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I have moved this blog and my new one over to a new server.
I won't get into why, but it was time. Hopefully, this blog works well on this server.
I have moved this blog and my new one over to a new server.
I won't get into why, but it was time. Hopefully, this blog works well on this server.
It's 4:06 a.m. and I was trying to write a post on my new blog and I was searching for something on here and I happened to realize something.
I did not have my permalinks set up properly here. Oops! 😳
Needless to say, that is fixed. 😀
I also turn on a search box to make finding older stuff here easier.
Again, my apologies for not having things set up here right.
I won't bore you with details. I am just not in a good way right now money-wise.
I'm not going to end up in the street, I am just not working and money is at an all time low. I do not have Google AdSense anymore, they yanked my account for an unknown reason.
So, I'm asking for help.
As another well-known blogger would put it, hit the freakin' tip jar!
If you want this to be a regular thing:
Again, I hate asking. But, reality is reality; and I just do not have any job prospects lined up. The Business? Heh. that's a joke anymore. I did have a job prospect, but that all fell through. Nothing I did on my part, just did not work out at all.
Oh, by the way; on Thursday, June 28'th — I will be 40 years old. 40 years old, no job, broke and living with my parents. You have any idea what that does to man? You could never even begin to imagine. 🙁
Also too, if you do not like or do not trust PayPal; I can give you my home address. It is out there, if you are good with Google. But, if not and you want to help out, without using PayPal, let me know.
Thanks for your loyal readership for the 8 years that I ran this blog.
Please note: I have changed this postings title to what I originally wanted to call it.
My friends, this posting was originally post at a Blog called Alexandria. It was basically the posting that never made it here.
Here is the "final posting" for Political Byline.
(To truly understand why I posted the video above, you have to read this here.)
and read this here.
The hardest thing to do is to quit and say goodbye.
Yesterday October 31, 2011 at around 8:00 in the evening after getting a warning from the hosting service that somehow my blog causing "instability" on the server, I decided to no longer put off doing what I have should have done a long while back. I did a backup of my configuration of my entire blog, including the SQL Database and downloaded it to my computer. I then uninstalled the WordPress installation. It is now officially over, after six long years; first as a left of center and then more as a right of center — I now no longer have a blog.
I am proud of what I did, what I was able to accomplish, what I stood for, and what I fought like bloody hell against. The thing that really irks me the most; is that I was never able to post that last blog posting thanking everyone who stopped by, even if it was to mock or deride me. It was as if the curtain was yanked down in front of me, all because some system administration decided that my blog was in the way. However, I am not bitter about it. Shared hosting has its difficulties and that is one of them. I never was able to afford dedicated hosting, as I was not making that much on the blog. I never really intended it to be a business venture, just a place to vent.
….and vent I did for six long years.
For those of you who did come and read and even do the bold thing and actually comment — I thank you. You made the blogging experience more fun, at least for me; writing is great, but talking to people is even more fun. You did that, and I thank you.
I think one of my biggest mistakes was I actually was crafty enough to anger everyone. One of the bad parts of being a non-conformist such as I; is that when you anger everyone, they stop coming around. Which is what happened to my site, I was branded as something that I was not, by many people. I did not kiss up to the protected minorities enough. I did not kiss up to the isolationists enough; I did not kiss up to the warmongers enough. I was not nearly a partisan enough. None of that, put together, is conducive to a successful blog.
Well, I plan to disappear back into the world of just being another person. I plan to take a break from writing for a little while. Oh, I might put the occasional article, but nothing like I was on a daily basis. I am also going to try to find some gainful employment. I might also work on losing some excess weight. I had started on excising; riding a stationary bike. I also plan to focus on doing the daily Christian reading of the Bible as well. I am a Christian first, a Baptist second and the writer is somewhere down near the bottom
Update – December 31, 2011: How ironic is it, that three months after that was all written that I finally am able to get this blog back up and running. Either way, it has been a fun five years; it has not always been blast, as there were times when I wanted to stop altogether and just walk away.
Now about where does say that I am quitting and when I originally wrote that; I was going to quit. But, after some badgering from my Mother, who is my biggest fan and from some people who did not want to see me quit. I decided to
fire up a new blog over on Blogspot. (UPDATE: I deleted that google account so, that blog went away… Sorry. 🙁 ) I stayed there and finally, I was able to start a new blog, and also a small business. Hopefully, I can make something of it! If you are a blogger or know someone who runs a small or medium sized blog, send them my way; and I will work very hard to make them happy!
So, from the house of Charles Patrick Adkins and Family — A Very Happy New Year!
See you over at Thoughts and Rantings!
Most blogs are doing their of years stats. Because I am basically putting this blog in inactive status, I thought I would do some "end of blog" stats for you.
Here are the most read postings on this blog since it's inception on December 30, 2007.
It was not the best of blogs, but it was not, by a long shot, the worst of them.
Hi Guys,
It has been a long time, has it not?
Finally after being down for a very long time. I finally got this thing back up! 😀
Only to tell you; I am moving on. Well, sort of.
Sometime tomorrow. I will be moving this blog here, to its own domain.
Political Byline served it's purpose and became something much more than it was ever intended to be. On October 31, 2011 Site5.com decided to be jerks and force me to shut down. So, it took it down, and thanked my friend Ryan for the hosting — and made a backup and took the site down.
I finally got some investment capital and now, I'm gonna try my hand at a hosting company. More on that one later.
So, strictly for archive purposes this monster is back up.
Stay tuned for more, but for now, it's 11;17p.m. and waaaay past my bedtime……
I will post something a bit more final tomorrow, I promise.
Sometimes when I write things, I do not fully explain myself; which sometimes leads people to make false assumptions about my blog and yes, even me. When I wrote my posting regarding the future of this blog, I wrote the following:
I decided to drop that previous theme that I was running. The theme had some functional issues that I did not like, so I got rid of it and went back to a theme that I used before. Hopefully, all of the bugs are fixed with this theme.
Another thing, when I switched to this theme, my server started bogging down, I thought it was the new theme; it wasn't. It was another costumer of my hosting provider, who was bogging the server. So, I brought back this theme.
Whew, long day of fiddling around with this silly thing. I'll fix all the small stuff tomorrow.
This is a posting, which I have been meaning to write for a very long time; I just needed the right moment and the excuse to write it. As I wrote here earlier this week, President Barack Obama announced that American Military forces would be leaving the Country of Iraq at the end of 2011; which would essentially end the Country's Military presence in the Nation of Iraq.
I wrote here a little while back that I was checking out a new Church. I said the following:
I am prayerfully considering the matter and I ask for your prayers going forward in it.
I went to the Church for a few services and I did decide to pass on the Church. What it boils down to is some personal preferences of mine; also, in addition, there were some issues with the Pastor as well. Therefore, I decided to pass on that Church. I thank the man, who was kind enough to invite me.
I do have another one in mind, however I will be very honest with you, and I am not in a great hurry to become involved with another Church again. I am still a bit gun-shy about attending a Church again; mainly because of my being burned here about 5 years ago, by a Pastor who preached one thing and did another in his personal dealings. When this occurred, I essentially said that I would most likely never get involved with another Church group. However, this man's kindness and boldness to share the gospel with a total stranger captured my interest.
There is one thing that will not change around here and that is my walk with the Lord. I will not be posting secular music here any longer. Just because it does not look good for a person, who is supposed to be a Christian, of which the term means someone who is a follower of Christ — to be posting music on a blog, of which he is the owner. In other words, I will leave the music posting to the liberals who support that music and lifestyle it represents.
Another thing I need to point here is that I am fully aware of the fact that I have let myself go here in the last six years. When I was burned by that Pastor and a few other people involved in that whole situation back in 2006, I came home that day, put my Christianity on the back burner, and delved into the world of politics. I guess you could say that I needed a distraction from the recent events, which worked for me, because I did not want to dwell on what had happened too much, because I did not want to become bitter over it. Therefore, I just changed gears and started writing about politics. However, to gain more readers around here, I did some things, that now as I reflect on it more, might have not been expedient for someone who is a Christian. This was my own personal oversight and I take full responsibility for that.
In closing, going forward here at this blog, which I do plan on writing about in detail here in another posting, I do plan to watch myself a bit more as a Christian. I also will find a Church, when I am ready for that. For now though, I just do not feel an overly compelling reason to be a part of one. It is a myth that Church attendance is a requirement for anything at all, least of all, one's personal salvation. (Update: The posting that I spoke of, is now here.)
The alternative title to this posting should be, "owning up to that fact that I have let myself go, in the last six years, since leaving my last Church."
Tonight I was looking at my logs and noticed that a posting about Canada, that I wrote in a fit of anger a year ago was gaining popularity on here. Well, that changed tonight, because I deleted the silly thing.
I mentioned on here Sunday that I had found a new Church. I am a Christian and it is time I started acting like one. Which means some things are going to change around here with the blog. They are:
My reasons for this, are thus; what I do in the privacy of my home is one thing — what I do publicly on this blog is representation of my Church and of my Christianity. It is also for public consumption. The last thing that I want to do, is bring a reproach to the great Church that I just started attending.It says on my twitter bio that I am a lousy Christian. As of today, I am going to start a working' on that lousy bit. If I screw up, call me on it, please and yes that includes the people who are not my friends.
I hope you all understand. But I am rounding another corner in my walk with the Lord and I do want you all to come with me. I won't cut older posts, as that is in the past; unless it's something very vulgar and some starts linking to it. But everything after this point will go through the, "is God pleased with this?" filter.
Thanks for reading…
Update: I wrote this originally on my iPod touch; I made the corrections needed here on the laptop.
What do you think of the new look?
I like it myself.
Your Thoughts?
Update: Um, I forgot to add, if you view this blog on a phone, iPod, iPad, or iPhone. It will look different than from a PC or Mac. That's because I run a separate them for mobile users. The stuff we bloggers have to remember…. 😀
I am taking the weekend off. I need a break and plus tomorrow is Church Day.
So, I am taking the day off today, to just get my mind off things for a while.
See you Monday.
Last night I made dinner. I made spaghetti.
Everyone loved it; my Dad ate two whole servings of it — and that is a whole lot for him.
My Mom loved it, my aunt loved it.
I even liked myself; I do pride myself in being a very good cook.
My stomach? Not so much…..
Let's just say, that I spent an unusual amount of time in the loo last night.
So, I suffereth once again. 🙁
I will be posting, maybe not writing novels. But I'll be trying to keep up. I will most likely post links from the iPod. (Thank You, Steve Jobs)
I would go a find out what is happening in my tummy; but I have no health insurance. (I have, for the record stated this many times….) I think I'm just a little touchy, when it comes to spicy foods, and I did eat a good of that this past week.
So, if you into the deity and happen to believe in such stuff; pray for me. If not, good thoughts work too.
Posting will limited until the later afternoon till evening. I shall be away on real life business. Please try to behave yourselves. 😉
I will say one thing about being sick.
The NyQuil does work.
Here's Bishop George Bloomer talking about it.
See ya'll when this blows over. 😀
I find myself a bit under the weather……again.
What happened was this; yesterday, I was jolted awake, feeling like I had inhaled the dust out of a vacuüm cleaner. You see, I, like my mother, have that drainage crap that goes down the back of your throat. Anyhow, I believe some of that got sucked into my windpipe in my sleep; and I woke up coughing my head off.
Anyhow, I got over that and today, I was outside with my cousin, while he was working on a couple of lawnmowers for my Dad. While I was out there, I started feeling a head cold a coming on; you know, the whole, "Oh man, here comes the swelled head feeling and the slight cough thing again" feeling. Sure enough, I now have a lovely cough and the big time drainage down the back of the throat deal. Bleh. 🙁
I took some Ny-Quill earlier and piled up in the bed and slept like a tank for a few hours and woke up feeling a little better; but not much. Most likely here around 11:30, I am going to take another nice big dose of Ny-Quill and hopefully sleep through the night — that should, and I say SHOULD knock it out of me. Although, I am not going to promise anything at all.
I can say this; I am not usually the type of person who gets sick often at all; I usually get sick once a year, tops. But when I do, it's the whole, "clear the room! The big guy is sick!" bit and I turn into an instant 12-year-old — for about 3 days. Although this one does not seem to be that bad, yet. Just seems to be more of annoyance that anything else. It just your a-typical sniffles, coughing and a good loud hearty, Kentucky-mountain-man sounding sneeze.
Ah, the joys of living in Michigan; where the weather changes so fast, it can give one whiplash.
Traffic it up on the blog. I opened the back-end here of the blog and saw the traffic was up a bit. I have not traced it down to see where it came from; but I am glad it is there! 😀
First of all, the A/C in the house here is on the fritz… The repairman will be out tomorrow. But it is HOT in this brick house! 😯
Second of all, I had a huge chicken salad for lunch yesterday and then stuffed peppers for supper.
The result of all the above, I believe; is me having a bad case of the "trots" and a general puny feeling. 🙁 😥
So, as a result; I am not going to be writing novels today. I'll mostly be reading more and most likely posting links.
For all you praying people, pray this passes, quickly.
My mind is elsewhere, and I am not in the mood to write novels today.
So, the next few posts are going to be short, but sweet. So, if your disappointed, I am very sorry. But night now, I'm not myself. 🙁
Just letting everyone and all users who read this site via mobile devices know that I had to switch to different mobile plug in for WordPress. It seems that the old one had a bug, in which threaded and paged comments were not working.
In other words, that last huge comment thread on the chick who whined about getting yanked off that plane, mobile users could only see like 34 of the comments. I discovered this, because I just happened to look at the posting on my iPod.
Anyhow, the new mobile plug in has some excellent features and the really cool features, like all the ads on the main blog display for mobile users. Pictures and videos automatically resize, which makes my job 100% easier.
I will admit, the theme is bit busy, and ALL the ads are there. (hint hint!!! I don't do this for my health, ya know!)
That is all….
Da Boss 'round here…
I've made a change, go read about it please.
Since I wrote this, I figure it is time to open it up and stop moderating. I figure that I am 39 years old, I am a big boy, I can take the insults!
Hopefully nothing bad becomes of it.
*tap* *tap* *tap*
This thing on?
This is the test of the new server. This is only a test.
Well, here goes it'll either work….or blow up.
My friends, I hate like hell to have to do this; but my personal living situation has deteriorated in the last hour and I mean badly. 🙁
Folks, I am just going to have to tell this bluntly; I need a place to live — as in right now. The pleasant living situation that I have enjoyed for the last 39 years ended tonight in a fit of rage.
To be blunt, I am to the point where I just cannot handle living with my parents anymore. 🙁 I love them, but, I cannot handle living here anymore.
To be quite honest; I don't even know if I will be living here tomorrow or not.
If anyone wants to call me and offer support, I can explain it. But, for some very good reasons. I won't explain it here. Let's just say, that this has been brewing for a LOOOONG time and it came to head tonight.
I am 39 years old and I am living like a 16 year old in my parents basement. Part of that, is my fault. Part of it, is just my personal situation, the economy and just plain ol' bad luck.
My Job prospects are grim at the moment; I quite honestly do not know what I am going to do. But I have to do something. Even if it is taking a minimum wage job push carts at store somewhere. I have to get a job and get an apartment somewhere.
I would like to live in this area, somewhere near my parents. I love them dearly, but I just cannot handling living with them anymore; and after what happened tonight, I do not know if I will be living here much longer anymore.
Let me make this very clear:
I will be pricing apartments and will let you all know on prices. But, I must, must, must get the heck out of here and I mean quickly. Believe me, this is not because of a Law Enforcement issue, it is because my relationship with my folks is not good and me being here is going to make it worse.
If you want to help, Please:
I swear, I wish this was some sort of a joke; it is not and I need your help now, more than ever.
I will be job hunting for something, anything…. But in the meantime. I got to get the heck out of here and now!
Update: I will keep everyone updated. But I will be getting out of here; somehow, someway. I have to, for my mom's and my well being.
Update #2: I have posted an major update to this Story, please click here to read it. Thanks.
It's 3:00am and I cannot sleep worth a darn. So, I thought I'd write here for a few.
A few news items:
Goldsilver.com has moved it's affiliate program out to a third party company. What does that mean for you? Nothing. Same product and company. What does it mean for me? More money, I hope. So, click that big banner on the left and buy the hell out of gold and silver too please. It helps!
(please do know, if you've bought already; one that I appreciate the heck outta ya and two, yes it has gone for a very good cause. I have not, in months now, had to ask my parents to help me buy my medication for ADHD. That, in itself is a very awesome thing. That medication, which has now went up over $40.00; keeps my rather small pea brain in gear and my mental accordion in tune. (so to speak) again thanks! You guys keep me going. )
More suppliers for Ammo added: some of you emailed me a while back and said that you thought ImpactGuns was too pricy on ammo. For once, I was listening. So, I have added three (!) new suppliers for ammo. They are on the left, in the sidebars. I figure you cheapskates can find some ammo for your "pop pop" at those links, that won't break your piggy bank. You can get "pop pop's" too from Impact Guns. Remember, it goes for a very cause! It keeps me off the Government dole and out my parents wallet, as much possible.
Donations via paypal rock. Those of you who done it are awesome. You know who you are!
My bookstore is awesome, and you should check it out.
Jeff "goldenboy" Goldstein is still an prick… as are his sock puppets. Some goes for Ace. But that chick that was stalking Jeff? She is whacked! still doing stuff to get into trouble! Holy hell! I mean, I've done share of crap stirring but man, she takes the stuff to another level!
No hyperlinks. Sorry, too much of a pain on this iPod.
I made a contact with a very well known black Christian singer from the 1980's on the ham radio box today. He's been on PTL club and Gaither home coming videos. Last name is Harris. worked him on morse code. I was "star struck" as they say, felt like I worked Elvis.
September 11 is coming. 10 years now. We as a nation have changed. I did, everyone did. I thought about doing a "rake those #%^%#*# over the coals" type of a post, but I figure that's what those idiots want. so, I'll most likely just either refrain from posting at all or do a simple remembrance posting…. Maybe.
The problem with 9/11 is that it became this whole thing unto itself; and both sides —- use it as a wedge issue. Which is sickening, IMHO.
Well, enough yammering from me. More posting soon, when I wake up.
Me and Dad got free tickets for the local drag strip around here. So, Me, Dad and my two cousins will be off watching race cars go screaming down the track.
Yes, I am a closet "gear head" — I love going to the track.
So, I shall away from internet, and blogging. I need the break and to get out of this house!
I am taking the iPod and taking pictures, and maybe a movie or two.
I shall be back to the grind on Monday!
Update: Well, Surprise, Surprise! Turns out the track had a wifi connection! I also managed to grab a video of the last car. See here!


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Feb. 5, 2001
RENO, Nev. - The Stanford women's indoor track & field team had a strong showing on Saturday at the annual Wolf Pack Invitational, hosted by the University of Nevada at Reno Livestock Events Center.
Maureen Onyeagbako (Sparks, NV) broke her own school record in the weight throw with a NCAA provisional qualifying mark of 61-6 3/4. Onyeagbako set the old record of 59-2 3/4 last season. Also in the weight throw, freshman Jessica Pluth (Spokane, WA) set a personal record with a throw of 56-11 1/2. Pluth moves to third place on Stanford's all-time list in the 20 lb. weight throw. Freshman Jillian Camarena (Woodland, CA) qualified provisionally for the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships with a third place throw of 49-2 1/4. Camarena's throw is the third farthest indoor performance in Stanford history.
Stanford took top honors in the high jump as sophomore Kim Stone (Salinas, CA) leaped a career best 5-10 3/4. Stone's peformance is a NCAA provisional qualifying mark. Cheryl Burdick (Ramsey, NJ) finished third in the high jump.
In the 800 meters, the Cardinal placed first and second as Ashley Couper (Pembroke, Bermuda) finished ahead of junior Maurica Carlucci (Franklin, MA) 2:11.71 to 2:12.35.
Freshman Lindsey Johnson (Kennewick, WA) was the top sprinter/hurdler for Stanford over the weekend. Johnson finished seventh in the 55 meter hurdles with a time of 8.27. Johnson was also the top finisher for the Cardinal in the 55 meters crossing the tape in 7.44 seconds. Robyn Woolfolk (Ann Arbor, MI) and Lillian Bush (Columbus, GA) also competed in both events.
In other events, Junior Laura Turner (Portsmouth, RI) finished third in the mile with a time of 4:58.67. Team co-captain Julie Tinker (Sacramento, CA) was fourth in the long jump with a jump of 19-0. Kathleen Donoghue (San Diego, CA) finished fourth in the pole vault.
The Cardinal is next in action this weekend at the Iowa State Invitational in Ames, Iowa.
Wolf Pack Invitational February 3, 2001 Reno, Nevada Women's Results
55 Meters 1. Tania Woods (Unattached) 6.99 15. Lindsey Johnson (Stanford) 7.44 24. Robyn Woolfolk (Stanford) 7.64 27. Lillian Bush (Stanford) 7.74
800 Meters 1. Ashley Couper (Stanford) 2:11.71 2. Maurica Carlucci (Stanford) 2:12.35
One Mile 1. Elaina Canchola (UCLA) 4:57.37 3. Laura Turner (Stanford) 4:58.67
55 Meters Low Hurdles 1. Bisa Grant (Unattached) 7.81 7. Lindsey Johnson (Stanford) 8.27 13. Lillian Bush (Stanford) 8.48 14. Robyn Woolfolk (Stanford) 8.52
4 x 400 Meters Relay 1. Nevada 3:53.17 2. Stanford 3:55.16
High Jump 1. Kim Stone (Stanford) 5-10 3/4 3. Cheryl Burdick (Stanford) 5-03 3/4
Pole Vault 1. Shannon Pierson (Unattached) 12-05 1/2 4. Kathleen Donoghue (Stanford) 11-11 3/4 5. Leila Ben-Youssef (Stanford) 11-11 3/4 11. Melissa Feinstein (Stanford) 11-05 3/4
Long Jump 1. Grace Upshaw (Unattached) 20-05 1/4 4. Julie Tinker (Stanford) 19-00
Shot Put 1. Dana Lawson (California) 50-02 3/4 3. Jillian Camarena (Stanford) 49-02 1/4 11. Erin Fletcher (Stanford) 42-00 3/4
Weight Throw 1. Maureen Onyeagbako (Stanford) 61-06 3/4 5. Jessica Pluth (Stanford) 56-11 1/2


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Mary Leakey (1913–1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct primate now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus (Paranthropus boisei) skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked alongside her husband, Louis Leakey, in the Olduvai Gorge/Serengeti of Tanzania & Kenya, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines. Leakey developed a system for classifying stone tools and she discovered the Laetoli footprints. It was at the Laetoli site that she discovered Hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.
Brief biography: Mary Leakey was born Mary Nicol on 6 February 1913, in London, England, to Erskine Nicol and Cecilia Frere Nicol. Erskine worked as a painter specializing in watercolor landscapes. The Nicol family would move from place to place, visiting numerous locations in the U.S., Italy, Switzerland, France, and Egypt, where Erskine painted scenes to be sold in England. The Nicol's moved to Kensington, where, though unregistered, Mary could still attend lectures in archaeology and related subjects at the University College and the London Museum, where she studied under Sir Mortimer Wheeler.
Mary Nicol applied for a number of excavations to be held in the summer. Wheeler was the first to accept her for a dig—at St. Albans at the Roman site of Verulamium. Mary's second dig was at Hembury, a Neolithic site, under Dorothy Liddell, who coached her for 4 years. Her illustrations of tools drawn for Liddell drew the attention of Gertrude Caton-Thompson; and in 1932, Mary Nicol entered the field as an illustrator for Caton-Thompson's book, The Desert Fayoum.
Through Caton-Thompson, Mary met Louis Leakey, who was in need of an illustrator for his science book, Adam's Ancestors (1934). While she was doing that work they became romantically involved. Leakey was still married when he started living with Mary, which caused a scandal which eventually ruined his career at Cambridge University. They were finally married after Leakey's wife, Frida, divorced him in 1936.
Epilogue: Mostly self-educated, Mary Leakey made numerous contributions to the field of anthropology during her extraordinary 50-year career. She discovered 15 new species of other animals, and one new genus. In 1982, she lost sight in her left eye and turned over her research site to the Tanzania Department of Antiquities. Human chromosome #2, as explained by Ken Miller, validates human evolution. The human blood types are also found in chimpanzees and gorillas. In other words, blood transfusions could occur between people and chimpanzees. Yusuf Estes and Steve Harvey asked, "If people came from monkeys then why do we still have monkeys?" One answer is, "If dogs came from wolves then why do we still have wolves?"


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On multi-year signings, Marlins stand alone
It's been three years since the Marlins signed a player to a multi-year contract.
The last one was Carlos Delgado for four years, $52 million in January 2005. It ended up being a one-year, $11 million deal as the Marlins traded him to the Mets the following offseason.
That same January also marked the last time the Marlins signed one of their own players to a multi-year extension. They gave Paul Lo Duca, who was arbitration-eligible as a five-plus player, a three-year, $18 million contract. Lo Duca, too, was traded to the Mets after one season.
Did a little research and determined the Marlins are the only team in baseball since 2006 that has not signed a free agent to a multi-year deal or extended the contract of one of its own players for multiple seasons.
Here's a team-by-team look at a sampling of free agents who re-signed for multiple years with their original club and players that received multi-year extensions that took effect in 2006 or later:
Angels – Chone Figgins, John Lackey, Scot Shields
Astros – Lance Berkman, Roy Oswalt
Athletics – Mark Ellis, Dan Haren, Mark Kotsay, Nick Swisher
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by Janaki Challa
"Countless contradictory analyses have seen the light of day about the ensuing bloody events in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, on whose embarrassing convolutions there is no need to dwell. Because it is clear that what is above all missing from all the explanations is the human being. Or — if we can put it that way — the poet. Because the poet doesn't get lost here either, where death has become customary. More precisely: where death appears, there the poet must put up his tent."– Balint Szombathy
Summer of 2010. The FIFA World Cup was underway, and it was the first time Serbia was represented as an autonomous nation in the tournament. Serbia finally won a victory against Germany, 1-0. I still remember the vivid image of the team flailing their arms and embracing in excitement, euphoria overcoming what was arguably more than an athletic victory–it was, like many international and regional sports contests, a social and political moment. But at a Bosnian mosque in Connecticut that hot afternoon, the atmosphere wilted under an awning of grief.
A dead silence reigned in the mosque that afternoon. Usually when I pulled into the empty parking lot, an entourage of boys would be playing soccer with nets they'd lifted from a nearby park. The day Serbia won was a humiliating reminder of loss for many Bosnians. It was also the day when the members of the Bosnian community in Hartford stood upon a stage for the 15th memorial of the Srebrenica genocide, and read poetry, in remembrance, and even as prayer.
When pain is combined with injustice, and when injustice is impossible to bring to punishment, when the bodies of these refugees' fathers and brothers remain simply anonymous, rust-colored bones collected into white bags, still lying unclaimed underground—it's not difficult to sense that under the surface of every moment, there's a deep yearning, impenetrable and dark as onyx, that may never be absolved.
And so, there is poetry.
The theory of maintaining distance
was discovered by writers of post-scripts,
those who don't want to risk anything.
I myself belong among those
who believe
that on Monday you have to talk about Monday,
because by Tuesday it might be too late.
It's hard, of course,
to write poems in the cellar,
when mortars are exploding above your head.
It's only harder not to write poems.[1]
2010 was also the year Serbia offered an "official apology" for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre—what many call genocide—an institutionalized ethnic cleansing of over 8000 Bosnian Muslims. If one Googles Srebrenica, most pictures that appear are graphic photographs of charred and disfigured corpses, and defunct buildings that were used as sites for concentration camps. There, journalists and civilians documented thousands of makeshift graves, which appear as squares of land tessellated and separated by wooden beams. Over 30,000 Bosnian women and children were forcefully removed from the area, legal proof that this military action by the Serbian government was "of genocidal intent." In 2004, Theodor Meron, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), said in an address at Potocari Memorial Cemetery that "by seeking to eliminate a part of the Bosnian Muslims, the Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide. They targeted for extinction the 40,000 Bosnian Muslims living in Srebrenica, a group emblematic of the Bosnian Muslims in general. They stripped all the male Muslim prisoners, military and civilian, elderly and young, of their personal belongings and identification, and deliberately and methodically killed them solely on the basis of their identity." Secretary General Kofi Annan called this massacre "the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War."
The United Nations had attempted to make Srebrenica a "safe area" in 1995, deploying about 400 Dutch soldiers who did not, as it turned out, prevent the violence that would overtake the region. In fact, the UN headquarters in Srebrenica became a locus of systematic execution. It echoed back to the World Wars and the terror in Sarajevo a few years earlier. Eastern Europe is no less a stranger to such catastrophe than many other areas of the world—but perhaps this well-documented case in Srebrenica exemplifies the gruesome reality that countless such stories are unheard of, un-immortalized in media. Outside its specificity, it remains a testament to the incidents of war and brutality left unheard in vast regions of the world.
On the day of the Serbia-Germany game, I was two months into a research assistantship with a professor who's spent a decade studying various Muslim refugee populations in Hartford and their resettlement experiences. Tucked within the multiethnic atmosphere of Hartford's metropolis are folds of displaced refugee populations thriving in the margins of this urban center. The previous summer, I had worked with Muslim refugees of Sierra Leonean, Meskethian Turkish, Somali Bantu, Bosnian, Kosovar Albanian, Afghan, Kurdish and Iraqi backgrounds. I did a series of life-history interviews, charting their kinship systems, and doing participant-observation in their homes and communities—hanging out with them. A common bonding point for many of these refugees, regardless of nationality, was sense of nostalgia, and common narratives of trauma. The architecture of each cultural matrix was built on imagined and recreated kinship systems. The exact number of Bosnian Muslim refugees is unknown, though as of the 2003 census report Hartford's population is about 8% Eastern European. That number includes diasporas outside of the Bosnian Muslim refugee community, and since many refugees and asylum seekers are not properly documented, an exact number is hard to determine. However, within the mosque itself, my research partner and I interviewed a couple of dozen people of all age groups, both men and women. Most of the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica were men. The people I had interviewed were cross-generational–and they tended to be the surviving women and their now-gown children and sometimes, grandchildren.
After I buried my mother
and ran from the cemetery in a shower of shells
after I gave back my brother's rife to the soldiers
when they brought him back in twisted canvas
after I saw the flames in my children's eyes
as they fled into the cellar amongst horrifying rats
after I wiped an old woman's face with a rag
fearful that I might recognize her
after I saw how a hungry dog
licked his bloody wounds on a street corner
after all of this
I'd like to write poems like news reports
that are so empty and uninteresting that I could forget them
the moment someone asks me on the street:
why do you write poems like an indifferent news reporter?[1]
I had read facts and news reports about the Bosnian genocide. I had watched Christiane Amanpour's impressive reports from Bosnia during the war. I had seen the footage: prisoners in concentration camps, interviewed behind barbed wire; stacks and stacks of corpses, thousands unidentified still and left numbered and stored in underground salt mills that seemed to extend for miles; shot after shot of army trucks and exploding grenades; weeping women with voices barely audible under non-emotive English translators.
One doesn't comprehend much of human suffering through these stoic news reports. I had also read the U.N. official statements, like too-late lamentations, one dossier filed away after another. NGOs, like the ones I worked with in central Connecticut, continue to assist displaced populations with basic relocation needs. Tents are raised. Tears are wept. Books are written. And it all seems to repeat itself onwards and without apology, "like the insistent out-of-tune of a broken violin," as T.S. Eliot might put it. I could only understand the meaning and gravity of a dark human condition when standing before it. Conversation over coffee, or holding the hand of a weeping survivor, are examples of the sort of immediacy that compels one to encounter the suffering of another person. The human narrative in those moments takes precedence over sociological data, or anthropological thick description. There is, strangely, a perverse and beautiful poetry about it.
I spent months in the Bosnian community in Hartford, building contacts and friendships. An imam allowed my research partner and me a conference room in his mosque for interviews. We spent countless hours in that air-conditioned room that hot summer in conversation with survivors. Most were strikingly beautiful, with a particular set of Balkan features that, in my estimation, crossed the visages of Turkish miniatures with the virile build of Eastern Europeans: high Slavic cheekbones, malachite eyes, golden skin, broad-shouldered and statuesque, with straight Roman noses. They seemed warm, curious, slightly taken aback that they were subjects of interest. They wept in my presence with abandon—without pretense—with trust. Many women held my hand as they retold their stories—and it was clear they relived every word as they spoke of their lives, their loves, their loss.
By day, refugees and survivors of war cope with the guilt of survival, begin again in a new country as outsiders, learn a new language, rebuild community and kinship bit by bit. They find themselves on virgin streets, with nothing but memories of their dissolved past, returned to an undesirable, conscious infancy. They were first at the mercy of an exterminating militia, then at the mercy of the legal asylum process, then at the mercy of the limits of their own capacities. By night, many of them are plagued with sleeplessness, intrusive memories, nightmares of bloody, rugged roads, the last cry of a loved one. A young mother cannot erase the memory of her infant child taken by the arm and beheaded at their doorstep. She cannot forget being raped multiple times and thrown, bleeding and broken, on a pile of decapitated corpses. This woman's eyes lost their color as she told me how she lay there, pretending to be dead for days among the decaying bodies until the coast seemed clear. Or the young man, now getting his master's degree at a state university, who could never shake the memory of his father being shot as he was forced to watch, or walking alone across a hill only to hear a wave of maternal wailing for dead sons. Many young men recounted a childhood of hiding behind produce carts, disguising themselves to escape, injuring themselves to be eligible for a night of safety at a makeshift hospital.
Many phrases appeared over and over in my interview notes: "rebuilding shattered lives," "essentialized poetics of memory," "trauma," "uncertainty," "nostalgia," "dislocation" and "separation" were just a few terms I noted down in shaky penmanship as I attempted to weave together their narratives of severance. But I also realized these terms are symptoms of our own conditions of grief and otherness. Change, like death, can come without ceremony, cutting clean and quick without warning or mercy. "It was God's will," I heard many times that summer, "It was God's plan." I think of this fatalism, this attempt at divine rationality, as the ultimate irony: it is still surprising that people have the capacity for both cold murder and compassion, for both monstrosity and forgiveness. cruelty and faith, delicacy and resilience.
I felt I could offer them nothing. I felt presumptuous and ashamed to write down their lives in cold, academic jargon. "Thank you," many of my participants said to my surprise, "Thank you for listening to us. Thank you for feeling our pain. God is with you." It was as though an empathetic ear was catharsis. "We need people to hear our stories. Nobody asks us about our stories." I remember that when someone said this to me, I was overcome by a bizarre entropy; I shuffled demographic charts, some IRB paperwork, and quickly wiped my wet eyes, helpless. This is the power of narrative, of language and poetry–to speak it, and to hear it. Narrative is the way we fashion our cosmologies, worldviews, and ultimately our lives.
How do we begin again? How to rebuild shattered lives, or trust again, when our basic seamless consciousnesses can be so profoundly shaken and displaced? How does one buy bread in Srebrenica on the same dirt road day after day, see that same road paved with corpses, and then never see that road again? How to reconcile with memory, heavy as granite, whose circumference can never be navigated? How to live with a lack of reason, carry on with the mundane motions of daily life within the incorrigible shadow of uncertainty, waxing and waning without warning? How can we work with only our abstract imaginaries in the absence of true closure?
In the Sarajevo
Spring of 1992 everything is possible:
you get into a line
to buy bread
and end up in an emergency ward
among torn-off legs.
And still you can say
that you were lucky.[3]
As the memorial began that evening in Hartford, there were only tears. It became evident, from the poetry I heard that day, and from my conversations with members of the Bosnian community, that they all have one common denominator: faith.
I too, have been a stranger on a new horizon. I did not lose my limbs, dodge through the trenches of war, or witness murder—but I did connect deeply with some of the experiences the refugees described to me: their insatiable longing, their loss, their yearning and struggle with closure when nothing is palpable anymore. We long for things we cannot, and will not, ever reclaim. The reactions we share are metaphorical, transposable—the circumstances—whether war or far less dramatic situations—are simply the vessels that house them. I wonder how faith arrives in this equation.
It seems impossible, after hitting a certain degree of pain, to imagine compressing it into verse. Yet, on that day, as young men and women read poetry, there was the thunder of audacity. As meaningless or meaningful as it sounds–the capacity to believe in a better day. The dead do not come back, the nightmares won't stop overnight, wounds heal slowly, inexactly, if ever. At the limits of my own resilience—the conversations I had with my Bosnian friends are still my points of reference. No sentence, ethnography, or poem can encompass the full implication of what those forms attempt to represent: what a human being has experienced. But perhaps to persevere, to dream, to dare to write, is the final unencumbered poem. To define an emptiness (or even a darkness) within oneself can be a point of departure once loss is actualized in language. Either way, it is kinetic.
I'm still alive. In Sarajevo.
For now that means: living in the past.
To talk of the future means: to dream.
A white paper is my final home
whereas my pencil is my religion. [4]
When I remember these poets of Srebrenica, I still struggle to comprehend the gravity of what they ask us to ask of ourselves. About how to assume an armor of kinetic momentum when tendrils of stasis grow up around us in times of woe. Severance is merciless. No preparation is preparation enough. I asked so many people why they still believe in God, how they can still have faith after all that has befallen them, why they even bother writing poetry?
The answers were like this: Why have faith? To have faith. Why write poetry? What else is there to do?
Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard believed two things: First— there is really is no reason to have faith, it can't be understood, much less understood rationally; Second—the poet will be immortalized. I'm still not sure about the point of origin or function of faith. But I have never been able to argue against poetry—it is here, in our veins and voices, written or not, a compass as we pass through seasons of loss, or as seasons of loss pass through us.
A political apology, as many of the refugees noted, does not bring back 8000 people. But at a Bosnian-owned café near the mosque that evening, men huddled around a small table, they smoked cigarettes, drank coffee and debate politics over the lull of television playing in the background. This was the beginning of recreating a sweet familiarity, of home—if only partial—in a new world. The boys resumed playing soccer in the abandoned parking lot, as though on Balkan streets on a sunny day. There are no grenades here. For refugees, much of the alienation is literal. It is written on their political paperwork, it is on their tongues, in their final attempts to rise, quite literally, from the ashes of their old, lost lives. For now, there is a café down the new street and there is, at least for the moment, the resonant sound of laughter. There are games of soccer with new friends, and there is poetry.
"God is good," many of them said, despite living through atrocity, "God is great."
How do we begin again, have faith? We just do.
I don't understand. But perhaps that's far from the point.
"… poetic declarations…are buds springing from human tragedy, a lyrical harvest more substantial than their size, whose unquestioned value is human closeness that points even beyond authenticity[5]."
1. "It Can Start All Over After All"- Goran Simic
2. "A Theory of Maintaining Distance"- Izet Sarajlic
3. "Good-Luck, Sarajevo Style"- Goran Simic
4. "A Message of Thanks"- Goran Simic
5. "AFTER AUSCHWITZ, AFTER SARAJEVO: Poetry of Three Sarajevian Poets"; Balint Szombathy
1) *In no way must we forget the Serbian civilians and victims who suffered a great deal due to unrest and war in the region.* Unfortunately, I did not speak to any Serbians (which I hope to do in the future)– hence, this piece is dedicated to and focused on the conversations I had with the Bosnian Muslims and their stories.
2) I am unable to provide real names, interview transcripts, or anything other than a careful paraphrasing of my conversations with the Bosnian refugees, as I have not sought explicit permission from my alma mater or my interview subjects to do so. Most of the experiences I write about and mention were in conversations off-the-record.
3) The poems quoted in this piece were written by published poets (as cited above) in response to the war in Sarajevo between 1992-1993, not the Srebrenica genocide shortly after in 1995. I think this is important to note given the title of my piece. I have alluded to the poetry I heard from the Bosnian community in July 2010, but have not quoted exclusively from them given confidentiality restrictions. However, during the memorial, many participants did read Sarajevan poetry as it is more or less identical to the experiences many had in Srebrenica.
4) Painting: N. Pieskin: "Hard Times" (1941)
Janaki Challa is a writer and graduate student in the NYU Religious Studies Program.Her most recent research focused on transcontinental identity formations of "third culture" populations (Grossman Global Studies Fund). She will be a research fellow at the Howard & Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library this year.
With support from the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs.


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AT STANFORD: One of the most productive tight ends in school history...finished his career with 96 receptions for 1,543 yards and 18 touchdowns...his 18 career touchdowns ranks first among all-time Stanford tight ends and are tied with Tony Hill (1973-76) and Vincent White (1979-82) for fifth on the school's all-time career list...hybrid tight end who averaged 16.0 yards per catch in his career...averaged 19.3 yards per catch as a senior, which ranked tied for seventh on the school's single-season charts...pulled down 17 of his 18 career touchdowns over his last two seasons.
2011 (SENIOR): Fifth-year senior earned Sporting News All-America honors after hauling in 34 passes for 667 yards and a team-high 10 touchdowns...became the first Stanford tight end to earn All-America status since Chris Burford in 1959...also garnered first team All-Pac-12 honors...second team Yahoo! Sports All-America selection...averaged 19.6 yards per catch as a senior, which ranked tied for seventh on Stanford's all-time single-season list...has appeared in 51 games, including 15 starts, over the past four seasons...has 96 career receptions for 1,543 yards and 18 touchdowns...his 18 career touchdowns rank first all-time among Stanford tight ends and are tied with Tony Hill (1973-76) and Vincent White (1979-82) for fifth on the school's all-time career list...hybrid tight end whose speed and athleticism allows him to stretch the field...caught four passes of over 50 yards on the year...was on the receiving end of a 60-yard scoring strike from Luck at the 6:41 mark of the third period at Duke...also caught a three-yard TD pass to open Stanford's scoring at the 10:01 mark of the first quarter...hauled in four passes for 78 yards and two touchdowns against UCLA...his 18-yard TD reception on a spectacular one-handed grab opened the scoring with nine seconds remaining in the first period...also caught a 51-yard pass from Luck at the 14:15 mark of the third quarter...caught two passes for 41 yards against Colorado, including a 37-yard reception down to the one-yard line that set up Stanford's final TD of the first half...caught four passes for 128 yards and one TD at Washington State, marking his second career 100-yard game...combined for four catches for 48 yards and two TDs in a three game stretch against Washington (1-1-TD), at USC (1-21) and Oregon State (2-26-TD)...had four receptions in each of the last three games of the regular season vs. Oregon (4-56), Cal (4-64) and Notre Dame (4-97-2TD)...was on the receiving end of Andrew Luck's record-setting 78th career touchdown pass, a 28-yard effort in which he dragged a Notre Dame defender for the last 10 yards into the end zone...also pulled down a 55 yard TD pass from Luck with 5:40 left in the game that gave Stanford a 28-7 lead...had two catches for 19 yards in the Fiesta Bowl...recipient of the team's Most Outstanding Senior Award.
2010 (JUNIOR): Second team All-Pac-10 selection who finished the season with 28 catches for 434 yards and seven touchdowns...ranked as Stanford's third-leading receiver behind Doug Baldwin and Ryan Whalen...touchdown total was second highest behind Baldwin (9)...did not catch a pass in the season opener against Sacramento State, but had 13 catches for 217 yards and four touchdowns over the next six games...had 13 catches for 207 yards in the final six contests...had touchdown receptions at UCLA, at Notre Dame, at Oregon, vs. Washington State and vs. Virginia Tech...had a career-high six receptions for 173 yards and three touchdowns in Stanford's 40-12 victory over Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl...accounted for three of the four second-half touchdowns on passes from Luck measuring 41, 58 and 38 yards...his 58-yard touchdown reception at the 12:28 mark of the fourth quarter was a career-long.
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Description: The Information Security Office and the Exchange support team have collaborated to create and test ActiveSync mailbox rule changes that will go into effect on May 5, for ITS departmental staff members. This change will require that any smartphone/tablet trying to check University email via Exchange have the following three security settings in place: A […]
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UMWA scrutinizing MSHA respirable dust rule
May 1, 2014
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[TRIANGLE, VA] United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts issued the following statement today:
"The UMWA has received multiple inquiries from the media, industry representatives, government officials and mine safety advocates regarding our views of the respirable dust rule issued by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) last week. We appreciate that interest, and we recognize our responsibility as the representative of workers in the coal industry to make our position known.
"The rule as issued by MSHA is 991 pages long. We are reading all of them, and we encourage those who want to fully understand what the rule does and does not do to read the full text as well. We are engaging in vigorous discussions and data research at our offices in an effort to completely understand how the many parts of this rule will be applied in the workplace.
"All too frequently in these situations, what's written on paper turns out to be different from what we expected once it's applied in the real world conditions of an active coal mine. We believe it is incumbent upon us, as the representative of miners, to give our members the best and most complete information we can about what this rule will actually mean for them, and we intend to do that prior to making a public statement about it."
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Are you unemployed or underemployed? Unemployment and underemployment are two different states. To be unemployed refers to the total lack of work at a given point in time, whereas underemployment is the underutilization of labor.
In the Philippines, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) adopted the international standard measurement of unemployment set by the International Labor Organization (ILO). According to ILO, those who are "unemployed" comprises all people above a specified age who are without work, currently available for work, and seeking work.
Through NSCB Resolution No. 15, series of 2004, the Philippines has adopted a new definition of unemployment. As indicated in the said resolution, those unemployed in the Philippines include "all persons who are 15 years old and over who are without work, currently available for work, seeking work, and currently available for work but not seeking work for varied reasons." However, this measure of unemployment does not include underemployment.
What is underemployment?
Underemployment generally means the underutilization of labor. Underemployment has three distinct meanings: underemployment defined as "underutilization of skills, under use of economic capacity, and under use of employed workers."
Underemployment, in the context of the underutilization of skills, describes the employment of a worker with a high skills level employed in a low-wage job. A good example is a college graduate employed in waiting staff jobs. This may be a result of unemployment, which forces the person to be undiscriminating in looking for a job.
Underemployment, when referring to the under use of economic capacity, describes areas where economic activities are slow and low, resulting in the lack of training and job opportunities. Instead of seeking jobs, local residents may opt for economic inactivity.
Under use of employed workers is another form of underemployment, which is characterized by employing economically unproductive or under-productive employees. Commonly referred to as "over staffing," this category of underemployment may be a result of stringent labor laws on lay-offs.
Sideline Jobs in the Philippines
To address various forms of unemployment and to augment income, Filipinos engage in sideline jobs.
With the continuing popularity of the Internet, many Filipinos are getting into online jobs such as web content writing, web copywriting, and webpage developing.
Another sideline job that Filipinos go into is sales and marketing. While working on full time jobs, Filipinos sell consumer products such as clothes, food, and even real estate properties. Many Filipinos are also into brokering as well as buying and selling jobs. They buy consumer products in bulk and distribute them in retail.
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If you're into buying and selling and if you enjoy brokering jobs, the following tips may be helpful:
- Determine your interest. Are you interested in selling insurance? How about real estate? There are various types of broker jobs for you to choose from.
- Know the product that you're selling. Whether you're a business, real estate, or insurance broker, you must have a full understanding of the products that you're selling.
- Know the rules and policies. You must have a firm grasp of the rules and policies in trading different products.
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What started in France has made it to parts of Los Angeles, including Downey. What better way to celebrate the start of summer than meeting locals at free music concerts? Pasadena did it and still does, but so does Downey.
Downey hosts an adventurous mix of free concerts at the second annual Make Music Downey, a Fete de la Musique event, on Saturday, June 14, 2014 from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. The exciting festival of sound will feature over 60 bands and musicians performing in unconventional spaces including outdoor stages, museums, art galleries and more.
Nationally known artists and Latin Grammy nominated bands perform at the main stage next to an interactive outdoor village featuring over 50 artists and community partners. Fete de la Musique is the largest music celebration in the world, and Downey, a popular city in Los Angeles is bringing this international phenomenon to Southern California once again.
This is a family event, but remember water, sunscreen and a get lost plan is a must. If you don't live in Downey, don't let that stop you. How often do you get to hear award-winning musicians for free? And for those who love the Latin sound and whose hips don't lie, this is especially made for you.
The 2014 event will feature an eclectic lineup including Chicano multi-instrumental group Las Cafeteras who was recently named LA's best Latin Alternative band by LA Weekly and Latin Grammy nominee Ceci Bastida. Popular Eastside LA fusionistas Chicano Batman will perform their innovative mix of pysch rock, cumbia and Brazilian tropicala. Argentinean musical collective Salt Petal will also be at the festival performing their alluring mix of tropical dance, cumbia and Argentinean folk.
Other groups include popular college radio band The Bends, the harmonic folk and bluegrass group Honey Whiskey Trio, and the Long Beach Ukulele Club. All in all, over 60 bands and musicians will perform free shows at ten venues. From folk, rock, world, Latin, to R&B, and blues, Make Music Downey showcases all the unique genres that make the Southern California music scene so diverse.
The festival of sound will feature a unique vendor village featuring over 50 artists and community partners near the main stage, located at 11111 Brookshire Ave in Downtown Downey. Southern California's most popular food and dessert trucks will be on hand selling delectable sweet and savory treats while community partners will offer fun giveaways to festival goers.
If you're afraid of parking problems, go early and take your two-wheels in your four-wheeled vehicle. If you live close enough, take your bicycle down. Attendees are encouraged to attend the festival early for the Tour de Downey, Downey's first annual bike event. The Tour de Downey takes place at Brookshire Ave, the same location as Make Music Downey's main stage and features a 35-mile bike ride as well as an interactive vendor village beginning at 8 a.m.
Make Music Downey is presented by the Downey Arts Coalition. The Tour de Downey is presented by the City of Downey.
For more information including a complete schedule visit www.makemusicdowney.org. Listen to some old favorites. Discover new sounds and don't be afraid to shake your bootie!


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Scrivens, Marlies blank Barons
The Toronto Marlies defeated the Oklahoma City Barons, 5-0, in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals on Thursday night at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City.
With the win, Toronto pushed its win streak to five games and took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.
Ben Scrivens (8-1, 1.43, .951) recorded his second shutout of the postseason, making 31 saves to pick up the win for Toronto.
Marcel Mueller, Nicolas Deschamps, Matt Frattin, Joe Colborne and Jake Gardiner scored for the Marlies. Philippe Dupuis and Nazem Kadri recorded two assist each.
Frattin's goal was his sixth of the playoffs, tying teammate Jerry D'Amigo for the AHL lead. Colborne's goal was his first in 31 games.
The Marlies were 6-for-6 on the penalty kill, and have allowed one goal in 42 chances over nine postseason games.
Game 2 is Friday night in Oklahoma City (8:00 ET, Leafs TV, AHL Live, Sirius 207/XM 92).
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Game 3 - Mon., May 21 - Oklahoma City at Toronto, 3:00
Game 4 - Wed., May 23 - Oklahoma City at Toronto, 7:00
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House to end its 177-episode run
"House" is over.
The series about the cantankerous physician, brilliantly played by Huge Laurie, will end its eight-season run on Fox this spring. The announcement was made by the producers and Fox Wednesday.
When the final curtain drops, 177 episodes will have been produced.
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Juice Processing Course
The Juice Processing Workshop was held May 5th & 6th, 2014, at the UC Davis Conference Center, Ballroom B+C, on the UC Davis campus.
Thank you to all of our speakers for allowing us to post their presentations for the benefit of the juice processing industry.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for those industry and government professionals working in the area of juice analysis, quality, research standards and regulations. A background in Chemistry, Food Science & Technology or Food Physics/Food Engineering is useful.
Course Instructors
- Diane Barrett, UC Davis
- Paul Brocker, JBT FoodTech
- Jun Weng, JBT FoodTech
- Jerry Hougland and Mario Gozzi, CFT Rossi Catelli
- Stefan Topfl, DIL Germany
- Marcia Walker, Evolution Fresh (Starbucks)
- Ken Stewart, Gusmer
- Jeff Brandenburg, The JSB Group, LLC
- Linda Harris, UC Davis
- Marty Stutsman, Food & Drug Administration
- Ron Wrolstad, OSU Emeritus
- Scott Brix, Wildzyme Bioproducts
- Eric Wilhelmsen, Alliance of Technical Professionals
- Bob Durst, Simple Organic Solutions, LLC
Course Topics
Day One - May 5, 2014
- Juice Extraction, Thermal Concentration, and Ice Slurry Generation
- Thermal Pasteurization of Juice with Particles
- Ohmic Pasteurization
- PEF Pasteurization
- HPP processing of Juices
- Juice Filtration
- Packaging
Day Two - May 6, 2014
- Juice Microbiology & HACCP
- Regulatory Overview
- Health Benefits of Fruit Juices
- Enzymes for Fruit Juice Production
- Quality Preservation & Measurement
- Ingredients: Getting what you pay for
- Organic Juices
The enrollment fee of $700.00 includes all instruction, course materials, continental breakfasts, two lunches, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and a parking permit should you need one.
Accomodations and Parking
The UC Hyatt Place is now sold out for the May 5th - 6th dates.
For other local hotel information please see the Yolo County Visitor's Guide website. From the Visitor's Guide, other nearby lodging:
You might find this page helpful as well: "Welcome to Davis" from the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center. Campus parking permits will be available to those attending the class.
When registering, please check the box on the online registration form if you will need a visitor parking permit. It will be mailed to you prior to the class.
Map to UC Davis Conference Center
For questions regarding the technical content of the class, contact Diane Barrett; for registration information, contact Zann Gates.