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The Huskies and Kentucky have only played once before in their histories. Kentucky won 66-58 in that NCAA First Round match up (recap below, box score in UW's previous weekly release). UW coach Lorenzo Romar and Kentucky coach John Calipari have faced each other once before in their head coaching careers. Romar's St. Louis team lost to Calipari's Memphis squad 72-63 in overtime on Jan. 18, 2001.
Last Time Vs. Kentucky
The Huskies lost 66-58 to Kentucky on March 14, 1985 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. UW couldn't hold the reins on All-American Kenny Walker as he scored 29 points to not only end UW's season, but an era, as legendary coach Marv Harshman retired. Current UW assistant coach Paul Fortier and Detlef Schrempf led the Huskies with 16 points each, while Chris Welp added 10. The downfall for the Huskies that night was their free throw shooting as the team was 6 of 16 for the night. Still, UW trailed only 27-24 at half and were within one point several times in the second half, the last time 53-52 with 2:20 to play. From that point though, Kentucky hit 13 of 17 free throws (30x40 of the game). UW was outrebounded 37-35, just the third time during the season they were. UW finished 22-10.
Record Scoring Output
Washington has shattered the record for its best offensive output over a three-game span in team history with 322 points (107.3 per game). After opening the season with 118 points vs. McNeese State, the Huskies scored 98 against Eastern Washington and 106 against Virginia. In a three-game span in 2004-05, the Huskies totaled 305 against Sacred Heart, Houston and California.
With two 100 point games this season, the team need to reach the century mark one more time to equal the UW season record. (1972, 2004 & 2005).
Dawgs Are Streaking
Dating back to the end of the 2010 season, Washington has now won 12 of its last 13 games. The Huskies finished the Pac-10 regular season with four wins, won three time in the Pac-10 Tournament to take home the conference's post-season title and then beat Marquette and New Mexico before falling to West Virginia in the NCAA Sweet 16.
Putting On A Shooting Clinic
The Huskies tied their all-time mark for three-pointers made with 17 against Virginia (out of 26 attempts) on Monday. UW previously hit 17 (of 33) vs. Nicholls State on Nov. 13, 2006.
So far, 42 of UW's 120 field goals this season have come from behind the three-point arc. Overall, UW is 42x89 (.472) from three-point range. UW's previous highs for percentage (.401), makes (257) and attempts (670) would be shattered if UW kept up the current pace they are on over a projected 30 game season. They are projecting out to hit 420 from distance on 890 attempts.
Sharing Is Caring
The Huskies have 74 assists (24.6 per game) through three games. Again, over a 30 game season they are on pace for 738, which would shatter the previous team record of 660. Conversely, they have only turned the ball over 31 times giving them an assist to turnover ratio of 2.39 and +14.3 turnover margin per game.
Scoring Against Bennett
The 106 points Washington put up against Virginia are the most allowed by a Tony Bennett coached team (previously 86). And the most UW had previously scored against any of his teams (all at WSU) was 73 -- and it took OT in 2008 for the Huskies to get that many.
Vs. Ranked Foes
The Huskies were 2-2 last season against teams ranked in the AP top-25. They lost vs. No. 15 Georgetown at the John Wooden Classic before beating No. 19 Texas A&M at home. In the NCAA Tournament, they beat No. 8 New Mexico in the second round, but lost to No. 6 West Virginia in the Sweet 16. Ironically, West Virginia also ended the season of Kentucky, UW's 8th-ranked opponent on Tuesday. Overall, the UW is 27-53 against AP ranked opponents since Jan. 1, 2000. UW has won its last four against ranked foes in the confines of Hec Edmundson Pavilionand are 16-5 over the last 21 contests against ranked foes at home. Overall, Washington is 19-14 all-time at home during the decade. UW had lost its previous 8 decisions against ranked non-conference opponents before ending a three-year drought by beating Texas A&M on Dec. 22.
Thomas Climbs Scoring Ladder
Isaiah Thomas moved into 24th all-time on the UW scoring list last night vs. Virginia. For perspective, Quincy Pondexter began last season No. 27 and moved all the way up to No.3. Thomas began the season 26th on the list.
Holiday's Season
Through the first 13 games of the 2009-10 season Justin Holiday came off the bench and was ninth on the team in scoring with 3.5 ppg and played just 14.7 minutes per game. After being inserted into the starting lineup on Jan. 14 vs. California, Holiday averaged 7.4 ppg to rank 4th on the team over the final 21 games. He also averaged 26.9 minutes, grabbed 5.3 rebounds and shot 47.4% in his starting role after averaging 3.2 rebounds and shooting 29.6% coming from the bench. Holiday also proved to be one of the Huskies top shut-down defenders earning an All-Pac-10 Defensive Team nod.
He has picked up where he off in 2010-11 by averaging 13.3 ppg, 8.3 rpg and 3.0 steals. Included in those totals are a career-high 6 thefts against Virgnia and three double-figure scoring games -- four total dating back to last season. Before the current streak, Holiday had just six double-figure scoring games in 88 contests.
Huskies In The Rankings
Washington begins the season as the only Pac-10 team ranked in the national polls. The Huskies are 11th in the ESPN/Coaches poll and 3th in the Associated Press poll. It is the highest UW has been ranked since reaching No. 12 last season in early December. Additionally, several publications and websites have the Huskies ranked, including: FoxSports.com's Jeff Goodman (7th), Slam Magazine (8th), Bleacherreport.com (9th), ESPN's Dick Vitale (14th), Sports Illustrated (15th), ESPN's Andy Katz (18th), CBSSports.com's Gary Parrish (18th), Rivals.com (21st), Athlon Sports (22nd), The Sporting News (23rd) and Blue Ribbon Yearbook (23rd).
Basketball In Paradise
The Maui Invitational is the fifth tournament that Washington has played in Hawai'i during their history. UW has played at the University of Hawai'i many times in Honolulu, but truly just four previous tourneys. The Huskies have previously traveled to the Aloha state in 1965-66, 72-73, 84-85 and 98-99 for basketball in paradise. Overall, UW is 8-3 in tournament action on the islands, including a perfect 3-0 in the 1998 Big Island Invitational to take home the championship.
Ten Man Balancing Act
Coach Romar will use basically a 10-man rotation this season. So far, eight Huskies are averaging 8.7 points or more per game. The two under that average are Darnell Gant (6.0 ppg) and Venoy Overton (4.3 ppg), both key cogs for the Huskies. None of the 10 averages more than 23.7 minutes per game and Terrence Ross (13.3 mpg) is the only one averaging less then 16.3 minutes.
Putting the "O" in "D"
Joining Holiday on the 2010 Pac-10 All-Defensive Team was Venoy Overton. The brash guard has earned a reputation as one of the nation's toughest defenders and spends much of the game getting under the opponent's skin. In an anonymous poll of several Pac-10 players by ESPN The Magazine, Overton earned the nod by 66% as the conference's Biggest Trash Talker,. But, as all those that watch him on the court know, Overton prefers to let his play do the talking. He ranks 4th all-time in UW history with 148 steals and ranks eighth all-time with 305 assists. He needs 3 more assists to tie Brandon Roy (308) for 7th and five more to tie Donald Watts (310) for sixth. Overton's six assists per game ranks second among Pac-10 players currently
Who's Your Gaddy?
Abdul Gaddy has shown in the early going that he is a changed player from a season ago. As a 17 year old freshman (turned 18 in January), Gaddy averaged 3.9 points and 2.3 assists per game. So far this year, he is averaging 11.7 points and 5.7 assists per game (good for 3rd in the Pac-10). In 36 games as a freshman he scored in double figures four times and through the first three games this year has already done so three times.


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This week's F.L.F is a double dose!
First up: Plaid coasters are now even hotter than they were. I confess, I played favorites. I designed all the Classic Textiles Coasters myself, but until now I never really considered the Plaid ones to be as pretty as the others. Now, each coaster features a plaid pattern that can stand alone or complete a larger plaid/tartan pattern when put next to each other. Pretty cool, huh? For sale now!
Second: Holiday Ornaments. I did a version of these last year, but these are slightly different. They come in 8 different designs/styles and a few different colors. Because these are really new, I'm actually still deciding which colors and how many. The ones below, however, are laser etched and cut out of sweet, shiny, mirrored/silvery acrylic. They'll come packaged with a strip of material to make them ready to hang from your tree or fireplace mantle or wherever you want! Look for these to be on the website and in stores by the 2nd week of October.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 3, Scene 1 Summary
- As Titania sleeps on a cushy bed of flowers, the Mechanicals (craftsmen) enter the woods to practice their play, Pyramus and Thisbe.
- Bottom points out that the play has a lot of content that isn't appropriate for Theseus and his bride. Bottom is also sure that the ladies won't like the fact that Pyramus draws his sword and kills himself.
- Starveling suggests they just leave the killing out (despite the fact that the double-suicide is the whole point of the play).
- Bottom comes up with a marvelous solution. Quince should write a prologue to let all the delicate ladies know that the action isn't real and the characters are only actors. If the women know Pyramus isn't Pyramus, but really only Bottom the weaver, they'll be comforted.
- Then the Mechanicals quibble over whether the play's lines should be written in the usual style of verse, a line of eight syllables alternating with six. Bottom suggests they write it in the style of eight and eight.
- Snout then brings up another question: Will the lion in the play frighten the ladies?
- Starveling admits the lion frightens him. Bottom adds his two cents, saying the group should think twice before bringing a lion in among ladies.
- Brain Snack: According to the editors of the Norton Shakespeare, this might be an allusion to something that happened at a real-life court entertainment in 1594, when a tame lion was supposed to pull a chariot across the stage. The lion was replaced by an African man so the audience wouldn't be scared.
- To remedy the situation, Bottom suggests that the actor playing the lion should show his face through his costume. Also, Snug, in the Lion's costume, should tell the ladies that he's not really a lion.
- With that settled, Quince brings up two more issues. They need moonlight, because Pyramus and Thisbe meet by moonlight.
- Quince suggests that maybe they could have the guy playing the moon carry a lantern, and be dressed up as the man in the moon, who usually has a dog with him in folklore. (Dogs on stage in Shakespeare's time were guaranteed comic gold.)
- The last problem is that they'll need a wall, because, without one, there's no hole in the wall through which Pyramus and Thisbe can talk, which is also a major part of the story.
- The group decides to have a man dress up as a plastered wall. Also, the guy playing the "part" of the wall should use his fingers to make an O-shaped hole so Pyramus and Thisbe can whisper to each other through it.
- With all the important casting and staging stuff out of the way, the Mechanicals begin to rehearse.
- Puck sneaks up to the scene, delighted to have so many fools around. He decides to watch and participate.
- The men begin to rehearse the play with lots of misspeaking. Flute, as Thisbe, says all his lines at once, instead of waiting for cues. (This play's going to be a disaster.)
- Just as the Mechanicals are clearing up that issue, Bottom comes back onto stage from having taken a break. He now has a donkey's head where his own should be, thanks to one of Puck's tricks.
- As you might expect, this donkey-Bottom hybrid is frightening. All the other men run away in a panic. Puck follows them, leading the Mechanicals in circles about the dark woods and chasing them in the guise of scary things: a headless bear, hounds, and flames.
- Snout informs Bottom that he has been transformed.
- Bottom doesn't believe it and calls Snout an "ass-head."
- Quince comes back, also claiming Bottom has changed. Bottom then announces that he sees that they're just trying to make "an ass" of him.
- Yep. This is a case of dramatic irony all right. Go to "Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory" if you want to know more about it.
- Bottom insists he won't move from this place, and will even sing a song to prove he isn't scared.
- Bottom's singing wakes Titania (who has recently had the magic love juice sprinkled in her eyes).
- Titania sees Bottom and instantly falls head over heels in love...with an ass.
- Titania begs Bottom to sing some more.
- Bottom, a little taken aback, tells her she has no reason to love him. He does add that reason and love aren't related these days. He philosophizes on this for a bit, and Titania praises him for being both wise and beautiful.
- Bottom says he isn't wise, but only needs enough wit to get out of these woods. Titania informs Bottom that he'll stay whether he wants to or not. She loves him and he will remain with her.
- Titania promises to have her fairies tend to him – they'll bring him jewels from the deep sea, he'll sleep on flower petals, and she'll rid him of his "mortal grossness" so that he'll be as airy as the fairy spirits.
- Titania summons her fairies: Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed.
- She charges them to tend to her new lover with all the best nature has to offer. The fairies bring in grapes, figs, mulberries, bee's honey, and glowworms to light her bedchamber. In addition, the fairies should fan the moonbeams away from Bottom with the wings plucked off of butterflies.
- Bottom then does what Bottom does best—he rambles on and cracks a bunch of lame jokes.
- Titania orders the fairies to tie up Bottom's tongue and bring him to bed silently. (Gross.)
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Zach Braff's 2004 directorial effort 'Garden State' was a quirky look at a twentysomething navigating the bumpy road of life after college. Fast forward ten years. Instead of turning to a Hollywood studio, Braff made the bold move to finance his next project 'Wish I Was Here' through Kickstarter. It was a smashing success. With the help of 47,000 fans from around the world, Braff was able to write and direct the film with his brother. It afforded him a creative freedom usually reserved for the Hollywood elite. The result is a stylishly honest examination of a thirtysomething struggling to hang on to his career dreams while confronting his responsibilities as a parent and husband.
There are a few similarities between 'Wish I Was Here' and 'Garden State.' However, they look at two vastly different periods in one's life. In Braff's character Aidan Bloom, he's a bit weathered at the edges but he still has a sharp wit and boyish quality to his personality. There are similarities to his Andrew Largeman character in 'Garden State' but there is one big difference - Aidan has grown-up responsibilities now. It is playfully shown at the breakfast table before he drives his kids off to school and his wife runs off to her office job. We're introduced to the family swear jar on top of the fridge every time Aidan utters a curse word. We also discover that Aidan has been an out of work actor for years and lets his wife Sarah (Kate Hudson) deal with the household expenses.
What makes 'Wish I Was Here' so touching is a trump card Braff deals to the audience. It gives this indie comedy a necessary jolt. Not only does Aidan's wife have to support the family at a boring office job with the water department, his father Gabe (Mandy Patinkin) pays the tuition so the two kids can attend a Yeshiva (an expensive Jewish school). To make matters worse, he explains to his son that he can no longer pay for the school because he's been diagnosed with cancer and needs the money for medical treatments not covered by his health insurance. He scolds his son for clinging on to the pipe dream of becoming an actor. Aidan's last paycheck came from a dandruff commercial years ago. Aidan also has a brother (Josh Gad) who is estranged from his father and is still grieving over their mother's death. His brother sets out to make the ultimate Comic-Con costume to get the attention of a cute girl who is into cosplay. "You know what's the problem with hiding in a fishbowl? Everyone can see you."
What makes Aidan snap to reality are the challenges many his age must face. Thanks to magnificent performances from the cast, 'Wish I Was Here' is a self-reflective look at a guy that finally has the courage to face life. Mandy Patinkin gives a masterful performance as Braff's father. Gabe's criticism of his son is harsh but he means well and genuinely loves his sons. One of the most poignant scenes is when Aidan's wife Sarah visits Gabe at the hospital. Kate Hudson is a revelation here. She always knows how to turn on the cuteness in romantic comedies but Braff's thoughtful script gives her a chance to really shine. She is older and wiser in this role. It grounds the film. She is the glue that holds her family together. When Aidan and her sneak off for a date, the spark is still there between them but she beautifully reaches out to him for help. Aidan finally wakes up and realizes that his dream and real-life are not in harmony with one another.
Some may criticize the film for having the character settle but making compromises is not a sign of failure, it's a sign of growing up. 'Wish I Was Here' is not about finding a new love. It's about reconnecting to an old one and taking on the responsibilities of life. I applaud Zach Braff for chasing his dream of making a funny and touching movie outside of the Hollywood system. In real life, Braff made compromises and came out with a film in touch with his generation. I just hope Braff doesn't wait another ten years to make his next indie film. 'Wish I Was Here' official trailer http://youtu.be/kw8VCDx399I.


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New research has uncovered more than 700 species of bacteria in breast milk that they say is more diverse than previously known and may help with developing healthier infant formulas. The finding is published January 4, 2013.
Newborns gain immunity from mother's breast milk. The discovery, according to Spanish scientists who conducted the study, means food scientists now have more clues about what kind of food infants need for optimal health and wellness.
Study coauthors María Carmen Collado and Alex Mira explained in a press release:
This is one of the first studies to document such diversity using the pyrosequencing technique (a large scale DNA sequencing determination technique) on colostrum samples on the one hand, and breast milk on the other, the latter being collected after one and six months of breastfeeding.
The most common bacteria isolated in colostrum of breast milk included Weissella, Leuconostoc, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and Lactococcus.
The source of some bacteria found in breast milk between the first and sixth month of breastfeeding isn't entirely clear.
"We are not yet able to determine if these bacteria colonise the mouth of the baby or whether oral bacteria of the breast-fed baby enter the breast milk and thus change its composition," the authors wrote.
Planned Cesarean section also had an effect on the richness of bacteria in breast milk. Women who had vaginal births or unplanned C-section had a wide diversity of bacteria.
The authors thinks hormonal state of the mother at the time of birth plays a role in how rich in bacteria in her breast milk is; accounting for the finding related to planned C-section.
It might be that the type of labor affects the quality of breast milk, interfering with microorganisms needed for baby's immune development and digestion.
The authors concluded: "If the breast milk bacteria discovered in this study were important for the development of the immune system, its addition to infant formula could decrease the risk of allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases."
Breastfeeding is known to be important for baby's immunity and is promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the best source of nutrition for infants and children that they say should start within an hour after birth.
Breast-fed babies are less likely to develop pneumonia and diarrhea because colostrum in breast milk contains antibodies that protect infants from common illnesses.
Some evidence shows adults who were breastfed as infants have higher IQs and are generally healthier than their counterparts.
The new finding, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, shows breast milk has more bacteria than previously known; over 700 species that are good for your baby. The discovery could mean better health from infancy into adulthood by understanding what hormonal and other maternal factors influence healthy bacteria in breast milk.
FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology
January 4, 2012


text: Both UMass and Indiana announced on Wednesday that the two football programs will meet on Sept. 8, 2012 in what will be the home opener for the Minutemen at Gillette Stadium that season. It will be UMass' first season of playing a full FBS and MAC schedule and be the first time it hosts a FBS team at Gillette. UMass will make a return trip to Bloomington in 2017.


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an attempted traffic stop-turned three-hour standoff Sunday morning in Jefferson County.
The traffic stop happened around 7:00 a.m., when an OSP trooper attempted to stop 1992 Honda Civic four door for disobeying a stop sign southeast side of Madras in Jefferson County. But the driver failed to yield, attempting to elude police by driving through a field, across Madras and onto Highway 361 into the Metolius area.
Within minutes, the car was located, abandoned by the male and female occupants, said Lt. Gregg Hastings, an OSP spokesman.
OSP, with the help of Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and Warm Springs Police Department, tracked the two people to a residence in the 500-block of Washington Street in Metolius. Owners of the home confirmed that two suspects were inside trying to hide.
-- Kimberly A.C. Wilson


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LONDON (AP) — Teachers and public service workers are out on picket lines across Britain after hundreds of thousands walked off the job to protest pension cuts.
Disruptions are expected at airports, where travelers could face long lines at immigration because of walkouts by passport officers.
Some three-quarters of a million workers are expected to go on a one-day strike. Thursday's walkouts are the first salvo in what unions hope will be a summer of discontent against the cost-cutting government's austerity plans.
London's mayor Boris Johnson repeated his call for changes to employment law that would make it harder for strikes to take place. Johnson told the BBC that strikes go ahead even though there are "very low" turnouts in strike ballots.


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Stephen Cabot Williams
Position: DT
Height: 6-2 Weight: 306 lbs.
Born: September 21, 1981 in Oak Park, IL
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College: Indiana, Northern Illinois, NW Missouri St.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 1 (13070th overall since 1950)
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Homecourt advantage, Dwight Howard, the Magic's spectacular 3-point shooting….
None of these compare to the Orlando Magic's biggest advantage in Game 1 Sunday against the Charlotte Bobcats — Gina Marie Incandela.
Eight-year-old Gina Marie Incandela, deemed the Magic's good-luck charm, will sing the national anthem during Game 1 of the Magic -Bobcats series Sunday. She will also perform during the first game of every round at the Amway Arena.
Gina Marie Incandela captured the nation's attention with her heartwarming story of overcoming the challenges of autism to sing before thousands of fans.
And the Kissimmee, FL native has been keeping her vocal chords busy. Gina Marie Incandela performed at the 23rd Annual National Arts Advocacy Day Event Tuesday in Washington D.C.
Gina Marie performed her new single "I Sing" which is available on itunes for 99 cents. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Autism Society of America.


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Scaled False Triton Shell, Phyllocoma scalariformis: The Scaled False Triton Shell is fairly easy to identify due to its all white appearance with well-developed spiral ribs crossed by almost equal axial ribs with strong varices and an inner lip with flaring.
Notably, the shell is very eloquent being sculptured by its spiral and axial ribs.
The aperture is white without prominent teeth.
They reach a maximum length of 3.8 cm (1.5 inches) and a maximum width of 2.5 cm (1.0 inch).
They are found throughout the Sea of Cortez and along the coast of the Mexican mainland south to Guatemala at depths up to 30 feet.
The Scaled False Triton Shells is deemed to be exceedingly rare and commands high prices via internet trade.
The Scaled False Triton Shell is an exquisite member of the Muricidae Family and which consists of a number of species of medium to large size gastropods varying in length from 3 to 13 cm. Members of the Phyllocoma Genus go via the common name of triton shells. The shells are generally squat, short-spired, and solid with a large body whorl. The sculpture varies according to the species but generally consists of ribs, riblets, nodules, and tubercles. The animals are predatory, living in rocky environments close to shore or in the intertidal zone.
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America finds a new all-purpose metaphor for discontent.
By Kathryn Joyce
Pat Buchanan sees the dusty ghost of the Roman Empire reincarnating itself in America today, and fears that it's led us — by way of Iraq — to "the cusp of a perhaps inevitable decline." Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (SC) sees waning glory too, if on a smaller scale, in his party's current, but ephemeral, popularity: at the height of its empire now, but destined for a fall. Border vigilantes see illegal aliens as the "marauding Vandals" who brought down Rome. Republican cleric, Rev. Bob Battle, detects an old empire descent into decadence in America's "rampant drug abuse and sexual immorality." Joe Scarborough, in a spirit of rare bipartisan blame, warns that the old empire "wasn't burnt in a day."
Liberals, of course, cry empire too. Pravda's Michael Berglin recognizes "the world's last Rome" by the force of its unprecedented "war machine." Axis of Logic's Sasan Fayazmanesh sees the U.S. following in ancient footsteps to out-barbarize those it has colonized. Progressive biblical scholars remind that the Bible was written "in the shadow of empire," and the book of Revelation in particular, as a message of hope and reassurance that the empire wouldn't last long. Recently, protesters at the RNC staged a theatrical "Vomitorium" ("Make Room for More"), as their "response to the New and Improved American Empire," and Fernando Suarez D'Solar, the bereaved father of a soldier killed in Iraq, described an unholy specter after sneaking inside Madison Square Garden. "'It's like the Roman Empire in there,'" he said, "'with delegates crying out "Hail Caesar!"'"
Not to be outdone by traditional believers and partisans, secular culture has also claimed that fin-de-siécle sense of doom: techies call out Microsoft; bloggers announce "the fall of the Mainstream Media Empire"; the gaming world advertises "Rome: Total War" and the multi-player "Fall of Rome." And The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris is struck by the timely re-release of Federico Fellini's "carnival of lost souls and culture in atrophy," La Dolce Vita. The film, Morris writes, "seems to fit uncannily well in the moment we find ourselves in now. There are mentions of nuclear annihilation and worries that wanton partying could bring Rome a second fall. You get a feeling similar to the one left after reading from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: America might be a celebrity trial away from the end, too."
What does a list of dropped clichés like this mean, besides that "The Fall (Decay, Decline) of the Roman Empire" has joined "Orwellian" and "apocalyptic" in the ranks of grossly overused political and cultural metaphors? Maybe just that we have a proclivity for drastic analogies. Or a general cultural discomfort — uneasy about the news, undecided about the government, suffering from a post-binge, guilty conscience. Or maybe it's an indication that, several years after the question was raised — Are we an empire? — and answered — Yes. — we're coming to a consensus about what kind of empire we are. And, to our increasingly unhappy suspicion, we don't seem to be what apologists like Niall Ferguson, British author of Colossus: the Rise and Fall of the American Empire, promised us we were — that is, the good kind.
In 2003, writing in The New York Times, Michael Ignatieff diagnosed America as being "in a state of deep denial" regarding its status as an empire, refuting President Bush's speeches to military crowds that the country had no imperial ambitions — territorial or ideological. But that wasn't necessarily a bad thing, Ignatieff argued. America was an empire unlike any other: exporting a range of national virtues to uplift the unenlightened (but somehow not a replay of "white man's burden"). "An empire without consciousness of itself as such, constantly shocked that its good intentions arouse resentment abroad." A country born in revolt against empire, but one "whose people have always believed they are immune from history's harms," that would now have to confront the grade-school lesson on what happens to bad empires: "hubris followed by defeat." Ignatieff's modest prescription was that if America tried to mind its limits, it could be a good one instead.
Subsequent commentators ran with the idea. America should indeed think of itself as a selfless, moral empire that could help eradicate "cruel practices by replacing them with more humane moral codes." (I.e.: Is it "really so bad" that Spanish conquistadors helped put a stop to human sacrifices in Latin America?) Michael Parenti, the progressive author of Against Empire, noted that even conservatives acknowledged that we had an empire, and that they then declared that we'd better start acting like it: "'We have world responsibilities.'" Niall Ferguson resurrected the post-WWII Greece-to-their-Rome trope, to counsel America that it should look to the British Empire as a model, and for all our sakes, embrace its imperial role.
But the optimism of Ferguson's argument seems to devolve: from claiming in his book that empire is a good thing; to telling a BBC interviewer that an American empire is better than, say, a Mogul empire (Americans being, like Brits, "essentially good people"); to warning inThe Wall Street Journal that the fall of the American empire and the hegemony it enforces would cause a new dark age, just like that which followed Rome: "Waning empires. Religious revivals. Incipient anarchy. A coming retreat into fortified cities. These are the Dark Age experiences that a world without a hyperpower might find itself reliving."
The reverse logic that seems at play here — the threats of what will come terrifying precisely because they're so familiar; because they're already here — also seems evident in the current murmurs about bad empire. We've met, or at least tasted, "defeat," so it must follow that our empire went sour. Left aside is the question of whether empires, based on the subjugation of other people, can ever actually be good. The elementary equation is recalled in reverse, but now we find the root of our defeat not just in hubris, in overstepping our bounds, but in all of our newly recognized similarities to Rome: hoarding and deficit, decay and decadence, the dole, military problems, Christianity and religious controversy, internal division. It's more than bandwagon opportunism — the range of critics is too wide, varied, and largely incompatible with one another. The imperial decadence criticized by a protester reenacting the Vomitorium is of a different sort than the decadent personal lifestyles which Rev. Battle faults, and one senses that the two wouldn't get along. But with such a widespread sense that the end of the empire — at least as we know it — is nigh, there seems to be room enough for everyone to ride this metaphor, and trace its conclusion back to their cause. Vandals, Barbarians, Lead.


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The pitch seems endless. Soon it will be dark. I try to hurry but can't. Inch by inch I work my way up sculpted frost the consistency of cotton candy – a favorite treat as a kid, though now it makes my stomach hurt. We have two snow pickets, our only protection for this 200-foot vertical wall of frost. The last picket is already far out of sight, and so are my partners.
It's snowing, and thick clouds engulf us. We have fought hard, climbing over 4,000 feet of steep granite to reach this point, but, believing that this section would be easy, we are psychologically ill-prepared for this last battle. This is one of the finest climbs of our lives and though I can almost see the summit, it still feels awfully far. I grind my teeth and push on.
The frozen half-pipe in which I am struggling turns into a chimney. An extremely thin snow fin forms its left wall and, fearing it will break, I move right and tunnel through an overhang to better footing. Every move takes an eternity. I first clean the frost overhead, then compact it into a small step at waist level and gingerly pull myself up, all while trying to breathe deeply and focus. But my mind slips and I think of my friend Bean Bowers, who last year took a 100-foot fall in similar terrain, and imagine myself falling past our belay – a snow-filled stuff sack buried in the snow – and slamming hopelessly into the granite slabs below.
When the angle finally lessens, I collapse like a punctured balloon, crouch and close my eyes. Overcome with relief, for several minutes I forget my partners and the task at hand. I have no headlamp, little rope left and no gear to make an anchor, so I excavate a snow hole and brace myself inside, using my body for our anchor. Over and over I shout,"blocatta!", letting my Italian partners know that the rope is fixed. I shout until my voice turns hoarse, but each time my words evaporate in the wind. A wave of warmth flows through my body when the rope finally pulls tight on my waist as one of them begins to jumar.
The falling snow covers my pants, my jacket, my boots, my gloves, everything. For an instant I feel myself descending toward hypothermia, but instead of worrying I smile, marveling at the absurd beauty of our predicament. Though darkness and clouds obscure our surroundings, in my mind's eye I see the wind-whipped snow mushroom atop Torre Egger to the north (much like the one on which I now sit); Fitz Roy's massive pyramid jutting skyward to the east; and 4,000 feet below and west, endless glaciers running to the Pacific Ocean.
As Erman and Ale come up, my mind wanders, following the slow dance of falling snowflakes and revisiting the long path that has brought me here. When they arrive it's nearly midnight. We exchange a few words, Ale gives me a dry jacket from his pack, and I follow their footprints to the summit, where the cold and the hardship are forgotten in one big, warm hug.


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"I am going off the board here, but my favorite moment is in the episode 'Ghost.' Shawn finds out from his mother that Henry (his father) was not responsible for ending the marriage between his parents. He looks out and sees the man he had blamed for the break-up of his family in a new light for the first time."
"That's an awfully tough question. Shawn and Gus singing 'Shout' as MJ and Roland kind of encompasses the show as a whole, but I'm guessing that was Dulé's answer. Shawn and Gus running out of the sorority house screaming like girls in 'Scary Sherry' definitely set the stage for a lot of fun to come. Shawn and Juliet's first kiss. Juliet being consoled by Lassiter after 'Yin Presents.' Sheryl Lee as Doc Gooden staring down at Paula in 'Dual Spires.' There are so many!"
"'American Duos.' Singing 'Shout' with James Roday as Roland Orzabal and I as Michael Jackson from 'Thriller.' Jheri curl, red leather jacket, tight red jeans and black penny loafers? Whaaaat! Then top it off with screaming fans (... I mean, they were hired and directed to scream for us, but that's neither here nor there) losing their minds after the moonwalk and toe stand? Sha'mon SON!! (You see what I did there? C'mon son, Sha'mon son? You see that?) Anyway, add in the fact that John Landis was directing and this definitely reaches the top of my list for favorite Psych moments. It was the top of Season 2, very early on in the run of our show, and this moment is when I realized that we were in for a special ride."
"The moment when Juliet falls into Lassiter's arms in 'Mr. Yin Presents.' It signifies so much about their entire journey. And I think it was a turning point in their relationship."
"It's at the end of Season 6 when I hand Shawn the Swiss Army knife, essentially passing the torch, quitting both my job as a cop and my job as a father (to some degree) in shaping the man he will become."
"For the chief, it's a shared moment between Chief Vick and Shawn at the end of 'Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead.' After the chief is hired full time by the mayor and a celebratory mood takes over, the chief sees the incriminating photo of her competitor in the newspaper and realizes, with a glint in his eye, that Shawn helped bring about this scenario, and is extremely grateful. There are no words, just a knowing look between the two. And also for the show, it's a moment in 'Mr. Yin Presents...' After Lassiter and Gus have saved Juliet from the clutches of Yin/Yang, freeing her from the clock tower, Juliet's last bit of stoicism melts away as she collapses into her partners arms. She's crying for so much more than her rescue — but for Shawn, too."
"Asking me to choose a favorite on screen moment from the past 100 episodes is like asking me to pick a favorite cast member (shhh, its Maggie) or a favorite guest star. There are simply just too many amazing options to choose from. I could pick a top 50, maybe. They would all have one thing in common: the laughing after they say 'cut' -- laughing with the most amazing group of actors and friends that I have ever been lucky enough to share a screen with."


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Results tagged ' Mariners '
Treading Water
The definition of "treading water" is: "a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing or rhythmic movements of the legs and arms". Basically, treading water is the act of staying in one place despite a flurry of motion. The last two days, the Twins have provided a clinic in such a behavor.
Last night, Nick Blackburn pitches a complete game gem…
…and really gets the fans up and yelling at Target Field once again (I was one of them!).
Then today…
…the offense once again goes dormant and gets shutout by Erik Bedard and Co. to lose yet another series.
Thus, essentially, we haven't gained back any ground that we had lost before Blackie's inspiring performance. Treading water.
Preview (16-32, 5th, 5.5 GB CWS): Harmon Killebrew Tribute at Target Field.
Good Riddance (!)
Just heard the other night that Mike Sweeney retired. Whew! Talk about a Twin-killer! He OWNED our pitching during his long stint with the Kansas City Royals, then continued his mastery of our hurlers in Oakland and Seattle. I always cringed when he came up to bat against us.
Good guy, though, who just had a solid career with the bat. A career .297 hitter with 215 home runs. Not too shabby, especially considering all the years on dismal KC teams.
Oh yeah, this guy retired too…
I'll always remember Mike Hampton for those couple of dominating seasons he had early in his career with the Houston Astros. Sadly, after being traded to the Braves (in a huge deal at the time) injury woes got the better of him and pretty much rendered him spotty for the rest of his career.
Have Gun, Will Travel…
Well, well, the Yankees didn't get their man after all…
Talk about a guy (Cliff Lee) who doesn't mind being a hired gun and throwing home life stability (I don't know what kind of family he has) to the wind.
First, he develops his talents in Cleveland. When they can't afford him, he jumps to Philadelphia to help them make the World Series in 2009. In 2010, he starts out with the "promising" Mariners, but when they completely collapse he is dealt to Texas and helps THEM get the big show.
Now, after being courted by the Yankees and Rangers, he decides to go back to Philly to join a starting rotation that would also include Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt, Cole Hamels, and Joe Blanton.
What a crazy guy (although, the kind of checks he's cashing must be incredible)! I guess if you don't mind not setting down roots anywhere, more power to him.
Today's Lesson: Don't Pitch To Kubel With The Bases Loaded On Sunday
Last year, Jason Kubel finally become the big lefty bat the organization saw all along by putting up these stats: .300 AVG, 28 HR, 103 RBI, .907 OPS. This year (at least so far), the numbers have dwindled: .256, 12 HR, 58 RBI, .756 OPS. Unfortunately, Kubes has been just as likely to ground into a killer double play or whiff on 3-4 pitches this season than provide the big hit.
However, there is one obvious exception: When the bases are juiced (particularly on Sunday!) and the Twins need runs:
In early May against the Yankees, Big K did this off Mariano Rivera to prevent a sweep:
Less than two weeks ago, Jason did likewise to the Orioles.
Today, the damage was done in the form of a three-run double, once again with the bases loaded on a sticky Sunday afternoon, that put the Twins up for good.
Of course, it also helps when Francisco Liriano (7 IP, 11 K) is pitching lights-out, at home, against one of the worst offensive teams (Seattle) in the majors.
8 in a row for the hometown crew! The road gets a lot tougher from here, though, as a big four-gamer is nigh against the Rays. Whaddya say we show a potential (hopefully…anybody but the Yanks) playoff opponent what Twins baseball is all about!
Preview (59-46, 2nd, 0.5 GB CWS): Carl Pavano (13-6, 3.21) vs. Jeremy Hellickson (0-0, 0.00).
Junior's Circuit, No More
The other day, upon hearing that Ken Griffey Jr. had announced his retirement from Major League Baseball, I wanted to take a moment here to reflect on one of my favorite baseball players of all-time:
Though I grew up a Minnesota Twins fan in the mid 1990s, those Twins teams didn't exactly have the type of superstars that can captivate the imagination of a youngster (sorry Ron Coomer, Terry Steinbach, and Butch Huskey). Thus, I naturally gravitated towards the best (with respect to Barry Bonds, a phrase I never thought I would write) player in baseball at the time: Ken Griffey Jr.
Junior could do it all: Hit for decent average (career .284 hitter), tremendous power (630 career dingers, back-to-back seasons of 56 jacks), steal some bases (particularly early in his career; 184 career), and track down balls in center field like Torii Hunter would later do for my favorite club.
In fact, when the big power/steroid boom of the late 1990s occurred, it was the Griffey/McGwire show before Sosa juiced up and changed everything in '98. Fortunately, Griffey has never seen the smear of performance-enhancing drugs touch his name. He also has none of the tell-tale signs (huge musculature, sudden growth, etc.).
Sadly, the career of KGJ took a down-turn after he signed with the Cincinnati Reds in 2000. Though he was the darling of Seattle with the Mariners, I couldn't blame him for wanting to play for his hometown Reds. However, the Reds never challenged for any sort of title during the "Griffey Years", and Griffey himself endured so many injuries it would have made Mickey Mantle flinch. At one point, he was projected to "easily" surpass Hank Aaron's home run record, and may very well of done it had not the injury bug bitten hard.
After a brief stint with the Chicago White Sox (that, despite good performance, never quite seemed right)…
…it was nice to see Junior in an M's uniform once again in the end:
Perhaps the fondest memory I will take away from Ken Griffey Jr. the baseball player, though, is how as a child I sent him a letter asking for an autograph. Some time later, I received a glossy 8X10 of Junior that had me nearly bouncing off the walls in excitement. A first-ballot Hall of Famer in every sense of the word:
King Felix Indeed
Well, there is a reason why I take this guy every year in my fantasy baseball league. When Felix Hernandez is on, his ball has such incredible movement that it is almost impossible to hit solidly (if at all). That was the case tonight.
The other two reasons the Twins lost:
The Mariners exposed a Carl Pavano weakness and turned the basepaths into a track meet. This is becoming a serious problem when Carlos pitches against teams with speedsters.
Then, Jose Lopez really got ahold of one and you could just feel the air come out of our sails, what with King Felix holding court.
Preview (31-23, 1st, 2.5 GA DET): Scott Baker (5-4, 4.48) vs. Dallas Braden (4-5, 3.60). In the span of three days, the Twins will have stared down last year's postseason hero (Cliff Lee), one of the top hurlers in the AL (Felix), and a guy (in Braden) who has pitched a perfect game this season. Ouch.
Men In Blue Are A Little Black
To set the scene: Earlier in the day, with Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers just one out away from pitching a perfect game against the Cleveland Indians, umpire Jim Joyce blew a call at first base that broke everything up (the runner was clearly out, as indicated by the instant replay). As of this time, Commissioner Bud Selig is refusing to overturn the call and give Galarraga his perfecto, despite an admission of guilt from Joyce.
Then, the Twins-Mariners game last night transpires as follows:
Kevin Slowey and Cliff Lee lock up in a magnificent pitching duel, with the score tied at 1-1 heading into the bottom of the tenth inning. With runners on first and second and two outs, Ichiro Suzuki hits a slow roller up the middle that Matt Tolbert adeptly smothers and flips to JJ Hardy for what looks to be the final out of the inning. However, despite the fact that replays show the ball beat the runner to the bag, the runner was called safe and, by that time, the lead baserunner had already wheeled around third and scored easily:
Two blown calls that cost their respective players/teams potentially dearly. In Galarraga's case, he will likely never approach a perfect game if he pitches for 20 more seasons. The Twins, on the other hand, know first-hand the importance of a single game (we've played in two consecutive 163-game seasons) on the standings. I can see the kind of tough position this puts Bud Selig in, and thus can understand why he is hesitant to overturn the Tigers call (as wouldn't that be valuing individual achievement over team victories?).
Let's just hope that this sort of fiasco leads to the introduction of instant replay into MLB as early as next season (or even this postseason in full-fledged form). Football purists (if such a group exists) argued against instant replay for the same reasons that baseball purists (a much larger group) argue against it today (undermines umps, slows down the game, etc.). However, replay has now become an established part of the NFL, and the league is (at least in my opinion) much better off for it, as getting the call on the field correct is the ultimate goal. It should be the same in baseball as well.
Preview (31-22, 1st, 3.0 GA DET): Carl Pavano (5-5, 3.99) vs. Felix Hernandez (2-4, 3.50)
2010 MLB Picks
My "official" predictions for the 2010 MLB season (before the season gets too far along and starts to affect my judgement!):
AL East
New York
Boston (Wild Card)
Tampa Bay
AL Central
Kansas City
AL West
Los Angeles
NL East
Atlanta (Wild Card)
New York
NL Central
St. Louis
NL West
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
AL Champ: New York
NL Champ: Atlanta
World Series Champ: Atlanta Braves
Questions, comments, rants, profanity-laced tirades?!
Rainy Days And, Well, Pretty Much Any Day These Days
Wednesday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmbT5XC-q0 (pretty accurate?!)
Unfortunately, things didn't go much better tonight. Glen Perkins was on the hill against the Orioles and allowed four runs through the first three innings. The Twins managed to claw back and tie the game, but Jose Mijares couldn't hold the lead in the eighth inning and the Twins lost yet again.
I've been working a lot lately and thus not able to update this blog as frequently as I would like to, but suffice it to say that the Twins are in a pretty big rut right now. The bats go silent all too often, the bullpen is in shambles, and it seems like at least once every five days a starting pitcher gets tattoed in the early innings like Perk did tonight.
Troubling stat: the Twins have allowed 35 homers this season…and hit 19. And this is with Carlos Silva, Brad Radke, and Johan Santana NOT on the staff!
-The Twins also recently sent Alexi Casilla down to the minor leagues. Personally, I think that was an overreaction on the part of whoever made the decision, but hopefully it snaps Casilla out of the funk he is in. I just don't see it working out, as I don't think that Tolbert is as good as Alexi.
Preview (13-16, 4th, 5.0 GB KCR): Chris Jakubauskas (1-3, 5.76) vs. Scott Baker (0-4, 9.15). With the way King Felix and Erik Bedard (Saturday and Sunday's starters) are pitching for the M's, we better beat Jaku tomorrow night or things could get even uglier.
Tragedy In L.A.
Though the Twins and Mariners played the final tilt of their four-game series yesterday (Jarrod Washburn out-dueled Glen Perkins for a 2-0 win as the Twins' bats went silent), I think that all games yesterday were played with a heavy heart due to the sudden passing of Nick Adenhart.
For the past few years, Adenhart had been a prized young prospect in the Los Angeles Angels' farm system. He came up for a "cup of coffee" during the 2008 season and earned what turned out to be his only major league victory.
This year, after making the Angels out of spring training, Adenhart pitched six innings of shutout ball against the Oakland Athletics on April 8th. Just hours later, he was killed when a minivan (which we now know was manned by a drunk driver who fled on foot after the accident but was later apprehended) ran a red light and smashed into the vehicle he was riding in. Two of the other passengers were pronounced dead at the scene of the collision, while Adenhart was taken to a local hospital but died due to his internal injuries.
A terrible tragedy like this just makes me think how fleeting this thing we call "life" can really be. I mean, Adenhart was only 22 years of age…one year younger than myself. From a Twins perspective, I can't imagine how the team would react if, say, a guy like Slowey, Blackburn, or Perkins was taken from us in a similar fashion.
The Angels cancelled their regularly scheduled contest yesterday, but will resume play tonight, presumably with very heavy hearts and conflicting emotions. Knowing Mike Scoscia, Torii Hunter, and that Angels crew, though, they will do their best to honor the memory of Nick Adenhart.
Preview (2-2, 2nd, 0.5 GB KCR): R.A. Dickey (0-0, 0.00 ERA) at Jose Contreras (0-0, 0.00 ERA). The Twins' starter tonight will feature a knuckleball, something I haven't seen from a Twin in, well, as long as I have been following the team.


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Fans of "The Walking Dead" are still in chat rooms and forums talking about last Sunday's episode, "The Grove."
This episode went back to some of the more brutal episodes of the first three seasons. We've seen Carol's daughter Sophia walk out of a barn as a walker and shot in the head. We've even seen Carl shoot Shane, a reversal of the plot twist that last Sunday's episode put forth. There was also the child walker that Rick put down in the one of the first episodes of the show. He fought she was a human.
Now we have two children killed simply because: Lizzie was crazy and killed her sister to prove she would come back as herself and 2. Lizzie meets her death at the hands of Carol.
Lizzie mentioned that Judith was next, so Carol and Tyreese saved Judith and who knows how many people, (and mice/rats). It would have been dangerous to take Lizzie into other groups of people, she was a psycho and had to be put down. This is what must happen in the zombie apocalypse. The show runners didn't show Lizzie get her head blown off, but they did guarantee that no viewer will look at flowers the same way.
Check out this line, there is an extensive interview with actor Lawrence Gilliard Jr. who plays Bob.
There are a lot of thoughts online about what Terminus will hold for the survivors. My opinion is that Terminus is a place that will only hold the strongest of survivors. This could bode well for Rick, Carl, Daryl, Michonne and a few others, but not for Beth who has already been taken by person or persons unknown.
According to IMDbPro: Season 5, Episode 1: Episode #5.1 Rick and the group are heading to Washington D.C., where they meet new danger and a new enemy. Once again, Rick must do whatever it takes to keep the rest of the group safe.
Please post your thoughts about anything TWD below, the season is coming to an end, we only have so much time before some of our questions will be answered.
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On Saturday night Bow Wow and Jermaine Dupri came out to celebrate the 4 year anniversary of Playhouse Nightclub in Hollywood. R&B group Jagged Edge were also in the building for the festivities.
From the looks of Bow Wow's twitter, women were falling all over the BET: 106 & Park star who tweeted sic "Reporting live from Playhouse in LA, Club is crazy… LA Women live the Prince."
After the news of the George Zimmerman verdict, he took to twitter again to alert fans the show would be solely dedicated to talking about the verdict.


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Still a little in disbelief that I actually played the Game of Thrones parody song "Damn It Feels Good To Be A Lannister" to start the show, but what can I say, I love that show and was really pulling for Tyrion Lannister aka Peter Dinklage to win an Emmy for the role, and lo and behold he won! So, looks like the song is correct. The rest of the first hour features a lot of new music, brand new Wild Flag (featuring Mary Timony from Helium and Carrie & Janet from Sleater Kinney), Atlas Sound, Robin Hannibal of Quadron, AM & Shawn Lee, Staff Benda Bilili, and a few other choice cuts before we paid tribute to Wardell Quezergue in the whole second hour. This was actually one of the most difficult tributes I've done, just because Qeuzergue was involved with so many records, sometimes listed under his full name, sometimes as DC Wardell, The Big Q and several other aliases. Also, since a lot of his work was arranging it didn't always turn up on the printed labels, but I think I was able to choose the 20+ best tracks from his catalog, including some of the biggest songs he was associated with "Mr. Big Stuff," "Groove Me" and "Misty Blue" plus some truly dynamite soul numbers that most people don't know about, like personal favorites from Smokey Johnson, Robert Parker and Gus "The Groove" Lewis. Quezergue tribute begins right at the beginning of the second hour, enjoy the tunes and say a prayer from "the Teacher"…
Melting Pot on KPFK #56: First Hour
Melting Pot on KPFK #56: Second Hour
Playlist: 9-18-2011
{opening theme} Booker T & the MGs – Melting Pot – 7" (Stax)
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Connor Shields & Teague Case – Damn It Feels Good To Be A Lannister – Single (Youtube)
Corinithian Singers – Why? (It's A Shame) – Boddie Recording Co. (Numero)
Hawthorne Headhunters – Teleport – Myriad Of Now (Plug Research)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Egni Miton? Nin Mi Na Wa Gbin – The 1st Album / Funky Rob Way (Analog Africa)
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Googoosh – Pishkesh – Googoosh (Finders Keepers)
AM & Shawn Lee – City Boy – Celestial Electric (ESL)
Robin Hannibal – Transit – Bobby EP (Plug research)
Atlas Sound – Te Amo – Parallax (4ad)
Astrobal – Message from Kobe8 – Poetry & Science Fiction (Plug Research)
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Wild Flag – Endless Talk – Wild Flag (Merge)
Sebadoh – Junk Bonds – Smash Your Head On The Punk Rock (Sub Pop)
Staff Benda Bilili – Avramandole – Tres Tres Fort (Crammed Discs)
Ajit Singh feat. Asha Bhosle – Main Akeli Raat Jawan – Sitar Beat Vol. 2 (Guerilla Reissues)
Superstar Quamallah & Deqawn – Manhattan Reflections – Talkin' All That Jazz (Brick)
Wardell & the Sultans – Dance Time – 7" (Imperial)
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Royal Dukes of Rhythm – The Flirt – Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Frisco Records Story (Ace)
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Royal Dukes of Rhythm – My Heavy Load – Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Frisco Records Story (Ace)
Wardell & the Sultans – I'm Broke – 7" (Imperial)
Earl King – Trick Bag – 7" (Imperial)
The Dixie Cups – Iko Iko – Iko Iko (Red Bird)
Professor Longhair – Big Chief Pt. 1 – 7" (Watch)
Gentleman June Gardner – Hot Seat – Bustin' Out (Emarcy)
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Jean Knight – Mr. Big Stuff – Mr. Big Stuff (Stax)
Robert Parker – Let's Go Baby (Where The Action Is) – 7" (NOLA)
Smokey Johnson – I Can't Help It – 7" (NOLA)
Bonnie & Sheila – You Keep Me Hanging On – 7" (King)
The Unemployed – They Won't Let Me – 7" (Cotillion)
The Gaturs – Yeah You're Right, You Know You're Right – 7" (Gatur)
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Ruben Bell – Superjock – 7" (Alarm)
Irma Thomas – She's Taken My Part – 7" (Cotillion)
Gus Lewis – Let The Groove Move You – 7" (Tou-sea)
Robert Parker – Get Ta Steppin' – 7" (Island)
Jean Knight – Do Me – 7" (Stax)
Gentleman June Gardner – It's Gonna Rain – 7" (Emarcy)
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King Floyd – Groove Me – 7" (Chimneyville)
Dorothy Moore – Misty Blue – Misty Blue (Malaco)
Charles "Soul" Brown – Standing On The Outside – 7" (NOLA)
The Magnificent Four – You've Got Me – Strung Out: The Malaco Sessions (Grapevine)
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{closing theme} Smokey Johnson – It Ain't My Fault Pt. 1 – 7" (NOLA)


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Adopt a Cat
President: Lynn Chiche
Affiliated with animal programs for 15 years. Started a mobile
spay/neuter program, responsible for rescuing and sterilizing
thousands of animals in Greater New Orleans area. Networks
with over 100 feral cat providers for low cost spay/neuter
and operates a food subsidy program.
Vice-President: Pamela V. Casey
Started and organized the Jefferson SPCA, opened a shelter
and operated it for 4 years, started a humane education program
in the schools and wrote a syndicated column on humane treatment
to animals in 63 newspapers. Organized the city's first low
cost spay/neuter program that coordinated with existing vets.
Dr. Ferrell Larousse is a veterinarian who operates
an animal emergency clinic and is responsible for assisting
SpayMart with animal-related health problems. He has worked
as a trauma vet for the past 15 years.
Angela Hill is the anchorperson on WWL-TV, the largest
TV station in the area. She lends her well-known concern for
animals on many occasions and is responsible for giving SpayMart
a lot of media coverage on animal issues.
Frank Delery is a real estate appraiser and broker.
He was responsible for working out the details of the purchase
and building of SpayMart's low cost spay/neuter clinic. In
the past, he has donated office space at no charge to the
Jefferson SPCA when they lost their shelter and he continues
to lend his expertise to SpayMart's endeavors.
Jeff Dorson is the founder of the Humane Society of
LA that has, for the past twenty years, been active in cruelty
investigations, operating a shelter and opening new shelters
throughout the state. He has been highly successful in numerous
arrests for dog fighting, which is a big problem in LA.
John Northcutt, owner of Platinum Computers, is a
computer expert who has set up our database and all the other
computer-based programs used by SpayMart.
Kathy Higgins is a research consultant and librarian
who lends her expertise to SpayMart when we need information
concerning laws related to animal issues.
Terry Virigan works as a business consultant and has
been vital to SpayMart's focus and organization. Prior to
opening his own consulting practice, Mr. Verigan was active
in politics in Jefferson Parish (part of the Greater N.O.
Gerard Chiche and Keith Casey are the husbands of Lynn
Chiche and Pam Casey and were asked to join the Board early
on because of their love for animals. Dr. Chiche is a world-renowned
prosthodontist. Keith Casey, who is a real estate developer,
has worked with Pam on animal issues since 1977.
Esther Mechler, Director, SPAY/USA
Marvin Mackie, DVM, Owner of low-cost, high-volume
spay/neuter clinics
Rollie Norris, DVM
Ark Animal Hospital, 4025 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson, LA
Tel: 504.834.0906
Frank Klimitas, DVM
6622 Orleans Ave, New Orleans, LA 70124
Tel: 504.488.6344
Randy Michelle, Store Director
PETsMART Luv-a-Pet Adoption Center,
100 South Clearview Parkway, Hara han, LA 70123
Tel: 504.733.2016
© 2008-2009 SpayMart, Inc.
P.O. Box 6493, Metairie, LA 70009-6493
Helpline: 504.838.9167
Cat Sanctuary: 601.749.0268


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Heads up on the 1914 date for Jesus return...
this is the core creed of the Jehovah's Witnesses
In the early 1820's, a strange fellow by the name of John Aquila Brown took a few Bible texts completely out of context and came up with an absurd speculative calculation (360 X 7 = 2,520) in a half-assed attempt to determine the length of the Gentile Times.
A few decades later, leaders of several "dooms-day" religions, including the Adventists read "The Even Tide" (1823) by John Aquila Brown and saw an opportunity to cash in on some well-organized fear-mongering campaigns. This was the beginning of the Armageddon craze.
Charles Taze Russell liked what he saw and wanted a piece of this action. So he jumped on the band wagon but decided to create his own unique product so he searched for Bible texts to take out of context and created an incredibly embarrassing list of new doctrines which has taken the Watchtower over 100 years to clean up albeit they're still stuck with quite a few.
Some of these religions even pointed to particular years such as 1913, 1915, 1917, etc.
Charles Taze Russell decided to go with October 1914.
Obviously, Armageddon didn't arrive in 1913, 1915, 1917 or even the Bible Student's date of October 1914. So all of these religions decided to abandon this completely unauthorized calculation (Acts 1:7). But Russell saw an opportunity to clean up his mess by simply latching on to World War I (which really started in July 1914... not October 1914) and then simply used a phrase that is still in use by the Watchtower Corporation today... "Current Understanding".
The phrase "current understanding" along with Proverb 4:18 soon became the Jehovah Witnesses free pass to change their flawed doctrines and failed predictions at will.
While all of this was ongoing, the Bible Students certainly DID NOT expect Jesus to return in 1914 (as the WT would have the rank & file believe today) as they were taught in no ambiguous terms that he had already returned in 1874 and it wasn't until the late 1920's that Rutherford decided to move 1874 to 1914.
Fast forward to 2010... Governing Body member Anthony Morris III (in the DVD "Faith In Action") stated: "The fact that they (the Bible Students) were able to pinpoint that year is just phenomenal" giving credit to the Bible Students for the 2,520-year calculation even though it really originated with John Aquila Brown and NOTHING that was predicted by the Bible Students actually came true. This DVD even states on TWO (2) occasions that the Bible Students looked to 1914 decades in advance as the year that Jesus would return. Obviously, this is completely and utterly false as is plainly evident in WT publications printed before the 1920's.


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|The European Center for Linguistics (EZS), a co-operation between the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Institute for German Language in Mannheim (IDS), is advertising 45 places for participants at the Winter School "Linguistic approaches to conflicts in European language areas. Corpus - pragmatics – controversial". The Winter School, which is kindly supported by Volkswagen Foundation, is taking place at the German Department of the University of Heidelberg from the 18 to 23 March 2013. The participants will be dealing with the general topic of 'conflict linguistics' in workshops and presentations by renowned referents like Guus Extra, Johannes Schwitalla, Hans Goebl and Arnulf Deppermann amongst others.
Conflicts and their resolution are inherent in our daily life and our increasingly interconnected existence. From the day-to-day controversies to the intricate processes of the European Union, we struggle to resolve our differences. Language is intimately involved in all conflicts and their resolutions. Most conflicts arise and are communicated via language. Likewise, language is the medium par excellence to arrive at their most elegant solutions. Thus, we valiantly strive 'to find the right word' or 'to use the correct language'. Indeed, we observe that, 'it´s not just what is said, but how it is communicated'. Our facility in utilizing language to penetrate social-cultural barriers reflects our progress as a species, and underlies any legitimate claim a society has to true knowledge and power. To understand and to resolve our conflicts, we need to know and to promulgate the rules and routines of linguistic communication. As linguists, we have much to contribute to the analysis and resolution of modern day conflicts on both 'basic' and 'applied' levels. With our social-symbolic models, we have the tools that can describe the communicative assumptions that are at the core of a controversy, and then to guide further analyses. Thereafter, our strategies to resolve current differences and to avoid future ones flow directly from our linguistic models.
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Ane Brun has accomplished something that many artists do not; success on her own terms. She has released eight albums in her ten year career, all on her own label. The singer-songwriter credits her longevity to her passion and not being on a major record label. But part of her success is her beautiful voice and musical talent, which is highlighted on her cover songs. Brun will be kicking off her U.S. tour tonight at Jammin' Java. And she was nice enough to answer a few questions about her career, new album Rarities, the Swedish music scene, Amerie's "1 Thing," and more.
FO: Sweden is known for its music scene. You're from Norway, how did you get to Stockholm? Was it because of Sweden's music scene?
AB: No, not really. I moved there thirteen years ago, and it was just, well not just, it was love; a love relationship. And this was actually before I started releasing albums and becoming a full time musician. So it was not a career choice. But it's a good place to be a musician.
FO: So what is it about the scene?
AB: Well, it's hard to describe it I think. But I think the artists that come out of the Swedish music scene, if you speak of the more alternative music maybe, it's quite personal music. The voices are quite personal and distinct in a way. Also, it can be American or British music, but still it has a touch of something different. It's quite a very inspiring environment at the moment. In Sweden, I think it's a good vibe. I think that when someone is successful, it always brings along a lot of other people who are behind, you know. So it brings this kind of wave of people that see that things are possible, so maybe they try harder and dream bigger. I think that the communication channels from Sweden to the big markets are very open economically, so all of the good music comes out internationally. So it seems to be a huge, fantastic scene now, which it is. Yeah, it's visible.
FO: You've done eight albums in ten years, some artist haven't even put out 1 album in 8 years. How do you find the stamina? What drives you to keep putting out more music?
AB: I think one of the main reasons is that I'm on an independent label, my own label since the beginning. And I'm never really depending on anyone's schedule, any record company schedule. I can always do things when it comes to me. If I want to release a new song, I'll do it tomorrow. So I don't have to wait for anyone. I have constant flow of creativity that I can actually release. I think that's the big difference. Because if you're on a big label, even if you have a good contract, you're always dependent on all the other artists; when they are releasing and what slot you have to be working with the staff. But in my case, I can kind of decide for myself, with my manager and just kind of make plans. For me that has been so good because it's made me completely creative, being able to follow my inspirations. I think that's one of the main reasons why I have been so productive. And the more you make the more inspired you get. And also, I've released albums that I don't think would be released on majors. Like two live albums and a duet album with an Indian artist, which it is hard to get a release on. So I think that's one of the reasons, maybe the main reason. Also, I want to be doing things, because if I'm not, I don't feel like an artist. When I don't do anything, I don't feel I am communicating, and it's hard to identify with what you are doing. To feel happy I need to communicate.
FO: We've seen a lot of independent artists break out here. Do you feel that having a record label would be helpful at all? It doesn't seem like artists need to have a record label to be successful anymore.
AB: I guess if you have the resources to pay people to do the things that a record company does, if you have the money to pay the press people, and for the tours and the marketing, then you can do it yourself. There's not many people who have that. I'm so established now in my home country and Europe, so I have the resources to do my own releases in a way that a big company would do it. Of course sometimes you think it would be easier to have a big label that can do it all over the world at the same time, that kind of stuff. But, at the same time, if you have that, it also means you have to do a lot of things that maybe I don't want to do. Like three months of promos. Through the years I've come to a place where I figured out how I want to work and keep love of my music, and keep the fun in it. I'm trying to find a good balance between trying hard for success and trying to find a sustainable way of working. I don't do everything to try to become the biggest artist in the world, I try to have a good life. Try to find harmony, then the career thing will kind of move slowly upwards. And that's what it's done for me for ten years; kind of grown, and grown, and grown.
FO: Do you have any plans to take a break? Do you feel the need to take a three month vacation or something?
AB: Actually, last year I wasn't on tour at all between Christmas and June, which is six months. For me that's quite a long time. I was just home for six months preparing for the release of the retrospective album that I did. And just being home, you know. The thing is I enjoy my work more than ever and I'm really inspired. I guess the break will come naturally.
FO: They've described Rarities as a collection of some of the most personal moments of your career. What does this album mean to you?
AB: It's funny because when we just finished releasing songs from the classics collection of my songs, my manager sends me a file of all the other songs that we hadn't released. And he said "Ane this could be an amazing album." And I started listening to it, and I said wow this is good. We started recording the remaining in between things, and some things were released in not a big deal. Like a song for a project or something. And collecting all of these things into an album was really nice being able to really empty all the cupboards that we had with new music, and just start over in 2014. Many of these recordings are just me and a guitar, done myself, at home in my studio. They weren't actually meant to be released, they were just for me to try out versions of songs. It is one of those albums I didn't know I was going to release.
FO: The album has different ranges of music. There are a couple of covers on here from different artist, but the one that stuck out the most to me was Amerie's "1 Thing." And you did a cover of "Halo." Does your personal music taste lean towards R&B?
AB: [laughs] Yeah, I mix everything in my personal taste. If I want to be happy and get some energy, sometimes I put on R&B. The Amerie song is one of my favorite, I love it, it just has this amazing production. And the cover that I did was me playing around in the studio, I had no idea I was going to use it for anything. I listen to everything. Today we listened to Brandy [laughs]. We jump through all the genres, as long as it makes me happy somehow.
FO: There are other covers on the album, like one from the Beatles. Was it the same as the Amerie cover, you were just goofing around? Or did you pick them because you know you could make a good cover out of them?
AB: The Beatles song, and many of the covers I've done have been request from different people. This one was a radio thing, they were doing a Beatles celebration in Britain and this specific radio station wanted me to do a Beatles song. And I chose this one. And the Cohen song was for a specific celebration album. And that song was picked for me, so I could just interpret it how I wanted to. The covers I chose is different, sometimes it is not my choice. It's something that people want me to do, then I do it of course. And then sometimes it's me picking out a song like "Halo," or the Amerie song, or Arcade Fire song.
FO: You can take a song like "1 Thing" and bring it down. It becomes, this is not meant in a bad way, more melancholic.
AB: [laughs]
FO: Your voice lends well to that. When you are on tour, is there a lot of crying?
AB: Well, I must say, I think there is. [laughs]I've heard it many times, people come up to me and say "I was crying during your show." And it's really hard to respond to that. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to say good or thank you. Or there there. [laughs] I just don't know how to respond to that. But I do believe it's a positive thing. [laughs]Music can do that to you right? It can release things that you are carrying around.
FO: Especially if you can get someone who doesn't normally express their emotions to cry.
AB: Yeah, that's good.
FO: Is this tour any different from touring for your previous albums? Does the Rarities tour have anything that's different?
AB: It's different since I haven't done solo, it's going to be a solo-duo thing. I haven't done that for three or four years. The last tours I've done have been big band, drummer, signs, backdrop, you know, everything. And it's been such an amazing time, but my foundation, the way I started, was just me and a guitar. Of course when I do the big shows, I always do a few songs alone. But this is going back to my past, my core. And this is the way I write the songs. I always create my songs just me and the guitar or piano. I'm really looking forward to it because it takes a different kind of focus. You have to be very focused, and everything you do is important. When you have a big band you can kind of dance around and hide a little bit, but in this I just have to be there a hundred percent of the time. I think it's a good challenge to do that again because it's been a while.
FO: Is there anything you want to accomplish with the album and the tour? Like gain new fans, or try a new instrument?
AB: A lot of these songs I've never played live before, they were just something lying around. Me and Linnea Olsson rehearsed a lot to get the set together. And also since I toured with a band for the last few years, some of the songs were actually made for a bigger band. So I had to just bring it down to a duo version. Which was actually kind of fun to do what I do with covers, bring them down to a more acoustic style. Maybe the biggest song, "Do You Remember," which is one of my biggest songs, is just me on the guitar this tour. So it makes a difference.
FO: Are there any plans for your next album?
AB: I think I'm going to spend 2014 touring solo and writing songs. And then I will record in 2015, that's my plan.
FO: Do you think it will be more like your previous music, or you will try something new?
AB: I think I want to keep my core but continue exploring sounds and moving forward. I really love the rhythmical path that I brought on the last album. I think I'll find a good balance between the soft and the more energetic stuff. I think that's what I like about my music, it's quite varied.
FO: Have you thought about scoring a movie or doing a soundtrack?
AB: I would love to do that. I know it takes a lot of work. You are kind of dependent on thinking about the film all the time, so you have to have the time to do that. It's really rare that I'm not touring. Of course if the right subject comes a long I would love to do that. You just need to have the focus to do that because it's going to take time.
FO: Is there any particular type of movie that you would want to do it for?
AB: No, I can't think of anything. That's really hard. [laughs] I haven't really thought about it.
Ane Brun at Jammin' Java, February 11, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15, and doors open at 6:30 p.m.


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