about the Freeze-A-Thon, SeriousFun, or to donate to the cause electronically, visit getfrozen.org.
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Debut author Ellen Sussman tells the tale of three French tutors: Nico the romantic, Phillippe the dreamer and Chantal the scorned lover. The book is split into three parts and tells the story of each tutor and their pupil, beginning with Nico who is paired with Josie – arrived in Paris to heal her broken heart. Phillippe is charged with Riley, who is lonely and living in the city with her businessman husband and two small children, and doesn't speak a word of French. Finally it is Chantal who takes on Jeremy, the husband of a successful movie star who is filming in the city; everybody sees her but nobody sees the invisible husband – except, that is, Chantal.
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it's good to hear that Gordon wants hold off the extension til the summer and Hornets want him as the face of the franchise.If the Hornets go after Augustin should he be the face of the team because he's the local favorite or can theses two share the title of faces of the franchise
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The Magic are in New Orleans for the first matchup between the two teams this season.
1. Which matchup most favors the Magic?
Mason Ginsberg – The easy answer is Dwight Howard, but I'm going to go with his front-court counterpart, Ryan Anderson. The Hornets don't really have a big man mobile enough to effectively guard stretch 4s, so Anderson could give New Orleans fits, especially with that 3-point shot of his.
Joe – Look, up in the Sky! It's a bird… It's a plane… It's Superman! Sorry for that, but Dwight Howard has historically made Emeka Okafor look like a scrub.
Ryan Schwan – I'd be an idiot not to say Dwight Howard. Sorry, Mason.
2. Which matchup most favors the Hornets?
Mason – Jameer Nelson has been downright awful this season (PER under 10), and Jarrett Jack has been arguably the Hornets' best player. Jack is quick enough to drive past him and tall enough to shoot over him, so I expect another strong performance for the Hornets' leading scorer.
Joe – I'm trying to find a matchup that the Hornets out-right win, but I'm really not having much success They definitely have more depth in the front court, so if Dwight or Anderson get into foul trouble, the Hornets will have the edge there. Landry will undoubtedly have to draw some early fouls for that to be a possibility.
Ryan – Agreed with Mason. Jarrett Jack should be able to beat up on Nelson, who seems to have lost confidence in his game and is no longer aggressive.
3. Care to make some predictions about the game?
Mason – Call me crazy, but I think the Hornets actually match up fairly well overall against Orlando. They have enough capable big men to
pester foul Howard all game long, and New Orleans has done a pretty good job so far this season defending the 3-point shot, holding opponents to 31.5% from long range. If the Hornets force Howard to get his points from the FT line and close out on the Magic's shooters, they can definitely win this game. I say they do – 91-86 Hornets.
Joe – This will be the Magic's fourth game in their last five days, and they're coming off a loss last night against Boston. Frankly, I'm not sure that they're going to show up against a Hornets team they should stomp on paper. The Bees are going to play hard for 48 minutes. They're are desperate for a home victory, and I think they finally pull through late in the game, giving the crowd reason to cheer after a rough couple days. Unless of course the Magic get hot from deep. Then it's hard to see the Hornets winning,
Ryan – without Aaron Gray to dominate Dwight Howard this year, the Hornets are in trouble. Plus, I keep waiting for a team to simply destroy the Hornets from deep – as the Hornets frequently give up that shot – and there isn't a team in the league better suited to pummel the Hornets with threes than the Orlando Magic.
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maybe we traded for him?? Dealer demps strikes again!!
I assumed it was Trey Johnson without looking at it more carefully... which, ironically, would also be mis-placed now since we just cut him.
Why do we even have banners? Same reason?
HA! Not sure. Would have to ask the banner guy.
Is it just me or is it getting harder and harder to watch the hornets???
It's just you. I actually love watching them. They play hard and the ball movement on offense is (usually) better than the last few years. And if you can't get excited about the way Ayon has played, you don't have a pulse.
it's you
It's just you. What I see is a nail-biter in every game.
Anyone remember the game where Aaron "big sloppy" Gray totally shut down Dwight Howard? Anyone??
Loved it. Weird.
Yes, I do. That's was the best. Superman didn't know what hit him. He just kept running into AG's mass and bouncing off. Fun for all in the Hive that night!
Yes. That was fiya!! I expect the crowd to be fired up tonight after several hard-fought close losses.
I'd love to see nothing more than a Hornets squad taking advantage of a tired and simply a team around Dwight that just doesn't care. If we are able to draw some fouls and maybe get hot enough to drain a few 3 pointers, we can compete in this game enough to win. I just wish EG was here to score some points in the last 2 minutes of the game... Let's hope for some optimism and get some wins out of these teams from the South East. 87-81 Hornets win.
You callin' me an idiot, Schwan? You wanna take this outside?!
He called you an idiot, then he agreed with you, meaning he's an idiot. Are you going to listen to what an idiot says? Yes, because you are crazy, per your own admission, which only a crazy person would do. I know, because I'm crazy. I'm not sure what just happened, but I need a coke.


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Cross Country / A Memoir of France
10: Smoke gets in your eyes
By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2012 Paul Ben-Itzak
In Montparnasse with Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Amelie
I've avoided seeing Woody Allen's "Midnight In Paris" mostly because, based on previous American in Paris fantasias, Woody's Parisian midnight probably doesn't have a lot to do with my daily Paris reality as I lived it from 2000 to 2010. Unlike Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and most American storyteller-adventurers, my Paris flight was solo, meaning I had to actually depend on French people if I was to have a social life and hope to have a love life. (Not for me the sordid midnight Montmartre rambles of Henry Miller.) I had to look to an earlier generation for a role model, and it wasn't promising. When it came to finding love with a French woman, I frequently felt like Lambert Strether in Henry James's "The Ambassadors," meeting a promising mate only to smack into a wall of Jericho that even my American can-do spirit couldn't break through. But I didn't yet know this in the late summer-fall of 2001, when my second Parisian abode, in a '60s-era high-rise next door to the Pasteur Institute (where AIDS, the virus of love in the 20th century, had been discovered), put me within skipping distance of Montparnasse, from which the elixir of Fitz and Papa still wafted over. Jogging every morning past the place Camille Claudel down to the Luxembourg Garden, I looked surreptitiously around at the giant pigeons and wondered if I could get away with deftly stuffing one under a bench, breaking its neck, and taking it home for dinner, as a penny-less Hemingway had once done. (Perhaps carrying it all the way back up hill to his apartment off the rue Mouffetard in the upper Latin Quarter where he lived in the early '20s. In the early 2000s, when I used to mouffe tard (circulate late) there, an old crone surveyed traffic from a lower window of Hemingway's building on the rue Cardinal Lemoine; I fantasized that she might have been there as an urchin when Papa was.) But, perhaps symbolizing the gulf between my 2000s reality and Hemingway's 1920s Parisian playground, the only dead pigeon I beheld at the Luxembourg was a bird which died on its own and whose carcass lay rotting for months in the murky pond of the Medici fountain.
Next I tried to recreate the intellectual ferment and fusion my ancestors must have encountered, insisting that Sabine accompany me to the theater and cinema complex Le Lucernaire on the rue Madame near the Luxembourg (and where Camus had lived during the war) to see the latest flick from Jean-Luc Godard, "Eloge de l'amour," in which the co-inventor of the Nouvelle Vague starts at the end, in black and white film, and ends in the beginning, in digital color. Used to lines around the block in New York for new Godard films, and this one having just premiered at Cannes, I was shocked to find the film screening in the complex's tiniest room, where we were among just ten people watching it on a miniscule screen. I, knowing little French, was on the edge of the seat for the entire film, while Sabine, an actual French actress, clown, and theater teacher, couldn't stop running her hands through her hair and huffing in exasperation. Afterwards we hooked up in the bar with a couple Sabine knew who were acting in a play in the same building, and I added two important morsels to my French connaissance: Diable a le menthe, a mix of carbonated lemonade and mint syrup and a good drink to know about if you want to order something that looks cool (it comes out bright mouthwash green) but is non-alcoholic; and a word that sounded like "Waaaaaaaay" and which punctuated every other sentence of what I assumed was a hyper-intellectual conversation. "Sabine, what does 'Waaaaaaay' mean?" "It's like 'Oui' but not really polite." 'Ouais' is the French version of 'Yeah.' (When I later asked a French film-maker, Laury Granier, why Godard was more popular in anti-intellectual America than in intellectual France, he blamed it on the big Yank movie exporters, which imposed on French distributors nine mega-blockbusters for every one art house film, thus monopolizing French screens. And added that Godard, who wasn't French anyway, was too intellectual for many French people.)
Determined to at least find the ghosts of Fitzgerald and Hemingway even if I couldn't resurrect the yeasty spirit which infused their times, I finally made my way to the rue Delambre off Montparnasse, searching for the bar-brasserie where they'd met for the first time. There were several candidates, none decisive; the name of the bar had long-since changed several times. So I finally settled on the bar Hemingway and Fitzgerald might have met at if they were still here in 2001: "Smoke," where the pony-tailed Asian-origin bartender was a dead ringer for Wayne Wang, who directed the film of the same name and where, in honor of Hemingway, I lit up my first Cuban, a Romeo y Juliet, scored from the smoke shop next door to Le Dome, where Hemingway, Fitz, Gertrude and Picasso getting soused on Pernod and whiskey had long-since been supplanted by elderly matrons drinking infusions of tea. "It's my first Cuban!" I told 'Wayne." "We're not allowed to smoke these in my country!" It was the best cigar I'd ever tasted, and I repeated the act leaning on the balcony railing of my seventh-floor apartment in the Godardian building next to the Institute Pasteur while marveling at the illuminated Eiffel Tower which seemed to be less than a hundred feet away, blowing the fumes into the midnight mist over the Seine while leaning on one of its ramparts on the Left Bank, and as a defense mechanism when out-flanked by cigarette-stoking Frenchmen and women at a party, having discovered that my cigar tended to trump their cigarettes. From the floor-to-ceiling window of my apartment, I could easily see through other windows across the way. One night I spotted a flabby balding older man shamelessly walking around in his undies; another night a younger couple started -- the woman beckoning the man to come look -- after seeing flabby me shamelessly working at my computer in my undies. All of these frescoes seemed pulled from Godard (who in turn had probably lifted them from Hitchcock), reminding me of a photo for a Godard film festival I used to have taped to the window of my W. 8th Street Greenwich Village apartment of an Anna Karina-like woman gazing sadly from the window of a similarly drab building. Bonjour tristesse.
Lest you think I spent all my time walking around like an American in Zombie Paris, I also had a more banal task to bring me back to 2001 reality: This was only a temporary lodging, and I had to find a more permanent one soon. Mornings I descended the Boulevard Pasteur to the Seine, heading left along the water until I came to the American Church, where housing possibilities were posted daily on a bulletin board. The most interesting prospect I found was an apartment further down on the Seine, near the Pont Grenelle, which was the only place I'd ever seen with views of both he Eiffel Tower (the real) and the Statue of Liberty (a replica made at the same time as the original). It was owned by a couple of gay retired New York City school-teachers who rented it out 11 months of the year. The only hazard of the apartment was that because of the floor-to-ceiling windows which made up two of its walls, whenever the bateaux mouches -- the tourist boats -- passed by at night and cast their headlights on the banks of the Seine, you became a star. Another time, I went to see a musty apartment on the rue Tardieu across the street from the park which descends from Sacre Coeur in Montmartre. The woman who answered the phone had assured me that my scant French would not pose a problem; the elderly man who greeted me and assessed me suspicously from head to shoes suddenly decided it was. I had had my first encounter with always dormant French anti-Semitism. Upset, I found a phone booth and called Sabine, explaining to her what had happened. "Paul, ne t'inquite pas, don't worry, I will call the man and explain that if the French is really the problem I can always help. Call me back in five minutes." Then, "Paul, I told him, but he still doesn't want to rent you the apartment. I think you are right about the anti-Semitism. It's too bad, there are still people in France like this, but don't worry, you will find something better."
Finally I found, not an apartment, but a girl.
"Hello, my name is Benedicte," began the voicemail message. "I am friends with Michel. He told me you are looking for an apartment and I am leaving my flat in the 15th, not far from you, so I thought maybe this might interest you."
The apartment didn't -- the neighborhood was too drab and family-oriented -- but the girl did. Her sing-song voice, fermented with romantic possibility by my Truffaut-induced fantasies of a providential encounter with the love of my life, inspired me to action. "To tell you the truth, I'm not looking in that neighborhood, but perhaps we could meet for a coffee or a drink?" Unbeknownst to me, Benedicte, a banker, was being worked on by her own film-induced fantasies of a semi-providential encounter with the love of her life, these induced by the new hit movie "The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain" (the truncated translation of the title to "Amelie" for American audiences also decapitated the story's meaning by removing the word 'destiny' and the promise of an equally fabulous destiny it held out to the millions of Amelie's real-life contemporaries, that just around the corner there was a shy discarded photo recuperator waiting to rescue them from their mundane interminable working-grind lives).
Instead of the photo recuperator, Benedicte got a Fitzgerald recuperator, moi, showing up for our rendez-vous -- at a multi-plex cinema on the Boulevard Montparnasse to see 'Amelie' -- in a colorful but holey Canal Jeans sweater and with a red rose in his hand. As for Benedicte, the character from Truffaut's Antoine cycle she most resembled was 'Peggy Proper,' as Antoine referred to his first wife (Claude Jade), her dirty blonde hair in a tight bun. Benedicte was shorter than Claude Jade and more somber, her lips, under an efficient nose and librarian half-moon glasses, seeming to have settled into a resigned gloom, as if at 33 she was reconciled to a predictable life; only a pink scarf betrayed a simmering heart yearning for something unexpected. The approach she decided on for me was to treat me as her French student, instructing me in both social mores and native language. After 'Amelie' I took her to Smoke, where the food wasn't quite up to the Cuban cigar or the Albert King blues playing on the jukebox. When I asked for a doggie bag to take home the rest of my beef bourguignon, Benedicte frowned. "This is not something that's done in France." "But to me this seems a compliment. By asking to take the rest of the food home, I'm saying that it's not because I don't like it that I'm not finishing it, it's because I'm full." The waitress returned with a clump of carelessly wrapped tin-foil and dropped it disdainfully before me.
It was a far cry from Fitzgerald and Hemingway's first encounter on the same street, but without a Zelda or Hadley by my side, I had no choice but to try to breach the barrier between French women and American men, to make like Gene Kelly courting Leslie Caron and blithely dance on, ignoring the lessons of Lambert Strether, a 21st century ambassador of Love, American Style.
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The Utah Olympic Park is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. There are guided tours on the hour from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Museums are free to explore. The summer bobsled opens in mid-May. For more information and availability please call 435-658-4200 or visit www.UtahOlympicLegacy.com.
The Silver Course, the Gold Course and the driving range at Soldier Hollow, near Midway, are open for the season.
Off-season rates are in effect at the Park City Golf Club until May 24. The cost for a resident (living within the Park City School District boundaries) is $26 to play 18 holes, or $41 with a cart. For a non-resident, it's $30 for 18 holes, or $45 for a cart. For more information call (435) 615-5800 or go to http://www.parkcity.org/index.aspx?page=171.
Both the Lake Course and the Mountain Course are open for the season. The cost for 18 holes is $33 on weekdays, $35 on weekends and holidays. Cart rental (18 holes) is $14. For more information call (435) 654-0532 or go to http://www.stateparks.utah.gov/golf/lake-mountain.
Located on Jordanelle Reservoir just east of Park City, Jordanelle State Park offers camping, boating, fishing and swimming. Hours are 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Daily fees are $10 per car at Hailstone, $7 at Rock Cliff. Annual passes are $75. For information call (435) 649-9540.
Mountain Trails reports that everything in Round Valley is dry. However, parts of the Lost Prospector trail are reported to be muddy and wet. For updates, visit mountain trails.org or www.facebook.com/mountaintrailsfoundation . For any trail maintenance concerns, email Rick at email@example.com.
Basin Rec reports that all trails in the Glenwild area are open. However, please turn around when you encounter mud on Flying Dog, Preserve Connector and Cobblestone, as well as on the Avenues, Moose Hollow, Gorgoza Park, Up Trail, Road to Arcylon and Princess Di trails. There are still mud holes on the Glenwild Loop and 24-7, Redhawk. All of the mid-mountain trails, as well as The Short Stack, Road to WOS and Short Ribs, are still closed due to snow and mud. For trail information or maintenance concerns, email Bob Radke at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.basinrecreation.org/trail_conditions.html .
The Kamas Ranger District maintains several cross-country ski and snowmobile trails in the Uinta Mountains east of Kamas. The Beaver Creek Trail is closed for the season. Some cross-country skiers are still driving on S.R. 150 to the gate at Mile Marker 15 and skiing from there. The Mirror Lake Highway is typically closed to summer traffic beyond Mile Marker 15 until early June. For more information, go to www.fs.fed.us/wcnf/unit/kamas/index.shtml or call (435) 783-4338.


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On Monday, "The Bachelor" 2014 will air the "Women Tell All" special in which all of the eliminated contestants from season 18 gather and face Juan Pablo Galavis.
What is set to happen on the ABC special? According to IB Times on March 3, there will be some tense moments between Juan Pablo and the cast. Kelly Travis will be seen in tears as she reflects on anti-gay comments Juan Pablo made publicly off-screen while the show was airing. She will explain that her father is gay and that it is an emotional topic for her. This story originated from a source who reportedly spoke with In Touch magazine. Juan Pablo's reaction? He "deflected any responsibility."
Andi Dorfman will come to Juan Pablo's defense when he is accused of favoring Renee and Cassandra on the show. Andi will explain that he just viewed them differently. Andi will also have her chance in the hot seat and tell "Bachelor" host, Chris Harrison, that during her overnight date with Juan Pablo, she closed her eyes and waited for it to be over.
Renee will share the stage to talk about life with her new boyfriend.
Some of the contestants on "Women Tell All" express their beliefs that Juan Pablo used his daughter as an excuse to talk only about himself and never show interest in them.
Will there by any real fireworks in this "Bachelor" special? According to Reality Steve, it will be the same type of thing viewers see every season with no major drama. There will be just enough, however, to keep you interested for sure!
"The Bachelor" 2014, episode 10, "Women Tell All," airs Monday, March 3 on ABC at 8 p.m., ET/PT.
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This is an early Mortician release, and after hearing their later stuff you can hear the apparent difference. This release is a lot more raw, but just as brutal as ever. Most people who have heard Mortician can pridefully say they have heard 'Zombie Apocalypse', and their works like that. This would be the first Mortician album I would suggest you check out, it is their first full length without their real drummer.
What can you gain from hearing this album? Well, if you're a fan of grindcore influenced death metal, a lot. This album is filled with down tuned guitar lines, which don't carry much variation. Even so, they are simple and heavy, which is always entertaining. The bass isn't as over the top on this album as it is on later Mortician albums. It is audible, but no where near the top of the mix. I wish it was pushed up just a tad more. The drums are programmed well, and are not on the top of the mix. They aren't too loud, or inhumanly fast. I really like the drum programming on this album. The vocals are Rahmer's special grunts, which happen to be really low, brutal grunts. I haven't heard many vocalists do death grunts as low as Rahmer does his.
The other really cool thing about this album are the two cover songs. I really find it cool that Mortician would cover a Celtic Frost song, specifically 'Procreation of the Wicked'. This is the heaviest Celtic Frost cover I have ever heard in my life. The down tuning makes it sound very brutal. The second cover song is 'Scum' by Napalm Death, in their grindcore days. This song is a perfect cover for Mortician, especially the bass introduction. These two covers are done very well, and I enjoy listening to them a lot.
'House by the Cemetery' the beginning to me favorite era of Mortician. This album is filled with down tuned, brutal music that will satisfy any fan of the extreme. I know Mortician get's a lot of hate, but give this album a shot. Hell, even the cover songs make it worth checking out.
This is the only Mortician release that really manages to give 'Hacked Up For Barbecue' a run for its money. It goes about its immense quality in a different way; 'Hacked Up For Barbecue' has its almost shockingly morbid atmosphere whereas this relies more on its core of filthy brutality to get its point across. It lacks subtlety (even moreso that Mortician usually does), but at no other point did Mortician sound as raw and horrifying as they did here.
The production is very raw, heavy, and noisy, and has a seething quality to it that makes your skin crawl. A particularly cheap and trashy drum machine is used, which oddly enough works, especially with the very strange, pulsing kick sample which adds an even greater industrial edge than usual. The guitar tone is enormous, disgusting, and all over the music, while the growling bass lurks under it as though it's going to spring out at any moment. As you can tell, it's a masterpiece from an aesthetic standpoint, and as Mortician doesn't change, the aesthetics are perhaps the most important quality. Needless to say, the production or lack thereof does wonders for this CD.
It's notable that on this release, literally every track features at least one slow section, and most of the songs are completely low tempo. There's a surprisingly small amount of blasting on this CD, which for a fan like me who's always thought that Mortician's chug and groove stuff was better than the blasting, is absolutely phenomenal. The music on this EP is nothing but groove after predatory groove. They even play around with off-kilter rhythms occasionally, like on 'Driller Killer', adding an even stranger edge to already alien music. The content isn't substantially different from regular Mortician except in the emphasis on low tempos, so it won't change any minds, but it's immense for fans.
This is almost unbelievably ugly music, feeling maybe the filthiest that Mortician's ever been. It's strange to me that this EP gets more approval than just about anything else in the Mortician catalog, considering what seems to me to be a particularly inaccessible style when compared to their later works, but I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder. Anyway, it's excellent and you should most certainly get it.
Mortician are one of the most consistent bands in the business. While most metalheads, myself included, would also add that they are "consistently bad," this EP is actually pretty bearable. It's exactly what you would expect from Mortician, but something about it raises it a few steps above the typical garbage these fellows put out. I think part of it is the brevity of the release; even at just about 24 minutes, I've pretty much hit the maximum amount of this music I can take. There are a few brief moments of talent and listenability here and there, and so if one were willing to brave a Mortician release, this would probably be the most rewarding one.
Mortician play a very, VERY repetitive form of death metal with some grind elements, dominated by extremely long horror movie samples, retardedly low vocals and guitars, and a relentless, very obvious drum machine. Most of the songs sound the same, although there are actually fairly memorable riffs in the title track, and the covers of "Procreation (Of The Wicked)" and "Scum" are actually kind of fun, and Mortician make them their own. Nevertheless, everything else on this album is in general forgettable, and it all blends together into a mush of horrid drum machine blasting and gurgles.
While it's kind of sad the two best songs on this release are covers, this album still probably stands as Mortician's best output. While there is still zero creativity, as to be expected, the album is still fun in a perverse way, and I don't really mind when it's playing, although I rarely actually have a desire to listen to it.
I have to hand it to Mortician though; the music really is a perfect fit for the campy horror movies that they love so much. Of course, the value of these horror movies at all is extremely questionable, as is the existence of Mortician.
If you want to hear what it would sound like if Neanderthals played to death metal, Mortician are the band for you.
Mortician is a perfect embodiment of musical purity. The fact that Mortician's albums sound extremely similar is a result of the band's devotion to fundamental principles of extreme metal. Mortician does not compromise by experimenting, branching out, or "evolving". Mortician is anti-progressive, minimalist death metal - and nothing else.
Mortician's music contains no guitar solos or drums. Its programmed percussion (via drum machine or computer program) sounds unnatural and unmusical. The bass guitar sounds like an incomprehensible wall of buzzing static. The guitars are tuned down and maximally distorted. The vocals sound like a combination of low belching, a kitchen sink garbage disposal, and a large waterfall. Overall the sound is IMMENSE, especially when played out loud on a decent stereo. No band has a more MASSIVE sound.
Most of the songs sound extremely similar, but dynamics do exist. Most notable is the fact that nearly every song begins with an excerpt from a horror movie. These film excerpts range between several seconds to two minutes. The music starts right at the climax of the movie clip. Most songs include blasting fast parts that sound like a vacuum cleaner full of marbles getting sucked into a jet engine. The fast parts are interrupted by slower sections that are more musical and riff-oriented. The riffs are repetitive, ultra-heavy, and memorable. They are the most effective element in Mortician's sound (followed by the vocals and movie excepts).
I chose to submit this as a review for House By The Cemetery because it is a prototype of their subsequent releases and probably my favorite Mortician album. This is definitely a love-it-or-hate-it album and band.
A poor example of brutal death metal and grind. Instead of buying this CD, go purchase a horror movie. Tracks 1, 3-5, 8, 9, all begin with audio clips from various movie scenes. It's not just a little intro either, the bullshit runs on for like a minute into each track. The songs are short to begin with, so it leaves about thirty seconds of actual "music" per track. Roge Beaujard isn't bad on the guitar. He plays descent fast death metal, comparable to old Cannibal Corpse, but heavier. On the other hand, Will Rahmer's vocals are terrible. He uses too much distortion. I like gnarly death metal vocals, but that manipulated rumbling is pestering to my ears. It sounds like either a dog with a soar throat barking, or perhaps noise emitted by a constipated guy on the toilet. The vocals get repetitive, as does the entire album. There's more movie quotes than actual music!
The percussion isn't great, fast typical death drumming, programmed by Beujard. The best track is 6, Procreation, fast and deadly. But it's not even their own work, it's a Celtic Frost cover. The song runs four minutes, none of their other songs top two and a half. Track 7, Scum, is a Napalm Death cover, yet 6 is still the only I can tolerate. The remaining songs just blend into a steady aggravating rumble / gurgling sound. The problem with Mortician and some other brutal death bands are they just try to see who can be the heaviest, and it ends up sounding like cacophony. This album(considered by some as Mortician's best) sounds like pure shit, one of the worst I've ever heard.
In conclusion, keep a safe distance from this lame cd. It will make your ears gush out blood. There's a lot better death metal out there. If they cut the distortion and eliminated those stupid movie quotes(or at least kept it at one or two), the cd would've been a little better. Then again, it would only run about 15 minutes for ten tracks in their absence. What a better way than to fill the gap than with some cheesy psycho movie clips. Procreation is the only good song, but it's a cover.... Anyway there's not much more to say about their music, since there's very little of it, and it's mostly undistinguishable. So, if you encounter House By The Cemetery while shopping, don't be fooled by its attractive cover, just keep moving along.
A lot of people seem to have major conflicts with Mortician but I think they are one of the more "fun" death metal bands on the market today. Sure, the lyrics are cobbled together with various well known horror movie images and the the riffs don't shiver with that gothenburger melodic shine but the band is an example of pure "crunch and burn" death metal the "way it once was".
The chunky riffs and horror movie lyrics fit a traditional death metal mold with simple, yet stunningly aggressive riffs creating the chaos around it. I personally love my death metal such as Nunslaughter and Flesheater so this fits perfectly in-between bands like this on my collection. This CD is heavy, armed with one of the most viscous voices in death metal and fun as watching a good 80's Slasher flick.
Pick it up...
Mortician is a band that you either love or hate, and as for me, I pretty much hate them, but this EP isn't all that bad. It actually has some death metal influence in it, although you may not be able to tell with all the chaos going on around you.
The horror movie clips are pretty enjoyable, and I do find that the guitars are somewhat decent on this. The drum machine though, that has to be stopped. It is so awful sounding that it could wake someone from the grave, or is that their intention?
Driller Killer is an alright song, as is House By The Cemetary, and maybe one or two more, but since they mostly sound the same, I can't remember what they are. The song lengths also don't do much to help them out, as they are usually a minute or less, sometimes about 2 minutes, but you'd never know, seeing as how it all seems to flow together (in a bad way of course).
Overall if you like Mortician, just get this and be done. Their full lengths are just too.... long and boring! My mind wanders off at about track 10 on their full lengths, especially on Domain of Death, which I feel is the epitome of suckiness. Ahh, the horror indeed.


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Raleigh | A Triangle-area businesswoman who ran unsuccessfully for Congress and mayor of Raleigh has pleaded guilty to mail fraud stemming from a real estate investment scam.
Attorney Woody Webb Sr. said the plea agreement signed by Carolyn Grant was to be filed in U.S. District Court in Raleigh on Tuesday.
Webb said the mail fraud involved misrepresenting information about a real estate project in a 2007 mailing to investors and potential investors
Authorities said Grant promised high returns, but many investors said they never got any money back and were misled about where their money was going.
Grant ran as a Democrat and lost the mayor's race in 1999. She switched party affiliation, then lost to Democrat Brad Miller in a bitter 2002 race for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Grant formed Omega Property Group in 2005 and began soliciting funds for a number of developments. Grant's projects included a medical office building in Carolina Beach and The View on Water Street condominium project in Wilmington.
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For students who come to the United States with some education, some English or a little more time to catch up before they age out of public education, graduation is possible. Gates teaches English language learners (ELLs) at all levels. In her "level three" group, students demonstrate a growing proficiency in English. Some of these students came to the U.S. already speaking some English; others arrived young enough to learn the language before graduation loomed. Most are excited to graduate.
Angel Perez, an 11th-grader from Guatemala, seems perpetually excited to be in class but says he is nervous about graduation. "I need to learn more things," he explains. "Last year I didn't speak a lot of English, so I got a lot of F's." Perez, who loves chess and is active in the school's NJROTC program, plans to enroll in the school's credit recovery program, completing the makeup packets for the classes he failed during his first year in the country.
Josie Wankier, former ESL coordinator at West and current IB counselor, says that the school often arranges funding for ELL students to participate in the credit recovery program because "they didn't have an equal opportunity to access (the course work) the first time." A few students are even allowed to stay for an extra, "super senior" year to finish credits they missed during their transition to the U.S. Others are referred to local adult education programs where they can pursue a diploma or GED.
The school tracks the progress of ELL students for two years after they leave the school. Wankier reports they are sending more and more students to programs at SLCC, Weber State and the University of Utah.
California and New York City both recently developed plans to expand bilingual and dual language programs so families can choose an educational setting that allows their children to continue making academic progress while learning English, keeping them on track to graduate.
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Even students who excel academically struggle to adjust to the American high school system. According to Wankier, "Some of our really high (achieving) kids don't have access to (advanced) AP and IB classes" because of a perception that they wouldn't succeed in academically challenging classes unless they were fluent in English. Wankier hopes to change that perception in her new role as the school's international baccalaureate counselor, guiding students who are interested in enrolling in the college preparation program.
Students like Kyaw Aye, an 11th-grader from Thailand, would benefit from such a change. Aye is in regular high school classes and says he is anxious to be done with high school so he can start working and taking college classes. Doodling on the corner of his physics homework, he comments that the work he is assigned in high school is very easy.
The risk for children whose abilities don't align with the curriculum is that they will decide school is not the right place for them. Many immigrant students drop out of school, believing they can better help their families by working. Others, especially girls from traditional families, according to Jaramillo, leave school for early marriage.
In New York City, the Department of Education operates Young Adult Borough Centers offering evening classes to students with daytime work and family responsibilities. In Mississippi, the Columbus School District is reaching out to community groups and churches to host eCenters where students who had dropped out of school can re-enroll in online Skype-based classes to finish high school or prepare for a GED exam.
Wankier, the IB counselor at West, agrees with the community approach. "I wish we put a little more emphasis on educating our families on how to access the education system," she says, "This is a school community. If we don't involve the community we're not really supporting our students."
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As apart of Neff's Hope campaign which will go to benefit Stand Up to Cancer, the collection will feature two limited-edition beanies; a gray beanie with the word "Love" embedded on the front fold, and a black knitted beanie with pink Neff tag--a first for Neff. The limited-edition beanies will be available beginning today exclusively on Neffheadwear.com
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