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Farcical shoot-out shows Moyes' men have lost their nerve
WATCH the penalty shoot-out again and you will see Manchester United's players approach the ball as if they were stepping towards a firing squad rather than a Wembley final.
The four men in red who missed from the spot against Sunderland on Wednesday night were not the shooters. They were the shot-at.
The difficulties of the previous 120 minutes had left them shattered, confused, fearful. Their only expectation seemed to be of more pain to come. Their body language was limp, their execution woeful.
These were men without faith, to whom the great United tradition offered no comfort. Old Trafford was a place of pitiless scrutiny. The simple act of knocking a ball 12 yards past a goalkeeper and into a net seemed to appear to them as a Himalayan task.
That penalty shoot-out, which sent Sunderland to the League Cup final, was the perfect window on United's current psyche. The game itself had resembled a tussle between two mid-table Premier League sides, with one – Sunderland – rediscovering their spirit, and the other wondering where the hell theirs went.
Sunderland had something to play for, to fight against. Beating United in a League Cup semi-final would not only buy them a date with Manchester City at Wembley, but assist their anti-relegation struggle. Their players were eager, tenacious, undaunted by the opposition and the setting.
United, on the other hand, were hesitant, stilted and drifting through another night of shrieks and howls.
A drop in quality has conspired with a collapse in confidence to render some of these players unrecognisable as Premier League champions. The "20 times" anthem of the crowd drifts across the action as part-encouragement, part-rebuke. The lyrics will not need changing to 21. Not this year, anyway, even with Juan Mata to add artistry to an artisan midfield.
United's fans are not used to this. They now face the unfamiliar dilemma of whether to get behind the team or jump on top of them.
They feel the ghosts of Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie about the place and think unflattering things about Danny Welbeck. Darren Fletcher, United's only scorer in a dire shoot-out, is a symbol of the days when people had to scheme and scrap to get into the team's midfield. Now they get picked if they can stand in a line across the park.
At Liverpool, decline from the great peaks of the 70s and 80s was incremental. At United it feels like an overnight phenomenon. It is not, of course, because the problems are soluble. The foundations United rest on are not being swept away. There is a deep jolt to the core for fans who saw 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League trophies paraded through the streets in Alex Ferguson's near 27 years; and to players who are no longer protected by history.
Quite the opposite. The underwhelming United side who found Sunderland so hard to deal with have clearly lost faith in themselves and each other.
Late on Wednesday night, Javier Hernandez made a break from his own half and no United player went with him. David de Gea 'threw' one in to help take the game to penalties. United addressed the shoot-out as if an executioner were about to ask whether they had any last requests. There was no force or conviction in their shots at goal.
This fatalism, understandable on a human level, has spread to parts of the coaching staff, so that the spot kicks were approached as an ordeal that would probably end badly.
The old United teams would have refused to lose a test of nerve; refused to miss a chance to slap City around at Wembley; refused to drag the club into another post-mortem.
These United players are being told they are not up to the job and are obviously starting to believe it. You can see it from the tentative way they pass and move. Joie de vivre is absent. They expect the worst. David Moyes can buy as many players as he likes but until the team's pessimism and lack of confidence are lifted there can be no way out of this slump.
Constant success distorts our understanding of how teams function. There is no such thing as immunity from doubt. This United team are like every other struggling team, from Hackney Marshes up. They have lost their heart, their spirit, but they can get them back.
At this level of sport, timidity is inexcusable. (© Daily Telegraph, London)
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Drive. If the people in the surrounding houses had been awake at that hour of the night,
and had it not been a new moon, they might have been surprised to a snowy white owl
battling its way through the wind toward the house. What on earth was an owl doing
there, in that rain, at that time of night? Such things just didnt happen on Private Drive.
But there was one person who was wide awake, and had been expecting the owl for some
Hedwig! Harry cried, throwing open the window to let the bird in. I thought youd
never make it tonight, with the rain and all. The owl nibbled at his ear affectionately as
he untied the parcels she was carrying.
This summer had been the worst so far for Harry. Not only did he have to deal with his
aunt, uncle, and horrible cousin, but now the closest person to being real family, his
godfather, was dead, and he was left with the unshakeable knowledge that it was all his
fault. He had the entire summer, which he spent mostly alone in his room, to brood about
that and to worry about his eventual confrontation with Voldemort. In fact, the only
things that lifted his gloomy demeanor were letters from his friends.
Lets see what youve brought me, then. Harry began to unwrap the parcels and set
them on the desk in front of him. Now, where has that flashlight gone to? But his
search was cut short by a light tapping on the window. Harry opened the window to find
another owl, which he brought in out of the rain. This one was grey, with large,
penetrating eyes. After Harry retrieved the note from the owls leg, it promptly took off
and flew back out the window.
Maybe this is it! he thought to himself, while still rummaging around for the flashlight.
Four weeks earlier, he sent letters to the members of his illegal defense against the dark
arts group asking them whether or not they wanted to continue the group. The response
was overwhelming: everyone who replied was for it. In fact, everyone had replied with
the exception of one particular Ravenclaw entering her fifth year.
But even as he turned on the flashlight and read the address, he knew that it was not sent
by Luna Lovegood. Thinking back to their conversation during the end of the year
banquet, he let out a small sigh of disappointment. The envelope was addressed to Mr.
Harry Potter, and written with vaguely familiar narrow handwriting. Harry opened it up
and read:
I hope that your summer has been peaceful so far,
considering the events which conceived it. I am writing to
inform you that in addition to your normal classes this
coming year, you will be receiving dueling lessons from me
twice weekly. Please account for this when scheduling
Quiddich practices and D.A. meetings.
So he does want us to continue with that, Harry breathed before
Congratulations on your O.W.L. scores and good luck with
your upcoming responsibilities this year.
Albus Percieval Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Headmaster, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Additional responsibilities? Harry began, but then suddenly remembered: the prophecy.
Either he would have to kill Lord Voldemort or be killed. Well, at least now I get
Dumbledores help, he thought, before turning to the parcels.
The first was from Ron. Harry could tell because of the uniquely terrible handwriting
that littered the front. After opening the parcel he took out and read the letter, written in
similarly poor handwriting.
Hey Harry,
Dont worry, well be coming to get you soon, so you wont
be spending much more time with the muggles. I probably
wont be there, but Im sure my dad will be going, says he
wants to ask the muggles about the Compoder or
something. Ill never understand it. Anyway, thought
youd enjoy these. Dont let the muggles get you down.
Harry emptied the contents of the parcel on his bed to find a dozen or so
chocolate frogs. Smiling to himself, he picked up the letter from the
second parcel.
Were hoping that youre feeling better since your last
letter. Your cousin Dudley sounds terrible, but you cant
go losing your temper like that.
The image of Dudley running around the kitchen after their last fight, screaming his head
off because of the wings that had suddenly sprouted from his piggish back returned to
Harrys mind. He had to work hard at stifling a loud chuckle as he returned to the letter.
Well be getting you soon. Dumbledore says that youll
probably be staying with Lupin at Grimmauld Place for a
while, but dont worry, well be getting there a couple days
after you. Enjoy this; hopefully it will help combat Rons
True to her nature, Hermione had enclosed a toothbrush and dental floss. Harry could not
help but laugh as he thought about the letter. Seconds later, he sobered up when he
remembered where he would be staying. Of all the places in the world, Grimmauld Place
was one of the few in which he would less rather stay than at the Dursleys. It brought
back too many painful memories of Sirius, and the thought of being abandoned there with
that filthy, evil elf, Kreacher, was almost too much.
It wont be so bad, though, Harry thought. At least Lupin will be there. Hes always
been nice to me.
Harry sat back down on his bed, opened up one of the chocolate frogs and examined the
Co-founder of Hogwarts
One of the greatest wizards of all time, Godrick Gryffindor
is best remembered as one of the founders of the Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Gryffindor was known
for his bravery and chivalry.
On the other side was a picture of a handsome, tall man wearing a hat and carrying a
sword. He had dark blonde hair and green eyes, which looked around the picture, then up
at Harry. He seemed a rugged sort of man, up for a challenge.
Where dwell the brave at heart Harry muttered, growing drowsy. The rain pounding
on the rooftop was relaxing, lulling him to sleep. He dropped the card on the ground, but
was asleep before it landed.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It doesn't take long to thin the field of championship contenders in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, and some believe it has already been reduced to a three-driver race.
Clint Bowyer begs to differ.
Bowyer has had a pretty nice start to the Chase, finishing inside the top 10 in all three races. But it's not been enough in the points standings, where he is seemingly spinning his tires despite decent finishes. He is fourth in the standings, 25 points behind leader Brad Keselowski, but certain he's still in the title race. Why? Because Round 4 of the Chase is at Talladega Superspeedway, where Bowyer is the two-time defending race winner.
"This weekend is everything," Bowyer said Monday. "Talladega is the one that's going to make the difference."
Everybody considers Talladega the wild card of the 10-race Chase because the smallest mistake in a restrictor plate race can have devastating consequences.
Five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson knows that all too well – he's yet to finish a plate race this season through no fault of his own. Johnson was collected in an accident on the second lap of the Daytona 500, suffered an engine failure at Talladega in the spring and was in yet another accident at Daytona in July.
Most title contenders are on pins and needles at Talladega, where they worry the championship can be lost because of another drivers' error.
Bowyer believes that's going to work to his advantage, especially with everyone assuming only Keselowski, Johnson and Denny Hamlin are left as viable title contenders.
"I'm going in there with the confidence of knowing I've won the last two, and I am a guy who needs a good run to get myself back in the championship," he said. "The other three are looking over their shoulder, knowing they can't get into trouble. But I'm going there to make a run at this thing.
"And it's not only me, but there's three or four behind me who could pull all of us back in the running."
Only 17 points separate Bowyer from Michael Waltrip Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr., who is eighth in points. Wedged between the MWR drivers is Tony Stewart, Kasey Kahne and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
But it's so hard to make up significant ground in the Chase, as Jeff Gordon has shown the past two weeks. He opened the Chase ranked 12th and a wreck in the opener at Chicago cost him. Gordon has bounced back with a third-place finish and a second-place finish the last two weeks, but he's still 10th in the standings.
That's why Bowyer believes Talladega is so critical. He thinks any trouble for the top three drivers opens the door for everyone else.
"If you win Talladega, it doesn't matter what has already happened, you are going to put yourself right back in it," he said.
Bowyer has two wins and is the only driver to finish inside the top 10 in his past five Talladega starts. He's scored a series-best 465 points in that span, and his 3.4 average finish is also tops. Bowyer has led 82 laps, second only to Matt Kenseth's 116.
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The mass protest, dubbed "No Monti Day" by organisers, comes a year after a similar event turned violent, with police using tear gas and protesters throwing petrol bombs and stones. It was the worst rioting Rome had seen for years.
Protesters will converge on the capital from all over Italy and there are fears that a minority of extremists and anarchists could try to hijack the event.
The march has been organised by unions, political movements, students and the unemployed to protest against what they call the "social massacre" brought about by the austerity drive introduced by Mr Monti, who replaced Silvio Berlusconi in November.
They will call for more jobs, increased investment in schools and universities, more funds for health and the environment and an attack on the generous privileges enjoyed by the Italian political class.
The demonstration will start in the early afternoon in Piazza della Repubblica in central Rome and wind its way to Piazza San Giovani, outside one of Rome's largest churches.
More than 1,000 police and Carabinieri will shadow the demonstration and have been put on high alert for potential trouble.
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During last year's protest, held on Oct 15, hundreds of masked protesters wearing motorbike helmets fought running battles with police, smashed shop windows, burned cars and police vehicles and hurled cobblestones they prised from the streets.
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Francis: Eddie could have steadied an increasingly rocky ship
Munster missed a trick by not bringing O'Sullivan on board, writes Neil Francis
Garett Fitzgerald, the Munster CEO, after Munster's exit in Scotstoun last Friday night heralded another trophy-less season, rang through to his secretary.
"Call my broker" he said. "Stock or pawn?" she replied.
Munster's situation is perilous. Yes it is true they have reached the semi-final of the Heineken Cup in the last two seasons but most down south would not view that as success. The bar is set high – losing semi-finals just isn't where Munster want to be.
The truth is their arrival into the semi-final was on the back of five or six quality international players. From this season onwards the quality in Munster's squad diminishes at a faster rate than it did last season. Their ability to compete depends solely on doing it from memory and the knowledge that the fortress down in Thomond, no matter what sort of a team they put out, is always a conspicuously difficult hurdle to overcome in European competition.
Fitzgerald's first investment came just after Christmas. Rob Penney was effectively dismissed at that juncture. Whenever a franchise only commits to a one-year extension it means they either have no confidence in the coach or they have entered into a holding pattern while they go in search of somebody new.
Anthony Foley, already in situ, does not arrive into a job where the team is at a low ebb. Perennial contenders, Munster won 16 out of 22 games in the Rabo, which is respectable. They thumped an admittedly out-of-sorts Toulouse in Thomond Park and all they were missing in Toulon was their traditional measured calm and the ability to apply pressure as only they know how. It hasn't been a bad season but I do suspect that it will get worse next season despite the introduction of Foley, who I think will be a positive force for the province.
One can never say for certain whether Eddie O'Sullivan was in the mix to be the new Munster backs' coach. We can only speculate on what sort of an impact he might have had. Two years in Biarritz: beautiful town, a proud Basque team and plenty of dough from Blanco. You suspect O'Sullivan will get them straight back up and with his second year at the very least keep them there and maybe go a bit further.
One of O'Sullivan's principal qualities is pragmatism. He is a realist and he would call a halt to what Munster have been trying to achieve over the last two seasons because it simply isn't working. He would also have made a better fist of the players he had and fashioned them into a far more effective backline. The midfield partnership of James Downey and Casey Laulala seemed like the ideal pairing. A bosher and a stepper, but as the season went on nobody knew which was which. Neither of them could pass – particularly off the left hand. Munster's back line invariably got their lines wrong when they got quick ball, sometimes lying too deep and getting caught behind by their laboured passing, sometimes playing too flat when there were shooters in the opposition line.
Ian Keatley is a very good passer but is he strong enough to run a back line? I suspect not. He has learned to kick with more assurance and his execution has been quite good and he will be retained for next year but what will he have outside him? With O'Sullivan gone, what options do Munster have for a backs' coach? Simon Mannix has had a very poor two-year period with the club. He was a talented player and had a reasonable tenure in Racing but whatever about Penney's performance, Munster weren't having Mannix back under any circumstances. Foley will regret that Munster didn't move quicker to get O'Sullivan because the need to get somebody competent to marshal Munster's outside players is pressing.
The match in Scotstoun on Friday was a display of steely resolve and determination. It was amazing how many players were actually picked up and dumped back two, three and four metres and without one concession of a tip tackle. There was real malice in those tackles but it was underpinned with great discipline from both sides. Glasgow always looked the better side but Munster's innate ability at the breakdown kept them in it and as the game wore on the men in red got much better at tight and more ruthless at defence.
When Josh Strauss (injury) and Chris Cussiter (tactical substitution) were replaced by Leone Nakarawa and Niko Matawalu, I thought Munster would have a distinct advantage in the 8 and 9 slots. Conor Murray, despite some desperately poor passes which went to ground in the first half, managed to control his pack and the way they built phases pretty well.
But the two Fijian subs transformed the game for Glasgow. Their footballing ingenue and dashing athleticism really told and despite having to send on Sean Lamonte as an openside they finished the game far stronger, knocking on Munster's door in the last minute after Tommy Seymour intercepted.
The period of play in the last six or seven minutes demonstrated the difference between the Munster of now and the Munster of then.
This match was played for the most part in the middle of the pitch and it must have been disconcerting for most of the watching Munster fans to see their team trying to build phases from that far out having neither notion, wit, nor any kind of
depth of knowledge to actually play their way through a pretty good defensive system. Despite getting back to within one point with 10 minutes to go, Munster weren't the masters of their own destiny and any thoughts of trying to bag a win were lost in this slavish attempt to try and throw the ball around.
They say pressure is for tyres and bra straps but Munster really should have applied it a little bit more. On the rare instances when Keatley got his kicking game going and Murray's box-kicking was on song, they managed to pin Glasgow in and score two of their tries and pick up a few penalties.
What they were attempting to do in the last few minutes didn't make sense and it is one of the things Foley will have to address.
Rob Penney heads off to Japan a decent man and if truth be told a decent coach. The Kiwi was certainly a far better proposition than Tony McGahan ever was and Munster might surprise themselves by picking a homegrown coach. The big ask now is to get a quality backs' coach who would have a symbiotic relationship with what is left of Munster's back line.
The big problem for Munster is that their academy is nowhere near as efficient as Leinster's and Ulster's and their ability to generate homegrown players, give them time and their head, is distinctly lacking.
The question that everybody is unable to answer is: Would Munster miss Paul O'Connell more than Leinster will miss Brian O'Driscoll?
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I am primarily enamored of Scotch but have tried many liquors this year - aged rums and tequilas, as well as several bourbons and ryes.
Although I really want to, I just don't seem to love bourbon and I am not sure what flavor or combination of flavors are causing the problem.
I have tried a couple I don't mind, namely WT rare breed and Woodford Reserve Seasoned Oak. All the rest I have tried, have been just OK to me, These would be WT 101, Makers mark, JB Black, and Knob Creek. I have also tried Jack Daniels No 7 and Gentleman jack - the latter just was bland to me, sweet up front with no finish at all, just seemed to disappear in the middle of my tongue.
I do like all the ryes I have tried - Wild Turkey, Sazerac and Rittenhouse.
I was hoping someone who knows more about these than I do could tell me what characteristics are shared by the ones I like and don't like - my palate is not yet really able to discern the range of flavors in bourbon. My favorite Scotches tend to be the strongly flavored ones, especially the peat monsters - Ardbeg 10, Laphroaig 10, Also love Highland Park 12.
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Earlier this month, NFL commish Roger Goodell issued a league-wide memo that called for stricter limits on concussed players returning to NFL games. Goodell has also hired independent neurologists to assess players with head injuries to prevent a possible forced and premature return to action. Already, we've seen a handful of players this year – Brian Wesbrook, Kurt Warner, etc. – sit out games they normally might have returned to.
This brings us to DeMarcus Ware. Good news for you, Cowboys fans. Ware may be allowed to play in the big game against New Orleans this week. The bad news, of course, is that Ware may be allowed to play in the big game against New Orleans this week.
Coach Wade Phillips says Ware is not suffering from any concussion symptoms, and that Ware's injury is a relatively benign sprained neck. That's all well and good. Still, there's something extremely disconcerting about the idea of Ware playing again so soon after getting crowned in the helmet and taken off the field in a neck brace and stretcher. Obviously, this is an important game. But is it worth the risk of having Ware rush back onto the field six days after everyone thought he had pulled a Mike Utley out there?
I'm no doctor (except in Grenada), but I think it should be a simple rule that if you are carried off the field, immobilized on a stretcher, you should NOT be allowed to play the following week. It's just common sense. The Cowboys say Ware only has a sprained neck. But really, do you believe anything any NFL team says about any injury in the era of Belichick? I don't.
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TAMPA - Brian Price's older sister Bridget has been the rock the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle has leaned on ever since he lost his second brother to a gang-related shooting in Los Angeles eight years ago. Now Bridget is gone, too. The 30-year-old mother of 7- and 9-year-old boys, she died last week from injuries sustained in a car accident that has shaken Brian's life like nothing before, his agent told The Tampa Tribune on Thursday. "There is just no way to explain the grief he's feeling as a result of this loss,'' said agent Charles Price, who is not related to Brian. "It's really taken quite a toll on him.''The toll so far includes a degree of mental and physical exhaustion that resulted in a hospital stay here in Tampa that began on Monday and didn't end until late Thursday, Price's agent said. "He was ready to go with the OTAs (organized team activities) starting up on Tuesday, but between a complete lack of sleep and all that he has been dealing with from this loss, he just couldn't do it,'' Charles Price said. "You never want to use the term 'physical exhaustion,' but there's really no other way to describe it. He was dehydrated and after dealing with so much, his body just shut down on him.'' Bucs officials have not commented on Price's status. When asked about his absence from the Bucs first organized full-squad workout Tuesday, general manager Mark Dominik abruptly cut off a brief interview without explanation. "It has truly been a surreal week and a half for him,'' Charles Price said of Brian. "I mean, he learned of this while he was literally getting ready to board a plane in Los Angeles to go get an update on all the lower extremity issues he's had.'' The loss of his sister is just the latest in a long line of adversities that Price, the Bucs second-round selection in the 2010 draft, has had to deal with since his childhood. When Brian was 10, his 18-year-old brother Eddie was killed just a block from Brian's house in a drive-by shooting while walking a girl to a bus stop in the L.A.'s crime-infested Crenshaw district. Five years later, Brian's 24-year-old brother Damon was shot in the back of the head by what Brian once described as a friend of the family as Damon drove his car down the district's Crenshaw Blvd. The second shooting so disturbed Brian that his grades dropped to a point where his family wondered if he would lose out on what seemed to be a sure chance to play college football. A Parade All-American on the field, Price eventually rallied in the classroom and went on to play at UCLA, where he established himself as one of the most disruptive pass rushers and run stoppers in the nation. As soon as he got to the NFL, though, new troubles arose. Slowed at first by sore hamstrings, Price eventually had to undergo a surgical procedure in 2010 in which doctors had to re-attach both of his hamstrings to his pelvis. The injury kept Price out of all but five games his rookie season and while he got into 15 a year ago, he said he never played at more than 60-percent efficiency while recording 24 tackles and three sacks. "No one has been struck by more bad luck and personal tragedy than this kid,'' Charles Price said. "But he'll be stronger for it, because that's the way he is. Like I said, he was trying to go on Monday and that was just a few days after all this happened.'' The loss of his sister will result in a dramatic change of lifestyle for Price. His agent said Bridget's surviving sons will live with Brian's mother until school is out this year but will then move to Tampa and live with Brian. "He's planning to adopt those two boys,'' Charles Price said. "I've actually been assisting him with some of the legal stuff on that. Again, that's just the kind of guy he is.''
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CoI: Simon Albrecht, MIT
CoI: Ignas Snellen, Leiden Observatory
CoI: Jayne Birkby, Leiden Observatory
CoI: Henriette schwarz, Leiden Observatory
CoI: Emanuele di Gloria, Leiden Observatory
CoI: Ari Silburt, University of Toronto
Title: Catching a speeding exoplanet: TiO lines in the atmosphere of the extremely hot Jupiter WASP-33b
Abstract: With an effective temperature of almost 3300K, WASP-33b is one of the hottest planet's known to date. Due to this high temperature, comparable to that of an M5V star, TiO is expected to be in the gas- phase. TiO has been suggested as a potential cause for inversion layers in hot Jupiter atmospheres. Since TiO has many absorption lines at optical wavelengths, the transmission spectrum of WASP-33b should be strongly modulated by hundreds of TiO lines. Here we propose to observe WASP-33b's transit at high spectral resolution, using a technique that has been successfully demonstrated in the NIR to detect other molecules in hot Jupiters atmosphere. The technique uses a cross-correlation between the spectra and models to combine all the lines in the wavelength-range, thereby increasing the signal-to-noise ratio and allowing a unambiguous detection of the targeted molecules. This method also allows us to measure the \it planet's radial velocity, and potentially winds blowing from the day-side to the night-side. Note that these observations will provide the first unambiguous detection of TiO in an exoplanet atmosphere.
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This spring, putting fashion's best foot forward could get ugly. The meta-trend of inexplicably hideous shoes continues apace with the introduction of Prada Creepers, $795 (U.S.) men's-style brogues set atop several layers of multicoloured soles, one of which is raffia, like an espadrille. The fashion press is calling them "flatforms." I call them educated-clown chic. On vacation.
These shoes are so coveted, though, that there are waiting lists for them at Prada stores across North America. For those who can't get their hands on them (or afford the hefty price tag), there's no need to worry. Knockoffs abound.
But who would want these?
Leandra Medine of the popular satiric fashion blog ManRepeller.com is one enthusiast who has already ordered a pair. "The Prada flatforms are a great example of the manipulative power that designers have over the industry and the consumer," Medine says. She stresses, though, that she does not consider Creepers ugly.
"Fashion to me is more about wearing art and it so happens that intriguing and [many]complex shoe styles are considered conventionally ugly." To Medine, wearing supposedly unattractive shoes sends a strong message. "They say, 'I wear what I want.' " And that is the message fashion is supposed to send."
Ken Thomas, an economist and the hobby blogger behind UglyShoes.com, agrees that such footwear can also be fashionable.
"What is the purpose of fashion?" he asks. "It's to attract attention. Lots of the shoes we feature as being 'ugly' are very unique. You may not like them but they are attention-getters." The only negative feedback he gets, Thomas says, is from readers who disagree when he deems a shoe they like ugly. "Ugly is in the eye of the beholder," he laughs.
But it isn't just high-end, high-cost shoes that challenge our notions of taste and aesthetics. At first, Uggs looked odd; Crocs did, too. Both, however, have become mainstream hits. Even Birkenstocks, considered the height (or depth) of Deadhead schlubbiness, circled back from their uncool past to hit runways in recent years.
My own arguably ugly shoe purchases for spring include clogs from Sweden and Warishofers, best described as orthopedic granny sandals, from Germany. Neither pair would win pretty points in a pageant. But I love them for their comfort and, yes, their fashionability.
In truth, the only really ugly shoes are shoes that are irrelevant, like your white workout sneakers or the wacky statement shoe that references or appeals to nothing.
Picking the "ugly shoe" of the season is participating in the fashion game. Wearing them says you've embraced an alternative to gravity-defying high heels, to jacking your foot, heel and posterior, as flattering as that may be.
Of course, Uggs are notoriously bad for feet and some clogs are as high as stilettos, but they are the exception. With many ugly shoes, the comfort factor may be the most stylish thing about them.


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UN deplores violence over audit of Afghanistan voteListen /
The United Nations has deplored the violence that took place on Tuesday between representatives of the campaign teams over the ongoing audit of the Afghan vote.
Clashes between supporters of Dr Abdullah Abdullah's campaign team and workers from the Independent Election Commission (IEC) left several people hurt at the audit centre compound in Kabul.
Dr Abdullah Abdullah is one of the presidential candidates.
The UN Special Envoy in Afghanistan, Ján Kubiš, called on all parties engaged in the process to conduct themselves with professionalism and treat each other with respect.
He also welcomed the agreement to establish a joint-committee to investigate Tuesday evening's incident.
More than 12,000 of the 22,828 ballot boxes have to date been audited under the UN-supervised process, with national partners backed by more than 150 UN experts.
Meanwhile, UNAMA has expressed concern over the acts of intimidation against New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg.
Mr Rosenberg is being expelled from Afghanistan within 24 hours for failing to reveal the names of Afghan officials anonymously quoted in an article he authored on Tuesday.
The UN Mission is urging the Afghan authorities to review their actions in accordance with due process, domestic laws and the international obligations of Afghanistan to safeguard media freedoms in the country.
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Connor "The Crusher" Michalek was first able to meet his favorite professional wrestler, Daniel Bryan, back in 2012, after his family posted a video on YouTube.
Two years later, and just under three weeks before Connor succumbed to pediatric brain cancer, he was able to visit Bryan again at Wrestlemania XXX.
Connor spent time with WWE stars AJ Lee, Triple H and Bryan before the event – even managing to "pin" Triple H in the ring in the empty stadium before the event. After his match that night, Bryan made sure to share a moment with his No. 1 fan.
"Daniel got out of the ring on our side and the very first person Daniel went up to was Connor," Connor's father, Steve Michalek, told High Point, North Carolina, Fox affiliate WGHP. "He leaned over and said, 'Connor, you mean a lot to me. You give me a lot of strength. You helped me earn this. Please keep on fighting.'"
"It was the perfect moment," Michalek continued. "I truly believe the whole experience extended Connor's time with me. There's no greater gift that I could get … and no way I could repay them for that."
Connor died April 25. In the video, Bryan offers a few words for his departed friend: "Connor was special for a million reasons … You couldn't help but talk to him and instantly fall in love with him."
"[Connor] had a magic about him," a tearful Stephanie McMahon adds. "He had a light … and anyone around him could feel it … and was the better for it."
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DUTCH supermarkets have became the latest European shops to remove frozen meals from their shelves amid fears they may contain horsemeat disguised as beef.
"Plus supermarkets have withdrawn frozen lasagne of the Primafrost brand from shelves as a precaution," spokeswoman Debbie Huisman told AFP.
She said the withdrawn products were not dangerous but could contain horsemeat without it being marked on the packaging.
Boni supermarkets have withdrawn the same product, said Roel Vincken, spokesman for the Dutch Food and Goods Authority (NVWA).
"This is a decision that the supermarkets are taking themselves, we have to wait for the results of the enquiry to take official decisions," he told AFP.
The NVWA on Monday opened a probe to see whether any beef products stocked on shelves contain horsemeat as the frozen food scandal spreads across Europe.
The authorities are also investigating whether any Dutch company has been involved in fraudulent horsemeat trading.
The first results of the probe are expected early next week.
Supermarket chains in Britain, France and Sweden have pulled millions of frozen ready meals, including lasagne and moussaka dishes, from store shelves after it emerged last week that meals labelled as containing processed beef were actually found to contain up to 100 per cent horsemeat.
Horsemeat is readily available on Dutch shelves and the country produced about 1000 tonnes of horsemeat in 2011, according to the Dutch central statistics office.
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Cougars fall to Crown in 45-32 offensive show
The University of Minnesota, Morris and Crown College put on an offensive show, combining for nearly 1,000 yards in total offense, Saturday at Big Cat Stadium. Thanks to some timely turnovers and a resourceful offense that converted big third-down plays, Crown emerged the victors, 45-32, spoiling the Cougars' homecoming day.
Between Derrick Foss of UMM and Adam Hayes from Crown, the quarterbacks completed 32 passes for nine touchdowns and more than 550 yards.
The offensive output did not surprise junior tight end Brady Rose, who had three touchdown catches on the day.
"We practice at 5:45 in the morning, so we're pretty used to the cold. We're in Minnesota, so we're expecting the snow."
The big question for the Cougars this season has been defense, coming off a defeat at Martin Luther when they allowed 500 yards of offense to the Knights.
Early on, the Cougars turned away the Purple Storm on offense, sending them to the sidelines with a four and out, a turnover on downs, and a fumble, caused by linebacker Adam Gertken.
Meanwhile, on offense, Foss led early drives for touchdowns, the first to tight end Brady Rose (25 yards) and the second to wideout Josh Hiltner (34 yards). At the end of the first quarter, the Cougars led 14-0.
And then the Purple Storm clouds opened.
In the second quarter, Crown scored five times, three of those through the air as Hayes connected with receiver Eric Chavoustie for two scores (6 and 54 yards) and Robert Yang for another (22 yards). Running back Tyler Hallblade added a 2-yard touchdown run.
With two minutes remaining in the half, a 48-yard punt return by running back Robert Koranda put the Cougars deep in Crown territory. Four plays later, Foss threw into the end zone, where Hiltner adjusted his route and cut in front of a Crown player to haul in a 15-yard score. Still, with just 1:16 remaining in the half, Crown managed go the length of the field in 53 seconds. Hayes picked up a rushing touchdown (11 yards) to close the half. The Purple Storm led 33-20.
After halftime, the teams traded possessions until late in the third quarter when Hayes connected with Yang for another score, this time for a 36-yard touchdown. With 4:01 remaining in the third, the Purple Storm led 39-20 and the Cougars staged a comeback.
Foss connected with John Russow for 36 yards and two Ernest Tucker rushes brought the Cougars to the Crown 6-yard line. Foss then connected with Rose for a second time, cutting the Crown lead to 39-26.
Crown took possession into the early fourth quarter. UMM forced them to punt and started a drive on their own 33-yard line. Behind a steady dose of Koranda and Tucker on 10 straight rushing plays, the Cougars marched downfield to the Crown 11-yard line. Foss connected with Rose for their third scoring connection of the day, having cut the Crown lead to 39-32.
But the Purple Storm put together a steady drive, mixing up the play calls, converting a key 3rd and 1 with a reverse to wideout Steve Boger that netted 30 yards to the UMM 4-yard line. Hayes put the game away the next play with a bootleg touchdown.
The Cougars charged back on the next possession, but a fumble at midfield halted the drive.
With the loss, the Cougars fall to 2-4 on the year, 0-3 in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference.
"We're struggling right now and we've got to find an answer - most of the time the answer is sitting right in front of them," said head coach Todd Hickman after the game. "We've got to figure out a way to eliminate their mistakes and play a little bit better than we've been playing. There is no magic answer."
The Cougars have a bye next week and return to the gridiron at Big Cat on October 24, when they host conference-leading Northwestern College.


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Beijing Med-Pharm Receives Business License for Alliance BMP LimitedPLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 2, 2008 - Beijing Med-Pharm Corporation (NASDAQ: BJGP) today announced that Alliance BMP Limited, a UK-based investment vehicle 80 percent-owned by Alliance Boots plc, and 20 percent-owned by Beijing Med-Pharm, received its business license from the Guangzhou Municipal City Government's Bureau of Industry and Commerce on December 28, 2007. Effective immediately, Alliance BMP Limited will account for financial results from its 50 percent stake in Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals Corporation ("GP Corp."), the third largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in China. The accretive transaction is expected to close by the end of January 2008, at which point Beijing Med-Pharm will complete payment for its 20 percent stake in the joint venture and David Gao, Beijing Med-Pharm's Chief Executive Officer, will commence serving as Chairman of GP Corp.
"We are very excited to receive our joint venture business license and complete this critical step in closing the acquisition of the 50 percent stake in GP Corp.," said Mr. Gao. "GP Corp. is an excellent organization whose operations complement ours well and whose strong position in Guangzhou, one of China's most important markets for healthcare products, presents significant market penetration opportunities for us."
The transaction involves a total capital investment of RMB 545 million ($74.4 million) in cash in exchange for a 50 percent ownership interest in GP Corp.
Gao continued, "We look forward to working closely with GP Corp.'s management to ensure successful cooperation and integration of our organizations. We believe our joint efforts can greatly change the dynamics of China's pharmaceutical distribution methods, especially in southern China, as we consolidate a fragmented market and enhance efficiency through scale. We look forward to working with GP Corp. as well as Alliance Boots, a proven market leader in Europe, to capitalize on this opportunity."
GP Corp. was founded in 1951 and is a subsidiary of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. ("GPCL"), a company listed on the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges whose ultimate parent is the Municipality of Guangzhou. GPCL will retain ownership of the remaining 50 percent of GP Corp.
GP Corp. has grown rapidly in recent years, with annual revenues increasing from RMB 4.4 billion ($565 million) in 2003 to RMB 7.4 billion ($0.9 billion) in 2006. GP Corp. serves more than 12,000 hospitals, pharmacies, and other wholesalers from eight distribution facilities located throughout Guangdong Province and southeast China.
About Beijing Med-Pharm Corporation
Beijing Med-Pharm Corporation, through its subsidiaries, is a pharmaceutical marketing and distribution company that is building a proprietary portfolio of branded pharmaceutical and healthcare products in China and is pursuing partnerships with other companies seeking to enter the Chinese pharmaceutical market. It is the only U.S. public company to offer industry partners a comprehensive suite of market-entry services in China that includes pre-market entry analysis, clinical trial management, product registration, market research, as well as pharmaceutical marketing and distribution. The company provides distribution services for a wide range of products, including Western medicines, traditional Chinese medicines, bio-chemical medicines, medical applications, branded generic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter healthcare products, and home healthcare supplies and equipments. Beijing Med-Pharm's proprietary portfolio primarily focuses on women's health and pediatrics. The Company is headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Visit www.beijingmedpharm.com.
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In addition to historical facts or statements of current condition, this press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "Safe Harbor" provisions of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the terms and timing of the acquisition, the funding of the capital investment by Alliance BMP Limited to GP Corp., and the expected benefit and accretion to Beijing Med-Pharm. Forward-looking statements provide Beijing Med-Pharm's current expectations or forecasts of future events. Actual results could differ materially from those reflected in these forward-looking statements due to general financial, economic, regulatory and political conditions affecting the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries and the Chinese pharmaceutical market. Given these risks and uncertainties, any or all of these forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect. Therefore, you should not rely on any such factors or forward-looking statements. Beijing Med-Pharm undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement.
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Hello Friends,
I have a critical problem the problemgoes like this-I have a servlet which looks up an session ejb.In this session ejb an object is created which is not serializable.After this object is created i have to pass it other session bean.Remember this object that is created is not serializable.I have tried this using weblogic server where the session bean returns a object to the servlet and the servlet looks up another session bean and sets this object.it works fine.But when i try with orion server it is giving objectNot Serializable exception which is very reasonable.Can any ejb experts suggest me how do i overcome this problem(or is it not at all possible to transport a non serializable object??).I need to transport an object from one ejb to another ejb through a servlet and the object is not serializable.I have one solution which i think is a round about way.
Critical highlevel ejb problem (2 messages)
- Posted by: venkatesh Yadalam
- Posted on: July 31 2001 06:09 EDT
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- Critical highlevel ejb problem by Pranab Ghosh on July 31 2001 15:04 EDT
- Critical highlevel ejb problem by Tony Brookes on August 09 2001 23:14 EDT
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Have your class implement java.io.Serializable. There is no mrthod to implement in the Serilizable interface. It acts as a tag. If your class has emebedded object references, they also have to be recursively serializable.
- Posted by: Pranab Ghosh
- Posted on: July 31 2001 15:04 EDT
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Hope it helps.
Critical highlevel ejb problem[ Go to top ]
Simple answer. NO, all arguments supplied to EJB remote methods MUST be serializable. Methods supplied to local interfaces do not have to be.
- Posted by: Tony Brookes
- Posted on: August 09 2001 23:14 EDT
- in response to venkatesh Yadalam
Just make the class serializable. If you don't have access to it's source code, then sub-class it and make the sub-class implement Serializable.


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Iluvatar EMERITUS (3.5)...Thompson D. Gerhart STAFF (5)Coheed and Cambria pull together the lessons learned as Shabutie to release a modern class...Storm In A Teacup (5)...LaidToRest329 (5)A Great mix of musicality, meaningful lyrics, and poppy sensibilities make this album a tr...
Confessed2005 (5)Coheed and Cambria set the benchmark with their debut album. They may never surpass it and...februarystars57 (3.5)Solid debut from the prog metallers, who wear their post hardcore influences on their slee...heyadam (5)God dammit, we'll make it if you believe....BrookTipHopper (5)The cornerstone of what unique music should sound like ,an album without a genre????...
DeleriumTrigger (5)Sanchez is sexy....NEDM (4.5)...papercut_heart (4.5)...
Album Rating: 5.0This is one of my favorite albums ever, period. From Junesong Provision on is so breathtaking and amazing and beautiful and raw. amazing.
Usually when I mention my love of this CD people are like "Coheed? there goes all your cred" but this album is nothing like the poppy, bad, 3 chord only mainstream times they had in IKSSE. It is extremely well written musically and lyrically.
wonderful review. This Message Edited On 06.12.05
IKSSE is a good album as well.
It isn't as classic as this, but still.
I might buy this album. I quite liked what I heard of the previous one.
no way this is pop punk....and see this band live. they own your friggin face.
Album Rating: 5.0
Album Rating: 5.0Coheed and Cambria revolutionized the way I listen to music. They tore me from the strangle hold in which I was trapped at the hands of such bands as blink-182 and Green Day. They showed me that music can be more than just notes thrown together; it can be an unreal, almost supernatural experience. And Claudio's voice. . . It almost makes me want to cry.
Best album in the history of man.
By the way... whoever wrote this review, what's up with calling Coheed and Cambria pop-punk? They are so not pop-punk it makes me want to kill you or something like that. Not really... But seriously they are the utter countercurrent to pop-punk.
They have distinctive pop-punk features.
You are wrong.
The only song that I have heard from this is "Devil in Jersey City," and it owns.
Good review.
Album Rating: 5.0Songs off of this album get stuck in my head everyday, with the intense guitars going at it at times, then a deluge of calm, quiet, and subdued security comes in. I believe this CD is a classic, and is just the first godly product that has come from the minds of these men.
Album Rating: 4.0Truely an amazing album. Just got this yesterday and have listened to it a couple of times and am still trying to absorb it all. I bought IKSOSE3 first and thought it was good but SSTB makes it pale in comparision.
is I robot a hidden track?
Album Rating: 4.0It is. It come somewhere about... I don't know, 5 minutes after God Sent Conspirator ends
Good Review. Ok album. Above average but nothing excellent IMO. In Devils in New Jersey i can't really, first of all, tell what the f#$@ they're saying. Then it is too metaphorical. In fact the entire album is full of metaphors. It kinda gets annoying. However I must give props to CoCa for their excellent music in this album. The music perfectly complements the lyrics. Not the best CoCa album.
Edit: Haha i changed the rating to 4.5 with my rate. This Message Edited On 11.01.05
Album Rating: 3.0wow, great review. good seeing a meaningful review with lots of detail. most likely one of the best albums on my cd rack, always a good listen whenever, wherever-i recently started to learn some of the songs on my guitar and now i cant get them out of my head. once you get over the singing youll love them.
Album Rating: 5.0great review!!! this album is a classic. hearing it has me hooked on coheed forever. they are an unbelievable band, and one of the only ones to never lose thier talent integrity or intesity over their musical career . ive loved them for four years and will for another 10 at least. gentlemen, you have my utmost respect
Album Rating: 2.5The only thing I don't like about this CD is the hippy happy mood they have in it. I liked them a lot more when they wen't darker with the other two albums. IMO IKSOTSE: 3 is the best.
Album Rating: 4.0This is my favorite album of theirs, and one of my favorite of all time. It's just a very well put together cd.
Aw3someman, It isn't full of metaphores. All of Coheed and Cambria's songs tell a HUGE story. The story is actually a sci fi graphic novel that claudio (the singer) is writing. very big and complicated, I believe at the moment 3 comics have been released. the first two books cover pretty much just the first two tracks in SSTB. the third book jumps way ahead and is about good appolo vol 1. (they were released at the same time). its a really messed story but there are plenty of forums discussing it, including the official fourm on co&ca's site where claudio actually goes on and gives hints as to whats going on. trying to figure out the story TOTALLY makes the music that much better. ya just thought I'd mentiuon that because a lot of people didn't know that
Album Rating: 4.5Cravinov, i find that IKSOTSE 3 is somewhat inconsistent... Yes, it has more "darker" moments you might say, but the poppy songs like A Favor House Atlantic, Three Evils and Blood Red Summer kinda spoil the overall feel of the album i think.... As for this album, it's excellent....
I think everyone knew that.
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The plight of homeless kids — one "point-in-time" count in Santa Clara County this year claims there are 1,200 young people on the street on any given night — is the focus of "Lighting the Way Home," a rally and walk in downtown San Jose on Friday evening.
City and Santa Clara County officials, along with former homeless youth, will speak at the 5:30 p.m. event, which marks the start of National Homeless & Runaway Prevention Month. After all the talking comes the walking: a 1-mile trek from City Hall to the Bill Wilson Center's drop-in location at 694 S. Second St., a safe place where homeless kids can get help.
The event is free and open to the public.
A SPANISH MYSTERY: I doubt Sarah Winchester celebrated Dia de los Muertos back in her day, but it's never too late to start. The Winchester Mystery House has partnered with the Consul General of Mexico in San Jose to create a Dia de los Muertos altar in honor of the late Mrs. Winchester in the half-acre hay maze that's been set up across the street from her sprawling mansion. The traditional altar will be in one of two rooms in the maze, and the other will showcase the folk art of Mexican illustrator Jose Guadalupe Posada, which also is being displayed throughout the mansion this weekend.
The celebrations mark the debut of self-guided audio tours in Spanish of the landmark tourist attraction. The event runs Friday from 5 to 11 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and includes face painting and free Pan de Muerto provided by another San Jose landmark, the Pink Elephant Bakery. Go to www.winchestermysteryhouse.com or call 408-247-2000 for ticket information.
DANCE BENEFIT: More than a dozen dance crews will be performing Friday at San Jose State's Morris Daily Auditorium to raise money for Smile Train, a charity that funds operations for children suffering from cleft lip or cleft palate. The Spartans Best Dance Crew event was created by Alejandro Sanchez and members of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity last year and has raised more than $4,000 so far, which translates to better lives for 11 kids.
Tickets to the 7 p.m. event — $8 in advance and $10 at the door — are available at the San Jose State Event Center box office.
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Alfredo Aceves is still up to his uncontrollable, bizarre ways.
The reliever refused at first to throw batting practice pitches the way they should be thrown, instead lobbing them in there.
Aceves has a history of discipline issues, which leads many to wonder if the Red Sox should just part ways with him now.
Damon Amendolara on Sports Sunday asks Steve Buckley and Dan Shaughnessy if we're making this a mountain out of a molehill.
"I don't think it's a molehill at all because this is a guy that got suspended for three games last year," Buckley said. "He had a dustup with Dustin Pedroia, showed his manager up on the mound. They bring him back, John Farrell says clean slate let's start over again, and I thought he showed up the manager and the coaching staff today on something that is as simple as live batting practice. He kind of wasted everyone's time; that's my opinion.
Shaughnessy shares a similar opinion as Buckley, and is actually surprised that the Sox keep putting up with his antics.
"Yeah it's a little bit surprising to me that he's still here," Shaughnessy said. "And I wouldn't be surprised if he's still here at the end of the week. Because I just think they should have cut their losses last year with this guy. We know he's got ability, I just don't think he's worth it."


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Wildbirds & Peacedrums: The Snake
Swedish duo successfully expand upon their skeletal sound to new, imaginatively dynamic heights.
Wildbirds & Peacedrums
The SnakeLabel: Leaf
US Release Date: 2009-04-13
UK Release Date: 2009-04-20
Artist Website
Wildbirds & Peacedrums is one of those surprising bands that will impress you but it won't be immediately clear why they do. After all, a husband-wife duo made up primarily of vocals and drums seems more like something that would be happening with hippies on a Saturday visit to the park than in a studio. Unlike your local drum circle, though, the Swedish duo of Wildbirds & Peacedrums create surprisingly soulful and complex jazz-influenced pop music in a most unusual way. With the release of their second full-length The Snake, these Swedes are quickly proving why they deserve your attention.
Hailing from Sweden, Mariam Wallentin and her husband, percussionist Andreas Werliin, made nothing but a small splash stateside with their debut release Heartcore last year. For those lucky enough to be paying attention, their first full-length demonstrated the duo's uncanny capacity to create technically-apt pop compositions with a fervent dynamism that was as much a nod to Bjork as it was to 1960s American jazz. This was most perfectly exhibited on the album's single "Doubt/Hope"—a driving number featuring nothing but drums and Mariam's vocals. That song most closely resembled a lo-fi demo version of "See-Line Man" by Nina Simone. Putting similarities aside though, Mariam Wallentin isn't Sweden's answer to Simone. Nor do she or her husband seem interested in achieving such a feat. If anything, Wallentin's vocals are a mediocre impression of Simone's and would be largely ignored if backed by traditional arrangements. However, with the arrival of the duo's second full-length The Snake, it becomes immediately obvious that Wildbirds & Peacedrums is more interested in creating something of their own, rather than recreating something already done.
The Snake largely picks up with what the Heartcore single "Doubt/Hope" hinted at and better realizes its intentions. The song arrangements are subtly more complex but maintain their stripped-down sensibility. Where moments of Heartcore wandered and became repetitive, The Snake comes across as confidently focused, pulling from the duo's greatest strengths: Wallentin's impressionistic vocal stylings and Weliin's capacity for paced drumbeats and sparse but tightly-composed arrangements. At moments, this causes The Snake to forgo accessibility in place of emotion and furious outbursts. Fortunately, the duo knows when to pull it back together and keep it approachable. The result, as featured on their second full-length, showcases the couple's impressive ability to create memorable pop tunes with the most untraditional and unusual way of getting there.
This may be most exhibited on "Chains of Steel", one of the poppiest tunes on the record. The first half of the song has Weliin sticking to a loose high-hat accompanied by a sparse xylophone. Wallentin holds her voice back and sings in an almost-whisper, allowing her pipes to increase in volume ever so slightly. The song maintains this formula with slight change until Weliin suddenly smacks the base-drum, allowing everything to come loose. Wallentin allows her emotions to overtake. Her tempered vocals suddenly become frantic, as she belts about a girl who "Rattles! Rattles! Rattles!" her. Despite its simplicity and the unusual elements, the song is surprisingly catchy and exhibits one reason why The Snake is so compelling. Such unusual demonstrations of their improbable ability to create highly-accessible songs through unusual means can be found throughout the album, on such tracks as the playfully upbeat "Liar Lion" or the album's centerpiece "Places", a hip-hop inspired track carried by nothing but drums and voice, similar to last year's "Doubt/Hope".
For every abnormal jazzy-pop number on The Snake, there exists a balanced companion track that focuses on exploring the textured sounds that really make Wildbirds & Peacedrums so unique. Opener "Island" begins with dark hums and howls backing Walletin's slow, deep vocals, sounding like some ancient and forgotten ritualistic chant. While "Great Lines", which begins tame enough with a repetitive and dramatic tribal march, it transforms itself with the sudden clinks of an autoharp and Wallentin's passionately eerie outbursts. Despite not being readily accessible, these tracks stand on their own as intriguing compositions and only further showcase why The Snake is so impressive and why we can probably expect much more to come from these Swedish sweethearts.
Both artistically conscious and strikingly technical, Wildbirds and Peacedrums roll through The Snake with a sultry swagger that is equal parts peculiar pop-music and experimental street-jazz. With such sparse arrangements, there may come a time in the near future when this duo will run out of ideas and need to expand their production and, possibly, the size of their troupe. As for now, though, Wildbirds & Peacedrums has honed their distinctive mixture of primal emotionalism and imaginative arrangements with a magnetic dynamism that makes for one of the most captivating albums this year.


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Friday, October 12, 2012
Don't be a quitter
When I write about diets or how you should exercise, I am like a 3-yr-old being dragged to a museum, slow, reluctant, whiny.
Eat veggies, walk, interval-train, take out the dog, buy kettlebells, suspend from a rope—ACK!
Robert Hopper, PhD, a former swimming champ and exercise physiologist, has a book out called Stick with Exercise for a Lifetime. I actually know people who have done this—of course, they are getting joint replacements now, but whatever…
It can be done.
The American College of Sports Medicine has softened some—they allow participation in less strenuous programs, such as dog walking.
Fun should be a factor! Now there is an idea.
Hopper suggests finding a passion. Backpacking, bocce ball, kayaking, you name it.
Get a coach, learn the pastime correctly.
Get on a team—your team members will keep you coming.
Take the time—it takes time to drive someplace, change, play and perform the activity, then shower, dress, go someplace else. Allow the time.
Have a side dish activity to supplement or alterate with your main one.
Work for continual improvement—this gives positive vibes.
Once people get really good or win a championship, they tend to slack…fight this.
With all your new-found strength.
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Whatever Happened to Love Thy Neighbor?
Here we go again. And right after I wrote about religion and spirituality. Another pastor sharing the love of Jesus by advocating that all queer people should be locked up in electrified pens. And I wonder why I'm getting more radical as I get older?
I vividly remember this kind of shit back in the 80's during the worst of the AIDS crisis. Funny how much things change yet how much they stay the same.
It does make it challenging to just stand by and love everyone though! I guess I take a deep breath.


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Markets recovered a day after being rattled by the downing of a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine and Israel's launch of a ground offensive into Gaza.
Honeywell International rose 2 percent after reporting that income rose sharply in the latest quarter. Google rose 4 after reporting its results.
And speaking of corporate earnings on tap in Arkansas this week, Deltic Timber of El Dorado, the real estate and timber company, is scheduled to report its latest quarterly results on Wednesday.
Simmons 1st National to purchase another bank
Simmons First National Corp. of Pine Bluff getting close to completing another bank purchase, this one for Delta Trust & Bank of Little Rock.
The $66 million deal was first announced in March. It's set to be complete next month.
Ahead of that completion date, some Delta Trust employees getting notice last week that might not remain with the company post-acquisition.
Simmons CEO George Makris didn't know how many employees received notices -- and he added that not all employees who received would lose their jobs.
He said he wanted to give as much notice as he could to employees who might be laid off. Most of the notices went to office staff and tellers.
Employees who do lose their jobs will receive payment through the end of the year and severance based on their time with Delta.
Maverick USA extending bonuses to drivers
Maverick USA of North Little Rock is now extending performance bonuses to all its drivers without a waiting period.
Maverick's pay for performance bonuses used to kick in after a driver had been on the job several months.
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Roy Smith: Seasonal highs, cash vs. futures
It is normal to see a seasonal high in the soybean futures market either just before or just after the September crop report. My rule of thumb is to sell cash soybeans the day before the September crop report to take advantage of what is usually a small rally and hopefully better basis than there might be once the combines get into the soybeans fields. It will be interesting to see this year if the basis premium continues to favor immediate sales over storing and selling. Market action in the next few days will be key to both how futures react and whether there is basis premium for immediate delivery once harvest begins.
I had the time this week to begin updating my seasonal charts for the coming marketing year. One of my techniques is to record cash grain prices at my local elevator and chart them for both the seasonal trends and to compare the highest returns for the year compared to the return from sales at harvest. I use the price for soybeans on October 1 and on corn November 1 as benchmarks. I compare cash prices discounted for storage and interest costs to the benchmarks.
It is enlightening to compare the highest cash price for the year discounting for costs to the October 1 price. It is easy to look back and see when the crop should have been sold. It is impossible to look ahead using historic prices and tell when sales should be made for the coming year. I have always believed that there is money to be made storing and selling cash grain if one knew when the top would come. The catch is that no one can predict the price peak with any degree of accuracy, even with all of the data available.
I the last 21 years the sale made at harvest generated the highest return only in 1990. For commercial storage, in the years of 1990 and 1991 sales made at harvest generated the most return. The highest return for both commercial and farm storage was reached in December and January in six years of the 21. The highest return was in May, June and July in 12 of those years. During the 21 year period the highest return was never reached in February, March or April.
In only two of the target years, 1992 and 2001, was the highest return in August. Even this year, with the strong soybean market of the last month, the highest return for the year was last December. The strategy of selling cash beans on the dead cat bounce proved to be a wise move as it usually does.
The month of July has the highest probability of having the highest return of the year. The trap that farmers get into by holding for the absolute high is that if it does not come in July, there is risk of the net return being less than what was available several months earlier. This can result in what I call "agricultural acupuncture", or getting stuck with last year's crop.
This is the time to make plans for selling the soybeans that you are going to deliver at harvest. Odds are good that making sales early next week will be better then selling after the combines roll. Odds are also good that there will be additional opportunities in November or December.
Next week I will take a look at the situation after we see the crop report. I will also have analysis of the cash corn market that I am working on now. Have a good week!


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"Just enough of me; way too much of you."
Comparing human beings to bacteria, viruses, diseases and plagues has a rich and storied heritage.
"Just enough of me; way too much of you."
Comparing human beings to bacteria, viruses, diseases and plagues has a rich and storied heritage.
You do realise that this guy is an establishment media figure over here in little old England? And that he does most of his work for a broadcaster funded by taxation?
I want a flight to America – preferably one of the bits that isn't going to secede. (The latter half of that sentence is a joke, so don't ban me).
Don't worry, the places that talk about seceding _get_ more Federal money than the _give_. Make your own conclusions as to their likelihood to carry-through.
My response to asses positing Malthusian disasters as cause for limiting population is a less than charitable "Well, you can always remove yourself from the equation". Same for the folks who bravely don't have children to save the world from their carbon emissions.
I guess he won't be invited to any more baby showers.
Haw! That guy sure is a jerk, pointing out that mankind has reproduced past the carrying capacity of the planet! Let's compare his beliefs to Nazi Germany's ethnic and racial cleansing policies!
Take that, person advocating responsibility! Now go have twelve babies. Remember, the world is literally infinite in size and resources, and the human population has absolutely no negative impact on the environment! Forests are ugly, and sprawling slums crammed with people are beautiful!
That guy sure is a jerk. Sitting in his comfortable life declaring the end of the world if we don't stop creating the next generation. Let's compare his beliefs to Nazi Germany's ethnic and racial cleansing policies, because every Utopia starts with the idea that if we got the right people together and left the others out of it, we'd have no worries, no troubles. Let's recognize that we have overcrowding and deep poverty not because any of the children or families are plagues but because we have governments and individuals and powers that do not wish to address the individual and systemic needs of others because it is much more simple to either kill them off, ignore them, or keep them so marginalized that we don't have to address the problem and we can just throw up our hands and say, for the good of Gaia, no future kids, and the sprawling slums are crammed with beautiful people…that require the lazy hearts of the west to awaken to, and help.
Mr. Vargas is blissfully unaware of humanity's plummetting total fertility rate.
But, hey, he gets to vent his spleen against godbotherers and other twits who have more than 1.9 children, so it's all good. At least until his social insurance for retirement is slashed to the bone because there aren't enough people paying into it, and–bonus!–he has no family members to care for him.
But, yeah, he's better than the rest of us, so there.
You apparently haven't gotten the memo that we are facing a population fall off. Extermination advocates are usually out of touch with reality.
Mark, you know the best places in the world for wildlife?
The DMZ in Korea and Chernobyl. Humanity is literally worse than Chernobyl when it comes to its impact on the Earth. Human existence is a disaster for 95% of the species on this planet, and that's just a fact, uncomfortable as it may be.
Actually, nature itself is worse for wildlife. Just look at the thousands upon thousands of species that are extinct–long before humankind–thanks to calamities of nature.
Only because, as a selfish species that doesn't pay attention to the holy command to be faithful stewards of the land, we act in ways to use land and then not clean up after ourselves.
Lots of good research and practice is going on regarding reforming agriculture into a sustainable process. This is done by mimicing nature and polyculture instead of looking at soil fertility as an expendable resource. As a result, farmland soils, especially in Australia, are becoming more naturally fertile. I've even seen examples of this reclaiming desert land in the Jordan Valley. Humans, having been the problem, are an essential source of the solution.
Eventually, we will have to realign our processes toward sustainability. The impediment is our desire to have fresh strawberries when they are not in season locally. But none of these processes will happen without empowering and encouraging local food systems and more personal involvement in food production (ie, go outside and start your own organic garden.)
For more information, go to YouTube and look up this or other videos with Joel Salatin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cph1Vv8Zzbg&NR=1
We are called to be good stewards, but we do have dominion over nature.
Where are you getting this idea of the way the world ought to be? Nature knows nothing of it.
So what are you going to do about it?
Apart from hectoring people you dislike, I mean.
I sense the spirit of the Daleks is strong with this one.
He is not that rich. He makes some of the best nature shows. Putting up with the kind of garbage he spews on population, however, is a price to pay for liking him.
Compared to Mitt Romney, Bill Gates, or many CEOs, you're right, Mr. Attenborough is not rich. Compared to most of the citizens of his country and the United States, he is quite well off.
If Attenborough really had the courage of his convictions, he'd take a long walk off a short bridge. You can excuse him for being ignorant. It's harder to forgive a willful coward.
As someone who pays for Sir David whether they care to or not through the TV licence fee – and I will take a bow here for having coined the phrase 'The Lord Is My Shepherd (Not Sir David Attenborough)" – those who focus on Sir David's comments about humanity being a plague and all that jazz forget that the good Sir D. , the younger brother of Lord Richard Attenborough, has himself left a Hulk-sized carboon footprint on the face of the Earth through jetting all over the world making those documentaries. No intellectual inconsistency here! No sirree!
Although he can bray about the End Times like a jackass on crystal meth, Sir David is actually far gentler than some of the UK's Establishment misanthropes. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, the Queen's hubby himself, is on record as having once said that,
"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation" (see James Delingpole's book 'Watermelons' for the original citation).
Compared to the violence of the views expressed by Edinburgh, who just doesn't want to see it happen but would like to be the agent by which it happens, Attenborough doesn't even want to hold the coats.