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'The Play Of The Game': Watch A Boy Win Over A Girl With A Foul Ball
By editor • May 18, 2014
Originally published on May 19, 2014 7:31 am
The game announcers called it "the play of the game." We'd be foolish not to agree.
During last night's Blue Jays-Rangers game, a boy catches a foul ball. Without a thought, he turns around and gives the ball to a much older girl, who flashes a major smile.
You're thinking, wow, what a smooth operator. But the replay reveals the kid is slicker than you imagined. Just watch:
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I like trees a lot, although Joyce Kilmer really said it much more poetically and memorably, which might mean we had to memorize "Trees" in grade school, not that memory serves me well.
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
He continues:
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
Kilmer doesn't mention God planting trees, or God moving trees, and then God moving them again.
Our subdivided paradise looks large, but that is deceptive because we live on a corner with no sidewalks, so the lawn is expansive. Our lot looks bigger than it really is, which I found out by accident. It was a back-breaking accident.
But I like trees a lot, so I do what needs to be done, God be with me.
First, though, my favorite spot in McHenry County is Mount Auburn Cemetery, which is just outside of Harvard, and it is older than the city itself, judging by tombstone inscriptions. The cemetery cozies up to the northwest line railroad tracks, and its perimeter is a mile around.
In the older half of the cemetery are thousands of grave markers, from simple, flat-to-the-ground limestone to ornate granite monuments that reach for the sky. Among the thousands of graves are hundreds of graceful deciduous trees of every kind, creating a tremendous canopy with no underbrush.
Being a cemetery off the beaten path, not many people go there, so it is not unusual to have the entire place to yourself to wander, wondering about the people who might have been born nearly 200 years ago, and standing in wonder at the trees, many of which must be more than 100 or 200 years old. Without the trees, it's just another cemetery, but these trees create a park.
After wandering through the cemetery, you can sit in a folding chair and read or relax as if you are in your own private sanctuary. It's blissful.
It's not quite like home, where the trees are young and a canopy has not been created, but they do create a tidy pile of fallen leaves seasonally.
I've planted or moved 13 of the 15 trees on our lot, which had none for more than 40 years, and my wife began populating the yard with trees before we met and married. There's a maple, an oak and a willow, and the rest are evergreens, and the only ones I can name are the two blue spruce, a name that contradicts "evergreen" and the two arborvitaes, which we try to hide. The others are kind of wild, starting out as wisps of trees a foot tall.
We made full use of our paradise.
Then I came across a subdivision map, and the deception became apparent. The city has right of way for something like 35 feet from the center of the street. Which is a lot of grass. Where a number of trees were planted. Paradise does not include right of way, although we have to mow it.
And not being ours, the city can do what it wants in the right of way.
My theory was this: We live on a quiet street, with a sidewalk on the other side, and sections of sidewalk here and there on our side. Not anytime soon, but I am guessing that within 25 years, if we did not move trees now, the city was going to require sidewalks in front of our house.In the city's right of way. In the way of the trees I had planted, a few of which I had even moved. Some three times.
When the city decides to make sidewalks mandatory to beautify the neighborhoods, our mature, large trees will be in the way. And we will have to cut them down. And we will be angry. I moved them. So there. Which sounds so simple.
But they had grown, and they resisted moving. The ground I dug holes into is heavy clay and stone that fights shovels, a few of which snapped until I bought a model guaranteed to stand the test of hole-diggers. Just to make sure, I bought a nasty pick ax to break the clay.
Moving growing trees is not easy. Having moved them – just to show the city we weren't going to play its games 25 years hence – was satisfying, but you just never know. Did I dig too close? Did I damage the roots? Did I kill the trees? Those answers wouldn't be answered for a growing season.
Happily, they lived after being moved, sometimes, multiple times. And they close in on our house in some spots, and eventually they will provide much-needed shade. They are at a distance, in a quiet corner of the yard that is meant to be a peaceful sanctuary, or in another corner to provide privacy.
By moving the trees, I have assured that the city never will require sidewalks.
Joyce Kilmer concludes:
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
• Dick Peterson, who lives in Woodstock, is a mental-health advocate, a freelance writer and a former Northwest Herald Opinion Page editor. He can be contacted at email@example.com.

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In Case You Need Another Reason to Get Excited About 2011 Baseball
You don't have to be a White Sox fan to let this badass commercial affect you:
Of course, if you are a White Sox fan, you probably feel a little more charged than those who aren't but still, the theatrics of it all are pretty universal. Baseball is coming.
And it's gonna rock our worlds.
In the second grade, I was asked by my teacher where I wanted to live when I grow up. While most most kids in the class answered with a city name, or, next to their parents' house, I calmly replied: "anywhere that is walking distance to a ballpark."
Well, I certainly made that dream come true. It may not be St. Louis' Soulard, but Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood (where I make my home) is definitely a great place to live, especially in the summer time. There really is nothing like coming home for work, changing into comfortable shoes and walking down to New Comiskey to scalp some tickets to take in a game on a whim.
And ya never know… 'cuz in any given game, anything could happen.
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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I just found out that I'm going to miss Opening Day…It's an afternoon game on a Thursday. I was planning on catching the encore, but I have a night field trip so I'm going to miss it. Bummer. Sadly, where I'm going isn't within walking distance of Yankee Stadium…I better watch the other 161 games!
Jeff, having a ballpark in your neighborhood is like a dream come true. It must be so great to be able to walk to games. There must be some great sports bars in the area, too, with great fans if you can't get a ticket. Looks like a great summer ahead.
Personally, I prefer the Rockies ads. They're always well-done and funny.
Virginia — You better or your boy Cervelli will be upset😉
Mike — It is nice. I agree. And yes, can't wait! Summers in the Chi are the best.
Prince — Not familiar with them but I do know the M's have some good ones too.
You're so right. You don't have to be a White Sox fan to love that commercial. It's great! In fact, I wish it had been longer. Now I can't wait to see "the movie." Loved the "introducing…"
Walking distance to the ballpark? That's living the good life! I envy you. I have a hard time getting to the ballpark before the second inning during the week, which is galling but better than not going. Enjoy yourself this season.
Jane — Yeah, the movie trailer idea… that's niiiiiiiiiice.
Jeremy — I like it! He does look like him!
Kristen — As long as ya get to the game, that's what's important!
Jeff, if I had the money, I'd get a place in the North Loop neighborhood in Minneapolis. Why? Because I could walk to Target Field. That would be my dream, too! Though, I'm content with leaving a car behind and bussing it to the ballpark (I'm too north of the light rail and too south from the Northstar train).
Though, a killer relocation to another MLB (or minor league) city with a cool neighborhood within walking distance (or direct transit link) to the ballpark doing what my soon-to-be degree would be used for would be absolutely amazing (Except Boystown).
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Just a little update for you guys. :ice:
It should be out in 30mins-1hr from now. Japan TV just finished airing it.
Arigatou nii-san!
Thaks a lot
Cant wait, looks good :D
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Thaks a lot
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Arigatou nii-san!
:ice: no problem.
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Cant wait, looks good :D
Not really
the only part i enjoyed was Naruto using rasengan on someone and Gaara meeting with his father.
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Recipe Servings: 4 servings
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At six years old, he worked in the fields picking cotton to help his family make ends meet.
At 17, he dropped out of high school and joined the military.
But even with everything stacked against him, he has risen to become the city and county's new emergency management coordinator.
Past few years
Bridge retired from the Corpus Christi Police Department in 2008, having served in a variety of positions, many of which would prepare him for this new role in Bee County.
Since then, he has worked in several different jobs.
"I lived out my lifelong dream of being a full-time cowboy," Bridge said. "I did that for three or four years. I needed some time to get that out of my system.
"Plus, I volunteered with different organizations."
That just wasn't enough for him though. He missed the excitement and fast-paced life.
"This is what I do. This environment is what I do," he said. "As a captain, I had the opportunity to be an incident commander for different scenarios. Also, as commanders, we helped out in the emergency operation center in Corpus Christi."
Bridge, who retains his law enforcement certification, said that what is different now is that he won't be on the scene of the emergency.
"Now, instead of being on the scene as a first responder, I will be behind the scenes," he said.
Growing up
Bridge was born in Beeville on the west side of town.
His is the son of Guadalupe Torrez and Bennie Bridge.
His grandmother was Guadalupe Torrez, who many will likely know as a midwife.
"She was a self-taught midwife," he said. "I cannot tell you how many people I have run into here that know me or my family... and they say 'Did you know that your grandmother delivered all three of my kids?'
"Anybody that is my age or older, if they lived on the west side of Beeville, they were probably delivered by my grandmother."
"She would come home with a little pig or basket of eggs under her arm. That is how they paid. Nobody had any money."
At six years old, Bridge remembers being in the field with his mother.
"My mom would have a 50-pound burlap sack, and I would pick cotton right next to her," he said. "There was no babysitting or day care, so your mom took you with her. Not to say this is a bad thing. That was just the way it was."
"I remember when I was 10 years old, my mom sent me with my uncle on the back of the truck to Berclair," he said. "We were paid to pull the tops off of corn."
He didn't know why they were doing this. He just knew that was what he was being paid to do and suspected it was part of an experiment.
A dropout
At 17, Bridge dropped out of high school. At that time, he was going to Pettus High School, having moved out to the family ranch seven years prior.
He joined the military, which would ultimately lead to a chain of events that would bring him back to Beeville.
Bridge was at Fort Sill, Okla., when officers from the Houston Police Department spoke to the servicemen looking for new recruits.
Something about those officers ignited a spark inside of Bridge.
"I don't know why," he said. "Those guys walked in, and, instantly, I knew that is what I wanted to do."
Thanks to a military program, Bridge received his diploma – something he would need to begin his college education.
When his tour was up, Bridge went to work at Chase Field as a civilian and enrolled in college.
There, he met, among others, Bill Lazenby, who was teaching classes at what was then Bee County College.
Bridge wasn't quite finished with his law enforcement classes when his father died though.
He had watched his father deteriorate for two years as he suffered with cancer.
"Basically, we saw him wither away. He had throat cancer. He couldn't eat," Bridge said.
His death hit Bridge hard. Even now, something in Bridge's voice changed as he spoke.
"I just left. I was single, and I just left," he said.
In what some might see as fate, he ended up back in Oklahoma — where he had first met the men from Houston PD.
He got a job with Oklahoma City PD, received his peace officer's license, met his wife, Linda Zimmerman, and decided it was time to move back to Texas.
Corpus Christi
In 1983, Bridge was hired on with the Corpus Christi Police Department.
He worked his way through the ranks as field training officer for new cadets, then onto the DEA narcotics task force and, eventually, a lieutenant and then captain.
In 2008, he retired.
"I always felt law enforcement is a calling," he said.
"Not in the same way as a man preaching the word of God.
"People don't do it for the money. People don't do it for the praise.
"It takes a certain type of personality that wants to do that job."
New EMC
This week, he was formally hired to replace David Morgan, who retired as emergency management coordinator for the city and county.
Morgan said that Bridge was chosen from among 20 applicants for this position.
"I think the deciding factor was Mr. Bridge's familiarity with the area and the people here," Morgan said. "He certainly has the experience and capability as a retired captain from Corpus Christi Police Department."
Morgan said that Bridge also volunteered at the emergency operations center when Ike was threatening this area.
"He has already been up there and done the job," Morgan said.
"He was the logical choice."
Commissioner Eloy Rodriguez added, "I think it is great to have somebody who knows the people and the community."
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PCP's comprehensive guide to TV's pilot season for 2012.
… Except we all know that most of us just sit in front of our computers to watch TV these days, don't we?
Anyway, I love television. I always have a series that I'm working my way through (currently I'm re-watching The O.C, and I finished the first season of American Horror Story yesterday, also.) and I'm always looking for new shows to get attached to. Hence, this time of year is exciting for me, because it's when all the networks start announcing their new shows and new line-ups for the Fall (Autumn, which of course is actually Spring if you're on my side of the globe) season, and I get to start working out which new shows I'm going to be getting into. Now, if you haven't already heard, you can check out which of your faves got renewed and which got cancelled by clicking this link here (RIP, Ringer, you weren't great but I loved you.). Right now, though, I'm going to run through all the new shows I've read about so far, and I'll keep you posted in the coming weeks when more news is released on them. Let's get started.
666 Park Avenue.
Starring Terry O'Quinn, Vanessa Williams, Dave Annable, Mercedes Masohn, Robert Buckley, and Rachael Taylor. It sounds like ABC's answer to American Horror Story's success. Based on the books by Gabriella Pierce, 666 Park Avenue focuses on a haunted NYC apartment building, owned by O'Quinn and Williams. Those two in the picture, Dave Annable and Rachael Taylor, become the managers and shit starts to go down.
1600 Penn.
Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman, Josh Gad, Amara Miller, Andre Holland and Martha MacIsaac star in this family sitcom where they've put a wacky kid who's going to fuck up the lives of his family, and, wait for it, they live in the White House! Here's a clip from the show:
Animal Practice.
Justin Kirk plays a vet who love animals but hates their owners. Tyler Labine and Bobby Lee are also in this 'It's like House but with Pets' single-cam office comedy. I love Justin Kirk, but I think I'll stick to Weeds.
Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Susanna Thompson, Willa Holland, Paul Blackthorne, Colin Donnell. A modern retelling of the story of DC Comics character Green Arrow, Stephen (from Hung) in the lead role, with Katie Cassidy (from Gossip Girl/Monte Carlo) playing love interest Laurel Lance. I hope Evanescence is on the soundtrack.
Beauty and the Beast.
Kristen Kreuk, or as I refer to her in my head 'Fiiiiiiooooooooooooonaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!' from Eurotrip (and Smallville) and Jay Ryan, with Austin Basis star in this loose adaptation of the 1980's series that starred Linda Hamilton:
Ben & Kate.
Dakota Johnson plays an uptight single mother whose aimless brother, played by Oscar Winner Nat Faxon (he co-wrote the screenplay for The Descendants/used to be Kevin the P.A. on Grosse Pointe) moves in to help her raise her kid. I'll probably give this one a shot because the trailer's decent and I like Nat Faxon.
The Carrie Diaries.
The Sex and the City prequel starring AnnaSophia Robb. I feel like I've already said everything I need to say about this one here, and here. I'll be watching, even if it's a bit shit.
Chicago Fire.
If you can't tell exactly what this show will be like from the picture above then there's something very, very wrong with you. It's Law & Order, but with fire. Taylor Kinney, Jesse Spencer, Eamonn Walker, Monica Raymund, Lauren German, David Eigenberg, Merle Dandridge, Teri Reeves, and Charlie Barnett star.
Matt Davis plays a journalist who is paired with a young production assistant (played by Jessica Lucas) working on a popular TV drama about an enigmatic cult leader to investigate the show's rabid fans, who may be re-creating crimes from the program.
Do No Harm.
Steven Pasquale is a neurosurgeon who has a dangerous (which probably means batshit insane) alter ego who's tryin'a ruin his life. The supporting cast includes Alana de la Garza, Phylicia Rashad and Mousa Kraish. Also, that's basically the poster for Ringer but with dudes:
Also, just quickly, while we're on the topic of Ringer, I totally couldn't place where I knew Ioan Gruffudd (Andrew Martin) and couldn't be assed looking it up, but finally figured it out a few weeks ago. He totally pulls my girl Rose out of the North Atlantic in Titanic:
'Come abouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut!' I'm sorry, you guys, eventually I'll stop relating everything back to Titanic. Also, that's probably a lie. Moving on…
It's a modern day, New York City version of Sherlock Holmes (played by Jonny Lee Miller), and the 'twist' is that Watson is played by Lucy Liu (wit' my girl Drew… not really, that's just what I think when I hear her name now thanks to Destiny's Child.). This would be interesting if I didn't think that they'd already done exactly that with the now cancelled Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Cancelled because it sucked. I watched four seasons of it, and I like whatshisface off Full Metal Jacket, but it didn't get better. But hey, you know they're just trying to cash in on the success of the films, so why not?
Family Tools.
The American remake of the UK's White Van Man, this single-camera comedy follows Kyle Bornheimer's character, a blue collar guy who puts his dreams on hold in order to take over the family handyman business from his dad, played by JK Simmons. Leah Remini plays Simmons' younger sister, Jonny Pemberton plays her son.
First Cut.
That chick (Mamie Gummer) plays a new doctor who used to be a dork and is looking forward to creating a new life, when she realises that all life is just like high school. She wants to bang that dude (Justin Hartley), who she went to med school with.
The Following.
Kevin Bacon's career has taken some interesting turns; I saw his boner in Friday the 13th, I saw his dick in Wild Things, and I saw Hollow Man. Now he's playing a retired FBI profiler who's trying to hunt down a deranged serial killer who's using the net to build a cult of murderers. It also stars James Purefoy as the serial killer, Shawn Ashmore, Valorie Curry, Adam Canto, Natalie Zea , Jeananne Goossen and Maggie Grace.
Friend Me.
It's got McLovin' (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) in it, with Nicholas Braun playing his buddy. They play Evan and Rob, who move to LA to start "exciting new" jobs at Groupon.
Golden Boy.
Before I tell you what it's about, let me say that when I google image searched 'golden boy CBS' there's tons (well, seven) photos of Ryan Phillippe for no apparent reason. He's not in the show, though, so whatever. The show's about Theo James' character's rise from officer all the way to Police Commissioner. It also stars Kevin Alejandro, Chi McBride, Stella Maeve, and Bonnie Somerville, another Grosse Pointe alumni (as well as Nat Faxon, who's in Ben & Kate if you're not really paying attention.).
The Goodwin Games.
I really liked Becki Newton on Ugly Betty, and Scott Foley gets a pass from me because sometimes I think about this scene in Scream 3 and laugh:
'You think *this* wasn't a message?!'
Anyway, the other guy is Jake Lacy, and together, the show is about three siblings who have to reconnect in order to inherit their dad's fortune. This one actually looks like it could be genuinely funny:
Go On.
Matthew Perry's returning to TV (again, but who's keeping track?). He plays a sportscaster who makes friends at his mandatory group therapy sessions. Good on him. It also stars Laura Benanti, Allison Miller, and Julie White. Oh, and John Cho is in the trailer, so hopefully he's in the show frequently, because I find him funny. I'll be watching because I'm a Friends junkie.
Guys With Kids.
Jesse Bradford got old, hey? And haha, look how excited Jamie-Lynn Sigler is to be back on television. Anyway, this show is about three 30-something guys struggling to raise their kids because they're manchildren themselves. The rest of the cast is Anthony Anderson, Zach Cregger, and Tempestt Bledsoe.
Laugh tracks aren't my favourite thing, but this looks… like it has potential, maybe.
This one probably won't be out for awhile because they haven't even cast Hannibal Lector yet, but Hugh Dancy is set to play FBI agent Will Graham and it be a contemporary take on the characters from Thomas Harris' Red Dragon, and focus on the relationship between him and Hannibal.
How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life).
Multi-cam (read: it'll probably have a laugh track) sitcom about a recent divorcee (Sarah Chalke) who moves back in with her wacky parents who know no boundaries. Brad Garrett and Elizabeth Perkins are apparently old enough to play the parents to Sarah Chalke, even though when I'm looking at those three photos she doesn't look too much younger than them… When I look it up, they're both 16 years older than her in real life. Maybe them being young parents will be a part of the plot…
My boy
Thomas Andrews Victor Garber is in it, so I might check this out solely to keep the reasons I have to bring up Titanic in everyday conversation alive. Meaghan Good plays a detective who was the daughter of a maid to a wealthy family who goes back undercover to solve the mystery of who killed her childhood friend, the heiress of the wealthy family. This kind of looks like Dirty Sexy Money meets Ringer maybe, so I'll also be checking it out for the soapy-drama thing that I'm hoping it has going on.
Last Resort.
A thriller set in the near future, when the US is very fractured, and revolving around the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine who become hunted fugitives after ignoring an order to fire nuclear missiles. Andre Braugher plays the commander of the AWOL sub, Scott Speedman his second-in-command. It also stars Dichen Lachman (the Aussie off Dollhouse/Neighbours), Autumn Reeser (from The OC, Daisy Betts, Camille de Pazzis, Jessy Schram, Bruce Davison and Max Adler.
Made in Jersey.
Janet Montgomery plays a working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete with her more polished colleagues at a Manhattan law firm. I like Kyle MacLaughlan so I'll probably check it out, and it's also got Erin Cummings, Felix Solis and Toni Trucks in it.
Malibu Country.
So this one kind of sounds like the basic plot of the already-cancelled Good Christian Bitches (GCB), but without the bitches. Reba McEntire plays a recent divorcee who moves her kids and mom (played by Lily Tomlin) from Nashville to Malibu, where she tries to reignite her singing career while keeping herself and her family kids from being corrupted by their materialistic new environs.
The Mindy Project.
Let me just run through some things real quick, yeah?
1) I love Mindy Kaling.
2) I love The Office.
3) I love Kelly Kapoor.
4) I love that she writes for The Office.
5) I just ordered her book, and I'm expecting to love it, because
7) I want to be friends with Mindy Kaling.
Basically, I'm absolutely going to watch this, even if it just a 'Bridget Jones is a OB/GYN' plot.
The Mob Doctor.
Not much to say, really. She's a doctor… to the MOB! The trailer's got that guy who played the cop that Phoebe dated for a few episodes in Friends until they moved in together and he shot a bird in front of her, but he's not in that picture up there, so my guess would be that he dies pretty early on in the show.
Connie Britton is a country star at her peak (in Nashville, did you guess?!) while Hayden Panettiere is a rising star. Apparently it's a family soap set amongst the Nashville music scene. Sounds like Taylor Swift just found herself a new favourite show, but I think I'll give this one a miss. It also stars Eric Close, Powers Boothe, Robert Wisdom, Jonathan Jackson, Sam Palladio and Clare Bowen.
The Neighbours.
Not to be confused with Neighbours, the long-running Australian soap. Jami Gertz's character and her family move to a fancy New Jersey suburb (is that an oxymoron? My only encounters of Jersey are Jay and Silent Bob films and Jersey Shore.), oh and then it turns out that their neighbours are aliens. Okay. Simon Templeman, Lenny Venito, Toks Olagundoye and Tim Jo also star.
The New Normal.
That's fucking NeNe from Real Housewives of Atlanta. Even if this is the absolute worst show of all time, I'll be watching it. Also, Ellen Barkin's in it and she's always fantastic. Oh, it's about that preggers chick in the middle there being a surrogate for the gay couple, if that was unclear in the picture. It also stars Andrew Rannells, Georgia King, and Justin Bartha.
Next Caller.
They have a radio show, he (Dane Cook) is an alpha male, and she's the plucky new feminist co-host. Jeffrey Tambor's in it, that's pretty great.
Well, good on Sophia Bush for finding work to jump right into after One Tree Hill ends. Partners is about architects Charlie and Louis' (David Krumholtz and Michael Urie) friendship, who have one of those 'marriage' friendships. When Charlie decides to propose to his girlfriend (Sophia Bush), Louis' neurotic attempts to be supportive nearly result in the breakup of his own relationship. Brandon Routh plays Louis' boyfriend, and Elizabeth Regen and Lucy Davis also star.
Red Widow.
Radha Mitchell plays the red widow in the American adaptation of the Dutch series. She's the widow of an assassinated criminal, forced to adopt her husband's role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family. Lee Tergesen plays a foot soldier for a drug kingpin.
All forms of energy have ceased to exist for no real reason, apparently, and Revolution follows characters played by David Lyon, Billy Burke, Giancarlo Esposito, Tim Guinee, Tracy Spiradakos, Zak Orth, Andrea Roth and JD Pardo as they try to survive and/or find their loved ones.
Save Me.
I've been waiting and waiting for this one. Look, Anne Heche in a straight jacket! Like she probably should be in real life, because she's absolutely, 100% bat-shit insane, and if you need any reasons why, please, please read her IMDB biography, I assure you it's not boring. So in this show, she has an accident and then starts to believe that she's channeling God, which is almost like what happened back when she broke up with Ellen, you know, that time that she dropped a shit ton of E, drove into the desert, walked to a stranger's house, asked to use their phone, had a shower and then asked them if they wanted to watch a movie. They called the cops, and she told them that she was God, and was going to take everyone back to heaven in a spaceship. I couldn't make this shit up if I tried, you guys, seriously, it's alllllll in that link up there.
Anyway, the show's also got that hot slut from American Horror Story (Alexandra Breckenridge), Michael Landes, Heather Burns, Lamon Rucher and Madison Davenport. I will absolutely be watching this, and I'll probably also be purchasing Anne Heche's auto-biography.
Because there's already a show called Las Vegas. What makes this any different, you ask? Well, it's set in the 60's, to begin with, and it's based on the true story of Ralph Lamb – rodeo cowboy turned longtime Sheriff of Las Vegas. We'll see how this one does; neither of the period dramas (Pan Am/The Playboy Club) survived last year, so hopefully this is going to be better.
Zero Hour.
A thriller about a magazine editor, played by Anthony Edwards, who becomes involved in one the most compelling conspiracies in human history when his wife is kidnapped. It also stars Michael Nyqvist, Scott Michael Foster (Cappy from Greek), Carmen Ejogo, and Jacinda Barrett.
And, finally, that's all I have for you right now. I'm not sure what the cable stations (HBO, Showtime, FX) are bringing to the table just yet, but hopefully they've got some good shit. Also, while we're chatting like this I should probably give some credit to TVLine.com for most, if not all, of the actual information in this post, as well as some of the pictures and synopses. So what's the deal? Are you looking forward to anything in particular? There's a lot of shows I'll be checking out, but in general I feel like I was more excited for last year's pilot season. Who knows, though? You know what TV needs is a new teen show, because there isn't one that's dominating right now.


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Vox Populi, Vox Dei
On the same night that Barack Obama became the definitive Democratic nominee and furthered his journey by taking the next step to becoming the president of hope for all US Americans, I too made a bold move that finally gave the people what they wanted. Yes, dear readers, it is true that since late April, I have become somewhat of a recluse and have not made any public appearances at a baseball stadium near you. This decision had nothing to do with those endearing fans who have urged me to come back into the light and everything to do with the fear mongering Cub fans and subsequent paparazzi that have simply been unable to leave me alone. After my shotgun rise to fame, the careening death of my humility and myriad run-ins with the high demands of fans and foes alike, I ultimately found myself spent — empty of emotion, void of volition, destitute of destiny.
But sometimes the voice of the people is so loud and so strong and so motivating that not even I can ignore it.
And so it came to me in the middle of the night — that thunderous roar of resurgence inspired by the people — that no longer would I allow myself, my fans, my chimeric offspring, nor any other US American or world-inhabiting life form to continue down the path of never-ending disappointment. No. It was time to get out. It was time to go to The Joan.
The Royals were in town. The Sox were standing atop the AL Central (still are). And the people were ringing in my ears.
When I first stepped outside my Southside home I was pleasantly surprised to see that the paparazzi, hopeless that I would ever show my face in public again, were already gone. I walked the few short blocks to the #8 Halsted bus stop at 29th & Halsted and to my delight, this is what I saw:
What a beautiful sight to see no one around. The coast was clear. I could breathe easy. Then the bus came. Reality set in. Chaos ensued.
I barely made it out of there alive! As soon as I stepped on the bus it started — the ambush of photographers, autograph seekers, ill-parented children. Someone, somebody tipped them off to my arrival and I'm pretty sure it was my personal stylist, Miguel, who is, coincidentally, now dead. I had nothing to do with his death (he was hit by the #62 Archer bus in a freak accident) but it's obvious that he deserved it. I'm lucky I survived on the #8 myself.
But I did. And I was determined.
Unfortunately, it just wasn't going to get any easier at the game. A fog had set in over the city, eerily setting the stage for yet another blitzkrieg on my stardom, and not even Jermaine Dye (who is much more looming in person) could protect me from the evildoing Royals fans:
Yes, folks, Royals fans hate me too. They hate me for my arrogance, righteousness, intelligence. They hate me because I'm a Cardinals fan. They hate me for my unending defamation of Don Denkinger, for my highly praised baseball-politico forum of RSBS and because I root for my neighborhood Sox. But the main reason they hate me is 'cuz I'm always right.
And one Royals fan couldn't stand to see me in my element — to see me make a graceful entrance to the section 110 box seats, greeted with fanfare and treated with respect. No. It made him turn blue and then it made him turn on me:
I only blacked out for a second, but in that time A.J. hit a single and Carlos Quentin knocked him in by blasting a 2-run homer that landed just feet from me and the RSBS entourage. I came to and noticed my cellphone was blowing up with text messages from my counterpart, Allen Krause, who was attending the St. Louis Cardinals v. D.C. Nationals matchup. At the same exact time that I was getting beat up by a drunk Royals fan, Allen was getting his teeth kicked in by the Nats' Elijah Dukes, who actually read Al's blog entry, way back when, attacking Dukes for his predatory passes at a 17 year-old foster child. It was raining heavily in D.C. and while the Cards were pounding the ball, Al just couldn't take the excitement, the rain or the pain. He texted me to say he was going home.
But I stayed. The Royals fan was kicked out of the park by my — ahem — the White Sox security:
The Sox would continue to score runs, with homeruns from Alexei Ramirez and (hold your breath!) Nick Swisher, further adding to the Royals' dismay.
And at the end of a colossally eventful night, the people got what they wanted: Obama won the nomination, Jenks pitched the 9th, the Cardinals beat the Nats, Elijah Dukes beat the snot out of Tiger-lover Allen Krause, and I got out of the house.
Life ain't worth livin' if ya don't take some risks sometimes… and life ain't worth livin' if you hate me 'cuz I'm right. Just ask that Royals fan.
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Excellent reportage. I would also like to ask you a question, as you are MLBlogs resident Chinese expert. I read today that at the Beijing Olympics the spectators are being encouraged to shout "Jiayou" which as you know means "add oil", this is said to be a popular Chinese sports chant. Why do they shout "add oil"? If you fail to answer your credibility will be destroyed. Thanks
Why, Russell, how savvy you are in your Mandarin skills. Yes, they shout "jia you" and your description of the literal meaning is absolutely correct. Your question is WHY do they say this? My answer is multifaceted: First of all, I have no idea where it came from exactly, but I was told it came from a euphemism for a sexual act in order to procreate male heirs. I've also heard that it came from oil lamps in the Forbidden City, the Emperor's commands ringing through the hallowed halls to "add oil". But truthfully, these are probably all inaccurate as the REAL roots of the phrase, which I doubt are as concrete as people would like them to be. I mean, why do we say "raining cats and dogs"? It hasn't ever REALLY rained cats and dogs, right? "Jia you" is a cool way to say "go get 'em"! "Add oil, big fella!" You'll probably also hear a lot of "Zhongguo wan sui!" too which literally means "China 10,000 Years Old" but actually means "Long live China".
Language can be so confusing sometimes.
Yes I am savvy in my Mandarin skills, and thanks for the explanation. Incidentally,"raining cats and dogs" is believed to have come from 17th/18th Century England where sanitation was so poor that during heavy rainstorms debris,including dead animals, would be washed through the streets (at least that's what it said when I Googled it).
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As of 1 p.m., there are no homes in danger. But, residents should remain cautious until this fire is brought under control and extinguished.
Fire officials said there are two areas that are actively burning. One area is near Kuwale Road and the other is a section in the valley that is burning into the forest reserve.
Part of an orchid farm off of Waianae Valley Road was damaged from flames Tuesday morning.
About 1,000 acres were burned, according to fire officials, and it's the largest fire in the state this year.
The brush fire broke out at around 1 p.m. Monday just off Lualualei Homestead Road and it burned over the ridge line.
About a dozen residents evacuated their homes due to the smoke.
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No one has been reported injured in the fire.
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my lo is 5 1/2 months and he's been eating solids (and still nursing) for about a month. we started him on solids because he was really beginning to show interest in our food (watched us like a hawk, reached for food, made chewy faces when he saw us eating) and his weight was a little low. the doctor suggested it, even though he isn't sitting up yet, we put him in the bumbo.
he's a champion eater and has eaten everything we've given him (mostly spooned purree's for now plus some prunes and frozen mangoes in one of those baby-self-feeder-bag-pacifier thingys). sometimes we add cereal to the purees and sometimes we don't.
i'm feeling unsure of a couple of things though. he eats SO much! (sometimes 2 of the bigger jars of food in a sitting!) i don't want to overfeed him, but the doctor suggested he's probably pretty hungry since he wasn't gaining much weight. i want to encourage good eating habits though and sometime don't feed him more -- even if he's insisting -- if he's eaten a large amount already. i can't find any guidelines about how much he should be eating.
also, the doctor suggested we start to augment with some formula to give him more calories. aside from him hating the formula we got for him, i don't quite understand how this will work. he always nurses until he's satisfied and to try to give him formula afterwards to 'top him off' as the dr suggested... well, let me just say it didn't go well and i was sure in those moments that if my baby could swear at me, he would have.... do any of you have luck augmenting with formula?
also... we've started with organic jarred food, but have sometimes just whirled up some of the veggies we've cooked for dinner, etc. for him. yesterday there was great enthusiasm to feed him everything from the thanksgiving table, i nixed the 'first turkey' plan that was formulating but went with mashed potatoes with some cranberry sauce mixed in... not really thinking about the sour cream in the potatoes or the sugar in the cranberries... i'd love to get to a place where i just whirl up some of what we're eating so he gets used to the spices and tastes we enjoy... but we cook with oils and butter and lots of things that are probably going to be tough on his system. when have others started feeding their babies in this way?
i can't believe it's time for solids already. it made me a little sad at first, but he's still nursing -- in fact, sometimes it seems like now his appetite is even bigger and he wants to nurse even more.


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The garden, though smaller, is as extraordinary as the world's most famous gardens in Versailles, France, or Claude Monet's garden at Giverny, France, or even closer to home, Zilker Botanical Garden in Austin.
Chuck and Nancy Henderson, who own the gardens, said the entire garden oddly began with steel trailer tongues.
Chuck said three trailers were used to haul in their modular home set along the shore of Copano Bay in 2009. The hauler was going to take the tongues, but Chuck said he wanted them for some kind of use later.
So there they sat for some time, said Nancy complaining but smiling.
Then the idea came to use the tongues to create a herb garden in May 2011, but Chuck said he needed one more tongue to create a four-pointed star that would be set like a compass, showing north, south, east and west.
A subcontractor in Castroville found the fourth tongue. The tongue was brought to the Hendersons, and the garden was born.
The Henderson's hired Chris Naylor, a Bayside landscaper and nursery owner, to help design the raised compass garden and more.
The garden didn't stop with the compass star.
"We just kept going: The star compass was first, then a rising sun raised section was done followed by a crescent moon.
The configuration then was the sun rising in the east, the compass star in the middle and the crescent moon in the west.
"The beds are all raised, and the borders are all capped so you can sit anywhere you want. And you don't have to bend over to pick weeds," Chuck said.
Thousands of feet straight up in the air, Google Earth's satellite sees the garden's designs just as the geoglyphs at Nazca, Peru, can be seen from high up.
Chuck said a special mixture of dirt was used for the garden's flowers and vegetables.
A super dirt sans heavy metals but mixed with sewage sludge was made in Bay City. The top soil was sand and mulch with mushroom compost from a farm in Gonzales.
"It's interesting to see it being mixed with a Bobcat and little guy," Chuck said.
"For the vegetables, we want it to be as close to organic as possible.," Chuck said.
They also use plant food.
Stiff winds often blow off Copano Bay, reaching up to 30 or 40 knots at times. So the Hendersons decided to make a wind break to protect the plants.
The garden slopes down from the eastern edge closest to the bay and prevailing southeasterly wind. So the wind break was planted at the high point facing the bay.
Mexican Bird of Paradise, Pride of Barbados and hardy Caesalpinia were used for the break. The plants slow the impact of the wind down to a mild breeze.
All the sections of the nearly 3,000 square-foot garden are raised, terraced, and noninvasive bamboo protects it from the north wind.
"All of it is on an automated water system, drip system and spitters," Chuck said.
The Hendersons use well water and supplement it with rain water from their 3,000 gallon rain collector.
"We also use air conditioning condensate," Nancy said.
"We plan on adding another 3,000 gallon tank," she said.
They found their rain collectors at farm supply places in Taft and Odom.
Quite a few varieties of herbs and flowering plants are in the garden, and as spring advances, so do the blossoms and blooming, so the best is yet to come, Nancy said.
In the herb garden,
Basils, Rosemary, Mexican oregano, thyme, mint, cilantro, flat leaf parsley thrive among others.
Nancy said in addition to a variety of wildflowers, exotic hibiscus (standards), Mexican honeysuckle and Cape honeysuckle are in the garden.
Also she said native olives, bougainvillea (including white, pink, rusty red, double purple and flame), bottle brush tree, Mexican oleander (for shade), Jatropha, orange peel Cestrum, Mexican bush sage, native butterfly weed hybrid, red passion vine, lantanas, firecracker plant, petunias, Ixora, Duranta, orange and yellow esperanza, blue sage (mystic spiers, pentas, black foot daisy, maypop and Mexican petunias and Ruellia are in the garden, among others.
Chuck said the garden's expansion is slowing now. and that means soon just maintaining what was created will be all that remains.
Chuck and Nancy say they had several reasons to create the garden.
"Chuck and I have shared for 50 years a great love of nature in all its facets – we love wildlife and our animals, we love plants and flowers, both wild and cultivated, and we take special pleasure in creating beauty in any form," Nancy said.
"Chuck has loved pottery and I drawing and sculpture, so given the space and the means, this was a custom made opportunity to indulge our favorite pastimes," she said.
Nancy added: "Being in the garden is a time of joy and serenity for me, a completely different place from the hustle and bustle of the outside world of politics and strife."


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She was born on October 12, 1926 in Mexico.
Survivors include her step-children, Frank DeLeon, Reyes DeLeon, Becky Sauceda, Pete DeLeon, Lubin DeLeon, Mary Rivas; and 18 grandchildren.
Visitation was held on Monday, July 8 from 1 - 9 p.m. at Rhodes Funeral Home with a rosary recited at 7 p.m. that evening.
A funeral Mass was held on Tuesday July 9 at 10 a.m. at St. Cornelius Catholic Church.
Burial followed in the Karnes City Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Rhodes Funeral Home.


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#207390 - 09/27/12 09:44 PM Theseus' clew
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Today the History Channel had programs about different mythological figures, and I was fascinated to hear this (quote from the Online Etymology Dictionary): clue (n.)
1590s, phonetic variant of clew "a ball of thread or yarn," with reference to the one Theseus used as a guide out of the Labyrinth. The purely figurative sense of "that which points the way" is from 1620s.
#207398 - 09/28/12 07:09 AM Re: Theseus' clew [Re: Jackie]
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That's fascinating, Jackie! I had only coe across the word before as a sailing term - meaing the lower corners of a sail. Hence, "to clew-up", meaning to gather the sail together on the yard arm as a preparation for furling it._________________________
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#207458 - 10/01/12 04:50 AM Re: Theseus' clew [Re: Jackie]
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So...Jackie if its 'purely figurative sense of, that which points the way' it has noting to do with unravelling a ball of wool or string on the way through with idea that one can find way out again?
#207460 - 10/01/12 09:15 AM Re: Theseus' clew [Re: Jackie]
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Speaking of Theseaus, does anyone know of a good book that covers the the story of King Minos, Minotaur, Deadelus, Theseaus it all its gory and glorius detail; or must I be happy with itty bitty mythical bytes from Bullfinch's mythology and suchlike?
PS: Sorry jackie I am not "hi jacking" the thread really.
#207466 - 10/01/12 10:34 AM Re: Theseus' clew [Re: Avy]
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a good book that covers the the story of King Minos, Minotaur, Deadelus, Theseaus it all its gory and glorius detail;
You might try looking up those persons and animal in The Oxford Classical Dictionary and see the references and citations there. The great thing (or not so great depending on your particular tastes) is that the myths and legends of the Romans and the Greek is pretty much spread out over a wide range of texts, e.g., I looked up Minos in my copy (3rd edition) and the first citation I came across was to the Iliad. Also, different texts may give different stories as these classical mythologies were anything but standardized._________________________
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Oh okay! Wow. Great suggestion. Thanks!
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Hi Avy
or you could try Mary Renault - her novels based on classical mytholgy are (imho) never less than great reads, and often reach to the margins of poetry.
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In 2012, make yourself a priority. One way to ensure you'll dedicate some time to yourself is to create a "you" place in your home. Whether it's a favorite chair with your book on the table beside it, or a desk that you can re-oganize into a you-space in a couple hours, be sure you have a designated place to go to recharge.
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There are people who win the lottery and immediately devise a stoic attitude, a wise investment plan, and a determination to remain the person they've always been. I would not be one of those people and, let's be honest, neither would you. Ours would be a millionaireship full of flipping the bird at plebeians as we board our golden, Bahama-bound Learjet. God, we would be the worst, wouldn't we?
Well, no. Our little kinks and haughty gestures would be downright pedestrian compared with the bullshit antics of some of the real lottery winners out there. The whole point of lotteries is that anyone can win, and sometimes the jackpot goes to the guy who can feel love only when he's watching documentaries of the Hindenburg disaster while huffing the ashes of cremated kittens.
Which is how we keep winding up with these fucking people in the news.
5The Winners Who Hid the Money from Their Spouses
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Getting filthy rich overnight is fine and all, but what if you have a significant other? Uggh, am I right? That spoilsport might not agree with your wonderful plan of filling a swimming pool with strippers and crack cocaine and dive-bombing in for the rest of your glorious (though likely short) life. Hell, they might even assume you're, hah, sharing with them.
If that seems like a dickish line of thinking, Arnim Ramdass is about to prove you right. When the universe decided to compensate his unfortunate name by providing him and his lottery posse with sufficient means to ram all the ass, he knew exactly what he would do with his $600,000 share: hide that huge, heavily publicized pile of money from his wife by any means necessary. It was time for Bullshit Feedin' Olympics, and Ramdass was both the reigning champion and the only competitor.
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He had already been practicing on their wedding cake.
Ramdass did actually manage to smoke-and-mirrors his wife for a period of time. Beyond that, the story is delightfully Rashomon. Some sources say the wife found out the truth when idly Googling her husband one day. Others indicate Ramdass bought a new house behind her back, and she found a congratulatory card from the real estate agency in the mail. My personal favorite is the Fox News version, where ol' Ramdass decided to go full sitcom, attempting to hide his heavy media presence with a never-ending stream of excuses to keep the television turned off, and randomly disconnecting their phone, because stealth personified, that man. What most sources do agree on is the fact that when he was confronted, he did the classy thing and ran the hell away, leaving no traces of himself or his money save for (probably) a man-shaped hole in the wall. His wife was left facing an eviction and a pile of bills that he had neglected to pay.
Meanwhile, Denise Rossi became the second most surprised member of her family when she won a cool $1.3 million in the California state lottery. The most surprised? Her husband, whom she immediately and without explanation divorced as hard as she humanly could. Of course, she conveniently forgot to mention her winnings to either her husband or the divorce court. This "total asshole" stratagem for money management proved to be a viable one, and Rossi waltzed away scot-free ...
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... for about 1.5 years, after which karma decided to deliver a slam-dunk in the form of postal incompetence. Rossi's ex-husband accidentally received a wrongly stamped letter that revealed her wealth to him. Of course, he took that shit to court, where the judge awarded every single cent of Rossi's lottery money to her ex-man.
Oh, and the best thing? If she had bothered to mention the money during the divorce, she'd probably been allowed to keep it all since, you know, it was her winning ticket to start with.
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There are many ways to ruin a perfectly good game of chance. "Not winning" is definitely one. "Your opponent finally figuring out the rules" can be pretty nasty, too. And let's not forget the classic "The bullet's in the last chamber and it's your turn." I miss that one like a hole in my head. Still, the absolute worst party-pooper in any luck-based game is always math.
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In the 2000s, the state of Massachusetts found this out the hard way when an entire state lottery was thoroughly reamed by a math-savvy gang of MIT students. The game in question was called Cash WinFall, and it insisted on doing things differently from most state lotteries: The jackpot never rose above $2 million, and if no one won it was rolled down into a number of smaller prizes. The MIT gang quickly figured out that during the roll-down phase, each lottery ticket was technically more valuable than what they actually cost, so by buying enough of them you were bound to make a profit. One of the students tested this by purchasing $1,000 worth of tickets ... and raked in a cool $3,000 of winnings.
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"Yeah, that should be enough. Mind if I pay in change?"
Before long, the lottery officials smelled something strange, namely the overheating elbow grease of exasperated cashiers punching in a hundred thousand tickets all over the state. Realizing shenanigans were taking place, the lottery runners stood up, steadied themselves ... and did absolutely nothing, because, "Hey, high-stakes rollers be feedin' money to our system, sweet!"
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Any idea what the source was for the track listing? The only only site I found with the info also doesn't list source info, and Ihsahn himself hasn't released the list yet to my knowledge.
Quote:"Few artists in modern heavy music have created such an extraordinary and unique body of work as Ihsahn. Having refined and redefined black metal with the now legendary Emperor, Norway's foremost musical extremist has spent the last decade establishing himself as a fearless and wildly idiosyncratic solo artist, but even by his own remarkable standards, Ihsahn's fifth solo album Das Seelenbrechen is a bold and mind-blowing step into the unknown.
In contrast to the adventurous progressive shades and saxophone augmentations of his last two albums - After (2009) and Eremita (2011) - this latest masterpiece exists in an entirely unfamiliar sonic world, as Ihsahn draws upon his most esoteric influences, embraces the spirit of the avant-garde and creates a sonic tapestry like no other.
Comprising ten vivid but disparate explorations in sound that range from bittersweet electronica to deranged and feral improvisation, Das Seelenbrechen is every bit as dark and destructive as the artist's previous work, but this is a far more disorientating and disturbing creation than anything he has attempted in the past.
From the obtuse structures and mutant riffing of opener Hiber and the staccato grooves of NaCl through to the brooding electro balladry of Pulse, the churning, amorphous dissonance of Tacit 2 and the simply terrifying sonic sprawl of the closing See, this is the sound of a ferocious talent plunging into ominous new waters with nothing but the unerring pursuit of creative purity in mind.
Recorded at his own studio in Norway in collaboration with drummer Tobias Ørnes Andersen (also of prog crew Leprous), Das Seelenbrechen eschews traditional metal instrumentation in favour of a limitless textural landscape that evokes the freewheeling spirit of artists like Diamanda Galas and Scott Walker, while remaining firmly rooted in the pitch-black well of inspiration that first informed Ihsahn's work back in the Emperor days.
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Really not sure what to think of this. It starts out well then it all just goes downhill.
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I don't like the direction it takes after Tacit, it abruptly goes from rhythmically structured songs to these very loose and formless tracks.
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It might be a bit avant-garde for your tastes. He's certainly ventured into that branch of metal in this album.
Written by Unhealer on 13.11.2013 at 23:52
Nah, usually I'm all up for crazy avant-garde. I think the problem is that it just goes too delicate and soft from there, that's a thing I don't like too much, specially if it's four songs in a row and to end an album
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It certainly does mellow quite a bit in the tracks you mentioned. You could always rearrange the tracks to suit yourself This recurring issue regarding the order of tracks is one of the reasons why I never listen to albums from start to finish.
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I thought of that many times and with many albums... but it's the way the artists intended us to listen to the album and it's definitely part of it, I refuse to do that


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Ohio Northern University will hold a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration week with a number of activities commemorating the civil rights leader. The ONU Cultural and Special Events Committee and the Office of Multicultural Development are sponsoring these events, which begin on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
There will be no classes at ONU on Monday, Jan. 21, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King spoke at ONU on Jan. 11, 1968, in one of his final appearances on a college campus before being assassinated in April later that year.
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A columnist and contributing editor for Newsweek magazine from 1993 to 2010 and former chairman of the editorial board and editorial page editor of the New York Daily News, Cose began his journalism career as a weekly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, becoming, at the age of 19, the youngest editorial page columnist ever employed by a major Chicago daily. He went on to become an editor and national correspondent for the paper.
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Cose also is an author of several books of national and international concern. He has authored numerous books on race, including "The End of Anger," a meditation on race, class and privilege; "Bone to Pick: On Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation and Revenge," a wide-ranging look at a number of societies and their ways of coping with cruelty and pain; "The Envy of the World," an in-depth essay on the state of black men in America; "The Rage of a Privileged Class," a book-length essay on race in America; and "Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World" an exploration of America's continuing obsession with race.
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Wayne Shorter is among the most influential jazz composers of all time. His performances are relatively scarce, but he's turning 80 this year and he's returned to Newport to celebrate. His quartet of more than a dozen years tears apart and reconstructs his tunes — and some other pieces — in a Mr. Potato Head style. It's thrilling and a little mystifying alike. And his old friend Herbie Hancock also swung through Rhode Island to mark the occasion.
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- With a strategic theme of entrepreneurship, Swinburne University encourages innovation and commercialisation of research results. Swinburne Sports Statistics initially embraced this theme by selling computer predictions of Australian rules football to the media, and since 1998 predictions for a range of sporting events were placed on our web site. The expansion of sports betting created a market for sports prediction expertise, and we discuss profitable attempts at demonstrating the inefficiency of football, cricket and rugby betting markets. The head to head nature of most sports betting results in low margins for bookmakers, and the lengthy time many events take to complete also results in higher risk and lower turnover. To overcome these drawbacks, 'Betting in Running' allows betting on events which occur within a sporting contest, such as the number of runs in an over of cricket, or the point score in a single game of tennis. Sportsbet21, a Swinburne startup company, provides to bookmakers computer generated odds driven by a statistical model. Models have been developed for both cricket and tennis, and operated successfully by Ladbrokes in the UK for some time. The product has achieved profit targets on growing turnover, and demonstrated the robustness of the mathematical models.
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This Close Reading Modeling Method workshop was facilitated by ISBE during the summer of 2012. This workshop consists of a PowerPoint presentation as well as handout materials that were retrieved from the Common Core Appendix B. The workshop is designed to provide participants with not only a model of Close Reading as it is described by Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp, but to provide participants with the opportunity for a more in depth application of Close Reading. Teachers will be able to apply the information presented in this workshop to other texts at all grade levels. The Close Reading exemplars were developed by Student Achievement Partners. They demonstrate how lessons can be adapted to place emphasis on close reading in the daily classroom.
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**Participants will only need one copy of the story or poem printed within the presentation.
- Slide notes (may be used as a guide for the presenter)
- Facilitator's Guide
- Handouts: Slides 10-14 of K-5 presentation or Slides of 6-12 presentation
- Close Reading Modeling Method Handout
- Close Reading Modeling Method Worksheet
- *Optional: Close Reading Reader and Task Considerations
Books appropriate to grade level or exemplar samples may be utilized from Appendix B Text Exemplars
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Resource Links:
ISBE (Modeling Method)
Introduction to Close Reading (:10)
- Facilitator's Guide
- Close Reading Method Handout
- Close Reading Method Worksheet
- Close Reading: Reader and Task Considerations
- Close Reading Method K-5
- Close Reading Sample: Kindergarten and First Grade (3:44)
- Close Reading Sample: Second and Third Grade (3:26)
- Close Reading Sample: Fourth and Fifth Grade (3:59)
- Close Reading Method 6-12
- Close Reading Sample: Sixth through Eighth Grade (3:53)
- Close Reading Sample: Ninth through Twelfth Grade (3:29)
Close Reading Exemplars (Student Achievement Partners)
- Grade 3: the Fisherman and His Wife
- Grade 3: Because of Winn Dixie
- Grade 6: Making of a Scientist
- Grade 6: The Great Fire
- Grade 7: Farewell to Manzanar and Unbroken
- Grade 7: Tom Sawyer
- Grade 8: Frederick Douglass
- Grade 8: Words We Live By
- Grades 9-10: Gettysburg Address
- Grades 11-12: Living Like Weasels
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NOTICE—The following standard drawings have been developed to assist in the design of typical NRCS engineering practices in Illinois. Before using any of the standard drawings or details, the designer should verify that the standard applies to the site and that the design limitations are not exceeded. Standard drawings are to be adapted as part of site specific designs that shall be reviewed and approved by qualified individual with appropriate approval authority.
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