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Take Warning Presents
Matt Hires, Paradise Fears
115 NW 5th Ave
Portland, OR, 97209
7:30 PM (event ends at 11:30 PM)
This event is all ages
Mixing full-throttle rock with dollops of blue-eyed soul, vintage R&B and melodic pop radio anthems in-the-making, Parachute has arrived. With roots in Charlottesville, VA, the five members of Parachute have been friends for years and have developed a sound that is all their own. Will has been playing with drummer Johnny Stubblefield, bassist Alex Hargrave and saxophone/keyboardist Kit French since they were classmates in high school almost seven years ago. Will met Nate while attending University of Virginia together, and the guitarist joined the band three years ago. The unmistakable energy on stage is a result of their friendship, and it has helped them to find many successes within their mixed genre.
Parachute's debut album Losing Sleep was released on Mercury Records (IDJ) in May, 2009, and has sold over 100,000 copies. The album went to #1 on the iTunes and Amazon charts, and reached #39 on the Billboard Top200. In conjunction with the release, their second single "Under Control" was released as the iTunes Free Single of the Week and went on to be one of the most downloaded releases of all times with over 600,000 downloads that week. In winter 2009, the band released a holiday EP titled Winterlove which has sold over 16,000 units.
Although the band has found many successes in their studio release, their major achievements can be found on the road. In 2009, Parachute played approximately 175 shows including headlining dates and support slots for band such as Switchfoot, O.A.R., Three Doors Down and Secondhand Serenade. In November 2009, the band took off on a national tour as support for American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson's "All I Ever Wanted" Tour, which included dates in Canada. The tour was so successful, that Parachute was invited to tour with Kelly on the international leg of her tour in 2010. Other major touring opportunities in 2010 have included a co-headlining tour with Safetysuit in January (with sold out shows in New York, Boston, Minneapolis, and St. Louis, a headlining run in the UK, and an appearance on VH1's Best Cruise Ever in April.
Since their major label debut, the band has performed live on Good Morning America (ABC), The Early Show, (CBS) and Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC). Additionally, they have had songs placed on The City (MTV), One Tree Hill (CW), Vampire Diaries (CW), and 90210 (CW). Their first single, "She Is Love", was part of a major television campaign with Nivea Skincare, and was followed up by the company with a second campaign featuring the band's second single "Under Control".
This summer, the band has spent the majority of their time in Los Angeles with producer John Fields working on their new album. They will play 18 dates in their headlining tour this fall, including shows in New York, Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Austin, and two private college dates.
On his debut album, Matt Hires emerged as a golden-voiced troubadour with a penchant for setting heart-on-sleeve lyrics to sweetly infectious melody. Now, on his sophomore release entitled This World Won't Last Forever, But Tonight We Can Pretend, Hires weaves in grander arrangements, brighter hooks, and a more richly textured sound to assert himself as a formidable new force in the singer-songwriter realm.
"My favorite artists are the ones who keep making records that give you something different from what came before, but still hold onto their own unique sound overall," says the 27-year-old Tampa-based singer/guitarist. "With this album, I pushed into the direction of making music that's more fun and pop-oriented but also retains that sense of honesty that I've always valued as a songwriter."
Indeed, the album offers up more than its share of sing-along-worthy melodies and sunny harmonies, all while elegantly showcasing Hires's warm yet masterful vocal work. At the same time, the album bears a bigger, more bombastic energy that reveals the deep-seated influence of rock-and-roll heroes like The Band and Bruce Springsteen. And all throughout the album (the follow-up to 2008's Take Us To The Start), Hires delivers delicately rendered lyrics that shift between sharp-eyed social commentary and strikingly intimate storytelling. "Even though I broke out of the traditional singer-songwriter mold, there are still some songs that are very confessional," Hires notes. "At heart, I'm still that guy strumming an acoustic guitar in his bedroom."
For help in reshaping and expanding his sound, Hires reunited with Eric Rosse (producer on Take Us To The Start, as well as Tori Amos's Little Earthquakes and Grammy-nominated Under the Pink). To shake up his song-crafting approach, he also teamed up with songwriters like Alex Dezen (singer/guitarist for The Damnwells) and Busbee (who's previously worked with artists ranging from Kid Cudi and Katy Perry to Liz Phair and Lady Antebellum). "When you get into a groove with another songwriter, it's the most fun thing in the world," says Hires. "With every co-write I've done, I've taken away something from my collaborators and used that to develop my own writing."
Right from the opening track, the album radiates with a shimmering intensity that reflects both sophistication in songwriting and purity of spirit. Pairing tender harmonies with tense, urgent strings, "Forever" captures the bittersweet longing to freeze time and preserve a perfect moment with the one you love ("I wish that we could lay right here and never think about our fears forever," sings Hires). On the flipside of that starry-eyed love song is "Restless Heart," a bright and bouncy folk-pop pastiche fueled by chiming guitars and a barrage of kiss-off lyrics ("Pretty girls come from the ugliest places/You come from the worst of them all/Heartbreakers like you are hard to erase/You lift me up just so I'll fall"). "It's about a girl most of us have met, the heartbreaker who wants to get you to fall for her and then just move on to the next guy," explains Hires of "Restless Heart, an ultimately triumphant track featuring "I won't let you break my heart" as its coda. "It's sort of an anti-love-song, telling that girl 'You're not gonna get it from me,'" he adds.
Elsewhere on the album, Hires takes on weightier material while maintaining a defiantly hopeful mood. On the slow-building, piano-laced epic "I Am Not Here," for instance, he sorrowfully serenades "ex-girlfriends and kids with guns" before acknowledging that "Things are getting better/Better late than never." ("That's a searching sort of song," says Hires. "It's for anyone trying to figure out where they fit into the world.") And on "When I Was Young" ("the best song I've ever written," according to Hires), he turns a melancholy, midtempo melody into a soaring tribute to reclaiming youthful optimism and "living this life like I'm never gonna die."
For Hires, striking the balance between heady emotionalism and killer hooks stemmed in part from years of studying a diversity of songwriting styles. "When I was 16 and first started writing songs, I was mostly into bands like Dashboard Confessional and all their angsty songs about falling in love and getting your heart broken," says Hires, who learned to play music on a handmade guitar given to him by his father. "From there I moved on to the musicians who influenced the artists I loved, which is how I discovered Bob Dylan, especially his early acoustic solo work."
An ardent fan of legendary songsmiths like The Beatles, The Byrds, and Tom Petty, Hires also found inspiration in the earnest, earthy alt-rock of contemporary artists like Wilco and Coldplay. He channeled that inspiration into his first band, Brer, then struck out on his own as a solo artist—and, at age 23, released his first album for F-Stop/Atlantic Records. Shooting to the top 10 on iTunes' overall "Top Singer/Songwriters Albums" chart, Take Us To The Start instantly announced Hires as an uncommonly authentic pop-rock phenom.
It wasn't until recently that a happy accident led Hires to explore his poppier side. "About a year ago, the CD player in my car broke, so I started listening to a lot of pop radio," says Hires, who identifies himself as a newfound fan of Bruno Mars. "From there I began to incorporate some of those pop elements into my own songs, like those simple and catchy melodies."
But no matter how melodic and tuneful the tracks on the new album, Hires remains first and foremost devoted to infusing his songs with an unwavering honesty. "I always go into it thinking that I just want to write the best song that I can," he says. "I just do my best to let a song be what it wants to be, rather than try to force it into something that isn't genuine." And as he continues to hone his songwriting chops, Hires adds, upholding that genuineness becomes more and more empowering. "It's scary to tell the truth in your lyrics, to get up and sing about things that you're afraid to talk about in the day to day," he says. "But the more songs I write, the more honest I'm able to be. And as long as I do this on my own terms, I know I'll be able to keep on telling stories and making something meaningful with my music."
June 14, 2010 was a big day for six high school/ college students in Vermillion, South Dakota.
June 14, 2011 will be a bigger day.
On the former, they decided to put off the next year of college, giving themselves 365 days to make a career out of rock n' roll.
On the latter, Paradise Fears will release "Yours Truly," their debut full-length album, as one of the most potent and rapidly-growing young pop rock acts in the country.
In July 2010, just months after the majority of the band's high school graduation, they released Make Them Believe EP, produced by Jordan Schmidt (All Time Low, Sing it Loud). In just 8 months, the album has sold several thousand copies nation-wide, and the band's career has taken off. They've completed nation-wide tours with Quietdrive and Floral Terrace across 32 different states, and have shared the stage with acts like Stereo Skyline, The Audition, and You, Me, and Everyone We Know.
Coming from a town of 3,000 year round residents in a state noted for its lack of a music scene, nothing has come easy. But these six kids grew up fast. "It's been an entirely self taught process...with a very steep learning curve. We've had to teach ourselves how to promote, how to book shows, how to tour, how to record, everything…but it gives us a very unique approach, because in our area, what we're doing is so unprecedented that we haven't fallen victim the generic, cookie-cutter career path, and instead we've received a tremendous amount of support from our home town." explained lead singer Sam Miller.
Though they may be young, Paradise Fears has several things going for them:
First, an incredibly energetic and engaging live show that can win over even the most uninterested bystander, described by one Battle of the Bands judge as "N'Sync meets a UFC cage match." They were crowned champions of a 65-band, Midwest-wide Battle of the Bands in October, sponsored by Rawkzilla magazine, scoring them $14,000 in endorsements, equipment, and cash. Their performance, described by Paul Pederson (Prince, Steve Miller band), was "absolutely spectacular, one in a million, and completely breath-taking."
Second, an arsenal of infectiously catchy and musically developed rock-pop songs, some of which received airplay on top 40 radio stations throughout the Midwest. David Hooper of Music Business Radio described Make Them Believe as "catchy and remarkably polished, particularly given the age [of the members.]"
Third, an incredibly loyal internet following of all different ages. In just 8 months, their Facebook, Twitter, and social networking profiles have acquired tens of thousands of fans/ followers, and are still rapidly expanding by hundreds daily. "One of the best parts about our style of music has always been that it's not limited - it's the kind of music that someone can appreciate with their 12-year-old sister or their 70-year-old grandmother," said keyboard-player Michael Walker.
Finally, and most importantly, an insatiable drive for success. Paradise Fears is constantly touring or recording, and when they aren't, they're exploring new and creative ways of expanding their fan base. Most recently, the band split into three teams, racing around the country following large tours in a competition to meet the most potential listeners. 50,000 miles, 10,000 demos, and 5,000 CDs later, their "Amazing Race" has created both hundreds of fans and a Paradise Fears buzz in every major market in the United States.
The large-scale release of a full-length album will be a huge step forward in the band's career. Recording time for "Yours Truly" was split between Schmidt and Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount (Mayday Parade, Cartel). It will feature 11 new songs, tremendously evolved in music and lyrics. "It's a new found maturity for us...these songs are real. We wrote songs about people we love, songs about people we hate, songs that tell stories…it's an album full of songs we really love," described guitarist Cole Andre.
But why so independent? Says Miller, "That's the way we want to do it, and the dream we've always envisioned. We're financing it, we're writing it, we're releasing it, we're promoting it. It started out as just the six of us, and come good or come bad, we've still always got that. We're committed to being able to make it ourselves."
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Pillow Book, Japanese Makura No Sōshi, (c. 1000), title of a book of reminiscences and impressions by the 11th-century Japanese court lady Sei Shōnagon. Whether the title was generic and whether Sei Shōnagon herself used it is not known, but other diaries of the Heian period (794–1185) indicate that such journals may have been kept by both men and women in their sleeping quarters, hence the name. The entries in Makura no sōshi, although some are dated, are not in chronological order but rather are divided under such headings as "Amusing Things" and "Vexatious Things." A complete English translation of Makura no sōshi by Ivan Morris appeared in 1967 (The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon). The Pillow Book belongs to the genre of zuihitsu ("random jottings"). Tsurezuregusa, by Yoshida Kenkō, is an outstanding 14th-century example of this genre.
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MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell makes no secret that he believes the solution to America's nagging economic malaise (prolonged unemployment – five years of unemployment over 7.5%, rising prices for gas and food, stagnant business growth, etc.) is very simple – more government intervention (he's also admitted to being a socialist).
O'Donnell's theory is part of a :15 second promo now running on the network.
About two years ago, MSNBC filmed a host of personality promos for their on-air talent. Since then, the network has posted the promos on their website and on a YouTube channel called "MSNBC Lean Forward." These clips feature Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton and of course, O'Donnell — all of the marquee talent from the liberal news/talk cable channel.
However, they have neglected to post one very bold and blunt one from O'Donnell's — one that is currently being aired on the network that praises government intervention. In it, O'Donnell says:
Politics is controlling everything now. And politics is controlling trying to get this country back to work.
We know how to do it, we've known how to do it for decades! (At this point he emphatically points his finger)
We got out of the Depression. Government led the way out of the Depression. That's how we did it.
When this economy gets in trouble, we need government to help us get back to work.
What O'Donnell's promo fails to acknowledge is that government has been very involved with the anemic economy for more than five years.
President Obama's massive $832 billion dollar stimulus package has done virtually nothing to spike the employment problem. Townhall just declared the past four years of recovery to be "Feeble."
Last summer, Forbes magazine labeled Obama "The Biggest Government Spender In The History Of The World."
Detroit's bankruptcy has been in the news for less than a week, and massive government appears to be at the root of the gigantic failure of a city that was once one of America's and the world's greatest places to live and work. And yet, MSNBC and Mr. O'Donnell seem to believe the answer is more government.
Here is the entire :15 promo.
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Friday, February 04, 2011
My Giant Pre-Order Thank You
Emily - your swag pack already went out. The mega prize will come separately. Congrats!
Why is this called a "thank you"? Why not a contest or a giveaway?
Because everyone wins.
Pre-order Clarity from your favorite bookseller and I will send you a Kim Thanks You For Being Awesome Swag Pack (I should trademark that title). This includes: a signed bookplate for you to stick in the book, a signed bookmark, and a Clarity sticker!
But, since contests are fun, one entry will be chosen at random to win The Mega Thank You (wow, an even better title). This includes: a signed, super special* Clarity hardcover, a signed bookmark, a Clarity sticker, Cape Cod touristy gifts, a $10 iTunes Gift Card to go with the Clarity playlist, and…a handwritten note containing the first line of sequel.
*I realize it's kind of weird to give a copy of Clarity as a prize to someone who…bought Clarity, but this one is special. I will sign it and mark it up throughout so it will truly be one of a kind. I'll underline my favorite passages. Circle the passage I wish I could edit out but it's too late. Include little secrets in the margins like where certain names came from and what real places inspired my fictional settings. There will be lots of cool notes! And then you can give the copy you pre-ordered to a friend and she'll think you're awesome. So there's that.
How to enter:
It's easy. Just pre-order Clarity from your favorite bookseller – Indiebound, Amazon, B&N, Borders, The Book Depository, etc. -- and email the e-receipt to me at [redacted]. I will then mail you your swag pack and enter you for the Mega Thank You. (This is the only way to enter/receive a swag pack. I can't go by the honor system on this one. I need the receipt.)
International peeps can enter to win the Mega Thank You, but the "everyone wins" swag packs are for U.S. only, sorry. The postage is going to kill me enough as it is. ;)
Contest ends 2/11/11. Note: I may have to close the contest earlier if I run out of swag!
Thank you! And please pass this on!
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The book with your notes in it - totally awesome. I'm very excited about CLARITY, can't wait for March 1st!ReplyDelete
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I'm really excited about your novel and it's been on pre-order for a while. Now to go hunt it out in my email inbox. Thanks so much for this giveaway!ReplyDelete
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Aw well! I will still pick up the book when I find it in stores here :D I've been eager to read it for a while!
Holy Awesome Contest, Batman! I've preordered and made mention of the contest over on my blog too. =)ReplyDelete
I was planning on buying Clarity at the launch party, but I just pre-ordered it anyway. I had to pre-order with that awesome swag up for grabs. Thanks!!ReplyDelete
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What an awesome program. I just pre-ordered my copy, and look forward to reading it. Good luck!ReplyDelete
I just emailed you my receipt :) Very awesome of you - thank you!!ReplyDelete
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The Bottom Line / The Students Must Pay Their Fair Share, Too
If there is something that can stir Israeli college students from their stoic tranquility, it is messing with their tuition. Itty Sonschein, chairman of the National Student Union, has suggested very strongly that there will be a student strike should the Finance Ministry attempt to raise tuition rates. Remarking on a nation whose only natural resource is human, he notes that access to a higher education must not be impeded.
Sonschein mentions that the students will be willing to protest. It is interesting to note that they will take to the streets in order to prevent any increase to their tuition, but do not even give a second thought to the idea of fighting for an improvement in scholarship conditions for weaker students. Nor do they consider fighting for improved access to student loans.
There is a reason for all this. Very few students take scholarships, possibly because acceptance standards are such that children from underprivileged families just do not succeed in getting in. Even fewer are the numbers of students who finance their education with loans. The fact is that students in Israel, unlike their American counterparts, do not need financial assistance for college - it is inexpensive enough as it is.
Tuition in Israel is cheap even when compared with figures from around the world. In Israel, a student pays $2,500 per year (rates are adjusted). In Australia, a student pays $5,800 (and this before an expected 25 percent increase); in Britain, up to $4,800; in Japan, $4,500; and in Canada, $4,300. Going south from there to the U.S., a student can find himself paying up to $13,000 on average.
On the other hand, if one manages to get to Socialist-Democratic Norway, one can get away with paying only $1,500. But the Norwegian way is disappearing from the world. A study conducted in the United States reveals that in the majority of states, the trend is toward ever-increasing tuition rates. This includes nations that historically did not charge tuition at all, and only started to do so recently, such as Germany.
Tuition is cheap here by local standards too. University tuition today stands at about NIS 8,000 a year, and this following the recommendations of the Winograd Committee - the same Winograd who is supposed to assess the results of the war - to lower tuition. Even prior to tuition being lowered, student loans were left unspoken for, a sign that Israeli students do not really need them.
It is not difficult to conclude: Private colleges are succeeding in Israel, even though the cost of attending one can reach NIS 25,000, three times as high as at public institutions, and despite the fact that, hands down, the public institutions are of far higher quality. The Treasury Ministry is now suggesting raising tuition to NIS 14,000 over a period of six years.
Israeli students do not resort to loans even though they could easily do so. Academic studies are one of the best investments for students interested in increasing their earning power. It is not by chance that the growth of the numbers enrolled in graduate programs is concentrated in the areas of business, law and education, the three fields where degrees automatically translate into higher earning potentials. Alternatively, in the graduate research fields, there is no noticeable rise in student numbers.
And even given the already inexpensive costs of education here by any standard, students will not hesitate to protest leaving things as they are. If the students would like to learn how to run a student protest, they can do what the French students did back in '68 when they almost toppled the government, and brought the country to the brink of anarchy with their protests.
If Israeli students would also like to take the time to research what happens to the decision-making process in a democratic country on the brink of anarchy, they can explore the giant wave of protests that same year in France. That wave resulted in free French higher education.
Today, almost 40 years later, the real cost of that free education is more evident than ever. Funds set aside for higher education in France are lower than those set aside for elementary schools; universities there have lost their solid reputation; a diploma from a public institution does not offer any advantage in the workplace; and whoever can afford to, either goes to study abroad or enrolls in one of the private schools.
What happened in France is not an unknown in the university world around the globe: the cost of funding research - for example, of setting up a well-equipped laboratory - is constantly on the rise. At the same time, global competition for good professors is intensifying. A popular professor in Germany, France or Israel can get job offers from any successful university in the world, with a package that would include moving costs. Additionally, they can get an almost unlimited expense account for research purposes. Few are the academics who would not be enticed by offers such as these.
This is exactly where Israeli universities find themselves today. The sad truth is that the universities here are slowly deteriorating, with their heyday long past. Saving these academic institutions is crucial, but the state, which already spends NIS 6 billion a year for university budgets, cannot do it alone. The students have to pay their share. It is interesting that for this, they are not so willing to take to the streets.
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Biden to raise money for Iowa Democratic candidateBy JOSH LEDERMAN , Associated Press
Sep. 23, 2013 10:02 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is planning a fundraiser for Iowa congressional candidate Jim Mowrer.
The White House says Biden will attend the private event Tuesday at a home in Washington.
Biden has been raising money for Democratic committees, but it's rare for him to hold fundraisers for individual House candidates.
This isn't Biden's first event benefiting Iowa Democrats. He traveled to Iowa last week for a major annual fundraiser that frequently attracts potential presidential candidates.
Iowa's caucuses kick off the presidential primary season every four years. Biden hasn't ruled out a third run for president in 2016.
Biden is also hosting Jewish community leaders at his official residence Tuesday. On Wednesday, he'll speak in New York at an awards show during the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.
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The beauty of concluding all the holidays that start with Rosh Hashanah and conclude with Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah is that we're able to start reading Genesis again in shul.
Each time we start reading the Torah from the beginning, it provides us with another opportunity to ask familiar questions about God and creation, and to search for more diverse answers. The questions may remain the same, but the choice of answers can indicate our growth.
While reading about the beginnings of the universe, the verse where God discusses the creation of humanity is always an anomaly. The Torah states that God says: "Let us create a human being in our image." Of course the obvious and recurring question remains: to whom is God speaking? And if we're able to surmise whom God is talking to, a second question remains: why would God need anyone else's opinion on the matter?
Rabbinic literature offers many possible explanations to these questions. On the one hand, a sage in the midrash suggests that God is speaking in what we today would call "the royal we." That is, the holiness of God necessitates using only the formality of language that would distance royalty from commoners. It's too personal to speak of God in the first person. And yet the very first word God utters to the Jewish people as a collective is the word "Anochi," "I am," a clear statement of the personal.
Another opinion in the midrash is that God is addressing the angels, who immediately construct quite valid arguments as to why creating a human being would be a terrible idea. The angels' arguments focus on issues that define the human condition and that would introduce discord into the created design. Reading this midrash is difficult, because the reader tends to side with the angels. Interestingly, while the angels are preoccupied with stating their case, God creates humanity and then ends the angels' arguments by proclaiming that it's a done deed.
The problem is that the question still remains. It seems common among the sages to accept that God is speaking with the angels, but why ask their opinion on anything, especially if in the end their opinion is ignored?
There's a beautiful midrash that introduces the idea of God modelling for creation how one should deal with decisions. There are always two options to problem-solving. One option is to unilaterally decide and dictate. The other option is to open the door of discourse and consult. This option doesn't mean you're handing the decision over to someone else, but rather inviting another voice to become part of the process.
God has consulted with beings who are lesser in stature and intelligence, the angels. It's a powerful model of true consultation in that it recognizes that every free-willed soul has an opinion to consider.
This one verse opens the door for all human beings to understand that as wise as we think we are, there's always another voice to hear and another perspective to consider.
This is put beautifully by Ben Zoma in Pirkei Avot: "Who is wise? The one who learns from everyone."


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Sipdown, 186. Cold brew.
This one really shines as a cold brew. Of course I also have come to realize that I really like cold brew apple teas. Anyway, to me this tastes even more like dried apple chips, and it is much less cinnamony overall. It was also super pretty in the glass bottle, where you could see the shimmeries all throughout the tea. When I brewed it hot the shimmeries looked like a oil sheen on the top of the cup, but here they were gorgeous. And it was very appley and sweet with a hint of tartness. I really enjoyed this one as a cold brew!


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What do you do after your band's first two albums sell a million copies combined? What do you do for Act III? There's pressure and expectation. And a quandary: Over-evolve, and you alienate your fan base. Don't evolve enough, and people (critics) will say you just sound the same. It's here that we find LA band Silversun Pickups, whose first two albums, Carnavas and Swoon, sold more than a million copies. For their Act III, Neck of the Woods, the band headed 30 miles northwest of their Silver Lake home to Jacknife Lee's studio in Topanga Canyon. Lee is deft and experienced in appropriately evolving established bands—his production credits include U2, Weezer, R.E.M., Bloc Party, and the Cars. Silversun's alternative, radio-ready garage rock is more ominous and dramatic on Neck of the Woods, shifting toward more electronic and synth-based sounds. Drummer Chris Guanlao spoke from the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank prior to their taping for Conan O'Brien's Conan.
What song are you playing for the show? Who decides which one?
The management and the record label usually decide. Right now, they're pushing "The Pit" as a single, so we're playing that one. We don't really have that much choice [laughs]. We do voice our opinion, but a lot of the time we're like, "Whatever you think is best." We don't mind radio edits, either; they can do whatever they want with the radio edit as long as we have the album track on the record. Live, we'll usually do the album version, but for shows like this, we'll do the radio version.
Live, you do the Allman Brothers' 45-minute "Mountain Jam."
We should. Maybe for our Seattle show.
Conan's like seven feet two.
He's tall. I'm not tall. When I stand next to him, he's like three times my size. This is our third time on Conan, the first since he's been on TBS. We're big fans.
Who is the guest on the show? Is it Octomom? Or Frodo Baggins/Elijah Wood?
I don't know [laughs and checks schedule]. It is... Dax Shepard from Punk'd, I think. And I believe he has a movie coming out, Hit and Run. I feel like his press agent now.
They could at least have Frodo Baggins on there for you guys, shit.
I know. When we were on Jimmy Fallon, Harrison Ford was the guest. We were so stoked about it, just to be in the same room with him. But he'd taped his interview a week earlier, so we didn't even get to see him. We did do Jimmy Kimmel with Johnny Depp, and that was cool. We saw him from a distance, but they kept him pretty closed off.
Whose TV show has the best greenroom?
Jimmy Kimmel's. There's a wine bar and hors d'oeuvres; they invite a lot people, so you feel like it's a club.
Do you guys get crazy with the rider?
We're pretty tame, to be honest. We have reduced-fat cheeses on there. By the end of the day, the cheeses are gone. One weird thing I request is alkaline water [laughs]. It's supposed to be better—the molecules are smaller, so it's supposedly good for your blood. It's not very easy to find, but when they actually have it for us, I drink that shit up.
Do you interact much with the house band when y'all tape for shows like that? Those dudes are always the most amazing and fluid musicians.
They're like real musicians. And usually they're really friendly. There's a camaraderie, I guess—if they see gear they're into, they'll ask you about it. Even Paul Shaffer was nice. You would think he and his band would be so jaded and over it, and yet they were so nice. I mean, I'm from LA; I tried to play it cool when I met him, but inside I was geeking out.
You're from LA. You probably have brunch with Anthony Kiedis all the time.
I have yet to have brunch with Anthony [laughs]. He's on a better side of LA.
Did you meet the Roots when you played Jimmy Fallon?
Yes. They're insanely good. Questlove is incredible. That was the most nerve-racking performance. That studio is pretty cramped, so when you play, the Roots are right on top of you—literally right next to you, staring at you, six feet away. When you perform, they don't leave their instruments. It messed with my head [laughs]. I was thinking, "Oh my God, I'm not worthy. They know I'm a horrible drummer." Every year for the Grammys, the Roots host a party where they invite people to come jam with them. They asked us to do it, but we had to decline. Not because we didn't want to do it, but because we're not musicians like they are—we would have made fools out of ourselves! I hope they didn't think anything of it; it was purely because we were afraid.
Why is your producer Jacknife Lee a "Jacknife"?
That's a good question. I've never asked him. His real first name is Garrett, and he introduced himself as Garrett. I just call him Jacknife, though, which he responds to. He's produced some awesome records over the years, so he deserves an awesome nickname. He signs e-mails as Jacknife.
How long did Neck of the Woods take to record? Did you all live at Jacknife's studio while you recorded?
No, we commuted. We took about eight weeks to do the album, which was the fastest we've ever recorded an album. Our other records were anywhere from three to six months, so it was nice to not have it linger. I think it's the way Jacknife produces. He's got it dialed in, knows specifically what sounds to get and doesn't waste time. My drums were set up the entire eight weeks. I'd be there, and he'd say, "We need something for this part," so I'd go in and throw something down. Then we'd move on. We looked at drums as textures, which was different.
What's the most takes you did for a song? Is Jacknife a 90-take producer?
No, not at all. Dave Cooley, who did our first two records, was more traditional that way. With Cooley, we did drum tracks first, and I would do 10 or 15 takes of a song. With Jacknife, he would say, "Go in there and try something." So I'd go in and do it. Then he'd say, "Try something else. Maybe a fill in the middle." So I'd do that. And then he'd be like, "Cool, thanks." For the first few weeks, I didn't think he was getting anything [laughs]. I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, but he got it all together. It was hard to conceptualize a song—we'd do verses and choruses separately, or sometimes we'd go back to a song weeks later and do the chorus. We really had to trust Jacknife and his vision of where he wanted to take the songs. The first week, we had a lot of head scratching and butting of heads. But once we learned each other, and the trust was there, it went smoothly.
How did the first single, "Bloody Mary," come together?
It's funny, the finished version of that song is so different than the original. That song was supposed to be on our previous album Swoon, but it never made it past the practice space. We had around 16 or 17 songs, but for budget reasons, we didn't have time to do all of them in the studio. We forgot about it for almost a year until we got together to write for Neck of the Woods and Brian [Aubert] brought it up. When we showed it to Jacknife, he cut out the fat and changed it completely. He pushed me to change the drumbeat, and I'm glad he did. It's more dancey now. And that's something that we hadn't really explored.
So is it Bloody Mary, the ghost in the mirror? Or Bloody Mary, the delicious alcoholic brunch drink with tomato juice?
It's the ghost. A lot of people think it's the drink. It's misleading, because we love Bloody Marys, the brunch drink, especially at airports.
Except when you guys say "Bloody Mary" three times in front of the mirror, instead of seeing a bloody girl, a drink pops into your hand. Your record label should come out with a Silversun Pickups Bloody Mary Mix. Hello, genius marketing idea.
They did! Dangerbird did that as a promo, which we thought was cool. I haven't actually tried it. Hopefully it's as good as the Trader Joe's one.
Good luck on Conan today. Don't drink too much alkaline water. Are you just caked in makeup right now? Don't glisten on HD, whatever you do.
I'm sure they'll powder us. Hopefully I don't glisten too much.


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Listen to British rocker Jarvis Cocker read the story "Descent of Species" from Sum. He is one of the dozens of terrific voices who read for the audio book.
Read a profile of David in The New Yorker: The Possibilian: What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain by Burkhard Bilger.


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With Apple (AAPL) expected to unveil the next version of the iPad early next month, I worry that I'll feel like a kid on Christmas who weeks before found the unwrapped presents hidden in the closet.
I'm concerned there won't be any surprises, that I already know all there is to know about it.
Here's hoping that Apple proves me wrong.
While company officials have declined to comment about the new iPad on the record, specifications for the device have been widely reported in the press.
The iPad 3, as it's been unofficially dubbed, is expected to have a screen with twice the resolution of the first two models. It's expected to have a faster processor, likely one with 4 cores, and 4G network capability. It also will almost certainly have an improved graphics processor to make all the images on that high-resolution screen look pretty and move smoothly.
Oh, and it might have a new camera, if recent pictures that surfaced supposedly depicting the back case of the iPad 3 are any indication.
I'm not dismissing these upgrades. The high-resolution display that Apple put into the iPhone 4 and its successor looks stunning compared to the ones used in older models. I'm sure the one in the iPad 3 will be similarly impressive. Processor upgrades are generally a welcome addition, because they enable new features and new kinds of applications. And the front- and rear-facing cameras on the iPad 2 are awful; I'd love to see those upgraded.
I'm not going to argue that Apple needs to make radical changes to the iPad. The device has been a runaway success, dominating the tablet market since the first version launched.
The tablets that tried to go head-to-head with the iPad — such as Research in Motion's PlayBook, Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) TouchPad and Motorola's Xoom — all failed to knock it from its perch. While Amazon's Kindle Fire is gaining fans and Windows 8 tablets represent another potential challenge, there's little indication that either represent a real threat to Apple's dominance.
So my plea for novelty is mainly selfish; I'd like to see something I didn't expect.
The upgrades in the iPad 3 either have been long expected or represent logical, incremental changes. Either way, they're nothing to get worked up about.
So what would get me excited? Here are a few possibilities:
I know, Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs said that size just doesn't work for a tablet, but the success of the Kindle Fire and the millions of e-book readers Amazon and other companies have sold argues against that.
Here's where a smaller iPad could help. A smaller size and a smaller, lower-resolution screen would cost a lot less to make than the current version, allowing Apple to offer a low-price model.
Unfortunately, the on-screen keyboard is too slow and an external keyboard too unwieldy. Some apps let you write with your fingertip or an optional stylus, and some recognize handwriting, but only within that particular application. I'd like to see the feature available within some of the devices' native applications, such as notes and reminders.
This feature would be something of a back-to-the-future play for Apple. The Newton, Apple's first tablet-like device, included handwriting recognition that was widely mocked for the poor job it did. But the technology has come a long way since then.
Still, when it works, Siri is very cool. It can make searching for information on the iPhone much easier than having to find and launch a particular application. So, I'd love to see the iPad be able to use it too.
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Akiba's Trip 2 will be on display at GungHo Online Entertainment's booth during the Tokyo Game Show next week, Acquire has announced.
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Three hours later, at 2:00 p.m., a talk show stage event featuring Luna Haruna as a guest will be held at the Dengeki booth. This one will be broadcasted live on Nico Nico.
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Watson: (to Holmes, about Agent Drummond) She predicted your drug problem. So what? You got clean. You picked up your career right where you left off. And you even made a friend, something that Kathryn claimed in her article was virtually impossible. Me. I'm talking about me. Look, my point is that, the only thing that anyone can predict about people with 100 percent certainty is that they'll change. And anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.
Ennis: You want me to stop doing what I'm doing, Captain Gregson of the NYPD? All you have to do is give me Kathryn Drummond.
Holmes: I think his demands are quite reasonable.
Holmes: (sees Drummond) Oh, speaking of vermin.
Watson: What is it with you and that woman? It's obviously more than just hating profilers.
Holmes: If you're asking if we had sex, the answer is yes, obviously.
Watson: Oh, so she's an ex?
Holmes: More like a C, C-plus at best. We had an arrangement while she was in London, similar to the arrangement I have with other women here in New York. We performed the act of love loudly and repeatedly, without any actual love, or even any like. I would describe it as an act of self-love were it not for the fact that she was technically present.
Watson: I get it.
Watson: (about Agent Drummond) You know her?
Holmes: We worked together when an American serial killer came to London. She's a buffoon. All profilers are. They're snake oil salesmen who cast maladjusted closet cases as criminal geniuses in the media. The profilers, in turn, can be super-geniuses when the killers are caught.
Watson: Isn't profiling part of what you do?
Holmes: I deduce. Enormous difference.
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- Music studio
- Extensive training facilities and experience, especially with aspirational local young people and performing artists
- Leisurely, lofty open spaces, complete with a pool table and a roof terrace in development
It was remarkable to find that an extensive, self-funded facility like this has come so far in the heart of Birmingham without a big publicity drive - the invite to ourselves was the beginning of the Qube's initiatives, which will be well worth following in future, at http://www.media-kube.com/.
The Producers' Forum is always looking for interesting facilities to host our events, for mutual benefit - if you think that your facility could be of interest, email email@example.com. Note that for the time being, our events and membership are centred upon Birmingham and the surrounding region - but we're certainly keen to expand soon!


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A report released earlier this week by The Analysis Group, entitled "The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on Ten Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States," tracked the dollars collected and spent by the program over RGGI's first three years of existence. The report finds that the program, despite continuous criticism from conservatives as being burdensome and costly, added a net value of $1.6 billion to the ten member states, or roughly, $33 per person.
According to their website, "The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is the first market-based regulatory program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states have capped and will reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector 10 percent by 2018."
The mandatory cap and trade program works by selling emissions allowances to utilities, through auctions, and then invests the proceeds in efficiency, renewables and other clean technologies. Under the provisions, each can spend the money as they see fit.
The program was conceived as a way to spur investment and innovation in clean energy technology.
According to the report, utilities paid $912 million for the allowances in the period from mid-2008 through September of this year. This resulted in higher electricity rates that now reflected the social and environmental cost of carbon emissions. The funds were distributed into the states' economies, based on each state's priority. In general, investments were made in energy efficiency, renewables, direct utility assistance to low-income families, and education and job-training programs. Anywhere from 3-27 percent, depending on the state, went into the states' general funds. Overall, more than 80 percent of the proceeds were directly invested in strategic energy programs.
Following the money, we see that the program costs utilities a total of $1.6 billion over the period in question. At the same time, consumers saw reductions in their utility bills of $2.1 billion, despite rate increases, because of the immediate impact of energy efficiency measures. This reflects average savings of $25 for residential consumers, commercial customers saved $181, and industrial customers saved $2,493 over the study period. These might not seem like particularly large savings, but keep in mind that the program's primary goal was to reduce CO2 emissions, which critics claimed would cost lots of money, rather than saving any. Then there was an additional $1.1 billion collected by the states and disbursed into their local economies as described above.
According to the report, "…use of RGGI auction proceeds on programs leads to more purchases of goods and services in the economy (e.g., engineering services for energy audits, more sales of energy efficiency equipment, labor for installing solar panels, dollars spent to train those installers and educators, and so forth). Together, these dollar flows have direct and indirect multiplier effects locally and regionally."
The multiplier effect of the spending depends on how the proceeds were spent. Those states that invested heavily in efficiency measures saw significant benefits in their electric systems, even before looking at the macroeconomic impacts.
Meanwhile, in NJ, Governor Chris Christie withdrew from the initiative, effective at the end of this year. He claimed that, ""RGGI has not changed behavior and it does not reduce emissions." Furthermore, he said, "RGGI does nothing more than tax electricity, tax our citizens, tax our businesses, with no discernible or measurable impact upon our environment."
However this ignores the facts, released in a report that came out the same day as his announcement which showed an 8.1% reduction in greenhouse gases, with the largest portion coming from the electric generation section, in the year from 2007-8, a period when NJ was heavily involved in RGGI.
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I think more than anything that's the proudest I am of these guys, just how ritualized working hard has become. They don't know anything else other than, here's a volleyball match and we are going to go after it as hard as we can. —Chris McGown, coach
PROVO — USC may have been welcomed to the Smith Fieldhouse Saturday night in Provo, but there would be no Trojan Horse as the BYU's men's volleyball team was ready for anything and everything thrown at it en route to a straight set victory (25-14, 25-15, 26-24).
BYU seemed to be firing on all cylinders for Senior Night and on the road to postseason success, but there is room for improvement, according to head coach Chris McGown.
"The message we gave to the guys was twofold," McGown said. "We said this is wonderful watching the way you guys have played lately, the last four or five weeks we feel like we keep getting better. And that was the second point, we said there's still some upside to this team. We haven't tapped the entirety of how good we can be. And so we talked about it, get back to work Monday, let's get back to work. There were a few plays that we didn't execute, we need to clean things up and get a few more reps and get better at executing a bunch of little things, but I like the way we are playing and it feels like we are continuing to get better."
McGown has been preaching all season that his team needed to continually improve and be playing its best as the season begins to wind down, and his Cougars appear to be doing just that.
"Just about everything (was working), we played a really complete match. I thought we were great offensively, we held them to a pretty low hitting percentage (.171). We sided out at a really high level, we dug the ball well, we blocked the ball well, I think we made it really difficult for them to get anything going on offense. I think we are starting to put together a string of nice matches where we play pretty complete volleyball, it's been pretty fun," McGown said.
"I think we are really starting to feel it offensively. I feel like we've got confidence at every position, because we can attack from a lot of different positions, I think it makes it tough on teams to defend against us."
While Saturday's match may have technically been the final home contest for BYU's seniors, it doesn't even register as a possibility for McGown. When asked what the win meant for his seniors, McGown minimized any significance.
"Not a lot to be honest with you," McGown said. "Because we plan on being back here, this isn't the last match we expect to play in the fieldhouse. We expect to host a tournament game, and there's a lot of volleyball left to be played over the next two weeks. But we feel like we've put ourselves in a good position to host the MPSF tournament if we keep playing this way."
Freshman Ben Patch has been a work in progress who has polished up quite nicely for BYU and may have stolen the show with the play of the night.
"There was a play, maybe in the second set where (Ryan) Boyce threw a ball all the way across the court to him (Patch) that was a little bit tight, and Ben jumped from behind the three meter line and took it down the line. I don't know how many people realized what an athletic play that was to take a ball that was set cross court, putting it down the line and chasing it that high. It actually gave me chills, I saw that and Rob (Neilson) and I looked at each other and just went — wow!" McGown said.
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"I think more than anything that's the proudest I am of these guys, just how ritualized working hard has become," McGown said. "They don't know anything else other than, here's a volleyball match and we are going to go after it as hard as we can. We don't care who we're playing, we don't care where we are playing, we are just going to go really hard, and that's been fun to see."
BYU will travel to Southern California to take on UC Santa Barbara and UCLA next weekend as it preps for the MPSF tournament that tips off April 20.
Jonathan Boldt is a sports writing intern for the Deseret News covering the Utah Valley. He can be reached at email@example.com and follow him on Twitter @jboldt24 — www.boldted.com


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William Daurell Noble, Jr., 34, of Lorain, passed away Wednesday, October 16, 2013 in Cleveland Clinic unexpectedly. He was born August 25, 1979 in Cleveland and had lived in Lorain all his life.
He graduated from Clearview High School in 1998. While in high school he played football and ran track. He was avid sports fan. He was a football coach for the peewee league in Lorain.
He will be sadly missed by his mother, Veronica Goines-Brantford; father, William Noble, Sr.; his fiancee, Latosha Lake; daughters, Dar'Riell Noble and Jaydon Noble; son, Daurell Noble; maternal grandmother, Lucille Goines; sisters, Tyra Goines, Jasmine Noble and Jewels Noble; and a host of other loving relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parental grandparents, Ray and Emma Jean Noble; maternal grandfather, Money Goines, Sr.; and two aunts, Doris Winbush and Beverly Williams.
Visitation will be held Tuesday, October 22, 2013 from 11 A.M. until time of service at 12 Noon at Shiloh Baptist Church, 3900 Clifton Ave., Lorain, with Reverend Peter Tower Pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, Lorain.
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The idea was to write this column about anything other than the campaign and election. But there is no escape from those two realities because we are drowning in it. It'll be over soon and collectively we will briefly turn to other interests.
The other interests are there, especially with Thanksgiving and Christmas on the horizon. For the sports-minded, there is pro football, basketball, a hope for a hockey season, the ongoing college football, basketball, women's competition, and so on and so on... There's plenty of other entertainment, including concerts, fall and wintertime activities. To say there is nothing to do is to live in isolation from the world around us.
A reader of the Sunday issue of The New York Times, copies of which for this area are printed by the Columbia Daily Tribune, we got what we expected, a long editorial extolling the virtues of President Barack Obama and calling for his re-election. If he is re-elected it won't be because of Missourians, the majority of whom oppose him if the polls are correct. The credits the Times gives Obama are enough to push you to cancel your subscription, don't jog with realities, and are visits to dreamland coated with liberalism. We won't cancel the paper because it has many other news qualities that have value.
We did find a commentary by Frank Bruni to be interesting. He doesn't particularly like Mitt Romney, but he wrote that Obama has squandered advantages and "despite the economy, the president should be ahead" in the race, but isn't. At this time it's too close to call — again if the polls are right.
"Obama isn't quite the candidate, or politician, he's cracked up to be. The One is a fraction of his reputed self," Bruni wrote. That's accurate but unrecognizable by his followers.
The president isn't as great as he thinks he is, not as superior to everybody else as he thinks he is, and that air he expells about his record and what he is going to do the next four years is bunk. We have a president who is long on promises and short on performance. But he's fooled many Americans with his promises.
Bruni is for Obama and thinks he will win, but there is no question he is disapointed in the One. His commentary is as frank as it is hopeful for Obama. "His tone is marketedly changed from 2008, a tactical decision that may not be the right one. And his moments of genuine oratorial transcendence are interspersed, as they've always been, with spells of detachment, defensiveness, disgruntlement. Denver wasn't the first or only time that he seemed put out by the madness of the political merry-go-round, even though it's a whirl he himself elected."
While praising Obama in his closing, Bruni wrote: "But this campaign has illuminated nothing so brightly as the limits of his magic, along with his shortcomings that he would carry with him into a second term (should he get one) and would be wise to address."
The problem is that Obama doesn't admit to his shortcomings. He truly believes he has done everything right and can't understand why people don't recognize that. It's his personality that is the problem. He reminds us of young people who when growing up were told how smart they were and never realized that they had shortcomings. They believed what they were told and shame on those who told them how great they are. Now some members of the Big Media are recognizing the president's shortcomings, are disappointed, but haven't lost all hope.
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What sets CBS' Phil Simms apart from — and above — TV's other NFL analysts doesn't reveal itself when he's right or when he speaks sense, but when he's wrong and when he speaks nonsense.
Sunday, deep into the first quarter of Chargers-Bears, he said: "Well this San Diego defense, the one thing it wants to do today is play great run defense … "
Then he heard himself say something silly, so he stopped, and added: "Of course, everybody does."
Such self-awareness and self-ridicule is worth more good-faith points with audiences than 500 "I told-you-so's." The dictates of the human condition, added to the non-stop know-it-all spiels of all sports' analysts, makes Simms a precious commodity in a vast field of fool's gold.
Simms also is in the habit of saying things such as, "I was wrong," "I'll wait to look at the replay," and, hang on to your hats, "I don't know."
Of course, if he were always wrong or always didn't know, that wouldn't be very helpful to any of us. To that end, Simms succinctly and suddenly speaks the kind of Main Street football sense that on so many other telecasts is lost to pointless, endless word noise.
Sunday, after Bears quarterback Jay Cutler completed a drop-back, zip pass over the middle despite a defensive lineman steaming head-on, Simms spoke in practical, applicable terms: "If you can't throw off your back foot in the NFL, you can't play quarterback."
Later, San Diego had a third-and-25 from the 50 when it ran the ball for 4 yards, preface to a punt. Without switching to a "Now-hear-this!" mode, Simms calmly let it be known that he was mystified: "If you're gonna throw it on third-and-long, midfield is the place to do it."
As the Friends of Distinction quickly sang: "I can dig it, you can dig it, we can dig it."
On the other hand …
If there was one thing NBC's Cris Collinsworth wanted us to know and remember, Sunday night, is that the Eagles have blown fourth-quarter leads all season. When the Giants tied the game early in the fourth, Collinsworth said: "All we need to do is say the words, 'fourth quarter' and the Eagles' defense gives up a touchdown. It's unbelievable."
But minutes earlier, Collinsworth expertly, and with emphasis, addressed the Eagles' defense: "They are built for this; they are built to protect the lead."
Of course, it's easy for me to sit back and criticize. Too easy! And, as always, there's no end to the word noise that smothers ESPN's Monday Night Football even before Chris Berman gets his weekly halftime shot at it.
This Monday, as the Patriots lined up for their first play — the Pats have become the NFL's first night team — Ron Jaworski gave us this:
"The one thing to know about Tom Brady is that he's a pinpoint passer. He believes that you must be fundamentally sound in your mechanics to be consistent on a successful basis like that. That's what he does. The mantra for Brady throughout his storied career: consistency, week in, week out; mission accomplished."
And here we always thought Brady's a very good QB because he's a very good QB. But whatta we know?
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'tis The season when college basketball scores more closely resemble dangerously low blood pressure readings:
Men's — Wisconsin-Milwaukee 73, Texas Southern 38. NJIT 78, NYU Poly 28. The Citadel 97, Florida Christian 44. UNC-Asheville 89, Brevard 48. Chattanooga 88, Warren Wilson 36. Wisconsin 77, Missouri-KC 31.
Women's scores — Montana State 99, College of Idaho 50. West Virginia 97, NC-Central 24. LSU 80, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 28. Central Arkansas 92, Paul Quinn 35. Tulane 86, New Orleans 39.
But my favorite men's result was Franklin Pierce 92, Mercy 46. Maybe Shakespeare felt, "The quality of mercy is not strained," but it's getting there.
At many Division I schools, such pre-planned, no-compete clause games are must-buy tickets within season's subscriptions. Just the schools' way of saying: "Thanks." They're the NCAA's form of must-buy, extortionist NHL, NBA and NFL exhibition games, a cut going to the easy-pickin's road team schools. Follow the money!
By the way, there isn't even one player from West Virginia on WVU's women's roster, although there is one from Australia. WVU's men's team has only one kid from West Virginia, but, to be fair, it also has only one recruit from Turkey.
* For its game against Notre Dame on ABC tomorrow night, the Stanford Cardinal will again sport a new Nike uniform, this one dark red with, what else?, black helmets. Stanford coach Dave Shaw proudly admitted the latest new look, as shown on Facebook, has already met with the approval of recruits. … Readers have asked why the Mets and Blue Jays are eliminating their black uniforms, reverting to their standard team colors. Answer: Their contracts with the Crips expired.
* So, did you have to work on Thanksgiving or did you get a bye?
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The Eagles knew what they were getting. DeSean Jackson was a talented but me-first penalty punk when he was drafted out of California. To think a pro as good as he is would rather be known for so much less.
During the stylized, scored and taped open of "Sunday Night Football" featuring NFL stars, NBC chose Jackson to pose, pounding his chest, as the sole rep of the Eagles. An hour later, Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth were ripping Jackson for a taunting penalty — his excessive taunt included chest-pounding — that wiped out a 50-yard play.
* Kinda disappointed Jerry Jones didn't appear to have any fresh cosmetic facial surgery in time for the Thanksgiving Day Cowboys' telecast.
* Boston University-Cornell, hockey opponents since 1925, live at 8 p.m. from the Garden, on MSG tomorrow. Although both schools still recruit from Canada, both are loaded with U.S. kids, especially from the East Coast, Florida (really!) up through New Jersey, New York and New England.
* Occupy Ball Seats: Why would the Yankees reduce the price of expensive tickets for the coming season when, according to Michael Kay and team COO Lonn Trost, such tickets were sold out; their occupants having chosen to remain in Stadium restaurants to watch on big-screen TVs? Or were they just pulling our legs?
* Reader Bill Maroney, Staten Islander exiled to Colorado, suggests that in view of Lee Corso's on-air verbal transgression last Saturday, he should be reassigned to ESPNFU.


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It could have been a scene from a "B" movie Western last weekend, as two men wrestled on the floor of a neighborhood saloon, trying vainly to get hold of a gun that had fallen there while they fought.
The movie would have shown horses hitched outside the saloon in the middle of town - on Avenue L, it turned out. No one can know what might have happened if it hadn't been for a couple of lawmen from the local sheriff's office who came to calm things down.
The lawmen, of course, were police patrol and Anti Crime Unit officers from the 69th Precinct, who said they'd been called to the Ambiance Caribbean Restaurant & Bar at 9413 Avenue L when neighbors of the "saloon" said they heard a few gunshots going off at about 2:30 a.m. last Sunday.
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Republicans and many Democrats were uneasy about the restriction of freedom imposed by the individual mandate included in the recent healthcare legislation; in the Democratic primary, President Obama even distinguished himself from Hillary Clinton by saying that his healthcare plan wouldn't have an individual mandate like her plan (one of the many promises he has ignored). Removing the mandate is a cause we can get many Democrats to move across the aisle on for a 2/3 vote to override the president's likely veto.
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SALT LAKE CITY — As conflict looms ominously in the Middle East, Jews around the world begin their High Holy Day observances of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur with prayers for "a good year and a sweet year, a year of goodness and peace."
Those were the words of Rabbi Benny Zippel of Chabad Lubavitch of Utah as he conducted evening services Wednesday, welcoming Rosh Hashanah, traditionally considered the start of the new Jewish year and the first of the Jewish High Holy Days.
"5774 is going to be the best year yet," Rabbi Zippel told more than 100 worshippers, referring to the new year according to the Jewish calendar, and he offered prayers for a new year filled with "peace, harmony and tranquility" for the members of his congregation as well as for "our brethren in Israel."
All around the world similar Rosh Hashanah prayers are being offered this week, as Jews and those from other faith groups are mindful of the impending threat of military action against Syria following the alleged use of chemical weapons by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a civil war there.
For example, a Jewish group called J Street, which identifies itself as "pro-Israel, pro-peace," urged rabbis to use their Rosh Hashanah sermons "to build a connection between the tones of these important days of spiritual observance" and peace efforts in the Middle East. Even Pope Francis, during a meeting with World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder, wished Jews "shana tova" (happy New Year) and expressed his feeling that "world leaders must do everything to avoid war."
But there were no overtly political overtones to Rabbi Zippel's Rosh Hashanah message in Salt Lake City. Instead, he focused on his congregation and on getting their "minds, souls and hearts in the right place" at what he called "the head of the new year."
"This is the most central day of the Jewish calendar," the rabbi said during a recent interview. "It is a good time for introspection and for serious stock-taking about our relationship with God. Are we living a godly life? Are we fulfilling the mandate God gave to Adam to be the choice creature who reflects godliness?"
Rosh Hashanah, therefore, is not about making New Year's resolutions, he said. Rather, "it is about reprioritizing our lives."
"We have to take a serious look at what is crucial to us," Rabbi Zippel said, "and how we fare in our relationship with God."
Following the service, the rabbi led his congregation into another room to partake of a traditional Rosh Hashanah meal. The tables were decorated with fish heads (to represent Rosh Hashanah's standing as "the head of the year") and dishes of honey (to represent the desire for a sweet New Year). The menu included gefilte fish (a poached mixture of ground boned fish), challah (braided bread loaves), tzimmes (a sweet stew made of carrots, dried fruits and root vegetables), chicken, honey cake and, of course, apples dipped in honey.
"This is a day of sweetness," Rabbi Zippel said. "We hope and pray for a sweet New Year."
Thursday Rosh Hashanah observances at Chabad Lubavitch included morning and evening worship services; Tashlich services, during which members of the congregation meet at a nearby stream that has been populated with fish and symbolically cast their sins into the water, thus starting the new year with a clean slate; and the ceremonial sounding of the shofar, a hollowed out ram's horn that is, in the rabbi's words, "a sacred object that encompasses the past, present and future of Jewish history."
"The shofar is not a musical instrument," Rabbi Zippel said. "It is a religious tool, and its sound is a call to repentance."
The sounding of the shofar on the first day of Rosh Hashanah signals the beginning of what is traditionally known as "10 days of repentance" leading up to Yom Kippur (Sept. 13), the holiest of all Jewish Holy Days.
But Rabbi Zippel doesn't like the "10 days of repentance" tradition.
"I think it implies that we're all a bunch of sinners," he said. Instead, he prefers the interpretation of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the founding fathers of the Lubavitch movement of Judaism, who referred to them as "the 10 days of return."
"I like that," Rabbi Zippel said. "It is a return to our original self, a return to the perfection of our soul to the way it was placed by God when we were born. The 10 days of return begin on Rosh Hashanah, and the 10th day is Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement, the day all sins are forgiven."
Although Yom Kippur falls this year on Friday the 13th, the rabbi urged his congregation to take no notice of that.
"This is a very serious time of reflection, a very serious time of introspection, a very significant and auspicious time," he said during a recent interview. "This is about returning. God wants us to simply come home. That's where each and every one of us belongs."
One of the critical elements of Yom Kippur is a day of fasting and total focus on the solemnity of the day.
"There is no work, no eating, no drinking on this day," Rabbi Zippel said. "We refrain from any engagement with the physical world and entirely rededicate ourselves to our spiritual identity. Through this our souls are cleansed entirely."
The Atonement of Yom Kippur is automatic, the rabbi said, and "is granted to us for transgressions between man and God." But for transgressions between man and man, it's another story.Comment on this story
"Yom Kippur doesn't cover interpersonal difficulties," he said, smiling. "That would be too easy. So we are urged to make amends within our failed relationships with family, friends and business associates. This is a time of year to reach out to your fellow person and say, 'Let's work it out,' or, 'I am sorry.' If we want God to forgive us for our shortcomings, we need to demonstrate that by letting go of our hurt feelings and forgive others."
Such forgiveness, Rabbi Zippel said, both between man and God as well as man and man, is critical to making 5774 "a good year and a sweet year, a year of goodness and peace."
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Khartoum - National Assembly approved the report of the emergency committee of constitutional amendments in the stage of general features, second reading, by majority.
The committee's chairperson Badriya Suleiman stressed that the committee had made preliminary observations on the proposal for amendments, where it explained that the amendments did not appear in the usual legal form for the submission of the draft constitutional amendments, nor were they accompanied by an explanatory memorandum explaining the justification.
She said that, according to the report, the proposed amendments were formulated in an unusual language in the constitutional and legal formulation that is difficult for citizen to understand, which makes them address only those with a high culture of Arabic.
"The proposed amendment in Amendment No. 13 is contrary to the decisions of the national dialogue, except for the election of governors in the elections of 2020," Badriya said.
On the other hand, a number of MPs called for strengthening the role of the security service to carry out its role entrusted to it in the next stage with its international and regional partners, in reference to Article 151 of the proposed amendments, stressing the implementation of the amendments to become a reality touched by citizens.