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Armor For Sleep Guitarist: New Record To Be 'A Little More Real World'
Guitarist PJ Decicco speaks about the band's upcoming CD, and the stringed things he puts his hands around for a living.
Even Armor For Sleep guitarist PJ Decicco is a bit undecided about how to describe the band's influences. There is a bit of emo (a genre hideously attached to any band that breathes hard on record), rock, classic, and hardcore - nay, post hardcore. In truth, none of this matters. What does matter is the integrity and passion of the songwriting and the quality of the playing. Here, PJ speaks about the What To Do When You Are Dead album, the band's second, their upcoming CD, and the stringed things he puts his hands around for a living.
Ultimate-Guitar: About a week ago I did an interview with Alexisonfire and they were describing to me about emo and the summer of screamo. Is Armor For Sleep a reflection of those types of music or are those bands influences on you?
You are the sum of your own influences. I guess in a way like in your background you're not really influenced about what's going on today as much as kind of what you were when you were growing up. I guess we kind of come from more of like a punk rock background, more like NoFx and really small hall shows in New Jersey - kind of New Jersey stuff like Saves the Day, Thursday and Bouncing Souls, all that kind of stuff. I think that's a big part of who we are. And there's also, you know, classic rock. Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and everything, that kind of play a part in our experimental aspect of our music I think a little bit. We're pretty much like rock and we're definitely in the whole emo thing. I mean, we're not screamo at all. In fact, we visibly stay away from that. But I mean we're kind of still associated with a lot of those bands. And we sort of like a lot of those bands, too.
You mention about listening to some of the classic stuff - Hendrix and those kind of bands. Was he and those era bands an influence on you as a guitar player?
Definitely, yeah. I mean, when I was younger I just remember being obsessed with Jimi Hendrix for, you know, a few years basically. I bought a T-shirt that was like a rare T-shirt, and didn't ever want to stop wearing it. You know, that kind of thing. So it was definitely like a huge influence on me personally. And I know that classic rock has just been a common influence on us in general.
Were you like a Stratocaster guy?
You know, I never really was a Stratocaster guy. I never really liked dug the tones too, too much. But I really did like the people that used them. Like, I'd say David Gilmour is one of my favorite guitar players ever and he's pretty much the Strat man.
So you were on the other side? You were like a Les Paul guy?
I'm kind of a Les Paul guy, but I'm slowly becoming a Telecaster guy. I kind of like the Telecasters and the Humbuckers in them because it kind of gives me both worlds that I like. But I've kind of gotten into those '72 reissues, the Thinline. I like those a lot. I kind of use that primarily right now and I have a few Les Pauls, too.
On the site, it describes you as post-hardcore/emo/rock. Is that accurate?
I mean, I guess however ridiculous it is, it is somewhat accurate. Even though you have to use four semi-vague terms to get a ballpark figure. I mean, what was Jimi Hendrix? It's whatever people want to write, that's fine.
Was this the style on Dream to Make Believe? What were you trying to say with that first record, and looking back on it now, how does it hold up for you?
I think Dream to Make Believe was pretty interesting because it was obviously our first record and it was kind of like songs that we had been building for a long time. So they were very crafted. I think we were trying to go for more different, almost like space-y rock. There was nothing in our immediate scene that was like that. We just kind of wanted to almost bring like Thursday meets Radiohead and put it somewhere in between, and just kind of give it a little more.
On the new record then, What To Do When You Are Dead, would you sort of describe it as sort of a segmented concept record?
Yeah, that's kind of what it is actually. It's a concept record in the fact that you know there's no song randomly about like someone's car breaking down on the highway. It's all about a particular surrounding theme. But it's like, if you listen to the song you wouldn't necessarily think that that would go along with the whole record. If you didn't have the whole record and you just downloaded a song or two off iTunes, I don't think you would be missing aspects of it. I think you would get the whole song in general. But if you have the album and you listen to it front to back, I think you'll kind of be able to get more from it definitely.
We touched on guitars earlier but can an you talk specifically what you used on the record?
On the record, I think we actually bought for the record a Gibson Custom. I think it was like an '81 Custom. It was that - what was that burst? They only made this burst for like two years like in '80 and '81. Oh, a Silverburst. Yeah, I think we used one of those for a lot of it. That was kind of like main rhythm tracking. For a lot of the stuff, I actually use a '72 Thinline Reissue and then for a lot of other stuff we used a Deluxe, a Fender Deluxe - the Deluxe Telly.
If we jump to the first track, "Car Underwater," can you kind of describe what's going on there guitar-wise and amp-wise?
Yeah, it's actually interesting because the palming part is kind of like the intro to the song. It was like a three-string, like palming where you never really hear the higher string. We had to dub that in its own track actually because the low notes were overpowering it. The high one almost seemed like an undertone. So we felt it was important because it's actually the note that changes instead of like the other ones, which are just chords that are just there. So we had to give that a little more breathing room and just kind of put that in itself. From there, it's pretty explanatory. It's just some major and minor bar chords, and drop D, and some nice effects that come in. Like a tremolo effect comes in on the bridge. Pretty straightforward actually.
What kind of guitar or guitars is that?
That was pretty much the Les Paul. And for the lead-y stuff, I think it was the Telecaster. I think the Telecaster did most of the leads because it just cut through more than anything else.
So on those eighth notes, that pumping thing, you said it was like a three-note thing figure? Are those fifths?
It's actually fifths. The main part is fifths and then it drops down to an open D and it's actually hitting an E on top of that. The roots are basically B and D. It drops to a lower D, because of like the open D from the B and that's kind of like the main part and then it kind of like varies. The underneath part kind of varies when it gets to the end of the riffs, and then when it comes in it's just like a really fat like G barre chord basically.
Do you use a lot of drop tunings and open tunings?
We pretty much use drop D for every song actually.
|"We wanted to almost bring like Thursday meets Radiohead and put it somewhere in between, and just give it a little more."
It kind of does. We add a ninth a lot of the times, which kind of makes it super rich. If you're playing a regular barre chord D, you just add your pinky. You know, just basically one full step up and you have this super-finished tone. It's kind of like a finishing chord. It makes the riff kind of finish. It kind of makes you feel like you've kind of gone to heaven or something.
So the ninth on a D chord would be an E?
Yeah, we use it a lot. We use it on B a lot, so you get a B root note, but then you get a higher note. Instead of it being a B, which is obviously the octave, it goes to like C# for the higher note.
So that creates kind of that airy atmosphere?
It's kind of like the really nice version of a power chord.
On "The Truth About Heaven" there's that little single-note line that's going along with the chords. Is that an overdub and a separate guitar doing that?
Yeah, it is. We actually didn't even have that for a while. We had the main part and then we didn't know how to really go into the first verse that well. So that was actually in the verse so we decided to solo track it there. It was one of the things that kind of came last minute. It just kind of like worked really well.
Do parts like that actually get composed in the studio?
That one, we were actually like in pre-production, which was we were actually with the producer Machine. I think just one day the singer just kind of wrote it and he was like, "I think this would be really cool over the verses." I played it and I was like, "That actually is really cool." It's one of those riffs that I never expected to hear over it, but I really liked it.
Is Machine a pretty musical guy in terms of pushing you guys into different places as players and trying to come up with different voicings?
Oh yeah. Machine was the best. There were times where say I'd play a part like five times in a row, and there was this one note he was looking for. He wanted me to hit it just right coming from the other note. I kind of didn't get what he was talking about, but then I got it. I hear it now and I'm just like, I couldn't image if I'd just it played it like dee-doo, or however it was. It was just so sweet, you know, at the end. I was like, "Thank God you made me do that because it really makes it."
"Remember To Feel Real" again has kind of like that single line and then there's some big chords. It kind of goes from distortion to clean. Can you explain how you assembled that track?
We pretty much just wanted it to just have it start and just kind of kick your ass. And it just comes in and there's this E and, "Boom!" You know what I mean? And the verses we obviously couldn't continue through the whole song because we're not like a metal band, we're like a hardcore band. So the verses kind of get softer and there's kind of like a little wilt thing guitar part with some bendies or whatever you call it. We kind of like to do that a lot. And then just a really nice riff for the pre-chorus that the singer, Ben, and I wrote actually in the bus when we were touring. We just had this one riff and it just ended up being put in there as pre-chorus. The lead part keeps sliding up and it's a lot of like half-step drops in the chord changes that Ben's playing in the rhythm. It just kind of led into the chorus really well.
What kind of amps are you using that is allowing you to get these big, distorted sounds and these clean sounds.
We pretty much used a Bogner Ecstasy for like a lot of it. I think for some of the octaves that needed a punch through we used an Orange because those just kind of sound the best octave-wise of anything. I think that's a really big studio thing. The beginning of "Truth About Heaven," the octave line is like almost a melody basically. I think we used an Orange for that. And we used an 800 (Marshall) a lot, too, for a lot of rhythm stuff with the Bogner. Like if we were doubling a rhythm track it was usually a Bogner and an 800.
What about effects and things? Do you tend to be the effect guy while Ben is playing straight rhythm?
Yeah, it's pretty much more like that. We actually brought our pedal boards into the studio, not really thinking we'd use them because most producers, I thought, don't really like to use pedals because you're kind of stuck into that pedal if you use it when you record it. But Machine was really cool. Sometimes parts are written around effects in general. If we didn't have that effect and didn't really want to spend an hour or two trying to recreate it, I was like, "Why don't I just play it the way I thought it should be?" That's actually kind of an important part of the song, "Basement Ghost Singing." It was kind of built around Ben playing with the Line 6 green pedal, the Delay Modeler. That's basically the heart of the song, that whole part.
What kind of effects do you use?
I have the green Delay Modeler Line 6. I have the blue one, which is like a modulation modeler. And then I have a Big Muff that I use a lot; the green one is better than the silver one. I have the (Boss) DD3 for some delay extra. I use the Boss RX Loop Station, the RX 20. That's pretty good for phrasing different parts. If you want to kind of have another part over it, you can record it and then play another thing over it. Or if you want to record some sort of sample for song - there's a song that we have, like a hurricane sound almost?
What song is that?
That's in "The More You?"
"The More You Talk The Less I Hear"?
Yeah. We have that in that so I kind of recreate it actually. Like on the internet I kind of made my own thing with ProTools and whatever, and I put it on that. It actually sounds pretty good live, so we use that.
So that's how that riff is created?
Yeah. I mean, we kind of have the idea of having something with a real-life feel of a storm in it. The song in the beginning was called "Storm" because we didn't know what to call it. That's kind of why I don't know the name of the title. But we called it "Storm" for a long time and then Machine had the idea of making it seem like it got all lo-fi. He wanted it to sound like you were listening to it from the inside of a car. So that's where all the rains comes in and there's like thunder claps and everything. That's probably one of my favorite parts of the album just because it strays from just normal rock stuff. It kind of puts you out in the real world.
Was a part like that difficult to record in the studio? Did you have to take multiple runs at it before you got it right?
Yeah, kind of. Just because it wasn't there when we recorded it. So you kind of have to know where it's going to be and kind of trust Machine and what it's going to sound like. He's like, "No, it's going to sound really good. It's going to be super lo-fi. It's going to sound like nothing else on this record." And I was like, "That sounds amazing." He worked with some stuff he had from some storm things and it sounded really, really true when it came out on the record.
On "Basement Ghost Singing," are those drum loops in there?
Yeah. There's our real drums and drum loops. Yeah.
Is that something that intrigues you guys?
Yeah, it definitely does. I think it all depends on the feel of the song. I think that song is probably the biggest stretch on the album as far as belonging. But I think that's why it's kind of good why it got the drum machine in it. I don't really like when bands put a drum machine in for like one verse or something because it's just like it doesn't really belong in the song. It's just because you want to put a drum machine in the song. Whereas we like them, but you know, we're not going to try to throw one in if it doesn't really fit the song. And that song was just so tripped out as it was, that I think that if you had real drums on it, I think you actually would make it lose something.
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Yeah. There's effects throughout the bridge. There's like a light flange. There's some flange on that one-note-y part, like the heavy one-note part. And then in the bridge, there's a high part in triplets that kind of comes in. And that's actually this effect that I had had for like in the beginning when I wrote the part, and then it was actually recorded through the Line 6 pedal when we did the album.
So you guys like the Line 6 stuff and all that modeling stuff?
Yeah. I mean, I don't think it sounds the greatest. I think it sounds very good for what it is. Like live, it's super sturdy. You know, you get three pedals in one and it's not that expensive.
"A Quick Little Flight" is based on keyboards?
Yeah. Pretty much a keyboard and drum loops.
Who plays the keyboards?
That was Ben. Ben wrote a keyboard line and just kind of wrote a little song around it. We all thought it was a great idea to put it on the record.
"Walking At Night Alone" is the acoustic guitar?
Yeah, there's an acoustic blended with the electric in the beginning.
I love that intro. It has the acoustic and the repeating, echo guitar. How do you build a part like that?
That part was actually pretty interesting because that was a song that kind of came across later. Because it wasn't a rock song we kind of weren't really focusing on it. But Machine liked that song a lot and he had the idea of putting the acoustic in the beginning. It was going to be an acoustic intro totally, but then he wanted me to play it on electric guitar, too. So he could have it there as kind of like a bass. The acoustic was kind of like the bread and butter of the sound. He wanted to sound like an acoustic guitar especially, so he didn't want the electric guitar to kill it. Then he put that kind of super-slow flange on it. It's super-slow, like you can almost barely tell it's there. Then there's that little wah thing that comes in with the overdub on that. That song is pretty, pretty interesting.
You're playing the acoustic guitar?
Yeah. You know what? It was actually Machine's. I think it was a Taylor.
Do you play much acoustic? Do you compose on an acoustic at home?
Yeah, I actually have an acoustic at home that I use just when I kind of have an idea or something. I think a lot of songs are composed on an acoustic actually. Ben writes a lot of his stuff on acoustic guitar. I think it's just kind of easier to write rock songs when you're playing with an actual electric guitar and real amp because then you can throw in some harmonics that you think sounds cool. Like we have a song that's like a tapping song. And that obviously couldn't be composed on an acoustic guitar.
Is it on this record?
The record that actually we're doing right now.
Because this record is actually over a year old, isn't it?
Yeah, it came out last February.
Have you progressed far enough with the next record to talk about it?
Yeah. It's definitely a next step. I think it's going to be a little less concept-y. I think it's going to be a little more real world. We kind of have more like real world problems. Like there's a song about terrorism for instance, kind of how someone our age would deal with it. That's kind of something that I never thought we'd really have, but it's really interesting to have a voice in something that's not like metaphysical.
A lot of the songs off the What To Do When You Are Dead record tend to be lyrically dark. They talk about death in all its various forms. Is that an intrigue for the band?
It's definitely true. Everyone can associate with some sort of hard time, so I think that in songs, it's one of those things where people almost like to hear depressing songs. Not really depressing necessarily, but songs that are kind of thought provoking and not necessarily happy. I think nowadays, happy songs are more delegated to people like Kelly Clarksen. Even people who are in bands that don't write necessarily depressing or sad songs, like Incubus. They don't really write happy songs, but they're not like suicidal songs. I think that's kind of what we went for. The songs are super-poppy sometimes. Like "The Truth About Heaven" is to me bordering on a pop song. It just happens to be singing about being in heaven and like a dead person, which I think is kind of interesting. It's almost like a bi-polar version.
I was watching the video that came on the DVD. Ben was describing that the songwriting process has changed. Before he came in with more of a completed idea and now it's sort of everybody kind of sitting around and bring something to the song.
Oh yeah. Ben is obviously the main songwriter and he writes all the lyrics. It's pretty much a lot of his material. Not that he's giving us more room to help him, but in a way, he kind of trusts our opinions. If we think something is a little too much or maybe isn't good enough, if he wrote a melody for a chorus, for instance, that we really didn't think was good enough, we'd tell him, "That's not that good." And he has no problem being like, "I definitely believe that, but I just kind of didn't want to tell myself that." It's kind of like we're all in it for the same goal. So if we're all happy with the song at the end of the day, that's really all that matters nowadays.
How do you and Ben split guitar duties? Basically you're the lead guitar player?
Yeah, that's pretty much it. I mean, I don't like solo or anything. We don't do much of that. I pretty much play like the melodic parts underneath the rhythm.
Would Ben put his part down first in the studio?
Yeah, it was pretty much all rhythm first. He would do his rhythm track and he would most likely double it before I even touched the song. So usually I would play to guitar and drums, and then I would do my leads and maybe some extra rhythm stuff. And then we'd do bass and everything else.
Yeah, I heard Machine describing that. The bass actually goes on after guitars?
You know, I'm trying to think now. Yeah, I think we did it after guitars just because he feels that bass sometimes goes out of tune more so he has more of a reference to kind of hear things if he has them with the guitars already. So that the guitars stay in tune more than the bass because it's just how thick the strings are and you know depending on how hard you hit them, you're kind of going to fluctuate. So he wanted to know that everything was in tune and so he could listen to the guitars first.
So you guys are in the studio now working on the record?
We're actually demo-ing at a studio in New Jersey right now, We're just pretty much making a rough draft. We're actually recording like a full record, but it's just like not the one that we'll be releasing.
Is that how you guys work? You sit down and craft the record as a pre-production tool?
We're very into, you know, going over a lot of ideas, scrapping a whole chorus, putting something else in. We go through a lot before the song is done. It's a very thought-out process.
Will these songs be played live before they go on the record?
Yeah. We actually played one. We did a headlining tour about three months ago and we played a song that we had first written for the record on that. I like it quite a bit. It's a pretty hard-rocking song, I guess.
What's that called?
It's called "The Way Out Is Broken." It's on our Pure Volume page. We played that and I think we played another one here and there.
Was this part of the Warped Tour?
We recorded a lot of stuff during the Warped Tour. Ben and I would kind of be in the bus and just kind of be playing some stuff. He would be playing something that I liked, and then I'd try and record something over it that I thought would sound good to it. And that's actually how most of the record was done through that. Some of the riffs that we're doing now were done then.
You guys actually have some recording gear on the bus?
We had like a ProTools set up that we had on our last tour that we were just trying to get some ideas down.
Is Machine a ProTools guy?
Machine actually used Logic, I think.
|"We're demo-ing at a studio in New Jersey right now, we're just pretty much making a rough draft."
On that record, I don't think there was any analog.
So when do you see the new record being completed?
Well, I think our schedule right now is that we're going to hopefully start recording it September 1st. And do it all of September and all of October. And we're hopefully going to have it out maybe like March of next year hopefully.
Then you guys will go on the road again?
Yeah, we're doing the whole Warped Tour again. And then as soon as we're done with the Warped Tour, we're going to go do the record September 1st.
Who are some of the acts on the Warped Tour?
Some of the big bands are like Thursday is going to be on it. Saves the Day is going to be on it. AFI is going to be on it. NoFx is going to be on it.
The tour's roots are pretty much like a punk rock tour. That's why NoFx is kind of like the headliner this year because they've kind of been out for a while. So them coming back is like a pretty big deal.
I'm curious that you would have the Paul Young song, "Every Time You Go Away" on your answering machine. I figured you for something else.
It's a good song. We can appreciate good songs for what they are, you know what I mean? I mean we're not really stuck into like a genre, which is good.
Do you think a lot of modern bands really know what came before?
I don't know, maybe not. I think we grew up with like musical parents. Like my parents were always listening to Steely Dan in the car. So I like Steely Dan now. And my dad, you know, listens to all sorts of crazy stuff from the seventies like Strawberry Alarm Clock.
And Machine has worked with King Crimson.
Exactly. Machine has a very mixed background. He lived in London for a long time and he was kind of a big part of that whole trip-hop type thing with DJ Shadow. Machine is a genius programmer and that's where he gets it from.
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I couldn't tell if its night or day,
Light, does not reflect on my eyes…anymore.
She usually sits by the left window sill. Then takes a sip from her teacup, and immediately her eyes would zoom straight into mine. I would be sucked into her and then I would be beside her, with my hand in hers.
Crazy hair that stands in all direction would softly graze my face as she cuddles up to me. She wears only a large t-shirt, moving closer to me.
Everything about her is cold. Her lips look cold, her hands are cold, her feet are blue and her nipples would show. She's very cold and she wants my warmth.
His sound of laughter would echo from the back door, beckoning you to explore the source. A ball would bounce across the house and then rebound to back to the other side.
He wears a blue shirt and black shorts with strangely muddy socks and shoes. His dark hair straight and long, tied behind in a pony tail.
He smiles, and pulls you to the nearest bog.
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I always worry about the gel packs exploding. I think I'm going to make some flax seed or rice packs for mine. I'd hate to not notice it's popped, and try to use it. OUCH! Thanks for the idea sine.wave.
I make various types of heat packs (such as eye masks) by sewing fabric and filling with flax seeds. They heat up beautifully in the microwave, so if you can sew you could match the dimensions of the damaged heat packs and make your own. Hey, you might be able to put flax seeds in a ziplock bag (with a tiny air hole?) The oil in the flax seeds holds heat for a long time, better than rice which is also used for heat packs and relies on the moisture in rice grains.


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Miller, E., Summerville, J., Buys, L., & Bell, L. (2008) Initial public perceptions of carbon sequestration : implications for engagement and environmental risk communication strategies. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 8(1/2), pp. 147-164.
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Despite widespread scientific acceptance, little is known about how the public perceives carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing and storing carbon dioxide in underground sites. Thus, through an online survey (n=1273), this study investigated Australians' knowledge and perceptions of CCS. Most believed it was important for Australia to reduce carbon emissions, yet only 18% had previously heard of CCS and only 5% closely followed the greenhouse debate. People were keen to participate in public discussions and learn more before forming a definite opinion, although many had "not-in-my-backyard" reactions and raised concerns about the risks and effectiveness of the technology and the trustworthiness of organisations. By highlighting current perceptions and knowledge about CCS, this research informs environmental risk communication strategies and emphasises the importance of early engagement, education and partnerships between stakeholders for fostering informed decision-making about its use in the Australian context.
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With his measured tone and immaculate grey suit, Michael Armstrong is an unlikely revolutionary. The quiet lobby of the St Martin's Hotel in central London seems an unlikely place to foment revolution. And yet seismic change is what the 35-year-old American says he came to the UK to deliver. He is a big figure, and today the man who has arrived to put black television on the map in Britain is talking big.
"You can look around the world and see that we superserve people of the African diaspora, as well as those people outside the diaspora who are consumers of black culture. The UK is an enormous society in terms of the proportion of the community that consumes black culture. What is distinctive about us is our voice. We have a unique voice. We think we could be very successful."
The timing is auspicious. The first black British television production featuring black actors and aimed at least in part at a black audience was probably The Big Pride, an adapted radio drama screened by ITV in 1961. It told the tale of three Guyanese convicts involved in a prison break and was hailed as a breakthrough.
But more than 45 years later, mainstream producers and programmers continue to face accusations that their radio and television channels fail to cater for black audiences or to reflect the full span of black British life. Channel 4's remit to make programmes for and about minority communities has largely been abandoned and the BBC, it is said, fights shy lest it be accused of political correctness.
Surveys show that many black viewers like EastEnders, because of its prominent black characters, but for the most part they vote with their feet, or rather by deploying the remote control. This research indicates black households are less likely to watch BBC1, BBC2 and ITV1, more likely to watch Five but even more likely to rely on satellite and cable, where they can access the MTV music channels and black American sitcoms. It is against that backdrop that Armstrong and his company, the BET network, claim they will make a difference. BET, part of the giant Viacom corporation, will begin by airing some of the new factual and entertainment-based shows watched by 85m households in the US and the Caribbean. These include the obligatory rap, hip-hop and r'n'b videos but also talk shows, reality programmes, documentaries and films. The main platform will be Sky but there will also be a push towards content delivered by broadband and mobile phone. The multi-million-pound plan then anticipates an expansion into British-made product, spurred in part by a tie-up with the Black British Film Festival.
The upsides Armstrong can point to speak for themselves. BET has access to the biggest stars across black America. The BET music awards attracted 6.6 million viewers last year, making it the top-rated show on cable in the US. The potential downsides are fairly obvious too. The black British experience is a unique one. How well can US-based executives reflect it?
Stephen Bourne, a historian of black Britain who has written extensively on black broadcasting, says any serious new player will be welcomed. "I would say hand on heart that terrestrial television fails black people. People are disgruntled. The BBC made The Real McCoy in the 1990s, which was a great show, and won't repeat it. People are watching clips of it on YouTube. C4 won't repeat Desmonds, another popular series." He said the last programme of any significance was Shoot The Messenger, the BBC drama about a conflicted black teacher screened last year. "Some people loved it and some hated it. But people watched it and it was undoubtedly a quality programme."
Even if Armstrong puts more black faces on screen, he will still be required to show that the output of British BET reflects light and shade within the UK's Afro-Caribbean and African communities. When news of BET's arrival was broken to listeners of Colourful Radio, the internet talk station described by some as a black Radio 4, many welcomed the new addition but others complained that with digital stations like MTV and Trouble, which lean heavily on black culture, more music, soaps and lifestyle features were hardly what was needed.
Where was the serious output to come from, they said - the news, the discussion, the documentaries? Amid continuing concern about issues like family breakdown, gun crime, under achievement in schools, where was the opportunity for serious debate? Given the rise of the black middle class, the ascent of black business titans such as private equity chief Damian Buffini and the increasing success of black students in higher education, where was forum for celebration?
Having launched as a digital satellite and online station, Colourful was last week named as a content provider and podcast partner to Channel 4 Radio, which won the right to place a "bouquet" of stations on the national DAB digital radio network.
Its founder Henry Bonsu says: "Up and down the length and breadth of the country there are organisations that are crying out for black outlets for discussion. Things happen in Manchester and Birmingham or Sheffield and people want to reach others to spread their good news or concerns. Mainstream radio and TV have not served them in the way they would want."
Robert Beckford, an academic and broadcaster who makes documentaries for C4, says most black programming is too narrowly focused. "It is music, sport and sexuality: rap, riot and rape. I have US students come over to study British TV and they conclude that it is where they were in the US in the 1950s. The emergence of BET, Colourful Radio and the proposed internet TV station Colour TV reflects a gap in the market because of the failure of broadcasters to ensure true inclusion in the output of mainstream stations."
Armstrong arrived in London with a full diary. For all the muscle of the giant Viacom corporation, he must still persuade advertisers that his mix of black programming will deliver a sought-after audience. Blue chip advertisers have often been reluctant to promote themselves in the black media, with one major retailer refusing space in a minority publication on the basis that "your readers are our shoplifters".
The Man from BET says he isn't worried. "We have some of the biggest advertisers in the world and I think those here will come around," he says. "We are as complex and diverse a group of people as any other in the world. The advertiser that cuts off the black consumer will not be around too long."


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Up Close and Personal at Carnegie Hall
Ever since moving to New York City for graduate school, I have tried to attend as many concerts as possible at Carnegie Hall. I can say without a New Yorker's bias that every event I have seen there has been inspiring -- from Brahms symphonies performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, to Ravel's Gaspard played by Jean-Yves Thibaudet, to new songs written and performed by Brad Mehldau and Renée Fleming, to my own father playing with the China Philharmonic on tour. But nothing was comparable to a recital I heard last week. This time, I sat on stage, merely fifteen feet away, in a recital by violist Yuri Bashmet and pianist Evgeny Kissin.
Already able to play piano concertos by memory at the age of 4, Evgeny Kissin is the definition of Wunderkind, or child prodigy. Born in Moscow, the pianist burst into the international scene in 1984 when he played and recorded both of Chopin's piano concertos with the Moscow Philharmonic. Today that recording is still arguably one of the best recordings exist of these two concertos. Over the past several decades Kissin has increased his popularity tenfold even has he makes only limited concert appearances each year. Off stage he remains largely private and rarely gives interviews. Over the years he has almost become a cult figure. To his fans, he is mysteriously exciting.
My favorite, and the only recording of the Shostakovich Viola Sonata I own, is by Yuri Bashmet and Sviatoslav Richter. There is a sense of bewilderment in Bashmet's playing that always moves me. The first violist to perform a full solo recital in Carnegie Hall in 1995 (that's right, no more of those violist jokes), he is one of the most respected solo violists, and his chamber music collaborations with Richter and Mstislav Rostropovich are legendary. Now I was very curious to see what the new partnership would be like with a pianist of a younger generation.
When the lights dimmed in the auditorium and people's voices hushed, by natural instinct I got a little nervous. My excitement grew more intense as the stage lights above my head got hotter. Watching Kissin play the opening piano solo of the Arpeggione was like watching a giant picking up little chicklings. He was extremely meticulous and precise. His trademark lyricism was as an unbreakable wave that kept pulling the audience in. Bashmet was gracefully virtuosic, a rare but essential quality that is required in this Schubert piece. The lullaby-like Adagio was handled almost too tenderly and carefully it lacked warmth.
The Brahms Sonata in E-flat Major (Op. 120 No. 2) was played with a certain constrained romanticism. The languid lines in the first movement were tastefully tossed back and forth between the two artists. The Sostenuto section in the second movement, however, was taken at such a brisk tempo it lost its majestic character but it was nevertheless impressive.
There wasn't a single unmusical moment throughout the evening. They did everything that was indicated in the scores and their entrances were always synchronized. The music was finely executed so I couldn't figure out why I was not in love the first instant they started to play, like I was during Kissin's Chopin Concerto performance just a month ago. I never quite felt the two artists were "one."
It was not until the lively Allegretto movement of the Shostakovich Viola Sonata (Op. 147), in the middle of the second half of the concert, that I felt they stopped playing like two great soloists but one great duet. In Shostakovich's devilish folk dance both Kissin and Bashmet seem to have finally stopped watching out for one another. Now the energy was instantaneous. They sounded as if they were improvising off of each other.
Besides occasionally turning pages for colleagues, I have watched a concert from the stage only one other time—years ago, coincidentally, in a solo recital by Kissin at the Barbican in London. The privilege of being this close to the performers and watching how they play, their body movements, their finger works, is absolutely unforgettable.
Being a pianist myself and having played all the pieces that were performed that night, it was a two-hour private lesson for me where I could observe everything that was happening within several feet and burn it onto my brain. For this particular concert, however, sitting on the left side of the pianist was not the most ideal. The balance between a nine-foot Steinway concert grand piano and a viola is highly delicate, even in the hands of two of the most decorated musicians of our time. I suspect most soloists, or other small chamber ensembles, would have had no problem with the acoustics.
If you get stage seats, be prepared to stand in line in the lobby up to 90 minutes in advance as seats are not numbered and first come, first serve. If you are prone to coughing and sneezing the stage seats are not the best for you as it would be extra distracting for the performers. All that being said, given the chance, I'd sit on stage again in a heartbeat. How often do you get to see great performances from fifteen feet away?


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A jury in Illinois awarded $32,000 to an Illinois consumer as a result of the fraud committed by Orland Park Nissan in selling a supposed "new" car. Krohn & Moss, Ltd. filed a lawsuit on behalf of a consumer who paid $24,000 for a Nissan Altima she thought was a new car. The car only had 178 miles at the time of purchase and the salesman and finance manager told her it was a new car with the manufacturer's warranty. However, the dealer knew the car had been issued a prior Salvage branded title and was titled as a used car before it sold the car to the consumer. When getting an oil change from a different Nissan dealer, the consumer was shocked to learn that her warranties were void as a result of the Salvage title issued for the car.
The jury awarded the consumer approximately 50% of the purchase price of the Altima for over paying for the car, and an additional $20,000 in punitive damages to punish Orland Park Nissan for its fraud and to try and prevent these fraudulent practices from happening again. Krohn & Moss, Ltd. represented the consumer free of charge as she was also able to seek payment of her attorneys' fees and costs incurred directly from Orland Park Nissan pursuant to state laws. Eric Kaczander of Krohn & Moss, Ltd. who was the lead trial attorney for the consumer, commented on the jury's award, "A buyer has the right to know the true history of the car she is buying and car dealers can no longer take advantage of unsuspecting consumers. Laws are now in place to hold the dealer accountable for its fraudulent actions."
For more information concerning this case, please reference the Clerk of the Court of Cook County, Illinois, Case No. 09 M5 1439.
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DADE CITY – Although Pasco DL Joey Ivie has been a Florida Gator for a month, he wanted to spend one final day with his former Pirate teammates before they go their separate ways.
That's why he came down from Gainesville for today's noon signing ceremony at Pasco, joining teammates Janarion Grant (Rutgers), Damien Wilson (Nebraska-Kearney) and Jajuan Henry (Black Hills State).
"I'd rather sign with someone I spent most of my time with – pretty much my family," Ivie said. "I wanted to come back and show that respect."
Ivie enrolled early at UF at the start of the second semester. The four-star lineman is already beginning to fill out with the Gators' strength training. The 6-foot-4 Ivie said he weighed 254 pounds when he started there in early January. He's already up to 270 pounds.
He said the biggest adjustment to college has been the responsibility of handling all of your academic and athletic responsibilities personally.
"You've got nobody but yourself," Ivie said.
Ivie became the North Suncoast's top recruit after his junior season. He grew from a prospect with only a UMass offer to Rivals' No. 198 overall recruit. He landed offers from FSU, Miami, USF, Ole Miss, Tennessee and others before committing to UF in June.
Ivie said he considered decommitting briefly during the recruiting process, but a conversation with Gators coach Will Muschamp changed his mind.
"He really convinced me that Florida was the school for me," Ivie said. "Still today, I feel that it is."


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Stuck on Star Trek (Amazon link) is a hardcover book featuring Star Trek backgrounds and "…"Kling-on" pieces." In other words, they are to Colorforms what MegaBloks are to Lego.
Anyone else remember that Star Trek Colorforms Adventure Set? I remember being 7 or 8 years old and in some dirty, run down K-Mart my grandparents had taken me to and there was the Star Trek Colorforms set which, at the time, I thought might be the greatest toy ever made.
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The U.S. has charged two men with conspiracy to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, alleging Iran was behind the plot, Attorney General Eric Holder has announced.
The target was Saudi ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir. The plot also allegedly involved an attack on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C.
Update at 5:57 p.m. ET: The Iranian Foreign Ministry "strongly rejected" the U.S. allegation that Tehran was behind the plot, calling it "a prefabricated scenario which is totally unfounded," the Fars News Agency reports.
"Such worn-out approaches which are based on the old hostile policies of the American-Zionist axis are a humorous act and part of the special scenarios staged and pursued by the enemies of Islam and the region to sow discord (among Muslims)," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said in a statement late tonight.
Fars said Mehman-Parast also "condemned all terrorist attacks" and concluded his statement by underscoring that "relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arab are based on mutual respect and such unreal and unfounded allegations would leave no impact on the world public opinion."
Update at 5:45 p.m. ET: The Atlantic casts a skeptical eye on the alleged plot, arguing it "would make great material for a spy novel, but it would go against Iran's own interests and past behavior."
Associate editor Max Fisher begins:
It's entirely possible that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement today is exactly what it looks like: the U.S. discovery and foiling of a plot by Iranian government agents to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. in a bomb attack, possibly in Washington, DC. Iran has a record sponsoring terrorism, and Iran-Saudi competition can sometimes look like a Cold War of the Middle East. But, for all the plausibility that Iran might be willing to blow up a Saudi ambassador, it's not at all apparent what they would gain from it. Iran has never been shy about sponsoring terrorism, but only when it was within their interests, or at least their perceived interests. It's hard to see how they could have possibly decided on a plot like the one that Holder claimed today.
Update at 5:01 p.m. ET: Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who also holds an Iranian passport, appeared in federal court in New York and was ordered held without bail.
Update at 4:51 p.m. ET: A counterterrorism adviser to the U.S. House of Representatives tells USA TODAY's Oren Dorell that if true, the plot by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds force would be "a benchmark change" in its activities against the United States and would be like "an act of war."
"The fact that they gave the green light to target Israelis and Saudis on American soil, had to be a decision by the top leader" of the Revolutionary Guards, said Walid Phares, who advises the the House Anti-Terrorism Caucus. He said that the orders would have had to come from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and that it is unlikely the result of rogue Iranian operatives because the Quds force is very centralized.
Phares, a Fox News contributor, claims that such an attack would have been like Pearl Harbor and would have drawn a U.S. reaction, which Phares says raises the question of whether Iran might have other plots in motion.
"It's less likely they would have planned for an attack like this without a followup against the Israelies, the Saudis and the United States," Phares said. "This means the regime knew we were going to react, if that's the case this is not just an isolated act of terror. It looks like an act of war."
Phares' latest book is The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East. In it he argues that the future of the Middle East "lies in the outcome of a battle between anti-Jihadists who see virtue in democracy and the proponents of violence and terrorism. To win the war for freedom, Phares contends the West must first better understand the groups that reject it."
Update at 4:06 p.m. ET: A spokesman for Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told CNN said the Obama administration "is busy fabricating a new scenario ... to reach the American public."
"They want to take the public's mind off the serious domestic problems they're facing these days and scare them with fabricated problems outside the country," said Ali Akbar Javanfekr.
Update at 3:49 p.m. ET: Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who also holds an Iranian passport, was arrested Sept. 29 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in New York at 4 p.m. ET.
Update at 3:32 p.m. ET: The Treasury Department says it is imposing economic penalties against the two men charged -- Manssor Arbashiar, a naturalized U.S. citizen who has Iranian and American passports, and Gholam Shakuri, an Iranian -- and two others.
Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen said the transactions at the heart of the alleged plot "lay bare the risk that banks and other institutions face in doing business with Iran," the Associated Press reports.
Update at 3:15 p.m. ET: Iran's official news agency has filed a short item about the alleged plan "to attack the embassies of Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime" in Washington, stating that "the U.S. government is launching a new propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran."
By Douglas Stanglin
Update at 2:52 p.m. ET: The Saudi embassy in Washington declines to comment on the developments, referring inquires to the U.S. Justice Department.
READ: The official complaint.
Update at 2:45 p.m. ET: Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York, says the defendants "were part of a well-funded and pernicious plot that had, as its first priority, the assassination of the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, without care or concern for the mass casualties that would result from their planned attack." He says the charges "should make crystal clear that we will not let other countries use our soil as their battleground."
Update at 2:42 p.m. ET: The FBI describes one of the suspects, Gholam Shakuri, as an Iran-based member of Iran's Qods Force. The force, the FBI says, "is a special operations unit of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that is said to sponsor and promote terrorist activities abroad."
Update at 2:38 p.m. ET: FBI director Robert Mueller says the alleged plot "reads like the pages of a Hollywood script."
Update at 2:33 p.m. ET: Holder said the White House, State department, and department of the Treasury will be taking further action in as little as a few hours. The attorney general did not specify what those actions would entail.
READ: Detail FBI statement on alleged plot.
Update at 2:31 p.m. ET: FBI Director Robert Mueller says many lives could have been lost in the plot to kill the ambassador with bombs in the U.S.
Update at 2:29 p.m. ET: Holder tells reporters that Arbabsiar has "confessed" to his role in the alleged plot and provided details of the operation.
Update at 2:27 p.m. ET: The suspects are identified as Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri. Arbabsiar is a naturalized U.S. citizen who holds both a U.S. and an Iranian passport.
Update at 2:26 p.m. ET: The attorney general says the alleged plot was "conceived, sponsored and directed from Iran."
Update at 2:23 p.m. ET: Holder says the suspect is accused in a $1.5 million "international murder-for-hire" plot against the Saudi envoy to the U.S.
Update at 2:21 p.m. ET: Holder says a U.S. citizen with an Iranian passport was arrested last month in New York and is accused of working on the alleged plot with the the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Update at 2:16 p.m. ET: Attorney General Eric Holder says two men have been charged in an alleged "deadly plot" to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Holder says the alleged plot "was led by factions of the Iranian government."
Update at 2:12 p.m. ET: ABC says the Iranian-American reportedly claimed he was being "directed by high-ranking members of the Iranian government."
Update at 2:02 p.m. ET: NBC reports that the suspects are an Iranian and an Iranian-American from Texas.
Update at 1:59 p.m. ET: ABC News says the case, called Operation Red Coalition, began in May when an Iranian-American from Corpus Christi, Texas, approached a DEA informant seeking the help of a Mexican drug cartel in the plot.
The suspect thought he was dealing with a member of the Zetas Mexican drug organization, according to ABC.
Update at 1:53 p.m. ET: CNN is also carrying the report, quoting senior U.S. officials. CNN says a suspect was trying to solicit members of the Mexican drug cartel in the alleged plot linked to Iranian government.
Doug is an unrepentant news junkie who loves breaking news and has been known to watch C-SPAN even on vacation. He has covered a wide range of domestic and international news stories, from prison riots in Oklahoma to the Moscow coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Doug previously served as foreign editor at USA TODAY. More about Doug
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Poems written in August 2012
Comments welcome.
[poem notes in brackets like this]
1. [ Children's poem for my book "Moon Tea".
A mom answers her child's question]
"How many miles to Wonderland?"
"It's as close as can be.
Close your eyes you sleepy head
and get their in your dreams."
2. [A Dorian Gray type poem]
I put a spell
on this kid's book.
Read it each year
as you grow up,
and it grows too.
The words get bigger,
the prose more dense,
the pages thicker ....
3. [Haiku-type poem]
the water
is in a hurry
to get
down the stream
4. [A Vision poem]
follow the rabbit
when he starts to roar!
5. [A Quatro poem]
Man looks up - a bird!
Robot looks up - a satellite!
6. [?]
What if you played
chess with one square?
What if you had
a puzzle with one piece?
7. [Another for the kids]
The alphabet
is a train.
"A" is for engine
and "Z" for caboose
8. [Surreal]
I caught a wave
all by itself
and feed it water
in its jar.
9. [Another Quatro]
People in their rooms
Dewdrops on the leaves
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Remember, if the old ideas worked, we wouldn't still have the problem
The Beatles had two phases in their music : the first was rock and roll, the second was art songs.
If you dress in layers, there are probably layers to your personality too.
In science, common sense is almost always wrong.
Tommy: I'm writing my own marriage vows. The first line reads"
This is not legally binding....
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Almond Cake Layered with Lemon Curd
- Yield: Makes one 8-inch cake
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- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, plus more for pans
- 6 ounces almond paste, room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup cake flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- Lemon Curd for Almond Cake
- Streusel for Almond Cake
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 8-inch cake pans; line with parchment paper. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat almond paste and butter on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add sugar, and beat to combine. Add eggs and vanilla extract, and beat to combine. On low speed, beat in flour, baking powder, and salt until combined.
Divide batter between prepared pans. Spread the batter evenly with a rubber spatula. Bake until golden brown, about 25 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool for 20 minutes. Remove the cakes from the pans, remove parchment, and return to the rack to cool, top sides up.
To assemble the cake, place the first layer in the bottom of an 8-inch springform pan. Spread half the lemon curd on top, and cover with the remaining cake layer. Spread the remaining curd on top. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours to set.
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Acrylic Tank Builder?
Anyone know of someone that builds acrylic tanks? I'm not looking for huge tanks, just something in the 18"x12"x8" range (give or take a few inches). Probably a half dozen or so depending on price.
theres a guy out here near oak openings i think his business was called acrylic concepts... he did a lot of aquarium stuff out there and did it well
last time i was out there he was building a 400+ gal tank and it was beautiful
also when i was out there last he had a couple tanks that were around 18x12x36 or so with a bunch of dividers in it to create 3 tanks in one
I wouldn't mind the dividers, all the tanks are going to be sponge driven anyways.
Any idea what prices he was asking? I'd like to swing up that way and check out Toledo Aquarium (maybe talk them into a shrimp order) and hang out with BuK.
i think when he said he was building that huge tank it was $3000+ but dont quote me on that(he was also using 1" acrylic maybe 3/4"~i believe(whatever it was it was thick)... i got my bulkheads from him for a very good price.. something like 4-5 bucks a piece...
Not a bad price on a big tank like that. Maybe I'll swing by in the summer when I graduate.
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Last Saturday was crazy! It was finally time for my 1 year old Birthday Pawty! Hey, wait a minute you say, haven't you been celebrating your birthday on your dogster page for the last month? How clever of you to notice! Yes, my real birthdate is March 14th, but since Skipper didn't have all of her shots we had to wait a month.
It's pretty funny that Mom had included an alternate "rain date" for the pawty on the invitation, as on the day of my pawty it was 90 degrees out! Yes, 90 degrees, and it was HOT! As you might guess those of us with little to no noses don't do well in the heat, so it wasn't an ideal climate, but luckily we had enough cool coats to share with our Frenchie and Puggy friends who hadn't brought theirs. Let's see, we had my BFF Luna (of course) and her brother Astro, my cousin Remy, Bridget and Sophie, Atticus (Cuddles wasn't feeling well), Buddy and Suzy Q, Kobe and Bruno, Joey, Trevor, Emma and Sadie and then the 6 of us, so all together there were 20 dogs in attendance!
Once the weather cooled off we were able to play. There were lots of special treats and of course my birthday cake.
The humans also had food and 2 different cakes, but we didn't get to try any of that!
All in all, it was a very nice pawty and a very special day for me. I think my slideshow pretty much sums up everything, so enjoy...
Today was totally pawsome, it was my very first birthday, and it was a special day!
This morning I got a bath, which wasn't so great, but afterwards I got to go outside to play and lounge in the sun.
Tonight some friends came over for a small party, none of my doggie friends were able to make it because Skipper still doesn't have all of her shots. It's okay though because next month Mom is throwing me a BIG 13 Month Old Pawty with everyone! Woo Hoo!
We did have some yummy cake! Mom got me a special doggie cake with my picture painted on it...pawsome! If you're wondering who my friend is in my birthday picture, he's our new houseguest, Ling Ling the Ambassabear. He belongs to my friend Georgie who lives far away, and he's visiting us here in California for a few days. He'll write about his adventures with us in his journal and then move on to the next place. Neat, hun?
Well, I must say that my first year of life has been pretty great, and I'm looking forward to what this next year will bring!
Full of cake now, gotta go!
Wow, it's hard to believe that it's almost the end of January! A lot of things have been going on...
A couple of weeks ago my BFF, Luna got a HUGE surprise, her parents brought home a little brother! I haven't gotten the chance to meet him but from what I hear Astro (or Monkeyface, as we like to call him) is quite the little pistol. He's only 7 lbs and he CLIMBED out of a 2 ft high x-pen! Luna seems to be enjoying having the company.
This week I went to see Dr.Kerry, as my ears have been bothering me. As it turns out I have an infection in both ears, so now I'm subjected to twice daily ear cleaning and medication, the only upside is that I get treats for being a good girl.
It has been raining all week here, I don't like the rain, especially having to go potty when it's raining! My parents think that I need a rain coat, so in addition to having to go out on the wet (yuck!) grass, I have to go out there with a dumb raincoat with hood. How am I suppose to concentrate when that hood is bothering my ears? I MUCH prefer using the indoor potty area (oops! did I just admit to that?) which my parents DO NOT prefer!
In other exciting news, I've been asked to be the model for the City Slicker Plum Rainwear coat on www.pugnsnuggly.com! Midge is already on there, as are our Pug friends, Phoebe and Lulu.
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Have you finished up all of your Star Wars Day shopping yet? What? You forgot again? Oy. For some reason, geekdom is all excited about tomorrow's Star Wars Day, because it's May Fourth, and of course, "May the Fourth be with You." The faux holiday has turned into something of an actual holiday of sorts - i've already received a bunch of sales emails from LEGO (special deals on Lego Star Wars figures on May 4-5) and the Star Wars Facebook page has some cool photos that you can decorate your Facebook wall with.
This video seems to encapsulate the spirit of May the Fourth, from our friends at Mimobot, which makes those really cool Star Wars USB drives:
It's bough being a Ginger Sith Lord.
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Iran Sends American Pastor to Prison, Obama Silent
An American pastor, jailed in Iran on charges of sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was sentenced in Tehran by the man known as the "hanging judge." He had been found guilty of threatening the national security of Iran through his leadership in Christian house churches.
"This is a real travesty – a mockery of justice," said Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice — and the family's attorney. "Iran has not only abused its own laws, it has trampled on the fundamentals of human rights. We call on the citizens of the world to rise up in protest. We call on governments around the world to stand and defend Pastor Saeed."
So far, President Obama and the State Dept. have remained silent on the imprisonment of the Christian pastor. Their silence has troubled many American Christians.
"Here's the troubling reality," Sekulow said. "We have a U.S. citizen who has been beaten and tortured since his imprisonment last fall, now facing eight years in Evin Prison, one of the most brutal prisons in Iran. Pastor Saeed is likely facing life-threatening torture and abuse at the hands of the Iranian regime simply because of his Christian faith.
The 34-year-old father of two denied evangelizing in Iran and claims he had only returned to his native land to help establish an orphanage.
The exact crimes he is accused of only became public on Monday, when the prosecutor outlined charges that Abedini undermined the Iranian government by creating a network of Christian house churches and that he was attempting to sway Iranian youth away from Islam.
According to the ACLJ, upon hearing the news of her husband's sentence, Naghmeh Abedini said: "The promise of his release was a lie. We should not trust the empty words or promises put out by the Iranian government. These false hopes amount to psychological torture. You don't want to trust them, but they build a glimmer hope before the crushing blow. With today's development I am devastated for my husband and my family. We must now pursue every effort, turn every rock, and not stop until Saeed is safely on American soil."
Although the U.S. does not have diplomatic relations with Iran, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said earlier this month that the administration was troubled over Abedini's imprisonment.
"We remain troubled by the case of U.S. citizen Saeed Abedini, who was arrested by Iranian officials more than three months ago on charges relating to his religious beliefs," Vietor said. "We call upon Iranian authorities to release him immediately."
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Choosing the 11 best games of 2011 was mighty tough, given the absurd amount of amazing games that came out these year. But then again, that's never a bad thing.
2011 permanently raised the bar in the world of Moto. We drove faster, jumped farther and all around, went bigger. Here are our selections for the Best Moto Videos of 2011.
Our favorite cinema supercuts from 2011.
To conclude our coverage of everything next-level in 2011, these are the eleven most compelling "breakout" acts of the year.
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We ignored the voice of reason that said it was too dangerous to be done and compiled the awesomest of the awesome in 2011. Mullets, Snoop Dogg, photobombs, pepper spray and boobs await you.
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The great Egyptian actress Faten Hamamah agreed to play the leading role in the new film "Dawlat Al Anadool," written by Mahfooth Abed Al Rahman.
Al Rahman nominated Hamamah and the young Egyptian actor Ahmad Al Saqa for the starring roles.
Al Rahman specifically wrote the film to suit Hamamah and she agreed with the idea for the film.
The story revolves around a woman who clings to her values and traditions, and faces problems with her children hat do not accept her mentality.
She eventually meets a driver that tries to broaden her perspectives and to end her loneliness.
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Judge orders ex-police Hobart officer held
A northwest Indiana judge has ordered a former Hobart police officer who is married to the Porter County Court commissioner and charged with felony counts of intimidation and criminal recklessness held without bond until the Indiana Supreme Court appoints a special judge.
The Times of Munster reports Porter County Superior Judge Roger Bradford ruled Friday that no county judge could hear the case against Eric Moser because of his wife's job. The 41-year-old Eric Moser is accused of firing a shotgun out the door as police officers approached his home Wednesday and making a threat against an officer.
Deputy Prosecutor Trista Hudson says her office will request a special prosecutor be appointed after the judge is appointed so the two can be from the same area.
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What happens when your son is accused of being a mass murderer?
Like a lot of people I know, the first feeling I had as soon as I saw the first images of James Holmes during his first court appearance yesterday was one of hatred. Although it might sound horrible and unchristian to some, I actually wished him dead because no one who perpetrates the kind of horror, misery and pain he did last Friday morning deserves to be alive.
And then, as the day progressed, I started to realize that Holmes might be a mass murderer, but he is also somebody's son. Arelene Holmes' son, to be exact.
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While difficult to accept, the truth is that Friday's massacre left two more victims that most people don't really care to talk about: the alleged assassin's parents. At the end of the day, no matter what you feel for the one responsible for the killing spree, can you even imagine what his parents are feeling? What his mother, the one who gave birth to him, must be going through?
I can't.
Little has been said by Holmes' family. Their attorney, Lisa Damiani, has not answered questions about him and his relationship to the family. But she has admitted that they stand by him saying "he's their son." Of course he is--even if he's now known as the monster who perpetrated one of the worst mass killings in the history of this country: 12 dead and 58 injured.
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I'm sure Holmes' mother is wondering what happened to her son, what she did wrong for this to happen or whether she could've somehow prevented it. These are questions that will haunt her forever--regardless of the outcome of her son's eventual trial. All in all, I feel for this woman who calls herself Holmes' mom. Her life, just like that of the victims' families, will never ever be the same.
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Though he killed 12 there are many children and young people killed on a daily basis by sick young people! It is always heart renching to think as a parent of what went wrong? I would like to think that they were as supportive yesterday and the day before as they are today of him. Were they aware of his illness? Many killers show signs of anti social behaviors, anger and pain. Parents often choose to ignore the signs out of love and fear. Let this be a lesson to us all! Keep our children close and give them strong roots of love, affection, support, family values......


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for making molds or vacuum forming ¿ ¿ ¿
do u use clay or wood ....... ¿
im sorry for any errors and would thnk uri
for making molds or vacuum forming ¿ ¿ ¿
do u use clay or wood ....... ¿
im sorry for any errors and would thnk uri
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Sculpt them out of Basswood without all the fine details to form positives.
Cut them in half.
Then you can suck the heated plastic around them.
Another way is to sculpt them in clay pull molds and cast positives (Half at a time) in plaster then use those to draw your heated plasic around them.
For a lot of people on the Forums, English is a second language... for me it's my primary language and I had trouble reading the topic. Please be short and sweet in posts, and speak in sentences using "words," not letters. It sometimes is quicker to type the word in it's entirety than it would be to make it look "cool."
I agree. Not trying to sound like a jerk, but it really is a lot easier to read and understand when propper spelling/grammar is used.GCNgamer128 said:
¿Then the correct question would be: How do you model your jango gauntlets?
I reccomend buying gauntlets if you are a beginner, cause gauntlets are the hardest piece to make in my opinion. I took 2 months to make mine perfect, and I have been doing this for a long time.
This answer depends on the tools you have at your disposal, but if you have power tools for cutting, sanding, and shaping, MDF is cheap and easy. If you don't have the equipment, then clay is your best bet.
Step one: 1:1 scale drawing. Draw a set of full size plans for your gauntlets, both from top and side. You will have a better time trying to build something when you have the drawings right in front of you.
my girlfriend is useing clay 5 days ago. by looking all the photos, there are becoming much details to stand out as she want. sometimes she could scream but she have the better hands for working with clay than me.
in time she is still working on the left gauntlet upper half. i think not bad for a first step.
here r some pics from my webcam. its a v.1.0 build !!!
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Wow nice wish I would have just made my own instead of buying them. Sure it would have been a lot of time and hard work but... it saves ya from a lot of headaches in another arena.


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I'm not sure what cat or from where that you want to adopt but if it's related to Catster & the cats sometimes offered as adoptable here, they have a FAQ on how to adopt. I hope this page will answer your questions & help you find an adorable fuzzy one to fill your life with happiness, love, purrs AND of course, lots of cat hair! (-;
Morgana - forever my soul answered on 1/15/08. Helpful? / 0
errrr, sorry, is it possible, you've "chosen" a cat who already HAS a furever home??? not every catster is looking for a new home, most of us are quite happy where we are...
the section where you'll find adoptable catster-cats is under the "Adoption"-button in the left navigation (also: the most right button in the navigation beam on top). there you'll also find answers to your other questions.
Member 482673 answered on 1/16/08. Helpful? / 0
I looked the cat up, he's already in what looks like a very loving home and isn't adoptable. To find adoptable cats you click adoption on the left hand bar, then type in what you're looking for and the area you're zip code. You would then want to send the kitty a pawmail or contact the foster if the contact info is on their site. How much it costs to adopt completely depends on the foster or rescue organization and probably the amount of medical care the kitty has received. Most adopters also like to talk to a vet reference.
If you don't find the kitty you're looking for on here, I would google Siamese rescues in your area (it looks like you might be interested in a Siamese) or go to the SPCA. Most SPCAs will adopt out a spayed or neutered kitty with all of its shots for about $70 and these guys make awesome pets.
Sam answered on 1/18/08. Helpful? / 0
If that cat isn't available, definitely try Petfinder.com. That's how we found our latest addition. You just enter your area and what type of animal you're looking for. They give you profiles from many groups who have animals that meet your preferences.
Oscar J. Cat answered on 1/25/08. Helpful? / 0