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The 411 Music Top 5 01.22.13: The Top 5 Modern Rock Bands
|Just a note, I know that this says "rock bands," but technically all metal is rock, just not all rock is metal. Also, Pantera won't be on this list because their first album was in 1983, no matter how much the band wants you to forget that.
Emperor – This band released their first EP in 1993, they are by far one of the greatest and most legendary black metal bands in the history of the genre. They always maintained a very symphonic feel to their music. They were one of the first and most notable bands in the black metal scene to do so, along with Bal-Sagoth.
Cannibal Corpse – This band released their first album in 1990. It really shouldn't be that surprising that this band is on my list. Some people write off Cannibal Corpse because their albums, for the most part, have a same-y quality to them, but I say if it ain't broke why fix it. But at the time, they were pretty innovative and important. They're also the most successful death metal band of all time. I think that counts for something.
Immortal – The last black metal band on this list. They released their first EP in 1991. They're personally my favorite black metal band, because their brand of black metal has a hint of thrash in it. I also love that they're pretty goofy, and I'm pretty sure that they know that they're goofy, and don't care.
5. Amon Amarth
Have you ever listened to a band that made you want grab a sword, beat your chest (not with the sword), and go kill your enemies in the name of Odin? Amon Amarth is that band. Though surprisingly, their testosterone is mellowed a small bit by their melodious guitar work. With all their talk of Norse mythology and battles, and warfare, you'd think that they wouldn't have that much in terms of songs that tackle humanity. I'd say the song, "Fate of Norns," is a song that proves that they do (Spoilers), this man finds his son dead, how, I don't know. You can feel the anger and pain that this man is going through, by the end of the song, he has built a pyre for his son and lays down on it with him, then in flames he goes. I can say that I've also never heard a bad song by them, this will be a common theme of the list.
4. Orphaned Land
I love this band. Every album that they've done changes their style just a little bit, but not enough to where you can't tell that it isn't them. They string together death metal and Middle Eastern folk music, as well as throw in dashes of doom and prog metal. It is very hard to get bored during any of their songs, because they constantly switch things around. Everything is done well, and there is not a bad song in their discography, though for being around almost 20 years, they only have 4 albums. It's also rare that a band really focuses on the positives and tries to be a unifying force between the people of the Middle East, and I commend them for it.
3. Candlemass
This is the only pick on my list that I had to think whether or not they fit the criteria of, "modern." I'm not one to really judge, because I wasn't even born in the mid-1980s. I figured that mid-80s would allow a band that released their first album in 1986. I fit this band in the classic section of doom metal, seeing as they're one of the first bands to help develop the genre in the 80s (along with Witchfinder General, Pentagram, Saint Vitus and Trouble). This is another band that I don't think has a bad song, though I may be in the minority on that one, because they have an album in the late 90s that is not exactly looked upon fondly. It's sad to see them retire from the studio for now, but maybe with their new singer, they'll find new life. Also, fun fact, the segments in my column are all named after Candlemass songs.
2. Opeth
Here is a band that I feel like might slip down this list. This is a band that I still love very much, because most of their output is a very awesome mix of death metal and prog metal, and Mikael Akerfeldt has both the voice of a devil and an angel. Their songs are often sprawling and have many layers to them, which I love, though some of their songs can get a bit long. If their newest album is any indication of their future, they've moved from that death/prog sound, to a pure prog sound, with more rock influences in it. I love their past, and I'm very interested in what they may put out in the future, because even if they go totally rock, I might still be interested, but I guess time will tell!
1. Death
For anyone who has ever read my column, or knows me personally, this pick is about the least surprising thing on this list. I adore this band, there is not a single not I can hear off of any of their songs and say, "That's not good," because everything they have ever done is pure gold. Yes, it is me being a fanboy, and I will not be ashamed for being one. Just like many of the other bands on this list, they have a certain progression to them, they started out as your typically blood and guts death metal band (back when there was no such thing), and after they had a brief break in 1990, the lord and savior, Chuck Schuldiner made the executive decision that I personally feel is a good one, to start weaving in progressive elements, and by their last album, the vocals had evolved into an almost black scream with flowing passages all throughout. It doesn't hurt that the band is a "Who's Who" of musicians, Individual Thought Patterns alone has Chuck (who is my favorite guitarist, as well as one of favorite vocalists (I know, fanboy)), along with Steve Digiorgio (my favorite bassist), Andy LaRocque (of King Diamond fame), and Gene Hoglan (who is also one of my favorite drummers). This band also launched my favorite drummer, Richard Christy, so there is that. This band was done by 1998, and Chuck went on to make his "Death minus the death vocals" band Control Denied, then he got cancer, and died. Though he may have left pretty early (Fuck cancer!), but he left us some well crafted songs, awesome solos, and memorable riffs. I'd say what Chuck Schuldiner left us describes Death perfectly.
Honorable Mention: Dave Matthews Band
5. Radiohead
I went through a momentary debate over whether it would be Dave Matthews Band or Radiohead that would break my list's surface. Each band's strongest merit offset a lacking criterion wherein the other emerged ahead. Ultimately, I pondered what "Top 5" should really embody. This week's list didn't stipulate that I merely praise the "Top 5 Commercially Viable, Radio-Accessible Modern Rock Bands." Broadly assigning that I argue in favor of my personally ranked" top five modern rock bands" entailed considering as many criteria as would be reasonable – from influence paid forward and stylistic innovation, to commercial accolades. That didn't mean that I couldn't weight one category's value over another, as suits my own values.
Between touring and recorded output, both have reaped admirable commercial bounties since emerging upon the FM alternative radio scene around the same time – Radiohead releasing their debut single "Creep" in 1992, while Dave Matthews Band would release their major-label debut Under the Table and Dreaming in 1994. As the years wore on, DMB maintained a brutally relentless touring schedule that yielded a live-recording catalog that became the quartet's hallmark. Those 18 official live recordings further bolstered sales from a string of eight accessible, radio-friendly albums in 12 years. Meanwhile, Radiohead released eight studio albums and no live albums from 1993's Pablo Honey to 2011's The King of Limbs. Commercial/popular advantage, Dave Matthews Band. The bottom line doesn't tell the whole story.
Meanwhile, Radiohead achieved critical and audience acclaim album after album after album for exploratory sounds that defied conventional structure. In Rainbows crowned them as pioneers of independent online distribution when it achieved staggering sales even after the band permitted free-of-charge downloading via their website. To date, they've moved 30 million albums compared with Dave Matthews Band having sold 30-40 million as of 2010 alone.
That isn't to say that Dave Matthews and his collaborators aren't accomplished artists. It's been rare that the band has ever "made the same album twice," with each presenting some form or another of structural or lyrical departure. Radiohead have achieved almost exactly the same, though. Their evolution has been ceaseless, although they've sometimes taken far lengthier gaps between releases than DMB.
In the end, though, Radiohead have achieved comparably admirable commercial acclaim while easily exceeding Dave Matthews Band in terms of musical invention – even when the result has been anything but "radio-friendly." For that reason, Dave Matthews finds himself barely on the outside looking in.
4. The Police
For pure musicianship and ensemble chemistry, few compare with Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland.
In an era marked by exploration and fusion, The Police happened upon the best-constructed formula: a perfect amalgamation of punk energy, reggae inflections and jazz flavors played by three men whose respective personal differences never impeded upon their timing. They made more memorable music across their five major albums than many latter-day peers achieved across 150% of that output.
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers
It would be a fallacy to say that the Red Hot Chili Peppers made an "often imitated, never duplicated" sound. Truth be told, count Faith No More, Jane's Addiction and Primus among their best-regarded peers amid that criterion. It would be a mistake claiming that even any of the above have been as highly regarded as wisely as Anthony Keidis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith.
(Sean's Note: No, I'm not at all ignoring that Keidis and Flea recorded the band's first three albums alongside drummer Jack Irons and co-founding guitarist Hillel Slovak. I'm acknowledging that the band never sounded simultaneously tighter and more thrillingly combustible than with Frusciante.)
The band has strayed little from a single magnetic recipe of funk, punk and thrash. Despite keeping a close eye upon their chemical bonds that make up the band's sonic fingerprint, they've managed to let it out and tighten it like a tailor to a fine suit to custom fit each album. Whatever roads they've driven, personally and sonically, we've all been along for the ride.
2. Metallica
There just is no killing this band. They eventually had to basically dump guitarist Dave Mustaine by a roadside somewhere like a crazed problem dog that couldn't be trained to stop shitting on the carpet. As the band's acclaim stood poised to explode, a bus crash claimed bassist Cliff Burton's life and sent James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett into alcoholic voids of mourning. An onstage pyrotechnic catastrophe could've – and by all rights, probably should've – at best ended lead singer Hetfield's and the band's respective careers. Longtime fans shat upon Load when the band emerged from hiatus with "sell-out" short haircuts. After bassist Jason Newsted left the band, the band released the nearly universally panned St. Anger.
Despite all of these tragedies that would've (and in some cases, have) marked other bands' demises, they've more than soldiered onward. They've remained quite possibly metal's most broadly accomplished band instrumentally, and one of the acts that truly made an art of the genre.
1. Nirvana
Make no mistake: they're on this list as much for the enduring mystique and supposition as for their artistic output. It was no one thing that gave Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic the velocity to make the impact that the definitive grunge band made. Musically speaking, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden were arguably as accomplished technically. Personally, I've always preferred Layne Staley and Chris Cornell as vocalists. However, neither was as varied in their approaches to their songs as Cobain, Grohl and Novoselic were to Cobain's distinctively personal, often embarrassingly misinterpreted lyrics.
Cobain, for the many ways he was mischaracterized as merely angry, highlighted the shades that distinguished disaffection broken by curious bouts of happiness, and just being pissy. Many came after Grunge's emergence to capitalize on it and endure. Nirvana defined it.
|NOTE: For my EPs, I decided to leave out options such as the many Peel Session EPs, the iTunes exclusives, live performances and so on. This is intended to be extended play albums of entirely (or almost entirely) new music from the bands in question.
Honorable Mention: The Cure, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, U2
5. Arcade Fire
Win Butler has a bit of a reputation for being an asshole, but I can separate an artist's persona from their music and in this case, the music is well worth a little douchiness. Funeral quickly became one of my favorite albums to listen to when I learned about the band post-The Suburbs; for that matter The Suburbs and Neon Bible are both great listens as well. Butler, Régine Chassagne and the rest of the band managed to achieve something that is a rarity for me: they made indie rock something that I not only could listen to, but love. As good of a band as Arcade Fire is, their true power is in the impact they helped bring. They certainly aren't the only band to bring the public's eye onto indie rock but I do believe they are one of the most prevalent. It is to no small degree because of them that indie rock is becoming a focus of the public eye and even for more mainstream rock fans like me, that's a good thing because it keeps rock music from slipping further down the decline in its losing war with other genres.
4. Radiohead
Radiohead is very much a love them or hate them band. There are those who exalt them as one of the greatest rock groups of all-time and there are others who consider them an unlistenable pretentious byproduct of the alt rock era. I'm not in either category but if I were to identify with either extreme, it would be the former. Even if I don't worship at their feet, I'm not going to make the criminal move of leaving them off of their rightful spot on this list; their influence within the alternative scene simply cannot be denied. Radiohead is one of those rare groups that have consistently bucked the trend of success and yet they've remained unbelievably successful based on the sheer strength of their talent. Their music is very challenging–a big reason that they're so divisive–but there is brilliance in that challenge. They dare you to listen and frankly, they don't care if you think they're overrated because they know exactly where they stand. And while the band certainly could have capitalized on the radio-friendly "Creep" with an all-out assault on the pop/rock charts with mainstream hits, they chose not to and instead preferred to make the music that they wanted to make, taking whoever wanted to come along for the ride. As it turned out, that group was pretty damned numerous.
3. The White Stripes
The White Stripes helped bring about as renaissance for garage rock in the turn of the twenty-first century, which was a necessary thing to bring the era of post-grunge dominance to a limping, merciful end. (Not that there aren't some good post-grunge bands out there, but seriously, that movement needed to die.) Now let's add into the plus side that Jack and Meg White seriously knew how to rock. The married couple brought a sense of punk and DIY style to their music, which was the perfect antithesis to the label-backed glamorous post-grunge assholes that we were used to seeing on the radio. Listen, I've got nothing against Nickelback as a rule. While I don't think they're a good band, I do think they are enjoyable. But does anyone get inspired to become the next Chad Kroeger? No. Do people get inspired to be the next Jack White? Yes. Sadly, the difference is that the only thing stopping people from being the next Chad Kroeger is a studio contract and lots of money while what's stopping people from being the next Jack White is something much harder to get: talent. The White Stripes came along and shook us up in a way that we liked.
2. Foo Fighters
After the dissolution of Nirvana, Dave Grohl was left without a band. Interestingly he almost didn't do this; he entertained a few other offers including becoming the permanent drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. In the end though, he decided to go his own way and the end result was one of the most successful, enduring and frankly impressive rock bands to form since 1994. When we at 411 did our Top 50 Albums of the 411 Era, The Colour and the Shape came in at #22 and I said in my write-up that I felt many other Foo Fighter albums could have merited inclusion on the list. The band started off with some definite Nirvana influence, but as the years passed they moved very successfully away from that into more of a pure alt-rock sound that suited them better. Their accolades are more than I have space to list here, but just a few: eleven Grammys out of twenty-five nominations, three-for-three on BRIT Awards, four-for-four on NME Awards, three Kerrang! Awards, an American Music Award, 10 million albums sold in the US (no small feat in the digital age), seven #1 songs on the Alternative Rock chart, six out of seven top 10 albums and a host of placements on "Best Of" lists around the world, including this one.
1. Nirvana
There is no question here for me. There are those people who call Kurt Cobain overrated and say that Nirvana wouldn't have been thought of as the iconic band that they are today if Kurt hadn't died in April of 1994. I think that those people are delusional. Cobain was everything about the hardcore grunge scene and with Nirvana, he made grunge a genre that music fans paused to pay attention to. The music scene could easily have been described as on its last legs before grunge came around, and it's cool to make fun of it now the same way it's cool to make fun of the hair metal that grunge took over from. Now, I have a love of certain hair metal bands, but there is a world of difference in the artistry between a group like Warrant and one like Nirvana. Cobain may or may not be the "voice of a generation" that he's been labeled as—I have my own opinion, but that's not the point here. He was the quintessential sound of an era that completely changed rock music, ushered the alternative rock era back into popularity and, sadly, blazed out soon after.
As always, the last thoughts come from you, the reader. We're merely unpaid monkeys with typewriters and Wikipedia. Here's what you need to do: List your Top Five for this week's topic on the comment section using the following format:
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Who is telling the truth in Autodesk's Cloud PR trainwreck?
Does Autodesk intend to move all its applications exclusively to the Cloud? That is, online only and no longer available on the desktop? Autodesk people who say yes:
Carl Bass, CEO
Phil Bernstein, Vice President, Building Industry Strategy and Relations
Scott Sheppard, Autodesk Labs Software Development Manager (with private Cloud caveat)
Autodesk people who say no:
Kenneth Pimentel, Director, Visual Communications Solutions Andrew Anagnost, Senior Vice President of Industry Strategy and Marketing
Clay Helm, Public Relations Manager for Manufacturing, Cross-Platform, Sustainability, and Consumers Various other underlings who make reassuring but non-specific noises about expanded choice, or who admit to inconvenient impracticalities
There's huge irony in the way Clay (or Andrew) attempts to paint the shafting of MDT customers as a we'll-look-after-you example, but I think that's a deliberate distraction tactic; other than this …

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On Monday, November 19, 2007, the Iona College Athletic Department participated in the college's annual Thanksgiving Drive. Members of Iona's 22 Division I athletic teams were asked to purchase and assemble "baskets" to give to economically disadvantaged families to try and spread the joy that the Thanksgiving season brings. The Gaels presented a total of twenty-two baskets at the Blessing Ceremony held in the La Penta Student Union. The baskets were beautifully packaged and filled with traditional foods of Thanksgiving, including sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and apple cider!
Sponsored by Campus Ministries, the Blessing Ceremony included the offering of prayers, reflections, and songs of Catholic tradition. Senior Associate Athletic Director Jamie Fogarty spearheaded the Thanksgiving Drive and was present at the Ceremony. Fogarty congratulated the student-athletes for their hard work in their respective seasons on the fields of play and how they are able to translate that passion and drive to helping those less fortunate in this season of giving, family, and celebration.
The baskets were distributed to two area food banks, the Abraham House (Bronx, NY) and the Hope Community Services Center (New Rochelle, NY). The Thanksgiving Drive was once again a huge success. With both project organizers and student-athletes alike thrilled with the overall outcome of their efforts, it was truly something special to be involved in.


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Well... that didn't take long. Tek is on staff as special consultant. I think he'd be a good candidate.
The jokes are already starting:
I ran into Bobby Valentine at the Starbucks at Quincy Market
He made me a venti mocha latte
Well... that didn't take long. Tek is on staff as special consultant. I think he'd be a good candidate.
The jokes are already starting:
I ran into Bobby Valentine at the Starbucks at Quincy Market
He made me a venti mocha latte
Last edited by GeoffD; 10-04-2012 at 03:32 PM.
By the way, while Googling to see what has become of her in the last month since she got bounced from the Time-Warner Cable Laker job, I found the first sniff of how bad NESN Nielson ratings have become.
With the bottom falling out of the Red Sox season as theyve plunged to the bottom of the American League East, its no surprise that there has been a coinciding drop in NESNs game ratings. Pretty sure the only people still tuning in are those curious whether Alfredo Aceves will attempt to maul Bobby Valentine the next time the manager tries to take him out of a game. In mid-July, when the Red Sox held a 43-43 record, NESNs game telecasts were averaging a very respectable 7.5 household rating. In the two months since then, the Red Sox have gone 21-38, and that average rating has dropped to a 6.64. While the recent Yankees matchups have earned a nightly number in the 6s, there have also been some extremely low-rated games lately. Neither last Friday nor Saturdays rain-delayed games against the Blue Jays rated higher than a 3.2, and last Sundays 1:30 p.m. start that went up against the Patriots opener pulled a 1.68 . . . Channel 4s ratings for that Patriots opener were predictably huge, with a 19.6 rating, a 59.8 share, and 1,148,290 total viewers. The total viewership peaked at 3:30 p.m. with 1,317,140 tuning in, earning a 22.5 rating and a 63.7 share in that window.
I'm hearing Farrel, Mike Lowell, Bill Meuller, Cafardo says don't rule out Tek...
I think the best bet is to get Farrell he kills 2 birds with 1 stone..Seems to me fixing the pitching staff is the #1 problem. If Tek wants to coach make him the bench coach and groom him. You would have 2 guys who preach preperation and hard work and take no sh!t...
Either way the next manager is likely going to have a young team with a few new solid FAs, resign Papi and maybe a player or 2 via a trade. I don't think there are any big FAs to sign anyway
Did he speak up in 2011?Originally Posted by ed rooney;79229544 If [B
Didn't seem that way but with a young team it might be a different story, plus you know he was well prepared he had detailed log books on all hitters so that would be a big help with the pitchers. Dare I say they seemed unprepared at times this season.
They need a guy who is going to be hard but fair and stress hard work and be a little more media savy then Bobby V. Like I said Farrell is my number 1 choice, a former player also would work.
Hell can anybody be worse than what we just had?
Francona hired by the Indians. HE was so good in the booth, I'm really surprised he jumped back to the field.
He was better on the field.
Will Ortiz be brought back?
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"
He missed the final half of the year and is in a boot until spring training. There won't be much competition for his services.
The Red Sox have tickets to sell. They're going to sign Ortiz.
GeoffD stop being a little girl,
this is sports it's suppose to be about busting up the other fans..yeah over the years i have come in hear but thats only after the countless anti yankee posts in our thread lol.
you being a sox fan should know what this is all about seeing is boston fans are some of the worst around when it comes to getting on fans of the other team.
anyway good luck next year,enjoy watching yankee playoff highlights
"In November 2010, the San Diego Padres hired Ausmus as Special Assistant to Baseball Operations."
...and that's the end of his post-playing career experience. So, if the Sox are willing to think about this guy, why not 'Tek?
===== Mine: (#8) 2015 Pure White GLI (was 2010 Golf TDI)
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Thats ****in low Geoff
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"
Also, there are two players that even Sox fans have to respect: Jeter and Mo. And it's a bummer to see them both injured in what might have been their last chance to go for it. I mean, I want to see pain and grimace on the face of those guys. But I want it to be because of heartbreaking walk off homeruns and striking out with runners on base, not bummer injuries.
Oh well, looking forward to rooting against them next year. Go Tigers
It's all good..
Hey geofff how bout them pats highlights?? ****ing loser.
Yanks could get swept and they still won't ever be as pathetic as your Boston Red Sox
Good job sox nation bunch of fair weathered fans anyway
guys, please take your bickering to DM or another thread, this is not the place for it.
Source: Red Sox to interview Pena, Hale
By: Rob Bradford
According to a major league source, the Red Sox will interview Yankees bench coach Tony Pena Monday for the team's vacant managerial post, with plans to interview Orioles third base coach DeMarlo Hale at some point this week.
Pena, 55, managed the Royals from 2002-05, winning the American League Manager of the Year in '03 after having led Kansas City to its first winning season in nine years. The 51-year-old Hale, a former Red Sox third base and bench coach, last interviewed for the Blue Jays managers job prior to the '11 season. He has extensive managing experience in the minor leagues, winning Baseball America's Minor League Manager of the Year in '99 while leading the Red Sox' Double-A affiliate in Trenton.
The Red Sox interviewed Dodgers third base coach Tim Wallach Friday, and have scheduled an interview with Padres special assistant Brad Ausmus in the coming days.
For more Red Sox news, go to the team page at weei.com/redsox.
Just bought two tickets to a game next April at a charity event yesterday morning. Probably will gigve them away.


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(2-18-13) Students from Camille Burnett's health policy class (in the State House, at right) traveled to Richmond to meet with Virginia Delegate David Toscano and Senator Creigh Deeds (below) earlier this month for the 28th annual Nurses' Day at the General Assembly.
In preparation for their visit, each student prepared a short advocacy letter focused on an area of importance in health policy for the future, including the Affordable Care Act, mental health and chronic disease. Students heard from William Hazel, Virginia's secretary for Health and Human Resources, Cynthia Romero, the state's health commissioner, Loressa Cole, the president of the Virginia Nurses Association, as well as keynote speaker Barbara Cohoon, deputy director of government relations for the National Military Family Association.
"What an experience!" said professor Burnett, who accompanied the students to Richmond. "The feedback from the students has been fabulous. They truly enjoyed and appreciated being apart of and learning from this experience."
Student attendees included Katy Klein Meinbresse, Sarah McLean, Meagan Van Assche, Christine Stacy, Catharine Carty, Joseph Ryan, Amy West, Laura Wegner, Jenny Mooney, Mary Anderson, Shayna Bronstein and Leigh Bastable Poitevent.


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Posted by Brian Hopkins on the Enterprise Architecture Professionals Blog on April 19, 2012
In our Forrsights Business Decision-Makers Survey, Q4 2011, 79% of business executive respondents said that technology will be a key source of innovation for their company, while 71% said that it will be a competitive differentiator. So how well positioned is IT to help firms meet these expectations? Forty-six percent thought that their current IT organization was not well positioned to meet these needs, and 41% thought IT was overly bureaucratic.
I could go on with more data, but the message is clear — business is starving for technology to help it be more innovative, create market differentiation, and lower costs. In the midst of this, IT is mired in a technology mess created by years of underinvestment and business growth by acquisition. What's going to happen?
The thing I want you to remember is something a client said to me not too long ago that stuck with me, "Starving people will find food." So the question is: do we feed our starving business or tell them to stay on a diet? And if the latter, what will be the impact if they go scavenging the countryside? We think the answer involves flexibly and rapidly introducing new technology to take advantage of strategic opportunities, while still protecting data, mission-critical applications, and our most precious TCO reduction goals.


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From Sew Liberated - Jersey Garden Skirt
The flowers are all made using reverse applique.
Meg has a great system for the technique involving freezer paper and tear-away stabilizer.
It worked great! And I got the whole skirt started and finished yesterday.
I didn't have enough fabric, so it's not as full as the one in the book, but it's so comfortable that I am choosing not to mind the clingy-ness on my derriere.
Monday, July 5, 2010
6 comments:
- Anna - Three Sneaky Bugs said...
Yay! Fun skirt. Is that applique along the bottom or a print on the fabric?
- July 5, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- Tauni said...
Popping over from Made By You Monday.
Your skirt is darling...there is nothing more comfortable that a jersey skirt is there?
I have a couple of inexpensive skirts like yours from Old Navy. I am totally going to have to try the appliqué...it would turn a semi-boring skirt into an amazing one. Thanks for the idea!!!
- July 5, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- Paige said...
Sweet! I want one! :)
- July 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM
- painted fish studio said...
it's fabulous!
- July 5, 2010 at 6:08 PM
- Andrea said...
Great skirt! So fun.
- July 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM
- Annie@Imagination said...
I'm impressed you got that made in one day -- in my mind it was a looooong project :) it's really beautiful! thank you for sharing!
- July 11, 2010 at 8:02 AM
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What purpose are exams supposed to be fit for, Mr Gove?
I'm beginning to feel that we (... ok the media, and various other organs of public opinion) are beginning to get as fixated on exams as we are already are on prisons. Any time we find something else we dont like, we reach for a prison term to punish its perpetrators -- no matter how inappropriate.
Now with kids, almost all we seem to get really worked up about it how we examine them. It's not an exact parallel of course. It's easy enough to sound off about standards and how we ought to test and re-test the little buggers. But luckily an awful lot of people in the country have children, and watching what they go through tends to dampen the enthusiasm for wall to wall exams. None the less almost everyone can get worked up by grade boundaries now, modular systems and whatever. (Here's a bit of a background from Michael Gove himself from this morning's Today Programme; and here is the official data on what it takes to get an A* at A level.)
I have to say that I have some sympathy with Michael Gove's dislike of modules and course work (with a helping hand from the middle class mum and dad) and retakes at will. But I can also remember the kind of rhetoric (and it was by no means stupid) that brought to an end the whole idea of sudden death exams -- the idea that everything hung on what you did in 3 hours after several years work.
Anyone my age will remember this too. The argument went that a kid might have done brilliantly through the year then entirely cocked up the three hour exam (teenagers for God's sake). Was that fair? Of course it wasn't. There was also the worry that girls performed less well in such exams than boys. I don't know if that was true, but it was certainly one plausible reason for moving towards different methods of testing.
The odd thing is that most universities are still travelling in the opposite direction to Mr Gove. For all kinds of reasons (including gender, but also the question of what skills we think we want to test) we are moving away from the trad 3 hour exam, towards all kinds of methods of "alternative assessment" (dissertations, portfolio of essays, open book exams, etc etc).
I'm not sure that any of these methods of assessment are "fair". In fact the worst thing is probably to imagine that there really IS a fair method of testing that we just have to find or devise. There are pluses and minuses in every system, and we delude ourselves to think anything else. Maybe in fact a bit of a mixture evens things out.
But the big question is what we think we are setting these exams FOR. And that question is not looked at as often as it should be. It seems to me that we are trying to do far to much with a single set of exams (fair or not): we're trying to make sure that all kids leave school with a basic set of skills, we're trying to check up on whether schools are doing their job, and we're trying to establish a gateway for further education. I dont see how one system can do all those things "fairly".
I havent got an answer here. But I do know that the real test of an education system is not what the kids do in their school years (almost every teacher in the land can teach for the exam if they choose too, and we can all congratulate ourselves on rising standards); but it's what they are doing 10, 20, 30 years later. And it's much harder to track that.
One thing I am pretty sure about is that Michael Gove doesnt know the answer to this any more than any of us do. It's just that he is in a position to impose his own "bright" ideas.


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|In a post not long ago, I mentioned new enhancements to virtual system patterns in IBM Workload Deployer. A prominent part of those enhancements were updates to pattern construction that allow you to order virtual machine startup, order script package invocation, and include add-ons that provide system level configuration options. Recently I uploaded a demonstration to YouTube that highlights some of these new capabilities. Specifically, this provides a brief look at ordering and add-on enhancements.
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So… Most of us are Orla lovers, what do you think about her Pear chair over at Anthropologie this season? Like it or? I'd love to see it on a different frame, perhaps a more mid century style chair like the drayton from Jonathan Adler… Your thoughts?
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i think the fabric would suit a mid-century chair more, but then the fabric is a nice surprise on the anthroplogie chair that's more traditional. i'd buy it.
I just bought that chair, but in a different fabric. I love the pears, but I didn't know about them! That must be why they were selling the floor model (the one I bought) ? to bring in the new pear version. Oh well, I still love it in the orange fabric mine has!
I think I like it so much because it is such a traditional shape, but the fabric makes it feel fresh. Plus the curvy shape is a nice compliment to my more clean-lined furniture.
Hi Holly, the next time you're in London, check out Orla's shop in Covent Garden. She has some great mid-century furniture upholstered in her fabrics and coloured leather. So covetable!
Hello, I was wondering, what did you do to get a blog like this, I mean commercials, and your picture on the top, with the tittle on it?
Great blog btw, very cool and complete!!!! ;-) Long time that I see a blog like this ! (with design*sponge)
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i like the mix of the more modern graphic print with the older, more curvy style of chair. i really loved the last print they had on this same chair (the orange-y floral print) but i think i like this one even more!
i wish i could afford anthro furniture! i couldn't even with the discount (i freelance there).
kayte – you mention that you freelance there (drool) what do you do?
holly- i used to be a visual manager in new york and now i just do visuals for them freelance. it's pretty fun!!
ps- i love your blog! i just started reading it but i think i will become a regular.
most impressive. you must have a great design eye. i'm happy you've discovered decor8 – feel free to click around in the archives, there's a lot you've missed if you've just found the site. have fun — and let me know if you have any questions.
I've been eyeing this chair for days now and I've decided that while I love the astrid chair, I don't care for this pattern on it. The side view, which you have up is more flattering to the pattern, but when you view the head on pic it just doesn't do it for me. I get the feeling you might have felt the same way since you asked the question. :)


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Ukip's annual conference is taking place this weekend and with Nigel Farage set to deliver his address it seems timely for a celebration of the leader's expressive facial features.
The exuberant media-doyenne has a loyal following, and is known for his love of drinking and smoking.
With a number of outspoken MEPs in the party, arguably Ukip needs a boisterous leader, and Nigel Farage certainly lives up to his eccentric image.
In fact, his facial expressions are so passionate, it is possible to find shades of Ukip's policies reflected in them.*
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My son is 15 months. He had a lot of ear infections when he was little(between 2-6 months)
I know he can walk, but he acts really shy about it. he will take a few steps to diffrent things, but not normal walking. If we hold his hand, he can walk just fine. Same with his walker*a toy car that converts to a push toy*
He is not saying many words. Maybe 1-2 words. He don't like me cleaning his ears,and covers them sometimes. He don't act like his ears are hurting. He just seems to be covering them to play around. He don't pull them, just cups them and babbles and plays. Mostly while sitting or eating. I am not worried about that to much but just take note.
I talked to my doctor. he said not to panic yet. In 3 months they will screen him more.
Could It be sensitive hearing?
He don't act like he can't hear. We call him, play games, and he reacts joyfully:) He is always smiling:) But some sounds, bring him to tears. Like food mixers,carts at the supermarket that gets paper stuck in the wheels, some toys. I know those are kinda scary. But other nosies you think he would not like, he don't really care.
Would that effect him talking and walking?
It is hard to explain since it is one of those things you need to see. But anyone have this happen?
It sounds like he has some signs of auditory defensiveness, I guess you could say it is another name for sensitive hearing. Some people say hypersensitivity to sounds. You can google it to find out more. It does not have an effect on walking or talking. I'm not sure what kind of screening your doctor would want to do, it isn't that he can't hear or even that he can hear more than others, just that he is effected differently than other people by sounds, usually specific sounds.
i think my 2 yo has this too- she has always been sensitive to loud or jarring noises. it was terrible living in a basement apt beneath noisy ppl. she started walking @ 16 months, and still has balance difficulties. she is very verbal tho- not the largest vocab, but fluent & talks a LOT w no hesitation- she makes up the words she doesn't know.
we took her to pt @ 19 months and were told she's fine, will grow out of it. tho dh wants further evaluation.
I was thinking about your post today and I wonder what you are doing to clean out her ears? A light sweep of the outer ear with a wash cloth should be sufficient. Children don't usually need their ears cleaned. If you decide to seek an evaluation I strongly suggest going to an OT who works with children and is well trained/experienced with children with sensory issues/disorders.
That. Earwax is actually a useful substance, same as tears keep our eyes lubricated and protect them, so does earwax. Sometimes there is excessive earwax, which need treatment, but that's not the typical scenario.
Personally, I found garlic-mullein oil to be helpful with ear infections of my 15month old.
I would not worry to much about the walking issue. I've met children that never tumble and fall, because they are so careful. Others bump their heads all the time.
What you describe regarding his ears could be just a toddler habit, but I'd pay close attention to what's going on and wait for the evaluation coming up.
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Along the way, Brenzel appeared regularly on TV gardening programs, including the Grow-It series for HGTV, House Doctor for ABC-7 in San Francisco, and The Victory Garden for public television (for which she served one season as West Coast hostess). She has lectured on gardening topics in Alaska (aboard the cruise ship Crystal Symphony), Hawaii, and at garden shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, and Boston. In 2000, Brenzel's passion for Hawaii's native and endemic plants, which she wrote about in the magazine, earned her an Environmental Journalism Fellowship at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Lawai, Kaua'i. In 2007, she received The American Horticultural Society's Horticultural Communication Award. This ninth edition of the New Western Garden Book is her fourth as the book's editor.


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Adam Dunn, Johnny Damon, Derek Jeter, Michael Phelps??? Yuck!! (No offense to you Dunn fans out there... I love him as a player!!)
Where are Matt Belisle, Bret Boone, Ryan Freel, Mike Mussina, Huston Street, and Noah Lowry?? :
But wow... Tom Brady, Andy Roddick, Alex Rodriguez, David Carr... Mmmmmm
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Benjamin Franklin just got a make over! The new $100 bill was released into circulation yesterday (October 8th 2013). After 10 years in the making, and despite multiple failed releases, the super note is finally complete, and looking better than ever. The new look is an attempt to stay one step ahead of counterfeiters, and revamp its global positioning.
According to the Federal Reserve, more than half of $100 notes in circulation are overseas, ranking them at the top of the nation's exports. As a result, the $100 bill is the most commonly counterfeited note outside the United States. Two new features include:
(1) A three-dimensional blue strip with images that appear to move when the note is tilted, and
(2) An image of a copper inkwell containing a holographic bell whose color changes when tilted. out with the old, in the with the new.
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Hostal Doña Pepa
Our hostel is a very quiet and very well located at the Santa Justa neighbourhood, a few minutes to the historical centre of Seville by walking.
We have 12 rooms en suite and a maximum capacity for 24 persons.
Our rooms are acclimatized with air conditioning, heating and a TV set except the triple and quadruple.
The facilities we provide:
-Free access to connect to Internet WI-FI service.
-24 hours reception service, provided by our highly qualified staff, who are
friendly, helpful and informative, trying to make for you a very pleasant staying in Seville city.
-Free reservations and tickets sale for Flamenco shows, Sightseeing tour buses and so forth.
-Car parking in front of our hostel; subject to a charge of 15,00 € per day.
-Visa, Mater card, Maestro cards are welcome
예약 가능 여부 및 가격예약 가능 여부와 가격을 보려면 날짜를 선택한 후 '날짜 업데이트'를 클릭하세요'
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- 조식 불포함
- 신용 카드가 허용됨
- 무료 인터넷 액세스
- 무료 와이파이
- 통금 시간 없음
취소 정책이 숙소는 2일 취소 정책이 있습니다. 이 시간 내에 취소하지 않으면 체류 첫날 밤에 부과되는 숙박료와 똑같은 금액의 취소 수수료가 발생합니다.
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-From the airport: Hostel Doña Pepa, is to about 15 minutes by car; there is a taxi line service and this is a good choice, they charge a fixed rate for hotels in Seville downtown to 25,00 €.
There is also an airport bus service to Seville, so if you take this one, get off at the Santa Justa train station bus stop; alter you leave the station, walk about seven minutes along Juan Antonio Cavestany street, until you find on the right hand side the corner of Juan de Vera street, the hostel is about 100 metres from this corner.
-From Santa Justa train station: The previous procedure explained, also works for this case perfectly.
-From Plaza de Armas bus station: By taxi, it takes 7 to 10 minutes to our hostel depending on how the traffic is and they might charge about 6,00 to 8,00 €.
By bus, across from the bus station, there is a bus stop, where you should take the bus C3 and get off at the stop of Recaredo street; from there, look for Juan de Vera street and alter walking about 100 metres from there, you will find us.
-From Prado de San Sebastian bus station: by taxi, in about 5 minutes you would reach us easily and the rate might be 4,00 to 6,00 €. By bus, take bus number 1 or C4 and get off at Recaredo street bus stop; walk along Juan de Vera street other 100 metres where we are.


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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ slightly firmer after trade deficit narrows
* C$ at C$1.0302 to US$, or 97.07 U.S. cents
* Canada trade deficit narrows while U.S. balance widens
* Jobs data on Friday eyed for next direction
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TORONTO, March 7 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar strengthened marginally on Thursday after data showed Canada's trade deficit narrowed in January as exports grew at a faster rate than imports.
That compared favorably with a widening trade deficit in the United States, Canada's largest trading partner by far.
"The combination of data points, if you look at the two trade balances, did favor a softening in dollar/CAD," said Jeremy Stretch, head of foreign exchange strategy at CIBC World Markets in London.
The Canadian dollar initially weakened to C$1.0317 to the U.S. dollar, or 96.93 U.S. cents, following the release of the latest data. But it then firmed to C$1.0302. It had closed at C$1.0315 versus the U.S. dollar on Wednesday.
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Where can I find the recipe for the pineapple/banana bread. This is a great idea for an at home getaway
Start adding to your gift closet
Summer is the ideal time to plan ahead for holiday gift-giving. You can find deep discounts in retail stores and there are plenty of secondhand deals at thrift stores, garage sales, Freecycle, etc. Start gathering items to add to your gift closet. If you don't have a gift closet yet, visit www.frugalvillage.com/2005/03/23/planning-a-gift-closet/ for tips to help you to create one. Gift baskets work well to incorporate gifts you've accumulated in your gift closet. For gift basket theme ideas visit www.frugalvillage.com/forums/christmas/40620-various-basket-ideas.html. The first reader tip shares even more gift basket ideas.
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Usually I can keep the cost under $10, all inclusive, sometimes way cheaper. I picked up heart-shaped ceramic dishes (like a pie pan or quiche dish) and put in a miniature book (about 1-inch thick and 4 square inches) on baking I picked up on clearance from Michaels and a bag of homemade streusel coffee cake mix.
One year we did bean soup mixes (it's about the same price doing 10 of them as one, since you have to buy all the bags of beans; the beans were about $1 a pound, and we layered a little of each in jars) and a can of diced tomatoes. We used a good-sized ceramic bowl I found at the Crate and Barrel outlet store as the holder/basket. Great teacher gifts and very pretty.
Other "in a jar" baskets we did included:
— Comfort Food Basket:
Cookies in jars (chocolate chip, white chocolate macadamia nut, cranberry hootycreeks — white chocolate chip cookies with dried cranberries), chocolate brownie mix, etc. Spice mixes, soups (there are recipes for pasta-type soups as well that work great), dips, etc.
— Tropical Basket:
Half pint jar of homemade pina colada jam, Jamaican jerk rub for chicken with a recipe card and a loaf of pineapple/banana b
read; included a small handheld battery-operated fan. (I found a bunch of these on clearance that are white with blue fan blades — very tropical looking. That's what sparked the idea for the basket.)
— Italian Basket:
Italian herb seasoning mix (bought or made from my own herbs) or a small jar of homemade pesto, jar of homemade marinara sauce, bag of pasta (packed in a colander is cute). If I want to jazz it up a little, I include a plastic pasta scoop utensil and a mini shaker of parmesan cheese.
— Breakfast basket:
Small bottle of maple syrup (we actually made half pint jars of homemade syrup that was quite tasty), a bag of homemade pancake/waffle mix and a bag of homemade granola (packed on a griddle). –Marie, Midwest
Donate extras:
I read your column today regarding stockpiling vs. hoarding. My comment to the person with all the deodorant: Donate some to our men and women in the armed forces. Simply contact your local VFW or American Legion; they are always looking for personal hygiene items to send in care packages. These items are greatly appreciated at local food banks, too. — Shelley L., email
Organize worn clothes:
To distinguish between clothes that are freshly washed and those that are worn but not yet needing to be washed, I turn the clothing inside out prior to hanging on the hanger or folding to put into the drawer. Those on hangers are placed in their own section of the closet. It has worked for me for more than 30 years! –Linda B., email
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Is there a recipe for pina colada jam? Love the ideas.


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The Lexington New York City, a historic midtown Manhattan hotel, is in the final stages of a multi-million dollar renovation – including a full redo of their meeting spaces.
The Lexington New York City features three modern meeting rooms on the mezzanine level with more than 1,000 square feet of flexible function space. All meeting rooms vary in size, accommodating intimate gatherings of 8-10 professionals or larger conferences of up to 50. Each space is equipped with state-of-the-art wireless technology, professional administrative support, and access to a complimentary business center. The Lexington New York City is also able to provide food and beverage services upon request and houses a Starbucks located in the hotel lobby.
The Lexington has played host to some of the country's most notable personalities and exclusive groups. Actor Arthur Godfrey entertained in The Hawaiian Room; actress Dorothy Lamour was a regular guest; The Playboy Club occupied multiple areas of the hotel; and Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe lived in a suite on the 18th floor.
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The latest test results are in for water in the Orono-Veazie water district.
The town hired a lab from Kennebunk to test ten homes for chemicals known as THM's
The EPA says measurements more than 80 parts per billion can cause health problems including liver, kidney, or central nervous system ailments, as well as an increased risk of cancer.
Test results ranged from a low of 54.9 to a high of 70.
THM's form when disinfectants mix with organic matter in water treatment.
The district exceeded the limit in 2012, and was required by the state to fix it.
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A 6-year-old boy was killed in a sleigh riding accident in Fairview Canyon on Saturday, sheriff's office officials said.
More specific details about the accident, including the time it occurred, a specific location and the boy's name were not released. The Sanpete County Sheriff's Office announced the news in a tweet issued at about 8:15 p.m. Saturday.
A dispatcher told The Salt Lake Tribune that the boy's family had asked that no further details about the accident be released.
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Alice Wu's romantic comedy is about concealment and accommodation, about keeping up appearances and maintaining facades.
Her central character, New Yorker Wilhemina Pang (Michelle Krusiec) is a driven and talented young surgeon who doesn't have much time for a social life beyond the weekly dances she is forced to attend by her widowed mother (Joan Chen) - rituals for the Chinese community where gossip is swapped and marriage alliances planned. Wil briskly waltzes and dodges dates, but on one occasion, her attention is caught, in a fleeting encounter with an elegant young woman called Vivian (Lynn Chen).
At work, she catches up with Vivian again, and the mutual attraction is clear. But while Vivian is out to her family, Wil is not: their relationship remains, at her behest, covert.
Things are additionally complicated by a family scandal, which forces Wil to put up her mother in her apartment, a development that cramps her style still further.
In a strange way, their roles are reversed, or at least entangled: it's not always clear who is mothering or accommodating whom, and they are both busily keeping sexual secrets from each other.
But the film, while amiable and light-hearted (as well as curiously old-fashioned) never really takes off, despite the promising elements of this part of the story, and the vivid, glamorously cantankerous presence of Joan Chen.
There are times, particularly when Wil's black neighbour appears, that the movie feels as if it has strayed into the land of half-hearted sitcom.
Overall, it feels a little too inhibited and contained. It treads all-too familiar cinematic ground in its exploration of the pressure to conform - and in its self-imposed pressure to resolve itself, to tie up loose ends, provide answers and supply a suitable romantic comedy finale.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 10/7/2014 (1079 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A fire in Gilbert Plains yesterday morning has claimed the lives of two men, according to RCMP.
At approximately 6:30 a.m., Dauphin RCMP responded to a residential fire on Health Avenue West in Gilbert Plains, which is located 195 kilometres north of Brandon.
Local fire and emergency personnel worked to extinguish the fire.
A 46-year-old man was transported to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A second occupant of the residence, a 48-year-old man, was dead at the scene.
The Office of the Fire Commissioner is assisting the investigation.
The cause of the fire is unknown at this time and the names of the deceased will not be released.
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April 14, 2013
PITTSBURGH - The University of Pittsburgh baseball team (24-9, 6-3 Big East) took advantage of timely hitting and used seven shutout innings from starter Rhys Aldenhoven (JR/Victoria, Australia) to down No. 16 Notre Dame (19-14, 4-8 Big East), 12-3, and earn the series sweep this afternoon at Cost Field.
"The objective this week was to play one inning at a time and take care of the basic things that we work on every day," said head coach Joe Jordano. "We knew we were facing a top-20 team in the country coming in. Our guys were very focused and did a very solid job in all aspects of the game this weekend."
Aldenhoven (6-0) earned the win after pitching seven innings of shutout ball allowing five hits and striking out a pair. Matt Ternowchek (4-2) took the loss for the Irish.
"Our pitching staff did such a solid job for us," Jordano explained. "Only needing three innings from our bullpen in a series against a team of Notre Dame's caliber is very special."
The Irish had the game's first scoring opportunity in the top of the fourth when, after getting the first out, Aldenhoven walked the bases loaded. The Australian righty was able to pitch out of the jam by forcing Lane Richards to ground into a 4-6-3 double play.
Pitt got on the board in the bottom of the fifth inning. Dylan Wolsonovich (FR/Ford City, Pa.) and Stephen Vranka (JR/Monroeville, Pa.) drew a pair of walks to put runners on first and second. Eric Hess (SO/Erie, Pa.) then came to the plate a blasted a three-run shot over the wall in right to give the home team a 3-0 lead.
Notre Dame started the sixth with a base hit but the Pitt defense again came up huge behind Aldenhoven with yet another double play ball to end the inning.
The Panthers broke the game open with five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Steven Shelinsky Jr. (JR/Yardley, Pa.) brought home the first run of the inning when he singled home Boo Vazquez (SO/Youngstown, Ohio). Sam Parente (SR/Pittston, Pa.) followed by getting hit by a pitch. A perfectly executed hit and run from Wolsonovich brought home Shelinksy and moved Parente to third. Vranka singled to left for another run to make the score 6-0 in favor of Pitt. The Panthers were able to add two more when, with two outs, Hess reached on an error by the ND shortstop which pushed the lead to 8-0 going into the seventh.
Four more runs were added by Pitt in the bottom of the eighth on sacrifice flies from Vranka and Hess and a two-run homer from Casey Roche (JR/Downingtown, Pa.) over the left field wall to make the score 12-0.
J.R. Leonardi (JR/Pittsburgh, Pa.) and Pete Macke (FR/Omaha, Neb.) came in for the Panthers in the eighth and ninth respectively and were able to close out the game and series sweep.
"We're very grounded and that's what I talked to the team about after the game," Jordano said. "This is the first weekend that mirrored our opening weekend in Wichita when we played well in all phases of the game and when we do that we're going to be tough to beat."
The Panthers will be back in action on Tuesday, April 16, when they host Youngstown State in 3 p.m. contest at Charles L. Cost at the Petersen Sports Complex.


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The decisions that we make are political, not legal. The reaction of the government to what we are doing, to what we stand for, will also be political. We can have quite an impact on what happens to us in jail, in court and during processing, if we are prepared. It can be as important a part of our nonviolent opposition as anything that comes before the arrest.
In a large demonstration, the police may separate us from each other, breaking up affinity groups' and possibly isolating individuals. In order to maintain our spirits and effectiveness, we must develop an ability to deal with the legal system, while trusting in the solidarity of other demonstrators. Solidarity is, in reality, more a state of mind that unites us through a long struggle than a specific course of action that everyone follows. Solidarity does not demand that everyone make the same choice in every situation. It is an internal force within each of us and among us as a group. It is our commitment to one another and to our common cause; it is our dedication to support one another and to pursue our common goals at all times, in every situation, to the best of our ability. Solidarity cannot be broken by courts, jails or other external forces. If we hold fast to it, it is ours.
Our approach to the legal system is up to us. We retain as much power as we refuse to relinquish to the government — city, state or federal.
The criminal "justice" system functions to alienate and isolate the accused individual, to destroy one's power and purposefulness and to weave a web of confusion and mystification around any legal proceedings. If we are well prepared for our contact with this system, we can limit the effect it has upon us, both personally and politically. It is extremely important that we be firmly rooted in our own spirit and purposes, our commitment to one another and history and tradition of social struggle of which we are a part. We should try to maintain our nonviolent attitude of honesty and directness while dealing with law enforcement officers and the courts.
Nonviolent action draws its strength from open confrontation and noncooperation, not from evasion or subterfuge. Bail solidarity, noncooperation and other forms of resistance can be used to reaffirm our position that we are not criminals and that we are taking positive steps towards fleeing the world from oppression.
Discuss the issues raised in this legal section with your affinity' group — particularly noncooperation and your attitude toward trials. Think out various hypothetical situations and try to understand how you will respond to these situations.
Some demonstrators refuse to cooperate partially or wholly with court procedures; they refuse to enter a plea, to retain or accept a lawyer, to stand up in court, to speak to the judge as a symbol of court authority (but rather speak to him or her as a fellow human being), to take the stand or question witnesses. They mav make a speech to those assembled in the courtroom or simply lie or sit on the floor if they are carried in, or attempt to leave if not forcibly restrained. The penalties for such noncooperation can be severe, because many judges take such action to be a personal affront as well as an insult to the court. Some judges, on the other hand, overlook such conduct, or attempt to communicate with the demonstrators.
Physical noncooperation may be sustained through the booking process and through court appearances; it mav continue through the entire time of one's detention. This might involve a refusal to walk, to eat, to clean oneself and one's surroundings. It may even lead prison officials to force-feed and diaper the inmate.
Another form of noncooperation is fasting — taking no food and no liquid except water, or perhaps fruit juice. While abstaining from food can be uncomfortable and eventually risky, abstaining from all food and liquid can be extremely dangerous almost immediately. Five or six days is probably the longest a human can go without liquid before incurring brain damage and serious dehydration. Usually authorities watch persons who are "water fasting" closely and take steps to hospitalize them before serious consequences occur, but no demonstrator can ever count on such attention and should therefore be prepared to give up the fast or perhaps be allowed to die, as did several Irish freedom fighters during the H-Block hunger strike in 1981.
There are other forms noncooperation mav take and other reasons for it to occur. The refusal to give one's name undoubtedly springs from a desire to resist and confound a system that assigns criminal records to people, that categorizes and spies upon them and that punishes organizers and repeat offenders more strenuously. It relays amessage that none of us should be singled out: we'll be doing this again and again.
Many nonviolent activists, however, acting with the openness and confidence that characterizes and strengthens nonviolent action, do not choose to hide their identifies. They may still noncooperate, however, by refusing to reveal an address, or by refusing to promise to return for trial, increasing the burden on the courts to quickly' deal with the demonstrators and enhancing their solidarity and strength as people working together, filling the jails.


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Olympian Greg Louganis is engaged.
The Olympic diving medalist will marry paralegal Johnny Chaillot this fall, he told People.
"I finally met my soul mate - the more I fall in love with Johnny, the more I fall in love with myself. This is what the universe had in store for both of us," the diving star told the mag.
PHOTOS: Gay & Lesbian Hollywood
Louganis recently served as a celebrity coach on the ABC reality competition show, "Splash."
Copyright 2013 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Today the neighbor tilled up our garden. I cant hide in the weeds anymore, which is quite inconvienient considering I hate it when people watch me poo. I feel the same way about bones. If anyone sees me hiding a bone or even going to the place I want to bury it, I must stop and leave, I just have to. Even though Zach encourages me to bury them in Mom's pillows, I don't want him to see. I will continue to poo in the garden, though.
Today I stepped on a bee while going for a walk. It hurt very bad. I limped home and around the house. I wouldn't let my owner put baking soda paste or ice on it. I eventually took a benadryl which was inside a clump of cheese.
I slept for most of today, of course. Hayden came over and later Scott came over. I was not scared of him now that Emily wasn't there. I love Emily, but don't remember who she is.
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hook_help($path, $arg)
Provide online user help.
By implementing hook_help(), a module can make documentation available to the engine or to other modules. All user help should be returned using this hook; developer help should be provided with Doxygen/api.module comments.
$section: Drupal URL path (or: menu item) the help is being requested for, e.g. admin/node or user/edit. Recognizes special descriptors after a "#" sign. Some examples:
- admin/modules#name The name of a module (unused, but there)
- admin/help#modulename The module's help text, displayed on the admin/help page and through the module's individual help link.
- user/help#modulename The help for a distributed authorization module (if applicable).
- node/add#nodetype The description of a node type (if applicable).
Return value
A localized string containing the help text. Every web link, l(), or url() must be replaced with %something and put into the final t() call: $output .= 'A role defines a group of users that have certain privileges as defined in !permission.'; $output = t($output, array('!permission' => l(t('user permissions'), 'admin/user/permission')));
For a detailed usage example, see page_example.module.
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- aggregator_help in modules/
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- Implementation of hook_help().
- block_help in modules/
block/ block.module
- Implementation of hook_help().
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- blog_help in modules/
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book/ book.module
- Implementation of hook_help().
- help_links_as_list in modules/
help/ help.module
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help/ help.module
- Implementation of hook_menu().
- help_page in modules/
help/ help.module
- Menu callback; prints a page listing general help for all modules.
- menu_get_active_help in includes/
- Returns the help associated with the active menu item.
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- Menu callback; prints a listing of admin tasks for each installed module.
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hooks/ core.php, line 509
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switch ($section) {
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case 'admin/build/block':
return t('
Blocks are boxes of content that may be rendered into certain regions of your web pages, for example, into sidebars. They are usually generated automatically by modules, but administrators can create blocks manually.

If you want certain blocks to disable themselves temporarily during high server loads, check the "Throttle" box. You can configure the auto-throttle on the throttle configuration page after having enabled the throttle module.

You can configure the behaviour of each block (for example, specifying on which pages and for what users it will appear) by clicking the "configure" link for each block.
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The NYPR Archive Collections
[Price Controls]
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.
Episode #10.
Office of Price Stabilization discusses the need for an effective and equitable system of price controls.
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 68654
Municipal archives id: LT110


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Lewis Black in Conversation
This fall, Grammy Award winning comedian and America's favorite curmudgeon, Lewis Black returns to Broadway. He sat down with Elliott Forrest, Peabody Award winning host of WQXR and WNYC, in a free-wheeling conversation in The Greene Space. They discussed Lewis' life, his comedy, the world around us that he rails about and the upcoming election.


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Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have
in Turkey, on Mount Ararat: "It's not 100% that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9% that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker, told AFP.
can be found on the team's website.
Says one of the researchers with Noah's Ark Ministries International: "The search team and I personally entered a wooden structure high on the mountain. The structure is partitioned into different spaces. We believe that the wooden structure we entered is the same structure recorded in historical accounts and the same ancient boat indicated by the locals." The researchers describe how they explored the decomposing ark, which they say has a "box-shaped room," curved wooden walls, small doors connecting chambers and a small
"tunnel-like space" connecting compartments
: "A few wooden staircases were found inside the structure, which seemingly craved [sic] by tree logs. Our team climbed one and found a door in the ceiling and concluded the wood structure has more than one floor. We tried to open it but failed. Since we did not want to destroy the structure, we will try again with appropriate equipment in the future."
The researchers say
the boat is 4,800 years old. But scientists in the know are warning that people should be wary of the group's claims. One archeologist with Cornell University went so far as to
Indeed, past claims that have been investigated have proved to be hoaxes. One man who claimed to have found Noah's Ark actually used wood from railroad tracks as his supposed evidence.
: "Mr Jammal, who was really an actor, later revealed that his 'sacred wood' was wood taken from railroad tracks in Long Beach, California, and hardened by cooking with various sauces in an oven."


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