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Stewardship key in museum merger talk
As a former president and CEO, and six-year past member of the board of directors, of the San Diego Air and Space Museum, I read with interest Logan Jenkins' column on the now-dead merger of the Air and Space Museum and the Automotive Museum ("Balboa Park museum merger lost in air & space," Jan. 8).
From a pure business perspective, the merits of a merger of those two institutions, of similar interest and proximity, seem obvious. Just the economies of scale, synergy of combined resources and efficiency of administrative support would make such a merger a more robust business model. However, what the column didn't mention is the vital ingredient of stewardship.
Nonprofit cultural institutions rarely generate sufficient income to meet expenses and must rely on the generosity of donors for not just money but also for additions to collections. From donors and members, to the paying public and volunteers, a nonprofit is in the business first and foremost of being good stewards to those who have a passion and give to a particular museum.
Without a new vision on how such an Air and Space/Automotive Museum is better than its stand-alone parts and how such a merger would enhance the stewardship of all stakeholders, the merits of a better business model will be found insufficient to keep those passions alive.
Kendall W. Curtis
Point Loma
Sentencing more important than cells
Adding 2,376 prison beds might reduce prison guard layoffs, but it does not address the main overcrowding issue ("A needed step for overcrowded prisons," Opinion, Jan. 9). Sentencing reform still remains unaddressed, and each new felony created by our Legislature adds more citizens and noncitizens into our prison system.
Our California politicians tout themselves as being tough on crime, but when will they be smart on crime? For instance, why do illegals get deported but citizens have parole? Until then, lawyers will continue to laugh their way all the way to the bank. But it's not a laughing matter.
Bob Higgins
Rancho Bernardo
Transgender law defies common sense
The Jan. 7 article "Transgender law fight crawls" reports that "an estimated six or seven students in the San Diego district's 130,000 students have identified themselves as transgender. School officials have met with parents and counselors to work out accommodations for the children through consensus."
This sounds like a reasonable approach. So what is the point of the law? AB1266 reads: A pupil shall be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil's records.
There is no mention of counselors, parents or consensus. The way the law is written, the point would seem to be to eliminate the case-by-case common-sense approach that districts have been using and mandate that the student controls the outcome. I'm afraid I don't see the wisdom in that.
Martha Martin
Rancho Peñasquitos
Maybe California should be a good state
The Jan. 3 op-ed by Joe Mathews, "Let's all resolve to be better Californians in 2014," made me stop and wonder: Am I a "good" Californian? Is my spouse?
I'm a native San Diegan; my husband is a "refugee" from Iowa, circa 1974. We live in a small townhouse complex and have served on the board of directors. We conserve water. We recycle. My husband often takes the bus. When we walk our dog, we pick up after him. I gather litter as we walk and dispose of it when we return home.
A number of years ago, I worked for the San Diego City Council and helped constituents from Mission Hills to San Ysidro communicate with city government. My husband walked away from a lucrative law practice to serve as a member of that council from 1987 to 1991.
We have traveled the length and breadth of this beautiful state, from Alturas to Zzyxx Road. We have spent many of our tourist dollars supporting California's economy. We are law-abiding citizens and vote in every election.
So, I ask, what has California given us? A giant welfare state that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. Higher and higher taxes with fewer basic services. Unkempt city parks and shorter library hours. Poor-quality public schools with transgender bathrooms. Same-sex marriage. Illegal aliens practicing law.
Texas is looking better all the time.
Jane M. Henderson
Pacific Beach
Christie blew it
It is much too late for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's "outrage" at being, supposedly "misled" in the matter of the bridge incident by a member of his staff.
As any crises management expert knows – the way to dispel or ease the impact of a media crises is to get ahead of it – fast. Had Gov. Christie taken the proper responsibility quickly, issued remedial action, expressed some apology, the situation would have quickly lost its news value.
The buck stops at the Governor's desk for New Jersey business of every kind, and Mr. Christie's strength and overbearing nature makes his tantrum further unbelievable. Throwing his aides under the bus? The worst kind of publicity of all.
Laura Walcher
Principal PR Counsel,
J. Walcher Communications
San Diego
Keep dogs on leashes
The former Del Mar mayor who lost his life saving his dog from being struck by a train in Del Mar is an awful tragedy. I would have done the same for my dog, but what is also so tragic is that this could have been avoided.
The dog was being walked off leash. I see many people walking their dogs off leash in public, and it is disturbing. Some people think their dogs are trained so well to follow their commands that they won't respond to an unpredictable outside force. Dogs are still animals, and are going to be unpredictable sometimes. This dog was startled by the train's horn, which is not surprising. Let this unfortunate situation be a lesson to all dog owners.
Melanie Ross
North Park
No fast track for Trans Pacific Partnership
Do not pass the secretly derived TPP. It has nothing to do with serving the public and everything to do with corporate profit and greed. We need transparency, not fast tracking.
Holding public office is a matter of honor and trust. It requires integrity, honesty and a non-self-serving agenda. These are not evident with the people taking our government and country hostage, especially the Tea Party, the religious right and their corporate sponsors.
Step up and represent the people who depend on you and are basically at your mercy. Please help, and if you can't help, please don't hurt.
Babz Davis
San Diego


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As President Obama and Democrats try to spend their way out of this recession,they are ignoring the consequences of their job-killing agenda, including the uncertainty it fosters in an already troubled economy. In a blog post for FOXBusiness, Brian Sullivan reports on signs the Administration may be finally, grudgingly leaning toward some pro-growth policy initiatives on top of the tax, borrow, and spend policies that have characterized their agenda to date. This follows the White House's recent jobs summit, which was a tacit acknowledgement that their $787 billion "stimulus" package had not delivered.
Unfortunately, America's job creators are not yet convinced that Washington Democrats will pursue an agenda that supports them rather than one which taxes their success and dictates their behavior.
"…[T]he President and Democrats in Congress continue to try and force through cost increasing measures such as fines for lack of mandatory health insurance, carbon taxes and even an easing of job-killing unionization rules.
"The good news for companies is that it looks like carbon taxes and card check have been pushed back until next year or shelved permanently. It is also good news that the President seems to finally be coming to grips with what most in the business community already know about economic growth: lower taxes good, higher taxes bad.
"But the bad news is that there are simply too many mixed messages from Washington on what cost increases small businesses will face for most of them to do any real hiring."
Brian Sullivan, "Obama's Mixed Message for Small Business," FOXBusiness, 12.08.09
Workers and employers may take some small comfort in the fact that the President and his allies on Capitol Hill have not yet found time and support to pass "card check" – a bill that will undermine workers' right to a secret ballot. But no doubt, with the urging of powerful special interests, the economy and America's workforce are not in the clear.
After all, just today congressional Democrats lined up to vote on a tax on investment capital which will once again take more money out of the economy at a time when businesses need that money to grow and create jobs. Additionally, the Majority has signaled no willingness to hit the reset button on other job-killing agenda items like a massive government takeover of health care with its own tax hikes and mandates. As long as they persist in fomenting uncertainty, the Administration and congressional Democrats will stand in the way of our nation's job creators.
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The purported migrations that have formed the peoples of Britain have been the focus of generations of scholarly controversy. However, this has not benefited from direct analyses of ancient genomes. Here we report nine ancient genomes (~1 ×) of individuals from northern Britain: seven from a Roman era York cemetery, bookended by earlier Iron-Age and later Anglo-Saxon burials. Six of the Roman genomes show affinity with modern British Celtic populations, particularly Welsh, but significantly diverge from populations from Yorkshire and other eastern English samples. They also show similarity with the earlier Iron-Age genome, suggesting population continuity, but differ from the later Anglo-Saxon genome. This pattern concords with profound impact of migrations in the Anglo-Saxon period. Strikingly, one Roman skeleton shows a clear signal of exogenous origin, with affinities pointing towards the Middle East, confirming the cosmopolitan character of the Empire, even at its northernmost fringes.
January 23, 2016
Ancient DNA from England suggests strong impact of Germanic invasions
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The results appear to be well within the range of what might have been expected from historical evidence, which reassuringly suggests that both the genetics and the history are probably basically correct.ReplyDelete
Blood group O is known as a german to swiss blood marker ( also found in siberia )ReplyDelete
it was introduced into BritainReplies
Are you trying to make a joke or something? Zero (misnamed "O" often) is the most common blood group on Earth. In Europe too. And in Britain as well. It's irregularly mixed with group A everywhere. Group B on the other hand is most rare in the West and increases towards the East, being therefore tentatively associated with Indo-European expansion. It's also much more common in Asia, be it India or China.Delete
Your link is irrelevant to back your claim and BTW a very bad looking article in all senses: where's the data?, where the conclusions, why do they reproduce old blood maps with such a bad resolution?
LOL, it's a true joke: one of those fake studies they introduced to test the system:Delete
Ethical issues (Including plagiarism, Informed Consent, misconduct, data fabrication and/or falsification, double publication and/or submission, redundancy, etc) have been completely observed by the authors.
Using the Dutch average as proxy for continental Germanics and the Welsh average for Romano-BritonsReplyDelete
This seems like a big assumption. The same study that assessed that there was a 38% contribution of Anglo Saxons to the modern English population reckons that the contribution to the modern Welsh population is 30%. I'm not particularly convinced by these statistics but I do know that do know that through a whole host of later historical processes causing the movement and dispersal of people that today there's a Germanic (Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian) component in the ancestry of every part of Britain and Ireland. The regional differences lie in the degree of the contribution. Also I'm pretty sure that the Dutch situated as they are at the mouth of the Rhine, an area which has always supported a relatively large population have there own complex and interesting history. I see no reason to assume that the modern Dutch would be that similar to people whose origins stemmed in Lower Saxony and Jutland.Replies
I don't understand where you get that from, Amanda: in the graph above it is very apparent that the modern Welsh average overlaps with the ancient Britons, except the Anglosaxon one of course. Where exactly you get that idea from?Delete
"I see no reason to assume that the modern Dutch would be that similar to people whose origins stemmed in Lower Saxony and Jutland".
Dutch are quite homogeneous internally and only show some division in two halves: the Northern one seems identical to Low Germans (Saxons and such), while the southern one may be identical to Middle Germans (former Frankish). Anyhow I do agree that a second reference from Denmark would have been of some help.
Hi Maju,Delete
Sorry for my poor proof-reading on my original posting. I'll try to do better this time.
I quite agree with you that the ancient samples from York cluster around the median point for the modern Welsh population. My question is how different is the modern Welsh population to the post Roman Welsh population?
The figure of a 38% contribution of Anglo Saxon DNA to the modern population of Eastern England comes from the Schiffels paper 'Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from East England reveal British migration history'. The same set of assumptions lead the authors to conclude that the Anglo Saxon contribution to the modern Welsh population averages at 30%.
I have to say that both figures seem a bit on the high side to me. Anyway even if the Anglo Saxon component in the modern Welsh population is a bit lower than that, it is still significant and suggests that your assumption that the ancient Welsh are much like the modern Welsh is wrong.
The genetic continuity between the British and the Dutch (and the Belgians) is apparent in the PCA plots of modern Europe. I am pretty sure that the genetic closeness goes back into ancient times long before the Anglo Saxons and would be related to the migrations of Bell Beaker people and Iron Age Celts amongst others. The Anglo Saxon migrations and later arrival of Danes and other Scandinavians brought exotic new genetic elements from Scandinavia to the isles which had hitherto not been present. Some of these elements must have been already been brought into the Low Countries in some type of earlier migration process which brought German language speakers into that region. I still don't think that makes the modern Dutch into good proxies for the Anglo Saxons.
I must say that I didn't criticize the Schiffels paper back in the day (I was just almost not blogging for much of 2015, personal issues) and now that I face it seriously for the first time, I find it perplexing: the general genome is not compared but instead:Delete
We determined for each ancient sample the number of rare variants shared with each reference population (Supplementary Note 3).
That's not a method I'm familiar with and rather looks like the kind of data that medical-oriented research (and not historical genetics) would use. These rare variants are not likely to be informative of the overall distant ancestry. It's very weird.
Almost all the study insists on using these rare variants. They even develop a method of their own (Rarecoal) to analyze them. Obviously it is an otherwise untested method, whose reliability I can't but suspect.
Otherwise no IBD/IBS (which should provide approximative genealogies by a well tested method), no ADMIXTURE and only one PC analysis buried in the supp. materials (SF3). In this one the appearance of variation is way too subtle (because they use a lot of European populations that condition the whole graph) but if anything we can discern a tiny "Finnish" tendency in the Saxons versus a "Mediterranean" one in the pre-Saxons. However the only "Celtic" sample in that graph (Scots, Orcadians too) also tends towards Finland relative to English, what makes things more complicated (no Welsh nor Irish samples there, what seems like cherry-picking the data to me and hence suspicious).
So for me that study is not informative but the data may still be reused by someone in a proper analysis, I guess.
... "your assumption that the ancient Welsh are much like the modern Welsh is wrong".Delete
It was not my intention to project such "assumption". I do not assume that in fact. What I merely stated is that the modern Welsh average overlaps too well with the ancient pre-Saxon NE Britons from Yorkshire. If we go through the individual variation of modern Welsh in that graph, some even overlap with the ancient Anglo-Saxon, while others with the Irish average, suggesting a more complex reality that maybe requires further analysis.
"The genetic continuity between the British and the Dutch (and the Belgians) is apparent in the PCA plots of modern Europe. I am pretty sure that the genetic closeness goes back into ancient times long before the Anglo Saxons and would be related to the migrations of Bell Beaker people and Iron Age Celts amongst others".
Well, in this study it seems clear that the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions pulled Britons closer to continental North Europe, regardless that relationships surely existed earlier (for instance: R1b-U106 is pre-Saxon and is most common in the Netherlands!) It is this extra pull what this paper reveals and not the overall pre-Saxon similitude or differences.
This is not really new, already Capelli 2003, using only modern Y-DNA, appeared to show that East England has Anglo-Saxon or Danish admixture on the patrilineal side of around 30-40%, with a cline decreasing to the West and SW and reaching a minimum in Wales, which shows almost as little similitude in this aspect with the Germanic mainland as Basques do. The findings of this study are very parallel and comparable to those of Capelli.
"The Anglo Saxon migrations and later arrival of Danes and other Scandinavians brought exotic new genetic elements from Scandinavia"...
Not really Scandinavia by NW mainland Europe, Denmark included: only Orcadians seem to have significant Norwegian ancestry, which is clearly distinct from the Frisian-Saxon-Danish one. The real Scandinavians (Norwegians, Swedes) did not partake of those conquests at any significant level, they were busy fishing cod in Iceland or trading pelts in Russia. When we say "Vikings", we basically mean "Danes" and these are much more similar (in genetics, not language) to Low German and Dutch than to Scandinavians proper.
"Some of these elements must have been already been brought into the Low Countries in some type of earlier migration process which brought German language speakers into that region".
There was no such process. Germanic was only introduced with the Anglo-Saxons. You may mean Celtic language, you may mean Rhineland genetics rather than Saxon ones. It can get a bit confusing because Rhineland was almost certainly the original homeland of the Celts and British people do show some strong affinity to that area without marked distinctions (see fig.2 in Leslie 2015).
Erratum: "Not really Scandinavia by NW mainland Europe, Denmark included" should read "Not really Scandinavia but NW mainland Europe, Denmark included"Delete
There's also a question that that they touch on in passing but don't examine as to what sort of demographic changes might have occurred in Britain during the Roman period.ReplyDelete
This is something we know hardly anything about. We know that there are several centuries in which Roman Britain is subject to an external continental ruler who make travel possible between Britain and the continent and within Roman Britain in a way that it never was before both because of a new infrastructure of roads and because the Pax Romana dissolved all the problems there would have been before with travelling across multiple tribal boundaries.
It's quite possible that there was an overall influx of people from Gallia during this period, even it is likely that it ended with a reverse flow of people from Britain to Gallia once the economy started to hit the rocks after the legions left.Replies
We don't see that in any data, do we? Anyhow why would continental Gallo-Romans be attracted to migrate to Britain, which, by most accounts, was rather a backwater place?Delete
The only evidence we have of migrations is in this dataset, which includes an outlier of quite apparent Near East origins. Some other instances of Britano-Romans may have included people of African origin but, in any case, I doubt these immigrants would be common outside the big cities such as Londinum and Eburacum.
In this particular case I suspect that the beheaded bodies could correspond to victims of persecution, maybe early Christians, known to have been beheaded in many other cases (much more common than lion-feeding in fact) for refusal to worship the gods of the state. They could be some other kind of rebels of course but the Near Eastern guy fits well with Christians.
Influences from France in Britain should be at least partly traced to the very first Neolithic and Megalithism. In principle, Britain was settled from NW France around 4000 BCE. So, barring whatever pre-Neolithic remnants and not considering further changes affecting both France and Britain (notably the Celts), the relationship with France is the most basic demographic layer.
Anyhow, what I was pointing to was a relationship with Rhineland (Germany), which can only be explained by the Celts (or pre-Celtic Bell Beaker influences maybe too but with many doubts until new evidence arises).
I think the study was pretty reasonable. and yes the modern Dutch and Danish could be used as the standard for what the ancient Anglo-Saxons were like genetically. Historically we know that the Anglo-Saxons hailed from Denmark, northwest Germany and Frisia. So those populations are most likely the best choice. However, I believe the contribution of the Anglo-Saxons to the English in future studies would be found to be even higher than 38%, rather closer to half (50%), but that of Wales and Scotland would remain around 30%.It is also a false impression that the Romano-Briton was necessarily dark-eyed than the Anglo-Saxon samples, they were not.ReplyDelete
Blue eyes are the most common eye color throughout the British Isles, at varying frequencies. Wales isn't darker-eyed than England, the differences between Romano-Britons and Saxons were not clear-cut blonde vs brunette.
ScottishDNA Project and Blue Eye Research Project (2014):
England per regions:
Southwest = 35%
East = 41%
Southeast = 44%
Northeast = 47%
Yorkshire = 49%
Central = 50%
Wales = 45%
Scotland per region:
Central: 48%
Northeast: 48%
North and West: 49%
Southwest: 49%
Southeast :57%
Ulster : 50%
Munster: 50%
Leinster : 52%
Connacht : 53%
The regions which were firstly invaded by Anglo-Saxons, were the Southeast and East England regions, but the frequency of blue eyes are still lower than Wales.
The Anglo-Saxon genetical contribution to England should be higher than that of Wales/Scotland though 30% is acceptable for the Celtic fringe. However, in England nearly half.ReplyDeleteReplies
In England "nearly half" ONLY if you use the, already admixed, British Anglo-Saxon as reference. If you use Dutch for reference, it's "only" 30% (what seems a lot to me, honestly, by contrast Goths had at most 5% impact in Spain, probably much less, similar insignificant fraction can be attributed to Muslims, be them Berbers or Arabs). It'd be c. 0% in Wales (although it's probably not that simple).Delete
Probably not 0 in Wales anymore - there was a fair amount of colonization of Wales after it fell to the English.Delete
Well, the issue of how the people of Wales were back in the day remains unsolved by this study, as it only provides ancient references from NE England. We see here that the Welsh average overlaps almost exactly with ancient NE Britons but we also see that the individuals vary quite a bit, most of them between the English and Scottish average ranges. So it's legitimate to wonder if Iron Age Welsh were rather Scottish- or Irish-like on average (relative to the above graph). That may well also apply to parts of England (we see many red dots, like purple ones, well into the Irish strip). It's indeed conceivable to me that what is now SW England was quite different from NE England and instead much more similar to what was then Wales and Cornwall and all them more similar to the Irish. But only more ancient data will clarify that far.Delete
One of the interesting things the POBI project and the Leslie 2015 found was more haplotype structure similarity between Scotland and England than between Wales and England (with I believe the same samples).Delete
That was also to some extent true in their unlinked ADMIXTURE and PCA analyses as well
So I wonder if the position of Scots on the PCA which has Dutch-Irish poles, where the Scots are more towards the Irish pole than the Welsh, contra apparent haplotype sharing, is more due to
a) Scots sharing more haplotypes with England than Welsh do due to recent ancestry, despite ancestry on unlinked SNPs being more divergently Irish-like
b) Scots having more recent migration from both England / continental Europe and Ireland (Gaels) compared to Wales.
or something else.
There's an Irish version of the POBI running at the moment, so that may throw some light on these questions.
Samples seem quite different: Martiniano has many Welsh and probably from all districts, while Leslie has only a few and most are from the westernmost areas. Martiniano has few Scots (not sure where from) while Leslie has lots of Orcadians (clearly absent in Martiniano).Delete
In Leslie Orcadian peculiarities drive the show: dominate PC1 (vs all) and PC2 (vs North Welsh) and therefore we have basically a Brythonic vs Orcadian polarity, what makes Scots and English appear similarly intermediate but for different reasons: (a) Scots are less Brythonic than Welsh but also less Norwegian than Orcadians, (b) English are more Brythonic and also more Germanic than Scots.
Here Scots (Orcadian or not) do not matter (too few samples) and the polarity is just Ireland vs Netherlands, Celtic vs Germanic, Neo-/Chalcolithic vs Bronze/Iron Age, pre-IE vs IE even. Sure: we could get a more nuanced approach by getting more Scots in and also a few more continental samples (Danish and French maybe), possibly sampling more English on regional bases too (to compensate for actual numbers and to discern intra-English differences, which should exist in spite of Leslie's suspiciously too homogeneous results). But nobody is doing that analysis. I would keep excluding Orcadians from most analyses anyhow because they clearly distort the playing field.
Ah, I'd have thought they were accessing the same samples, but obviously not.Delete
Leslie / POBI was very particular about sampling only people whose four grandparents were from the same isolated villages, which is where the balance of relatively high Welsh, high Orcadian, very low mainland Scotland comes from (apparently not many isolated villages in Scotland where people were living and all had four grandparents from the same place, and were possible to get to, was their explanation). I would note that the mainland Scottish isolated groups haplotype clusters break out from Orcadian ones in Leslie's study, as being much more related to English (and more related to English than Welsh).
The Martiano samples are maybe more weighted towards cosmopolitan samples from Wales and Scotland, which may be why there is so much difference, as well (due to England-Wales migration affecting the cosmopolitan Welsh and English?).
They seem a good example on how different sampling strategies can produce different results, more so when the analysis affects a rather homogeneous macro-population such as are Brits or NW Europeans, where the internal differences are quite subtle.Delete
Maju you stated that the Sardinian culture was less "advanced" than Los Millares.ReplyDelete
I assume that you were referring to the Nuragic civilization, I personally would argue that although the Nuragic culture developed later than Los Millares, architecturally the Nuragics were much more advanced, just look at any major Nuraghe like Santu Antine, Barumini or Arrubiu, with their multiple tholoi and their large corridors, in Santu Antine's case we have corridors superimosed on two floors which is an astonishing feat of engineering for the time.
Look at the Nuragics sacred wells and their complexity: http://www.academia.edu/2336031/The_nuragic_well_of_Santa_Cristina_Paulilatino_Oristano_Sardinia._A_verification_of_the_astronomical_hypothesis
And I'm just mentioning a few monuments, since the Nuragics left behind several thousands Nuraghes and hundreds of temples, so they were much more "active" than Bronze age Iberian cultures and than other European cultures at the time in general.
Even artistically the Nuragics produced a lot, you may not know this but they actually made the first human sized statues in Europe:
So sorry, but when you just put aside the Nuragic civilization as a "less advanced" culture I can't let that pass.Replies
Not sure when I said that but I can only imagine that I meant that Sardinia, much like Britain, Aquitaine, etc. did not have civilization, as defined by the existence of cities (or towns or large walled settlements, call them what you wish). The point would be that the only known civilizations in Western Europe (or anywhere in Europe, excepted the Balcans) back in those dates were in Southern Iberia.Delete
As for the origins of the tholos construction technique, I understand that (barring West Asian precedents, separated by some 1000 years of nothing) the Iberian ones are also older.
Another issue would be if and how the Sardinian nuraghe relate to the very similar Motillas of La Mancha. In that I'm willing to accept that, probably, Sardinian nuraghe are older, what brings many questions to the table. On one side the cultural elements of the Motillas seem to be the same as those of the nearby Bronce de Levante (Valencian Country), on the other side it's clear that some sort of interaction between Iberia and Sardinia was going on, also in terms of bull cult (which seems to replace or compete with an older deer cult but has also relatives in Crete and Anatolia). In very general terms, I'd consider Sardinia to be loosely in the cultural orbit of Iberia and SE France (Italy had not much to offer in that period yet) but the details remain obscure.
But, of course, I agree that the ancient Sardinians were a vibrant society with, as you correctly say, huge cultural production. This however can also be said of Megalithic Britain, for instance, yet we still do not know of any "city" or equivalent in that area either so early on. Therefore the society has to be considered "rural" and not "civilized" (incipiently urban) yet.
This probably has implications regarding the economic and political structure but hard to know in detail.
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City Arts Fest and Robyn's mature dance pop
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Swedish pop star Robyn stands out from musical peers like Britney Spears and Katy Perry — who all make digital-confetti club music and empowerment anthems — because her songs are more mature than Britney's club-drug sexcapades or Katy's pass-out parties.
With Robyn's stylish, soulful, electronic dance jams, you don't have to cringe and boogie at the same time.
The short-haired, blond dance machine performs Thursday at the Paramount with Portland electronic group YACHT — headlining the second annual Heineken City Arts Fest thrown by City Arts magazine, an ambitious multi-arts celebration happening at multiple venues Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 20-22. Other big names at the Fest: alt-country star Ryan Adams, Seattle rap group Shabazz Palaces and Pacific Northwest indie rock royalty Built to Spill. But Robyn is the coup, a star whose choreographed stage show deserves KeyArena, but whose music will sound much better in the Paramount.
She broke through anonymously enough with smash 1997 single "Show Me Love," released a year before Britney's "...Baby One More Time." The songs sound similar, with rope-skipping drums and elastic bass from Swedish producer Max Martin, who still works with both artists.
Robyn's vocal take on "Show Me Love," set her apart as a superior singer, comfortable with R&B phrasing in a way Britney wasn't. And where Britney naively used her body to attract interest (not that there's anything wrong with that), Robyn's music and videos to channeled the cool spirit of turn-of-the-millennium Aaliyah and Missy Eliot, American R&B/rap stars who were mainstream and sexy, but also futuristic and weird — and in their lyrics, always warning women against giving it up cheaply.
The same agenda is obvious from the titles of Robyn's first singles: "Show Me Love," "Do You Know (What it Takes)" and "Do You Really Want Me (Show Some Respect)."
In 2005, Robyn began using harder and more humorous feminist language in her music — "One right, one left, that's how I organize 'em," she sings, joking about her breasts, "You know I fill my cups, no need to supersize 'em" — and favoring a slightly darker electronic sound. Thus began the era of Robyn we have today. She hasn't released an album since 2010's excellent "Body Talk" and has no single on the radio, but can tour because she has loyal fans.
Sweating it out on the dance floor or hunched over an elliptical machine is ideal for listening to "Body Talk," which can be a healing experience: beats thump through your spinal cord, lyrics massage your brain with positive messages. If you have an electronic dance music bone in your body, you should listen, because what Robyn says is true: you don't need cosmetic plastic surgery, it's OK to dance on your own — and pop music doesn't have to be stupid.
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from the author of DelinvFile and PurgeIE
Great for OneDrive and OneDrive for Business
SharePrep 4.01 supports Win-7 thru Win-10 [32 & 64 bit]
The Scan and Repair window has been
redesigned to give the user greater control. The new design incorporates a
tabbed interface to access the various operational modes:
Path compression - the Path Lengths processing is new with Version 4.01. This can be used to reduce path lengths to a given target length.
The Truncation option is being changed to a Shorten option which removes characters from the middle of the file name or subfolder name. For paths, the shortening is prorated based on the length of each subfolder name.
Also implements functions for
importing and exporting the
Beginning with
version 3.02,
Beginning with
version 3.01,
In addition to truncation, SharePrep provides for user-defined character string substitutions which you can use to abbreviate common words in the file and folder names. This can help you retain usable names.
The current version of SharePrep is 4.01.
Separate documentation for determining your maximum folder name and file name
lengths is available at
SharePrep provides a convenient user interface to allow you to search your file names and folder names for the above restrictions and provides functions for automatically renaming the file and folder names to replace the restricted characters.
SharePrep is configurable. You can define the action to be used by the rename function for each of the restricted characters. For each, you can choose to delete the character, replace with a blank or replace with a character or string of characters you specify.
You can add additional entries to Options table. A string of characters can be used for both the search and the replacement characters. This gives you a means for abbreviating portions of file and folder names for the purpose of shortening their names to meet the SharePoint name length restrictions.
SharePrep provides a convenient User Interface for selecting the folder for processing, setting the Options table and Repairing the file and folder names.
SharePrep is not just for SharePoint and OneDrive.
customers are
using SharePrep in their routine maintenance procedures to bulk rename invalid files and folders.
For example, some backup / recovery programs have name restrictions.
These customers are dealing with files downloaded from the Web and files
from non-Windows systems.
Recent changes include functions for truncating long file and folder names to user specified lengths. This is available for both Auto Repair and manual renaming. This should facilitate getting your names under the 128 character limit.
The Resolve Duplicate Names function can be used to resolve any
duplicates created by truncation, etc..
Trial Period and Limitations
SharePrep is currently distributed only as a Limited-Trial.
The rename and delete functions are available, but limited, in Limited-Trial mode.
The credit for the idea to create SharePrep belongs to Göran Husman.
He is an author, SharePoint MVP, Consultant & Trainer residing in
Stockholm, Sweden. Göran is president of HumanData Inventus AB
- http://www.humandata.se/
He has published several SharePoint books.
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ROGANVILLE, TEXAS. Roganville is on Farm Road 2245 sixty miles north of Beaumont in east central Jasper County. The area was in the heart of the East Texas piney woods and was opened to major lumber interests with the construction of the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railway in the late 1890s. The town was named for Judge Charles Rogan of Austin, a commissioner of the General Land Office. The Roganville Lumber Company, built by J. T. and W. T. Hooker, was established in 1899. The Hooker and Newton County tram roads connected the mill with the Sabine River. With a terminal at Roganville, the Gulf, Beaumont and Great Northern Railway, begun in 1901, eventually extended as far as Center, in Shelby County, thus tying the Jasper County mill to the rich forests to the north as well. John Henry Kirby purchased the Roganville facility as part of his enormous expansion into East Texas in 1902. The plant, known as Mill J, had a planer by 1904 and a capacity of 55,000 board feet per day. Ten years later the Roganville mill also had a bandsaw and a kiln. Roganville had a population estimated at 200 before the closing of the Kirby mill in 1930. It declined to 100 by the late 1940s and remained at that level through 2000. The local production of rail ties began again in 1963 with the opening of the Electric Timber Tie mill.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:Kirby Lumber Corporation Papers, Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University.
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Hostetter, Paul, 1964-
From Library of Congress Name Authority File
Hostetter, Paul, 1964-
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
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Additional Information
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- found: Levinson, G. Music of Gerald Levinson [SR] p1993: container (Paul Hostetter, percussion) insert (founding member of the contemporary music group, Music Mobile)
- found: Jewish operas. Volume 1 [SR] p2004: container (Paul Hostetter, conductor) insert (conductor and percussionist)
- found: Paul Hostetter website, Nov. 5, 2004 (Paul Hostetter; conductor of the NJYS Youth Symphony and artistic director of the Winter Sun Music Festival; also active as percussionist; lives in New York City)
- found: Email from Paul Hostetter, June 18, 2010: (Paul Hostetter, b. Oct. 1, 1964; no further name information given)
- notfound: Int. ww in mus., 13th-14th eds.;Baker, 8th ed.;Ww in Amer. mus., Classical, 2nd ed.
Editorial Notes
[Not the same as: Hostetter, Paul (California luthier and guitarist)]
Change Notes
- 1996-05-18: new
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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicDarkest Hour Deliver UsInsomnium Above the Weeping WorldUnderoath Define the Great Line4.5 superbAs I Lay Dying The Powerless RiseAugust Burns Red Rescue & RestoreCounterparts You're Not You AnymoreCounterparts The Difference Between Hell and HomeGave it a day to grow on me, fucking hell this is great, their best release, easily.Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and The Migrant FloraI'm only two songs in but I just gotta say that "This is the Truth" is one of the best songs rthey've ever written. God damn.rEdit: Yup, this is their best since Deliver Us. On par with it even. The energy, the riffs, John rfucking Henry somehow giving his best vocal performance to date, 20 years into the band's career. rGood shit DH, good shit. Deafheaven SunbatherFallujah The Flesh PrevailsFightstar Behind the Devil's BackInsomnium Winter's Gateletlive. Fake Historyletlive. Fake History (Re-Release)Make Them Suffer Old SoulsAwesome album from a talented band that really excels at bringing emotion to heavy music. This has ra lot more variety than Neverbloom but keeps the best of what makes the band who they are. The rsymphonic elements are as strong as ever, and Sean Harmanis, while mostly putting his piercing rshrieks aside in favor of new styles, once again proves that he is one of the most talented rvocalists around. Matchbox Twenty Mad SeasonOh, Sleeper Children Of FireThis is really... really good. Metalcore release of the year in my opinion.Protest the Hero FortressProtest the Hero VolitionNot as good as Fortress, but I honestly don't ever expect them to top that. Definitely my
second favorite Protest album, song structures are far more interesting than on Scurrilous
and (almost) all of the guest vocals are great. The end of Underbite is unfortunate to say
the least, but oh well. Album has some truly awesome moments, Rody kills it and Adler
actually has some pretty sweet sections, the fact that he clicked with their sound as well
as he did is impressive.Scale the Summit The CollectiveShadow of Intent ReclaimerHead and shoulders above anything else in Deathcore. No two songs sound the same, all of the
instrumentals are superbly written... And then there are the vocals. Ben Duerr is a master of
his craft, the performance he gives on this album is really something. His range, power, effort to
ACTUALLY ENUNCIATE, and occasionally absurd speed, provide the listener with some of the wildest
vocals that one could ask for.
This is what Deathcore bands should strive to be.Silent Planet The Night God SleptDespite the fact that pretty much all of this has been done before, this release is really
refreshing. It's outstanding for a debut. Tons of emotion, and a lot of obvious talent for
creating mood/atmosphere. The clean vocalist pushes his voice into ranges that are a tad too
shrill for my liking but that's my one and only gripe with the album.Soilwork The Living InfiniteStories (AUS) The Youth to BecomeThe New Age Think Too Much; Feel Too LittleThis or the Apocalypse Haunt What's LeftWidek Outside the Universe4.0 excellentALAZKA Values & VirtuesAll Shall Perish The Price of ExistenceAll That Remains The Fall of IdealsAudrey Fall MitauAugust Burns Red MessengersAugust Burns Red ConstellationsAugust Burns Red Found in Far Away PlacesGod damn. My excitement levels for this album weren't really there. I sure wasn't expecting them
to drop the best album of their career, but they did. These songs are fantastic, and most of all
epic. They all feel absolutely huge. I kept waiting for things to wind down, but it turns out that
Wake is the most boring track on the album, from there on out it's pretty insane.
Edit: Jk this got old super fast.Aversions Crown XenocideBeheading of a King Quasar: Preserving LegacyBloodshot Dawn DemonsBreakdown of Sanity CoexistenceRestless had me a bit worried, but once again these guys have put out an album displaying how much
fun can be had with a somewhat standard metalcore sound. BoS sounds like BoS and that's fine with
me, they have their place in the genre and they don't need to change it as long as they keep
putting out quality bangers like this.Breakdowns At Tiffany's ConstantsBury Tomorrow The Union Of CrownsCounterparts ProphetsCurrents Life // LostThis album is a real treat. It has a few notable flaws but it gets a lot right. Some wild guitar work and one of the most intense vocal performances in recent memory make for something pretty special. I try to avoid using the phrase "face-melting" but it's an accurate description for this one.Darkest Hour Undoing RuinDarkest Hour The Human RomanceDarkest Hour The Eternal ReturnDestiny Potato LunDreamshade The Gift of LifeERRA ImpulseFirst Signs Of Frost AtlanticIn Fear and Faith In Fear and Faith Insomnium Shadows of the Dying SunKillswitch Engage Alive or Just BreathingKingdom of Giants Ground CultureLife in Your Way KingdomsThis album really deserves some attention. This is really good stuff, all the members are very talented. The drummer has great chops, the guitarists put out above average melodies, the vocalists are both damn good. Totally underrated band.Misery Signals ControllerMisery Signals Absent LightNorthlane DiscoveriesNorthlane SingularityIt leaked, not 320 KBPS so I'm tempted to wait to hear it, but it's out there.rEdit: Gone through three times now. I like it more than Discoveries. They stumble a little rbut here and there but overall it's a fantastic album. Tons of atmosphere, and a great rperformance from every member of the band.Of Machines As If Everything Was Held In PlaceOmnium Gatherum BeyondPeriphery PeripheryPeriphery Juggernaut: OmegaPeriphery Juggernaut: AlphaPolaris (AUS) The Mortal CoilProtest the Hero KeziaRed Of Beauty and RageRise Against The Sufferer & the WitnessShadow of Intent PrimordialShreddy Krueger The GrievingThe Black Dahlia Murder RitualThe Black Dahlia Murder AbysmalAlbum slays, not that anyone was expecting anything less. The Overseer We Search, We DigOne hell of a first release. These guys are going places.The Room Colored Charlatan The Veil That ConcealsThe Seer PrologueThe Sorrow Origin of the StormThe Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The OmegaThis or the Apocalypse Dead YearsThe guitar leads are stunning, they range from totally badass to amazingly beautiful, the guitar work adds so much emotion to the music... it's just fantastic.
The vocals are the most polarizing part of this album, if you like this genre you'll probably love every other aspect, but I know the vocals rub some people the wrong way. I've always enjoyed Ricky and his unique vocals, he adds more range to his harsh vocals here and I personally enjoy all of it, his lyrics are great, and his voice carries a lot of urgency.
The ONLY flaws I could find on the whole album were the clean sections. Some of these vocals don't fit well with the band's sound at all, but they're short and easy to get passed.
I love this album. Fear not, fans of TOTA, this album destroys. Melodic Metalcore doesn't really get better than this.To Speak Of Wolves Find Your Worth, Come HomeUnderoath Lost in the Sound of SeparationUnderoath DisambiguationUniversum Mortuus MachinaWolves at the Gate CaptorsWovenwar Wovenwar3.5 greatA Call To Sincerity FoundationsTalented group. The music is very enjoyable for the most part, nice and melodic, some pretty beautiful material here. The vocals are... eh. They sound strong at first but there's not enough variation and they get stale long before the album ends. It's a shame the vocalist they picked up recently is even worse.After the Burial Wolves WithinDisconnect is probably the best song they've written, the rest of the album is is pretty hit or miss.All Shall Perish Awaken the DreamersAll Shall Perish This Is Where It EndsGotta love leaks. This is better than AtD, no contest at all. Is it better than TPoE? Most of you probably won't think so, but it's a damn good album and any metalhead should give it a few spins.
Edit: They are currently selling this at Mayhem Fest, so a lot of people own the album, so any reviews that were taken down should be put back up since the album has TECHNICALLY been released.
2nd edit: Not allowing reviews for this album? Wtf Sputnik D:August Burns Red Thrill SeekerAugust Burns Red LevelerAugust Burns Red Sleddin' HillBetween the Buried and Me AlaskaBetween the Buried and Me Colors_LiveBorn of Osiris The DiscoveryBorn of Osiris Soul SpherePretty fun album. The vocal variation is pretty solid and the songs are more interesting than the ones on the last album. Aint no Discovery but it will do for now.Breakdown of Sanity PerceptionI have such a soft spot for this band. Generic as fuck but equally fun. This album is a rpretty big step up from Mirrors, the songwriting is much better, more interesting guitar rleads, and their energetic brand of chugging is still holding up well enough. rOddly enough my gripe is with the vocals. I know for a fact that this guy is one of the more rtalented screamers in the genre, and yet his performance here is very limited in range. I've rheard him hit awesome highs and crushing lows but he seems pretty content with his mid range rhere. They sound great, but the highs are nearly untouched, and the lows could definitely be rused more as well. Some sections very obviously suffer simply because a higher or lower rrange would have made a much larger impact. rAll in all it's a very fun album.Bring Me The Horizon SempiternalChiodos IlluminaudioCounterparts The Current Will Carry UsOh lordy I guess guess I upset someone. Okay I'll just say I don't think it's as good as everyone is making it out to be and that Prophets is better imho.Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist NationDeadlock ManifestoDeadlock WolvesDemon Hunter Storm the Gates of HellDisarmonia Mundi The Isolation GameDisarmonia Mundi Cold InfernoElitist Reshape ReasonEminem RecoveryFallujah DreamlessFantastic as expected, I do have one gripe though. The vocalist only uses his highs on ONE part of one song, the entire rest of the album contains nothing but his growl and the guest spots. That section of The Void Alone is the most striking part of the entire album to me. Dude needs to use that range of his more often.Feed Her to the Sharks The Beauty of FallingForevermore SojournerThis is a very talented young group. They may not have broken away from the pack or really distinguished themselves yet, but on Sojourner they prove that they have the potential to do so.In Fear and Faith Your World On FireIn Vice Versa EmpathyInsomnium One for SorrowKillswitch Engage Disarm the DescentLamb of God ResolutionMake Them Suffer NeverbloomMake Them Suffer Worlds ApartThis is a band talented enough to take a very different approach on each album, and make it work. While I was initially worried about the loss of Louisa, Booka has a lovely voice, and it is put to good use.Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's PersonalThe Contortionist ExoplanetThe Devil Wears Prada 8:18Gonna suck.
Edit: Turns out it's much better than the singles would lead one to believe. It's not really
anything special but it's pretty good for this band, some of their best work. Mike's vocals
are both at their worst and best here, depending on the song, and Jeremy has never sounded
better. It's far from perfect but it ends up being pretty fun.The Sorrow The SorrowThe Sorrow Blessings From a Blackened SkyThe Sorrow Misery EscapeIt's fun, all of their albums are, but it could be better. Their first two albums remain the best and it doesn't sound like they have any interest in heading back in that direction.This or the Apocalypse MonumentsWolves at the Gate VxVOutstanding vocal performances and solid instrumentals to accompany them make for another great album from these guys. It's a shame they ONLY write songs about god, some more diverse lyrics would be nice, but still, this kicks ass.3.0 goodA Hero a Fake Let Oceans LieAfter the Burial In DreamsAll That Remains ...For We Are ManyAs I Lay Dying AwakenedAtreyu Long LiveThe 14 year old in me is pretty pumped about this release. But there isn't much here to keep modern day me interested. Alex's vocals sound pretty worn down these days and the songs are pretty much standard stuff. The cleans are great though, Brandon's voice has only gotten better over the years, and it's nice to hear him belting out some strong choruses again.Between the Buried and Me ColorsBreakdown of Sanity MirrorsBring Me The Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...Darkest Hour Darkest HourWell... Some of it is fantastic, and some of it is underwhelming to say the least. It's going to take me a lot of listens to really decide how I feel about this album, but one this is clear: This is a VERY different Darkest Hour than the one we've all come to know.Dead And Divine AntimacyGuitar work gets old really really fast but the vocals are good, the cleans are great. Very strong choruses.Deadlock Bizarro WorldDemon Hunter True DefianceDemon Hunter The TriptychdEMOTIONAL TarassisERRA AugmentIt's Impulse part 2. In a way this is very disappointing, they don't experiment with their sound or add a single new thing to it. That being said, once you come to terms with that and just listen to this for what it is, it's great stuff. Jesse sounds amazing on this album and there's some really beautiful guitar work, these guys are talented so more of the same will do the trick... For now.rEdit: I lied, it's getting boring really fast.Farewell To Arms PerceptionsJust stumbled on to this band on Facebook. Very talented bunch of guys, and for a debut album this is fantastic. Shame that they've gone essentially unnoticed thus far.I, the Breather These Are My SinsI, the Breather Truth and PurposeA step up from the previous album. The vocals are a little more varied but could still use a little work in my opinion. The guitar work is enjoyable just like on the previous album, they have a bit of a djent sound this time. It's a good album, still just a little too generic to really fall in love with, but these guys are talented and if they keep improving I'm sure they'll put out a really outstanding record in the future.
Oh and "Lunar" is fantastic. It's heavy, beautiful, and eerie all at the same time.Killswitch Engage As Daylight DiesKillswitch Engage The End of Heartacheletlive. The Blackest BeautifulOh, Sleeper The TitanNot nearly as good as CoF. There's something missing, I don't even really know what it is,
but none of the songs had the impact that songs on CoF had. The best song on the album is
Shane's nearly solo song, Heavy Hands. Shane is fucking awesome but his ballad shouldn't be
the album highlight.
If you're expecting songs on par with Endseekers or Hush Yael you will be let down.Papa Roach The ConnectionProtest the Hero ScurrilousScale the Summit The MigrationI can't really get into it. It's fun for a spin or two but it lacks the emotional impact
that The Collective had, which is what elevated it from something good to something really
special. Technically this is great but it failed to hit me in the feels.The Black Dahlia Murder EverblackThe Devil Wears Prada Dead ThroneThe Francesco Artusato Project Chaos And The PrimordialThe Haarp Machine DisclosureWell this is a letdown. Technically impressive and all but we've heard this before, plenty of times. The Overseer Rest and Let GoVery mixed feeling about this album. I really enjoyed this band's debut. This isn't nearly as heavy, and the heavy bits are a let down. I like atmosphere and it works well here at times, but I found a couple tracks downright boring. Clean vocals are very easy on the ears, and thankfully take the spotlight. If the vocalist was still screaming and growling like he did on the debut I would want more, but he sounds like a copy of Mike Hranica here, which is not good at allllllll.The Word Alive REAL.Not bad, they still haven't lived up to their potential but this is way better than Life
Cycles and there's some pretty cool tracks here. There's also some pretty shitty ones.Within the Ruins Invade2.5 averageAll That Remains OvercomeBeheading of a King DeathroneI can't say I didn't see it coming, album is mediocre. New vocalist is solid but has nothing on the previous one, and the instrumentals have become less interesting. Feels like just another deathcore album with a few cool moments.Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future SequenceBetween the Buried and Me The Great MisdirectDeadlock The Re-ArrivalDemon Hunter The World Is a ThornHope For The Dying AletheiaThe problem with this band is that they essentially noodle on their instruments for the
entire lengths of their albums. This is quite well written in some spots and the guitar work
is awesome, but by the time the end comes you're just sick of it. It loses any impact it
initially had and becomes tiresome.
Also the vocals don't fit the music and the cleans are shit.Parkway Drive AtlasBorrrrring. Fuck off sound off length requirement. TesseracT OneThe Amity Affliction Chasing GhostsThe Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take MeThe Faceless AutotheismYeah it's super fast and technical and they added prog elements but... Who gives a shit? Don't get me wrong there are some cool things at work here but honestly this music manages to be both overwhelming and boring at the same time for the most part. I wouldn't bother listening to this more than once. The Word Alive Life CyclesI finally got around to listening to this. It's really boring, a huge step down in every way from their last release. They got lazy... reeeally lazy.Wolves at the Gate Types and ShadowsThis is a letdown. I was bored before it ended, the songs run together. There is nothing going on the the guitar department. The full focus is on the vocals, and while they have always been the strong-point of this band, they aren't strong enough to carry an entire album's worth of dull samey sounding material.rTheir debut remains their strongest release.2.0 poorBorn of Osiris Tomorrow We Die AliveSo much poor execution on this album. It's like they said "hey let's take everything that we made work on The Discovery and turn it to shit."Bring Me The Horizon That's the SpiritWell it's late and I needed something to get me in the mood to sleep...
Yup. That did it. What a god damn bore.Deadlock The ArsonistPretty much sucks. The new harsh vocalist is terrible the instrumentals are bland as can fucking be... the only reason this isn't completely unbearable is because Sabine sounds pretty great.In Fear and Faith ImperialKillswitch Engage Killswitch Engage IIKingdom of Giants All The Hell You've Got To SpareThis album is really weak. It lacks everything that made Ground Culture a fun listen. No good riffs, no energy, way too many cleans, really bad choruses, and generally uninteresting music. They dropped the ball hard. Shame, because GC is a fun listen.Periphery ClearNothing special or stand out here. Way too many lame vocal effects, despite all the songs
being written by different people a lot of them still sound far too familiar, and the ones
that sound different than what the band usually puts out just aren't very good.
Disappointing release.Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1This album opens with it's two strongest tracks, both of which are pretty enjoyable and catchy. And then Corey and the boys stumble, and then they fall, annnnd they don't stop falling until the album comes to a close.
This is boring. I mean really fucking boring. I like the occasional hard rock album if it's done right, but this is so completely emotionless and lackluster and cheesy that I could barely finish it.
Is it possible for a band to try too hard and not give a shit at the same time? Because that's what this sounds like.The Contortionist IntrinsicI don't get it. Seems really awkward and dull to me...1.5 very poorA Hero a Fake The Future AgainFeed Her to the Sharks Savage SeasThis is really bad. They showed potential on their first release but this is just sad. The lyrics are some of the worst I've ever come across. The guy growls like a beast while crying like a little bitch, his writing is very limited. The music is generic as can be, there's nothing fun about it.1.0 awfulAll That Remains A War You Cannot WinIf the rest of the songs on this album are as bad as the 2 already released then the album
deserves a 1 for pure wasted talent if nothing else. To go from TFoI to this crap is just
Edit: It's as bad as we all knew it would be.As Blood Runs Black Ground ZeroAbsolute trash. Extremely over the top vocal production, making any actual talent the new guy may
have hard to hear, or care about. They still can't write riffs for shit, I honestly couldn't get
through the whole thing. Boring as can be, I just skimmed each song. Band has been around for
years and they haven't progressed at all. These guys simply don't have any songwriting skills. I
hear they're breaking up after their next tour. That would be for the best.Asking Alexandria From Death to DestinyAttack Attack! (US) This Means WarBring Me The Horizon Count Your BlessingsChelsea Grin EvolveDevin Townsend Project DeconstructionLimp Bizkit Gold CobraSuicide Silence Suicide SilenceThe Crimson Armada Conviction
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Phantom of the Opera and David Cryer '58 Celebrate #8,000
April 10, 2007
April 10, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - David Cryer, the 1958 DePauw University graduate who portrays Monsieur Firmin in the Broadway production of Phantom of the Opera, and his fellow cast members have set another record. As Broadway World reports, "With its 2 p.m. matinee on Wednesday, April 4, the musical became the first Broadway show ever to reach 8,000 performances." The occasion was marked by the presentation of a huge cake decorated with "8000" during the curtain call. The cast also celebrated backstage following the performance, according to the article (photo below; Cryer is at the far right).
"Now in its phenomenal 20th year, the Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Group, Inc. production, directed by Harold Prince, continues to play at the Majestic Theatre (247 West 44th Street), with no end in sight," adds the story, which notes Cryer's role in the production.
The winner of seven Tony Awards, Phantom of the Opera became the longest-running show in Broadway history on January 9, 2006.
Read the story by clicking here.
Video clips of David Cryer -- who has also appeared in films such as Escape from Alcatraz and American Gigolo -- from a 1996 television news profile can be accessed here and here.
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Week 4: English articles, transport vocabulary, buying tickets, would like
This week there are four English lessons:
A grammar lesson: Indefinite and definite articles in English
A vocabulary lesson: English transport vocabulary
A speaking lesson: Learn how to buy tickets in English
And a general lesson: Would like and other English polite phrases
Practice activities
There are multiple-choice exercises for the articles lesson and the lesson on using "would like". There's speaking practice for your fluency and pronunciation in the "would like" and polite phrases lesson.
Lesson objectives
– Understand when and how to use the indefinite, definite or zero article in English
– Learn essential words to describe types of transport, tickets, and the right verbs to use with these
– Practise asking for tickets or transport information
– Learn tips for understanding native English speakers
– Use "I'd like" appropriately in social situations, and learn other ways to be polite and friendly in English
Related pages
There's more detailed grammar explanation on the definite article; and extra tips for politeness in being friendly in English.
In previous weeks of the English course
In Week 1 the grammar lessons cover the verb "to be", and subject / object pronouns and possessives. The vocabulary lesson covers words and phrases to talk about your family. The speaking lesson gives practice in saying hello and introducing yourself.
In Week 2, the grammar lesson is the Present Simple tense. (Question forms are practised further in Week 3.) Week 2 also covers telephone phrases, vocabulary to talk about your job, and giving personal information, such as date of birth and address.
Week 3 also has a grammar lesson on English nouns (singular, plural, countable and uncountable), a vocabulary lesson on talking about your free time, and speaking practice in making a hotel booking in English.
Next week
The lessons next week are a grammar review on there is / there are; using "can" to make polite requests, and vocabulary for talking about rooms and furniture in English.
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A Rainbow of Names! Six Characters Whose Names Evoke Colors
So I'm playing around with a new idea, not too committed to it yet but interested. I want to start brainstorming names mostly for the sake of storyboarding and starting to build it.
Genre of Story: Survival Drama
Time Period/Location: Modern-Day Yosemite/Sierras/California Coast
Brief Plot: A group of 6 friends decide to go on a camping and rock climbing trip. During the trip, several things go wrong, some by chance and some by poor decision making, leaving the six of them struggling for survival amongst gradually fracturing relationships.
I need names for all six charachters, whose personalities are going to be based on colors, in so much as a Chakras sort of way (the traditional chakra meanings influence their personlities, and therefore their decisions, weaknesses, and histories). I want the names to evoke the colors they represent, but it doesn't have to be literal. Lasts or middles will probably be the most obvious references.
Character Description: Red character, a woman in her mid-twenties, a passionate, aggressive, strong woman. Red hair and freckles. Deep desire to be loved and to love.
Already Considered: Rowan, Ginger, Ruby, Gemma, Ashley
Anything else?: In a relationship with Purple, but currently on the rocks, racked with insecurities. Feels neglected as Purple often chooses work or friends over spending time with her.
Characted Description: Orange, a man in his early 30s, creative and confident thinker, known for his courage and friendliness. Military experience makes him one of the more capable outdoorsmen. Blonde hair, fit.
Already Considered: Sean, Mac
Anything else?: Iraq War veteran with PTSD (generally 'under control'), who is recovering from a bad breakup.
Characted Description: Yellow, man in his early-mid 20s, a consistent optimist, cheerful, and intellectual. High energy level that often exceeds the others, much to their annoyance. High level ADHD and infectious enthusiasm. Light blonde hair and light blue eyes.
Already Considered: Alex
Anything else? Youngest and most naive in the group. On the verge of graduating college and entering the workforce, and a closeted bisexual with conservative religious parents.
Characted Description: Green, woman in her mid twenties, a hippie with a deep connection to nature. Has some of the strongest outdoors skills but is consistently underestimated because she is a woman. Brown hair, hazel eyes.
Anything else?: In long-term relationship with Blue, currently pregnant, early along and hiding it from the others. Should have a very nature-oriented name.
Characted Description: Blue character, a man in his mid-twenties, sincere, usually tranquil (until pushed), loyal. Highly logical and often appears cold. History of depression. Brown hair, brown eyes, olive skin.
Already Considered: Cyan, Cerulean. I've seen a lot of 'blue' names and none I really like.
Anything else?: In LTR with Green, who is pregnant. Racked with anxiety about Green's dysfunctional family or abusive ex potentially trying to visit the baby.
Characted Description: Purple, a man in his late 20s, ambitious, prideful and all about appearances. Highly concerned with dignity and driven by money and luxury. Blue eyes, brown hair.
Already Considered: Jared, Jeff, Victor
Anything else?: In relationship with Red, but relationship is cracking under the pressure of Red's desire to get married and his own workaholism.


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Phoenix to Play the Apollo Theater on May 13
Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:36:47
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Phoenix Videos
Phoenix will be playing a special show at New York City's legendary Apollo Theater on May 13. The band, featuring Sofia Coppola's husband Thomas Mars, will be playing the show in support of Bankrupt!, out on Loyaute/Glassnote on April 23.
Tickets were offered via a special lottery system, with winners will being randomly selected and sent an invitation to purchase tickets on March 29.
Blood Orange – a.k.a. Dev Hynes – will be opening the show.
Visit phoenix.artistarena.com for more info.
Who wants to try and see Phoenix at the legendary Apollo?
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Archive for Thursday, May 8, 2008
Feds OK K-10 SLT
May 8, 2008
For the first time in more than a decade, supporters of the South Lawrence Trafficway have all the necessary federal permits to build the road through the Baker Wetlands.
And once again, opponents of the nearly 25-year old project have all they need to head back to court.
The Kansas Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that the Federal Highway Administration has issued a key permit allowing the road to be built along a 32nd Street route, which runs through the northern part of the Baker Wetlands.
"This is another key step toward the completion of the trafficway," Douglas County Commissioner Bob Johnson said of the project, which would connect Interstate 70 west of Lawrence with Kansas Highway 10 east of Lawrence.
The permit - called a Record of Decision - brought a promise of a new lawsuit from leaders of the Save the Wakarusa Wetlands organization.
"We certainly will go to court," said Michael Caron, executive director of the wetlands group. "I have no doubt that the road will never be built there."
The Federal Highway Administration had approved preliminary permits that found the 32nd Street route did the least amount of environmental harm to the wetlands. Opponents of the project have disputed that finding, saying a route south of the Wakarusa River would do less environmental harm.
The new permit is significant, though. It marks the first time since 1994 that roadway builders have had the necessary federal permits to build the road through the wetlands. It was 1994 when county commissioners suspended the wetlands portion of the project to allow for a new study reviewing the environmental impacts the road would have on adjacent Haskell Indian Nations University and the wetlands. Ever since, the project has been tied up in lawsuits and federal bureaucracy.
Technically, the permit would allow road builders to begin construction. Work, though, is not likely to happen soon. Funding for the road remains a major issue.
It is estimated that about $150 million in funding is needed to complete the project. State and federal funding is expected to be sought, but Johnson said new money may not develop until 2010.
State legislators next year are expected to begin discussions about a new multiyear comprehensive transportation plan. The state's current plan - which funded $5.5 billion in construction projects - is set to expire in 2009.
The project, however, does have about $1.5 million in federal funding that would allow small-scale work to begin. The money - secured by U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts - could be used to begin work to create a new wetlands area to replace the approximately 58 acres of wetlands disturbed by the project.
Joe Erskine, deputy secretary of transportation for KDOT, said removing some plants from the wetlands to be transferred to a planned 247-acre wetlands site west of Louisiana Street is a possibility. But Erskine said no major excavation work is planned in the wetlands until funding and possible litigation matters are resolved.
Johnson said he believes both the funding issues and the litigation matters will be resolved in favor of the road project.
"I think everybody feels pretty good about what has been done and the attention that has been paid to all the details," Johnson said. "We're pretty confident that we'll prevail in litigation."
The last time the project was in court - in the late 1990s - the county and other SLT supporters lost. But this time a key fact has changed. In the 1990s lawsuit, roadway supporters were arguing that they did not need the federal permit to proceed with the project. A federal judge rejected that argument. This time, the county and KDOT have the needed permit, and it will be up to opponents to show that the permit was incorrectly issued.
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Ingram Park CDJ Looks to the Future for Inspiration in the 2014 Jeep Compass in San Antonio
The 2014 Jeep Compass in San Antonio is about to shake things up in the Ingram Park CDJ inventory
Jan 31, 2013, 10:40 ET from Ingram Park CDJ
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Exciting things are happening at Ingram Park CDJ, and adding new vehicles to its inventory is one of them. Soon to be part of the Ingram Park CDJ inventory of new cars in San Antonio TX is the 2014 Jeep Compass in San Antonio TX. A fuel-efficient SUV may sound like an oxymoron, but Jeep shows that anything is possible with innovation and creative design techniques. Drivers should prepare themselves for a driving experience unlike any other thanks to the upcoming 2014 Jeep Compass in San Antonio.
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The 2014 Jeep Compass in San Antonio will be equipped with the World Engine, which produces up to 30 mpg on the highway. This 2.0-liter engine is small and mighty with the ability to travel over 400 miles on a single tank of fuel. It's ability to provide a responsive and efficient performance makes the Compass a leader in its compact SUV segment. Staying true to its Jeep roots, the SUV is Trail Rated to adapt to any terrain it encounters along the way. Rocky roads and snow-covered highways won't stand a chance against this vehicle's capabilities.
Dressed with a bold exterior, the Compass will bring much more than beauty to the table this time around. Chrome accents offer a stunning design aesthetic, but features like bi-halogen headlights will offer more visibility in dark or harsh driving conditions, and a sleek acoustic windshield makes for a much quieter ride. The all-new Compass brings together the best of worlds when it comes to style and functionality.
Smart and refined, the Compass' interior brings a breath of sophistication to an otherwise sporty vehicle. Balancing the clean lines of soft-touch fabrics and upscale detailing with the tech-savviness of an available Garmin navigation system, the driver's cabin is just as visually appealing as it is intelligent.
Ingram Park CDJ looks forward to bringing the latest in automotive technology and design to its San Antonio drivers with the 2014 Jeep Compass in San Antonio TX. From new Jeep in San Antonio to used cars in San Antonio TX, drivers can always rely on the dealership to deliver the best autos on the road.
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We haven't had a shoe on display in a while, so I jumped at the chance to show you this one, even though it's pricey it's at Neiman-Marcus, after all and it's pointy, which sometimes is a turnoff.
Just the same, here we go with Reed Krakoff's "Academy":
The pitch on this collection:
The Reed Krakoff collection juxtaposes utility with femininity; it's both functional and poetic a new look of sophistication, but one with an unequivocal American ease and confidence.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I love the idea of a blending of functional and poetic. And I'm keen on this colorblock stuff: it gives you more ways to coordinate. (Or, if you prefer, miscoordinate.) That little bit of padding around the (4¼-inch) heel looks like it might actually help.
Neiman's will charge you $595 for these, which is presumably what they charged known sneaker-wearer Wendy Davis for the pair she wore in this month's gargantuan-sized issue of Vogue.


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Moab Rim Trail – Discount Tire Rally on the Rocks 2014
Moab Rim Trail Ride – May 16, 2014
At the drivers meeting we met our trail guide "Woody". He attends many off road events and is also the owner of www.ih8mud.com. Woody was voted as the trail guide of the year for his involvement at the 2013 event. We were happy to have him on the Moab Rim Trail with us for the day.
The Moab Rim trail gets started quickly with a steep climb along the Colorado River. The first obstacle, known as the crack, can be somewhat challenging if you don't hit the step just right.
At the crack we put tow straps on a few shorter rigs just to make sure they did not end up on their side. Shortly after helping a vehicle over the crack I heard some commotion behind me. Sure enough one of the vehicles ended up on its side a short distance up the trail. Thankfully no one was hurt and the vehicle was able to continue after it was back on its wheels.
After everyone made it over the crack we continued on to the Z turn. The Z turn has multiple lines and some are very difficult. An Arctic Cat WildCat found this out the hard way and broke the rear drive line. The owner decided to park it off to the side of the trail and repair it later. Pictures don't capture how rugged the Z Turn actually is.
Once through the Z turn the trail is pretty easy other than some off camber spots and a few optional obstacles. At the top of Moab Rim there is an excellent view of Moab down below and you can also see the snow topped La Sal Mountains in the distance. We stopped here for lunch and took in all the beauty.
With full bellies, we saddled up and continued on toward the sand hill. This part of the trail is a small loop that connects back up to the main trail. There is an optional steep, sandy hill to climb that reminds me of the dunes at Sand Hollow State Park.
I had a blast watching the drivers race up the hill. One of our guys, Addam, jumped into the RZR 4 1000 demo unit I had. I told him "Give me one more good roost!" and he did, reluctantly of course, but within 30 feet the belt exploded. (Go figure.) Fortunately, another one of our guys had a spare belt and Addam was able to change out the shredded belt within minutes.
Back on the main trail we passed a few small water holes and then started dropping back down the side of the rim. Just before our return to the Z turn Woody and a participant helped winch a boulder out from under a stuck Jeep Cherokee. With the Jeep freed the owners could go about replacing their broken parts.
We made it back to the Z-turn and going down it can be just as frightening as climbing up it. Watching some of the faces as the machines came down the Z turn was a blast.
Back at the broken Wildcat the owner decided to try to limp it back down to the trail head. Unfortunately, luck wasn't on his side and he ended up bending a tie-rod and breaking one of the front axles. After removing the bent tie-rod a few guys were able to straighten it with the assistance of a steel fence post. Amazingly, it worked and didn't damage the fence post either.
After getting everything back together the driver needed to be extremely careful and not stress the tie-rod again. To help, the group that was left actually pushed the Wildcat down the rest of the Moab Rim Trail to the parking lot. What an awesome group effort.
It happened to be a long day on the trail but fun none the less. To me there is nothing better than spending the day on the trail with good friends.
Note: Special thanks to ZBROZ Racing for quickly fixing one of our RZR's before this trail ride. Thank you ZBROZ!
Here are some additional photos from our ride on the Moab Rim Trail:
Want to see more pictures from the Moab Rim trail? Here's a link to our Moab Rim Trail Pictures from the 2013 Discount Tire Rally on the Rocks


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September 2013
A thread about where you can get the game cheapest because who doesn't like to save some money. Will also serve as inspiration to all those out there who are in doubt of what to buy.
So where have you got your games? Have you taken the chance with some odd third party site like me or are you going with Origin or something third?
I already have access to beta and don't care about the other cosmetic stuff you can earn by playing so didn't need deluxe edtion and planned on buying premium from the get go so don't care about getting the first expansion for free since premium gives me that anyway, so I went with the basic and cheap version and just bought my games on Greenmangaming.com (warning this is a referal link that will earn you + me 2 euro if you use and buy something - just enter it manually into the adress field if you don't want that).
I cost me: 43 euro for the base game preorder (got 20% discount with a code) and premium 35,50 euro (with the 25% discount that is running now).
Total 78,50 Euro
I think I managed to get it pretty cheap. What have you done?
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12 November 2012 – Security Council – Timor-Leste – Statement by Mr. Philippe Bertoux, Political Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations
(UN translation)
I would
like to thank Mr. Reske-Nielsen for his presentation
and to welcome the presence and the statement of
Mr. José Luís Guterres, Minister of State and Minister
for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste.
My country aligns itself with the statement that
will be made by the observer of the European Union.
At the outset, I would also like to thank the
Permanent Representative of South Africa for having
led the Security Council's mini-mission to Timor-Leste,
for his report (see S/PV.6858) and, more generally, for
his work in the Security Council on this matter.
country would also like to thank the United Nations
staff members who have worked in the Mission in
Timor-Leste since its deployment, the successive
Special Representatives and those nations that have
participated in stabilizing the country, in particular,
Portugal, Australia and New Zealand.
We would like to congratulate the authorities
of Timor-Leste for organizing free and democratic
legislative and presidential elections, which were
held in a peaceful climate with a high turnout. The
transfer of power was peaceful, which gives shape to
the entrenchment of democracy and the solidity of the
country's institutions.
The transfer of responsibility for
security to the Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL)
took place in good conditions and without an increase
in crime. The certification of the full reconstitution
of the PNTL paves the way for a cut in staff levels of
the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
(UNMIT) and an end to the Mission on 31 December
2012, as stipulated in resolution 2037 (2012).
country's diplomacy is displaying great dynamism, as
demonstrated by its role in the Group of Seven Plus
coalition of fragile States and its growing interaction
with regional organizations in the area, an aim that we
too are pursuing for our territories in the Pacific. The
security situation has been stable for some years now,
and everything points to it remaining so.
The challenges that the Timorese must tackle today
include combating poverty, economic development,
discrimination against women, the scourge of
corruption and bolstering justice and accountability for
serious crimes committed in the past.
The challenges
should be met with the assistance of the international
community, and no longer with the support of a United
Nations peacekeeping operation.
The effective departure of UNMIT is approaching
and taking final shape. The preparations for UNMIT's
withdrawal and the Joint Transition Plan are, in our
eyes, a model to be followed in other theatres. We
have taken due note of the wishes expressed by Prime
Minister Gusmão on the nature of the relation between
his country and the United Nations after the withdrawal.
It is clear that the type of presence that the United
Nations will maintain on the ground should be defined
in concert with the local authorities and with their full
agreement. We should also bear in mind its budgetary
We are also ready, as requested by the
Timorese authorities, to see the agenda of the Security
Council evolve in order to ref lect the new situation in
Timor-Leste. We nonetheless are prepared to join all
the parties concerned in considering the outlines of
a future relationship between the United Nations and
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Clark Spencer / Fish Bytes:
Marlins not shopping Stanton, and my HOF ballot — Sorry about the absence, but used some vacation time, covered the Sugar Bowl, and watched with detached amusement as the Giancarlo Stanton trade rumors swirled about. The Marlins are not shopping Stanton. They are not dangling him like the carrot at the end of a stick.
Discussion: NESN.com, Getting Blanked, HardballTalk, Amazin' Avenue, MLB Daily Dish and MLB Rumors
Ricky Doyle / NESN.com: Report: Marlins 'Are Not Moving' Giancarlo Stanton Despite Trade Speculation
Drew Fairservice / Getting Blanked: URL Weaver: Bourn to Lose
Jeffrey Paternostro / Amazin' Avenue: Mets Morning News: Piazza, New York Catcher
Nathan Aderhold / MLB Daily Dish: Marlins rumors: Miami not shopping Giancarlo Stanton
Padres Insider: Club studies spring training strategy; Marlins shopping Stanton — It's far too early to talk about the possibilities, but the Padres are one of the clubs the Miami Marlins have talked to regarding right-handed, power-hitting right fielder Giancarlo Stanton.
Discussion: Fish Stripes, Sporting News Feed RSS, BBTF's Baseball Primer … and HardballTalk
Michael Jong / Fish Stripes: Miami Marlins Trade Rumors: Marlins Not Considering Trading Giancarlo Stanton Internally
Bill Center / North County Times:
Padres Insider: Club studies spring training strategy; Marlins shopping Stanton — Among the issues discussed recently by the Padres brass is how the club will deploy its forces over the longest exhibition season in franchise history. — Because this is also the spring of the third World Baseball Classic …
Discussion: Gaslamp Ball
Fox Sports:
Sources: Upton trade talks still on — Justin Upton for Chase Headley? — The Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres have held on-and-off discussions about a trade involving those players since July, but the talks have failed to progress, according to major-league sources.
Discussion: MLB Rumors, Bleed Cubbie Blue, Gaslamp Ball, baseballmusings.com, HardballTalk and Sporting News Feed RSS
Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors: Mets, Diamondbacks Discussed Upton, Kubel
D.J. Short / HardballTalk: Diamondbacks and Padres have discussed Justin Upton-for-Chase Headley deal
Fox Sports:
Berkman close to signing with Texas — The Texas Rangers — closing in on a new designated hitter — are finalizing an agreement with free agent Lance Berkman, according to major-league sources. — The contract is expected to be for one year in the $10 million to $11 million range …
Discussion: MLB Daily Dish, MLB Rumors, Viva El Birdos, Lone Star Ball and The LoHud Yankees Blog
Nathan Aderhold / MLB Daily Dish: Rangers rumors: Michael Bourn, Justin Upton, Kyle Lohse
Daniel Seco / MLB Rumors: Quick Hits: Rangers, Red Sox, Mets
Dan Moore / Viva El Birdos: Texas Rangers make Lance Berkman a (big) contract offer he decides against refusing
Adam J. Morris / Lone Star Ball: Rosenthal: Rangers sign Lance Berkman to 1 year, $11 million deal with vesting option
Chad Jennings / The LoHud Yankees Blog: Scratch that: Berkman heading to Texas
Zach Links / MLB Rumors:
Rangers To Sign Lance Berkman
Rangers To Sign Lance Berkman
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Mattsullivan / MLB Daily Dish: Lance Berkman Signs with the Rangers
Drew Fairservice / Getting Blanked: Rangers Agree to One-Year Deal with Lance Berkman
Nick Cafardo / The Boston Globe:
Will 'roid rage' among baseball writers show up in vote? — On Wednesday, the Baseball Writers Association of America and the Hall of Fame will announce the results of the voting that decides which candidates will be enshrined in Cooperstown, N.Y., this year.
Discussion: MLB Daily Dish, HardballTalk, Metsblog, MLB Rumors and Let's Go Tribe
Nathan Aderhold / MLB Daily Dish: Cubs rumors: Matt Garza back on the block?
Michael Baron / Metsblog: Mets would "love" to trade Johan Santana
Zach Links / MLB Rumors: Cafardo On Cubs, Ellsbury, Morneau, Dodgers
Richard Deitsch / Sports Illustrated:
A Notre Dame-Alabama TV primer; Bobby Valentine gets a talk show — Brian Kelly wants Notre Dame's first title since 1988; Nick Saban wants 'Bama's third title in four years. — When Notre Dame and Alabama kickoff on Monday night in Miami shortly after 8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN executives …
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Mike Cole / NESN.com: Bobby Valentine Gets His Own Sports Radio Show, Admits He Has 'Opinion About Pretty Much Everything'
Craig Calcaterra / HardballTalk: Bobby Valentine to host a show on NBC Sports Radio
Chad Finn / Boston Globe: Bobby Valentine joins NBC Sports Radio
Peter Abraham / Boston Globe: Valentine to host radio show for NBC
Robert Klemko / USA Today:
Dr. James Andrews says he never cleared Robert Griffin III to go back into game after injury … Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III (10) reacts after getting injured during the game against the Baltimore Ravens at FedEx Field on Dec. 9. (Photo: Evan Habeeb, USA TODAY Sports)
Discussion: Sports Illustrated, NESN.com, Sporting News Feed RSS and ESPN
Doug Kyed / NESN.com: Seahawks-Redskins Live: Robert Griffin III Re-Injures Knee As Seahawks Beat Redskins 24-14
Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Mo says knee '95 percent' on way toward full health — Baseball's all-time saves leader conducts pitching clinic for Connecticut kids — Mariano Rivera addresses kids at a pitching clinic in Danbury, Conn., on Saturday. (Bryan Hoch/MLB.com) — DANBURY, Conn. — To most of his audience …
Discussion: The LoHud Yankees Blog
Chad Jennings / The LoHud Yankees Blog: Rivera says knee is "95 percent" ready
Andrew Marchand / ESPN:
Mariano Rivera to start throwing
Mariano Rivera to start throwing
Discussion: HardballTalk
Ken Davidoff / New York Post:
Unresolved questions linger for Yanks, Mets, free agents — To be honest, you probably could take an extended nap (like the one Carl Pavano took from 2005 through 2008) from now until the start of spring training, and you wouldn't miss a great deal in the baseball world.
Discussion: Metsblog
Michael Baron / Metsblog: Mets more likely to acquire a pitcher than outfielder
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Infusion of $160 Million Gives Mets a Chance to Spend, Perhaps on Talent
Infusion of $160 Million Gives Mets a Chance to Spend, Perhaps on Talent
Discussion: HardballTalk, Metsblog, Amazin' Avenue and The LoHud Mets Blog
Steve Schreiber / Amazin' Avenue: Mets Morning News: Loans Get Refinanced, Can They Acquire Some Good Players Now?
Howard Megdal / The LoHud Mets Blog: The Loan (Sandomir Reporting)
Jordan Bastian / MLB.com:
Indians step up to plate, but DH remains a need — CLEVELAND — The Indians are not done looking for ways to upgrade aspects of their roster. After signing right-hander Brett Myers, though, the club appears to be done doling out substantial big league contracts to free agents.
Discussion: Plain Dealer and MLB Rumors
Paul Hoynes / Plain Dealer: Nick Swisher's signing cost Cleveland Indians their No.2 pick in June draft, but they retained …
Edward Creech / MLB Rumors: Indians Notes: Payroll, Hafner, DH, Starting Rotation
Buster Olney / ESPN.com:
Buster Posey's incredible arbitration case — Buster Posey hasn't played in two full seasons' worth of regular-season games yet — 308, to be exact. But he's made the most of his time in the big leagues, winning a rookie of the year award, a batting title, a most valuable player award and two World Series titles with the Giants.
Discussion: MLB Rumors
Zach Links / MLB Rumors: Quick Hits: Posey, McCann, Berkman, Mets, Yankees
Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Still unsure of comeback, Vazquez eyes Nats — WASHINGTON — Right-hander Javier Vazquez said Saturday that he has not made a final decision about his future in the big leagues. If he decides to make a comeback, he would consider playing for the Nationals even though their rotation is set.
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Have Yourself a Kindle-y Christmas?
If you're interested in a Kindle for Christmas, there are two things to consider. The first is coverage: Kindle relies on the Sprint network to work, and so you have to be in their coverage area. You can check out this map to find out more specifically if you'll be covered.
The other problem is that, if you haven't already ordered you Kindle, you're not going to get the delivery by Christmas. No word on the exact date, they'll email you that after you place your order, but Amazon does say that you won't get it before Christmas.
Have you gotten to play with a Kindle?