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A festival featuring up to 500 dancers is on the way – and you can watch it.
The 15th Karen Liddle February Dance Festival will be held at the Town Hall Theatre, in Raby Road, from Monday, February 18, to Wednesday, February 20.
Contestants will be battling it out from 9am to 4pm each day in categories including tap, modern stage, song and dance, ballet, national, character and acro.
Anyone can come along and watch the festival which costs £3.50 for adults and £3 for children and those on concessions.
Tickets allow people to go in and out of the theatre as much as they want on the day and will be available on the door.
A dance and stage school is appealing for more members.
Hartlepool Stage Society, based in the former Throston Community Centre in the town, holds rehearsals every Tuesday evening.
It has also started a junior society which runs every Tuesday from 6.30pm to 8pm, while the adult society meets every Tuesday from 7.30pm to 9.30pm.
Anybody wishing to join is welcome to come along to the rehearsals.
ANYONE interested in sequence dance can go along to a weekly session.
Hart Sequence Dance Club meets at Hart Village Hall every Tuesday from 1.30pm-3.30pm.
For more information about the club call Clive Green on (01429) 298028.
DO you have a champion at the cha cha in your midst?
Is there a talent at the tango in your dance school or your family? If so, Dance Fever wants to hear from you.
We are keen to cover all the successes that come out of the Hartlepool and East Durham dance world.
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After this particular war, the bumper stickers read, "I stayed in Tel Aviv."
Leah Goldman was 14 years old during the first Persian Gulf war in the early 1990s, and living through it is one of her strongest memories of growing up in Israel, especially the message on that sticker. Unlike many others in Tel Aviv, her family stayed in the city throughout, despite the fact that Iraqis were launching Scud missiles into the coastal metropolis.
"Everything was closed," she said. "There was no minyan, no supermarket."
But one of the most significant closures was her school, which shut down for a month. During a recent forum at Drexel University that dealt with the experience of growing up in Israel, Goldman described listening for the sirens, and said that, after a while, they came so frequently that her family chose to sleep in a sealed, protected room, rather than being awakened and having to rush for shelter in the middle of the night.
The forum was one of the final events celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of Drexel's Judaic Studies Program.
Goldman, an early-childhood Jewish educator, was joined in an intergenerational panel of five by college student Roy Reuveni; former academic liaison to the Israeli consulate Sarit Sade; Drexel professor Sorin Siegler; and Bella Schafer, a Jewish educator, psychotherapist and member of the Israeli army's first female officer's unit.
Goldman recalled that her school reopened after a month, and she reflected upon the experience of walking there wearing a gas mask in case of attacks.
"We were overjoyed" when the war ended on Purim, she recalled, not only because there were two reasons to celebrate, but because no one had been killed, despite the fact that missiles had landed in the middle of the city.
Right Place, Right Time
"I'm very proud to have been born in the right place at the right time," said Schafer, another one of the panelists.
Though many generations of her family have grown up in Israel, Schafer said that most of them are also American citizens, thanks to the continued renewal of citizenship granted to her great-grandfather in the 1870s.
She grew up in a very Zionist family, she said, and learned English at a young age and also attended an Orthodox school. After graduation, she had to do one year of national service before being admitted to university, so she worked on a kibbutz founded by her youth group.
"They needed somebody who would always be in the library — what could be better?" she said.
Schafer's 19th birthday in November 1947 turned out to be the same night that the United Nations approved the partition plan dividing Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs.
When Israel's War of Independence began, Schafer said that she didn't want to join the women's group of the army, so she and two others were taken to court. While the other two were sent to work with amputees, Schafer was forced to join the first female officer's unit.
"It was very hard," she said. "The only thing I was good at was shooting."
There were personal tragedies as well.
Schafer's brother was killed in 1949, just after she was sent to Haifa to serve as a translator for the Israeli navy.
This, at least, was a job she was familiar with — she had served as a translator at the United States Embassy a few years earlier.
One thing Jews should know about Israel is that it's much easier to be Jewish there than in the states, said Reuveni, who called it more of a lifestyle there than anything else.
"There's a lot of work you've got to do in America" to be Jewish, he said, including practical considerations, to say nothing of maintaining Jewish identity.
Siegler echoed that sentiment, saying that while he hadn't been particularly religious growing up in Israel, since immigrating here, he'd joined a synagogue and become more of a practicing Jew in order to maintain his religious identity and hold on to his heritage.
Despite the political turmoil, "Israel is way safer than the United States," said Sade in response to an audience question.
She said that, prior to the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006, she worried that, in the wake of globalization and an ensuing loss of tradition, Israelis were "losing everything" the country had fought for.
As part of such a reference, she cited such deleterious influences as iPods, night-clubbing and the mix of English and Arabic slang.
But during the war, she said that she saw a news report in which an amputee said, "I'd give my other leg for Israel," which brought home to her that people were still connected to the land.
Sade said that despite all the changes over the past 60 years, Israel has still managed to turn out generations of people who have good values.


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LONDON The ManyCoreLabs three-year collaborative R&D project, proposed by fabless chip company Kalray SA, has been selected to receive 32 million euro (about $40 million) in funding from the French authorities as part of the Investissements d'Avenir (Invest in the Future) program.
The ManyCoreLabs project is set to run from 2012 to 2015 and is intended to address the "manycore" platform market for embedded systems. ManyCoreLabs is expected to provide high performance generic embedded computing platforms with a reduced cost and design time compared with currently available solutions.
The project is led by Kalray (Paris, France), a 2008 startup company led by Joel Monnier, a former vice president of central R&D at STMicroelectronics NV. Kalray has already designed a 256-processor SoC, the MPPA-256, implemented using 28-nm manufacturing process technology. The 256 processors work in parallel and communicate together via a network-on-chip just as large clusters of computers do on the Internet. The MPPA-256 is organized as 16 clusters of 16 processors and multiple MPPA chips can be interconnected at the PCB level through Interlaken interfaces to increase the processor array size and performance capability.
Other participants in the ManyCoreLab project include: Asygn, Ateme, CAPS Entreprise, CEA, Digigram, Docea Power, Inria, IS2T, Krono-Safe, Renault, Scilab, Thales and Verimag.
Kalray said on its website that it exhibited Europe's first 28-nm processor in October 2011 at the Grenoble Innovation Fair where it was able to demonstrate the interactive debugging of an H.264 video encoder model running on just 16 cores.
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Block diagram of the MPPA-256. Source: Kalray
Kalray is exhibiting at the 3-D Reality Exposition whch takes place in Tokyo, June 20 to 22, where it plans to show augmented reality applications for industrial environments running on its platform.
"Augmented reality applications use highly parallel algorithms executing perfectly on the massively parallel structure of the MPPA," Kalray claims on its website.
Kalray was founded in July 2008 and has raised more than $20 million in venture capital and lists a design team of 50 engineers as well as access to 30 researchers working in joint laboratory with CEA-Leti in Grenoble. The company also claims to have amassed a portfolio of 45 patents.
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Holley Factory EFI Training Schedule for 2015
Holley's factory training courses are back in 2015 to provide a unique opportunity to get advanced training and technical experience with Holley EFI. One and two-day courses are being offered at Holley's company headquarters in Bowling Green, Kentucky that provide technical training for dealers, racers, and any other user of their popular EFI systems.
Holley's EFI courses provide three levels of EFI training. The first is tier one. At the end of this class, participants will have the tools they need to successfully complete a conventional "canned" Holley EFI installation. Class space is currently limited to 12 people per session. The goal of the limited space is to allow the instructor the ability to work with each participant one-on-one as much as possible. This class is ideal for those who are new to EFI in general, as well as those who are new to Holley's EFI systems. This is a one-day class that will run from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The following topics will be covered in the class:
-System features
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-Using the data monitor
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-General engine and ignition parameters
-Closed loop and learn
-Timing tables
-Idle parameters, pin mapping, and basic Input/Output configuration
-General data log use
-Tuning principles
-Acceleration enrichment tuning
-And more
The tier two class will be a refresher for tier one that is expanded to include advanced tuning and set up principles. It is strongly recommended to participate in the tier one course beforehand. The tier two course also runs from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., but it is a two-day course. Class size is again limited to 12 people per session. The following topics will be covered in this course:
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-Software loading and navigation
-Using the data monitor
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-General engine and ignition parameters
-Closed loop and learn
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The tier three class will take all of the previously covered information and apply is to more complicated engine combinations that utilize superchargers or turbochargers, nitrous oxide, and water/methanol injection. Like the tier two course, this course is limited to 12 people per session, it runs from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and will be a two-day class.
"Holley factory training is a fantastic way to get unique one-on-one time with our engineers and lead techs," says Bill Tichenor, Holley's Director of Marketing. "The knowledge gained from these courses helps improve sales for our dealers and gives users specialized instruction to improve their general EFI understanding, as well as the tuning capabilities of Holley's EFI systems."
Each class will have a $100.00 per person reservation fee to guarantee your seat. This fee will be returned in the form of a product credit voucher when you attend your scheduled class. For additional information on the courses, you can e-mail email@example.com or call Tom Kise, Holley's Technical Training Manager at (270) 780-1871.


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Now Robbie does live somewhere special. I always tell him how jealous I am of where he lives. I visited Bermuda on a cruise one time. Beautiful. That is a huge change in weather conditions, Francine! Good luck!!
John, no connection whatsoever anywhere in Europe. The local television stations have been keeping us up to date with your weather. Your rain has been at its worst in a century, if I remember correctly.
~ Have come across images posted by you, Sueswan and Cilycoed that piqued my interest; then I continued with Google Map. Someone once referenced the Argus, which I bookmarked.
~ RobbieL lives in Bermuda and I've also drooled over some of his photos. My mother vacationed there once in the 60s and loved it.
We've had phenomenal weather today: +17C with some sun! A one-day gift. Only a few days ago, we were down to -11C with snow. In fact, my husband had to use his snowblower about ten days ago.
It's been fun chatting with you, John.
you wouldn't "drool" at the moment, francine! the uk has nearly sunk with the rain we've had this year. i'm surprised that you read the argus, do you have welsh connections?
Glad you're fine. Sometimes glance at the South Wales Argus. I've mentally drooled more than once looking at images of Wales (and other areas of the UK).
I'm impressed with your knowledge, Francine! The flooding has been horrendous throughout the UK. I had never seen rain like that which caused the flooding in St. Asaph. I live quite high so, apart from "rivers where roads should be", I've been OK, many thanks. I just feel for all of those people who have been flooded. Months of trauma ahead for them. Lovely to hear from you. I hope that "you and yours" are well.
John, tonight's local news mentioned the flooding in St. Asaph. Hope all is well at your end. [This is a fantastic sunset.]
All good here, Robbie. I dropped a comment to see how you were faring during Sandy, but when I looked later, it wasn't there! Must have forgotten to push "post comment" button. Stupid boy. Take care, Rob.
Hi John what a gorgeous scene this is. I have been doing mosaics and caught up in a couple of stories, so have not been around for a while. Glad I stopped by, this was a lot of fun. Hope all is well, thanks.


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Hi Guys,
I would like to know if it's possible to create something similar to this website http://lifecentre.org/ with Incarnation in WordPress. We have 3 churches in 3 different location, so I would like to be able to do something similar.
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Hi again,
I think the exact word for my request, is a static front page or splash page to work with Incarnation theme. I wonder is this can be done using a template builder. I'm sure you guys will come up with a better idea to help me achieve this goal.
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Unfortunately it isn't something we can really help with. Its outside the scope of we what we can do via support as it isn't a theme specific issue.
I'd suggest trying the wordpress multisite forums here: http://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicBad Brains Bad BrainsThis album completely turned me onto hardcore in the first place. everything about it is intense, aggressive, and positively raw. it is one of the most important releases in music, period.Cynic Traced in AirFear Before The Always Open MouthGaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I DieJohn Mayer ContinuumKamelot EpicaKMFDM AngstMinor Threat Complete DiscographyOpeth Still LifeThe Sawtooth Grin CuddlemonsterTiger Army II: Power of MoonliteX Japan Art of LifeZao The Funeral of God4.5 superb10 Years The Autumn Effect3 Wake Pig36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped RomanceA Tribe Called Quest The Low End TheoryAdebisi Shank This is the AlbumAeon Spoke Aeon SpokeAmia Venera Landscape The Long ProcessionAndrew W.K. Close Calls with Brick Wallsi doubt anyone has this, but if you do, you might agree with me, if youre an AWK fan, that its so awesome.
its like his swan song of sorts. it has so many dimensions to it that you cannot really have any expectation on what your going to hear.
it begins with the straightforward songs you expect from him.
it has the age old heavy anthem party songs, but it hits into, dare i say it, deeper issues than partying and so on as you go deeper into the album.
it has some otherwise useless short transition songs.
but other than that, this album is an AWK fans dream.
it is extremely catchy, and you should find it wherever you can, because it is totally worth it.
Andy McKee Art of MotionThis is one of the best "kick back and relax" Acoustic albums i've ever heard. it makes me want to pick up an acoustic guitar, but then i realize that no matter how much i try, ill never get this good, so i'll leave it to Mr. McKee to make my ears happy from now on.At the Gates Slaughter of the SoulBane The NoteBATS Red In Tooth and ClawBayside Sirens & CondolencesBetween the Buried and Me Between the Buried and MeBetween the Buried and Me The Silent CircusBetween the Buried and Me ColorsBetween the Buried and Me AlaskaBinary Star Masters of the UniverseBlack Flag Nervous BreakdownBon Iver For Emma, Forever AgoBrand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside MeBurzum Hvis lyset tar ossCeremony (USA-CA) Violence ViolenceCeremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves YouChampion Promises KeptConverge Jane DoeConverge No HeroesConverge Axe to FallCrotchduster Big Fat Box of ShitDangers AngerTotally edgy, totally intelligent, and totally fed-up.
That's the best way to sum "Anger" up.Dangers Messy, Isn't It?Dead To Fall Villainy & VirtueDeath HumanDeath SymbolicDeath LeprosyDeath Spiritual HealingDeath Individual Thought PatternsDefeater TravelsDefeater Lost GroundDescendents Milo Goes to CollegeDimmu Borgir StormblastDimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness TriumphantDir En Grey Withering to DeathDir En Grey VulgarDir En Grey UroborosEluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of DeathEluvium CopiaEluvium Static Nocturnea fine bounce back after the hit and miss work on 'Similies'. Static Nocturne is Eluvium at its glowing, ambient best.Emperor In The Nightside EclipseEnvy A Dead Sinking StoryEvergreen Terrace Burned Alive By TimeEvery Time I Die Hot Damn!Fear Before Odd How People ShakeFugazi 13 SongsGaza He Is Never Coming BackGil Mantera's Party Dream BloodsongsGlass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today...Gorilla Biscuits Start TodayGZA Liquid SwordsHe Is Legend 91025In Flames WhoracleIntegrity Those Who Fear TomorrowJohn Mayer Trio Try!Kamelot The Black HaloKarnivool Sound AwakeKatatonia Brave Murder DayLife Long Tragedy Runawaysit's dark, it's sludgy, it's intensely deep and reflective, its sounds like nothing else that the "genre" has out there, and it just doesn't give a fuck about it. such a good album.Mad Sin Survival Of The SickestMeshuggah obZenMisery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum HeartModern Life Is War WitnessMore Than Life Love Let Me GoMr. Bungle CaliforniaNas IllmaticOperation Ivy EnergyOpeth Blackwater ParkPaulson All at OncePissed Jeans King of JeansPoison the Well The Opposite of DecemberPropagandhi Supporting CasteProtest the Hero FortressProtest the Hero ScurrilousIf there are two things you know and love about PTH, it would be their awesome Shredding, and their cheesiness that they add into it all.
I would call Scurrilous, "Shredded Cheese".Refused The Shape of Punk to ComeRide NowhereRun With The Hunted Run With The HuntedYou Like Verse? right?
You like Converge? right?
that's what Run With The Hunted sound like, and its totally amazing. get this immediately.Scar Symmetry Symmetric in DesignScar Symmetry Pitch Black ProgressScar Symmetry Holographic UniverseSince By Man We Sing The Body Electrici FUCKING Love this album. one of my top 5's of all time.Since By Man Pictures From The Hotel Apocalypseit is a bummer that they still aren't around, but what they have left behind is truly great.
Sonata Arctica UniaSonata Arctica EclipticaStill Remains Of Love and LunacyThe Antlers HospiceThe Dillinger Escape Plan Ire WorksThe Middle East The Recordings of the Middle EastThe Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than AloneThe Ocean AeolianThe Ocean PrecambrianThe Smiths Meat Is MurderThe Smiths The Queen Is DeadThe Smiths The SmithsThe Smiths Strangeways, Here We ComeThe Tallest Man on Earth The Wild HuntThe Tallest Man on Earth Shallow GraveThrough the Eyes of the Dead BloodlustTiger Army Tiger ArmyTiger Army Music From Regions BeyondType O Negative Life Is Killing MeX Japan JealousyYouth of Today Break Down The Walls4.0 excellent10 Years Division10 Years Feeding the Wolves3 The End is Begun3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish3 Inches of Blood Battlecry Under a Winter Sun36 Crazyfists Bitterness the StarA Wilhelm Scream Career SuicideA Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm ScreamAdebisi Shank This is the Second AlbumAFI All Hallow's E.P.AFI Sing the SorrowAFI The Art of DrowningAfter the Burial RareformAfter the Burial In DreamsAlexisonfire Watch Out!Alexisonfire AlexisonfireAlexisonfire CrisisAll That Remains The Fall of IdealsAnaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are HerAnd So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From AfarAndrew W.K. I Get WetAnimals As Leaders Animals as LeadersAs I Lay Dying Frail Words CollapseAstral Silence Astral JourneyAt All Cost Circle of DemonsAtmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons...Atmosphere God Loves UglyAugust Burns Red MessengersB. Dolan Fallen House Sunken CityBad Religion No ControlBad Religion The Process of BeliefBad Religion SufferBane Give BloodBathory Blood Fire DeathBATS Cruel Sea ScientistBauda ...OniiricaBayside Killing TimeBayside BaysideBayside AcousticBayside ShudderBetween the Buried and Me The Great MisdirectBitter End (USA-TX) Climate Of FearBlack Flag The First Four YearsBleeding Through This Is Love, This Is MurderousBlood Freak Live Fast, Die Young ... And Leave A Flesh-EatingBoris PinkBracewar JuggernautBreaking Benjamin PhobiaBreaking Benjamin We Are Not AloneBurst OrigoBurst Lazarus BirdBurzum FallenBurzum BelusCannibal Corpse Evisceration PlagueCannibal Corpse Worm InfestedCannibal Corpse The Wretched SpawnCeremony (USA-CA) Scared PeopleCeremony (USA-CA) Rohnert ParkChimaira ChimairaCipher Children of God's FireCipher The Joyous CollapseYou want a record that deals with social issues? this is just for you. Cipher deals with every kind of oppression with the point of view of the everyday individual going through these struggles and understanding what to do with your choices.
Every bit aggressive as it is intelligent, The Joyous Collapse hits your mind and ears in waves of hardcore fury and spitfire lyricism rivaled by no one. Just think Shai Hulud mixed with a rap minded lyrical flow.Circa Survive JuturnaCoalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just ListeningCoalesce Functioning on ImpatienceColdworld MelancholieConverge Petitioning the Empty SkyConverge You Fail MeCrypticus They Called Me Mad!Cryptopsy None So VileCynic FocusCynic Re-Tracedit's Cynic doing what they do best. reinventing their songs doesn't come off as stale, and they all are very soothing at best.
my only gripe is the length, but it's only a small gripe.Dance Gavin Dance HappinessDarkest Hour So Sedated, So SecureDarkest Hour Undoing RuinDarkest Hour The Mark of the JudasDead Letter Circus This Is The WarningDead To Fall The Phoenix ThroneDead To Fall Are You Serious?Death Scream Bloody GoreDeath The Sound of PerseveranceDespised Icon Day of MourningDevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's HandDevilDriver The Last Kind WordsDimmu Borgir AbrahadabraDio Holy DiverDir En Grey KisouDystopia Human = GarbageEarth Crisis All Out WarEarth Crisis FirestormEarth Crisis Destroy the MachinesEluvium When I Live by the Garden and the SeaEluvium Talk Amongst the TreesEnslaved IsaEvergreen Terrace Writer's BlockEvergreen Terrace Sincerity is an Easy Disguise in this BusinessEvergreen Terrace Almost HomeEvery Time I Die The Big DirtyFACT FactFaith No More Angel DustFantomas The Director's CutFear Before Fear BeforeFear Factory DemanufactureFleet Foxes Fleet FoxesFlotsam and Jetsam Doomsday for the DeceiverFormer Ghosts FleursFormer Ghosts New LoveFoxy Shazam IntroducingFrom A Second Story Window DelendaFrom Autumn To Ashes The Fiction We LiveFrom Autumn To Ashes Holding A Wolf By The EarsFuneral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in ConversationGallows Orchestra Of WolvesGenghis Tron Board Up the HouseGil Mantera's Party Dream DreamscapeA very Solid Electronica/Dance Release.
they lost some of their wacky edge, musically, that was displayed in "Bloodsongs", for a cleaner, easier to dance to arrangement of songs. It is still a really enjoyable album to listen to, and i suggest you give it a spin or two, if you can find it anywhere, that is.
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BallerinaGWAR War PartyGWAR Lust in SpaceH2O F.T.T.W.H2O Nothing To ProveH2O Thicker Than WaterHaste the Day When Everything FallsHave Heart The Things We CarryHave Heart Songs to Scream at the SunHe Is Legend Suck Out The PoisonHe Is Legend I Am HollywoodHe Is Legend It Hates YouHORSE the band A Natural DeathHORSE the band Desperate LivingIn Flames Come ClarityIn Flames ColonyIn Flames ClaymanJapandroids Post-NothingJeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the EastJohn Mayer Room for SquaresJohn Mayer Heavier ThingsJohn Mayer Where the Light IsKamelot Ghost OperaKarnivool ThemataKing Diamond Give Me Your Soul...PleaseKing Diamond ''Them''King Diamond AbigailKing Diamond The GraveyardKing Diamond The EyeKiss the Anus of a Black Cat Hewers of Wood and Drawers of WaterKMFDM XTORTKMFDM TohuvabohuKMFDM Hau RuckKMFDM BlitzLa Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair Mariachi El Bronx El BronxMaximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesuMelt-Banana Cell-ScapeMercyful Fate MelissaMercyful Fate Don't Break the OathMike Patton Mondo CaneMinor Threat Minor ThreatMisery Signals MirrorsMogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You WillMorrissey You Are the Quarryi do believe this to be Morrissey's best release. rthere is a gentle balance that is well maintained on this release between being sweetly satirical (as he always is), and being sincerely reflective.Morrissey Vauxhall and IMorrissey Viva HateMorrissey Bona DragMost Precious Blood Do Not ResuscitateMost Precious Blood MercilessMr. Bungle Disco VolanteMutiny Within Mutiny WithinMy Bloody Valentine LovelessNapalm Death Smear CampaignNapalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the CodeNas It Was WrittenNOFX The DeclineOgre You Asshole FoglampOpeth Ghost ReveriesOpeth My Arms, Your HearseOrbs Asleep Next to ScienceOutbreak You Make Us SickOutbreak FailureP.O.S Never BetterPanacea A Mind on a Ship Through TimePelican AustralasiaPelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...Pelican What We All Come to NeedPelican City of EchoesPissed Jeans Hope for MenPoison the Well The Tropic RotPoison the Well Distance Makes the Heart Grow FonderPoison the Well You Come Before YouPortal (Cynic) PortalProtest the Hero KeziaPsyopus Ideas of ReferencePsyopus Our Puzzling Encounters ConsideredPunchline Delightfully PleasedPunchline 37 EverywherePunchline Just Say YesReel Big Fish Turn the Radio OffSalem (US) King NightSalome TerminalScale the Summit Carving Desert CanyonsScar Symmetry Dark Matter DimensionsSevendust NextSilverstein When Broken Is Easily FixedSilverstein Arrivals and DeparturesSlayer Reign in BloodSnapcase Designs for AutomotionSole and the Skyrider Band PlastiqueSonata Arctica The Days of GraysSonata Arctica Winterheart's GuildSpitalfield Remember Right NowSpitalfield Stop Doing Bad ThingsSpitalfield Better Than Knowing Where You AreStrand of Oaks Pope KilldragonStreetlight Manifesto Everything Goes NumbSuffocation Pierced from WithinSunlight Ascending All the Memories, All at OnceSurfer Blood Astro CoastTed Leo and the Pharmacists The Tyranny of DistanceTed Leo and the Pharmacists Hearts of OakTed Leo and the Pharmacists Shake The SheetsTed Leo and the Pharmacists The Brutalist BricksTerror Lowest Of The LowTerror One With The UnderdogsThe Audition Controversy Loves CompanyThe Black Dahlia Murder UnhallowedThe Black Dahlia Murder MiasmaThe Bled Pass the FlaskThe Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating InfinityThe Dillinger Escape Plan Miss MachineThe Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead SceneThe Esoteric With the Sureness of SleepwalkingThe Coalesce influence is very apparent on this, but they take it into a more atmospheric zone with a lot of the fretwork throughout. It has that stop-start chaos that many enjoy, and it also has very punchy chords that they draw out and repeat for maximum effectiveness and mood.
I absolutely love the drumming in this album. it hits hard, all while standing out amongst the flow of the songs. It's a very fresh approach given to the pick-and-choose stagnancy coming from many bands in 'metalcore'. it is the highlight of the whole album, in my opinion.
I like the vocals as well. They are more or less your standard harsh vocals, but every word is intelligible and forceful at the same time.
The Forecast Late Night ConversationsThe Forecast Alive For The First TimeThe Forecast The ForecastThe Human Abstract NocturneThe Letters Organize Dead Rhythm MachineThe Locust Plague SoundscapesThe Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear, Sad, NuclearThe Ocean FluxionThe Ocean FogdiverThe Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower Dissertation, HoneyThe Red Chord Prey for EyesThe Red Chord ClientsThe Roots Game TheoryThe Roots Things Fall ApartThe State Lottery When the Night ComesThe Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing BirdTiger Army Early Years EPTiger Army III: Ghost Tigers RiseType O Negative October RustType O Negative Dead AgainType O Negative Bloody KissesUlcerate Everything Is FireUlcerate The Destroyers of AllUlver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitlerVerse AggressionVerse From Anger and RageVerse RebuildVolbeat Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac BloodVolbeat Rock The Rebel/Metal The DevilWestbound Train TransitionsWestbound Train Searching for a MelodyWestbound Train Come And Get ItWolf Parade Expo 86X Japan Blue BloodX Japan DahliaXiu Xiu Dear God, I Hate MyselfZao The Splinter Shards the Birth of SeparationZao Liberate Te Ex InferisZao The Fear Is What Keeps Us HereZao Parade of Chaos3.5 great3 Inches of Blood Fire Up The BladesAdebisi Shank This is the EPAfter the Burial Forging a Future SelfAfter the Burial Rareform (Re-release)All That Remains This Darkened HeartAnaal Nathrakh The Codex NecroAnal Cunt Defenders of the Hate Andrew W.K. The WolfAnthrax Among the LivingAs I Lay Dying The Powerless RiseAs I Lay Dying Shadows Are SecurityAs I Lay Dying An Ocean Between UsAt All Cost It's Time To DecideAtheist Unquestionable PresenceAtmosphere To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade HolyBad Religion The Empire Strikes FirstBayside The Walking WoundedBetween the Buried and Me The Anatomy OfBlack Star Black StarBleeding Through The TruthBlind Pilot 3 Rounds and a SoundBlood Freak Multiplex MassacreBlood Freak Sleaze MerchantsBloodbath Unblessing the PurityBloodbath Nightmares Made FleshBloodbath The Fathomless MasteryBloodbath Resurrection Through CarnageBomb the Music Industry! ScramblesBomb the Music Industry! Album Minus BandBrand New DaisyBurzum Draugen - RaritiesCannibal Corpse KillCannibal Corpse Tomb of the MutilatedCellador Enter DeceptionChimaira ResurrectionCirca Survive On Letting GoCoalesce OXCoalesce Give Them Rope, She SaidConverge When Forever Comes CrashingConverge Halo in a HaystackCrocodiles Summer Of HateCryptopsy Whisper SupremacyD.R.I. Thrash ZoneDagor Dagoroth Yetzer Ha'RaDance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle MountainDangerDoom The Mouse And The MaskDarkest Hour Deliver UsDarkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist NationDead To Fall Everything I Touch Falls To PiecesDeicide To Hell With GodDespised Icon The Ills of Modern ManDevilDriver DevilDriverDimmu Borgir Stormblast (Re-Recording)Dimmu Borgir Death Cult ArmageddonDimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric MisanthropiaDio Killing the DragonDir En Grey The Marrow of a BoneDisasterpeace Atebite and the Warring NationsDr. Octagon Dr. OctagonecologystDragonForce Valley of the DamnedEarth Crisis Breed the KillersEarth Crisis Gomorrah's Season EndsEluvium SimilesEnslaved FrostEnslaved VertebraeEvergreen Terrace WolfbikerEvery Time I Die Gutter PhenomenonEvery Time I Die Last Night in TownEvery Time I Die New Junk AestheticFear Before Art DamageFrom A Second Story Window Not One Word Has Been OmittedFrom Autumn To Ashes Too Bad You're BeautifulGorillaz GorillazGuitar Wolf Jet GenerationHaste the Day Burning BridgesHeavy Heavy Low Low Everything's Watched, Everyone's WatchinHorrorpops Hell Yeah!Horrorpops Bring It On!HORSE the band PizzaHot Chip One Life StandHot Hot Heat ElevatorHot Hot Heat Make Up the BreakdownHot Hot Heat Future BreedsImmolation Majesty and DecayIn Flames Soundtrack to Your EscapeIntegrity The Blackest CurseIt Dies Today Sirens Most complain about the vocals ruining this album, but i think the vocals make this album more accessible, and for what its worth a much more enjoyable album than Caitiff Choir. the music is still solid, but 1 facet of the whole has soured 15 year old fans for years.
oh no, no Br00t4l vocals. soo many are let down instantly...
grow up and give this a quality listen without the expectation everyone holds this album to. it's pretty awesome.John Mayer Any Given Thursdayi listen to disc 2 when i take a shower every day. live Covered in rain and Comfortable make this live album worth getting.John Mayer Battle StudiesKamelot Poetry for the PoisonedKampfar HeimgangKampfar KvassKatatonia Night Is the New DayKMFDM NaïveKMFDM AdiosKMFDM WWIIIKMFDM NihilLife Long Tragedy Destined For AnythingLostprophets The Fake Sound Of ProgressLostprophets Start SomethingManchester Orchestra Mean Everything to NothingMelee Everyday BehaviorMelt-Banana Bambi's DilemmaMetallica Ride the LightningMetallica Kill 'Em AllMF DOOM MM.. FoodMiles Away ConsequencesMind Eraser The Prodigal Son Brings DeathMogwai Young TeamMono Hymn to the Immortal WindMorbid Angel HereticMorrissey Years of RefusalMost Precious Blood Our Lady of AnnihilationMy Bitter End The RenovationMy Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your LoveNekromantix Return Of The Loving DeadNekromantix Brought Back To Life (Again)Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy IX: Original SoundtrackNorma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the ChildNorma Jean O' God The AftermathObscura CosmogenesisOgre You Asshole Alpha Beta vs. LambdaOgre You Asshole OGRE YOU ASSHOLEOpeth DamnationOrigin Echoes of DecimationOutbreak Eaten AlivePierce the Veil Selfish MachinesPierce the Veil A Flair for the DramaticPoison the Well Tear From the RedProtest the Hero A Calculated Use of SoundPunchline ActionRaekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt IIRaekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Revocation Existence Is FutileRevolting Dreadful PleasuresRingworm Justice Replaced By RevengeRuiner Prepare To Be Let DownSevendust AnimositySevendust Cold Day MemoryThis is pretty much more of what you would come to expect from them. Nothing ground breaking, and it really isn't abrasive enough to have people who like them to be disappointed in the slightest.
Just an overall 12 song addition to their discography.Sholi SholiShugo Tokumaru Port EntropySilverstein Discovering the WaterfrontSlayer Hell AwaitsSleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural HistorySnapcase Progression Through UnlearningSolution .45 For Aeons PastSonata Arctica Reckoning NightStill Remains The SerpentTeam Teamwork The Ocarina of RhymeTed Leo and the Pharmacists Living With the LivingTed Leo and the Pharmacists Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is DeadThe Acacia Strain The Dead WalkThe Audition ChampionThe Audition Great DangerThe Audition definitely rebound from their last release, patching up what tended to be lacking from "Self-Titled Album", and mature in terms of lyrical and stylistic approach with this release in the process.
Maintaining their honed catchy pop punk styling, they incorporate a higher sense of awareness to their musicianship, to give you a hook vocally, and a riff or two just as memorable to match it.
This release might not change your opinion of them if you don't like them already, but this is easily their second best release behind 'Controversy Loves Company'.
My only real gripe about this album is Danny's Falsetto. He's done it plenty in the other album's, it's not bad in the slightest, but it just sticks out on here to me to not really find its place, or seems forced. He has a great voice without having to use a falsetto, and it sorta sours the power and catchy-ness his voice has.
Other than that, im happy with this.
The Black Dahlia Murder NocturnalThe Bled Found in the FloodThe Bled Heat FetishThe Cool Kids The Bake SaleThe Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running BoardThe Forecast In The Shadow Of Two GunmenThe Gaslight Anthem The '59 SoundThe Human Abstract MidheavenThe Jonbenet The Plot ThickensThe Jonbenet Ugly/HeartlessThe National Alligatori just can't seem to get into this at all. its not bad, but there is something disenchanting about it all that just does not work for me.
I'm a definite outlier, but it happens.
Hit or miss, and it misses with me.The National BoxerThe National High VioletThe Number Twelve Looks Like You MongrelThe Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of TimeThe Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red GlassesThe Ocean AnthropocentricThe Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving DoorsThe Rise Signal To NoiseThe Sleeping Question & AnswersThe Sleeping What It TakesThe Sleeping The Big DeepThomas Giles PulseThrough the Eyes of the Dead MaliceTrivium AscendancyTRUSTcompany The Lonely Position of NeutralType O Negative The Origin of the FecesUnderoath The Changing of TimesUnderoath They're Only Chasing SafetyVeil of Maya The Common Man's CollapseWarpaint The FoolWu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)Xiu Xiu Fabulous MusclesXiu Xiu A PromiseYellowcard One for the KidsZao Where Blood and Fire Bring RestZao Legendary3.0 goodAcid Witch Witchtanic HellucinationsAlexisonfire Old Crows / Young CardinalsAvenged Sevenfold Waking the FallenBane It All Comes Down to ThisBeneath the Massacre Mechanics of DysfunctionBomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!!Breaking Benjamin Dear AgonyCannibal Ox The Cold VeinCavalera Conspiracy InfliktedIf You Dig Sepultura, or Soulfly, then this is in your ballpark. the cavalera's being together again is great. give it a listen. the only skepticism i have on it is the lyrics. some songs are very strong lyrically, while others are a little lacking. still great musically.Cephalic Carnage XenosapienCirca Survive Blue Sky NoiseConverge Caring and KillingDance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin DanceDespised Icon The Healing ProcessDimmu Borgir In Sorte DiaboliDisavowed Perceptive DeceptionDr. Dre The ChronicEarth Crisis SlitherEnslaved EldEvergreen Terrace At Our WorstEvery Time I Die The Burial Plot Bidding WarFACT In the Blink of an EyeFang Island Fang IslandFrom A Second Story Window Conversationsfun. Aim and IgniteGravediggaz 6 Feet DeepGuitar Wolf Planet of the WolvesGWAR Beyond HellHoobastank HoobastankHoobastank For(N)everHoobastank Every Man for HimselfHot Hot Heat Happiness Ltd.KMFDM MoneyKMFDM SymbolsKMFDM AttakLigeia Bad NewsMetallica MetallicaMonomate Grand BattleMy Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet RevengeNas I Am...Native Wrestling MovesNorma Jean RedeemerNorma Jean The Anti MotherObscura RetributionOrigin AntithesisRevolting The Terror ThresholdSevendust AlphaSevendust SeasonsSonata Arctica SilenceTerror Always the Hard WayThe Acacia Strain ...And Life Is Very LongThe Acacia Strain 3750The Acacia Strain ContinentThe Acacia Strain WormwoodThe Audition Self-Titled AlbumIts more of what ive come to like about them, and ive been hooked on their last 2 albums for quite some time. this is an "aquired taste" album, that i would feel appeals more towards the "already fans" crowd, than the "just heard about them and this new album is all i have by them" crowd. the only downside is that it hasnt really done anything new for a genre of overdone "dance-pop"The Bled Silent TreatmentThe Bravery The BraveryThe Bravery The Sun and the MoonThe Esoteric SubverterTrivium ShogunTrivium Ember to InfernoYellowcard Ocean AvenueZao Awake?2.5 averageAll That Remains OvercomeIt's not a bad album by any means, but it doesn't particularly shine bright anywhere.
It is also extremely hard to follow up The Fall Of Ideals...Cassul Wulfonstyne Onslaught Of The IslandHoobastank The ReasonKMFDM UAIOEKMFDM Don't Blow Your TopParkway Drive Deep BluePaul Stanley Live to WinTrivium The CrusadeWaking the Cadaver Demo2.0 poorAvenged Sevenfold Avenged SevenfoldDragonForce Ultra BeatdownKMFDM What Do You Know, Deutschland?My Chemical Romance The Black ParadeMy Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous KilljoysStick To Your Guns Comes From the Heartlistened to it a bit. didnt stick like the previous album. id say its rather forgettable, honestly.Waking the Cadaver Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler1.5 very poorAvenged Sevenfold City of Evil1.0 awfulGrumblecunt I Piss ShitHollywood Undead Swan Songs
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by Nate Wooley | October 26, 2012 12:42 pm
[1]When you think Michael Bloomberg, you think New York. After all, he's the mayor of the Big Apple, and before that he built the Bloomberg empire sitting in Manhattan today. But did you know he's the richest man in the state?
As consulting group Wealth-X has found[2] in a state-by-state look at the nation's wealthiest individuals, Bloomberg and much of the rest of America's ultra high-net worth population often lives close to the companies they founded. Think Washington-based Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT[3]) Bill Gates or Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE:BRK.B[4]) Warren Buffett.
Here's a look Wealth-X's state-by-state look at the nation's wealthiest people:
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Four-star tight end Rob Gronkowski took his first official visit of the season this past weekend back to his home state of New York. The Pittsburgh (Pa.) Woodland Hills prospect made a visit to Syracuse.
"The trip went really good," he said. "I got there on Saturday morning. On the visit, I met with all the coaches, ate dinner and breakfast with them and went to the game. The coaches basically went over their plays. I also was able to hang out with a few of the players on the team including my host Andrew Robinson. He was good to be around and basically said how great of a place Syracuse is."
The 6-foot-6, 232-pounder was able to talk to quite a few of the coaches.
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"I talked to every single coach on the team, but mostly I spent my time with Brian White," he stated. "He talked to me about the same old stuff as always, keeping up with how I'm doing and what he likes about me.
"I was able to talk to Greg Robinson too. He's a really good guy to talk to. Mostly he just talked about how I'm doing and everything. He also did say I'll fit in great there and thinks I'll play right away. I like that a lot because they use their tight ends all the time."
As for the game, the Rivals250 prospect was impressed by the Orangemen's overtime victory over Wyoming.
"That was a great game," he said. "The atmosphere was crazy and really wild. They won the game in double overtime. It was great to see them win and be around all the players afterwards."
Gronkowski was very impressed with his trip.
"I'm not sure what I'd rate it because it's the first one," he said. "I would probably give it a 9.5. It was a real good time and everything went well."
At this time, Gronkowski has not scheduled any other official visits. He is continuing to look at Arizona, Clemson, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio State and Syracuse.


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Quantum Flux showcases Arkansas performers in miniature music festival
Where can you listen to live music while you camp under the stars amid artists and performers, and explore your own artistic talents? At Quantum Flux, a music festival in Little Rock Aug. 23 and 24 planned, in part, by a UALR student.
"I was the one who said 'let's make a baby,' and now it's our – the three of us – baby," said Nick Sumbles, business major and co-organizer with Cat Innergy Hicks and Zachary Robert. In addition to organizing the festival, Sumbles will play music as Sick Numbles.
"Quantum Flux is a sort of mini-festival, one-night camping and concert experience meant to provide a space for creative community expression," Hicks said. The festival will include musicians, dancers, yogis, visual artists and video jockeys, she said.
Hicks explained the festival's name, saying, "'Flux' sums up the event as a flux of energy or a flux of space – vibrating waves…and the 'Quantum' makes it very cerebral."
A portion of the festival's proceeds will benefit KABF 88.3FM.
"It's a community radio run on donations," Hicks said. "Their level of commercial influence is much lower than other stations, but it provides a voice for the people. If you want a radio show, just call them up and talk about getting a slot. You can't do that with Clear Channel."
"We want to show KABF that we do really care and that our community does exist and it gives in a different way," said Corey Stardust, one of the festival performers and co-host of Perfect Glitch, which the station airs Wednesday nights. "KABF is really important to this community," he added.
All the musicians are local, Hicks said. The musical line-up features Cory Stardust, S!Bass Cadet, 7HR047 P1X3L5, Sick Numbles, Spot Wade, Dustin Searcy and Kyle Owen, Zora McBride, and Groovecluster, also known as Jackson Diner, a sophomore mass communication major.
Unscheduled musicians can perform on stage from 12:30 to 2 a.m. Casual festival goers can participate in drum circles, community painting and an alchemy workshop, in which they make an elixir made from herbs, spring water and crystals, Hicks said. She added that she would like the festival to be educationally and creatively stimulating.
The festival grounds, which were provided and cultivated by Robert, feature a chemical-free pool, Hicks said. There will also be food and laundry services available, she said. Entry is $5 or $10 dollars for camping and entry. Additional details are available on the Quantum Flux Facebook page.
"I'm definitely expecting an intensified, diverse collective of individuals coming together to bring you an incredible journey," Sumbles said. "It's definitely an opportunity for [artists] to expand and explode and show people what they've got."
"I would people to come out and experience a festival-type lifestyle, by which I mean come out and see people having genuine fun and being able to be a group with everyone in tune with each other," Stardust said.
Tag Jackson, who will play electronic music as S!Bass Cadet, said he would like to see "lots of booty shaking, and a lot of people getting along, having fun, and putting aside differences and barriers." He added that the festival will help give local artists exposure.
Quantum Flux first took form in July, when Sumbles approached Hicks, who had prior experience organizing festivals, and Robert, who had wanted to host a festival for a while.
After donating to KABF, remaining proceeds will help fund future festivals, Hicks said. "We have a lot of great ideas to make the next event bigger and better and even more dynamic," she said.
"Everything is leading up to this point," Sumbles said, "but it's not the end of the journey; it's the beginning of another journey."


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Lip Sewing (not a service I offer...)
March 6th, 2009
I got some more information from the gal who wanted info on sewing her lips together:
It would just be for a photoshoot. my boyfriend would be there for support and to make sure nothing goes wrong, but i am probably going to be doing it myself. he is very insistant that he doesn't want to "hurt me" even if i'm asking him to. it's for the lips on my face. i have been looking into suture kits. would that be best for the situation.Hi again, It depends on how you want the image to look. One of the easiest ways is to use long hypodermic tips and spear both lips with the needles. Then use some type of cord or ribbon (that has been suitably prepped--certain types of cloth can be autoclaved) and lace it around the needles. I think that looks aesthetically pleasing--kind of corset-like. If you want actual "thread" through the piercings then you are best off with a thick gauge suture thread. Unfortunately, compared to hypo tips and piercing needles, most suture needles are TOUGH to push through the skin! That's all going to be quite a bit bloodier than the first suggestion I made. You could go with a larger size, like a 12 ga and put 14 gauge tygon through. But it doesn't tie well like thread or fabric. It depends on the affect you wish to achieve--but make sure you prep the area with a surgical scrub, wear gloves, and use sterile implements. That means autoclaved! Not dunked in alcohol or put over a flame!! Good luck and let me know how it goes. Elayne
Interesting Email Question
March 6th, 2009
I got an email today that was more unique than my average piercing question--and I'll admit: this one isn't covered in my book. :
dear elayne: i'm really interested in sewing my lips shut (ok i admit it, i'm a "freak") and i'm wondering what your opinion on what the best materials for doing this would be, and the best places to buy them. would a simple sewing needle and cotton thread really be my best bet? or a hollow needle and some tygon? thank you so much!!! LHi L, Thanks for your email. My reply: I need a little more information about what you want to achieve. How long would you plan to leave it in? What do you have in mind? Would it be for a photo shoot, or ...? Will there be anyone else involved to help, or do you want to do it yourself? I don't think an ordinary needle and thread would be appropriate, regardless of your aims. You definitely need to use something that has been sterilized. And I'm not sure if you're talking about your lips on your face, or your labia? Please provide me with more information, and I'll see what I can come up with for you. Thanks, Elayne


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Elk Grove (Calif.) Cosumnes Oaks coach Ryan Gomes said whenever a college coach comes in his office he's sure to put on the highlights of junior defensive end Sam Smith because he knows they'll be immediately impressed.
Smith, a 6-foot-4, 265-pound prospect, is one of the next big prospects at Cosumnes Oaks - which features four-star cornerback Marcus Rios this recruiting cycle - and Gomes said Smith is without a doubt a national prospect.
"He's an animal," Gomes said. "He's 6-4, 265, he's a natural three-technique. He has heavy hands and great hips.
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"I'll put on his sophomore film for coaches because those are the ones I have done and he's playing varsity as a 15-year old last year. It was his fourth game ever playing football and you see him dominating Division I football players. He just dominated them."
On offense, Smith is utilized at tight end but mainly as a blocker and he simply pulverizes opponents all game. To be that advanced in his junior season, Gomes said, Smith should be a top-flight prospect next recruiting cycle.
More than 50 coaches have stopped by Cosumnes Oaks in recent weeks trying to go after Rios and Gomes said he makes sure that they also watch Smith so they can get some early evaluations on one of the top 2013 prospects in Northern California.
Smith could start picking up offers soon.
"We play him at tight end on offense but he's like another tackle out there for us," Gomes said. "He just blocks people and secures the edge and then on defense he's a menace.
"He's a national guy. I've had coaches over and over saying he's the best kid we've seen in California. He's one of the best I've seen in a long time. You see the body type and you know he's going to be a monster."


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ESL Job Feed is the most eclectic and broad source of ESL jobs and teaching positions available worldwide.?ESL Job Feed publishes links to ESL Job postings from a variety of sources including TESall, Total ESL, Yahoo!/Monster, Guardian Jobs, Chronicle of Higher Education, craigslist, TESOL Org, TEFL and many more. From conversation schools for beginners to university positions for teaching veterans,?ESL Job Feed is your source for English teaching positions worldwide.
ESl teachers is needed for Public University in the capital of Jiang xi Province
Date 2013-06-13 09:06:24 Location : Asia:China
*** Monthly Salary: 6100RMB-6300RMB
*** Free well-furnished apartment
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Schools provide local airport/station pick up.
Schools provide English speaking co-ordinators to help you settle in.
Contact with the school directly throughout the application process.
Low living expendiure, about 1000-2000RMB/month depends on different living style.
We are completely free!!!
- Contract Period: Sep,2013 start for one year contract
- Teaching Hours Per Week: 16-18 hours/week
- Students'Age: 18-23
- Class Size: 25-35
- Duration of each class: 40-45 minutes
- Location Available: Nanchang city,Jiangxi Province
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Native English speakers in good health condition from US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand(If you are not Native English speaker, please do not apply for )
Age between 22-50
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Open-minded, motivated, punctual, patient, cooperative, responsible and willing to travel and know about China
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4. Confirm the offer package and contract (sign contract)
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The question: Can a child outgrow ADHD? My son is now 18 and drug-free, but has no real ambition or goals. ADHD also allowed him to have lowered expectations all throughout his schooling. Can I expect a breakthrough soon, or should we consider drug treatment for him again?
The answer: In my experience, people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) continue to have some degree of long-term symptoms.
Typically this is a tendency toward being easily distracted, forgetful and poorly organized. Many teens gradually develop coping strategies that allow them to manage their inattention. For example, using a daily organizer or electronic calendar can help to ensure that important tasks are completed in a timely fashion and not forgotten.
Many children with ADHD do benefit from taking medication to improve their focus. The length of time a person takes medication is extremely variable. I follow children in my practice whose symptoms seem to improve over time and who develop effective time management and organizational skills. Such youngsters can be weaned from their medication in middle school or high school.
I have other young adults who continue to benefit from taking medication throughout their school careers. There are no hard and fast rules about what happens with medication after high school. Adults who choose postsecondary education may choose to continue their medication to help with their studies. I have also followed others who pursue more "hands-on" vocations, where long-term use of medication is not required.
Your son sounds like he may also have issues with motivation. I have patients who are frustrated after many challenging years in the classroom and are now poorly motivated to do anything productive. Perhaps your son has a particular area of interest that you could encourage him to pursue. This could be a part-time job, a community college course, or perhaps volunteering with a business or community organization.
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- 03-15-2010
- Series
- Fruits Basket
- Character
- Saki Hanajima
- Special Variation:
- Spring Uniform
- Year Completed:
- 2007
- Construction Difficulty:
- Very Easy
- Costume worn at:
- MegaCon 2010
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
The skirt was a gift from a friend who HAPPENED to find a genuine Japanese school uniform skirt at a thrift store that fit me (who knew?). The shirt is from Tohru, lol. Add a black braid and voila!
- Personal Thoughts:
- It made me happy that I was recognized as Hana. It was a blast. Next time I wear this......expect an antenna!
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This book reveals the parallel "other" narrative of world history to help us make sense of today's world conflicts. Ansary traces the history of the Muslim world from pre-Mohammedan days through 9/11, introducing people, events, empires, legends, and religious disputes, both in terms of what happened and how it was understood and interpreted.
©2009 Tamim Ansary; (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
"Informative and thoroughly engaging....A must read." (Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner)
"Explains the clash between Islam and the West"
This book is a must read for anyone attempting to understand the central news of our era - the ongoing clash between the Christian and Muslim worlds. This is not a history of the religion of Islam. It's a history of the people, events and society of the Islamic culture that presents a vivid road map of how the world has gotten to the place it is in today. This edition is beautifully narrated by the author himself, told to the reader as if you are sitting in the room with him and he's telling you a story. The effect is to pull you in completely as you listen to the founding of Islam with the life of Muhammad, the bloodbath that is the succession story of the generations that followed and splintered into various factions, the clashes with the Christian West and Mongol East, the impact of Western industrialization and colonialism on the Islamic world and the explanation of how we got to Sept. 11, 2001, the wars in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and the standoff with Iran. The book answers the question of why we are at the place we are in the ongoing clash of the Western world and Islam.
"A history of the world before the West mattered"
History books are frequently dry and factual, even when not written as textbooks, and when they're not, they tend to reveal the author's biases or axes to grind. Tamim Ansary, however, sets out to tell the history of Islam through Islamic eyes, not as an apologetic for Islam that ignores its less edifying historical episodes and its troubled present, nor as a Westerner viewing Islam as, at best, an exotically misunderstood Oriental tradition, and at worst, the religion of terrorists and women-in-burkas.
Tamim Ansary, an Afghan-American, suggests that Islam and the West have for much of history existed in two parallel worlds, only rarely intersecting until the violent last few decades. The Dar-al-Islam, or the entire region that Ansary calls the "Middle World," between the European-dominated West and the Chinese-dominated East, grew, expanded, experienced theological and political revolutions, technological and scientific and literary evolution, and several foreign invasions much more significant than those Crusades that everyone today thinks were the most significant East-West interaction before the modern day.
The vast majority of Muslims, even during the height of the Crusades, simply didn't notice the West, which for most of Islam's early history, was an impoverished backwater land of savage, squabbling kingdoms while the Middle East and North Africa was full of wealth and education and glorious cosmopolitan cities. The Crusaders seized some cities and killed a bunch of people and certainly left some profound historical legacies, but never really materially affected the Islamic world nearly as much as they think they did.
The Mongols, on the other hand... they messed the Islamic world up.
Before listening to this, I vaguely remembered the Ummayads, the Abbasids, the Ottomans, the various Caliphates and Sultanates and Emirates that rose and fell from immediately after Mohammad's death until the 20th century when Muslim nation states began to congeal into more or less their present forms. But Destiny Disrupted tells the entire sweeping epic with a historian's accuracy but a storyteller's verve. You will actually get caught up in the rise and fall of dynasties and the shifting epicenters of Islamic scholarship and Arab-African-and-Persian power, the changes in Islam as it goes from populist movement to institutional social paradigm to bureaucratic theocracy. Islam is a complicated religion, like Christianity, with its sects and schisms and interactions with the power of the state. Yes, to Muslims, religion has never been a separate entity from the state, as it came to be in the West, but still, Islam served the interests of rulers, got coopted by those in power, brought down those in power, caused fragmentation and changes in government according to different factions' understanding of how a proper Islamic state should be run, and so conflicts between clerics and kings did play out in their own way in the Middle East too.
If you want to have more than a superficial understanding of how Sunnis and Shias split off from each other, and why India has been the location of so much Hindu-Muslim conflict, and of course, how the United States went from a modern nation Muslims admired and respected in the early 20th century to the Great Satan it is today (yes, a big part of the reason is Israel, but that's not the whole story, and most of the rest of the reason is oil, but that's still not the whole story), then you will get it here, but as the title indicates, this is a history of the world through Muslim eyes, and so the West really only comes into the picture towards the end. There is a huge amount of history that took place between Europe and China that most Westerners know little or nothing about, and this book will not only tell you about it, but make it interesting.
The author's style is a great asset to this narrative. Ansary is not above tossing in wry commentary now and then, neither sparing Westerners nor Muslims from apt observations about historical hypocrisy and inconvenient truths. Ansary does not take a religious position — he obviously grew up as a Muslim in Afghanistan, but it's not even clear from his website whether he is a practicing Muslim today. So he doesn't try to "sell" Islam (and specifically calls out the historical revisionism of those liberal Muslims who today insist that "jihad" has never "properly" meant violent struggle against infidels — Ansary points out that yes it has, many times in history), but neither will he satisfy those of an anti-Islamic bent who insist that Islam is fundamentally and inherently a religion of violence and oppression and intolerance of unbelievers. Those who say that Muslims are incapable of peaceful, heterogeneous coexistence in societies that value reason and democratic principles ignore the fact that such Muslim societies existed for centuries.
If you are a history buff and are interested in this little-served area of history, then I think you could hardly do better than Destiny Disrupted. You will be truly educated about fourteen centuries of history spanning a huge chunk of the world. It's a really good read.
If you're looking for answers addressing contemporary issues - how Israel came to be and why it's an unending canker sore to Muslims worldwide, the origins of Wahabbism (Osama Bin Laden's brand of Islamic fundamentalism), the roots of the Taliban, how the West came to become the "Great Satan" and what Iran's problem is (and what Afghanistan's problem is, and what Syria's problem is, and what Iraq's problem is, and what Egypt's problem is....) then you'll find those here, mostly in the last few chapters, but this is not primarily a book dissecting modern Islam/Western issues. It's about the whole history of the world that happened before the West was important.
Excellent book, highly recommended, an unreserved 5 stars.
I would also like to single out Tamim Ansary's narration. Usually, an author narrating his own book is not a positive for me. Even great writers are rarely good narrators. But Ansary knows his material and puts all the right humorous and serious tones into his reading, and it really does sound like the author simply sitting there telling you this long historical tale, engagingly and interestingly.
I don't think I ever expect to explore a serious historical topic like this one and come away totally passionate about both the author and the narrator (which in this case are one and the same), but this book is the exception to almost every rule ! Ever since 9/11 (and I was in lower Manhattan on that day) I have been struggling to understand why the West and the Middle East are at such a terrible pass, why they seem so angry at us, and why the enmity seems to be so "stuck." I came to this book hoping it might shed some light on this complicated topic, but I admit rather shamefacedly that i was somewhat skeptical because the author's name looks Arab-- well of course he is an Arab, but to see the history of the world through his eyes is an extraordinary experience. I was born and will always be an Anglo Saxon Protestant, descended from a long line of Brits and Danes, and I will always be true to the faith of my fathers. But I am also a well educated person with an inquiring mind, and I found this book immensely satisfying. The author as narrator adds a special dimension to the experience of reading his book because his tone is so reasonable, just as reasonable as his prose is well reasoned, and the combination of the two is powerful in a gentle way that will not alienate even those of us who think that the whole concept of jihad is revolting, heartless and inhumane. This gentlemanly scholar seems relatively unbiased, as his story sets forth many aspects of Islamic history that are no less pretty than some of the excesses of the "Christian" Crusaders. His book will inspire me to read more about the history of Islam and the Arabs; in fact on my nightstand I now have a paperback called "The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization"-- I think the ultimate measure of this book is that the author has intrigued me enough that now I want to learn more. His book is a great starting point on the road to understanding the entire mess in the Middle East, and also to the realization that the jihadists do not represent all Muslims, much less all Arabs. Cannot recommend this too highly !
"Immensely informative, engaging presentation"
Speaking as someone who'd like to think of himself as well-educated, I downloaded this book hoping it could fill a few gaps in my knowledge of world history.
Little did I know how little I knew.
Destiny Disrupted is a fantastic book -- it really gives the listener a different perspective on the last two thousand years of human history. No, it's not encyclopedic -- after all, it's subtitled "A History of the World through Islamic Eyes," so it's as light w.r.t. goings-on in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa as most history classes in the U.S. tend to be. Still, it's a helpful counterpoint to the usual perspective you'll hear in the "news" media, where everyone on the planet is assumed to be just the same and hungering for the very same things.
If I had to criticize anything about the book, it'd be that Ansary skips over two less-flattering episodes in Islamic history -- namely, Arab involvement in the African slave trade, and Arab collaboration with the Nazis.
Still, all-in-all this is a well-written book, well-read by the author himself. The listening experience is fantastic, you'll feel like you're sitting side-by-side with the author as he patiently explains this all to you. Best of all -- you won't see the world the same way after you're done.
"Puts a lot in perspective"
I can't remember the history of the Islamic world rating more than a few pages in my high school AP World History textbook. And those pages were about the things that related directly to the story of Europe and the Americas, kthxbye. Oh, and oil.
This book is an excellent corrective for the distorted, limited picture most Americans have of the Islamic sphere, revealing it as a complex and fascinating parallel universe that had developed largely apart from Europe. This culture rose to great heights while most Europeans still lived in ignorant medieval squalor, became fragmented by Mongol invasion and the politics of empire in successive centuries, and was finally encroached upon by the modern West in the 19th and 20th centuries, an encounter that it's still in turmoil from.
Tamim Ansary, an author and lecturer, turns a millenium plus into an informal, engaging narrative, as a good professor would. There's even some humor ("pointing his cannons at Parliament and blowing it up was just the shah's way of showing that he some objections to the new agreement"). Good historical narrative doesn't judge the past from a modern perspective, but illuminates it as a complex set of relationships that evolved over time. There are many terms here that I'd heard before and had a vague sense of the meaning of -- Sunni, Shia, Sufi, Assassin, caliphate, 12th Imam, vizier, harem, Mamluk, janissary, Safavid, Ottoman, Great Game, Raj -- but Ansary puts them all into their place.
Thus, it became easier for me to understand how Islam is often (without irony) called a "religion of peace", while also having a warrior aspect. During and following the prophet Muhammad's life, the faithful saw themselves as creating a new vision for society, founded on peace, justice, self-discipline, religious tolerance, and egalitarian brotherhood (even sisterhood) for the once fractious people of the Arabian peninsula and the Levant. Muslims saw God's favor as being demonstrated by their success at liberating the oppressed inhabitants of neighboring lands and God's disfavor as being shown through military loss -- which was to have far-reaching implications.
Ansary also helped me see how Islam's source ideas played out in attempts to codify them into a framework for daily life. Elaborate bodies of law developed and scholars saw a unity of reason and divine revelation, bringing about advances in science and mathematics, and re-introducing classical Greek logic to the world. Of course, these noble goals did not prevent the usual conflicts between higher thinking and human nature from taking root -- politics, greed, war, dynastic feuding, cultural chauvinism, overly conservative thinking -- and so Islam fragmented into different visions. Mystics, enlightened progressives, and traditionalists all found footholds in different parts the greater empires. Interesting stuff.
The latter chapters, which deal with the Muslim world's encounter with the West, are the most revealing. I'd never fully considered how the Protestant Reformation opened the door for a culture of individualism and mercantilism, but it did, and soon European traders and bankers were making inroads into stratified empires in Asia Minor, Persia, and India, making deals that that decadent rulers couldn't refuse and securing more and more privilege for themselves. Never underestimate the corrosive power of loans! While Muslim intellectuals and secularists came to see the future as lying in the kind of democratic, constitutional governments that the west had (as Turkey is today), a combination of cynical Western imperialism and rising fundamentalism among large, impoverished lower classes that saw their elites as selling out on God's instructions (with no pope-like figure to intermediate), poisoned this dream in many places. Obviously, terrorism can't be justified under any system that claims respect for the innocent, but the resentment and sense of a stolen destiny that boiled over into extremism (enabled by oil money) makes more sense to me now.
For people who enjoy history and know that there are different ways of telling it, depending on who's in the "center" of a narrative and who comes crashing in from outside during Act Three, I can't recommend this one highly enough.
"A wonderful perspective to learn."
I read a great deal on the middle east and spent 8 years living in the area as well. Trust me when I say that this book fills a gap that so many other narratives have missed. If you are interested in learning about Islam from a historical perspective this book is a must!!! Trust me BUY IT!
"Thought Provoking"
Although I have not had the opportunity to check all the facts in this book (and never will for that matter), anything I researched checked out.
Because of the subject matter it is "pro" Islam, and "pro" Mohammed.But not overbearing at all.
Definitely gives new meaning to "There but for fortune go you and I."
Enjoyed the style MOST of the time. Occasionally, especially toward the end, the amount of detail was overwhelming. Narration was good.
Would definitely recommend this book to anyone that wants to see the world through anothers eyes. And maybe, most importantly, to those who don't.
"An excellent overview of Isamic history"
This is a remarkably good book for anyone interested in learning about history of Islam. Mr Ansary presents historical facts in a style which is easy to follow. He maintains the neutrality of an independent observer of the story without inserting his own biases into it. I was born and raised as a Muslim. I thought I knew history of Islam but this book has brought a wealth of information which is all new for me. I have learned a great deal about decades of Islamic history from this book.
I am going to listen to it and read this book again. It cuts through a lot of stereotypes and misinformation about Islam and Muslims.
I will highly recommend this book to anyone but specially to Muslims who want to learn about history of their religion.
Listening to Mr Ansary narrate this book was like having a knowlegable and learned friend explain the historical facts in a well informed and calm manner. I congratulate Mr Ansary for compiling such a wonderful source for increasing our understanding of history of Islam.
"A new perspective"
Tamim Ansary does an excellent job of presenting the reader with a view from the Islamic side of history. Not only is his reading of the book done in a pleasant, almost casual manner, his effort to tie important events to the western view of history is critical this story's success. I would recommend this book to any history buff, anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the muslim world, and especially teachers wise enough to know there are more views of the world than the one most of us were taught in school.
"Comprehensive yet unexciting summary of Islam"
In the introduction, the author says that he wrote this book to be more like a conversation that you would have in a bar than a dry history book listing a series of names, facts, and numbers. Unfortunately, I don't think the author succeeded in maintaining an informal tone. Instead, the book frequently entered passages dense with years and dates and names that finds the nearest exit in the reader's mind (or is it just me?). For exactly this reason, I repeatedly felt my mind wander off to other subjects.
Having said that, this book is good in the sense that the author attempts to, and partially succeeds in, filling a void. I was actually a bit embarrassed when I realized how little I knew about the origins of Islam. Before reading this book I knew that around 600 AD a dude named Mohammed claimed to be the prophet of Allah… and that he convinced a large portion of earth's population that this was indeed true. I realized of course that there was more to the story, but this book made me realize just how little I knew. This lack of knowledge I blame primarily on the school system which is too biased towards western history. This means that I am probably not the only one who don't know who Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani, despite the fact that he has been as influential as Karl Marx in shaping our world as it looks today.
I also became wiser regarding the distinctions between distinction between Shia and Sunni (I would have been wiser still if I hadn't drifted off occasionally), and how these relate to Wahhabism, which is the most extreme form of Islam and the ideological origin of ISIS. Interestingly, even in their infancy Wahhabists made a habit of killing fellow muslim for failing to convert to Islam. The confused victims, who thought they were already good muslims, failed to realize that Wahhabists does not consider the typical muslim to be a muslim at all.
I cannot say that I enjoyed this book very much. I still felt obliged to finish it, partly because I knew (know) so little about Islam, and partly because I paid for the book. I am glad that I did finish it though, because now I am a little bit less naive about Islam, which is a belief system that has shaped humanity.
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Shirley Collins - Biography
BY J Poet
Shirley Collins only made nine albums between her debut Sweet England (1959 Topic) and her decision to stop performing, but they left an indelible mark on the British folk revival, inspiring a generation of singers, most notably Sandy Denny and Jacqui McShee. Her bare bones singing style and devotion to folk tradition made her early recordings seminal documents and as she continued exploring the history of British traditional music she also recorded albums of Renaissance music and folk rock. She accompanied Alan Lomax on one of his epic song collecting trips through the American south, returning to England more dedicated than ever to traditional music. In the 70s she met and married Ashley Hutchings, who had moved from Fairport Convention, to Steeleye Span, to the Albion Country Band and became his wife and collaborator. She retired from recording and performing in 1978, although she continues to be involved in the British folk music scene. She currently gives three lecture/demonstrations – America Over the Water, an account of her travels with Alan Lomax, A Most Sunshiney Day, an appreciation of British traditional music with emphasis on the music of her native Sussex and I'm a Romany Rai, a show about Gypsy music and song in England.
Shirley Elizabeth Collins was born in 1935 in Hastings, Sussex. With her older sister and collaborator Dolly Collins, she grew up a family with a love of traditional song. Songs learned from their grandfather and their mother's sister, Grace Winborn, became the cornerstone of their repertoire.
Collins left school at 17, and shortly thereafter was introduced to Alan Lomax by Ewan MacColl. She was already interested in folk music, so when Lomax asked her to join him on a trip through the American south she went along. From July to November 1959 she helped Lomax record artists like Almeda Riddle, Hobart Smith, Bessie Jones and Mississippi Fred McDowell. She wrote a book about that trip, America Over the Water (SAF 2005), the basis for the talks she still gives about American folklore.
Back in England, she began recording traditional songs waxing several groundbreaking albums. Sweet England (1959 Argo, 1999 Topic) is a raw, primal recording of traditional songs, most a cappella, some with sparse banjo accompaniment. False True Lovers (1959 Folkways 2001 Fledg'ling) was produced by Alan Lomax, 19 a cappella songs of stunning beauty that included some of the folk revival's greatest hits – "The Foggy Dew,' "Scarborough Fair," "The Cruel Mother" and "Just as the Tide Was Flowing." In 1964 she joined with jazz guitarist Davy Graham (a big influence on Paul Simon) for Folk Roots, New Routes (1964 Topic). Graham's use of Traditional British music, blues, jazz, and Middle Eastern tonalities rocked the folk world making a big impression on future stars like Bert Jansch, John Renbourne and Jimmy Page. When Graham stopped touring with Collins, Renbourne stepped in, perhaps planting the seeds for Pentangle's similar jazz/folk fusion.
Collins began collaborating with her sister Dolly on The Sweet Primroses (1967 Topic) and The Power of the True Love Knot (1968 Polydor). Dolly played a miniature replica of a 1643 pipe organ and wrote Renaissance influenced arrangements. Anthems in Eden (1969 Harvest) continued the Renaissance feel with Dolly's arrangements played by David Munrow and his Early Music Consort. The songs traced the history of England from ancient times to World War I and won raves for Dolly's arranging and Shirley's luminous singing. Love, Death and the Lady (1970 Harvest) continued the collaboration of the Collins sisters, then Shirley shocked the folk world by going electric and recording No Roses (1971 Pegasis) with the Albion Country Band and 71 sidemen from the Renaissance music world. It's a seminal album; one of the most influential British folk rock records this side of Fairport's Liege & Lief (1969 A&M). They made a follow up years later called The Prospect Before Us (1977 Harvest).
After marrying Ashley Hutchings the couple created the Etchingham Steam Band, an all-acoustic outfit. They never made a proper album but Etchingham Steam Band (1995 Fledg'ling) collects various live performances from their 1974-75 concerts. Collins' last recorded work before retiring from the stage was For As Many As Will (1978 Topic), credited to Shirley and Dolly Collins. Dolly's arrangements are once again an innovative blend of Renaissance romance and punchy folk rock. She even plays synthesizer on some tracks, proving again that traditional music can adapt to contemporary styles without loosing its soul.
Dolly Collins never made another album and died in 1999. Shirley retired, but continues to be active in folk music circles. In recent years her contributions to folk music have been acknowledged with numerous honors. She was awarded a Gold Badge by the English Folk Dance and Song Society in 2004, an MBE for services to music in the Queen's New Year's Honors List in 2006 and given an Honorary Degree by the Open University, for her Notable contribution to education and culture in 2007. In 2008 she was given the Good Tradition award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Billy Bragg calls her "one of England's greatest cultural treasures."


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"This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;"
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26And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. 27And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. 28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. 29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; 30Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. 31Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
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