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Electric Eclectic
When Argentine artist Marcelo Lupis says his music is experimental, he means that in all senses of the term. Pop his first solo CD, Shhhh, into the player and out sprays a hyperactive but skillfully concocted array of jazz, classic, rock, and blues, all overlaid with Lupis's operatic scatting.
Even more startling than the wham-bam, doo-wop introduction, "El Primer Tema del Disco," is Lupis naming all of his music skills in one breath: "I sing, I sing lyrical opera, I play violin, marimba, saxophone, piano, bass, and drums, I produce, I record, I used to have a heavy-metal band, I played rock, performed in musicals."
If that's not enough to drive an uncomfortable wedge between Lupis and all of us cadet band drop-outs, then get this: The smattering of sounds on Shhhh, released on Lupis's own SCAT.WAV label, come from the many styles he picked up while contributing as a musician and sound mixer for some 30 other albums, as well as TV jingles, movie soundtracks, orchestras, and plays. Shhhh's theatrical tone might just bend your ear to the point of contortion, but that's part of Lupis's mission to develop music appreciation in areas where a listener -- himself included -- previously had none.
"I'm interested in things that I don't like," he explains enthusiastically over the phone. "I want to know why I don't like them, because that takes me to places I'd never have imagined possible."
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Since, for example, Lupis says, he never really liked the opera, he figured that was reason to commit three years of study to the subject. The opera training, which he picked up along with studies in violin and guitar at Buenos Aires's Manuel de Falla Municipal Conservatory, helped him develop his lungs and project his voice. It also lent a theatrical touch to the harmonic pop crooning he emulated from the Beatles, not to mention the heavy metal he thrashed into head-first as a teenager. All of these styles were further solidified with studies in sound and recording technology at Argentina's National University of Lanús.
"I've listened to Revolver so many times that I'm pretty sure I could go into a studio and play and record the whole thing by heart," Lupis says. Not surprisingly, the song "Dejaría" reflects that later Lennon/McCartney psychedelic sing-song sound. But Lupis doesn't linger there too long. The track "Inmigrantes" do-si-dos to a South American hoedown before twirling into a classic tango, while "Dando Vueltas" delves into Uruguay's slave roots with some traditional candombe. "Ombligos" vacillates between modern pop, classic movie musicals, and hard-driving rock. But prominent throughout the album-turned-theater-musical is a loungy blues and jazz influence, most obvious on tunes such as "Caracol" and the English-language duet "Int's Lullaby," which also features vocalist Elconora Eubel.
In an era of so much musical fusion, it's difficult to simply refer to Lupis as "eclectic," but he says, "I try to make sure the songs have a personality, that the drive behind them always sounds like mine -- it has a Marcelo Lupis sound," he says proudly. Kinda makes you wanna smack him for being such a smarty-pants, but he's confident you'll keep listening even after you do.
"It's very pop. Once you hear the first song on the album, you're going to stick around," Lupis assures, which is why, he says, he hasn't bothered to pen any major record deals. "I don't want to wait around for two years with my music in the freezer," he explains. "Being independent ensures me artistic freedom on my time." However, he is in discussion with an international record company that would sign on as a coproducer, giving Lupis his desired freedom while assisting him with promotions.
Meanwhile he is already making inroads into the United States' growing Latin alternative scene. This past June 23 saw him performing at Univision and DirecTV's Premios sin Límite (Awards Without Limits) ceremony, and his East Coast tour has taken him through New York's high-profile alternative club the Knitting Factory. In addition to two South Florida concerts, at Churchill's and the Wallflower Gallery, Lupis will make an appearance at Miami's massive Festival Argentino. Given that trajectory, he's hardly concerned about how to market his rare eclecticism.
"I don't want to underestimate myself," he concludes, "nor do I want to underestimate my public."
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Winter provides a different type of parenting problem
I live in the Midwest. Winters get cold. I have two boys. Add in extra need for movement, developmental delay that causes lack of control, being a one-car family, apartment living, and you've got a potentially perfect parenting storm.
A few weeks ago I wrote a post "12 Ways to Grab your Child's Attention without Yelling". Sometimes you just need more than ways to talk to your kids. You need things for them to DO! After my day today, I've decided I must not be the only parent who needs a list of things to do when the kids are going stir crazy. I know not everyone can do each of these, but hopefully this list gives you some choices. Grab a pen–here we go!
Get Physical
Time laps, jumping jacks, push ups, etc. Then see if your kids can beat their time.
Create an obstacle course.
Have relay races.
Play sports inside–we've made basketball hoops from cardboard boxes. You can use a laundry basket for a soccer goal.
Speaking of laundry baskets, have your kids take turns giving each other rides–the pushing will be a workout!
Dance to a Pandora channel.
Play balloon volleyball.
Play balloon ping pong.
A Barrel of Laughs
Watch funny videos on YouTube.
Check out some joke books from the library.
Take turns making up your own jokes.
Give your kids the comic section of the newspaper. Have them choose a comic, cut it out, glue it to construction paper, cut out again, and give to someone else. See if they can put it in order.
Play the classic Telephone game.
Grab a bunch of odds and ends clothes. Put them in a garbage bag. Give one child a pair of gloves. Time how long it takes them to put on all the clothes. Then another child tries. Fastest time wins! (Or, gather two sets of clothes and make it a relay race.)
Get Creative
Bring out the watercolors, crayons, markers, finger paints, etc.
How about Play Doh? Even better, make your own!
Get a long roll of paper and let your children make murals.
Get cheap crafts at the dollar store or use coupons at craft stores.
Start a new hobby together. Donate hats you've made.
Let your kids discover the possibilities of duct tape.
Set up a puppet show.
Create a play.
Design bright paper airplanes and then have a contest for design, distance, and speed.
Make sock puppets.
Have a scavenger hunt.
Bring out the board games and let everyone choose one favorite.
Have a circus.
Talent show time!
Let your kids create a scavenger hunt for you.
If you build it…
Don't forget the quintessential favorite tent building! Maybe even make a contest out of it!
See what your kids can build with marshmallows and toothpicks.
Play a Lego version of charades. Write up cards, take turns choosing one, and your children must build it instead of act out.
Give your kids cardboard and duct tape.
Build an indoor mini golf course.
Technology Time
Have a movie afternoon with popcorn.
Make your own movies.
Have a Wii or Xbox tournament, complete with homemade medals or trophies.
Grab a Good Book
Head to the library and grab a bunch of new books on a certain topic. Spend the day learning new things.
Make a fun reading nook and have DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) times throughout the week.
Checkout wordless picture books and have your children write or tell a stories to go with them.
Watch a movie version of a book you've read and compare/contrast.
Write a play based on a favorite chapter or book.
Dress up like your favorite story characters and have a party.
Make up a board game to go with your favorite book.
Cook Up Some Fun
Make cookies for neighbors.
Try a new ethnic recipe.
Create your own cooking contest, maybe like Chopped or Cutthroat Kitchen.
Let your kids practice a kid-friendly recipe and learn to make it solo.
Try different pancake versions.
Give your kids some cookbooks and let them create themed menus.
Get brave and let your children create a recipe–provide parameters if you're really nervous.
Play Nicely with Others
Arrange a play date.
Go on a field trip with some friends.
Have a snow party.
Have a beach party.
Have a non-birthday birthday party.
Have a cookie/cupcake/snack exchange.
Pay it Forward
Get your kids together and make a list of ways to do random acts of kindness (Adapt these ideas).
Shovel sidewalks for those who can't–special needs parents who are busy, elderly, single moms, etc.
Find out who needs help and send your kids over for an hour.
Take care of animals at an animal shelter.
Fold bulletins for church, stuff mailers for charities, or otherwise help with administrative tasks.
Get out
Have a snow day and try a new flavor of hot chocolate or hot cider when you come back in.
Fill water bottles with different colors of water and use them to draw in the snow.
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Go walking at the mall. Take pennies to throw in the fountain.
While you're at the mall, practice money skills. Have your kids price clothing, toys, books, etc. See who can find the best deal.
Visit a museum.
Now it's YOUR turn! What have you done to help your children burn off extra energy when they are cooped up during the winter? Leave your suggestions in the comments.

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Through the use of audiophile-grade components and proprietary circuit topologies, the Marantz CD6005 compact disc player reproduces your CDs with superb quality. When connected to a good set of speakers or headphones, it delivers a satisfying balance of bass, midrange, and treble that is sure to please music lovers.
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I don't think I'll add many words here, because if I try, I will cry. We are alive and well here in AZ, and this week we had VISITORS! Jenn and Addy came down from Minnesota for a visit, and it was wonderful. Addy and Delaney are only 2-3 weeks apart in age and have many similar personality traits. They hadn't seen one another since right before we moved last June, but we all picked up right where we left off.
The last two really crack me up – first, Delaney wanted NO PART of a group picture. You should see the outtakes of my trying to wrangle her to face the camera. She was SO tired, she fell asleep three blocks after we left Jenn's friend's house. These pics are actually from two different days this week – Tuesday we met up at a train park nearby, played for something like four hours and then hung out at our place for another four or five hours. Then this afternoon we met up for some swimming in the heated pool where Jenn's friend lives. Delaney hadn't had the chance to swim in months, but she is such a little fish and the girls had a blast. The last picture, though you may not be able to really tell, shows both girls giving us their "Oh, just you WAIT until we are teens" looks/crossed arms. Seriously, the attitude/passion/feistiness in both of these girls is hilarious when it's not wearing us out.
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I was originally licensed as WN8DGX in 1969, but unfortunately I never increased my code speed enough to upgrade to general during the non-renewable two year time-frame that was allowed for novices at that time... However, a number of years later when the rules changed I then became a novice again in 1991 as KB8LWO and a few years later got my code speed up and finally recieved my general class license!
When I move to Illinois in 1996, I didn't want to retain an "8" call, so I had the FCC issue a new call which was KB9OOK. However, I was never really crazy about having a call end in the letter "K", especially when working CW, as in "CQ CQ DE KB9OOK K". So in 2008, I finally applied for a vanity call sign that had elements of all my previous call signs, specifically the "W" from my first call, the "B9" from my third call, and the "LWO" from my second call, resulting in WB9LWO.
I started out on 40 meter CW, and still like it today. I also work SSB on 40 meters along with 20 and 15 meter CW and SSB. One of my first rigs was a Heathkit DX-60B, which I built around 1970 and I still have it. As a result, I still like to build kits on occasion, such as OHR, and like to operate QRP as I did during Field Day 2008.
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Pretty Lights, aka Derek Smith, has his hands full with country legend Dr. Ralph Stanley in "Re:Generation." The documentary, which plays in theaters for one day only, Feb. 23, before finding its TV home, pairs current DJs, such as Mark Ronson, Skrillex and Smith with artists in different genres. They then create an entirely new recording from the ground up.
Smith comes the farthest in the film musically: when he first finds out that he will be working in the country genre, he can't disguise his contempt for the music, even though he barely knows anything about it. By the end, he's found much to admire.
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Ballymun Kickhams landed their first Dublin Senior Football title in 27 years after beating Kilmacud Crokes 1-12 to 0-14 at a floodlit Parnell Park on Monday night.
Kickhams caught the south Dublin side cold at the start of the first half with and a Shane Ford goal gave the Ballymun side an early four-point lead.
Ballymun kicked on and an inspired performance by Dean Rock, son of former Dublin legend Barney, saw the north Dublin side take a six-point lead at the break with the score 1-08 to 0-05.
Crokes started the second half with more purpose and four Pat Burke scores reduced the deficit to three points before Dean Rock added Ballymun's first point of the half with a well-taken free-kick.
Kilmacud maintained the momentum and a strong finish saw the gap reduced to just a single point in the final minutes of the second half but Kickhams held on for a deserved victory, their first Championship success since 1985 and third in total.
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Carol Wilkes, 75, of Vienna, W.Va., passed away Nov. 7, 2012, at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va.
She was born July 26, 1937 in Zanesville, Ohio, a daughter of the late James and Virginia Denny. Carol retired from Peoples Bank of Marietta, Ohio as a Trust, Stocks and Bonds clerk. She loved sewing, children, grandchildren and her great-grandchildren. She was a kind and loving person.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and one brother, Jimmy Denny. Carol is survived by two sons, Mark Wilkes (Cheryl) of Parkersburg and Curtis Wilkes of Vienna; two grandchildren, Matthew (Karli) of Washington State and Tiffany of Parkersburg; and five great-grandchildren, Jade, Isabella, Gabriella, Wyatt and Bayli; her dear friend, Sammy; and also several nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 1-4 p.m. Monday at Lambert-Tatman Funeral Home, 3005 Grand Central Ave., Vienna.
Condolences may be sent to the Wilkes family at www.lamberttatman.com


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Taking on Part-Time Work to Fund Maternity Leave
Financial advisers have longed counseled taking on extra part-time work to pay off debt. But what about using it to finance necessities like spending time with your newborn baby?
In her Work & Family column in today's Journal, columnist Sue Shellenbarger reports that U.S. companies are offering less maternity and paternity leave. According to the column, "Only 16% of employers offer full pay for childbirth leave, down from 27% in 1998, based on a nationally representative sample of 1,100 employers by the nonprofit Families and Work Institute." The column also says that 23% of parents used credit cards or loans to finance leave, according to a recent online survey.
A friend of mine, another New Yorker, recently told me that she was taking on 20 hours a month of freelance work, on top of her full-time job, so that she would have money saved for a longer maternity leave for her yet-to-be conceived second child. Her company offers three weeks of fully-paid leave and the next two-to-four weeks at half-pay. After that she can take more time, unpaid.
Some people might argue that she and her husband should wait until they're financially better-off to have another child, but it's not the child they can't afford, it's the time off. They live within their means and are saving plenty for retirement and she and her husband have well-paying — but not investment-banking salary — professional jobs. I thought she was unusual — until she told me that she found out about the gig from another dad in the neighborhood who puts in 50 hours a week at his day job and does freelance on the side to pad the kids' college funds.
We've talked about saving and planning for a child, but sometimes there's only so much cutting back one can do. If you don't want to sacrifice time with your baby to get back to work, taking on a part-time job may be a good strategy. But there are obvious downsides in terms of time sacrificed away from family. Readers, have you, or would you, pick up more work to pay for a longer maternity leave or other things like a college fund?


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Layzie Bone to Release Two Albums on the Same Day
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper Layzie Bone has revealed that he will be releasing two albums on the same day.
On Feb. 22, the Bone founder will simultaneously drop his 13th and 14th albums, 'The Definition' and 'The Meaning,' in attempt to "define himself, his career and his culture," which will "prove to be one of the most ambitious Bone projects to date," according to the press release.
A street video for Layzie's single 'If I Can't Do It' was released at the end of last year, and will be followed by 'Hear'em Knockin,' as the official lead single, featuring fellow Bone Thugs Krayzie Bone and Flesh-n-Bone. The second single will be the Bow Wow-assisted 'Every Night,' which will be released shortly before the albums.
In addition to his Bone brethren, 'The Definition' and 'The Meaning' will also feature guest spots by some of the game's most respected rappers including Too $hort, Paul Wall, Chamillionaire and Ya Boy.
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Governor Ted Strickland and Attorney General Richard Cordray are asking the Obama administration to convene a summit by July 19 to make plans for constructing a permanent barrier to block the infiltration of the Asian carp into the Great Lakes.
They are also asking construction of a physical barrier start within 30 days of the summit.
In a letter to the president the two write "…this is still a preventable multi-billion dollar ecological disaster, but the window is closing."
Last month, a live Asian carp was caught by commercial fishermen in Lake Calumet near Chicago – past an electrical barrier designed to stop it. And earlier DNA sampling has found traces of the carp in the Chicago Area Waterway System, a tributary of the Great Lakes.
"We are aware of your Administration's current efforts to protect the Great Lakes from the significant harm that would come from Asian carp," the letter says. "But, thus far chemical and electric barriers have proven ineffective, as Asian carp have been found increasingly farther into the tributaries of the Great Lake basin and well past the electric barriers. This is the time for bold, decisive action, which is why we are asking for an aggressive timeline to begin building physical, permanent barriers."
The Ohio Department of Transportation intends to host an informational meeting this month to update the public on the I-280/Wheeling Street widening project.
Theresa Pollick, a spokesperson for ODOT's district 2, said the department is talking with the project contractor to schedule a date for the meeting.
On June 28, ODOT closed the northbound Wheeling lane, between Pickle and Brown roads, and established a detour route along Brown, Coy, and Pickle roads.
The detour will be in effect through November but ODOT stated that although some drives will be restricted, alternate drives will be maintained to allow access to and from residential and commercial areas.
The project includes widening Wheeling from Navarre Avenue to Pickle Road, including the bridge over I-280.
According to ODOT, the contractor will establish lane closures and restrictions on Wheeling. Motorists should expect intermittent lane restrictions in both directions on Wheeling, from Navarre to Munding Drive, for pavement work through September.
A resolution to begin the process of putting two levies for funding road improvement projects on the November ballot has been approved by the Lake Township trustees.
Following a recommendation by Dan McLargin, township road supervisor, the trustees are leaning toward seeking the replacement of a 1-mill, 5-year levy due to expire at the end of the year and asking voters to pass a new 1-mill, continuing levy.
Many roads have fallen into disrepair, the trustees said, because the existing levy, which is based on 1986 property valuations when it was originally passed, only generates about $114,670 annually.
If it is replaced rather than renewed by voters, the existing levy would be based on current valuations and generate about $169,000 annually. A new levy would also be based on current valuations and generate that amount.
One option the trustees discussed was to let the replacement levy expire at the end of five years if the continuing issue is approved.
Last year, it cost the township about $60,000 a mile to repair roads, according to Melanie Bowen, a trustee. Consequently, the trustees are seeing a growing backlog of roads that need major repairs.
Bill aims to stop scam artists in wake of storms
Murray said the bill will establish several consumer protection practices in home improvement contracts by requiring contracts to be in writing and detail the identity of the contractors.
It will also limit the amount that a homeowner will have to pay as a down payment or deposit for work yet to be completed and requires contractors to maintain a minimal level of insurance.
If it becomes law it would be enforced using remedies available under the existing consumer sales practices act, he said.
Murray represents the 80th district, which includes Erie County and much of Ottawa County.
Matt Patten (D-Strongsville) is also sponsoring the bill.
Area residents are invited to experience one of the region's largest Japanese animation and cultural gatherings as Owens Community College serves host to the second annual GarasuNoShiCon (Glass City Convention), July 17-18.
Presented by Owens' Anime Convention and Gamers United clubs, GarasuNoShiCon will take place on Saturday from 10 a.m.-11 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. in the College's Audio/Visual Classroom Center, Student Health and Activities Center, Math/Science Center and Center for Fine and Performing Arts on the Toledo-area campus in Perrysburg Township. The event is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
The event will feature an array of activities highlighted anime screenings, video gaming, an electronic music dance, a cosplay competition, a fire show and entertainment panel discussions, as well as a number of vendors and featured artists.
Owens' anime convention will commence with an opening ceremony at 10:30 a.m. in the College's Audio/Visual Classroom Center. Following welcome remarks, convention attendees will have the opportunity to participate in several video, card-based and tabletop gaming activities to include a Pokéwalker Meet-Up, Living Forgotten Realm Adventure, Pathfinder Society Adventures and Dungeon Delve.
Summer Olympics
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Time magazine cover shows mother breastfeeding 3-year-old
Controversial picture goes viral as mum insists practice is 'biologically normal' and 'like a hug'
TIME MAGAZINE has courted controversy with the front cover of its latest edition – a picture of a mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son.
The snap shows Jamie Lynne Grumet, a 26-year-old blogger, standing and looking into the camera as her son Aram stands on a wooden chair to suckle on her breast. The headline reads: "Are you mom enough?" The front page has gone viral, being picked up by newspapers and broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic and causing Grumet's personal blog - iamnotthebabysitter.com - to crash.
Grumet defends breastfeeding beyond early childhood in the magazine, saying that she was six before being weaned off her mother's milk. "It's really warm," Grumet recalls in the magazine. "It's like embracing your mother, like a hug. You feel comforted, nurtured and really, really loved. I had so much self-confidence as a child, and I know it's from that." She called the practice "biologically normal".
Along with breastfeeding Aram, the child on the cover, Grumet says she does the same once a month with her five-year-old son Samuel, adopted from Ethiopia in November 2010. "Being able to give him that [comfort] with the trauma that he faced was really, really important to me. I didn't realise how much it would help my attachment to him." She added: "When his English improved, because the connection was there, he didn't do it as much."
In the piece, reported the Daily Mail, Grumet admitted some people might think she's weird. "There are people who tell me they're going to call social services on me or that it's child molestation," she said. "I really don't think I can reason with those people."
Early reaction was certainly divided. One mother-of-six told Fox News that "even a cow knows when to wean their child" and said the photo was "on the verge of voyeurism". However there were those, like Bettina Forbes from the organisation Best for Babes, who hoped that the cover would "make mainstream America less squeamish" and said it was "high time we talk about these things".


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August 24, 2012
Special Mount Test by Klaas Voget
Shooting great footage in gale force winds and gnarly waves will prove challenging. Hence the production crew will use several GoPro special mounts which are (hopefully) going to withstand the elements.
Klaas Voget set out to Klitmøller to put them to the acid test on the water.
Below are photos and a rough cut video from Klaas' testing session. His feedback helped the production crew to make some final tweaks. These GoPro special mounts are now perfectly prepared and will be used during the missions to bring you incredible footage from the epicenter of the action.
Rough cut video - Klaas puts the GoPro special mounts to the acid test
It's a pity Klaas is not allowed to participate due to his position as Sports & Athletes Manager. ;)
Backy mount - GoPro with a special mount affixed to the harness
Klaas adjusting the backy mount at the launching area in Hanstholm and heading out for a session.
The backy mount puts the GoPro into an awesome position for great action shots from behind the sailor.
Mast mount - GoPro with a special mount affixed to the mast
The mast mount puts the GoPro in a position at the top of the sail for great shots from above the sailor.


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The 11th volume in this Lesbian Beauties standout series brings four passionate tales of stunning, black lesbian desire.
Uptight college girl Misty Stone suspects her sorority sister, Ivy Sherwood, is moonlighting as a stripper. Both girls find a way to resolve their differences...through mutual orgasms.
Top designer Sapphire is dismayed to learn her assistant, Gemini, is planning to work for Sapphire's rival. Gemini gets a sexy lesson in loyalty. Cutie Chanel Heart falls hard for her dad's girlfriend, Sophia Fiore. Both girls share an afternoon they will never forget.
Finally, supermodel Ana Foxx confronts agent Alia Star when she is dropped from the agency. Ana does what she can to get back on Alia's good side. Enjoy the beauty, passion, and trembling orgasms these gorgeous black girls express in this movie.


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-2012 SEC/NCAA Football (including Conference Championship games)
-2012-13 NFL (including Playoffs)
-2012-13 College Football Bowl Season
All games have been submitted for the 2012 SEC/NCAA Football Regular Season and 2012-13 NFL pick 'ems, with a couple of exceptions. Obviously, the SEC/Other Conference Championship Games and the NFL Playoff Games cannot be entered until the matchups are known towards the end of the season.
In addition to SEC matchups during the regular season, I tried to select several other intriguing games each week involving non-SEC teams. My goal was to provide at least 15 games each week to pick.
This is not a spread based contest. You simply pick the winner of each game. You can get to the Pick 'Ems by clicking the link below or using the Pick 'Ems tab at the top of the page. Make sure when you make your picks, you remember to click "Submit Picks" at the bottom of the week's pick 'ems. If you want to make changes to your picks prior to the week's pick 'ems closing, you can make changes and click "Submit Picks" again, and it keeps your latest changes in the system.
In the past, on several occasions, I've had people tell me that they forgot to make their picks after the pick 'ems closed and asked me to make their picks for them. I CANNOT make your picks for you. So, make sure to get them in prior to closing. One thing I do (and recommend you do the same) is make several week's picks in advance to make sure I don't miss a week. After all, you can still go back and make changes right up until closing, even if you've already entered your picks.
The one big change and improvement over the last Pick 'Ems system we used is that each game has it's own individual closing time. Obviously, many (and most) games do not have a scheduled start time as of yet. So, I set the closing time for unknown starting times as 12:00 Eastern on the Saturday that they are scheduled since that is the earliest the game should start. As each week gets closer, we will try to enter the exact starting time when it is announced so that you have ample time to enter your pick.
Picking Schedule
Since Thursday night games are televised, I included a Thursday night game for almost every week in the SEC/NCAA Pick 'Ems. Make sure to make the pick for those Thursday night games prior to kick-off.
The same holds true for NFL picks. Most weeks include a Thursday night game (and a Wednesday night game for the 1st week).
The bottom line is that it's up to you to keep up and get your picks in before closing,
Any registered user may register in any and all contests. However, only members with 100 or more posts will be eligible for any prizes that may be offered. Furthermore, ties for prizes will be broken by post count.
Prize info is as follows: SECTalk will award the winner of both the SEC/NCAA pick 'ems and the NFL pick 'ems $50 each in fan gear from our fan shop as the prize. Any prize for the Bowl pick 'ems will be announced at a later date.
The College Football Bowl Season Pick 'Ems will be announced in this thread when the time comes.
If you have any questions regarding the contest, feel free to contact me or Benny.
And make sure to let Benny know how much you appreciate his effort on getting the Pick 'Ems up and running on the site. He did all the programming (from scratch) to make this work.
Thanks for reading, and good luck to everyone.
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Are these manufactured by Sony?— BEN POPKEN
Don't Buy Richard Simmons' Exploding Steamer
I wasn't sure if it was a real joke or not because I was flipping channels right before the Sonyesque explosion.
Lets be serious though…
Richard Simmons is too feminine and flamboyant not to be able to take a joke. And I'm referring to the jokes by Dave before the fire.
Go-Go Karts? I'm with Dave on this one.
I suspect Mr. Simmons has been in on the joke for the last fifteen years… how else do you think he pulls a paycheck?
Oh if you want your own exploding steamer HomeVisions will sell it to you for 30 bucks more than Simmons' quoted it at:
Richard Simmons is the man, I wish he was still visiting the Stern show cause he's the funniest on there.
That's like 'old-timey-person' humor.
SaintJohnson is right: if a man has inclinations toward flamboyance, he MUST be prepared to participate in his own mockery. We must not, under any circumstances, permit unusual people to feel comfortable behaving however they choose.
Havn't laughed so hard at work in a long time, thanks Ben! That had to be staged, at least on the Late nights side. That flash was way to well timed and "flamboyant" to of been a coincidence.
Actually, proof that Simmons has a sense of humor about it all is that he didn't sue Letterman for libel because his product's good name could have been ruined by the joke.
Special K:
Not so fast… It just happened Wednesday.
He can still sue. He didn't laugh one bit.
He cracked a MJ-referenced joke, but he didn't laugh.
If a man, flamboyant or not, wears short ballhugger striped workout shorts with a glittery tank top everytime he's on TV, he should be prepared for mockery.
And that makes it okay.
You know what? This guy has helped more people around the world lose weight, live longer and lead better lives than everyone who's ever commented on Gawker, Consumerist and Defamer combined time about 100.
Dave "aka" Shitbag Letterman set this guy on fire the last time he came on his terrible (all late night talk shows are the sewage of tv imho) "show" and Simmons came back because he is at his core, a good man and willing to mend fences.
Read his bio sometime, he actually did something positive with his life. This is America, we are free to be who we are and I also bet Simmons is more at peace and happy with who he is than most anyone I've ever met.
And no, I've never bought or used any of Simmon's exercise stuff. Kinda of sick of good people being mocked in this country. And around the world.
And he also gives unconditional love to people we readily mock on a daily basis, the "socially ugly", the morbidly obese, and the women and men who are hanging by a thread because they don't fit in to what out bullshit society considers attractive. Simmons rocks and we could all learn something about tolerance from him.
Okay, now that was really funny :D
I seriously doubt Richard Simmons takes himself that seriously…I'm pretty sure it's part of his schtick.
Obviously, the lower tray ("it doesn't come with this thing") was from the Late Night prop department. You know, even if he lost a few sales from people who thought that was real, he probably tripled the interest in his product.
Besides, nobody ever busy anything based on stuff they see on TV or the Internet.
(Thanks a lot Dave…I WAS going to take my Richard Simmon steamer on a cross-country flight and steam some vegetables, but now I bet the TSA will ban them on airline flights).
This is great. I just can't tell if Simmons is really annoyed or just playing along. And I don't remember Letterman having that much hair last time?
What a huge, pointless POS appliance.
Aestheticity: I'm pretty sure he's playing along. I think if he were really genuinely pissed off every time Letterman did that to him, I don't think he'd come back to the show (which he has several times).
The great irony here is that I watched this clip on my Dell laptop– powered by a Sony battery, fire extinguisher in hand:)
Well he's a good sport then. Can anyone dig up a video of the time someone mentioned when Letterman set him on fire before?
Triteon, I hope that's a Class D fire extinguisher you've got there. If not, your best bet is a bucket of sand. Or just let it burn and call the fire department.
Richard definitely does have a sense of humor about himself. Anyone remember his appearance on Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Michael, I'm with you: Richard's appearance on Whose Line was the funniest freaking segment they ever did!
Doesn't he ever change his clothes? I use that term loosely.
What a huge, pointless POS appliance.
Maybe you think so but I honestly think thats a great idea, if it works. I have a steamer at home that I like to use, but some things take longer then others and it can make cooking more then one thing with it per meal a pain.
The size however would keep me from buying it, but hell a steamer like that with two trays would rock. I could do rice and a veggie at the same time.
Albeit goofy, he's a good guy who has helped many people.
Rather shocked and awed that this hasn't crept in the comments yet, so here goes:
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It's one of those times of year when we are "hitting the road" – and providing you with some fantastic traveling resources along the way! Right here on our blog, we're giving you the inside scoop from three top-rated blogger moms on their favorite tips and tricks for traveling with kids. Right now, we're getting some tips from Tiffany (Peanut Blossom) as she prepares to hotel-hop down the East Coast!
In her blog post (which you can view in its entirety here), Tiffany shares some crucial packing tips for parents feeling overwhelmed by an impending getaway.
Her key to success? Organization. From digging through piles of clothes in hotel rooms, to locating toys easily when on the go, Tiffany understands how crucial it is to have certain items easily accessible for those "need it now" moments.
Tiffany's advice? Make life easier with a quick, grab-able bag for kids to make a quick stopover in a hotel manageable (or to have just in case checked baggage gets lost.) Here are a few of the essential Tiffany suggests you pack for this handy-dandy bag:
– An extra set of pajamas
– A diaper, just in case you need a quick-change
– One or two small activity books or toys to grab quickly when on the go (Tiffany tucked away our On the Go Activity Books.)
– A kid's flashlight (helps the little ones when they are in a new place.)
– And more. (See Tiffany's full list here.)
Tell us: What are YOUR essential "go-to" items to pack while traveling? Share with us in the comments below, or join the conversation on Facebook.


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Wrong use of aggregation module may lead to non-deterministic bugs
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Description (last modified by kmtracey)
Assuming that an AJAX query posts (start, limit) for retrieving Polls (Django tutorial), writing the following code leads to request.POST problem.
from django.core import serializers from django.http import HttpResponse from django.db.models import Count from polls import Poll def respond(rows, totalCount): data = serializers.serialize('json', rows) response = "{'success': true, 'totalCount':%d, 'rows':%s }" % (totalCount, data) return HttpResponse(response, mimetype="application/javascript") def listPolls(request): start = request.POST['start'] limit = request.POST['limit'] rows = Vehicle.objects.all()[start:start+limit] totalCount = Vehicle.objects.aggregate(Count('id')) return respond(rows, totalCount)
surprisingly, fixing the code to:
totalCount = Vehicle.objects.aggregate(Count('id'))['id__count']
fixes the request.POST exception. The issue is that the django error report about request.POST not having a key named 'start' or 'limit' distracts the programmer to debugging the front end AJAX code rather than focusing on the Python bug. It also may indicate a more fundamental issue that exhibits random behavior.
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I don't see the Django bug here. Your code had an error and you got some kind of exception. You didn't include the details of the exception so it is difficult for anyone to explain why you got the exception you got instead of what you might have been expecting. "Random behavior" is extremely unlikely. If you care to post a complete example including details of the exception you received on django-users, then someone may be able to explain why you got what you got. But without a specific suggestion for something to improve in Django this is not a valid ticket.
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Aqua Oleum products are now available directly from www.nutrisun.co.uk
Aqua Oleum is a company with a long history, starting with Julia's late mother Kerttu, a Finnish biochemist. Kerttu studied essential oils and had a lifelong interest in herbs, as did her mother before her. Family knowledge goes back at least three generations and our interest in essential oils pre-dates the advent of Aromatherapy in the UK by many years.
Since the late 1980's the business has been based near Stroud in the Cotswolds. It remains family-run and is owned by Alec and Julia Lawless. Alec concentrates his efforts on ensuring that the oils we source are of the finest quality, 100% pure and natural essential oils.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Principal Leigh Grasso is a true Grand Junction native. She was born here, and attended Appleton Elementary, West Middle School, Grand Junction High School. and Mesa State College.
Her father, Louis Grasso, was the Superintendent at School District 51 for several years. He passed away last March, but according to Principal Grasso, he was very proud of her accomplishments as an education administrator.
She says her father instilled in her a sense of community service. She says, "I think what people would say about my dad is her really listened to the people he worked with."
Many students put in extra hours after school serving meals to the homeless, sending care packages through Operation Interdependance, making meals at the Gray Gourmet, and hosting fundraisers for energy-efficiency projects.
Camren Thomas is the President of the Junior Service League at East Middle School. He says community service is well-worth the hard work. He says it makes him feel good, and he learns alot. He says, "When I go do the homeless shelter meals, it really opens my eyes. I'm glad I just made this person's day by giving them food."
He says he's also made some friends. "I met this really nice lady, she talked about baseball. It's one of my favorite sports. She was smiling the whole time I was talking to her. I did make a friend."


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Linda Black on Anne Ryland & Lucy Hamilton on Timothy Adès
The Unmothering Class, Anne Ryland (Arrowhead Press 2011)
These are heartfelt poems, reflecting on the probable lives of women granted neither status or education, nor the vote, whose occupations inside and outside the home, in fields or mills, as washerwomen, seamstresses and the like, were deemed not worthy of recording on any kind of register, including the census. In her review of Nicola Verdon's book concerning 19th Century women workers (1) the academic Karen Sayer notes, ' the comfort, even the survival, of working class families often rested on women's ability to manage the home, their participation in the shifting worlds of 'making do' and 'muddling through'. These women, often sad, often longing for freedom, got on with it - they had no choice, suffering many losses along the way. The Unmothering Class is divided into three sections, 'Haunting my Daughter', well-placed in middle, being the one I came to first, reading one and three subsequently and finding them all the richer for it, each part informing the other, casting light and shadow back and forth. The opening poem in the book, 'The Ruin Withholds it's Secrets', foreshadows the sequence, bringing past into present, as the poet 'immerses [myself] in brokenness', loving 'the silences of the ruin's story', a ruin that, as with the sequence, 'dares to be an outline', and so with 'Rebekah' (poem two) who 'composed her own map for each land'.
On first reading the sequence, I was immediately reminded of those women forced to abandon their babies to the Foundling Hospital, their plight - the leaving of scraps of fabric for identification in the hope they may one day reclaim their child - only to come, towards the end of the collection, to a strong poem 'Go Gentle', inspired by a note left by one such mother; Go gentle and all thy life be happiness and love:
Every time I dropped my daughter like a foundling,
I ran back to reclaim her, to bring her home.
Her soft name.
'Dropped', we are told in the end notes, became the term used for the act of leaving a child in the care of the hospital.
Theirs was a hard lot, to say the very least. From 'Baptising One Day, Burying the Next':
Picture me, already bark-tanned and tallowed,
spiking holes with my awl, stitching tongues to uppers.
Loud, hard, cold.
Until Andrew my firstborn.
My, softest work, made in a place I didn't know
he was my satin skin
But then I left a son
in every parish...
Ellen Wright (born 1847) was only 5 days old when she died, her mother Sarah planting in the fields, ' Still bleeding', bemoans her loss, taking the blame:
I should've carried her on my back,
resting her below a hedge.
I did not need God to scold me that I lost my daughter
because of the potatoes.(Stone-picking in a Mist)
Ellen too is given a voice:
... Before I was here
I was gone
I was forever
the splinter
under her skin...
(A Splinter)
Some remained childless. Rebecca Wright (1853 - 1941) laments, 'I sewed a rag doll for every niece...'
The consolation being:
while I dragged along the babies we couldn't have,
... I never had to worry
about them or bury them in white boxes
with lily-of-the valley sprinkled on top
(Spinning Cobwebs)
Mabel Grace Wright (1895-1897), imagines the life she could have led:
... I might have boarded the trams as a clippie...
I would've gone to France, jolted the well-sprung Wolsely,
(Jolting the Well-sprung Wolsely)
The theme of infertility recurs in the more personal final section, along with that of genetic inheritance. In 'Motherland', 'The baby is no more than a cobweb / It brushes off as I flurry past...' 'Our Letters' speaks of 'Neither son nor daughter, not even a niece/ to pass them on to...'
Embracing, befriending, imagining the past, The Unmothering Class is a well-crafted and elegiac collection, with several poems in the last section about the fading of the poet's own mother. An overall cohesion binds the poems together, each finding its own form. The language is plain, measured, empathetic and unstrained, infused with gentle imagery:
I watched you struggling to pluck
the daisies printed on your skirt(Your Hand)
I breathed lace over windows
The longest poem in the 'Haunting my Daughter' sequence, 'Thrashing the Holy Linens', has five stanzas and is in the voice of Bessie Trought (1850-1895) looking back on her life as she moves towards her death, from marriage as a young woman of twenty, through disappointment:
How was I to guess I'd ride on a train just once?
Northwards to his home town, Hull. To Rose Terrace -
not a petal in sight...
to hardship:
By Thursday it was bread and treacle. I sometimes
went without. We kept off poor relief, I saw to that ...
and finally, death. Short clipped sentences emphasis reality. Her husband suffering 'Heart-rot.' drunk, slips into the river: 'Gasps and shrieks.' A schoolteacher son, 'my pride, my eldest..' succumbs to typhoid: 'He died'. Bessie herself 'lifted [me] at last to the sanatorium', welcomes death: 'I sighed the taste of a delicious mist. I smiled.'
'Exploring the undertow' of her life, Anne Ryland writes strong sad women, strong sad poems.
Linda Black
[1] Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages (Boydell Press; 2002)
Victor Hugo's How to be a Grandfather (L'Art d'être Grand-Père) trans. Timothy Adès (Hearing Eye, 2012)
My own introduction to Victor Hugo's work was learning a poem by heart for discussion in an oral examination. Fortunately it was a short poem and one that made a lasting impression. 'Demain dès l'aube' ('Tomorrow at Dawn') is a heart-wrenching elegy to Hugo's nineteen year-old daughter Léopaldine, who had drowned in a sailing accident with her unborn child and husband. The poignancy of Hugo's grief and the beauty of his expression were overwhelming. Fortunately, the great man went on to have more children and his son Charles's wife gave him the two grandchildren, Georges and Jeanne, who were to become the focus of L'Art dêtre Grand-Père, the last book of Hugo's vast oeuvre.
Timothy Adès's translation How to be a Grandfather (Hearing Eye, 2012) is a welcome complete edition of his 2002 shorter version. The book is organised into eighteen sections, of which some titles hint of delights within: 'On Guernsey', 'Jean Asleep ― I', 'The Moon', 'Poem of the Zoo' 'Old Age and Youth Together' and 'Grandpa's Childhood Frolics (1811)', to name a few.
While the poems are beautiful and touching in themselves, much of the poignancy derives from the knowledge that Hugo was a great statesman with enormous influence in the France and Europe of the day. He was twice a Deputy and twice a Senator of France. Initially a staunch supporter of Napoleon, self-interest never took precedence over integrity. Just as Beethoven had retracted the dedication of his Eroica symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte when the latter declared himself Emperor, so Hugo withdrew his support for Napoleon III when he (the elected President) made himself Emperor. He was exiled for his resistance and to this day remains a worldwide symbol of liberty. When you read these poems with a sense of that political back-drop, you gain some measure of the man as a human being. So how does Timothy Adès convey all this in his translation? First by a lively and informative introduction to Victor Hugo, secondly by his seemingly effortless translations into rhymed poems in English, along with notes at the back of the book. Here in its entirety is how he deals with Hugo's introduction of his baby grand-daughter to the world:
Jean Makes Her Entry
Jean talks: she burbles, sweet and low;
Tells nature things she doesn't know,
Tells groaning waves and moaning woods,
Flowers and nests, all heaven, the clouds,
Offering insights, by a smile,
From shimmering dream and roving soul:
A formless murmur, blurred and hazed.
Old grandpa God gives ear, amazed.
Hugo is clearly besotted. The previous year had seen the death of his wife and birth of his first grandchild, Georges. It's easy to workout from the summary of Hugo's life that he was 67 years old when Jean was born. Here, Adès achieves the verbal equivalence and the rhyming couplets of the original. Where Hugo uses Alexandrines, Adès's poem is metred with shorter lines of four stresses. We can see how he has changed the word order and /or split up lines to render a similar aesthetic and emotional affect to that of the French: Jean parle; elle dit des choses qu'elle ignore; /Elle enovie à la mer qui grond, au bois sonore, .... The second clause of Adès's first line appears in the fourth line of the original: A l'immense nature un doux gazouillement.
The poems read beautifully as English poems and indeed, if it weren't for some of the subject matter, you might forget that you're reading a translation; not because they are so 'perfect' that the original is stifled inside them, but because they effortlessly bring to life aspects of Hugo's tumultuous life as well as his larger-than-life personality. Here are the final seven lines of a twenty-eight line poem written during exile in Guernsey - with its playful oxymoron in the title:
I've faced the giants of brute force, that swell
And rear erect on heaped-up nothingness:
Caesars and autocrats and princes, yes,
All those whom mortals worship, loathe, adore:
I've faced the Jupiters of total power
For forty years, victorious, running wild!
Look now: I'm vanquished by a little child. ('Victor Vanquished')
In our current trend of youth worship and tolerance, it's important to realise how different attitudes were in Hugo's era. Children were 'seen and not heard' - a far cry from the breakdown of boundaries sometimes berated today. Even grandparents, traditionally a 'softer touch', were expected to toe the line in Hugo's day:
Seeing the young have little dread of me,
A dreamer at their joy and jollity,
A rogue grandfather! ― pious brows grow dark,
Frowning because I overstep the mark. (Spoilt Children)
Hugo endowed early childhood with an innocence he perceived inherent in nature. Evident in both is a sense of the God he believed in - as distinct from the Church. In fact some of the poems sing with an almost pantheistic ardour:
And the rout has hushed the higher
Tiers of trees, alarmed them too:
Girls who dance on earth inspire
Nests to chirrup in the blue. (The Spoilsport)
Here, Adès facilitates his rhyme by changing 'sky' or 'heavens' (cieux) to 'blue'. This is a familiar substitute in English and typifies the kind of unobtrusive adaptation Adès employs. It's an alternative that does nothing to diminish the charm of the original, resonant as it is with notions of childhood and nursery-rhyme. However, his decision to render Jeanne (clearly a girl's name) as Jean throughout, caused me some confusion. By the end of the book I was still reading 'Jean' as the French boy's name Jean !
Victor Hugo's life was never pure sunshine and blue skies. In 1871, while he was living in Brussels, the Paris Commune was crushed and Belgium refused asylum to its fleeing Communards. When Hugo offered them shelter, his house was stoned by a mob and little Jean was grazed. Her assailant was: ...So young to be/almost a murderer. Almost a child! .. Hugo's indignation is coloured with sadness at the frailty of man: both perpetrator and victim ― the perpetrator an instrument of the Church and Authority he abhorred: How quickly human hearts are emptied of /Warmth, when a priest misleads! Sly men can soon/create a villain from a sad buffoon... We can hear Hugo's compassion for the underdog. He ends the poem with an inversion: ..May his heart with truth be fired:/Less by the priest, more by the Lord inspired. (Stones Thrown at Jean). The decision to retain the inversion of the original succeeds in preserving the tone of a past era, without overdoing it. And indeed, in his introduction, Adès points up poems that are remarkably impressionistic and modern for the time.
The aim of this brief review is to whet the appetite. It can't do justice to the breadth and scope, the larger-than-life ― the sheer pleasure and fascination of the book. Timothy Adès is a bilingual Francophile. He is also the grandfather of two small children. I unreservedly recommend his new translation.
Lucy Hamilton


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See a horse show today in Houma
Published: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 10:13 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 10:13 p.m.
The Terrebonne Livestock Association's monthly horse show is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Houma Air Base Arena, 121 Moffet Road.
The show includes judged and speed events. The association is a nonprofit organization founded in 1947 to promote and preserve livestock and agriculture in Terrebonne. Admission is free.
For information, call Kim Triche at 804-7932.
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Definition of sigh in English:
verb[no object]
1Emit a long, deep, audible breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or a similar feeling: Harry sank into a chair and sighed with relief [with direct speech]: "I'm in a bit of a mess," Elaine sighed
More example sentences
- Tori inwardly sighed with relief that they were on a first name basis once again.
- For those who sigh wearily at this impossible aspiration there are other solutions.
- He looked up at the sky with a wistful expression, a gust slightly lifting up his long hair, and sighed.
breathe out, exhale;
groan, moan
1.1(Of the wind or something through which the wind blows) make a sound resembling this: a breeze made the treetops sigh
More example sentences
- All he could hear was the wind sighing in the trees and the soft lap of water against the wall surrounding the lake.
- A breeze sighed through the branches and we came to a glade, a secret place of fir and silver birch.
- The constant wind that hugs the hill-side seems to sigh at the memory.
rustle, whisper, murmur, sough
1.2 (sigh for) literary Feel a deep yearning for (someone or something lost, unattainable, or distant): he sighed for days gone by
More example sentences
- The joys of rereading might have offered Mallarme a stronger antidote to his ennui than sighing for distant, exotic lands.
- The words she remembered said, 'My heart cries for you, sighs for you, dies for you.'
- Film buffs in Thrissur, tired of watching classics in the DVD format at art house shows, have been sighing for that matchless experience - seeing the magic unfold on the silver screen.
yearn for, long for, pine for, ache for, grieve for, cry for/over, weep for/over, rue, miss, mourn, lament, hanker for/after
1A long, deep, audible exhalation expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or a similar feeling: she let out a long sigh of despair figurative when the aircraft touched down I breathed a sigh of relief
More example sentences
- They looked at each other for a moment, and then Lisa let out a sigh of what sounded like frustration.
- I don't expect you to run wailing through the streets but couldn't you rustle up a small sigh of regret?
- Passengers waiting on the platform breathe a collective sigh of exasperation.
1.1A gentle sound resembling this, especially one made by the wind.
Example sentences
- The only sound was the sigh of the wind across the Pripyat marshes, accelerating to a low moan among the squat blocks of flats.
- The later acoustic-led Thumbing My Way is a sigh on a desert wind.
- For a moment I only stood where I was, listening to the gurgle of the water and the sighs of the wind.
Middle English (as a verb): probably a back-formation from sighte, past tense of siche, sike, from Old English sīcan.
Words that rhyme with sighally, Altai, apply, assai, awry, ay, aye, Baha'i, belie, bi, Bligh, buy, by, bye, bye-bye, chi, Chiangmai, Ciskei, comply, cry, Cy, Dai, defy, deny, Di, die, do-or-die, dry, Dubai, dye, espy, eye, fie, fly, forbye, fry, Frye, goodbye (US goodby), guy, hereby, hi, hie, high, I, imply, I-spy, July, kai, lie, lye, Mackay, misapply, my, nearby, nigh, Nye, outfly, passer-by, phi, pi, pie, ply, pry, psi, Qinghai, rai, rely, rocaille, rye, scry, serai, shanghai, shy, sky, Skye, sky-high, sly, spin-dry, spry, spy, sty, Sukhotai, supply, Tai, Thai, thereby, thigh, thy, tie, Transkei, try, tumble-dry, underlie, Versailles, Vi, vie, whereby, why, wry, Wye, xi, Xingtai, Yantai
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Glasgow Sunday Mail is reporting that legendary singer Robert Plant has vowed never to reform supergroup LED ZEPPELIN for a stadium tour.He says he'd rather sing their classic hits with his new band STRANGE SENSATION at tiny venues to just 1,500 fans. Plant, 57, who plays Edinburgh Corn Exchange next Thursday and Barrowland in Glasgow on October 29, said: "I've not been offered vast sums to reform LED ZEPPELIN. I would never do it anyway. "We were a boy band and I'm not a boy any more. I prefer my career to have a bit of dignity now." Plant cut his teeth as a singer with BAND OF JOY — which also featured the late ZEP drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham — playing Scotland's tough club circuit. He said: "I remember amazing gigs at Ayr Ice Rink and Kirkcaldy YMCA in 1967. "We'd play songs like 'White Rabbit' by JEFFERSON AIRPLANE to a bunch of guys in Kirkconnel Miners' Welfare who basically wanted to kick the s *** out of us." During his 90-minute set to promote his latest solo album, "Mighty Rearranger", Robert dusts off ZEP classics "Black Dog" and "Stairway to Heaven". He said: "My show is sometimes a bit of a hard ticket to sell because it's not about nostalgia. I don't want to do a greatest hits-style tour. I want to be thought of alongside people like Tom Waits, Willie Nelson or Alex Chilton — guys who turn their music around on themselves."
ROBERT PLANT Dismisses ZEPPELIN Reunion Talk: 'I Prefer My Career To Have Bit Of Dignity Now'
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Roger reaches the final!
Roger is just one step away! He reached his eighth straight Grand Slam final today with a hard-fought 7-5, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (7) win over fourth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko at the French Open.
"It was one of the toughest matches I have ever played," Roger said after his ninth victory in series against Davydenko. "It was very close and I could just as well have lost in three sets. I am extremely happy with this result."
Roger is hoping to win a first Roland Garros title to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to win the Grand Slam – four consecutive grand slam titles – a feat he acknowledged "would boost my career in an incredible way". Should Nadal win his semi-final it would certainly be the match of the year because of the stakes.
"If [Federer] wins the French Open, he'll be the greatest player of all time," said John McEnroe, who knows how much frustration clay can cause. McEnroe, Pete Sampras, Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg are among the grand slam champions who never won the French Open.
In beating Davydenko, Roger has reached his eighth consecutive major final, breaking the record he shared with Jack Crawford (1933-34). He has won 27 consecutive grand slam matches, three shy of the record Laver set in 1969-70. Roger's last loss was the one to Nadal last year.
Way to go, Roger!
My comments are not silly. Silly are the people that say that. I want that Federer win Roland Garros, and because that I lost my time and wrote in this chat. Please, respect everyone in this chat.
It is a shame that you did not follow my advices until now. Your first service is relly down. Net approaches are a few. Stay focus great champion.
It is a shame that you did not follow my advices until now. Your first service is relly down. Net approaches are a few. Stay focus great champion.
RG :::No.1 in tennis, You the One!!!
I'm with you.
You're able to do it twice.
I believe in you more than ever.
Good luck!
We love you and we will love you whatever happens today.
Enjoy the challenge. Good luck!


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CHICAGO -- Three of the four winning goals in the finals have been scored by third-line players - Boston's Dan Paille in Game Two and Three and Chicago's Andrew Shaw in Game One.
"I don't know that we should always expect it to be the top line players that do all the work,'' said Bruins coach Claude Julien.
"I think when you look at your teams and you hear coaches in an organization talk about depth, that's what they mean. You don't want to just rely on two, three guys because if you do, you're not going to last very long in the playoffs.
"Every once in a while other guys have to come up big. Whether we're taking about Shaw or Paille, they're good players. They bring an element to the game that's important to their teams, so why shouldn't they be allowed (to score). When you look at Shaw's goal, he went to the front of the net. You look at some of Dan Paille's goals, he's got a great shot and he's used it,'' he said.
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This band formed in the summer of 1998. The band leader (then living in Portsmouth) wanted a deeper understanding of the Latin music he loved so much. He went to Boston, assembled the best Latino musicians he could find, got a weekly gig for the group, and they've been playing ever since. They're "committed to the hard hitting 'salsa dura' sound of the1970s." There are upwards of a dozen players in the group who appear in smaller groups, but play the same "Afro-Cuban and reggae mash-up." They played at The Press Room earlier this month.
Name the band.
Answer to last week's Guess Who: Singer Judith Murray (shown with accompanist Frank Wilkins).
Winner: Roberta Lew, Kittery, Maine
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Born in Queens, NY Allen Benatar has been a dedicated drummer and live performer for as long as he can remember. Allen was always obsessed with Music, he loved playing the Piano & Guitar but always had a special Passion for playing the Drums.
At the age of thirteen, with an unspeakable amount of dedication, Allen finally got the five piece Pearl Export Series drum kit that he had been dreaming about. As a young child, Allen always knew he would grow up to be the passionate musician he is today.
Allen's first serious band "Through the Discipline" was established in 1997. TTD had a successful 10 YEAR run, touring the US extensively (over 3 times) & Canada. The band toured with National Metal acts such as "Kataklysm", "Full Blown Chaos", "Sworn Enemy", & "Misery Index". Through the Discipline was on every major bill across the US (including "Metal Fest" & "Hellfest") opening for bands such as "Misfits", "Killswitch Engage", "Shadows Fall", "Hatebreed", "Arch Enemy", "Children of Bodom", "Six Feet Under", "Joey Belladonna" ("Anthrax"), & more. The band disbanded after signing with an indie Japanese Record Label, and the night before heading out on tour with David Ellefson's ("Megadeth") band "Temple of Brutality" due to member complications.
Six months after the long successful run of TTD, and trying out different guitarists to form a new group, Allen met Chilean Guitarist Felipe Roa (via Myspace) & Chris Leblanc from Boston Massachusetts, who would then form the band "ACARO". It wasn't long before the guys were writing killer material and able to solidify a bassist & Vocalist. Within 6 months of traveling by bus and driving from N.Y. to Boston every weekend for band rehearsal, Allen locked down a new place to live with his Guitarist Felipe in Boston, MA. After 1 year of intense work & dedication (by only their third live performance together), the band was playing alongside National Metal acts such as "Lamb Of God", "In Flames", "All That Remains", "Gojira" & "Unearth."
After touring around the U.S. with ACARO for two successful years, Allen decided it was time for him to pursue other opportunities and made the move to Miami, FL where he hooked up with the infamous Hip-Hop Artist "Pretty Ricky". He also played for Rock band(s) such as "Oblivious Signal", "City of Treason" & Rock/Hip-Hop group "Last King". Four years after a great run down south (and after his grandma passed away), Allen made a last minute move to Los Angeles, CA to continue his successful Music career and to pursue Acting. It was only a few weeks later that Allen's face began to pop up on Major TV shows. While securing a Recording Studio in Hollywood, and continuing his work with his bands on the East Coast, Allen is now able to create Music with West Coast Musicians, while working on his Acting Career.
Allen's contributions to every group he has shared the stage with are remarkable. He is able to manipulate his set in ways that no one has dared to try. Blessed with a rare ability to intuitively compute measures of time and beat, Allen's artful competitive edge is endless. Always ahead of his game, Allen's unique drumming style entails fast and coordinated drum patterns that are recognized by many of his fans. His highly technical circular double-bass patterns and his off-time signature beats are extraordinarily uncommon. Allen continues to tour around the world and his Custom DW drum kit doesn't leave his side.
Allen's internal fire burns solely for the desire to be the perpetual cutting-edge of the entertainment industry. His talents and contributions have endless Possibilities and his desire to learn and grow are extremely admirable.
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Houma man faces fifth DWI charge
Published: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 12:22 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 10:12 a.m.
A Houma man faces a fifth DWI charge and is accused of failing to use a court-ordered device designed to keep motorists from driving drunk, Thibodaux Police said.
Justin Paul Deharte, 39, 115 Crestwood Drive, was stopped for riding a motorcycle the wrong way on Canal Boulevard near East Seventh Street, police said. Deharte told the officer that he had soiled himself and was headed home. He failed field sobriety tests and admitted to drinking six beers, police said.
Deharte didn't have a court-ordered ignition interlock device installed on his motorcycle. The device forces drivers to blow into a machine that determines there is no alcohol in their system. If there is, the vehicle won't start.
Deharte remained in the Lafourche Parish jail this morning on a $125,050 bond.
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Home cinema viewers have always been irritated by the fact that they could not perfectly recreate a movie hall experience, visually, on their widescreen flat-panel TVs. HDTV sets can take you only so far. A lot of the movies produced now are in the 21:9 format that is suitable for movie theaters. When you watch such a movie on a 16:9 TV set, you get black bars at the top and bottom, wasting screen space. Something all of us have experienced while watching the latest movies from Hollywood.
Philips Cinema 21:9 TV will end all that. It won't solve the probelm of content which is already in other formats, but for the latest ones, this should take care of the black bars. Dutch consumer electronics manufacturer Philips is all set to launch its Cinema 21:9 LCD in UK by June 2009.
The 56-inch screen with a three sided Ambilight Spectra (which helps the viewer to adjust ambient light according to his convenience) will support the 16:9 content through smart pixel mapping (we have no idea how they do that). However older content will display the horizontal bars on the Cinema 21:9 TV. Content on recent Blu-ray discs will support the 21:9 aspect ratio. The Philips Cinema 21:9 is a full HDTV system with 2560 x 1080p screen, offering 8.3 million pixels.
The television would not be ideal for watching TV unless the TV transmission is in HDTV; and old-style 4:3 transmissions would be shown only with huge black bars on the left and right.
Philips expect the Cinema 21:9 television to compete with the movie screens in the theatres. Des Power, Philips consumer lifestyle senior VP stated, "'With our unique Cinema 21:9 we have developed a television which takes you as close to the experience that you enjoy at the cinema as you can get without buying a ticket." The company aims to provide the consumers with the best viewing experience ever. "We believe that to really become absorbed in watching a film at home consumers are looking for a real cinematic viewing experience, so we have launched the world's first cinema-proportioned TV screen perfectly complemented by our immersive Ambilight technology."Des Power further added.
The price tag for the Philips Cinema 21:9 hangs at a handsome €4000 (£3535/$5044) in the UK, but with movie enthusiasts willing to make there movie experience better this should be the first attraction for them. That is surely expensive, but not something which would keep home theater fans away from it.
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