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Metropolis – Dmytro Morykit – Review
by David Roberts
Back in 1927 when the world was black and white, less people knew who Hitler was, most people could remember Oscar Wilde dying and films were starting to gain traction as a popular art form. A standard had been realised and experimentation had begun both with plot and with cinematography. A German film maker called Fritz Lang had had so much success with Metropolis that he had been hand picked by Hitler to spear head his propaganda campaigns (which he declined while running away to France understandably). Metropolis is rumoured to be Hitlers favourite film, it could be of course because of the amount of control and the leader in this film had over the public. The lead actress, Brigitte Helm, didn't like to be associated with the film, but when you're Hitler's favourite actress from about 1938 onwards you'll probably not want to brag about that.
Fritz Lang decided to Metropolis and it was ground breaking achievement. Now it's hard to understand why this film was so important if you watch it after the matrix for example or some more up to date reference, but I've been watching nothing but silent movies for the past month, so I was very excited to it as it is said to be the world's first feature length sci-fi film.
Metropolis is based in a dystopian future, and within seconds of its first scene it has Orwell, Aushwitz and Bioshock plastered all over it which is odd since these things all happened a long time afterwards. The film, which I'll get to, is only half the reason I was in the crescent art centre this evening. The main half is a man who has decided for whatever reason to write and arrange an incredible new soundtrack for the film. Coming in at approx 2 hours Dmytro Morykit brings the film to life in a haunting and engaging fashion. Despite sitting perfectly lit and only feet from the cinema screen Dmytro Morykit somehow blends into the background while still lifting you and leading you through the sinister Metropolis that gave the film its name. Many people have done versions of this including Adam and and Freddy Mercury and this relatively modest musician has written a beautiful work that sits comfortably amongst gods. If you are in the future reading this and Dmytro has become a multi billionaire and is now living in the moon I suggest you get the dvd and Spotify this one. Press play at the same time on both just like with the dark side of the moon and the wizard of Oz you crazy stoners. Assuming you can still get Spotify and it hasn't been replaced by something else. Like your favourite albums being released in healthy gluten free food or something.
Despite the hiccups and technical difficulties at the beginning the first half of the film before the intermission was very interesting, really capturing the mood and somehow the feeling of the future through the eyes of people in the past. For me the Tango Tease is one of the best things that Dmytro did, and the particular night I saw him the second half, he was for want of a better phrase, on fire. Even now listening back to the music I enjoyed that night it is perfectly listenable and beautifully played but on the night I forgot where I was and was just floating on a cloud, and I'm not sure if you've ever tried to watch a silent movie but most of them don't as much grab your attention as they are a visual lullaby that was probably awesome at the time. A lot of the tracks are reimaginings of his own early compositions that have now found a home in Metropolis and some were freshly written for this project and it is incredible start to finish.
Dmytro is playing in the Waterside Theatre on the 20th January 2015 and then he is back to London.
Snow Shaw Inks Exclusive Deal With Mailorder Giant!
Extraordinary news is coming today from Snowy Shaw ! He has just announced that he has signed an exclusive European deal with the biggest European mailorder company EMP for the sale of his LIVE DVD/CD double pack release "The Liveshow: 25 Years Of Madness In The Name Of Metal".
Snowy Shaw about this exclusive deal : "We have just signed an exclusive deal with the mighty EMP, the biggest mailorder company in Europe by far. With my brand new Live DVD/CD Box we are the first band/artist ever to do so and I'd be lying to you if I'd say I didn't feel a sense of "Fuck yeah!" as I like to think of myself as the breaker of rules and stinky old conventions. Then I learnt I was actually preceded by my former employer King Diamond and Mercyful Fate so you could say it runs in the family, but nevertheless in this day and age, it's all about thinking out of the box. As a dissident misfit I always have been, so you can't force me into that box, but you can now go ahead and order my brand new Live DVD/CD Box "The Liveshow: 25 Years Of Madness In The Name Of Metal". – Happy Halloween!"
The Live DVD/CD has been released through Wunderwurld Music, Snowy's new label/production company.
"The Liveshow" DVD/CD includes more than 3 hours of amazing, high quality material, recorded on two special theatrical shows, and featuring very special guests from KING DIAMOND,MERCYFUL FATE, MEMENTO MORI, ILLWILL, OPERA DIABOLICUS and Snowy's backing band featuring lead guitarist Kristian Niemann (THERION), Mannequin De Sade III (NOTRE DAME, ENGEL), Mark U Black (DREAM EVIL) and Vikki Valkyrie (ICE AGE). "The Liveshow" has a one of a kind track listing, as except playing own originals, SNOWY SHAW performed with his band all his personal favorites from his former bands, incl. classics such as "Eye Of The Witch", "Halloween" and "Sleepless Nights" (KING DIAMOND), "Evil" and "Black Funeral" (MERCYFUL FATE), "The Book Of Heavy Metal" (DREAM EVIL), "To Mega Therion" (THERION) or "The Serpentine Offering" (DIMMU BORGIR) and a helluva lot more, in a truly theatrical way.
The recordings took place during 2 live-shows :
May 27, 2011 – Brewhouse – Gothenburg – Sweden
Nov 3, 2012 – Sparbankshallen – Varberg – Sweden
Filmed by :
Patric Ullaeus Of Revolver Film Company and Rino Hemstad & Co.
Music mixed and mastered by :
Andy La Rocque & Snowy Shaw at Sonic Train Studios
Special Guests :
Andy LaRocque
Michael Denner
Mike Wead
Gus G.
Mats Levén
Hal Patino
Thomas Vikström
Pete Black
Kee Marcello
Nyfiken Gul
David Grimoire & Adrian De Crow (Opera Diabolicus)
Mary Ann Cotton
Simon Roxx
Track list DVD :
01. Dracula Sucks!
02. Munsters
03. Typhon
04. Book Of Heavy Metal
05. Black Funeral
06. Halloween
07. Whether With Or Without
08. Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse
09. Seeds Of Hatred + drum solo
10. I Want You To Want Me.
01. Serpentine Offering
02. Blacksmith & Co
03. Man Or Mouse
04. Bouffon Bloody Bouffon
05. Eye Of The Witch
06. Sleepless Nights
07. Fire!
08. Welcome Home
09. The Medley
10. Evil
· behind the scenes
· interviews
Track list CD (different than the DVD):
01. Singh Hai
02. Come To The / Sabbat
03. The Fashionista
04. The Dimmu Medley
05. Unguentum Sabbati
06. Dusk + Le Theatre Du Vampire
07. The Book Of Heavy Metal
08. Typhon / Drum solo
09. Vlad The Impaler
10. To Mega Therion
11. Blood Countess Bathory
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Omega Crom – Beyond Control Sampler – Review
It's not too often I get blown away by bands I've never heard of but I have happened to come across an sampler of Beyond Control by a band called Omega Crom that, to me, are a near perfect blend of German Power Metal and American Thrash from the eighties. I am instantly reminded of Primal Fear and Slayer if that makes more sense. I am fascinated with this album and it took all of twelve seconds before I was convinced by the opening track that I was going to love it. I'm verily fond of powerful falsetto and never completely comfortable with growly vocals but they have their place and they are used infrequently enough in this for me to appreciate it as a musical device. So here is my Track by Track review of Beyond Control (Sampler) by Omega Crom.
Sundering Blades
This track opens with a very Slayer inspired drum beat and guitar riff but what really got my attention was a bit of falsetto that gave me an instant aneurism, in a fantastic way. An aneurgasm maybe. An intro guitar solo which I personally miss from music nowadays that is not melodic at all but is functionally energetic and there is a certain amount of though behind it which leads us into a more death metal vocal bit were I'm trying to convince myself he is not singing about Memory Foam, they are comfy as shit so maybe he is. The chorus is suddenly perfectly placed and yet seemingly a different sub genre comes off like Stormwarrior or early Gamma Ray with a more melodic power metal style lead line behind it. Truly awesome, there is a small moment near the start where the song sounds a bit thin, the lyrics are a bit cheesy and could have used with more guitar in the background but the rest of the song and the vocals make up for anything else that could have happened. Really, the rest of the album could be farts and I'd still pay for it.
Power Soul
Fortunately it isn't farts from here and Power Soul explodes into your ears like a Rust in Peace era Megadeth breakdown but overlaid with vocals that sound like Blind Guardian's more recent work, really reminds me of Voice In The Dark actually. Structurally it's stronger than Sundering Blades but it took me longer to get into, but now I actually think it's my favourite on the album. Much more thought went into the guitar work on this one and it is simply a lot more fun to listen to, it changes direction suddenly and keeps you guessing but in a familiar way.
Chaos Theory
Yet again this intro has much of an eighties vibe over it and feels like trust from Megadeth's Cryptic Writings album then out've nowhere what I assume is a female voice really beautifully confuses you into thinking you've got the wrong album in all of a sudden. It has a folk element to it that is haunting but also musical and fits in the context of the album perfectly well. It's almost like a track from the worlds greatest heavy metal musical that I hope they write some day. Mercyful Fate all over both vocalists compliment each other brilliantly, and I initially got the feeling that I was being myself and liking things that other people were gonna tell me where awful, but everyone I let here this has just wept metal joyful tears, and though there was a risk of mercury poisoning we just cranked it up and I must say I am blown away and I am very excited about what Omega Crom are going to offer us in the future.
Blood Red Moon
This could be an Iron Maiden B-side easily, it has complexity and harmonies and all that stuff people like me love. Blasts of drums and complicated riffs then suddenly standard beats and power chords make this song sound almost like an Iron Maiden cover of a Mötley Crüe song, and I mean that in a good way. The chorus is fantastic which is fortunate because the verses are a wee bit lacking on this track. I can't get behind the energy of them in the same way as I could with the previous tracks and sometimes the Maiden influence is too obvious to the point of bordering homage and plagiarism. If I wasn't being picky about it though I'd just say this album is awesome go buy it and stop being a dick about it. To myself.
Land of Never Was
The album closer is a difficult one and I've noticed there are three ways of doing a decent album closer in the past. Either you do something slightly different. Do something exactly the same but better. Do something that is essentially everything you're good at in one song, this is generally how we end up with closers that are about 15 minutes long. Land of Never Was is a damn good version of the latter , a long instrumental section followed by a great sing a long chorus is fantastic and it's not boring for a second.
All in all I think this is one of the best albums by a relatively unknown band that is prefect for fans of King Diamond, Gamma Ray, Blind Guardian and Mercyful Fate. If I was going to say anything bad about it, I'd say that structurally a few of the songs could be tighter and more layering could improve the sound but ultimately it's incredible and I'm very fond of it.
Snowy Shaw – 25 Year Anniversary DVD – Review
Snowy Shaw has been in an obscene amount of bands over the past 25 years at least one, if not more, have been your favourite band for a while. With such fantastic claims as King Diamond, Dream Evil, Therion and Dimmu Borgir under his belt he has a whole world of music he could choose from for a live album, which is why he has released a double DVD and CD box set of his 25th anniversary shows. Simply titles Snowy Shaw The Liveshow : 25 years of madness in the name of metal, it is a fantastic way to relive some of your favourite tracks from these bands.
If it was anyone else I think it would run the risk of sounding like 'a tribute band to themselves' rehash of old material but after even one watch/listen I can guarantee you will be making people who don't care as much listen with you. I for one was grabbing member of other bands I know and forcing them to litem to Dream Evil's 'Book of Heavy Metal' with the beautiful higher range falsetto addition. Other people I know where picking out Dimmu Borgir medleys or Therion tracks as we relived memories of festivals from the past, usually Wacken or 50,000 tonnes of metal, when we saw these bands.
The DVD opens with a vintage horror film montage with Bela Lugosi et al. Setting the mood as the proceedings are very strongly both fresh and nostalgic, even shot in a way that reminds me of old VHS live bootleg shows but with impeccable sound and fascinating performances. The best thing about the DVD for me the display of versatility Snowy Shaw has as a musician meaning that he can seamlessly segue from power metal to black metal and back without upsetting anyone. I came for the King Diamond, I stayed for the Dimmu Borgir and I discovered the Dream Evil. Overall if you like metal at all, or if you just used to, this box set will remind you why.
Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright In The End – Review
Weezer have just released a new album, or they are just about to release a new album depending on when you read this. The album Everything Will Be Alright In The End is, as far as I can gather, the album every Weezer fan has been waiting for. The band, have been releasing albums so bad and bland that you would't even use them to torture a victim and this is because the band have been trying to stay relevant. EWBAITE is the least relevant, least up to date most fantastic attempt for a band to go back to their roots that I have ever heard. Just be yourself Weezer for god's sake.
The album opens with a young girl telling her mother that she had another nightmare. I imagine she had been made to listen to any Weezer albums other than the first two in the dream. In some ways fans of the band probably felt like they were in a faustian trap, wishing for a new album to be released, which was granted and then every year they were left wishing the band would stop playing. This was confirmed when a kickstarter campaign was launched to raise ten million dollars to simply tell Weezer to go away and hide back in the 90s where they belonged.
The album seems to be about three distinct things, the first of which is apologising to the fans of the band for making such terrible music which is fair enough. I feel like they had thanked all the fans for buying their first albums by doing a wee poo in their ears every few years since. Some of these songs are so good I've listened to them more than I would have thought, considering that I have aged and no longer listen to this kind've music as often as I once did.
The other two themes are about relationships; one romantic and one paternal. Interestingly enough some of the songs that I love the most have been considered the weakest by others, so it's showing signs of a successful album by being instantly controversial and that bodes well.
I don't think the album is going to start any new movements in the music industry but more than anything it shows respect for their fans and that's rare and important. The album reminds me of summers that went on forever, spending days just sitting on the grass with my friends and talking about music, and this is what the 90s were for me. Another thing the 90s was for me is Windows 95, which arrived packaged with a copy of 'Buddy Holly' by Weezer as a test video for Windows Media Player. So for those of us who used the internet before there was anything to do on it Weezer was a part of that, and I think they've achieved the sound they have been looking for.
Alestorm – Sunset On The Golden Age – Review
Alestorm have gone and been brilliant and brought out a new album. After the difficult second album and difficult third album they have brought out the difficult fourth album that, to use an apt metaphor, blows the previous difficult albums out of the water.
Sunset on the Golden Age is the title of the new album and if you in an internet café in 2001 and you only have a minute left I would use it by going on to Amazon and pre-ordering this album immediately. It is one of my favourite albums of the year along with Sabaton's newly released 'Heroes'. I defy you to listen to it more than once without commandeering a watercraft and laying siege to your nearest country, or at least taking your shirt off and ransacking your nearest Spar.
One thing that is instantly obvious is that the band has matured…is matured the right word? Refined their childlike fun in a more commercial but very creative and entertaining way is more what I mean. There is a lot more experimenting with sounds and styles, and a whole world of personality in it, and simply put the album feels like a group of people having loads of fun singing abut pirates and playing some high quality heavy metal. Which is exactly what you want. Well… it's exactly what I want. The hardest thing for Alestorm, in theory, is the trick of keeping the music fresh without boring peoples tits off with the whole 'Pirate' theme, while at the same time keeping the album full of pirate themes without sacrificing the music. I say in theory because they don't actually seem to be struggling at all, it's almost as if they are enjoying themselves or have been given some magic rum cocktails to improve their musical ability.
Walk The Plank opens the album signifying a triumphant return as these musical pirates prepare to lay siege to your earballs. I like to imagine Alestorm having commandeered a ship with a small orchestra being forced to add an elegance to their shanty's at the wrong end of a blunderbuss.
Drink is a very straight forward song, but has a chorus that is designed to be sung by hundreds of thousands of people very loudly, very drunkly and around the time of the night between drinking and quaffing just as the beer and rum starts getting spilled more often. It was an obvious choice for a single, it deserves more praise than it's getting and it causes the whole album to pick up pace, a bit like the red shoes you would get as Sonic the Hedgehog.
Magnetic North a more mid tempo track that is fantastically arranged. Sprinkled with some really growly vocals and a much more gentle folk tone make this song one of the songs that will be a strong favourite for a lot of people at some point. The main melody conjures up nautical imagery very easily and is definitely a more serious track.
1741 (The Battle of Cartagena) is one of my favourite tracks, which in true 'favourite track' fashion was one of my least favourite for about the first two listens and now is the most played track on my phone. This song gets better every time I listen to it and has one of those choruses designed for singing along with. Particularly live and very drunk. Which could easily be an Alestorm live album title. It opens with a video game-esqe rendition of the main theme and proceeds at a steady pace inspiring me with the feelings of solidarity and desire to conquer countries normally only associated with the best of Manowar. Which Manowar seem to have sadly left behind them, I may look to Alestorm for the music I listen to before I sack a city from now on. Some really interesting stuff going on with the growly vocals, something I'm not particularly fond of but is peppered in here as well as could be imagined, which will cause other Pirate metal fans out there to quiver with delight.
Surf Squid Warfare reminds me instantly of 'Ghouls Gone Wild' from Alice Cooper's Welcome 2 My Nightmare album, but without as much of a silliness. The song is essentially a sequel to the title track of their last album Back Through Time. Keeping with tone but having an edge to it this song is full of thuddy bass lines, and much more engaging guitar lead lines, the drums are so full of energy if you listen to it while walking you'll instantly start running. Filled with sci-fi, zombie-squid and Back To The Future references lyrically it's fascinating and is placed in the album in a way to regain your attention in the album, becoming the musical equivalent of a beautiful woman saying 'Hey…are you listening to me?' while you were accidentally staring at her boobs.
Mead From Hell is probably my least favourite and if I'd finished writing this review the day that I started it, probably would've had a much more negative slant to it, but it has grown on me, very suddenly when I was in Tesco. The lyrics are brilliant, but the music is a little lacklustre. Slightly more progressive in the vein of very early Helloween and with a great chorus, but at the moment, it just doesn't feel as important to the album as the rest of the tracks. But that's what track 6 is for.
Quest for Ships, definitely one of the funnier songs on the album capturing the well known plight of all reckless pirates when they suddenly find themselves having no ships, and though this is more to do with me than Alestorm, I have found myself singing a variation of this song when I'm on a quest for chips. Perfect for those days when you want to energetically try to get a ship.
Wooden Leg opens with a steady bass intro, leading me into a false sense of security until it become an almost punk like assault and feels like a chase sequence from a film all about a poor man who keeps getting his bits lobbed off from different people around the world until he ends up more tree than man. It contains my favourite line in the whole album and the musical break in the middle is a proper chanty-shanty. Definitely a mosh-maker.
Hangover is a cover of Penelope or Tom or Taio Cruz song and I did not know this until I had a look at the track list. It is one of those songs that is so well arranged that you would assume it to be a slightly surreal but perfectly acceptable Alestorm song, and I love their covers, just like Blind Guardian it's always a nice addition and the rap in the middle sounds amazing and is really well adapted.
Sunset on the Golden Age is the title track and is the answer to the question 'What is the title track?' as well as this albums answer to Death Throes of the Terror Squid. It's brilliantly paced, and is one of the more conceptual tracks. The brass section in the bridge becomes a truly uplifting and exciting part of the song, like that song that made you feel like that at a nostalgic time in your life. Remember? I'm sure there was one. Wether it was cymbal in Rust in Peace or the middle eight in Dr.Jones by Aqua, you know what I'm talking about. Worth the price of the album in my opinion and perfectly placed. It feels like a big thank you to the fans as well as a 'If you think this is all we've got…you have another drink coming'.
It's an outstanding album and despite the fact that I'm 'supposed' to be listening to Dragonforce for the next month I haven't been able to shift this one from my playlist. It really feels to me like the start of a new era of Alestorm, it doesn't feel like they've peaked but it certainly feels like they have improved exponentially since the last album.


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California Coast
In 1990 I moved from the Washington DC area to Berkeley to attend graduate school. I was quickly struck by the quality of the light in California, particularly along the beaches of the Point Reyes National Seashore. I spent the next several years dashing off to Point Reyes after class to photograph the sunset. These are some of my favorite images of the California coast.

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Weed of the Week: Horseweed (marestail)
Have you seen horseweed beginning to pop up with the recent spring weather? At this time of year, you could be seeing either spring-emerging horseweed or fall-germinated seedlings that are re-emerging for the spring. Now is the time to begin plans to till or use an herbicide burndown so that […]Read more


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About the Book
A look into abandoned structures across the state of Texas. 80 full bleed color images.
Features & Details
- Category Arts & Photography
Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
82 Pages
- Publish Date Apr 13, 2009
- Tags Urban Exploration, Dallas Grand, Baker Hotel, Texas, Lost, Abandoned, House, Houses, Ranches, Exploring, Driving, Roadtrip, Photography, Hotel, Hotels, Dallas, Baker
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I like some of the searches I see coming from Google analytics.
One used over the past few days was "free radio broadcast automation software"
We're guessing they were probably looking for an alternative to another well known radio automation program.
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News & Events
Three-Year-Olds at College
Father's Resource Program offering Free Law Clinics
WCMCA Recipient of a 2017 Outstanding Housing Partner Award
WCMCA, Inc. was honored by Rural Development with a 2017 Outstanding Housing Partner Award. This home in Elbow Lake was helped with assistance from the Small Cities, Weatherization and Furnace Replacement Programs.
WCMCA Home for Sale
WCMCA is completing construction of a new single family, split-level home at 1375 Rosewood Lane SE in Alexandria – completion is expected in the next few weeks.
The home is for sale to potential home buyers whose incomes range between 80 and 115% of the median income (see below).
The 1147 square feet on the main level features an open floor plan for the kitchen, dining and family room areas along with two (2) bedrooms and one (1) bath. The basement of the home will also include one (1) finished bedroom, one (1) finished bathroom, a carpeted recreation room area, one (1) unfinished room for future expansion, and walkout to a concrete patio with ample yard space.
Unique features included in the home design: window seats in the main floor bedrooms, stainless steel appliances in the kitchen, and a designated lighted picture area to help prepare the new owner to turn this house into a home!
Interested parties need to fill out a West Central MN Communities Action, Inc. Affordable Housing Program application, and mail it to the address listed on the application along with a pre-approval letter from a lender.
|First 30 days after completion of home (80% of state median income):
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Grant County Food Connection a Success!
The Grant County Food Connection occurred on Wednesday, March 29 at the main office of West Central MN Communities Action, Inc. in Elbow Lake.
Nearly 10,000 pounds of food was distributed: 45 home deliveries were made to home-bound seniors and 68 households attended the food drop. Funding for the food distribution was provided by the Elbow Lake Community Healthcare Auxiliary.
Thank you to all of the volunteers from the local community and organizations (Wendell Fire Department, USDA, FSA, Grant County Social Services, Eagle Bank, WCA Schools, Vinco, University of Minnesota, Grant County HRA and the Healthcare Auxiliary).
Thank you to all of the volunteers for their hard work!
Volunteers from the Wendell Fire Department and Eagle Bank setting up for the food distribution.
Volunteers from the Elbow Lake community, USDA and Eagle Bank packing boxes for senior deliveries.
Student volunteers from WCA Schools (l to r): John Barber, Ross Anderson and Dawson Staples
Ready Ride – A friendly lift for senior citizens
A friendly lift for senior citizens
When Carolyn Navratil had heart surgery in January, she was told she wouldn't be able to drive for three weeks. Yet the hospital in Fargo scheduled her for another appointment just two weeks later, which left Navratil in a bit of a predicament.
Then Navratil remembered a program she had heard of called Ready Ride, which matches volunteer drivers with senior citizens needing a ride in Douglas, Grant, Pope, Stevens and Traverse counties.
The program from West Central Minnesota Communities Action works in partnership funded by a grant from the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Though rides to medical appointments are a common need, social obligations or other errands are also part of the program.
"They coordinated it and I got a call back in a couple days telling me what it would cost and how it would work and giving me the name of the driver," Navratil said. "She called me and introduced herself and got directions to pick me up."
Nelson says her experience being a volunteer for the program has been positive.
"Before getting involved with Ready Ride, I was thinking I should be doing more community service but didn't want to be tied down to a schedule," Nelson said. "This was the perfect thing because I can kind of work it around whatever else is happening. They call and if you can do it, you can do it. And if you're busy, you say, 'Sorry, I can't.'"
"(After picking me up from the hospital) she asked if there was anything she could do, and I said, 'Well, I do need a prescription they wrote for me at Target,'" Navratil recalled. "She stopped and we went in and got it. She went above and beyond."
Ready Ride has about 35 volunteers, with some only available for nearby trips, while others are willing to drive to the Twin Cities or Fargo-Moorhead.
"We prefer a 48-hour advance notice," said Nicole Melaaf, volunteer coordinator. "For a long distance, the more notice the better."
Ready Ride drivers are reimbursed for their mileage at the rate set by the IRS, currently 53.5 cents per mile, or they can donate that money back to the program
To schedule a ride, call (218) 685-7433 (RIDE).
MNSure Navigators Available
WCMCA, Inc. has MNSure navigators available to help those regarding special enrollment period eligibility. Please contact WCMCA and ask to speak with a MNSure navigator.
WCMCA & Douglas County Car Care Vehicle Program Celebration
Legislators and other community partners gathered on Saturday, January 28, to celebrate the great work being done in support of transportation throughout the area. The agencies that were celebrated at the event were the Douglas County Car Care Program and West Central Minnesota Communities Action, Inc. (Family Loan Program and Ready Ride). Bremer Bank was awarded for being a stellar community partner, whose efforts include funding for transportation programs through the Otto Bremer Foundation and loan servicing and financial connection to WCMCA's loan recipients.
Pictured (left to right): Dave Snyder, MN Asset Building Coalition; Keith Swanson, Grant County Commissioner and WCMCA Board; Sara Carlson, Mayor of Alexandria; Representative Paul Anderson; Missy Becker-Cook, WCMCA CEO; Senator Bill Ingebrigtsen; John Peshek, Douglas County Car Care Program Board; Jill Amundson, WCMCA staff; and Randy Anderson, Bremer Bank.
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ARLEY, Alabama AL 35541
Price: $499,500
Est. Monthly Payment: $2,145.14 See Details
Listing ID 780389 Status Active 4 Bedrooms 3 Full Baths 1 Partial Baths 1.450 Acres
Property Description:
NEW PRICE! Best buy under 500K! Buy the house and the owners will throw in the furniture. This home sits in a prime location on the shores of Smith Lake, located just off the main channel in a private slough with deep year round water. Minutes from a marina in one of the most popular areas of the lake for its big water and central location by water and land. Enjoy easy access while protected from boat traffic, so you can swim around the dock undisturbed in the peak of the summer. This home has an easy maintenance double slip boat dock with boat lift and jet ski port. The home boasts 4 bedrooms and 3 ½ baths, with the master on the main level, glamour bath, large eat-in kitchen, 2 car garage all sitting on a large 1.5 acre lot. Come see this beautiful home today, you will not be disappointed.
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Down Payment
Credit Score
Loan Amount
Loan Type
Primary Features
County: Winston
Property Type: Residential
Year Built: 2008
Construction: Siding-Vinyl
Foundation: Crawl Space
Historic Register: no
Jr./Middle School: MEEK
Log Home: no
Number of Levels: 2+ Story
Property Type: Single Family
Split Level: no
Year Built Description: Existing
Interior Features
Attic: yes
Attic: Other
Bed/Bath Features: Jetted Tub, Separate Shower, Separate Vanities, Walk-In Closets
Ceilings: Cathedral/Vaulted, 9 Feet +
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One of the emerging storylines of the postseason so far has been inconsistency in the strike zone. That's not unique to this postseason, of course; every year sees its share of poor calls, and the effect of those calls is magnified when so much is on the line. Whereas a missed strike may be objectionable in the regular season, it can (at worst) alter the outcome of one game out of 162. Missed calls in the postseason, on the other hand, can end seasons.
As a result, every bad call an umpire makes is scrutinized to a much greater degree. When an umpire's zone is off—poorly defined, or merely inconsistent—whole legions of fans can flood the internet with vitriol. Generally, an umpire who's doing a bad job of calling balls and strikes won't favor the fortunes of one team or the other. But it is frustrating, as a fan, to see a beleaguered slugger's bat taken out of the game on a borderline call, as happened to Matt Kemp recently.
Kemp's strikeout (among other questionable decisions in recent umpiring) got me wondering whether an inconsistently called zone affects certain types of players more than others. If this notion is true, even though an umpire's errors may be random in that they occur to each team equally, one team might be affected by those errors to a greater degree. The most obvious place to start with this question is whether an inconsistent zone favors the hitter or the pitcher more.
Before I transition to the numbers, I want to form some hypotheses as a guide. My initial inclination is that the pitcher ought to be favored more by an inconsistent zone, if only because the pitcher exercises more control in the matchup. The pitcher determines the speed, break, location, and type of each pitch, whereas the hitter only gets to swing or not swing. The pitcher can avoid parts of the zone in which the umpire appears to be hazy, or target them, if advantageous.
To illustrate the scenario more concretely, imagine that the pitcher is up 0-2 in the count against a fairly good hitter. At this point, the pitcher gets up to four chances to strike the hitter out (possibly more, with fouls). If he knows that the umpire seems to be calling the top of the strike zone somewhat inconsistently, he can aim his pitches to that area (or above it), in the hopes that the umpire will incorrectly determine that a ball is a strike. On the other side of the matchup, the hitter can't do much to counteract that approach. If he swings, he risks putting a bad pitch into play, more than likely resulting in a popup. If he doesn't swing, he's relying on the umpire, which might be a bad idea if the ump is doing poorly.
On top of this, there's an informational asymmetry between batter and pitcher. The pitcher, especially the starting pitcher, sees every pitch thrown and each call that's made. The batter, on the other hand, observes firsthand only the 10 or 20 pitches he receives in a game, as well as whatever he's able to glean from watching his teammates at the plate. If there are inconsistent parts of the zone, the pitcher will be better able to observe them than each individual hitter, because he gets as much experience with the zone in a game as all of the hitters put together.
These twin advantages the pitcher has (both in control and in information) suggest to me that the pitcher should be favored over the batter when an umpire's zone is off. But we can do better than speculate, we can test. First, I need to figure out when the umpires are making errors. Then I can see whether batter performance suffers (relative to expectation) in those games in which umpires are doing an especially poor job.
To investigate this question, I first had to build a model which determined when a pitch should be a ball or a strike. According to the rulebook, there are only four factors which influence that decision: the path of the ball (in three dimensions, so the vertical, horizontal, and depth coordinates of the pitch) as well as the height of the batter. In practice, we know that the strike zone varies considerably in response to lots of other factors as well. We know that it shrinks and expands as the count becomes unbalanced, and that catchers influence the size of the zone via framing skill.
Because I wanted to determine whether the zone seemed inconsistent according to the judgment of the players, I decided it was best to incorporate some of these outside-the-rulebook factors as well. After thousands of innings of organized ball, it seems likely that hitters are aware of the way in which the zone changes according to the count, and we have direct evidence that players are aware of pitch framing. So I incorporated these other variables into the model.
In order to have a flexible model that makes accurate predictions about what the umpires will call, I chose to use a machine learning approach (specifically, a random forest model). The idea of this genre of approach is that the form of the model is not fixed in advance, the way a linear model would be. Instead, I feed the algorithm a training set (comprising 30000 pitches), from which the algorithm learns what characteristics make a pitch a ball or a strike. In this way, the algorithm reflects the way a hitter would learn the strike zone, from experience.
After the model is built, I have the algorithm predict whether each pitch in the remaining data should be a ball or strike, depending on what variables it has decided are important, to what degree, and the interactions between them. Then I can contrast what the model decides is a ball or a strike with what was actually called. If there is disagreement, it suggests that the umpire was calling a pitch in a way that it is not usually called—perhaps that the umpire made a mistake*.
Reassuringly, the model predicts that the umpires get it right the vast majority of the time. For about 91 percent of the ball-strike calls, the model and the umpire agree. Note here that this is significantly higher than you get from using a fixed zone, reflecting the fact that the model is taking into account catcher framing and the expansion/contraction process the zone goes through with the count. When the model disagrees with the umpire, it is overwhelmingly in regard to edge cases (catcher perspective):
These edge cases are not all umpire errors, because after all, PITCHf/x is not perfect either—the system has a margin of error as well, and so the umpire and the model are deciding their ball/strike calls based on slightly different data. But probably some of these calls are errors, if only because the edge of the zone is going to be the most difficult portion to call. What's more, there's a smattering of pitches in the middle of the zone which should be called strikes (but were apparently called balls), and then outside the zone there's some of the reverse case.
Assuming you buy into the idea that the model is good at telling a ball from a strike, we can use it to determine how inaccurate umpires have been on a per-game basis. We would expect those per-game accuracies to be centered on their average accuracy (~91%) but with some variation on either side, depending on whether the umpire was doing well or poorly on that particular day.
This graph is a histogram showing how frequent (y-axis) the performance of the umpires (x-axis) was for each of 2000 games in the 2014 regular season. Overall, the umpires do reasonably well, but on bad days, their accuracies can drop to somewhat frightening levels. At the lowest extreme, an umpire can start making incorrect calls as frequently as one in every six or so pitches (as opposed to their normal performance of about one in every 11 pitches). The red line in the above graph illustrates the histogram you would expect if the umpires had a constant probability of error on every pitch for every game. That the actual histogram is a little more dispersed than that red line suggests that umpires sometimes do have bad days, when their calls are systematically off.
To the question which motivated this article: How do the hitters fare when the umpires are having one of those bad days (say the 5 percent of games with the lowest accuracies)? The most obvious way a hitter's performance could suffer is from additional strikeouts, so that's what I examined. I used the odds ratio method to control for the particular hitters and pitchers involved, that is to derive an expected strikeout rate for those players. Then, I looked at how often the hitters actually struck out in those games in which the umpires did the worst.
The results show that, as expected, hitters fare worse when the zone is inconsistently defined. The magnitude of the difference isn't massive, but it's still considerable: The hitter strikeout rate jumps about 4.4 percent relative to our expectation. In plain English, when the umpires are having a bad day, the batter is 4 to 5 percent more likely to strike out than we would otherwise expect.
It's not just strikeout rates that increase, though. Just about every positive offensive statistic goes down marginally in the most inconsistent games, and every negative statistic goes up. Even the rate at which balls in play are converted into outs goes up (by ~2 percent), suggesting that hitters might be making slightly weaker contact. That could stem from the inconsistency of the zone as well: Hitters feel pressured to swing when they aren't sure what the result of a pitch will be. They may be reasoning correctly that a ball hit into play, however weakly, is marginally better than a called strikeout.
These results show that even when the umpire is making random errors, it doesn't affect all players equally. Because of the asymmetries in the matchup, pitchers prosper when the zone is poorly defined. The good news from this study is that the umpires do get their calls right the majority of the time. Furthermore, other work has shown that the umpires are getting more accurate, so the problem itself is slowly disappearing. But I imagine that does nothing to diminish the sting of seeing your favorite hitter unjustly rung up on a strike that was not a strike late in a playoff game.
*Or that the Pitchf/x data is in error. Or, there's some extenuating factor the model is unaware of, like a usually good framer doing a poor job on some particular pitch.
Robert Arthur is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @No_Little_Plans
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Good article, I'd be interested to hear more about this: 'PITCHf/x is not perfect either—the system has a margin of error as well.'
Oct 15, 2014 05:59 AM
"Good article, I'd be interested to hear more about this: 'PITCHf/x is not perfect either—the system has a margin of error as well.'"
Oct 15, 2014 08:10 AM
Each hitter has his own strike zone based upon his height and stance. The strike zone can change up to the last instant before the pitch if he adjusts into a final position.
Oct 15, 2014 10:49 AM
In the case of my model, I use the hitter's height as one of the inputs. This improves accuracy to a small degree, suggesting that the umpires are accounting for the hitter's unique strike zone.
Oct 15, 2014 11:05 AM
It would seem to have different effects on different types of hitters as well. For the Vlad Guerrero swing-at-everything type, probably not much difference. But for the guys who work the count and know (or used to know) the strike zone, they're going to get caught with the bat on their shoulder a lot more often until they adjust to the expansion.
Oct 15, 2014 08:35 AM
Just as important, and perhaps more unfair, is a consistent umpire who's zone inadvertently favors a particular pitchers style or again inadvertently penalizes a team due to their lineup construction.
Oct 15, 2014 08:52 AM
Agreed, although I would note that in the model as I built it, if a particular ump had a different version of the zone, that would go in the category of "bad ump'ing" since he's calling it in a way which is inconsistent with other umpires.
Oct 15, 2014 10:28 AM
That said, I'm personally not in favor of a mechanistic approach /"solution" to this. The impact seems fairly minimal - maybe a swing of 1 out in a game.
Oct 15, 2014 09:03 AM
One thing that jumped out at me was that you would think umpires would be more accurate in games in which a greater percentage of pitches were clearly inside or outside the strike zone, and would be less accurate where a higher percentage of the pitches were on near the edges of the zone. I'd also think that hitters would tend to have better results against pitchers that were consistently in or out of the zone than they would have against pitchers who were putting pitches on the edges of the zone (regardless of umpire accuracy).
Oct 15, 2014 10:13 AM
That's a great point. One of the things I'm planning to do to follow up is to use a continuous measure of accuracy which penalizes umpires less for the edge cases than for the glaringly obvious missed calls. Hopefully that should correct for this potential problem. In the mean time I'll look and see whether that would explain what's happening in the "least-accurate" games.
Oct 15, 2014 10:35 AM
I'm not sure that this is even possible, but my guess is that when an umpire is "not accurate" it is much more likely that he is calling a larger zone than he is calling a smaller zone, which is why you are getting more K (and less offense) for "inaccurate" umpiring.
Oct 15, 2014 11:35 AM
"If you define "accurate" as the de fact zone, such that the average umpire is accurate by definition, then you should find that accuracy or at least a deviation in accuracy from the de facto zone, has no effect on K rate or any other offensive component, on the average."
Oct 15, 2014 12:41 PM
You attribute the increased dispersion in your distribution to umpires having bad days. Since the zones are not umpire-specific, couldn't the dispersion be a reflection not of bad days but of bad umpires?
Oct 15, 2014 13:28 PM
Ho-hum, another great article from Baseball Prospectus. I am one of the trolls who is constantly harping on bad umpiring. With replay it is almost all centered on balls and strikes and I have thought that it might be playing a role in the decline of offense. There was a game this season, Mariners vs. Astros in which no less than 16 pitches below the zone were called strikes. The umpire, Mark Carlson, was consistent but he was awful. The low strike, as it is called now, and the general lowering and widening of the zone have made hitting a baseball even harder than it inherently is and the loss of balance between pitching and hitting is bringing us back towards 1968, which very few fans of the game want.
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Dorothy Draper slept here. Well, not exactly.
During the Spring High Point Market, Kindel Furniture showed off the new Tuxedo Park poster bed from the Dorothy Draper Collection. It's a reproduction of the famous designer's bed from her room in the Carlyle Hotel in New York City. The new version can be customized with or without a canopy or with four posters or just two.
"It's very versatile, depending on your preference," said Carleton Varney, president and owner of Dorothy Draper & Co. "All of the pieces we design for Kindel come from the archives of Dorothy Draper & Co."
Dorothy Draper & Co., American's oldest design firm, was founded in 1925 by Draper, who came from a privileged, old money family. The firm has had only had two president-owners; Draper was the first. Her protege, Varney, has steered the company into the 21st century while maintaining its distinctive look. Large chintz cabbage roses, black-and-white floors, and plaster reliefs all signal the Draper touch.
"It's about a magical color, magical patterns and magical scale," he said. "You will not forget the Dorothy Draper look."
The showroom was decked out in Draper fabrics, wallpaper and furniture as well as Varney lamps and accessories.
An example of the fearless mixing of color and pattern is the turquoise Channel Back lounge chair paired with the Dorotheum loveseat upholstered in a Draper signature fabric, Brazilliance, a large banana leaf pattern.
"The sofa was originally done in a bigger scale for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York," he said.
It was designed for its restaurant, The Dorotheum.
The satin turquoise Channel Back chair was designed for the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco. Draper was hired to do many public spaces and hotels along with her residential work. One of her best-known projects was the Greenbrier in West Virginia.
"She was a person who could, as I feel I can, combine many prints in one room," Varney said.
He describes the technique as something like a garden, where you see a shapes, colors and sizes and somehow they all work together. "You can transfer that kind of pattern, scale and color into your own home."
Kindel Furniture, which is manufactured in Grand Rapids, Mich., will custom color any of the Draper pieces for clients. The Pinwheel chest shown here in green with gold accents can be ordered in more than 25 lacquer choices as can almost all of the Draper Collection. Custom coloring is also available through Kindel.
"People like to go back to the era of Dorothy Draper and Elsie de Wolfe, where they came in and painted walls and furniture," Varney said. "It was a time of high glamour."
Draper is credited with making interior design a business. "Like Frank Lloyd Wright, she created something that is called a look."


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Rangoon 4 Days Box Office Collection-4th Day Earning Report :- This time Shahid Kapoor's romantic drama action movie couldn't success to impressed audience and didn't good business on opening Weekend. Vishal Bhardwaj's directed movie Rangoon Weekend 1 was very poor on Domestic and Overseas Market. We can say this is another flop movie of Sajid Nadiawala produced with big budget Rs. 80 Crore. Rangoon 4th Day Collection is also very week on Indian Market. Saif Ali Khan & Shahid Kapoor worked together first time in this film and face a big failure. Movie didn't good business but people are loving the film and acting of Shahid Kapoor & Kangna Ranaut as Miss Julia.
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Rangoon Opening Day Box Office Business is Rs. 6.07 Crore on Domestic Market. This is very low starting for the picture on Indian Box Office.
Its opening weekend all days are very small. On the Day 2 Rangoon has earned Rs. 6.03 Crore approx. This is another small amount earned on weekend 1 Saturday.
Its Day 3 Box Office Earning is also very low. On the 3rd Day Rangoon has collected Rs. 6.15 Crore. This is also very insulted amount on Third Day.
All the hopes were high to earn big amount on 1st Sunday but Rangoon couldn't got success to earned good amount on 3rd Day.
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Rangoon 1st Weekend Total Business amount on Overseas Market is Rs. 5.4 Crore approx. This is not a big amount for the film earned on Weekend 1.
Rangoon 3 Days Total Collection is Rs. 18.25 Crore. This is not a good amount for the movie on Domestic Market within starting weekend 1.
Rangoon Day 3 Box Office Collection on New Zealand 5,382 USD [Rs. 3.58 lacs] from 11 screens & Australia 11,472 USD [Rs. 7.64 lacs] from 21 screens.
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Otherside last weekend released The Ghazi Attack is running very good in 2nd weekend. The Ghazi Attack 2nd Weekend Collection is Rs. 8.2 Crore (Fri+Sat+Sun). This is very good amount in Second Weekend for the film.
Otherside Akshay Kumar's movie Jolly LLB 3 Day 17 (Sunday) Business is also very good. It has collected 2,048 USD [Rs. 1.36 lacs] from 9 screens on New Zealand Box Office & on Australia Market is 1,425 USD [Rs. 94,959] from 3 screens.
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Rangoon 4th Day Collection is Rs. 2.5 Crore approx. on Domestic Market. This is also very poor earning on Indian Box Office for the movie. Rangoon 4 Days Total Collection is Rs. 20.30 Crore approx. Its four days Worldwide Business is Rs. 26 Crore approx. Hope Rangoon 5th Day Collection will good for the film. Watch and enjoy this film with your family and friends. Share your thoughts about this movie. To get all updates stay connected with us.


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That's why we've put together a super easy denim DIY in honor of Canada Day. We're patriotic like that.
It'll take you 20 minutes tops. And after Canada Day, you can revert your shorts back to normal, and slay in distressed denim for the rest of the season.
What You'll Need:
Denim Shorts or Jeans
4 X 6 Inch Mini Flag
Pliers or tweezers
Needle and thread
2. Sew!
Make sure the flag is on the side of the pocket that shows through the front of the denim.
Make sure the flag is on the side of the pocket that shows through the front of the denim.
3. Using chalk, mark your denim where you want the distress marks to be.
(You can start with denim that already has some distress marks, like we did. Or you can start from scratch!)
We added extra to really make the flag pop out.
5. After you've made a cut, you'll notice that the blue threads in your denim point down, and the white threads are horizontal. Using your tweezers, loosen the white threads a bit. Then, completely rip out out some blue threads to widen the rip.
7. Throw your denim in the washer and dryer for a more worn-in look.
8. Wear them on Canada Day and share your DIY with us on Insta #ardenelove
Happy Canada Day!
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9 slices of bread
2 avocados
2 eggs
1 juicy peach
5 slices of bacon
2 tablespoons milk
4 lettuce leaves
1 ripe tomato
a little cinnamon & syrup… and dinner was served.
Jake and I had BLAT sandwiches (bacon, lettuce, avocado, tomato), the kids had french toast, and we all shared one juicy peach.
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