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A change of scene from domestic bliss proved just the kick Ladi6 needed to get her creative groove back, writes Lydia Jenkin.
Having just finished a 15-date tour of New Zealand and Australia, Ladi6 (Karoline Tamati) and partner Parks (Brent Park) are a little jet-lagged when TimeOut meets them at their sunny Snells Beach home, north of Auckland. But despite the fatigue, Ladi is excited about the impending release of her third album Automatic and happily discusses everything from balancing roles as mum and musician to her creative doubts and struggles, all in that sultry, soulful voice of hers, peppered with laughter.
In the two years following the release of her acclaimed second album, The Liberation Of, the pair have bounced back and forth between Berlin and New Zealand, touring intensely. The album not only kicked Ladi's international fan base up a few notches, but earned her the 2011 Taite Prize, multiple New Zealand Music Awards and went gold in New Zealand, as well as spawning platinum single Like Water.
Ladi and Parks returned to New Zealand, decided to move to Snells Beach to give their 9-year-old son, Philly, some stability and thought they'd take a few months to catch their breath before writing and recording album No3 at home.
But then they struck that familiar catch 22 - being happy and stable often seems to sap creativity and inspiration from musicians.
"We were actually making money off our music, which is completely unheard of for us, so we were on a salary and we were feeling good with our domestic family situation. We'd just moved to this beautiful place on the beach and it was all really amazing. But we weren't making any music that we were happy with. Nothing that was progressive or interesting on any level to us."
Ladi also discovered writing and recording at home was a tricky balance.
"You get overrun by domestic life and it's kind of impossible. It's not impossible for Parks at home, he can go into our little studio space and make loads of beats, but I find I can't get out of the 'Mum' headspace and into the artist headspace as easy as that. I need to relocate."
They knew there was a deadline on the horizon from their European label (Eskapaden Musik) and though Parks was initially keen to produce the whole album himself, he soon suspected that wasn't going to be possible and decided they needed a co-producer.
The challenges seemed to keep piling up, blocking any progress. But then they found a solution: Waajeed, a prolific producer and beatmaker from Detroit, who is a close friend of J Dilla and the main creative force in soul band Platinum Pied Pipers, with too many other independent projects to list.
"Parks was really worried about finding a co-producer, he's really picky. We're kind of yin and yang like that, I'm super free and easy and like, 'Yeah, we'll do this, yeah, let's go with that,' and he's like the quality control dude, he knows exactly what he wants, so he was really worried. And then our manager Becs [Caughey] said, 'Why don't you write down your top five favourite producers anywhere in the world and we'll see what can be done."'
Waajeed was at the top of Parks' list. And he was keen - plus he suggested they should come to Detroit and record in his studio.
"We were like, 'Yeah! Cool, we'll sell our car and get our asses over there."'
They'd written the first two singles, Ikarus and Shine On, at home and spent some time recording at Revolver Studios in Waiuku, but most of the album was developed over two trips to Detroit, where Parks and Waajeed would bring in various beats, and Ladi would come up with the songs there and then through freestyling and improvisation.
"There was a lot of pressure and it was very intense, and I cried lots, but we talked a lot as well about just trusting your gut instinct and just letting it come out. 'Cause it's when I was overthinking that it became a contrived-sounding song.
"I trusted Waajeed and Parks to tell me if they thought something was shit though, and luckily Jeedo is really straight up like that, he'd just automatically say, 'No. Let's move on'."
So what came out of those gut instincts? Well, it's a slightly more experimental musical palette; darker, more spacious, less defined simply by soul or hip-hop, but calling on electronica, world music and even rock, too. Lyrically, Ladi's concerned with self-doubt, freedom, empathy, cycles of poverty and violence - but that's not to say it's a downer album. Shine On is actually a beautiful, almost maternal-sounding track about support and love ("it just sounds sad, it's got those sad chords") and Diamonds, with its doo wop-inspired beat, will be a definite summer jam, despite its themes.
"I feel like it's a bit of an ironic, nonsensical song in a way, because it is definitely about poverty, but it's over a pop tune, which brings out the irony. It really came out of the observation that loads of people are doing great work and working really hard, but still struggling. But I didn't want it to be really super-serious. It felt like the album had quite a few heavy-feeling songs on it already, it feels quite dark."
She does sound a little older, perhaps a little more weary of the world's troubles. And being in Detroit, seeing how downtrodden the city is - the boarded-up houses and shrinking population - and feeling similarities to her hometown of Christchurch had an impact.
"Not just because of all the abandoned houses, but actually in that it looks like Christchurch in other ways. It's quite flat, the roads are quite wide and the light is the same, too, it was really bizarre. Detroit just looked older, like it's been there forever, really overgrown, older houses, rotting wood."
But it's not all about Ladi's state of mind - Parks and Waajeed set her in that direction with their beats.
"The honest truth is that I am super-led by the beats, so it's more their record than mine in that way because whatever they give me, I'm going to respond to in that direction. We weren't going to have a whole album of happy, upbeat songs because they weren't really creating happy, upbeat tunes. But I was really happy with the way they led me," she smiles.
"We kind of had to come off the back of Like Water and go back to struggling artist mode again, and then suddenly we've got a record out and it feels like it happened really quickly.
"I do worry that this cycle is just going to carry on for the rest of my life and I'll be grey-haired before I'm 35, but I really feel like this record is probably the best record we've ever made. It feels like the beginning of something really important to us.
"Which is great, because before this I was starting to worry that I'd taken the wrong career path," she says, breaking into a wide laugh.
Let's hear it for Detroit
Ladi6 and Parks made two trips to Detroit while they were recording the album, and spent nearly all their time either in Waajeed's studio, or throwing around album ideas in their hotel room. However, on their second visit they decided they had to make time to visit the Motown Museum. The otherwise nondescript two-storey house, which was the birthplace of the Motown sound, comprises Studio A - where you can imagine Smokey Robinson or Lamont Dozier at the helm of the recording console as the Temptations, backed up by the Funk Brothers, tuned up for another jam - and the upper flat where founder Berry Gordy lived with his young family.
"It was just amazing, and totally inspiring. I never really fully understood the story of Motown before that - I'd watched the BBC Motown anniversary documentary or something, but that was pretty much my only historical knowledge of Motown, that and the music, so learning about their story was incredible.
"Berry Gordy just did it all by himself, you know, he was just a kid who got a loan from his parents, and built it all up from scratch. And he built the whole sound basically from a hole in the roof. That's how they got that reverb sound. From the desk in the studio, they'd send all the music up to this roof, and they had mics in the roof, so as the music was played, those mics would capture all the reverb. And that's the Motown sound.
"And all those claps, those millions of claps you hear on all those tracks, they'd stand under the hole in the roof and clap. The hole is still there, you can still see it.
"It was amazing to see how they had all these beautiful, simple ideas, that created a world-famous sound."
Who: Ladi6
What: New album Automatic
Where and when: Album release celebrations are taking place over the next three days, both morning and evening, with in-store sessions and club nights.
Tonight, 7-10pm at Golden Dawn, Friday morning, 8-10am at Conch Records. Then on to Christchurch; Friday, 9-11pm at Winnie Bagoes, Saturday, 12-2pm at Penny Lane Records.
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Could you take a look at my front page and view the source. I'm just wondering if it looks right. It seems to be different than with the Propulsion theme.
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I'm just curious if the formatting is correct. When I look at others it seems to have some type of structure to it at the top, mine just looks like it's all together and wondering if mine is OK this way.
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Yes, I know I'm using the Replete Theme, but I'm just wondering if the html of the page source looks correct when you do a right click on the page and view the source code of the page. I notice that the "<!DOCTYPE html>" is all together and quite long. When I look at the source code of the Replete demo, it looks a little more structured. I don't care as long as this is correct.
Just making sure my stuff is right, that's all.
Thank you Ismael,
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I received this in my February box, and being on the East Coast - there was still snow outside and no need for facial sun protection. Now that it is May, sun is out, and I am spending more time outside, I tried this product out for the first time this past weekend. I love the texture. So smooth and creamy - not oily or sticky. The BB cream is really nice. Being brown complected it actually had a tone to it, that kind of looked like way-too-light foundation. Even after I rubbed it in, it still was a lighter color than my brown skin. I used it on my boyfriend who has very light skin and it blended, no problem. Overall I liked the feel of this, but the coloring is an issue for me, and I will not be making this into a purchase.3
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4-5" driver 50-10,000hz
I have been unable to find a suitable full range driver so now considering a 2 way with the mid running full range.
Fostex F200 had to be played at minimum of 75 dB before it came to life. People here say FX120 bass does not keep up with rest of music plus its discontinued and no refoam kit is available. Other Fostex are bright with little bass. I'm afraid of brightness of Jordans. I don't want a 5dB boost to the bass and treble as the WR-125 does.
Can anyone suggest a 4-5" driver that will roll off at 10kHz without x-over? I would like to then add a tweeter with cap to high pass frequencies over 10kHz. Beaming is not an issue.
I have been unable to find a suitable full range driver so now considering a 2 way with the mid running full range. Considered the M130 except for the bad reviews of that driver here.
SPL is 75dB and I would use .25cu ft cabinet from Parts Express.
Thanks for any ideas.
I'm not really into full range drivers, but if I was to have a go at a '2 way full range' I'd be looking at a nice hi -eff 10 or 12" driver to do bass up to say, 200 - 300 hz. Then use the full ranger all the way up.
Reason being I'd reckon a 4" or 5" driver would be much better at doing the treble than the bass....
What do you mean by spl is 75dB btw ? background music ?
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The problem here is:
To have that small a driver, with that extended a freq. response, that also "came to life" - is virtually impossible.
The foremost problem here is that the "came to life" feeling is largely the domain of efficient drivers. ANY driver that small that is efficent enough to "come alive" will almost certainly have these qualities:
1. Low freq. extension to at most 70 Hz.
2. "tipped-up" higher freq. response.. i.e. "beaming".
The BEST driver I could think of that met your paramaters beyond "came to life" would be a driver that you'll have a hard time purchasing anymore (..Audax HM130C0).
If your willing to trade low freq. response (and get just about everything else you asked for) then there is the Veravox 5X at Solen.ca
A poorer "cousin" to the 5X would be the Fostex fe126e, but it has beaming as well unless modified (and a narrow band cavity resonance below 2 kHz).
If you give up the "came to life" parameter and the use of a Jordan then consider consider this thread by Thorsten:
Rob, I actually listen at 75 dB, not usually louder. So I think I can get into the 50's okay. I've given this some thought and decided it would be better to run a single driver for as much of the F-R as possible so that's why the x-over around 10kHz.
Thanks for the links Scott. They look like good drivers. FWIW my Tang-Band 871s plays down to 50dB okay, all things considered. OTOH the Fostex couldn't.
I don't see beaming as the same thing as a rising FR. A driver simply beams when the wavelength of the frequency approaches the diameter of the driver. Jordan makes a rising reponse curve to compensate for the beaming effect but to my ears, ANY rising FR is bright. I built the TB 1320 SA bamboo driver and had to get rid of it because it sounded bright.
My other thought is to go with the FR125 and eq it flat in the trebel and bass.
Its response is 90-15k but your config will work
Maybe position the speakers so you're listening off axis ? Should lose some 'bite'
Considering that you are going to use a tweeter - why not use a 1st order electrical crossover? I've personally never found a good air-core inductor to be detrimental to sound quality at reasnable power levels.
I don't think that such a driver exists. The closest thing I know of (at least for the high end requirement) is the Seas MCA15RCY, which is essentially flat to 10kHz. It's a midrange and not really designed for bass, but that may not matter much at the low levels at which you plan to listen.
I rewrote that last sentence four times and I'm still not happy with it; it stills sounds like a Wings lyric ("But in this ever-changing world in which we live inc"). I should sleep.
Seas MCA15RCY is measured in IEC-baffle and that reason the low frequencies actually drops if put them in the box.
What about the Jordan JX6R. I think you might be better off getting a driver 100-20kHz like the Jordan above of 300-20khz like the Fostex FF85K. Mating either of these to a 5-8" woofer (depending on how big a speaker you desire) should work and integration at lower freq is easier as polar interference is not so much of an issue.
I am still waiting for some brave soul to use C37 on the dust cap of the JX92 (it is too expensive a driver for me to experiment with) and post results. I get the feeling that the rising response can be controlled by some such treatment.
Anyone brave enough or resourceful enough to ask Ted Jordan? :-)
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Amanda Vanstone went out of her way to sound heartless when announcing cabinet's change of heart on long-term detainees.
The Government doesn't want to talk up this decision. It has had to relax the practice of indefinite incarceration because it has become untenable, but it is desperate to insist that nothing has changed with its basic mandatory detention policy.
Vanstone stressed it was "important to mention that this will not affect a large number of detainees". Indeed, it would be "cruel" to unfairly raise detainees' expectations.
So how many of the 115-odd long-term detainees (of whom 30 are already being reviewed) will get out? Don't ask the minister. "If I knew that, I would have already gone through the case load in light of a visa that hasn't yet been created - so I can't really say."
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It is an especially hard blow for Qasim, held for more than six years already. Vanstone's refusal to go into detail is unacceptable; her claim that "privacy" stopped her talking out is bizarre. Is she really suggesting Qasim can be denied every right but the right to privacy? The Liberal backbenchers who have pressed the cause of the detainees are rightly demanding the story behind the minister's mysterious comments about Qasim.
The unfortunate 54 people on Nauru get nothing. "By the maintenance of offshore processing centres, people smuggling has been brought to an end", Vanstone said.
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Ilya Kovalchuk ends drought as Devils top Lightning, 4-2
NEWARK – It was only Wednesday afternoon that Devils coach Pete DeBoer lauded Ilya Kovalchuk for doing the "little things" that were helping the team win and insisted that the goals would come for the star winger if he continued.
DeBoer proved prophetic Thursday night as Kovalchuk ended a six-game goal drought with the go-ahead short-handed tally in the Devils' 4-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning at Prudential Center.
Demonstrating his all-around game on the penalty kill, Kovalchuk snapped a 1-1 tie by scoring on a two-on-one rush with 2:26 left in the second period. Kovalchuk also assisted on Patrik Elias' five-on-three power-play goal in the third period as the Devils ran their winning streak to three games.
"I wasn't worried about Kovy," DeBoer said. "You know it's just a matter of time with him. He could have had four tonight if he hadn't been unselfish at the end and tried to set everybody up. But that's him. I know the guys in the room appreciate what he's about. He does a lot of things to help us win games other than to score goals and tonight he scored a big one."
Elias had his second consecutive three-point game with a goal and two assists. Adam Henrique and Andy Greene also scored goals. That was plenty for goaltender Martin Brodeur, who needed to make only 17 saves.
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"Everything is going," Henrique said. "The power play is going. It's playing well. Our penalty kill has been great the last three games and it's kind of all coming together right now."
The Devils improved to 4-0-1 at home this season. They will get a test Saturday, though, when they host a red-hot Penguins team that has won five in a row, including a 5-1 victory over the Devils last Saturday in Pittsburgh, in the first game of a home-and-home weekend set.
"We know what they're about," DeBoer said of the Penguins. "They gave us a pretty good lesson in Pittsburgh last week, so we've got to take a deep breath here and try to refuel and get ready because it's four big points, a division rival and we need to play better than the last time we played against them."
Kovalchuk hadn't scored a goal since his overtime winner against Washington on Jan. 25 and hadn't registered a point in five consecutive games entering the night. Although he had only two goals and three assists entering the night, he had been insisting that didn't bother him because the team was winning.
"Obviously, [one goal in last seven games] is not what I want, but I'll take that and hopefully I'll be better," Kovalchuk said.
The goal came from an area of the game in which Kovalchuk has become a big contributor over the last two seasons – penalty killing. He had passed on two short-handed odd-man rushes earlier in the period, but on his goal he ripped a shot from the left circle over goaltender Anders Lindback's glove.
"It was just a two-on-one. I waited [to see] how the [defenseman Sami Salo] is going to react and he gave me a little more room and I shot it," Kovalchuk said.
It was the second short-handed goal of the season for Kovalchuk, who also scored one on a penalty shot in the home opener against Philadelphia on Jan. 22, and the third as a team for the Devils.
"So, not only is he doing a good job defensively," DeBoer said, "he's using that to create some offense for us."
The Devils broke the game open late in the third by taking advantage of he Lightning's loss of discipline with five-on-three power-play goals from Elias and Greene only 14 seconds apart. First, Greene beat Lindback high to the glove side with a wrist shot from the high slot with 4:58 remaining.
Then, Elias banked a shot from the right side of the net in off Lindback on the short side with 4:44 left.
Tampa Bay defenseman Matt Carle completed the scoring with a four-on-four goal with 2:15 remaining.
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Merrill Lynch cut its estimates on Pixar (PIXR ).
Analyst Andrew Slabin says the 2002 results were great, but the 2003 view is bittersweet.
Also, given the increase in an options exercise, Slabin expects a 10-cent 2003 earnings per share dilution from an increase in shares. He thinks greater-than-expected Monsters home video sales in 2002 stole revenue and profits from 2003. Plus, he says the domestic free-TV sale of Monsters will fall in 2004, not 2003, and this represents an earnings per share swing of up to 15 cents to 20 cents.
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From Lollipop to the enchanted objects Although resulting quite elusive and so equally fascinating, having to deal with design as topic became a "must" even for people interested in communication technology since the iPhone has been launched in 2007. Meantime, centrifugal explosion of digital media in people's social and personal life, alongside with multiple use of digital interfaces, puts design at the centre of industries as mode to differentiate products and satisfy users' needs and desires. On the other hand, while our body-mind goes through digital portals for hundreds times every day, changes in digital design are also symptom on how fastly and (almost) unawares we dwell and readapt our personal and social being. Indeed, as someone said, mobile screens have become the real third place of human living, being hard to find places or activities where digital screens are absent. However, digital design should be thought as part of design work, which aims to elaborate solutions that simplify, in a given temporal context, interactions among persons and objects/devices inside a play of reciprocal adaptation/stimulation, mainly an enriching encounter between human beings – dominated by an alchemy of feelings, senses and rationality – and human artifacts – material objects, mechanisms/procedures of…
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The feeble belly of internet Lately, digital activist, American scholar and journalist Ethan Zuckerman complained about his past as supporter of what he defines the "Internet' s original sin", namely exploitation of advertising as business model to start and manage online services. Although he had many fellows, the present director of MIT Center for Civic Media has a point to blame himself. In 1995 Zuckerman worked and implemented the so hated ad pop-ups, those web pages full of advertising messages that, during our browsing, suddenly occupy all our vision entrapping us nervously while we make vain tentatives to move on. However, Zuckerman's mea culpa does not accuse advertising communication rather its use as primary revenue source for the most popular online services that, inevitably, implies user surveillance. On the other hand, advertising was a easy driver for internet start-ups to justify their business plans. However, given the increasing competition to catch user attention and the decline of value of visual impressions, online advertising is much more appreciated when consumers are effectively targeted. Yet, surveillance is not only for ads targeting. First of all, online ads need to be controlled to avoid abuses as click-fraud (generation of impressions by people, automated…
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Labour crisis and technological unemployment The social and economic changes have always animated modern era, and, since the half of Seventeenth century, they often were so radical we used the term "revolution" to evidence the need of a deep existential readaptation for people life. The problematic relationship between jobs and technological innovation, that cyclically arises when a relevant crisis affects production and consumption models, is also an old story. The American economist John Maynard Keynes thought of it as inescapable phenomenon, coining the term technological unemployment (1930). Obviously, issue feeds hot discussions normally ending with a dichotomous scheme between people that consider industrial and commercial competitive dynamics seeing technology as a gift for its capacity to create new realities/activities, and people that, on the contrary, think of it as a ruin for almost every sort of occupation. Nowadays, in front of a persistent economic crisis associated with a general restructuration of many business helped by digital connected technologies embedded (almost) in every things, this issue assumes great centrality. Or, otherwise said, there are many suggestions to frame it as a relevant argument because humane society radically changes when new communication and energy paradigms are available. American sociologist Jeremy Rifkin explains…
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Sometimes, developments and analysis connect themselves again, traveling through the same metaphors in which, in the meantime, our lives (deeply) are unfolding … References Gruman, G., 2014, "Welcome to the next tech revolution: Liquid computing", in Infoworld.com, July 15, 2014. Petullà, L., 2008, Media e computer liquidi, Milano, Lampi di Stampa.
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danah boyd and the adolescent probes Describing the socio-cultural context in which communication technologies are situated and used is an evident merit of danah boyd, a very polyedric American social researcher, herself digital native, scholar and professionist – at moment Principal Researcher at Microsoft. Consequently, her works are not easily summarizable through slogans. In the case of her last work, a book gathering a long series of researches on teens' sociability, the warning comes immediately from the title. In effect, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens can be interpretated in two ways: the difficulty to understand social media uses thinking only in terms of social destiny determinated by technological aspects, and difficulty of people to act, among opportunities and challenges, in the new and interactive digital environments. On the other hand, although focused on teens, author sees teenagers as an ideal-typical case because, whether they are advantaged in handling and switching accross media, on the challenge-side they suffer for lack in life experience and social power. The counterpoint about the real and problematic issues of their digital lives balances narratives describing teens as human beings highly facilitated by digital technologies. In effect, while the digital migrants are engaged…
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Limits, enterprises, and accountability of cultural software A recent ad campaign promoted by UN and created to warn about worldwide spread of sexist and discriminatory opinions regarding female population has been based on Google searching functions. More precisely, it focuses on suggestions furnished by autofilling function after some words as "women should …" have been introduced. Both (supposedly) based on frequently searching operations and recognized textual combinations of internet contents, the algorithm showed all stereotyped ideas running in the world. In ad campaign women are shown with a sort a gag represented by Google's suggestions that, covering their mouths, have the effect to silence true voices and personalities. The success of campaign (credits: Memac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai) to reveal such prejudices in a very incisive way and so oddly timely – if we think of our post-modernity so sophisticatedly supported in terms of technologies of thought – can be measured by the huge debate on twitter (hashtag: #womenshould) but also by imitations: see Australian initiative Racism. It Stops With Me. In the past this online space hosted a reflection on the importance of language to structure human being in the continuous process of interaction with environment – so, not…
Lights, Camera, Action! (The voice comes in …)
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The body of avatar What a weird and fascinating story the award recently assigned to Scarlett Johansson by the 2013 Rome Film Festival for her vocal interpretation in the last Spike Jonze's movie "Her". The actress interprets the voice of computer's operating system, with which the protagonist ends to fall in love. Given the Italian policy to dub every foreign movies, much irony has flourished because a such vocal performance will be never appreciated by local audience. Moreover, both Johansson and many other winners have attended awards through video messages. Indeed, it's already sure: we are used to meet each others indifferently in a mixed way of online/offline presence, in this case much more online. Thanks to its fundamental sensitivity for phantasmatic forms, by which "the maximum of reality" can be produced (Alberto Abruzzese), cinema industry takes responsibility to certificate it. However, the actress made a preventive visit to the festival that was intended as a crafty operation to reanimate ambitions of a festival declining on the wake of a double crisis: those of Italian cinema industry and city budget, having the Capital the major role in exhibition organization. (Many people blamed the fact that, finally, the visit has been paid…
The "Real-time" of advertising
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From the crisis of control to the turn of hypercontrol One of the most interesting thesis on marketing and advertising explains how their rise spread from a reaction to an increasing state of lack of control. In the XIX century a huge industrial push increased enormously a productive capacity that, suddenly, had to wide its selling horizon – and, as result, the terms of consumption. Marketing and advertising engaged themselves on how to match producer and consumer needs at large scale. After some centuries, we can say that marketing gained esteem and dignity regarding its original aim. Unfortunately, considerations about advertising effectiveness are less enthusiastic if we still comment it using the phrase "spray and pray". However, diffusion and use of online media have increased very much chances to overcome this never-ended skepticism on the ability to hook the timely needs of users with knowledge and speed. At the beginning of this reflection we have to make a premise about what we have experimented in the meanwhile. Everywhere there is the possibility to find people or environment/events polarizing human attention, there is also the certitude to meet some kinds of advertising elaborated by marketing strategies. As result, attention prompts by…
Internet & governance
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The nightmare of cages and the ferment of contradictions For the nations collocated (geographically and culturally) in the Western regions of world, August is notoriously a month in which holiday thoughts – in the reality of their transformation, namely either in vacation or frustration – can promote ambiguous feelings that, however, become source of distraction. At moment, we don't know much about the reason behind temporary downtime of all Google services, but that kind of distraction could explain the fall of one of the main pillar of internet. (Somebody jokingly ties the failure with the fresh decision made by Google to eliminate the possibility for its workers to dedicate part of their job time for projects outside their own specific tasks). The blackout lasted 11 minutes (In Europe from 1:37 to 1:48 AM). A such incident didn't occur since many years but now for internet Google has a much heavier role. To be clear, for some analysts internet global traffic dropped of 40%! Indeed, a big event. "As users, we confide very much on Google " was a very common comment. However, much of what we use on the Net is structured (fused) on architectures and mechanisms running on computer…
Incubating and developing innovation
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The mirage of Silicon Valley People used to follow digital product development very often stumble upon comments and reflections about vitality and expertize that some peculiar regional areas have for finding product solution and founding high-tech successful companies. On the other hand, the black shadow over our economic scenario and the recurrent postponement of its end certify the tough passage of post-industrial era with its effects of turbulent environment on economy. So, the flexibility and applicability of electronics, software and telecommunication show prized characteristics to more readily face both changes and prospectives in industry and consumption. The aim of this brief contribution will be to problematically tackle vulgates around start-up initiatives starting from two interesting articles. If I have reached them personally and casually in the last two week, there should be a growing and global demand (perhaps also concerns) to insert itself among nations that can have a such kind of munitions to deal with a less problematic future in terms of jobs and growth – in the wake of simplistic strategy of "me too"… The passage of time doesn't seem to scratch the longing of that special place whose name is Silicon Valley, indeed, internet age magnify…


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Phillip Phillips to Perform at New Jersey College
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On Tuesday, April 23, American Idol Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips will play live at Burlington County College (BCC), which is located in South Jersey. For one night only, the Physical Education Center at BCC's Pemberton campus, 601 Pemberton Browns Mills Rd., will transform into concert venue for an exciting evening of live music for BCC students and the community.
The concert is at 8PM in the gymnasium. General admission/community tickets are $35. Tickets for BCC students with a valid BCC student ID are $18. BCC faculty, staff, and alumni tickets are $25.
For ticketing information, visit http://staff.bcc.edu/student_activities/?pg=16.
Any South Jerseyites going to see Phillip, Squared?
—Amy Sciarretto


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New building activity in south Auckland looks likely to give the region's economy a helping hand this year.
New figures show a 27% rise in the number of residential consents between September 2011 and September 2012.
Auckland Council chief economist Geoff Cooper says after a long period of sluggish activity, the construction sector is showing signs of awakening.
He says a lot of the activity seems to be centred around southern parts of the city.
"Where the growth and where the construction is actually happening, a lot of it is concentrated down in the south, places like Papakura, Takanini, Flat Bush as well.
"There is a fair amount of construction going on there."


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Further, here are John Farnam's comments on .410 revolvers:
Taurus is currently marketing their M4510, five-shot revolver. In their booth at the SHOT Show, Taurus showed us a video touting this gun as being designed specifically for use in preventing car-jackings. It is a big, heavy pistol, and reloading is slow. Comfortable, concealed carry is possible only for the biggest among us.
The revolver chambers and fires both 45 Colt ("Long-Colt") and 410 shotgun cartridges, however 410 shotgun shells are limited to the shortest made, 2.5 inches. In the promotional video, 410 birdshot was, not surprisingly, demonstrated on a "Shoot-n-See" paper target that is designed to make each pellet impact look much bigger than it actually is. The pistol's rifled bore aggravates the spread of the shot pattern. Even at a range of four feet, the birdshot pattern in the demonstration had already attained a diameter of eight inches.
As I watched, it occurred to me that, as a single-purpose "snake-gun," this revolver would be second to none!
I know of no actual shootings with this revolver on human criminals. However, a friend in OK just used his copy to dispatch a large skunk at a range of ten feet. He used #8 birdshot. The task required three hits, but the unimpressed skunk was far from DRT. He slowly waddled off, crawled into abush, and eventually died.
I can't imagine any size of birdshot, particularly from a short barrel, being an effective fight-stopper. However, loaded with 45 Colt, or 410 slugs or buckshot, I believe this revolver is at least arguable as a "car-gun." 410 slugs are available, as is 410/000bk (three pellets). My personal choice would be 000bk!
In a real fight, that one can use this revolver, or any gun, effectively, via any species of unaimed, "spray" technique, is little more than self-deception. To be effective in a life-threatening circumstance, shots from any kind of firearm must be aimed precisely by a competent Operator.
Just as cars that "drive themselves" are currently unavailable, guns that are effective in the hands of the untrained and willfully incompetent exist only in the minds of the naive.
So basically it's good for shooting snakes and clays, but a questionable (or as John put it, "arguable") choice for fighting.
After some consideration and talking to the CFO I am going to wait on the Kimber until I have more experience and know that I would use $1200 worth of gun. The wife and I both like her Bersa 380 ...so my thought at the moment is - why not get the Bersa 45 then getting the judge as well won't be as big a financial hit. My main use for the Judge is as a tractor / snake / varmint gun. I plan on putting it in a holster under my left arm out of harms way as I'm working, but close at hand for snakes & skunks & such. I'm calling it a tractor gun but keep in mind when I'm working in the woods with my tractor, I'm off it at least as much as I'm in the seat. The Bersa would be my carry gun. The advantage of the Judge as I see it is the variable loads. You could put buck shot followed with a slug or 45 LC - if the buck didn't take care of whatever varmint you immediately follow with your next shot of larger ammo.
I shot a friend's 357 snubbie and it was snappy, a little too snappy. We have a couple of 357 revolvers, a S & W,TRR8 (hers) and a 686PP with a six inch barrel (mine) that handle the 357 magnum quite well but too big to use as a ccw. They stay in bedside drawers at home, as part of our home defense arsenal.
nobody has mentioned the kahr PM9
since his title is compact gun
what is wrong with this for a first gun?
also for a revolver - i would suggest any of the jframes in 38 special with +P loads
Kimber ultra carry .45


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There is only one town on the island, the capital of Oranjestad, which is split into the Lower Town and Upper Town. The upper area sits atop some steep cliffs which overlooks the picture-perfect lower part beneath the towering Fort Oranjestraat (Fort Orange Street). This is a fantastic spot to enjoy the views of St. Eustatius and beyond while enjoying some delicious local 'Fruit Tea' and taking in the delights of its particularly pleasant waterfront. Palm tress line-up along the coast and colonial cottages cluster in the squares, all surrounded by the verdant hills of the island.
Aside from its rugged charm, St. Eustatius is very popular amongst the scuba diving community. Just off of the main port are a variety of carefully preserved ecosystems from walls, patch reefs, old ship wrecks and macro dive sites to boulder slides, rocky outcrops and lava flows. The marine life thrives here and divers can witness all manner of tropical fish as well as turtles and manta rays gliding in the depths - a truly special aspect to any Caribbean superyacht charter vacation away with family and friends.
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The man charged with seriously assaulting Rotorua toddler Nia Glassie in the months leading up to her death still denies the worst of the abuse as he gets set to be released from jail on Monday.
Information released to The Daily Post by the Parole Board shows William Warena Curtis, the father of Nia's killers Michael and Wiremu Curtis, was denied parole four times and will have served all of his four-year sentence by Monday. He will be released to a Hamilton address.
Nia died in Starship Hospital in August 2007 from head injuries suffered after being kicked in the head by the Curtis brothers. They were sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 17 years for the murder.
A police investigation discovered Nia, 3, had suffered months of abuse in the lead-up to her death, including two assaults daily from William Curtis when she lived in his one-bedroom James St flat.
Curtis, now 53, was found guilty of eight counts of assault between March and July, 2007, including one of assault with a weapon which referred to an incident when he tied a woollen scarf around her neck and dangled her in mid-air until her face turned purple.
He also pulled her ears, pushed her on the floor, hit her in the mouth, smacked her for crying, kicked her and threatened to stomp on her head if she didn't stop crying.
During his 2008 trial in the Rotorua District Court, the jury was told Curtis called his daughter, Hoana Curtis, 17, who was giving evidence against him, a "snitch" and threatened to "slit her throat". She told the court William assaulted Nia at least twice daily with back-hand slaps and randomly pushing her.
Curtis was jailed for four years in February 2009 but, taking into account time in custody before the trial, he will have served his full term by Monday.
Information provided by the Parole Board show he appeared before the board in June 2010, June and November 2011 and again in April and August. Parole was denied at the first four appearances because "he remains a risk" and at his last appearance in August, conditions were set for six months on his release from prison on October 15.
After a tribunal hearing in April, Judge Carolyn Henwood said Curtis was open about his offending and what happened to the "little one" but the conversation indicated he had "a certain amount of denial about his actual involvement in this whole tragedy".
"He has admitted that he hit her and booted her, as he has said on earlier occasions, and that is mentioned in the psychological report but he does deny some of the more serious charges for which he has been convicted."
Accommodation for Curtis has been organised in Hamilton with Anglican Action, and he must complete a domestic violence programme and attend psychological treatment . He also faces a curfew and other restrictions.


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Frogs to Meet UCLA, BYU Saturday
April 11, 2014
Along with host UCLA and TCU, BYU will compete in the three-team, one-day meet.
"The last two weeks we were at the Texas Relays, which is a big carnival atmosphere with a bunch of teams, and then we were at the Florida Relays that is kind of the same setting," TCU track and field coach Darryl Anderson said. "This meet will be more low-key where it is more of practice setting and controlled setting where you can get on the track and coach your team. It is more of what we need right now from a competitive standpoint."
Field events begin at noon CT with the women's hammer followed by track events at 4 p.m. with the women's 400-meter relay.
"We can really start trying to put more things together from practice perspective. The objective now is to put all the screws together for conference, regionals and nationals," Anderson said. "Hopefully we can get some additional regional qualifiers and improve upon some qualifying marks for regionals and also put people in events similar to what we will do at the Big 12 Conference meet."
Currently, several Frog student-athletes are ranked in the top 10 nationally: Sam Watts is ranked seventh in the 200 meters (20.50); Jordan Moore is seventh in the 110H (13.72); Lorraine Ugen is fourth in the long jump (20-10); and Megan Smith is sixth in the discus (181-00). The men's 4 x 100 relay team is eighth (39.69); and the 4 x 400 men's relay team is sixth (3:06.57).
Following Saturday's meet in Los Angeles, the Frogs are back in action April 19 at the Michael Johnson Invitational hosted by Baylor University.
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Choosing the perfect hybrid clubs is very essential to golfers. A hybrid club is created with fine materials, which ensures a superb golfing experience. Over the years, hybrid golf clubs have grown in popularity worldwide. More and more golfers are choosing hybrid golf clubs due to their swift hitting quality that you cannot find in fairway woods or two- to four-iron.
Choosing the perfect hybrid golf club requires a deliberate approach the same way you would do in choosing new irons.
Determine Your Level
Before you go to the market and pick the perfect hybrid golf clubs, you need to determine your skill level in golfing.
There are at least four categories in golfers:
Low Handicap: The low handicap golfer can hit both fades and draws and has a good understanding about the detailed mechanics involved in golf swinging. In this category, the golfer is expected to be able to consistently hit the ball at the center of the club's surface.
Mid-Low Handicap: The golfer in this category is the one who loves to play golf at any spare time, mostly during weekends. In this category, the golfer is expected to play well with natural ability and to be comfortable enough in hitting any type of hybrid clubs though may miss some balls every once in a while.
High-Mid Handicap: This type of golfer plays golf for recreational purposes only and may choose to play with friends every now and then. The golfer in this category may have had a hard time on hitting the green and may miss hitting the ball.
High Handicap: This player is either new to the world of golfing or a senior who has difficulty in keeping stance the way he used to. This golfer is a beginner and needs more extensive practice and proper training.
Choosing the Best Hybrid Golf Club
First, you need to identify your purpose for choosing hybrid golf club. Most golfers prefer hybrid ones to replace their old long irons or to replace or complement a fairway woods. Knowing your purpose will help you determine the type of loft you needed to find in the hybrid clubs that you are going to purchase.
Next, you need to determine the special features that the hybrid golf clubs have. Manufactures usually optimize the same things in their golf clubs which makes everything almost similar. You need to be able to test each golf club and see the difference with your movement. Bear in mind that you need to choose the golf club that matches your irons or woods and shaft length.
Moreover, you need to understand that golf clubs are manufactured with particular player levels in mind. The manufacturers make sure that they can provide an appropriate golf club for different types of golf players, be it an amateur or a professional. The features of one club may be good for your friend but may give you a different result. So you need to choose something that is not only popular in your community, but is also something that could optimize your skills and performance.
Additional Tips
As was mentioned earlier, you need to try out the golf club and see if you can easily hit the ball. There is a difference in visual viewing of striking a traditionally shaped one and square golf club. You will find that some may be a little harder to hit than the others.
Once you've purchased a new golf club, practice hitting the new club at home before using it on the course. This will give you some time to get used to your new hybrid clubs.


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About "Come Ride With Me, On This the Hottest of Air Ball" by slaterock
Come Ride With Me, On This the Hottest of Air Ball
Design by slaterock
Up up up... up.
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very nice!
cool !
love the way their eyes seem to empty..
...seem to BE empty...
this guy doesnt have enough prints for how good his shit is, seriously! 5$$$$$$$$
Very nice illustration. Conceptually I dont get what the little ghost things are doing there, and you probably could have done more with the pattern on the patch, but overall this turned out great, and has nice atomosphere.
Adorable, I love it! Fivety fiver!
I want to take a ride!
straight up $5! coolios!
really amazing illo job on the dood. i really like the character design on him
I love how the dude barely has a basket big enough for him. Cool cool stuff.
looks great!
hot as the air ball!
haha, wtf? it's supposed to say Balloons, not ball!
love this style!
hot as the air ballon!! $5
i think i'd actually prefer it without the ghosty guys. i love the balloon and guy though.
he looks like abe lincoln to me, which makes me like it all the more :)
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i love it
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luv the guy's top hat!
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I love the body language of the dude in the balloon. Great job!
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sweet! i could do without the patch, but everything else is great
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Nice air ball, whatever that's supposed to be ;)
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Fantastic! Love the ghosts!
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Totally charming! :)
i want to start displaying my art on cool textures like that
rodrigobhz on Sep 19 '09
Really love this! :D
awesome artwork bro
LOVE this
unfortunately, i'm not getting the ghosties, but i LOVE the guy in the basket. nice work. C:
pretty !
I love how grumpy he looks given how awesome what he's doing is... the ghosts are a bit odd, but the patch is very cool and makes it much more unique and a touch retro seeming. Still, that guy could be in SO many shirts and make them rock... awesome man he is...
For the "ghosts," could you make them look a bit more like cumulus clouds hopping a ride with him?
funny that you ran out of characters for the title... and "come ride with me" just has so many bad connotations!
wow nice
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love the style here
whoa, thanks for the score!


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Tailgater Top 25 Rankings, Week 14 With the final week of the season complete and the bowls set, the debating can begin in earnest. What BCS flaws have been or will be exposed this year? Who was snubbed? Which team got more than it deserved? One thing that is hard to debate is the title matchup itself. Notre Dame is the nation's only eligible undefeated team. Their spot in the title game makes perfect sense. Alabama is clearly the best one-loss team in the country after winning the SEC on Saturday. They too have earned their chance as a championship. As for the SEC Championship Game itself, some media outlets would have us believe that it was an incredibly close game, and while the final margin of victory was anything but comfortable for the Tide, 'Bama did outplay UGA by a fair margin. A blown call on third down led to a swing of ten points or more. A pass interference foul on the Georgia defense was nullified by a supposed tip at the line of scrimmage, though replays showed that the thrown ball never changed course. Instead of a first down and ten at the UGA 17 yardline, Alabama was forced to try a field goal. The kick was blocked and returned by Georgia for a touchdown. That errant call led to a 21-10 game. had Alabama continued its drive form the 17, it would have very likely scored at least three points if not a touchdown; down 14-10 at the time, 'Bama might have tightened that to 14-13 or gone up by three. In the end, the officials' mistake didn't cost Alabama anything more than a successful cover, but such errors are still unacceptable. There were no major upsets this weekend. Louisville upended Rutgers to earn a Sugar Bowl berth, Baylor bested Oklahoma State, and Wisconsin decimated Nebraska. That last one was probably the most surprising game if only because of its one-sided nature. Wisconsin now goes to the Rose Bowl as a five-loss team. The Badgers are, without a doubt, the worst team ever selected to the BCS given the full set of circumstances. Wisconsin "won" the Big Ten on Saturday but finished third in the Leaders Division behind Ohio State and Penn State. The Badgers went 4-4 in a weak Big Ten. Only the total lack of foresight on the part of the BCS allowed them to represent the conference. Surely there should have been a rule regarding teams that finish behind ineligible programs. Numerous schools would have better at large selections, including Georgia, LSU, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Clemson. Wisconsin joins Connecticut as the only unranked programs to be selected to a BCS bowl, and UConn was, at least, an actual conference champion. But perhaps it's fitting that the Badgers got in. After all, their selection highlights the gross inadequacies of this system. The 2013 BCS bowls will feature: A fundamentally flawed Florida State team that hasn't looked particularly good since beating Clemson earlier this year; A two-loss Louisville team, from a weak Big East, that barely survived the likes of Southern Miss, South Florida, and FIU; An NIU team whose strength of schedule ranked 211th in FBS and FCS according to the NCAA, and that lost to a bad Iowa squad; and The five-loss Badgers, boasting the most defeats of any BCS team in history. Here are our updated college football rankings for week 14. Zach Bigalke John Mitchell Matt Strobl 1. Notre Dame 2. Alabama 3. Ohio State 4. Stanford 5. Oregon 6. Kansas State 7. Georgia 8. Florida 9. Northern Illinois 10. Texas A&M 11. Oklahoma 12. LSU 13. Utah State 14. Florida State 15. Kent State 16. Boise State 17. South Carolina 18. Oregon State 19. Louisville 20. Clemson 21. Northwestern 22. Tulsa 23. San Jose State 24. Arkansas State 25. Wisconsin 1. Notre Dame 2. Alabama 3. Ohio State 4. Florida 5. Oregon 6. Georgia 7. Kansas State 8. LSU 9. Stanford 10. Texas A&M 11. South Carolina 12. Oklahoma 13. Florida State 14. Clemson 15. Northern Illinois 16. Oregon State 17. Utah State 18. Northwestern 19. Louisville 20. UCLA 21. Michigan 22. Vanderbilt 23. San Jose State 24. Nebraska 25. Kent State 1. Alabama 2. Ohio State 3. Notre Dame 4. Florida 5. Oregon 6. Kansas State 7. LSU 8. Georgia 9. Stanford 10. Texas A&M 11. South Carolina 12. Florida State 13. Clemson 14. Oklahoma 15. Northern Illinois 16. Oregon State 17. Utah State 18. San Jose State 19. Louisville 20. Vanderbilt 21. UCLA 22. Nebraska 23. Michigan 24. Northwestern 25. Penn State Bigalke: 1-10: Time for final assessments before the bowls. Notre Dame, eligible and undefeated, claims my top spot. Alabama moves to #2 on my ballot after winning the SEC. Ohio State, undefeated but ineligible, isn't quite these two teams' caliber. Pac-12 champion Stanford moves ahead of the team they beat, Oregon. Kansas State claims the Big XII's Fiesta Bowl bid by beating Texas. Georgia slides two spots from last week after losing to Tide. They're just ahead of Florida, who they beat head-to-head. MAC champ Northern Illinois is a legit top-ten team, and SHOULD be BCS bound (though it likely won't happen) [Editor's note- NIU was selected to the Orange Bowl]. Rounding out the top ten is Texas A&M, among the hottest teams of November in their first SEC season. 11-20: Oklahoma claimed a share of the Big XII title and will either get BCS at-large berth… or get BCS Busted by the Huskies. LSU sits in the #12 spot, right ahead of WAC champion Utah State. Florida State hung on to win a weird ACC championship and are headed to the Orange Bowl. Kent State falls six spots after losing to NIU, but they are still one of the 15 best this year. I've got MWC co-champion Boise State ahead of South Carolina after the Broncos survived Nevada. Oregon State beat Nicholls State to set up a potential 10-win season, Louisville claimed the Big East's BCS berth, and Clemson enjoyed another season of double-digit victories to complete the top 20. 21-25: Northwestern celebrates another strong season and should get a nice warm-weather bowl berth. Tulsa beat UCF for the second time in three weeks for the C-USA crown on Saturday. San Jose State finished strong in their final WAC season, and Arkansas State crushed Middle Tennessee for the Sun Belt title. Rounding out the top 25 is a Wisconsin team that crushed Nebraska for the Big Ten title to book their third straight trip to Pasadena. Mitchell: 1-10: Alabama survived an SEC Championship thriller for the ages in Atlanta as they beat Georgia 32-28 to advance to the National Championship game. There isn't much of a change this week in the Top 10. I struggled with the Florida or Georgia comparison on which team should be ranked ahead of the other and get the conference's 2nd BCS bid. I see both sides of it. Georgia won the head-to-head meeting at a neutral site, and it is hard to penalize them for having to play an extra game. But, head-to-head only means so much, and the Gators have the best resume of any one loss team in the country. 11-20: I'm pretty disgusted with Florida State right now, as they barely beat 6-7 Georgia Tech to advance to the Orange Bowl, and they drop a spot because of it. Oklahoma jumps up to the 12, but they miss out on a BCS Bowl game as Northern Illinois busts the BCS from the MAC. The Huskies survived an overtime thriller in the MAC Title game over Kent State. Another non-BCS team, Utah State, slides in two spots behind Northern Illinois separated by Oregon State. Louisville took the Big East with a win over Rutgers led by a gritty performance from Teddy Bridgewater, and UCLA lost to Stanford again, but the Bruins came up just short in their bid for the Rose Bowl. 21-25: Nebraska was flat out embarrassed by Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game, allowing the Badgers to run up 70 points on them. I really struggled with keeping them in, but they barely hang on to a spot in the Top-25 at #24. Michigan, Vanderbilt, and San Jose State benefit from the Huskers struggles. Kent State hangs on to a spot in the Top-25 despite losing to Northern Illinois. The Flashes proved they were among the 25 best in the nation even though they came up just short in getting to a BCS Bowl. Strobl: 1-10: Alabama proved itself on the field and earned my number one slot, bumping the banned Buckeyes to second. Notre Dame comes in third but will get a chance to play for a title in a game I don't think will be close. Oregon and Florida finish off a strong top five with Kansas State on their heels. The Wildcats won the Big 12 with a rebound game against Texas. The best of the SEC and the Pac 12 champs Stanford complete the top ten. 11-20: South Carolina still starts this second group. The best of the ACC, which really isn't saying much at all given the state of that league, follow the Gamecocks and precede Big 12 runner up Oklahoma. MAC champion Northern Illinois hasn't lost since a one-point loss to Iowa in week one. The Beavers and the best of the WAC are next and Louisville and a surprising Vandy team finish the top 20. 21-25: UCLA finishes its season with two straight losses to Stanford, though there's no shame in that. The Cardinal proved to be a very good team and are still my biggest what-if of the season after that screw job in South Bend. The Big Ten sneaks in at the end here. It was a weak year for the conference, and the BCS gets exactly what it deserves with five-loss Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. Nebraska had the opportunity, but gave perhaps the worst showing in 'Husker history in Indy.
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|Runners head to the starting line as the sky breaks.
|Do you know your way to Half Moon Bay?
|Dennis and I at the starting line.
|Posing with the Awesome Amanda who helped organize the event. She was also quite the tour guide when I ran the course as a training run weeks past.
|Pillar Point Harbor along the course.
The course does pass through the finish line where I was happy to see Naomi running the 10k which was held on the same course. It was great to see yet another familiar face. I was then led to the second half of the course.
|Thank You Courtney for the picture of the course.
|The one picture I snapped on the course was the beautiful Ritz Carlton and grounds of the golf course.
|Amazing runners from Left Courtney, Alyssa, E, Dennis, Katie, Naomi, and Road Bunner
So that is my story. Surrounded by the beauty of Half Moon Bay, I pretty much crashed and burned but gained a lot out of the experience overall. I am very lucky to have such amazing runners in my life whether electronically or in person for each and every one of you has been super supportive by giving me the strength to push on. You also have helped me to recognize my achievements verses dwelling on an ill performance.
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I'm an avid herb gardener and can't wait to use the products of my labor in dishes like this salad. For a different twist, I include chopped apple...it adds some natural sweetness.
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- 2 cans (14-3/4 ounces each) salmon, drained, bones and skin removed
- 2 celery ribs, sliced
- 1 large apple, peeled and chopped
- 5 green onions, sliced
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoons snipped fresh dill or 3/4 teaspoon dill weed
- 3/4 teaspoon minced fresh basil or pinch dried basil
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/4 teaspoon minced fresh tarragon or pinch dried tarragon
- Flake salmon into a bowl. Add remaining ingredients; stir gently. Chill until ready to serve. Yield: 8 servings.
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Grocery store to reopen after asbestos discovery
County Market Grocery Store in Mexico, Mo. to reopen Tuesday
MEXICO, Mo. - A central Missouri grocery store will reopen nearly a month after it was closed down due to asbestos.
County Market Grocery Store in Mexico, Mo. plans to reopen around noon Tuesday. The Audrain County Health Department conducted a pre-opening and an opening inspection of the store and the business passed both inspections.
In early November, the county health department received calls from people concerned about dust in the store from renovations. Further tests showed asbestos was in the floor tiles, but air samples came back negative.
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Chanel Rouge Allure Lipstick in Famous ($32/ #207) is a dramatic, stand-out red in Chanel's most luxurious, richest formula. The color is a rich red that takes on a cool appearance based on the multidimensional formula that is embedded with fuchsia sparkle. Befitting the name "Famous," you will get noticed in this very dramatic gorgeous shade.
When I opened Famous, I was immediately reminded of Chanel Rouge Allure Rouge Byzantin (reviewed here). Both are a very dramatic red with a touch of fuchsia. The colors are not quite duplicates, as Famous' fuschia sparkle is distinct from Chanel Rouge Byzantin's fuschia undertone that is more within the formula. Having said that, I'm going out on a limb with Chanel fans here, but I would say that if you have one, you probably do not need the other. Between the two, I slightly prefer Famous because it is applies more consistently. Rouge Byzantin seemed to pull more red (or more fuschia), depending on the level of application. Famous is more decidedly red.
Here is a comparison with Chanel Rouge Allure Famous, with Chanel Rouge Allure in Byzantin. To show of their fuchsia undertones, I've also swatched some additional true to warm reds–here, Chanel Rouge Coco in Gabrielle and Dior's classic Ara Red.
Above is Liz wearing Chanel Rouge Allure Famous. As you can see, the color is quite opaque, gorgeous and striking. As many Chanel Rouge Allure shades, it's complex and has the famous Rouge Allure "glow." If you have plenty of reds in your lipstick arsenal, you still might wish to give Famous a second look–it's rather unique. Of course, I adore the Rouge Allure formula and luxurious packaging. Chanel's certainly delivered more of its legendary expertise with this one–it's unusual, yet classic and beautifully made.


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The new BBL800 is the most powerful Breville blender ever designed. Made with durable stainless and die cast alloys, this blender has fewer parts for easy and safe cleaning. Efficient 1500 Watt high torque motor runs incredibly smoothly and blends quickly. The blender base is very stable, while 4 button control panel is ergonomically angled for simple and safe use. Breville made a concerted effort to reduce noise and vibration, designing extra large, surgical grade serrated stainless blade with precision shaped wing tips and tuned cutting edges, and 2 litre lightweight and shatterproof polycarbonate jug with an extra wide opening to minimise food traps – Kinetix Blade and Bowl System, so this blender operation is quiet indeed. Non slip handle, smoothie and ice crush functions allow you to make pesto, whip cream, chop nuts and mince meat. As always, your safety is key priority at Breville and the blender incorporates 3 safety features – an interlock that electronically blocks the blade assembly on the base without the jug, the overlapping jug collar which stops the jug if knocked off the base and 3 process over-moulded lid that includes a patent pending Breville Assist loop, allowing a tight fit to stop accidental popping-off and aid removal. Price for the BBL800 Breville blender is $300 AUD.
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This was in the Boston Globe, and it looks really good - can you figure a way to cut out the butter? Would Pam work?
The dark chocolate needs to be a special occassion food, but once in a while. The fruit broiled without the chocolate would be good too - I did this with pears and it was good.
Grilled or broiled stone fruits with dark chocolate centers
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Perfect for that beautiful farmers' market fruit that isn't quite juicy-ripe enough to eat over the sink for breakfast. Choose fruit that's not too soft, so it holds together on a hot grill or under the broiler. Add chocolate for the last minute of cooking. Finish with a sprinkle of sea salt or confectioners' sugar, and if you like, generous scoops of vanilla ice cream. If you cannot get the pit out of the fruit, use the tip of a paring knife to ease it out.
2 peaches, halved and pitted
2 plums or pluots, halved and pitted
4 tablespoons ( � stick) butter, melted
3 ounces dark chocolate, cut into 6 squares
Sea salt or confectioners' sugar (for sprinkling)
1. Light the grill or turn the broiler to high.
2. Dip the cut sides of the fruit halves in butter.
3. To grill: Set the fruit, cut sides down, on the grill. Cook for 3 minutes. Turn and cook cut sides up for 1 minute. Add the chocolate to each center, cover the grill, and cook 1 minute more or until the chocolate melts. To broil: Set the fruit in a broiler pan. Broil 8 inches from the element for 6 minutes until the tops caramelize and the fruit softens. Add the chocolate to each center and return to the broiler for 1 minute more or until the chocolate melts.
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Okay, so I must admit I was a little hesitant to write another post about my bisexuality; I'm just being honest here. After my first post went up, I was accused of slut shaming (I would never), being immature (quite possible), pushing the LGBT fight back to the stone ages (please don't give me that much credit), being uninformed and ridiculous for wanting a party (who doesn't want a party?!) and for talking about boobs way too much (I will not stop!). Boobs! Boobs! Boobs!
First of all, I never claimed to be the knower of all things bisexual. This article is my experience and my experience only. You do not have to read it. But I encourage you to do so, because I've learned a lot from your comments, good and bad, and you can, too. I think if something really bothers you about anything I've written, then we can learn from each other without paying tuition, so what's the harm? I've learned that I agree with many of you who wrote to me and said I should be called "The Ambassador of Bisexuality." I humbly accept. Not because I'm adorable, but because I will be completely honest about this all too important subject, even to an embarrassing degree.
I do think we have so much to talk about. And yes, I could sit here and tell you my frat stories about how a straight friend decided to drive all the way out to Palm Springs to The Dinah Shore Ladies Weekend to "hunt me down and hook up with me" after taking five tabs of ecstasy and explain what that looked like. She was extremely hot and was wearing a bikini top at the time and clung to my arm, causing me to at some point think that she should call me Escobar, but most of the night went like this: She ate an apple and bit my skin while I pretended to be asleep. Woooo! So exciting. I could go into all that fun silly stuff, but I think that there are so many more important things to talk about, especially here on HelloGiggles. So I'm going to save my frat stories for my book of short embarrassing bisexual frat stories by Escobar.
We have more important, more serious stuff to talk about. We have the opportunity to connect and share fears, feelings and help get each other through some confusing uncharted sexual personal issues or questions. (Like how many bisexuals does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: None. We don't screw, we make love.)
I was really shocked with how many of you wrote to me asking questions and trusting me with some deep personal stories. Really. My first thought was, how did you get my email address? And, look as silly as I can be about this stuff sometimes, I do think there is a larger responsibility we all have to each other. God, I really resent that some of your comments made me grow up. Grrrrrrr. Boobs. Grrrrrr.
So, all joking about boobs and ecstasy aside, I'm going to start this off by answering the very first question that was asked of me from someone who was brave enough to share her question. I'm not going to disclose her name as her privacy was very important to her, so from now on we will just call her Curi #1.
Here's what C1 wrote:
Thank you for your column, I really don't have anyone in my family nor friends to ask these types of questions with because of how I know their beliefs are. I consider this a pretty deep, personal, private question, but do you think it's normal / believable / justifiable to want to experience some kind of emotional and physical love from another women while say in college but eventually know that you want to marry a man one day to settle down with?
Dear C 1,
First of all thank you for sharing your personal thoughts with me, a total stranger. I think it's just amazing how two people can connect like this and feel comfortable to do so, in front of hundreds of thousands of people. We are tremendous. We should throw ourselves a party.


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This motel offers access to a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. A complimentary breakfast is offered. This business-friendly motel also offers an outdoor pool, multilingual staff, and a picnic area. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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This is something totally off-topic but it's something that is becoming more and more a regular news story. It's making me afraid, short of not freaking out, because cyber bullying is growing into an ever larger symptom of society that can't be cured. The reason why is easy access to a keyboard, people feeling stronger when not faced with their victim but also, easy access to websites making bullying into a preferred tool.
Ask.fm is just one of those very tools. You might have heard of the website if you're living in Ireland because it has been linked to several cases of vicious cyber-bullying, leading to the suicides of two teenage girls.
In the past three months, four Irish people took their own life because they were bullied online, so you probably understand my fear for family members and friends when I found out what some people anonymously write on people's profiles. According to the Irish website Be Safe Web: "From looking at this website, I'm shocked at the very public conversations that are happening in this forum. I've seen conversations where 'people' are anonymously telling a 13 year old girl to die as she's not pretty enough or telling a 14 year old boy to kill himself as he's gay." (http://bewebsafe.net/index.php/2012/09/beware-of-ask-fm/)
You feel utter hopelessness when children, teens and adults commit suicide because of being bullied. Who do you bring to justice? Parents, spouses, internet providers? With new technologies and social media, it has taken on a totally new dimension: the vastness of cyberspace, where you can "hide" behind the anonymity of a laptop, desktop, mobile phone or tablet. It's easy tormenting others in the knowledge that you'll never be caught. Websites like Ask.fm do not give me much hope in people being brought to justice.
Below four people died after taking their own life in Ireland. Four in the space of three months time.
∞ Ciara Pugsley, aged 15 from County Leitrim, passed away in September 2012
∞ Erin Gallagher, aged 13 from County Donegal, passed away on October 27th 2012
∞ Shannon Gallagher, aged 15 and sister of Erin, passed away in early December because she could not live without her sister
∞ Shane McEntee, aged 56 from County Meath, passed away on December 21st 2012
Who are these people who bullied them and therefore have blood on their hands? Who are those ignorant, selfish, stupid idiots who play with other people's feelings, and lives? Who are those that hide behind their login names and passwords?
Mark Terebin, founder of the Latvia based, anonymous question and answer website Ask.fm, where two of the Irish teens were bullied on, said that the problem is this: "UK and Irish teens are crueller than teens from other countries." I am simply lost for words when I read his response as to why Irish teens are being bullied on his website. He earns millions on a website out to get nastiness from people so basically he doesn't give a damn as long as he can cash in on the hurt other people experience.
Anti-bullying is a cause I always cared about. Even if/when I physically can't keep children off the likes of Ask.fm, at least I want to try and spread the word because we need children to know about the dangers the internet can pose. It's not always the useful and necessary tool we want it to be, increasingly it's turning into a blame and shame tool. That's something books have never done.
As someone who was bullied myself during the first few years of primary school, memories come flooding back when I hear of kids being singled out by cruel children's bad behaviour. I wore glasses, came from divorced parents and I suppose I wasn't the prettiest girl of the class, which meant I was an easy target. Children are very impressionable and they quickly believe what others tell them. Memories of it always stuck in the back of my mind because at that time, it had an impact on my confidence and I had to learn how to trust again.
They say bullying changes you: you look for solitude or you turn into a bully yourself. Gladly I didn't turn out a bully, but for a time my defense mechanism was to withdraw and I was afraid to go to school and afraid to walk past certain children in school, or afraid to say something. When I was around 9 or 10, I cried daily in class and I was afraid to do almost anything because the boy sitting next to me constantly humiliated and harassed me. Suffice to say that there is a lot of truth in the saying that children can be very cruel.
In the end I think the bullying somehow shaped me because I swore not to go down that road myself and to help other people instead of being nasty. Either way, those years were not my finest and I looked forward to the day I would be strong enough to stand up against nasty creatures. And now I am. I'm better than those memories now because I moved on. I've forgiven the people that bullied me, and I hope they realize that what they did was just wrong.
If you're in Ireland and you are affected by bullying, please reach out and take note of these phone numbers and links:
* Childline: 1800 666656, or text "list" to 50101
* Parentline: 1890 927277
* Teen Ireland: 1800 833634
* Console 24/7 helpline: 1800 201890
* 3Ts 24/7 suicide prevention helpline: 1800 247100, or text "help" to 51444
* HSE suicide prevention helpline: 1800 742745
Cyberbullying advice websites:
Expert advice at webwise.ie
Academic-based research is available at cybertraining-project.org
Internet Safety for Schools at isfsi.ie
© WVE and Ireland, MS and Me, 2011-2013. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog's author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to WVE and Ireland, MS and Me with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.


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Saint Leo, Fla. (February 16, 2008) –The Saint Leo lacrosse team (1-0) opened its regular season in impressive fashion as the Lions defeated the Savannah College of Art and Design by a final score of 16-4 on Saturday night at University Field.
The Lions got momentum early as they were able to jump out to an early 2-1 lead at the end of the first quarter. The momentum only grew though, as the Lions put four goals on the board in the second quarter to push the half-time lead to 6-1.
The Lions came out of the halftime tunnel on fire as they found their offensive groove. The Saint Leo attack managed to put up 10 goals against the Bees in the third quarter. The third quarter iced the game for the Lions as Savannah College of Art and Design was only able to answer with two goals in the frame.
At the end of the third quarter the Lions staked 16-3 lead. SCAD was able to get one on the board in the fourth quarter but couldn't do anything else against the Lions' defense.
Leading the way for the Saint Leo on the night was Tommy Bryant (Fr., Millersville, Md.) who registered three points, scoring three goals. Chris Storrie (Jr., Syracuse, N.Y. ) delivered a total of four points on two goals and two assists. Nick Bova (So., Eureka, Mo.) and Ben Brigham (Jr., Scituate, Mass.) scored two goals apiece in the Lions' victory.
David Erdman (So., Mt. Sinai, N.Y), faced 14 shots on the evening and made 10 saves.
The Lions lacrosse team returns to action Saturday, February 23 for a home game against No. 4 Dowling College. Game time is set for noon.


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-- Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr is starting to feel like the loneliest man in Washington. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright's Apr. 1 bombshell, tossing out Paula Jones's three-year-old sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton, is more than a stunning victory for the White House. It could further undermine Starr's efforts to pin obstruction of justice charges on the President.
Jones's pursuit of Clinton was "always a weak case," says NYU law professor Stephen Gillers. Technically, Starr's case is unaffected--he had no real interest in whether the President engaged in a pattern of abusive sexual behavior--but the Jones upset could leave him on shakier legal ground.
Starr's position already was weakened by Wright's February ruling that allegations Clinton urged former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky to lie under oath could not be included in the Jones matter. Now, Starr must show that the President obstructed justice in a case that has evaporated.
But Starr's biggest problem is political. Starr is expected to deliver his findings later this year to the House of Representatives, which is already planning for possible impeachment proceedings. Now Hill Republicans have to consider the increased political risk to themselves if they launch proceedings that the public sees as a partisan witch-hunt. Starr could still find a pattern of obstruction of justice. But with Clinton on a roll, fewer and fewer Republicans will want to handle the hot potato that Starr lobs their way. The result: more pressure for Starr to head home.