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No. 5 Princeton Hosts Villanova In Home Opener Tuesday Evening
And by "modern era," we're talking the last two years here.
Back in 2011, Brian Karalunas had eight caused turnovers in a 10-9 Wildcat win on Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium.
A year ago, the focus was on Princeton's offense, as Tom Schreiber and Jeff Froccaro had five goals each in a 14-8 Tiger win at Villanova Stadium.
The other era of the series was in the 1980s, when the teams met in 1987, 1988 and 1989. Princeton won all three of those games, two of which were played at Villanova, making the home team 1-4 all-time.
The teams have their sixth meeting - and third in three years - when Villanova comes to Sherred Field again (Tuesday, 7).
Both teams come into the game off short turnarounds after wins over the weekend. Princeton defeated Johns Hopkins 11-8 Friday evening; Villanova knocked off Delaware 14-9 Saturday night.
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Princeton moved from 12th in both the media and coaches' polls a week ago to fifth this week after the win over Johns Hopkins.
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Jeff Froccaro and Tom Schreiber had 10 goals and three assists in the 14-8 win over Villanova last year. Schreiber did not have a point against Villanova the year before after injuring his ribs during the game (he would miss the next game, against Penn, in 2011), while Froccaro had a goal and two assists in the 2011 game.
Froccaro and Schreiber combined to shoot 10 for 18 against Villanova last year, including 5 for 7 in the third quarter alone.
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Tom Schreiber has 95 career points, leaving him five away from becoming the 26th player in program history to reach 100 points for his career.
Villanova's Jack Rice has 99 career goals, leaving him one away from becoming the fifth 100-goal scorer - and first since 1991 - for the Wildcats. Villanova's Will Casertano enters the game with 99 career points.
Rice had four goals against Princeton on Sherrerd Field two years ago but did not have a point in the game against Princeton at Villanova last year.
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Princeton head coach Chris Bates is close to a 100-themed milestone of his own but will not reach it against Villanova.
Princeton's win over Johns Hopkins Friday was the 98th in Bates' career. Bates won 70 games at Drexel and has won 28 to date at Princeton. He's also 7-5 against Villanova after going 6-4 against the Wildcats at Drexel.
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Princeton allowed 7.2 goals per game a year ago while finishing fifth in Division I in scoring defense.
Princeton is currently eighth in Division I in scoring defense at 7.5 goals allowed per game. In fact, Princeton has allowed fewer goals (15) than any other team in Division I (of course Princeton has only played two games).
Princeton is playing with only one defensive player (shortstick defensive midfielder Jack Strabo) in the same position he was in a year ago.
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Princeton held Hofstra to seven goals and Johns Hopkins to eight goals.
In its games against teams other than Princeton, Hofstra is averaging 11.0 goals per game and Hopkins is averaging 14.7 goals per game.
Hofstra and Hopkins combined are 0-2 against Princeton and 6-0 against their other opponents.
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Villanova's Thomas Croonquist has taken every face-off for the Wildcats through three games and has won 44 of 73, which is a .603 percentage.
In other words, Croonquist is nowhere near the percentage that Princeton's last opponent, Johns Hopkins' Mike Poppleton, had prior to that game.
Poppleton won 15 of 22 Friday night - and had his percentage for the season actually drop from .800 coming in to .764 afterwards.
Princeton, through two games, has won 17 of 40 face-offs. On the other hand, Princeton has had one of its four face-off men stop the bleeding, as it were, during the first two games.
Against Hofstra, Bobby Lucas won 6 of 8, including 4 for 4 in the fourth quarter. Against Hopkins, Jeff Froccaro won 5 of 9 against Poppleton.
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Princeton has gotten 20 of its 21 goals and all 11 of its assists from its top six offensive players (attackmen Ryan Ambler, Jeff Froccaro, Mike MacDonald; first midfielders Jake Froccaro, Kip Orban, Tom Schreiber). The other goal came from shortstick defensive middie Chris White against Hopkins.
The starting attack and midfield have combined to take 63 of Princeton's 71 shots.
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Princeton has been outscored by a combined 12-9 in the first and third quarters and has outscored its two opponents by a combined 12-3 in the second and fourth quarters.
Princeton has been outshot 28-10 in its two first quarters, with five first-quarter shots against both Hofstra and Hopkins. Princeton has outshot its opponents 61-42 in the final three quarters.
On the other hand, Princeton has turned 10 first-quarter shots into six first-quarter goals, a shooting percentage of .600.
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Matt O'Connor made six saves while allowing seven goals in the opener against Hofstra and then made 10 saves while allowing seven goals in the game against Hopkins.
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Jake Froccaro had his first four career points in the win over Hopkins with two goals and two assists.
His first career point was an assist on a goal by his brother Jeff Froccaro.
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Tom Schreiber has played 29 games at Princeton. He has at least three points in 22 of them.
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Princeton starts four freshmen, one each on attack (Ryan Ambler), midfield (Jake Froccaro), defense (Mark Strabo) and at goalie (Matt O'Connor).
Princeton starts four freshmen, two sophomores, three juniors and one senior.
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Rob Castelo and Forest Sonnenfeldt will both miss the entire 2013 season due to injuries.
Castelo tore his ACL before the start of practice, while Sonnenfeldt had ankle surgery. Castelo started every game on defense last year, while Sonnenfeldt had 17 goals and six assists.
Castelo had his second major knee injury in three years. He also tore multiple ligaments in the game at Johns Hopkins two years ago.
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The Princeton men's lacrosse team spent a week in Costa Rica last June. The Tigers played one game against the Costa Rican national team, gave clinics for the Costa Ricans and for the local youth and worked on various service projects, including refurbishing a community center.
Princeton traveled to Spain and Ireland in 2008 and Japan in 2004.
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What Can You Say About ...
Ryan Ambler #14
• began career with a four-point game against Hofstra (1G, 3A) to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Week award
• had a goal and two assists to snap a 3-3 tie as Princeton built a 6-3 lead in the second quarter; Hofstra would never pull even again
• was the fourth Princeton player with four points in opening game of his freshman year (Ryan Boyle in 2001, Jesse Hubbard in 1995, Jason Buttles in 1993)
• had one assist against Johns Hopkins
• was the second Princeton freshman in two years to start the first game of his freshman year on attack after Mike MacDonald did last year; prior to MacDonald, the last time a Princeton freshman started Game 1 of his freshman year on attack was 2004, when Peter Trombino did so
• high school All-America from Abington High, outside of Philadelphia, where he had 186 career goals and 210 career assists
• younger brother of former Princeton assistant coach Colin Ambler, who also played for Princeton head coach Chris Bates at Drexel
• father Bob is the all-time leading scorer at Drexel
Luke Armour #16
• senior who can play attack or midfield
• was slowed by injury for most of 2012
• had three goals and an assist against Dartmouth
• three goals and four points were career highs
• had two assists against Manhattan
• played in every game, starting seven, in 2011
• was fourth on the team with 14 points (9G, 5A) in 2011
Alex Beatty #36
• team's No. 1 longstick midfielder
• caused three turnovers against Johns Hopkins
• played in two games last year, when he was slowed by injuries
Brandon Bonvino #21
• is the No. 2 longstick midfielder
• played in three games last year
Hunter DeButts #47
• has moved from attack to the second midfield
• had two goals on two shots (including the first goal of the game) against Brown after missing the first seven games due to injury a year ago
• had an assist against Cornell, Rutgers, Dartmouth and Yale in the Ivy final
Nick Fernandez #24
• moves to being a starter on close defense after having been a shortstick defensive midfielder his first two years; Ryan Schoenig (in 2006) did the same for Princeton
• had his first career goal in the game against Syracuse last year
• also had a goal in the next game against Rutgers
• had four ground balls and a caused turnover vs. Manhattan
• missed games with ankle sprain, concussion, broken arm in 2011
Jake Froccaro #9
• starter at midfield
• had two goals and two assists against Johns Hopkins
• first career assist was to his brother Jeff
• won 1 of 2 face-offs against Hofstra
• had 65 goals and 20 assists as a high school senior at Port Washington
• can also face off
• younger brother of senior attackman Jeff Froccaro, a first-team All-Ivy League selection last year
Jeff Froccaro #10
• 2013 preseason honorable mention All-America
• 2012 first-team All-Ivy League selection
• had three goals and one assist in win over Hopkins to earn Ivy League Co-Player of the Week honors
• had two goals and two assists against Hofstra
• game against Hofstra was his eighth career game of at least four points
• was second on team with 27 goals and 39 points last season
• had career-highs with five goals and seven points while tying career high with two assists against Villanova
• leads all active Princeton players with 59 career goals and is second for career lead with 84 career points
Will Himler #18
• was second on the team with 13 assists a year ago
• has been slowed by injury in the preseason
Brian Kavanagh #44
• No. 2 goalie who came off the bench against Johns Hopkins when Matt O'Connor committed a penalty
Bobby Lucas #17
• won 6 of 8 face-offs against Hofstra, all in the second half
• was 4 for 4 in the fourth quarter
• had team-best six ground balls
• twice won face-offs after Hofstra goals that led to Princeton goals on that possession
• won 91 of 152 face-offs (55.6%) a year ago
• won 46.2% of face-offs in 2011 and 52.1% as a freshman
• also plays shortstick defensive midfield
Mike McDonald #8
• has started every game of his career
• had three goals on five shots against Hofstra
• had two goals against Johns Hopkins
• has 27 career goals on 49 career shots (55.1%)
• ranked fifth all-time among Princeton freshman with 22 goals
• had 22 goals on 39 shots (56.4%)
• had the highest shooting percentage (56.4%) of any Princeton player ever with at least 20 goals in a season
• shot 12 for 16 in six Ivy games
• had four goals in the Ivy tournament (two in each game)
• two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week
Brendan McGrath #15
• playing in the second midfield
Justin Murphy #32
• won 15 of 30 face-offs as a freshman
• missed the first nine games after breaking his leg in the fall
Matt O'Connor #11
• freshman goalie from Lawrenceville Prep
• became the third Princeton goalie in the last 25 years to start Game 1 of his freshman year (Scott Bacigalupo in 1991, Tyler Fiorito in 2009)
• made 10 saves while allowing seven goals in win over Johns Hopkins
• made six saves and allowed seven goals against Hofstra
Kip Orban #13
• starter at midfield
• had two goals against Hofstra
• had an assist against Hopkins
• had eight goals and three assists as a freshman
Derick Raabe #5
• starter on close defense
• was the only current Princeton player who had ever started a game on defense (vs. Penn and Harvard in 2011) prior to this season
• had first career goal in the game against Harvard last year
• has played mostly longstick midfield in his career
Will Rotatori #27
• playing in the second midfield
Eric Sanschagrin #31
• made 11 saves while allowing five goals in first collegiate start, against Manhattan
• played final 5:05 against Brown in regular season without allowing goal
Tom Schreiber #22
• 2013 preseason first-team All-America
• 2012 first-team All-America
• led team in goals and assists as a freshman and sophomore; is the only Princeton player ever to do so
• 2012 unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection
• 2011 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• 2011 first-team All-Ivy League selection
• needs five points to become 26th player in program history to reach 100 career points
• had three goals against Johns Hopkins
• had two goals and an assist against Hofstra
• has three or more points in 22 career games and fewer than three points in seven career games
• had 32 goals and 28 assists last year, falling two assists short of having the second 30/30 season in school history (Dave Tickner 1977)
• became the fourth player in school history with at least 30 goals and 25 assists in the same season and first since Jon Hess in 1996 (Tickner did it twice and Wick Sollers)
• became the first Princeton player since Ryan Boyle in 2004 to reach 60 points in a season
• was tied for ninth in points in a single season at Princeton
• had at least one point in every game and at least three in 13 of 16 games
• leads active Princeton players in career points (95) and assists (42)
• team co-captain
• father Doug, who played at Maryland and won an NCAA title there in 1973 and then the 1974 World Championship with the U.S., is a member of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame
Tucker Shanley #7
• started on first midfield last year; has been slowed by injury this preseason
• had 20 goals as a junior after having seven as a sophomore
• had six multi-goal games as a junior
Jack Strabo #35
• first-line shortstick defensive middie
• had two caused turnovers and two ground balls against Hofstra
• has four goals, one assist, 19 ground balls and five caused turnovers a year ago
• had two caused turnovers in Ivy final
• younger brother Mark will start on defense as a freshman
Mark Strabo #3
• freshman starting on defense
• had three ground balls against Hopkins
• played at Landon
• younger brother of junior SSDM Jack Strabo
Chris White #29
• team co-captain along with Tom Schreiber
• one of top shortstick D middies
• had a goal against Johns Hopkins
• had two ground balls and a caused turnover against Hofstra
• moved from offense to defensive middie as a sophomore
GOALS - MacDonald 3, Schreiber 2, Jeff Froccaro 2, Orban 2,
Ambler 1
ASSISTS - Ambler 3, Jeff Froccaro 2, Schreiber 1,
GOALIE - O'Connor (60 min, 7 goals-against, 6 saves)
GOALS - Schreiber 3, Jeff Froccaro 3, Jake Froccaro 2,
Mike MacDonald 2, Chris White 1
ASSISTS - Jake Froccaro 2, Jeff Froccaro 1, Ryan Ambler 1,
Kip Orban 1
GOALIE - O'Connor (59:42 min, 7 goals-against, 10 saves), Brian Kavanagh (00:18 min, 1 goal-against, 0 saves)


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A much warmer and humid weather pattern regime looms this weekend into early next week.
A ridging pattern is to develop across the Southeastern U.S. which will result in a return flow from the south-southwest leading to warmer temperatures and higher humidity levels over the Midwest this weekend and early next week. Forecast calls for our warmest temperatures in over a week and the possibility of seeing our first back to back 90 degree high temperatures Saturday and Sunday. High temperatures Saturday and Sunday will range from the mid 80s to lower 90s.
Included in this warmer weather pattern regime will also be day to day chances for showers and thunderstorms to develop over the region. Thus, cloud and storm coverage will determine if areas in Chicago reach the 90s.
Monday also calls for very warm and humid conditions with 90s a possibility as well. Thunderstorms, some of which could be severe, is expected Monday night ahead of a trailing cold front and upper level trough.
The cold front and associated trough will temper down the temperatures and humidity levels to that of more seasonable levels for the remainder of the week before ridging and a southerly flow regime kicks in bringing more warmth and humidity next weekend and into the second week in July.
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Did Albert Einstein have autism? Did Andy Warhol, Lewis Carroll or Isaac Newton?
Some might say that the famous scientists, artist, mathematician were autistic because while they excelled at their particular field, they each found it difficult to fit into society.
In the book "Different Like Me" by Jennifer Elder, Quinn is an autistic boy who is great at drawing, but finds it hard to relate to his peers. He wonders how many autistic people lived and did great things before autism was discovered in the 1940's, and became widely known much later in the 20th century.
This book is a wonderful tool for parents, teachers, grandparents,caregivers, siblings and autistic children, as it might help in the understanding of the diagnosis and what makes them special. Each autism hero has their own page describing their life and the things they accomplished. Beautiful illustrations complete the book.
To learn more about autism, please visit www.autism-society.org.


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1% makes Lynda Resnick's Ruby Tuesday: Pick of the Week
Last week 1% CEO Terry Kellogg interviewed with marketing extraordinaire Lynda Resnick for her first Ruby Tuesday: Pick of the Week of the fall. Terry helped start the season off with a colorful Vermont bang. Titled "Doing Well by Doing Good: 1% for the Planet Lives the Message", Lynda concludes the interview with a line we love: "If you're not doing something for the planet, you don't deserve to be in business. It's basic to your being. So, I think what you're doing is fantastic. I wish the very best for you." Read the full interview on Lynda's blog by clicking here.


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A new screensaver feature for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich called "Dreams" were developed, but for some unknown reason Google decided not to enable it right now, instead they just hide it inside ICS. But as we know, the developers out there is capable of digging inside the OS and reveal the secrets. As part of this, an alternate app launcher called Rocket Launcher has been discovered which can be open with a simple trick calling an Android Activity by its name. Watch below the video demo of Rocket Launcher in Ice Cream Sandwich and learn how to activate Rocket Launcher.
Rocket Launcher found on Nexus S running Koush's CyanogenMod 9 alpha 11 ROM but it also available in the stock ROM on the Galaxy Nexus. The feature has been re-enabled in CM 9 ROM based on Android 4.0. Though if it's not very useful, you will have some fun for sure! Stay tuned with us at Facebook and Twitter, Google Plus to get updates on latest Android Ice Cream sandwich. source.


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SEATTLE – Starting pitcher Bryana Walker turned in a dominant outing, and the Huskies offense provided a balanced attack, as No. 11 Washington earned an 8-0, five-inning win over No. 9 Arizona in game one of a doubleheader Saturday at Husky Softball Stadium.
The win gave the Huskies (30-13 10-9 Pac-12) a series win over the Wildcats (40-11, 13-8). The series began on Friday night with an 11-7 win for the Huskies.
Walker blanked the Wildcats one just one hit while striking out three in five innings and earned the victory in game one to improve to 17-8 on the season. Walker retired the first nine Wildcats batters she faced in game one. Thanks to a well-turned 6-4-3 double play in the 4th inning, Walker faced the minimum 15 batters in the ballgame.
Hooch Fagaly drove a triple into the right-field corner with out in the bottom of the 1st and scored on Kaitlin Inglesby's RBI-single to get the scoring started for the Huskies. For Fagaly, it was her 2nd career triple (also: April 6, 2013 vs. Oregon State).
The Huskies tacked on three runs in the bottom of the 3rd inning. The first three batters of the inning reached base safely. With two outs, Ali Aguilar was hit by a pitch, scoring Marki Creger-Zier from 3rd. The next batter, Whitney Jones drove a two-run single up the middle to score Victoria Hayward and Fagaly and give the Huskies a 4-0 lead.
On the strength of two home runs, the Huskies added four runs in the bottom of the 4th. Kelli Suguro led off with a solo home run, her 1st of the season and 2nd of her career (also: April 6, 2013 vs. Oregon St.).
Then, after Hayward and Inglesby walked, Kylee Lahners launched her team-leading 15th home run of the season, providing the final 8-0 margin for the Huskies.
Lahners was one of five Huskies who drove in a run in game one. She was joined by Jones with two, and Inglesby, Aguilar, and Suguro with one a piece.
With a break in the rain, the Huskies and Wildcats returned to the field just 25 minutes after the conclusion of game one to begin the second game of the doubleheader.
The Huskies were not able to muster much offense in game two, and ended up falling to the Wildcats, 2-0. Walker took the loss in game two, allowing two earned runs on four hits.
Following the second game, the Huskies honored the 2014 senior class: Marki Creger-Zier, Hooch Fagaly, Victoria Hayward, Kaitlin Inglesby, Whitney Jones, Bryana Walker, and Mercedes Wetmore.
The Huskies will wrap up the 2014 regular season with a three-game series in Berekely, California against the Cal Bears, beginning on Thursday.


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July 15, 2005 - Issue #204
From the Desk of Laurie Likes Books:
This is a shorter than usual issue of At the Back Fence. First up is What's in a List? - a segment based on our Special Title Listings. Although the column itself is shorter, it's very much a "working" column in that we need your help and direction on three of our existing Lists. We also reveal the winner in our in our just-ended ninth annual Purple Prose Parody Contest, and announce whether or not this will be the final year for this feature.
What's in a List? (Laurie Likes Books)
Way back in March 1996, in the very first issue of my column, I started a list of Favorite Funnies - the best, funny romances I'd read, and asked readers to contribute to the list. In the second issue of the column, that list grew with reader/author submissions, and it was in that second column that I began another list, for Two-Hanky Reads. It too grew with reader and author submissions and, lo and behold, the Special Title Listings feature at AAR was born.
While various lists had informally made their way onto Internet message boards and discussion lists, until our Special Title Listings began, most lists you'd see in formal arenas were based on time periods and sub-genres, such as best Time Travels or best Medievals. It's true that many of us once read/continue to read specifically within certain sub-genres or time periods, but for a lot of readers, premise and/or character type gloms are not unusual, requiring entirely different kinds of lists. Which is why, over the years at AAR we've developed, with reader input and often at reader request, more than five dozen Special Title Listings, the newest of which, Best Enemies, debuted earlier this month.
Our lists have gone through four editors since their inception, and Rachel Potter, who took over in December 2002, is well suited to the task given that she is by education and career a librarian. My own involvement at this point is in occasionally selecting the image to accompany a new list, and once in a while, contributing a title when a list opens up for submissions. Since my tenure as editor several years ago, some of our lists have been split into two or more lists, re-defined, or otherwise changed. One list was created using the input of three young women and hasn't been updated in nearly three years. Another has sat dormant for over three years while we figured out what to do with it, and another remains somewhat of a mystery based on its definition. By the time our next ATBF column goes online, I hope we've fixed each of these three lists.
While the primary purpose of the Special Title Listings is to provide readers with easy-to-manage lists that may aid in book searches and purchases, they were also instrumental in helping to build our annual reader poll categories. While it's true that we also award romances in more traditional categories, I continue to believe that awarding books in categories such as Best Cabin/Road Romance and Most Tormented Hero is not only valid, but fun.
I thought it might be useful to celebrate the variety that is romance - and the variety that is our readership - by talking about my favorite Lists here at AAR, but also to discuss those lists, requested by readers or created by Lists editors over time, that aren't ones I'd ever have considered. We can easily start with Favorite Funnies, the first of our Special Title Listings. It's no surprise, after all, that I'm a tremendous fan of the humorous romance, and just as obviously, many of you like a well-done funny love story. Humor, though, is one of the most subjective of qualities, and what brings on gales of laughter to one person may bring on an entirely different response in another.
Quite frankly, part of what I most adore about our Favorite Funnies list are the photos that accompany it. Just last week, with a group of family and friends, we watched the DVD of Young Frankenstein, reciting along with the movies' characters some of its great lines, including "Roll, roll, roll in ze hay", "Whose brain did you get?...Abbey someone...Abbey who?...Umm, Abbey Normal", "Yes, Yes...he vas my boyfriend", "I put a special hamper in the bathroom just for your shirts and the other one is
for socks and poo-poo undies". It was while watching the poo-poo undies scene between Peter Boyle and Madeline Kahn that I recalled for our company how it took me years to find on the Internet precisely the images seen at the top of our Favorite Funnies list.
Actually, the photos and other images that accompany our Lists have become quite critical in their presentation. When Sandi Morris was Lists editor, she and I spent hours and hours coming up with just the right photos and montages, and Rachel has continued that tradition. Among my personal favorites are photos by/of the famous post-WWII Alfred Eisenstaedt of the sailor smooching the nurse for our new-ish Reunited list (kudos to Rachel for finding that one!), a courtroom scene from To Kill a Mockingbird (a very rare movie in that it is nearly as good as the book) on our Courtroom Dramas list, the hunkalicious pre-fat Alec Baldwin on our Rakes & Rogues list, the this-also-took-me-forever-to-find picture of Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies holding her shotgun in our Shotgun Weddings list, and the montage for our Spies, P.I.'s, & Warriors list, which book-ends Barney Fife and Maxwell Smart at either end of Mel Gibson as William Wallace, Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, and David James Elliott from J.A.G.
In addition to our Favorite Funnies list, here are those lists I turn to more often than any others:
My choices seem pretty logical when you consider the kinds of romances I most enjoy. While a fan of hot love scenes, I also enjoy "One Foot on the Floor" romances, which eliminates the whole "will this author's love scenes satisfy?" question. I've long sought out stories featuring the hero and heroine along together, isolated indoors or in the elements. Arranged unions of any type - including marriages of convenience and mail-order bride stories, albeit mostly in historical settings - are ones I often look for, as are stories featuring absent-minded professor types or highly intelligent and/or independent women. Guardian/Ward Romances are ones I've often enjoyed, although this is our only Special Title Listing sans an accompanying image (the thought of this in reality is simply too icky), as are those featuring heroes in pursuit of heroines, a staple, it seems, in humorous romances. I also gravitate toward romances involving schoolmarms, teachers, nannies, and governesses, and just as I enjoy two ends of the spectrum involving sensual material, I often look for sad stories, the polar opposite of funny ones.
On the other hand, several of our lists are head-scratchers at the very least, or ones that absolutely make me shudder when I consider them. The vast majority of amnesia stories are ones I could do without, but I realize many readers adore our Amnesia...or Not? list (though the I Love Lucy "gobloots episode" photo and caption makes this one worth visiting, if only for a laugh). And as I revealed in a May ATBF segment, most Cross-Dressing or In Disguise stories don't pass my believability test. This may change as I get older, but romances featuring middle-aged characters aren't usually a major draw for me; neither are heroes and heroines with large age disparities, so I tend to put the kibosh on May-Dec/Dec-May and Older Couples (although Donna Simpson's A Matchmaker's Christmas is a big exception). While reading the occasional less attractive hero or heroine is fine, I don't tend to seek them out, which means our Beauty Is in the Eye and Plus-Sized Heroines lists are ones that stymie me...why are there so many readers who want a steady diet, so to speak, of characters found on either of these lists? And though I'm not opposed to the occasional less attractive lead character, I can count on two hands the number of romances in which couples reunite that I've either sought or enjoyed, making our Reunited and Troubled Marriages lists among those I don't use myself. Finally, because I'm not a fan of romantic suspense and my foray into reading mysteries failed, I don't go for our Suspense & Mystery list.
Out of the 64 lists we offer, then, there are fourteen that best fit my reading preferences and nine that don't make a good fit. So my questions to you are which of our lists best fit your tastes, and which are either head-scratchers or shudder-inducing lists to you? Putting the question a different way, which premises and/or character types most appeal to you, and which are those you don't care for in general?
I mentioned my love/hate relationship with some of our lists to Anne Marble, one of my ATBF co-columnists, and she responded that our Lists remind us
that all types of themes can result in wonderful books - ie, that Donna Simpson book from the Older Couples list, Connie Brockway's All Through the Night from our Cross-Dressing or in Disguise list, etc. It's true that we often think of themes only in the ways that annoy us. For Anne, the new Best Enemies list is a great example of this. She askes, "How often have we complained about romance novels
where the hero and heroine hated each other? Yet there are some great books
in the Best Enemies list, reminding us that even a theme we usually detest
can become attractive when a writer gives it a new suit."
Anne's thoughts about our Held Captive list is also interesting, reminding me that a lot of the bodice-rippers with the most "knuckle-dragging" heroes had this theme: "My
first reponse when I saw the title of the list was to think of bodice
rippers by authors such as Christine Monson. Then I checked out the list
anyway and found titles by a wide range of authors."
Robin Uncapher, my other ATBF co-columnist, relayed to me a discussion she'd had with a friend who'd said, "People are so impressed that I spend my time reading Jane Eyre and David Copperfield, but the truth is that sometimes I just get in the mood to read a story where women are wearing long dresses." Robin thought that was pretty funny at the time, mainly because she knew exactly what her friend had meant, adding, "Sometimes I'm just in the mood for a story about a medieval virgin widow with amnesia. Oddly enough, when it comes to romance, you do get in these sorts of moods."
It's true...I think romance readers really do get in these sorts of moods. Which makes it all the more necessary for me to ask for your help with three of our lists. The first, for Special Heroines, was just updated, but here's the problem: when it was created (and the same goes for our old Special Heroes list, changed for the same reason into our Beta Heroes list), the definition of "special" made sense and was easier to understand than it is today for Rachel. Since she's the editor, we'd like your help in either better defining the list, or re-defining/re-naming it. The original definition for it was: "For whatever reason, it seems more difficult to find a heroine who satisfies us than a hero who satisfies us. All the more reason for this list, then. The heroines from this list are special for many reasons. They have saved their heroes. They are honorable and exhibit grace under pressure. These heroines don't whine or dwell on their pasts. Some seem flesh-and-blood and others are all-round capable, willing to go for what they want even if it's against the dictates of society."
Originally this was more or less as catch-all list for heroines readers loved but for indefinable reasons. And, heroines hadn't "branched out" nearly so far in 1996 as they have nearly ten years later. So there have now been many more heroines who save their heroes, are all-round capable, etc. Please take a look at the Special Heroines list, topped by a photo of the very special Audrey Hepburn, who might inspire one of you to set us on a new direction, perhaps the one suggested by Anne Marble: "Maybe what you're looking for is strong heroines. But there are different types of strength. Do you think what you need is one sublist for Quiet Strength and one for Kick-Ass Heroines?".
A much bigger problem is our Series (Family & Otherwise) list. Defined in this way - "This list differs from our other lists in that we cannot guarantee the quality of all the titles listed (obviously it is difficult for authors to sustain A or B quality throughout several books). Where there is a series of books and one received a less than stellar rating, it has been so noted. So, for this particular list only, Reader Beware!" - because of the continued growth of connected books, we abandoned the list back in 2002 with a plan to poll our readers for your favorite sets of connected books. Unfortunately, because the nature of polling puts in the forefront the well-known, the secondary appeal of our lists as containing lesser-known titles conflicted and we never did the poll. We'd like your help in determining the future direction of this list...if you can help us devise a method to combine the well-known with the lesser known, please let us know on the message board.
And then there is our Young Adult Fiction list, created nearly three years ago by the daughters of three romance readers - Blythe's daughter, my daughter, and the daughter of TRR reviewer Susan Scribner. All three are roughly the same age, and the original plan was to have them update their lists yearly. That, however, has not occurred, for the most part because my daughter thinks it's too nerdy to continue her part of the list. Then there's that many of us adult women also read and enjoy Young Adult fiction and, equally as important, that Lists editor Rachel Potter is somewhat of an expert on YA Fiction. Again I'm thinking some sort of combination list(s) here...some "top tens" of young adults as well as submissions and suggestions from Rachel and those of us who read YA novels (including myself). What do you think would help us create a better YA list?
2005 Purple Prose Parody Contest - The Results Are In! (Laurie Likes Books)
The results of our ninth annual Purple Prose Parody Contest are in! Most of you know that, based on a smaller number of submissions this year (fourteen as compared to 17 last year), I strongly considered canceling the contest so as to go out on top, rather than having it overstay its welcome and jump the shark. But as a result of your feedback, I can happily announce that 2005 will not be the final year for our PPP Contest. Look for it to continue for at least one more year.
I think author Nonnie St. George offered up the best argument for keeping the PPP Contest around:
Why keep PPP on AAR?
Our PPP Contest has grown each year in its sophistication. We've gone from short, straight-out purple prose love scenes to lengthier and more elaborate parodies, book and/or author homages, merge-matic homages, book proposals, and Chick Lit parodies. This year Western/Frontier romances were suggested as a focus. Some of our 2005 entries took me up on the Western/Frontier challenge, and had there been a tie between a Western parody and a non-Western, the Western would have earned extra points. As it turns out, only a few entries were Western parodies, and though it was close for a while for one of them, in the end there was no tie.
Several of the fourteen entries received a goodly number of votes, and because of their popularity, they deserve a mention here:
Cynthia Marie managed, in Lord Mamasbuoy Takes a Bride, to incorporate the work of Joan Wolf, Julia Quinn, Amanda Quick, Mary Balogh, Catherine Coulter, and Pamela Morsi into one brilliant scene during which Neville Poundsinthebank, Lord Mamasbuoy, discusses with his mother while at Almack's whom he might take to wife. His mama, wearing a "towering purple turban with a long, long white feather...attached to the end of the feather was a realistic-looking wax vegetable," advises against "Lady Mary's latest" because "an alarming percentage of those girls turn out to have worked as prostitutes," and also the Quinn girl, whose "26 strapping brothers and brothers-in-law will beat you into a pulp if you fail to provide her with a lifetime of sparking, witty conversation." In the end, Lord Mamasbuoy is taken with Miss Ethel Edna Gladys Morsi, whose "genteel Arkansas mountain family has fallen on hard times." Ethel Edna even manages to capture mama's interest when she exclaims, "They say [in England] you can't swing a dead cat without flinging maggots on a Duke!"
The vampire hero's lisp was the big draw for many who voted for Amy Edwards' A Fang by any other Name. While Edwards is not the first to parody the sex appeal of a vamp by mentioning the lisp (and accompanying spit) that might grow along with fangs, even MaryJanice Davidson can't lay claim to lines like "My love for you ith like diarrhea—I jutht can't hold it in" and "It'th a good thing I brought my library card, becauthe I jutht checked you out." And though poor Stanislaus Vlad DarqueNight thinks he'll be getting some sweet virgin nookie that night, instead he ends up cuffed to the bed with a "virginal dominatrix of love" wearing a "skin-tight black leather bustier and g-string" under her "shroud-like gown." Perhaps the best reason for choosing this parody came from this reader: "This whole piece is a bit like a sore - you can't stop touching it."
Amy Edwards was quite prolific this year...she wrote a second parody, Widget Jones's Diary, in collaboration with Kate Johnson. Amy and Kate's entry was one of two that paid homage to Kenyon's Dark Hunters, but they did it as a merge-matic with Bridget Jones's Diary (some of you may remember that last year's winner was a Regency Chick Lit diary in the style of BJD). One of the biggest compliments these parodists received came from a reader who thought theirs was the "funniest entry in this year's contest...and I don't even like the books it pays homage to!" Another reader wrote that she "laughed till I fell off my Aeron Chair (oops, that's Office Chick Lit) and snorfed tomato soup on my computer, a clear warning to She Who Eat Lunch at Her Desk (oops, Frontier Romance)?"
Laura Luke, who paid homage to Suzanne Brockmann in last year's contest, returned this year with her merge-matic homage to Erin Grady and Rachel Lee - Echoes of Conard County. Readers particularly appreciated Luke's descriptive skills: after being sprayed at a tanning salon, instead of celebrating a golden brown tan on her "doughy white skin," the heroine could "pass for the love child of George Hamilton and an Oompa Loompa." And, according to Luke, Mayberry had nothing on [Conard County]. "Barney Fife had morphed into a stud who was
as glossy, brown and irresistible as a hot Krispy Kreme." As for the names and sheer hunkitude of those members of local law enforcement, "There was the G.I. Joe, B. J. Puma; Phantom of the Opera, Doolin Dalton; wealthy ranch owner, Owen Land; the Indian, Deputy Elijah Pariah; football star, Al D'way; and Deputy Doright, Bubba Beauregard. The introductions left Jess drooling, incoherent and near hyperventilation. If Brad Pitt walked through the door looking like he did in 'Legends of the Fall' or 'Troy' then her lobotomy would be complete."
Nona Massie's Only Me was a wonderful homage to Elizabeth Lowell's Only series, and in fact, was my personal choice in this year's contest. Each year I waver between several entries, deciding only at the very last minute which one will earn my vote. This time around, as soon as the submission deadline passed, I voted for Only Me. That doesn't mean many other entries weren't fabulous - I too adored Lord Mamasbuoy, and thought that Boinking the Highlander and Mr. Soprano Takes a Trip were vastly underappreciated. Because I enjoyed Lowell's Only series I wouldn't go so far as one voter, who wrote, "Excellent parody of Elizabeth Lowell, whose alpha heroes were as dumb and prejudiced as rocks," but I laughed until I cried when I read: "The Moron boys were not jealous. Whichever of them was the protagonist at the time could be the greatest. The non-protagonists would be compensated by wives who baked for them. Jealous, no. Misogynist, yes." And who could forget the hero's "giant, inexhaustible stallion, Metaphorical Penis"? Apparently not one voter, whose ballot listed Massie's entry even though she herself submitted a parody this year.
The above are listed in no particular order, but the time has come to reveal which of those highlighted entries is our actual winner. The lead changed between Widget Jones's Diary and Only Me many times, but in the end the prize goes to .Amy Edwards and Kate Johnson for Widget Jones's Diary! Readers who chose it felt this parody was a hilarious melding of the writing style of Bridget Jones' Diary and included common elements of the Dark Hunter novels. I myself haven't read Kenyon's series, but after editing a review a few days ago for her most recent, I went back and read Widget again. Now I get it! Here's a brief excerpt of the winning entry, so all of us can enjoy it again:
Thursday 1 January.
201 lbs. (allmuscle), 3rd degree burns, 2 (good start), blood units 12 (Acheron'll have my ass), Daimons slain 1 (died laughing, must work on slaying technique), jokes about being man named Widget, 1000 (mostly Talon).
7:00pm. Crawl out of bed. Pull back curtains.
7:01pm. Grah!! Sun not down. Bloody hand crispy. New Year off to bad start. Going back to bed and starting over.
11:45pm. "WIDGET!! Get your ass out of bed and get to work!"
Hate Acheron. So bossy, just because he's the boss. Roll out of bed for second time and look for clothes, though is shame to cover body like this. Will make up for it by posing seductively whenever females nearby.
12:30am. Stupid police think I'm soliciting on Bourbon Street. Why? Why? Attempt to explain that multitude of concealed medieval weaponry is required uniform for Dark-Hunters.
12:32am. Police think am kinky, bondage/dominance slave or similar.
12:35am. Am wearing leg irons. LEG IRONS. Is insane for police to waste money on capturing me when are dangerous monsters out there to catch instead.
12:37am. Is also insane that am madly powerful creature of the night yet cannot break out of cell. Note to self: renew gym membership.
1:15am. Leg irons actually rather sexy. Perhaps being kinky bondage/dominance slave has possibilities.
1:25am. Apparently cellmate agrees. Wish would cross legs or something. Don't need to see that sort of thing. V. disgusting.
Thursday 1 January.
201 lbs. (allmuscle), 3rd degree burns, 2 (good start), blood units 12 (Acheron'll have my ass), Daimons slain 1 (died laughing, must work on slaying technique), jokes about being man named Widget, 1000 (mostly Talon).
7:00pm. Crawl out of bed. Pull back curtains.
7:01pm. Grah!! Sun not down. Bloody hand crispy. New Year off to bad start. Going back to bed and starting over.
11:45pm. "WIDGET!! Get your ass out of bed and get to work!"
Hate Acheron. So bossy, just because he's the boss. Roll out of bed for second time and look for clothes, though is shame to cover body like this. Will make up for it by posing seductively whenever females nearby.
12:30am. Stupid police think I'm soliciting on Bourbon Street. Why? Why? Attempt to explain that multitude of concealed medieval weaponry is required uniform for Dark-Hunters.
12:32am. Police think am kinky, bondage/dominance slave or similar.
12:35am. Am wearing leg irons. LEG IRONS. Is insane for police to waste money on capturing me when are dangerous monsters out there to catch instead.
12:37am. Is also insane that am madly powerful creature of the night yet cannot break out of cell. Note to self: renew gym membership.
1:15am. Leg irons actually rather sexy. Perhaps being kinky bondage/dominance slave has possibilities.
1:25am. Apparently cellmate agrees. Wish would cross legs or something. Don't need to see that sort of thing. V. disgusting.
Congratulations, Amy and Kate! We made no dispensation for having a writing team win our prize for the year, so it will have to be split among you. Amy tells me that Kate lives overseas, "out of slapping range," so she will simply "lie and say the makeup colors
wouldn't suit her or the compacts were broken or deny I ever received any prize." That's the spirit, Amy!
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Please consider these questions in addition to others that may have arisen out of your reading of the column:
Please consider these questions in addition to others that may have arisen out of your reading of the column:
Are you familiar with our Special Title Listings? Do you find them useful? Have you ever submitted a title for inclusion on one of the lists? If you find them useful or not, why? If you've ever submitted a title, what was your reason for doing so? Have you ever thought of contributing but then changed your mind, and, if so, why? If you've never used or contributed to our Lists, what would induce you to change your mind?
Those of us involved in the creation and update of the Lists greatly enjoy coming up with just the right photos and cartoons to accompany them. Is this something you enjoy when you visit the Lists? Which, if any, are your favorite images? Are our choices too nostalgic, sometimes too snarky, or "just right?"
How often do you go on mood-related/theme-related reading gloms, where you end up reading/wanting to read several governess or mail-order bride or two-hanky reads in a row? Have you had this experience in the last year, and if so, which books under which mood/theme did you seek out and read?
Which of our 64 lists best fit your tastes, and which are either head-scratchers or shudder-inducing lists to you? Putting the question a different way, which premises and/or character types most appeal to you, and which are those you don't care for in general? And, which ones are we missing? (A couple of lists are under construction at this time, btw - Rags to Riches and Inter-Ethnic Romances.)
Anne and I mentioned that we've found some gems among themes we'd never thought we'd enjoy (ie, All Through the Night when I don't generally believe in "disguise" books, certain Held Captive books for Anne). Have you had that experience, and if so, which themes, and which books?
Given the current difficulties with Special Heroines, Series (Family & Otherwise), and Young Adult Fiction, what solutions do you propose to help us handle each unique "problem list?"
How did you like the outcome of this year's Purple Prose Parody Contest? Which entry did you like best, and why? Did you vote, and if not, why not? Is this a feature you look forward to each year, and if you've ever considered submitting an entry but did not, why didn't you? What suggestions do you have for next year's contest since we'll be keeping it around at least through year ten?
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text: Nov 13, 2012 15:40 State orders Texas Brine to take safety steps State orders Texas Brine to take safety steps Photo provided by Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security -- Drillers clean out the interior Friday of the casing for a vent well south of La. 70 South and east of the Bayou Corne community. The casing, a metal pipe that forms the exterior of the well, was previously driven into the ground in an effort to help relieve gas pressure from an aquifer underneath the Bayou Corne area in Assumption Parish where a sinkhole has formed. bY DAVID J. MITCHELL| River Parishes bureau Comments The Louisiana Office of Conservation on Monday issued a new round of directives to Texas Brine Co. LLC aimed at minimizing risks from the public's potential exposure to natural gas lingering under property in the Bayou Corne community of Assumption Parish where a large sinkhole has formed. Conservation Commissioner James Welsh ordered Texas Brine to install in-home methane detectors and upgrade ventilation systems for slab-foundation homes and buildings located above the gas caught in an aquifer and even shallower sediments underground. Welsh, whose office is part of the state Department of Natural Resources, also ordered Texas Brine to assume responsibility for installing and operating networks of wells — both vent wells and pressure wells — and monitoring equipment under his office's specifications. "The steps outlined in this directive will give us an added layer of protection in ensuring public safety and move the response effort closer to bringing the lives of the residents of the Bayou Corne area back to normal," Welsh said in a news release. The "vent wells," some of which are already under construction or built and burning off gas, are designed to remove gas from the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer, Welsh said. The new orders come as momentum seems to be building for gas removal from the aquifer about 100 feet underground after early problems with the clogged wells. In blog posts Sunday and Monday, parish officials announced that a "vent well" on the south side of La. 70 South and east of Bayou Corne began burning off gas Sunday while another previously clogged well north of La. 70 began accumulating gas Monday. John Boudreaux, director of the parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said that well could start burning gas Tuesday afternoon once equipment is installed. The two wells were developed under the direction of Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure, which is DNR's agent in the sinkhole response. On Nov. 2, working under Office of Conservation orders, Texas Brine separately got a third well south of LA. 70 to burn off gas. It was the first of five vent wells now in existence to remove gas. Flaring virtually continuously since Nov. 5, except for a pause Monday to improve gas flow, that well has flared 224,000 cubic feet of gas, Cranch estimated. Two other clogged wells, developed under the direction of Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure, are located north of La. 70 and east of Bayou Corne and south of La. 70 and west of Bayou Corne. Also Tuesday, DNR and parish officials will be among those present at a 7 p.m. meeting at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church hall, 3304 La. 70, Pierre Part, to discuss the latest developments with the sinkhole response. Sonny Cranch, spokesman for Houston-based Texas Brine, said Monday the company is reviewing the order from Welsh and will act appropriately. While discovery of the sinkhole on Aug. 3 between Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou prompted parish officials to order the evacuation of 150 homes, the discovery later of gas underground has added to the reasons to keep the order in place, parish officials have said. On Thursday, the state Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell sent Texas Brine and Occidental Chemical Corp. a formal demand letter to pay state agencies' costs for their response to the sinkhole and related effects. DNR spokesman Patrick Courreges confirmed Monday that the letter is an indication that Texas Brine is viewed as the legally responsible party for the incident. Requiring the company to assume responsibility for the wells and monitoring equipment is standard procedure for such a finding, he said. DNR and private industry scientists have said they believe a Texas Brine-owned salt cavern inside the Napoleonville Dome had a wall breach several thousand feet underground. That failure, near the western edge of the salt dome, set off a chain of events that reportedly caused the sinkhole and released toward the surface oil and gas naturally trapped in pockets along the side of the salt dome. Welsh's order Monday comes in addition to a joint effort between his office and the state Department of Environmental Quality, announced Wednesday, to offer in-home air testing for area residents. That announcement followed the discovery that five of 18 geoprobes, shallow wells sunken throughout the Bayou Corne area in response to the sinkhole, found gas at 20 to 40 feet underground. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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Sales taxes are regressive, they disproportionately affect the people who spend a higher percentage of their income each year, which is the poor.
- 1:03 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013
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@atl134 - No, they would be spending the same proportionate amount as anyone
else. Plus, by going with a sales tax only model, the poor would receive more of
their income back, just like everybody else and not have to wait until they file
taxes. Besides, under this model, the poor could still be charged a lower rate.
I wholeheartedly agree that the income tax model for this state & country need to be revamped. A sales tax only model would give consumers more control over government spending as well as market prices. If tax rates get too high, people stop spending, so either the government has to lower taxes to boost it, or businesses have to lower prices, or both taxes and prices will have to be lowered. Plus, we won't have to file income taxes and go through the whole mess of figuring out exemptions and deductions. I think it's definitely something that should be considered at all levels of government.
- 1:42 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013
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Maybe we should only have property and capital gains tax.
All taxes come from properties or capital gains.
All taxes.
No income tax, no sales tax, no payroll tax.
Then let the states support whatever programs they choose with a mandated infrastructure and defense budget.
Then, only allow property owners to vote. No one else.
Wonder what kind of world we would end up with?
I bet the states would look a lot different.
Just wondering.
The posting limits and word limitations prevent this idea from becoming too much fun...
- 2:01 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013
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Corporate income tax is a hidden tax paid by the consumer. Sales tax is paid by the Consumer, but is not hidden. The sales tax will not be anymore burdensom to the poor than the hidden taxes in the goods they buy now.
- 3:08 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013
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I left Utah for Washington, and state income tax played a pretty significant role in that decision. The burden of income tax is more than financial. It's also an anvil hanging over my head year round, both for the P.I.T.A. of actually filing the tax forms, and the complexity of purchase decisions. "Is this deductible?" "Is that deductible in this state, but taxable in that state?" "What's my tax rate?" "Should we be a two-income family, or are we paying so much in taxes and costs-of-working that it's actually cheaper to just stay home?" Washington State has a sales tax (except on unprepared food) and property tax. It's just so much less complicated.
- 5:24 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013
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At risk of sounding heartless, why do we have any progressive taxes, or taxes
higher or lower for one group of citizens than another? Unless you are
committed to a socialist state?
The "Poor" benefit from a huge number of programs but pay very little of their income in taxes of any sort, and often get cash back from various "refundable tax credits" or "earned income tax credits." (Many of which are riddled with fraud.)
If you want to have gas taxes to help pay for highways, remember that "the Poor" benefit from the trucks that bring their food, not just rich folks on vacation in their massive RVs.
Everyone should pay the same percentage of their income in taxes, from those who make almost nothing, who will pay almost nothing, to millionaires who will pay huge amounts. This can be from a sales tax, or from a flat income tax. No special tax breaks to benefit certain classes, or special punitive taxes on those who work, save or invest.
- 5:25 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013
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Government revenue isn't the problem. Spending is.
Whether they take it from my front pocket or my back pocket. We all pay.
This is typical "smokescreen" to divert from the real problem of out of control spending.
6 figure government salaries. U.S. troops in over 90 countries. Billions down the black hole that is the U.N.
How much would we save if we eliminated the IRS entirely? What Congressperson would go along with it? They all have their favorite forced charity.
- 6:19 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013
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Louisiana does indeed have a sales tax on food. Although it is exempt from the state sales tax (a four percent tax), local sales taxes--which range statewide in Louisiana from 3.5 to 6.99%, depending on the city and/or parish--still apply to all food purchased in Louisiana.
- 7:17 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013
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I favor a flat tax on disposable income. But because disposable income
can't be quantified, the right kind of progressive tax most closely
approaches that. I think that a low corporate tax is good. Companies generate
jobs. Capital gains taxes are good. The companies are really owned by the
stockholders. Tax the companies on the level of the stockholders when they sell
the stock.
I think that the mortgage rate deduction should only include the first $300,000 of house. So I can't get a subsidy on buying a McMansion.
- 8:34 p.m. Jan. 16, 2013
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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Johnson, Alphonso
Bassist Alphonso Johnson's ability to lay down and maintain a groove have kept his services in high demand since the 1970s. As Weather Report's bassist from 1974 to 1976, Johnson's warm tone and fluent chops contributed to the band's initial breakout from avant-garde into funk fusion.
Johnson was born on February 2, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, Johnson played the trombone and double bass before he switched to the electric bass.
Like so many other musicians born in Philadelphia, Johnson was exposed to many styles of music beyond jazz, which included gospel, funk, and R&B. Though he was well versed in many styles of black music, Johnson was also classically trained on the double bass, and studied with former Duke Ellington bassist John Lamb at the Philadelphia Music Academy.
Johnson's performance career blossomed when he joined Woody Herman's big band in 1972. Johnson went on to appear on the Herman recording The Raven Speaks, an album where Herman experimented with traditional big band instrumentation featuring an electric (Johnson) bass instead of a traditional acoustic bass.
Johnson then joined trumpeter Chuck Mangione's band. The story goes that after Mangione's rhythm section of Steve Gadd and Tony Levin moved to New York, Mangione heard Johnson and Joe LaBarbera playing with Herman and persuaded them to join his group.
Johnson performed with Mangione's band through 1973 and appeared on his hit album, The Land of Make Believe. The Mangione group opened for Weather Report on a string of tour dates, and Johnson's playing came to the attention of its founders, keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter.
Weather Report was in a transitional phase at the time, and Johnson's playing was much different than that of founding Weather Report bassist Miroslav Vitous, who was on his way out of the band. Shorter asked Johnson to record on the classic album Mysterious Traveler, which ushered in a change for the band utilizing a funk emphasis compositionally and replacing the acoustic bass with electric bass. Johnson co-composed two tracks on the album, "Cucumber Slumber" and "Scarlet Woman."
Johnson's playing ushered in the sound Weather Report would adopt for the rest of their existence. Johnson played very funky lines, which were versed in the blues tradition but contained their own original sound. His ability to work with different drummers also played a huge role in the success of the band since they changed drummers so frequently.
Johnson's influence helped Weather Report delve into funk and groove-based playing. In 1975, Weather Report, along with Johnson, released the Columbia album Tale Spinnin' which featured extensive Wayne Shorter solos and synthesizer work by Zawinul.
In 1976, Johnson appeared on his last Weather Report album, Black Market. He played on five of the album's tracks, and newcomer Jaco Pastorius finished the other two. Johnson composed the song "Herandu," and also appears on the song"Elegant People." It was also during this period that in 1976 Johnson released his first solo album Moonshadows for CBS Records.
Johnson left Weather Report in 1976 to join the newly formed group led by pianist George Duke and drummer Billy Cobham. This group also featured a very young guitarist named John Scofield who would go on to fame playing alongside Miles Davis and others. This group released several albums including Live On Tour in Europe and Alivemotherforya.
During the late 1970s, Johnson began playing and recording with an instrument called the Chapman Stick, which is a bass with an extra five strings so a player can simulate bass and lead guitar tones simultaneously. In 1978, Johnson appeared on trumpeter Eddie Henderson's fusion album Sunburst, which came out on Blue Note Records. Johnson appeared alongside multi-reedist Bernie Maupin, keyboardist George Duke, and drummer Harvey Mason on the song "The Kumquat Kids."
In the 1980s, Johnson played extensively with rock guitarist Carlos Santana. Johnson appeared on several of Santana's albums, including Beyond Appearances in 1985 and Freedom, released in 1987.
On September 21, 1987, Johnson was playing with Santana in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when bassist Jaco Pastorius tried to join the band onstage. Pastorius, who had been in steady mental and physical decline since the late 1970s was drunk and disoriented, and was kicked out of the club. Sadly, Pastorius suffered fatal head trauma as a result of an encounter with a bouncer later that night.
Since the late 1980s, Johnson has continued to demonstrate his musical versatility. He was a longime member of Grateful Dead guitarist Bobby Weir's band, Bobby and the Midnites. This band also featured his friend and drummer Billy Cobham. Johnson was a founding member of the group Jazz Is Dead, which covered Grateful Dead songs and put their own spin on them, resulting in a mixture of funk, jazz, rock, and blues. The other founding members of Jazz Is Dead were keyboardist T. Lavitz, drummer Billy Cobham, and guitarist Jimmy Herring.
Johnson performed with Jazz Is Dead until 2002, and appears on the albums Blue Light Rain, Laughing Water, and Great Sky River. Johnson has taught all over the world and in 2004 he was appointed associate professor of music at the University of Southern California, whose jazz faculty includes drummer Peter Erskine and keyboardist Alan Pasqua.
Selected Discography as Alphonso Johnson
as Alphonso Johnson
Moonshadows (CBS/Epic, 1976)
Yesterday's Dreams (CBS/Epic 1977)
with Duke/Cobham Band
Live On Tour in Europe (Atlantic, 1976)
Alivemotherforya (Atlantic, 1978)
with Weather Report
Mysterious Traveller (Columbia, 1974)
Tale Spinnin' (Columbia, 1975)
Black Market (Columbia, 1976)
with Eddie Henderson
Sunburst (Blue Note, 1978)
with Carlos Santana
Beyond Appearances (CBS, 1985)
Freedom (CBS, 1987)
with Jazz Is Dead
Blue Light Rain (1998) Laughing Water (1999)
Great Sky River (2000)
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In the beginning they hailed from the moonshine-soaked mountains of the Carolinas, the red-dirt back roads of Georgia and Alabama, the dark hollows of Tennessee and Kentucky. For them stock car racing provided an adventuresome escape from the tedium of the farms and factories and mills.
They were a drawling, brawling lot, rough-hewn and raw-knuckled, and what they might have lacked in formal education they made up for in natural-born gumption and primal savvy. "Country smarts" as it's called. Guts, not social graces, was what counted back then.
They were hard-driving and hell-raising, often tobacco-stained and liquor-breathed. They were uncouth and uncultured, with farmer tans and callused hands, country as cornbread and not ashamed to admit it.
They were NASCAR's original Good Ol' Boys. Today they are an endangered species.
"There ain't many of us left," allows Sterling Marlin, 47, the lone Tennessean in NASCAR's Nextel Cup Series. Marlin followed the tire tracks of his farmer/racer father Coo Coo-hickory-tough and battle-scarred-into NASCAR's top division. "Sometimes I look around and wonder, Where'd everybody go?" says Marlin. "It's sort of a shame, the way this sport has changed. I kinda miss them old days."
There hasn't been a top-division NASCAR driver from Alabama-home of the once famed and feared Alabama Gang-in years. And none in recent years have hailed from South Carolina, which once spawned such legends as David Pearson and Cale Yarborough.
There wasn't a Georgia driver at Atlanta Motor Speedway this spring for the first time since NASCAR started racing there in 1951. Bill Elliott, the pride of Dawsonville, missed the race as he fades into semi-retirement. Some of Elliott's fellow Georgians were among the first drivers to stamp their names in the NASCAR record books: Red Byron, Tim and Fonty Flock, Rex White, Jack Smith . .
"You'd never think that would ever happen," said Atlanta Motor Speedway President Ed Clark, reflecting on the empty roll call. "It's a really sad note."
North Carolina, the centralized base camp for a majority of today's NASCAR teams, is home to plenty of transplants but only one native son who is at or near the top, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
The ranks of Southern racers are wilting like Pickett's boys in butternut at Gettysburg, and in their place are troops of fresh-faced youngsters from California, Las Vegas, the Midwest, the Northwest, and the Northeast. Down in Dixie they are striking the colors. NASCAR is losing its drawl.
"What we're seeing is the nationalization of NASCAR," says H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president of Lowe's Motor Speedway and a keen observer of the sport for some five decades. "It's not unlike what happened in the National Hockey League, which began as primarily a Canadian sport and gradually spread throughout the U.S. In recent years the same thing has occurred in NASCAR; what began as mainly a rural, Southern sport involving mostly Southern boys eventually began to branch out. As its popularity has grown and spread, so has its pool of drivers throughout all the states.
"And it's not over yet. I predict that in the next decade we'll see a European invasion of NASCAR. This is rapidly becoming an international sport, and it's only a matter or time before it starts attracting international drivers."
Consider the top-ranked drivers of yesteryear: Richard Petty (North Carolina), David Pearson (South Carolina), Bobby Allison (Florida-bred and Alabama-baptized), Darrell Waltrip (Kentucky, by way of Tennessee), Cale Yarborough (South Carolina), Dale Earnhardt (North Carolina), Lee Petty (North Carolina), Bill Elliott (Georgia) Ricky Rudd (Virginia), Ned Jarrett (North Carolina), Junior Johnson (North Carolina) . . . and the list goes on and on.
Compare that with the home states of many of the current top racers: Matt Kenseth (Wisconsin), Ryan Newman (Indiana), Kurt Busch (Nevada), Tony Stewart (Indiana), Jeff Gordon (California), Jimmie Johnson (California), Kevin Harvick (California), Kasey Kahne (Washington), Robby Gordon (California), Jamie McMurray (Missouri). At one point this season, Earnhardt Jr. and Elliott Sadler (Virginia) were the only Southerners ranked among Nextel Cup's Top 10.
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The Jinjiang Inn Beijing Ciyunsi opened in 2008. Guests staying at the JinJiang Inn will find many attractions nearby, including Chaoyang Park and Happy Valley. This hotel is less than ten kilometers from Beijing Railway Station and Tiananmen Square and 22 kilometers from Beijing Capital International Airport.
Each of the Jinjiang Inn's 100 guest rooms is equipped with comfortable beds, crisp linens, direct-dial telephones, air conditioning and private baths. Additional room amenities include satellite television channels and free broadband Internet access. Rooms where smoking is permitted are available upon request.
The Jinjiang Inn wants to ensure guests feel safe during their stay and allows them to store valuables in a deposit box at the front desk. Hotel staff can assist guests with ticket booking, business services and wake-up calls. The hotel also boasts meeting facilities and a Chinese restaurant.
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I like how the rolls are reversed. The rap part is the chorus while the original chorus is the bridge
Just to let you guys know, I've deleted this version because I finished a new version. Here it is;
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Thanks man. I really appreciate it. Most of my remixes in the past were done with Audacity. I have to admit, it's probably the hardest way to do a remix, so I learned the hard way first. Now, I use FL Studio 10. It's super easy to use, once you learn the basics. But you have to get sound packs. It's really a must. The sounds that come with FL are pretty good, but they're very limited. If I were you, I'd download a trial version of FL Studio, and just watch a TON of tutorials. After that, it's mostly trial and error. Good luck!
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Update: The man killed in the fight at a Deltona home Saturday morning has been identified as local resident 21-year old Ruben Puello, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. Spokesperson Gary Davidson also said the correct address of the residence is 2947 Foxboro Circle, rather than 2971.
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A 21-year old man was killed in a fight at a home in Deltona early Saturday morning, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. The name of the victim is not being released until relatives have been notified, according to Volusia County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Gary Davidson. The Sheriff's Office says witnesses reported that a "…large fight broke out…" during a gathering inside the home at 2947 Foxboro Circle (corrected) around 4 Saturday morning, and then the fight "…spilled out onto the driveway." Davidson says deputies were on the scene four minutes after the call to 911, and found the victim on his back in the driveway, bleeding from a stab wound in the torso area. The Sheriff's Office says the victim was breathing when deputies arrived, but "…stopped breathing as paramedics were working on him at the scene." The man was then transported by ambulance to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City, where he was pronounced dead at 5:03 a.m.
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Davidson says two other people were injured in the fight, one suffering a broken leg and the other a shoulder injury. Investigators with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office say early reports indicate as many as a dozen people or more may have been involved in the fight. The investigation is being handled by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office Major Case Unit. No arrests have been reported as of early Saturday afternoon.
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The HTC First Facebook phone is now available at AT&T for $99.99
Right on time, as always, the HTC First has now become available at AT&T. Today was always going to be the big day, ever since Facebook's big announcement on April 4.
The social network clearly hopes that this is only the 'First' Facebook phone of many to come, but that all depends on how phone makers actually react to Facebook Home, the replacement launcher / lock screen app for Android that powers Facebook's renewed push on mobile.
Obviously though, if the First is successful, some other companies will join in (or HTC might do a Second). With that in mind, if you want to get the HTC First, you can do so now for $99.99 with a new two-year contract of course.
You can choose between black, white, red, and 'pale blue'. You also get free shipping, by the way.
The HTC First isn't the Taiwanese company's first foray into 'Facebook phone' space. But the Salsa and ChaCha from yesteryear were not officially sanctioned by the social network. This, however, is. So that may help its sales prospects somewhat. Facebook and HTC were clearly aiming for the mass-market here, which explains the price (as well as the midrange specs).