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Published Thursday January 31, 2013 at 6:00 am
The fact that the sonic landscape has increasingly changed for the worse in Soundgarden's absence makes "King Animal," the band's first foray in the studio in 16 years, sound better than it really is.
That's not to say "King Animal" is lousy. Far from it. It's just not the mind-altering, life-affirming, earth-shattering sonic epiphany one would have hoped and wished for from one of Seattle's seminal "grunge' bands.
Soundgarden — singer Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron — sounds as heavy, trippy, unorthodox and unexpected as ever. All the crowning Soundgarden elements are there (Cornell's hypnotic and hellish cries, Thayil's innovative and crazed guitar playing, Shepherd's locomotive bass lines and Cameron's clanky drums and offbeat time signatures), and they still sound brutal and rough-around-the-edges.
Unfortunately, it often sounds like Cornell is playing with the other guys from Soundgarden rather than a fully realized Soundgarden at full, nuclear meltdown power capacity.
"King Animal" is often more of a meditative slow-burn than an all-out blitzkrieg. Instead of "Superunknown," the listener gets the super, oh-so-familiar (and, sometimes, Cornell solo-sounding filler). Then again, you don't unleash Spam from its "rusty cage" and expect to find filet mignon lurking inside every time.
Cornell returns to his old stomping grounds just to find out that his musical tastes are now considered strange (and he's considered to be a little stranger) on the aptly titled opening track and leadoff single, "Been Away Too Long." On this doom-laden diatribe about how time waits for no one and no one gives a flying leap who you are or once were, Cornell laments, "No one knows me/No one saves me/No one loves or hate me." For those of you worried that one of Seattle's premiere grunge bands might have gotten soft over the years, Cornell and company unleash their primal rage (aka, there "special kind of falling apart") on this stinging loner's tale/anti-wanderlust opus. Truth be told, Soundgarden is catching up for lost time and they are not going down without a fight.
Soundgarden sings for the 99 percent on the anti-state of the union/full-throttle protest song, "Non-State Actor." Singing for the country's disenfranchised masses, Cornell threatens, "We're not elected/But we will speak/We're not the chosen/But we believe/And we settle for a little bit more than everything." Although half the time you're not sure what they are rebelling against, Soundgarden's dual guitar assault and earth-stomping drums are things that any rock lover can rally behind.
Cornell sets out to win your heart (and, if he has to flatten everything in his path to do it, so be it) on "By Crooked Steps." Proving he's a romantic softy, Cornell croons, "I'm a walking believer/I'm a ghost and a healer/I'm the shape of the hole/Inside your heart." Who wouldn't want Cornell as their personal heart murmur? Then, Cornell reveals a little too much in the lines, "I'm a soldier for hire/Killing all you admire/And you live in denial/But that will change." Committed to the material (while sounding like he should be committed to an asylum), Cornell's wailing, multi-tracked vocals accompanied by a combustible mix of crunchy guitars and pulverizing drums makes courtship sound like a sonic search and destroy mission.
Humanity meets its bloody and aptly poetic end on the dreary, apocalyptical ditty, "Blood on the Valley Floor." As if his disembodied vocals are hovering over a once majestic landscape that now serves as a readymade mass grave, Cornell chillingly croons, "Once we were the end/The end of the long road/Leading to the start/Of the ever invading crowds/And the smoke lies on the valley floor/And the blood dries while we spill." While Cornell commiserates about humanity's shortsightedness and inevitable downfall, murky guitars gasp and gurgle as if they are spitting humanity's last breath.
It's hard to decide if Cornell is too much of a mother hen or should seriously think about checking himself into the loony bin after hearing his bizarre socio-commentary on the hardships of bird parents raising their chicks, "Bones of Birds." Not only is it bad enough that your have to build a home out or twigs and branches, you have to worry about junior falling out of the nest and drowning to death. And let's not get Cornell started about breakfast. Unless Cornell plans to sing this song in the old turkey suit that Paul Simon wore on "Saturday Night Live" in the '70s, I don't get it. People have been tarred and feathered for fewer atrocities than the ones committed in this song. Think about that next time you plan to write in the viewpoint of a bird.
Who said romance is dead and buried, rotting away in a shallow grave and being ripped apart by a pack of wild dogs? Not Cornell. Case in point, the homicidal Hallmark "Black Saturday," in which the grunge crooner makes his lover to promise that she'll kill him right away, if he forgets how to separate the "worm from the apple" (which I believe is a metaphor for life; then again, I would skip the homemade apple cobbler at the Cornell household). While nothing says amour more than your lover carrying out your murder, Cornell continues, "Don't be afraid. I would do the same for you." Well, that's reassuring. His intimate and sparse musings are revealed alongside acoustic guitar strums before developing into a confident, full-body rocker about sacrifices and rebirth.
Talk about your dead-end job. On the existential working song "Rowing," Cornell has oarsman's duty on what sounds like a ferry set adrift on the River Styx. Putting his heart, soul, sweat and muscle behind his endless paddling through the sonic sludge that has become his hellish existence, Cornell croons the unnerving mantra, "Don't know where I'm going/I just keep on rowing/I just keep on pulling/Gotta row/Moving is breathing/And breathing is life/Stopping is dying/You'll be all right." Let's hope we can say the same about Soundgarden.

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Her claims erupted in a Twitter war before United's clash with the Newcastle Jets at Deakin on Saturday.
De Vanna took to the social networking site to air her displeasure at Canberra's tactics in its 2-1 victory over Glory at Deakin on Wednesday. She likened them to the repeated fouls Real Madrid winger Cristiano Ronaldo sometimes endures as defenders try to minimise his talent.
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Just when you thought the HTC posts were almost done, here I come to bombard you with *finally* finishing mine. As suggested by the lovely Caroline and a few others, I am going to proudly be the 30th blogger to post my recap and I hope you all enjoy seeing the race from my perspective!
When we last left off, I had just finished my first leg and handed off to Steph. She took off on a killer sub-8:00 leg and I walked around, stretched and enjoyed the runner/relay/racing high that I was feeling after leg #1.
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I eventually Shower Pill'ed and changed (you are welcome, vanmates), then spent the next few hours cheering for my teammates as each of them rocked their first legs. Around 5:30ish, we made it to the major exchange where we were finally reunited with all of the Van 2's.
After being away from them the whole day, it was really fun to catch up and here about their experiences so far. We did a lot of hugging and story-telling and before we knew it, we were waiting to cheer all of the final van 1 runners into the exchange.
Team Morning runner, Nicole, finished strong, and passed off to Erin…
And the stellar Team Morning Van 2 took over the running for the next 6 or so hours.
Everyone in our van was hungry and a little worn out, so after a quick stop to get gas, we teamed back up with Team Noon's van 1 and headed to Portland to find food. We ended up at a little local bar, very uniquely named, Portland Sports Bar & Grille.
I opted for a veggie burger and a salad, but the "house" dressing for the salad was basically an entire clove of garlic minced into one tablespoon of dressing. I walked out of there feeling like I was breathing fire. THANK GOODNESS someone from our van (Nicole?) brought wisps (have you heard of them?! Magical little dry toothbrushes.) and we all did our best to fight the garlic stench.
Even Driver Jay got in on the action…
Around 11 p.m. or so we made it to the next major exchange, in downtown Portland, where we all kind of just rested in the van for a little while. At this point, I knew it wouldn't be beneficial for me to sleep, so I tried to relax and not think too much about my next leg.
It was a long walk up to the runner exchange point, so after a little bit of downtime, we made our way over, thinking we had PLENTY of time before Marjorie would finish her leg and hand off to Tricia, tagging us in again. We were hanging out and chatting with our Team Noon friends, as they waited for Lindsay to finish her leg and all of a sudden I heard a volunteer yell "#48", "#48″. I thought for a second, then yelled to Tricia…"THAT'S US!!!" She was flustered, but recovered quickly and ran over to grab the bracelet from Marjorie and take off. Unfortunately, this confusion ended up being really bad luck for Tricia…but I will let her tell you that story in her own words.
After the confusion, I was super anxious to get to the next exchange so I could get ready to run. Tricia's leg was only a little over 3 miles and I knew I wouldn't have much time to prepare. I was probably a little bossy as I was trying to round up our van (sorry friends!)…and I still feel bad for making Nicole leave when she really wanted to wait to cheer for her running buddy, Lindsay (who got lost for an extra mile!).
We ended up making it to the next exchange very quickly so I had time to use the honey buckets (yes!) and get all ready to go. I was a little nervous and definitely wasn't feeling the adrenaline and excitement that I had earlier. Thankfully Molly and Sarah entertained me while we waited…
And when I saw Tricia coming in to the exchange, a surge of race-ready adrenaline FINALLY hit and suddenly I felt myself get excited to run.
At 12:52 a.m. I was headed off on my 2nd leg.
I took off quickly, seeing 6:XX on my watch after about 1/4 of a mile, but I quickly reeled that in and tried to settle into a challenging but maintainable pace. But I wasn't even a mile into the 6.1 mile run before I realized that my legs were tired. Despite having that floating "I could run forever feeling" during my first leg, I had given much more than I thought I did to run fast downhill and my legs were definitely feeling it.
I got passed about 1/2 a mile in, (by a runner whose van screamed "road kill" at me as he came by), and after that there wasn't another runner anywhere in sight. It was dark, lonely and I found myself constantly looking at my watch. When it beeped at mile 1, I felt like I had been running for a really.long.time. The leg was ranked as "easy" and the terrain map had looked really flat, but I felt like I was running uphill the whole way. I pushed to try to keep my pace in the 7:3X range and I was able to do it, but with what felt like WAY too much effort. My legs continued to feel heavier and heavier and I knew that this run was going to be a real mental challenge.
Around mile 2 my right shoe came untied. I was thankful that my watch was (for once) not set to auto-pause so I was able to see that I lost about 40 seconds or so in my fumbling around to get it tied. I picked up the pace to make up the time and get back to the 7:30-range, with my only thought being that I wanted to push as hard as I could for my team.
That began to be my only focus – getting to that exchange for my TEAM. I was really, really scared for how I would ever be able to run another leg after this, but I decided at that point to ignore that and to treat this leg like its own race. I was going to give everything I had and figure the rest out later.
Around mile 4 my left shoe came untied. This time I got it tied in about 15 seconds and continued on. Then finally around mile 4.5, I got a little second wind (I actually think I probably hit a slight decline too). I came out of that dark hole that focused on how much I was hurting and reminded myself that I was running HOOD-TO-COAST. With TEAM NUUN. And that I was the freaking luckiest person ever. The last 1.6 miles or so went by much faster and eventually I could see the lights of the exchange.
As I came in, I could here a few brave souls who got out of the van cheering for me. The flood lights were blinding, but eventually I saw Steph and was more than happy to pass the baton (slap bracelet) on to her.
I was so, so happy to be done.
As I walked back toward the group. The only thing I remember is Casey (Nuun CFO) saying "You killed it! How was it?" And I looked at him and said "That was really hard."
Leg 2 Results: 6.08 miles, 46:08, 7:35 min/mile
I was very happy with the results of the run. I was proud that I pushed through, even when it hurt, but I really wish that I would have been able to be in the moment. Sure it was dark and most of the run was in a not-very-nice industrial area of Portland, but I run in the dark all of the time in less than exciting areas. I usually love the solitude of being in my own thoughts and just enjoying the run itself. I suppose there is just something about that 2nd leg of a relay that really changes the game. Also, I have to admit that it was comforting to see that Lauren had a similar experience on this same leg after having a fantastic first leg. (Sorry Lauren! I wish you would have LOVED your second leg :))
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PASADENA, CAlif. — Joe Biden will not be asked to guest-star in an episode of NBC's new White House comedy, "1600 Penn," but real media figures are welcome — at least NBC ones, and Larry King, according to the show's exec producers, including former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett.
"It would destroy the universe" of the show to have real-live Washington politicians wandering into the scene, Lovett told TV critics at Winter TV Press Tour 2013, talking about the show in which "Book of Mormon's" Josh Gad plays Skip Gilchrist, hapless son of politically ambiguous president Bill Pullman and first lady Jenna Elfman.
Asked if they'd invite NBC personality Donald Trump — who'd threatened to run for president and was an outspoken critic of President Obama during the race — on the show, Lovett joked, "We don't engage in hypotheticals."
Elfman got asked which first lady — other than Michelle Obama — she most admires. "Anyone but her," the critic said, noting that Dolley Madison, for instance, is said to have been the perfect hostess. (Elfman went with Eleanor Roosevelt for her gumption and Jackie Kennedy for her fashion sense.)
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"Are there any issues that you worry about trivializing by reducing them to light family comedy?" asked yet another critic, noting that "Bill jokes, as President Obama has done in the real world, about using drones to take out his daughters' romantic partners, even though the administration has actually killed teenage boys with drones overseas."
"Well, this is heavy family comedy," exec producer Jason Winer shot back.
Yet another critic seemed to have an issue with Elfman's character being the president's second wife and therefore stepmom to the first kids, wondering if there had ever been a president with a second wife.
"Ronald Reagan. Was that a trick question?" Gad asked, feigning innocence.
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NBC Entertainment chief Bob Greenblatt came to Winter TV Press Tour 2013 to talk about his network's remarkable ratings turnaround in the fall — from fourth place to first among the four English-language broadcast networks, the only one of the four that's up compared with last season, and the only broadcast net with an audience median age younger than last year.
TV critics, on the other hand, wanted to talk to him about TV violence and its connection to the mass shootings at Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., and — paradoxically — why NBC was keeping its semiautomatics-vs.-swords drama "Revolution" off the air so long. They also wondered how Greenblatt expected ABC's late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to fare when he moves to 11:35 p.m. on Tuesday, against NBC's own Jay Leno, and how soon NBC planned to dump Leno.
"Obviously we were all stricken, as everyone was, with that horrible tragedy, as well as other tragedies we've seen over the last few years," Greenblatt said.
But, he noted, there's a lot more violence on cable TV, which is not so constrained by Federal Communications Commission regulations on these matters, and that NBC's new serial-killer series "Hannibal" isn't even on the air yet.
"I'm not a psychologist; I'm not sure you can make the leap from a show about serial killers causing the problem with violence in our country," Greenblatt said.
"There are many other factors, from mental illness to guns."
"Our children are growing up with these shows," the critic despaired, noting "Hannibal" is just one of three serial-killer shows that will be in the lineup, including Fox's upcoming "The Following" and Showtime's "Dexter" (which Greenblatt used to oversee when he headed that pay-cable network).
"I think [CBS's] 'Criminal Minds' is worse than 'Dexter' ever was," Greenblatt countered.
"I don't know that . . . you can make the cause-and-effect argument" about TV programming, Greenblatt insisted. But then he suggested that the critics "look to the movies and, dare I say, at video games" in their finger-pointing.
Meanwhile, reports of Leno's departure are premature, Greenblatt said.
Noting that the network recently extended Leno's contract, he said, "it would be disingenuous to extend it and at the same time talk about a succession plan." Greenblatt was responding to reports that NBC had a plan in place to replace Leno with Jimmy Fallon at 11:35 p.m. when Leno's contract comes up in a couple of years.
Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign does not concern NBC, Greenblatt said when one TV critic suggested that it should.
"We live in this country where you can say anything you want as long as you are not harming other people," Greenblatt said.
"We talked him out of running for president — wasn't that enough?"
Of the 19 living White House chiefs of staff interviewed by filmmakers Gedeon and Jules Naudet ("9/11") and exec producer/former ABC News guy Chris Whipple, for their two-night Discovery Channel program "The Presidents' Gatekeepers," Rahm Emanuel was the toughest interview.
"We have this extraordinary setup . . . called an Interrotron — the subject is looking into a monitor, and as the interviewer, I'm actually sitting off to the side behind a curtain looking at a monitor," Whipple said.
Emanuel "took one look at this and said, 'What the blank is this? This is like some contraption out of Guantanamo.'
"The only thing we could think to say was, 'Well, maybe that's why [Ford administration chief of staff Dick] Cheney stayed for five hours,' " Whipple said.
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Many youths have a fantasy of getting bigger jobs in the government institutions or private sector.
With their potential untapped talents they go flat out from office to office looking for a job with a dream of landing on a bigger one.
This habit is found in who have either completed secondary education or gone half way through their secondary education, especially University graduates-the uneducated ones prefer to wonder the street of Kigali begging so as to have a meal at the end of the day.
Jean Paul Twizerimana, 25 years old attended secondary education up to the 4th level, in Ruhango district, he suspended his studies, following the death of his parents, which left him with no choice due to the shortage of resources.
Being the only one in the family he had no one to turn to, but with his fighting spirit that did not leave him to beg on the streets, It did not take him too long for him to get the bicycle on the road he gradually learnt how to use a friends bicycle, who would lend it to him from time to time..
He then left Ruhango, headed to Kigali to make a living.
One day as he walking in the street of Kicukiro where he currently resides, spotted a group of youth holding onto their bicycles and caught his attention, leaving him with something to think about.
"I stood looking at the group of youth for a very long time, wondering what it takes for a person like me to ride one and make a living out of it," says Twizerimana.
His life changed in 2003 when he was employed as a cyclist. "I manage to secure a job effortlessly," he laughs.
After thinking of owning my bicycle for a long time, one morning I asked myself, "why can't I try to get a job of riding someone's bicycle so that I can manage to buy my own in future?"
"Luck was on my side, after two days I got a job from a good man who helped me to save for my bicycle, which I managed to buy in a period of five years," says Twaizerimana.
The day he bought the bicycle was like a victory to me, the moment I had been waiting for in a long of time- to be self employed, use my money wisely and keep improving.
Out of his bicycle -business he makes about, 3, 000 frw in a day.
Still living alone, today Twizerimana is able to pay his house rent (15,000) per month, processing a driving permit. He wants to move from a cyclist to a taxi driver.
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That's what happened to five-year-old Jordan Willett when he was hunting in a box of cereal for a toy.
Instead of a plastic toy he pulled out a 60cm-long corn snake, which jumped at him when he touched it.
Luckily for Jordan the snake - which normally feeds on mice and birds - wasn't poisonous, although it may still have hurt if had bitten him.
An animal expert who checked over the snake added that he thought the snake may have been a pet and was well looked after.
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A fire heavily damaged country music star Trace Adkins' home Saturday, but no injuries were reported. Fire officials told The Tennessean that the home was a total loss.
Adkins' wife, Rhonda, told the paper that Adkins was en route to a fishing trip in Alaska. "He's gonna freak. He's probably gonna think I'm dead," she said as she watched firemen water down the ashes of the once beautiful home.
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The pop princess appears on a list of the most famous people from Wales along with the likes of teen singer Charlotte Church and crooner Tom Jones.
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Her mother and grandmother were born in the Welsh valleys, and Kylie is apparently very proud of her roots in Wales.
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Not much love, according to most Kremlin watchers, is lost between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Igor Sechin, deputy prime minister. On their few appearances together on television the disdain has been obvious, right down to bulging neck veins. Higher-ups at OAO Rosneft, the state oil company of which Mr. Sechin was chairman, have been known to refer to the President's circle derisively as "the boy scouts" behind their backs.
So it may have been especially satisfying for Mr. Medvedev to force Mr. Sechin out of his eyrie at Rosneft. On March 31 he issued a decree that cabinet ministers had to vacate board seats they occupied at state companies, eliminating untold privileges and conflicts of interest. A few weeks later, Mr. Sechin duly stepped down.
It was a rare victory for Mr. Medvedev. As the junior associate in the ruling "tandem" with Vladimir Putin - his more powerful, and more conservative, predecessor and mentor, who is currently Prime Minister - making good on his reform pledges has not always been easy.
Without liberalization and a scything of bureaucracy, state ownership and corruption, many economists hold little hope that the world's 10th-largest economy will realize its potential as one of the prime growth markets of the future. That would leave it to languish in its current state as a marginal supplier of raw materials for the developed world.
Where possible, Mr. Medvedev has been combining the struggle to reform an economy he accepts is inefficient and opaque with the fight to broaden his own political power. Over the past few months this has had some noteworthy successes, which both weaken rivals such as Mr. Sechin and tackle some of the more blatant problems with economic management.
In some ways the Medvedev strategy is reminiscent of the approach taken by Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet leader, faced with an entrenched Communist old guard in the 1980s, identified himself with inevitable economic and political reforms and used these as a tool to empower himself against the Politburo establishment. "Medvedev is using the slogan of modernization as a way to grab political decision-making over the economy away from the government," says a former Kremlin official.
Like Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Medvedev is the relative liberal in a field of grey-suited apparatchiks who owe their jobs and their perks to Mr..Putin. The two Putin terms as president were an all but unmitigated economic success: he reasserted the role of the state in an economy left in turmoil by the fast-and-loose privatizations of the 1990s, while Russia's gross domestic product doubled during his eight years in office.
But the economic collapse of 2009, when GDP fell 8 per cent, has brought home to many that the Putin economic model, dubbed "Kremlin Inc.," is nearing exhaustion.
Mr. Medvedev is now struggling to make his mark as the next presidential election approaches in 2012. Although the President would clearly like a second term, it was only to fulfill a constitutional requirement that Mr. Putin stepped down a rung three years ago. He will once more be free to stand, seems to have right of first refusal and has not yet made his choice clear. But for Mr. Medvedev, positioning himself for re-election means having a stable of accomplishments to his name.
Their relationship is delicate - the two are old friends from St. Petersburg, where Mr. Medvedev was Mr. Putin's lawyer, and they appear to get along in public. But Mr. Medvedev's staff chafe at having their memos ignored by cabinet officials and at being shut out of the higher echelons of power.
Although the constitution gives the president a nearly omnipotent executive decision-making ability, since 2008 the punching weight of the Kremlin, where Mr. Medvedev sits, has fallen sharply vis-à-vis the White House, across the Moscow ring road. Now, all instructions from the Kremlin go via Mr. Putin's office and the stern ex-KGB colonel has made it clear that he has a veto over important decisions.
Mr. Medvedev has had to tread a fine line between carving himself a separate identity as a politician and not alienating the king maker who stands between him and a second presidential term. His criticism of Mr. Putin has been carefully structured and oblique - notably calling the economy he inherited (without naming names) "primitive" for its reliance on raw materials exports.Report Typo/Error
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Happy Birthday Grand Rapids Turns 164
Happy birthday Grand Rapids. The city turns 164 Friday.
In 1831, Louis Campau bought the property of what is now the entire downtown business district from the federal government for $90.
Grand Rapids city historian Dick Harms says Grand Rapids has seen many ups and downs over the generations. First, as a trading post and agriculture hub, then the furniture capital, a manufacturing center, and today as a medical and education desitnation, downtown Grand Rapids is seeing a resurgence in growth and popularity -- rivaling the boom period of the 1920's furniture era and the mid 50's postwar era
"This was where the big stores were, the quality stores. Today people are returning, I'd say downtown is in the best period since 1960."
Harms tells WOOD Radio Grand Rapids owes its legacy to many of the well-known, well-heeled benefactors who have invested their money into public buildings -- the arena, schools, hospitals, -- leaders who are following an example set in Grand Rapids generations ago.
"They ( DeVos, Van Andel, Meijer, etc ) are just carrying this tradition forward. They were the next generation doing what had already been done before by names like, Keeler, Butterworth, Blodgett and the like."
Unlike many communities that build sports arenas in hopes of spurring growth, the plan worked in Grand Rapids. Harms says downtown's growth is due in part to Grand Valley's downtown campus, the growth of the medical mile -- and in no small part, the Van Andel Arena.
"You can safely say the arena is the spark for all that. There was some growth, but the arena really changed all that. You begin to see development on Ionia and Grandville Avenues where abandoned buildings once stood."
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Food Groups and Servings During Pregnancy
Grain Products: 5 to 11 servings. Include whole grain bread, corn tortillas, rolls, bagels, muffins, whole grain waffles or pancakes, hot grain cereals, rolled oats, cracked wheat, wheat germ, cold cereal, granola, whole grain pastas, brown rice, millet, and bulgar.
Vegetables: 5 servings or more. Include a colorful variety of vegetables such as spinach, yellow squash, red peppers, pumpkin, corn, arugula, collard greens, carrots, turnip greens, dandelion leaves, purslane, chard, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, broccoli, and endive.
Fruits: 4 servings or more. Include oranges, papayas, tomatoes, lemons, rose hips, berries, watermelon, cantaloupe, apricots, pineapples, apples, and peaches.
Milk products and other calcium sources: 3 to 5 servings. Include milk, yogurt, buttermilk, rice milk, soy milk, kefir, tofu, broccoli, blackstrap molasses, cheese, soy cheese, almonds, sesame seeds, tahini, carob, sea vegetables (kelp, nori, wakami, hijiki, dulse) and mustard greens.
Protein sources: 3 servings. Include eggs, fish, chicken, beef, tofu, tempeh, sardines, salmon, cheese, milk, cottage cheese, tuna, and pork.
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Alien Syndrome
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|Alien Syndrome
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|Tohru Nakabayashi
|Arcade, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Gear, MS-DOS, MSX, NES, Sega Master System, ZX Spectrum, Sharp X68000
|1987 (Arcade)
1988 (Sega Master System, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Famicom, MSX, NES)
1989 (ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS)
1992 (Game Gear, Sharp X68000)
|Run & gun shooter
|Single-player, multiplayer
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|Sega System 16A / B
|N775, YM2151, uPD7759
|Horizontal orientation, raster: standard resolution (Used: 320 x 224)
Alien Syndrome (エイリアンシンドローム Eirian Shindorōmu) is a run & gun shooter arcade game developed by Sega and released in 1987.
Two players control two soldiers, named Ricky and Mary, who fight their way through large eight-way scrolling levels while rescuing their comrades who are being held by aliens. After they have rescued a certain number of hostages, the exit opens and they can pass through it in order to fight the end-of-level guardian. If this monstrosity is defeated, they are then able to move onto the next stage. Alien Syndrome features two player simultaneous gameplay and pickups which assist the player, including better weapons and maps of the current level.
In 1988, the game was ported to the Sega Master System, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System (published by Tengen). Later, the game was ported to the ZX Spectrum (1989) Sega Game Gear (1992) and Sharp X68000 (1992), the latter being the only arcade perfect port.
The game was also converted to polygonal graphics for the PS2 as part of the Sega Ages re-release program and included in the US version of the Sega Classics Collection (it was removed from the European version to receive a lower age certificate). This version has updated controls, adding the use of both analog sticks, similar to that seen in Sheriff, Robotron: 2084 and Smash TV. The original arcade game was also included as an unlockable in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection.
A sequel of the same name, Alien Syndrome, was released for Wii and PSP on July 24, 2007.
The original arcade version of the game was reviewed in the July 1987 issue of Computer and Video Games, where Clare Edgeley described it as "one of the most gripping games" she "played in months", praising the Aliens like horror atmosphere, chilling sounds, special effects, graphics and gameplay. She stated it was "the first time the atmosphere and sheer addictiveness of a shoot 'em up has transported me to another planet" and concluded that it "is fantastic."[1]
The Sega Master System version of the game was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon, getting 2 out of 5 stars.[2]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Alien Syndrome arcade game review".
- ^ Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (January 1989). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (141): 72–78.
External links[edit]
- Alien Syndrome at Arcade-History
- Alien Syndrome at the Killer List of Videogames
- Contemporary review at Solvalou.com
- Alien Syndrome at MobyGames
- Alien Syndrome at SpectrumComputing.co.uk
- Alien Syndrome complete video play-through at RecordedAmigaGames
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Quinone was an aromatic organic compound that contains a benzene ring in which two hydrogen atoms have been replaced by oxygen atoms. Paraquinone (1,4-benzoquinone, O=C6H4=O) is a yellow crystalline solid obtained by the oxidation of aniline with chromic acid; it is used in the manufacture of hydroquinone for photographic developers. See also anthraquinone.
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Balint works 9 to 5 with Evans Cycles in London but every single weekend during the cyclocross season he drives across to Belgium, shoots the biggest cyclocross races in the world, then heads back home on Sunday evening. The next morning he's back to work.
Balint used to shoot MTB races but stumbled upon cyclocross back in 2008 and has been hooked since. For Balint the appeal of cyclocross lies in the intensity, the treacherous conditions and the skill of the riders. He also told us that he finds CX convenient to watch and photograph because of the nature of the course. With the riders coming around to the same spot many times, it gives him a chance to experiment with different shots.
The 2012/13 season was the second Balint has spent shooting CX and, in all, he shot more than 30 races. He's just finished putting together a coffee table book featuring his favourite photos from the season, just like he did after last season. As well as Balint's photos, the 2012/13 book features the work of five guest writers whom Balint met on his photographic journeys.
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Dorfmeister wins super-G
Michaela Dorfmeister continued Austria's perfect start to the World Ski Championships as she took gold in the women's super-G.
Dorfmeister followed the victory of compatriot Stephan Eberharter in the men's event by pipping American Kirsten Clark by just two-hundredths of a second.
Jonna Mendes took bronze to complete a superb opening effort from the United States team.
They joined Austria on three medals overall for the championships after the silver for Bode Miller on Sunday.
Dorfmeister, the defending downhill champion, was one of the few favourites to justify their billing.
The 29-year-old, last season's World Cup champion, roared down the 2.1km Engiadina course in one minute 27.48 seconds.
But Italy's Karen Putzer, a winner in St Moritz on the World Cup circuit recently, had a nightmare run to finish 1.77secs adrift.
Putzer's team-mate Daniela Ceccarelli, last year's Olympic super-G champion, skied off course, while France's Carole Montillet could only manage 14th.
Croatian Janica Kostelic - the overall leader of the women's World Cup standings - finished a disappointing 1.77secs off the pace in 19th.
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Renowned architect Frank Gehry doesn't mince words when it comes to setting standards for buildings around the world.
"Public buildings deserve to be iconic," he told a packed audience at the Salk Institute on Feb. 8, opening an architectural speaker series on the legacy of Louis Kahn.
Gehry who, like Kahn, is internationally known for some highly innovative public spaces, said that public buildings like the Sydney opera house, Gehry's own Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and Millennium Park in Chicago are examples of high-impact projects that "upgrade" their surrounding cities.
Generously sponsored by Salk Board of Trustee member Linda Chester and Dr. Kenneth Rind, Master Architects Lecture Series: In Celebration of Louis Kahn and the Salk Institute, is jointly organized by Salk and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and features presentations from six of the world's most notable architects. The series continues this spring with presentations by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien (Feb. 27) and David Adjaye (March 11) at Salk; Thom Mayne (May 8) and Enrique Norten (April 3) at MCASD.
Single tickets are $25 for President's Club members, seniors and students; and $30 for the general public.
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The Destrehan Wildcats soccer team gained the upper hand over rival Hahnville and remained undefeated in district play with a 2-0 victory over the Tigers last week.
Destrehan (11-1-1, 4-0) used a strong offensive performance in the second half to hand Hahnville their first district defeat of the year. The win also moved the Wildcats into pole position in District 8-1.
Destrehan took a season high seven shots on goal in the first half, but none of them found their mark. However, nine minutes into the second half junior Kyler LeGrange threaded a pass to fellow junior Jacob Johnson, who took a shot from 18 yards out. Hahnville was able to clear the ball, but it bounced into the awaiting feet of freshman Seth Danna. With two defenders on him, Danna blasted a shot into the goal to give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead.
Eleven minutes later, Destrehan scored again to ice the game.
With Hahnvilles entire defense across midfield, LaGrange once again got things started by lacing a beautiful through ball to Johnson. Johnson took off with a lone defender chasing him and was able to get off a nice shot that sailed into the back of the net to put the Wildcats up 2-0.
Along with the impressive performances on offense, Destrehan goalie Alex Diaz finished with a season high six saves in the game.
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Subject: [ARIZARD-L] Marchant
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:04:10 -0700
Melissa Cassa Marchant, daughter of William Bailey Marchant, is said to have
married John Gray. Their daughter Maude Gray married R. D. Haney. Does
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Weight-loss resolutions propel Nutrisystem
Total U.S. weight loss market revenues were $61.6 billion in 2012 and $60.6 billion in 2011. Revenues are forecast to grow 2.6% in 2013. If we stuck to our guns, this industry would be losing right along with all of us, but that's not the case for Nutrisystem (NTRI).
As weight loss resolutions and efforts grow in the early part of the year, so do sales of Nutrisystem products. First-quarter sales have improved over the past six years by an average of 25.1%.
After the company reported a 5% year-over-year revenue gain in the 2013 third quarter, the stock climbed to two-year highs. This can be attributed to lower costs and shift in marketing strategy. Expect the first quarter to fatten investors' wallets again.


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Hockey Player Snubs Obama
Boston Bruins player Tim Thomas dissed the Pres, with, I think, a good reason!
Thomas stated:
I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People.
"This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal government.
"Because I believe this, today I exercised my right as a Free Citizen, and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country. This was about a choice I had to make as an INDIVIDUAL.
"This is the only public statement I will be making on this topic. TT
That's awesome!! Then again, maybe he's just after some publicity. Either way, the reason I'm posting on this is that I agree with him! It's not about a certain party or individual, it's about all of them growing to powerful, to arrogant and to uncaring about many of the real matters in our country.
Read the whole story here via yahoo.com!
I think everyone should start doing things like this!! Refuse to attend things, refuse to do things, REFUSE TO SEND THEM MONEY!!
Alert the press, Facebook, fan clubs, use whatever fame, notoriety or 'attention getter' you can!! Let as many people as possible know what you're doing so that others are aware of your actions and can help spread the word to!
These 'peaceful yet well publicized' stunts may be what stirs things up and makes the politicos stop and take notice of what we want or think. They can also serve to teach the youth of our country how to stand up and be heard when they disagree with something! As time passes (and political science slowly disappears from our school curiculums) it's important that we don't raise a generation that feels "there's nothing we can do". Subsequently doing just that … nothing.
When 'Big Bro government' sees that people are sick and tired of the way things are; perhaps then they'll change.
The dumbest things can sometimes have the most far reaching effects!


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Buttons should now be in a consistent order
It's amazing to think how much the marketplaces have grown in the two years I've been here. I vaguely remember that counter being somewhere around 200,000 when I started
Hey Guys,
Since there is a lot of excitement around Google+ this week, we've added Google +1 buttons to every item!
You can +1 your favorite items and they'll show up in the "+1's" section of your Google + profile.
We hope you like them!
Hey guys, Just popping in to explain what happened here.
miseld's account was disabled by support in response to a ticket suggesting his account may have been hacked. When a user is disabled, their items are also disabled. When the user is reenabled the items are supposed to go back to whatever state they were in before, but for some reason this failed to happen.
I've opened a maintenance ticket to investigate why this happened and fix it, and manually reverted all of miseld's items to their previous states.
I hope you dont have too much trouble getting back your accounts on other services
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Damnit Charlie Sheen, Give that back!
Uploading is all fixed up now, as are previews for new items. Commence uploading!
Hey guys, we're aware of the tags style bug and our front-end wizard is looking into it. Only appears to show up wrong in Chrome dev builds, looks right in other webkit browsers and mozilla
The API should be fixed now
I don't know what taxes are like in Australia, but where I live everything I buy has an 8% surcharge. So when I purcahse a Wii for $199, it really costs $214.
In Australia we have laws against deceitful pricing like that. the price shown is the price paid. I dont think it's something unique to Australia either, I'm pretty sure most of Europe works the same way.
That is spectacular! It's going to take one hell of a mo to top that for the gold mo


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The NSW competition regulator Ipart has questioned claims by Energy Australia, AGL Energy and Origin that increasing regulated retail prices above market rates encourages investment in power generation.
In an issues paper for its determination of regulated prices for NSW customers in 2013-14 Ipart said it wanted power retailers to explain why they should be allowed to continue to charge customers for power based on an estimate of long-run marginal cost of generation even though that produces an outcome that is well above the current market cost of power.
Ipart has estimated that retailers are charging regulated customers about 8 per cent more than is justified by wholesale market prices, which are very low because of weak demand and strong supply from renewables.
The power companies had suggested keeping the high price would encourage investment in new generation and stability in the wholesale market, but the regulator said there was no link between retail prices and the price paid to generators.
"While efficient investment in the wholesale market is in the long term interests of customers, our view is that this primarily related to conditions in the wholesale market, in particular the supply-demand balance in the wholesale market and future expectations of wholesale prices," Ipart said.
The three big power companies have this year announced profit downgrades and taken court action after regulators in South Australia and Queensland decided to start setting regulated prices based on the market cost of power instead of long-run marginal costs. AGL said it was suspending $500 million of investment in new power generation in SA.
The NSW government has told Ipart to adopt a hybrid approach, only using the market price for a maximum of 25 per cent of the total wholesale price of power. Ipart said it has the option of giving retailers even more "headroom", but it needs to be convinced.
It said there might be a case for using its flexibility to pushi up regulated retail prices above market costs if that would help boost competition and encourage new entrants.
The regulator said boosting competition should eventually reduce the need for price regulation.
Ipart also said it would look closely in the current review at who purchased the NSW government generation assets in case it handed "strategic bidding opportunities to owners of significant generation portfolios." NSW has announced it is selling Delta Coast and Macquarie Generation.
The share of NSW customers on regulated prices will fall from next year because anyone who used more than 100 megawatt hours a year will be exempt, down from 160 Mwh previously.
Ipart said it expected that the retail price rises of recent years will plateau next year since regulated network prices are set to fall.
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Fall leaf lacing is a fun beginning sewing project for kids. Learning to sew is an easy way to develop the fine motor muscles in the hand necessary for writing and more detailed hand work.
Using sturdy fall leaves to practice sewing instead of lacing cards makes this homeschool activity idea both economical and eco-friendly. You can also try sewing on burlap for another fine motor activity.
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Fall Leaf Lacing
Fall leaf lacing is a fun an easy way for kids to practice fine motor skills and learn to sew. Developing the fine motor muscles in the hand helps prepare children for writing and more detailed hand work in the future.
Fall Leaf Lacing Materials:
- Sturdy fall leaves. We used magnolia leaves.
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Step 1 – Mod Podge (optional)
Use a foam brush to paint Mod Podge onto both sides of the leaf you will be using. This will both preserve the leaf and help strengthen it. This is optional – you do not have to do this for the activity to work. Allow to dry.
Step 2 – Punch holes in leaf
Use a single hole punch to make a lacing pattern around the edges of the leaves. Or any other design that you would like to sew into the leaf.
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Fall leaf lacing is an easy and fun way for kids to practice fine motor skills and begin to learn to sew. Sewing with kids is an easy way to develop the fine motor muscles in the hand necessary for writing and more detailed hand work.
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You don't need a particular education background, although you CAN get a technical writing certificate or degree. I dont have one, but I learned a lot about my field. I worked on a helpdesk, and my 'notes' that I made for myself turned into a training manual. after that I worked on several other projects and eventually got promoted to a documentation specialist.
What you really need is to search out opportunities in your company. Show interest and if you have anything already documented, share that. Just be ready to stand up for why you should be doing the documentation and be willing to learn learn learn.
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I obtained my position within the company. I was a Quality Inspector and had a lot of knowledge about reading blueprints and the controls in inspection plans. The computer I had very little experience but learned from the persons before and just taking notes. But, I am now unemployed and still looking for this type of work mainly in the Medical device industry.
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Every November 30, the Philippines celebrates Bonifacio Day to commemorate the birthday of the Father of Philippine Revolution, Andres Bonifacio y de Castro. The second foremost figure in the Southeast Asian country's pantheon of heroes, he is in fact regarded by Filipino nationalists more highly than the only one other, but 'more official' national hero,* Jose Protacio Rizal, who is criticized as having been an "American-sponsored hero" chosen by the United States colonial government over the "too radical" Bonifacio and the 'Sublime Paralytic' Apolinario Mabini.
The Anti-Colonial National Hero
Jose Rizal, writes eminent nationalist historian Renato Constantino, was undoubtedly a great Filipino--true martyr and patriot-- but the fact remains that veneration to him was promoted by the U.S. colonial government because among others, he did not advocate independence, neither armed resistance to the government. This, in contrast to Andres Bonifacio, who founded the revolutionary and national secret society Kataastaasan Kagalang-galang na Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK), and who subsequently launched the revolution against Spanish colonial rule. Choosing the "unregenerate" Mabini, who lived long enough to support the continuation of the Filipino-American War well into his last years, or Bonifacio, who clearly aimed for independence for the Philippine Islands, would have been counter to the colonial policy of the new imperialist master.
Supremo of the Filipino Revolutionary Government
Bonifacio, in fact, formed the first national government of the natives with the intent and vision that the Katipunan would govern the islands after any overthrow of Spanish colonial rule. Beyond being a secret militant organization, the Katipunan was a revolutionary government with a bureaucratic framework, own set of laws and founded on democratic and moral principles summed up under the KKK Cartilla or primer. Even the US Library of Congress record proves such to an extent: "the Katipunan insinuated itself into the community by setting up mutual aid societies and education for the poor." The same text points to how Bonifacio, with a 30,000-strong** KKK "proclaimed Filipino independence on August 23, 1896."*** Katipunan membership could actually have been much higher. According to William J. Pomeroy, the number of Katipunan members has been estimated from about 123,000 up to 400,000.
After the Katipuneros launched the uprising against the Spaniards, the "Great Plebeian" hero set out to transform the secret national organization into an open and de facto revolutionary government. The founder of the Katipunan became the president and formed a cabinet composed of men he trusted, including Emilio Jacinto, Secretary of State; Teodoro Plata, War; Aguado del Rosario, Interior; Briccio Pantas, Justice; and Enrique Pacheco, as Secretary of Finance. While certain historians had tried to downplay or dispute his formation and leadership of the earliest national government by and of the Filipinos, clear evidence that had only quite recently been made available bestows on Andres Bonifacio the glorious, unequivocal title of being the truly first President of the Philippine Revolutionary Government.
Surviving official letterhead communications dated 1897 point to Bonifacio's various designations that include being the "Supreme President, Government of the Revolution." Perhaps the most telling proofs come from non-partisan sources of the period. Nineteenth century Spanish historian Jose M. del Castillo, in his 1897 writing "El Katipunan" or "El Filibusterismo en Filipinas," describes the first national elections in the Philippines from which Bonifacio emerged as the President, and Plata, Jacinto, del Rosario, Pantas and Pacheco as cabinet officials. This is corroborated by the February 8, 1897 issue of the international publication "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana" in its article about the Philippine revolution and which featured an engraved portrait of "Andres Bonifacio, Titulado 'Presidente' de la Republica Tagala,"**** clad in a dark suit and white tie.
Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa" (Love of Motherland)
Bonifacio Day for 2008 is the 145th birth anniversary of this fervent, plebeian, nationalist hero who might arguably have not been very effective in the battlefield, but possessed the organizational genius that paved the way for the revolutionary struggle for independence by the Malay race of the Philippine Islands. The depth of Gat Andres Bonifacio's ardent love for his country and people can be gleaned from his famous poem "Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa" (Love of Motherland), which has been popularized as a song in the modern times.
The poem is a poignant call for nationalism that emanates from within the people and not from anyone or anywhere else. In it, Katipunan Supremo Andres Bonifacio laments the suffering of his people under Spanish colonial misrule and as well, the seeming loss of pride in their race. A patriotic song, it views love for country as perhaps the noblest and purest love there is. "Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa" was first disseminated during the Philippine Revolution against Spain in the late 1890s, appearing in the first and only issue of the Katipunan publication Kalayaan. It was adapted to music during the Martial Law years.
(ni Andres Bonifacio y de Castro)
Aling pag-ibig pa ang hihigit kaya
sa pagkadalisay at magkadakila
Gaya ng pag-ibig sa sariling lupa?
Aling pag-ibig pa? Wala na nga, wala.
Pagpupuring lubos ang palaging hangad
Sa bayan ng taong may dangal na ingat,
Umawit, tumula, kumata't at sumulat,
Kalakhan din niya'y isinisiwalat.
Walang mahalagang hindi inihandog
Ng may pusong mahal sa Bayang nagkupkop,
dugo, yaman, dunong, katiisa't pagod,
Buhay ma'y abuting magkalagut-lagot.
Bakit? Alin ito na sakdal ng laki,
Na hinahandugan ng busong pagkasi,
Na sa lalong mahal nakapangyayari,
At ginugulan ng buhay na iwi?
Ay! Ito'y ang iang bayang tinubuan:
Siya'y iona't tangi sa kinamulatan
Ng kawili-wiling liwanang ng araw
Na nagbigay-init sa buong katawan.
Kalakip din nito'y pag-ibig sa Bayan,
Ang lahat ng lalong sa gunita'y mahal,
Mula sa masaya'y gasong kasanggulan
Hanggang sa katawa'y mapasa-libingan.
Sa aba ng abang mawalay sa bayan!
Gunita ma'y laging sakbibi ng lumbay,
Walang alaala't inaasa-asam
Kundi ang makita'y lupang tinubuan.
Pati ng magdusa'y sampung kamatayan
Wari ay masarap kung dahil sa bayan
At lalong mahirap. Oh, himalang bagay!
Lalong pag-irog pa ang sa kanya'y alay.
Kung ang bayang ito'y masasa-panganib
At siya ay dapat na ipagtangkilik,
Ang anak, asawa, magulang, kapatid;
Isang tawag niya'y tatalidang pilit.
Hayo na nga, hayo, kayong nagabuhay
Sa pag-asang lubos ng kaginhawahan
At walang tinamo kundi kapaitan,
Hayo na't ibangon ang naabang bayan!
Kayong nalagasan ng bunga't bulaklak
Ng kaho'y ng buhay na nilanta't sukat,
Ng bala-balaki't makapal na hirap,
muling manariaw't sa baya'y lumiyag.
Ipahandug-handog ang busong pag-ibig
At hanggang may dugo'y ubusing itigis;
kung sa pagtatanggol, buhay ay mapatid,
Ito'y kapalaran at tunay na langit!
*According to the NCCA,
No law, executive order or proclamation has been enacted or issued officially proclaiming any Filipino historical figure as a national hero... Aside from Rizal, the only other hero given an implied recognition as a national hero is Andres Bonifacio whose day of birth on November 30 has been made a national holiday.
**Estimates vary from 30.000 to 400,000
***Recent records have established the true date to be August 24, 1896
****Bonifacio referred to the whole of the Philippine Islands as Katagalugan or Tagala in his writings.
Related Andres Bonifacio article by the author:
Bernardo, Jesusa. Andres Bonifacio's Tagalog Nation & Predictions of Global Warming. 10 May 2009. http://jesusabernardo.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/10/2800625-andres-bonifacios-tagalog-nation-predictions-of-global-warming?last=1242703302&threadId=575251#last_1
Andres Bonifacio: 1863-1897. United States Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/bonifacio.html
Andres Bonifacio: "Titulado Presidente De La Republica Tagala". http://www.geocities.com/umalahokanstribe/EXHIBIT.html
Constantino, Renato. Veneration without Understanding. Third National Rizal Lecture, December 30, 1969. 13 January 2008. PinoyPress Site. http://www.pinoypress.net/2008/01/13/jose-rizal-veneration-without-understanding/7/
Guerrero, Milagros, Emmanuel Encarnacion, and Ramon Villegas. Andres Bonifacio and the 1896 Revolution. In Sulyap Kultura. National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 1996. NCCA Site. 16 June 2003. http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/articles-on-c-n-a/article.php?i=5&subcat=13
Medina, Isagani. "Heroes of the Philippines Revolution." In The Great Lives Series, Andres Bonifacio, Tahanan Books for Young Readers. Bookmark, 1992. Bakbakan Site. http://www.bakbakan.org/heroes.html
Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa. Philippine Revolution Web Center Site. http://www.philippinerevolution.net/cgi-bin/kultura/awit.pl?title=pag-ibig%20sa%20tinubuang%20lupa
Pomeroy, William J. The Philippines: colonialism, collaboration, and resistance. Publisher International Publishers Co, 1992. http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=vQPpEa02N5kC&dq=%22an+aspect+of+the+u.s.+educational+system+was+the+selection+and+elevation+of+national+heroes.%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Revolucion filipina (1896-1898). Museo Oriental de Valladolid Site. http://www.museo-oriental.es/ver_didactica.asp?clave=138&loc=0
*Selection and Proclamation of National Heroes and Laws Honoring Filipino Historical Figures. *From the Reference and Research Bureau Legislative Research Service, House of Congress. NCCA Site. http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/culture-profile/culture-profile-nationalhero.php


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I know of a few of those people. Some of them are my ancestors. I always wondered why I couldn't find them :-)
Thanks Evelyn. I enjoy fun notes.
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Subject: [NYNIAGAR-FOLKS] Genealogy - humorous tongue in cheek piece
Scientists at The National Academy for the Study of UFO's have recently
confirmed the existence of the "UFO chromosome." While most genealogists are
aware of the x chromosome, passed from one female generation to the next, and
the y chromosome, from which it is possible to determine descent in an
uninterrupted male lineage from a common ancestor, the "UFO chromosome" had
previously been only speculation. Working with DNA recovered from the aliens
of the Roswell, New Mexico crash, the scientists have discovered the "UFO
chromosome" is also present in some humans. This discovery confirms that
aliens have been breeding with humans for centuries, and beaming their progeny
back to earth.
For the "low" price of $10,000, they will test your DNA to see if you possess
the "UFO chromosome." While the test will not tell WHICH ancestor had the "UFO
chromosome," there are several ways to identify that ancestor. For those
ancestors to conceal their identity:
1. They moved every few years, never spending long at one location.
2. They were the only person of that surname in the county.
3. The county clerk who was also an alien, assured that your ancestor's
marriage bond would "accidentally" be lost, their deeds set aside and never
recorded, and their entire probate file would turn up "missing" even though
indexes say it once existed.
4. The census taker would either not list them, OR he would list them twice,
with sleight differences, causing quarrels among descendants whether they are
the same person or not.
5. The family Bible was sent "west" with the youngest unmarried daughter,
where she married a "Mr. Smith."
6. The family cemetery was sold to outsiders, who used the headstones to make
a sidewalk.
7. The church they joined did not believe in recording vital statistics.
8. They started rumors of how they were related to someone famous, causing
descendants to search the wrong family.
9. They started rumors of how they were born in England, arrived in Virginia
with two brothers (one of whom was born in France, the other in Sweden). To
conceal their identity, one brother moved to Georgia, the other to Maine, while
they remained in Virginia.
10. And, when all else failed and they were about to be discovered, the county
court house would "accidentally" burn.
If you can prove your ancestor was beamed down by aliens, Halbert's of Bath,
Ohio has recently prepared a family history of the Alien family, complete with
the Alien coat of arms, which you will be proud to display over your fireplace.
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