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What a "fun" episode this was. First, there was Centennial Park Mike reading this sermon how women who do not live the Principle of Plural Marriage will doom their daughters to live as harlots. Then there was Ezra nervously contemplating having his non-plyg girlfriend meet his parents. And finally, there was the continuing saga of Hyrum - the longest serving missionary in Centennial Park. Will he finally graduate from his mission or will the Brethren condemn him to one more year because he can't be bothered to shave every morning?
Well, let's get started, shall we?
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Does anyone else think that book CP Mike was reading from was the collected sermons of Warren Jeffs? It just sounded so eerily like him.
Seriously, they could cut their grocery costs by economizing on some non-food items. Like, instead of buying disposable diapers, investing in cotton diapers. And maybe checking out the Duggar's website for some great instructions on making laundry soap. And how about growing vegetables and having some chickens in the backyard. It just seems so backwards to grind their own wheat but then spend money buying expensive, non reusable disposable diapers. There's a lot they could do to cut costs if they really wanted!
But back to the show. It's CP Mike's 2nd wife Connie's birthday and he takes her to a nice restaurant to celebrate. CP Mike is just...so...hopelessly....nerdy. I just felt so sorry for Connie (who I think is CP Mike's favorite wife by the way) when he broke it to her that, not only could she not have just anything on the menu, she also had to go back to work. Even though her words said she agreed with CP Mike's decision, her facial expressions clearly did not. And when she mentioned she didn't think her sisterwife Rose could handle being responsible for 9 kids every day, oh boy...that's the way to throw a sister wife under the bus, Connie! I mean, bonus daughter Rose Marie is 18 now. If she's old enough to be on the lookout for a husband, she should be able to help out her mother with the young kids, right?
Which leads us directly to Ezra, Uncle Art's ne'er do well, unmarried son. The way I see it, Ezra has a lot in common with his missionary positioned cousin Hyrum. They both like to wear facial hair. They both live at home, and they both possess those Hammon brows. But where the two cousins part ways is the fact that Ezra has a girlfriend. When Ezra picks her up for a date, he gets out of the car and goes to her door. And most important, HE wants to marry her.
Now before I continue, I must get something off my ample chest. Am I the only viewer who did not realize that Ezra's mother was only 43 years old and that she looks pregnant? Frankly, I thought she just had a case of middle age spread, but after I watched this episode, it suddenly dawned on me...Holy Toledo! We still have not met wife #3 yet, although I've heard rumors that she opted not to appear. Psst....I think old Uncle Art has more than 3 wives, too. What a virile stud he is!!
But I digress...
While Ezra was picking up Tiffany, his mothers (and sisters) were busy making dinner. As the family assembled around the table, it became apparent Ezra was running late. Seems that's another trait he shares with his cousin Hyrum. Uncle Art seemed nervous while waiting for Ezra to arrive. When Ezra finally showed up, Uncle Art ordered his family to be respectful and then asked Ezra to introduce Tiffany to the family.
Surprise, Surprise! Uncle Art was actually quite charming with Tiffany. He's not so scary after all she thinks. I'm thinking old Art is being nice because he figures if Tiffany smartens up she'll dump that lazy lug Ezra and marry him instead. But seriously, Uncle Art doesn't think Ezra's relationship with Tiffany will last because it's built on love. And love fades quickly, especially if the guy doesn't have a pot to you know what in.
Which leads us directly to Ezra's cousin Hyrum.
While Hyrum was dutifully sweeping the street and barking orders to his clean up crew, he gets a phone call from the Brethren Office. Now if this had been the Housewives of Centennial Park, Hyrum would have answered the call on speakerphone. Unfortunately, it's not so we only got to hear Hyrum's side of the conversation. Luckily, Hyrum's fellow street sweeper was still standing nearby, so in typical reality show style he starts a conversation that will fill us (the audience) in on what that call was about.
Dude, you're getting married!
Dude, I don't think so...
Dude, how many times does the Brethren call you?
Dude, more times than I want to admit on camera...
Hey you two Dudes! How about sweeping that gutter with a little more gusto cuz I'm still seeing a lot of dirt and leaves. Hop to it or I'll throw my Louboutins at your lazy ass heads!
Did I sound like Uncle Art? At least I didn't call them SOBs and sorry bastards but then again they aren't horses, are they?
|Hyrum nervously rubbing the manly stubble on his face
A few days later, Hyrum hits the jackpot. A young daughter of Zion has had a revelation she should be married to Hyrum. When she turned 18, she passed Hyrum's name to the Brethren, and now that Hyrum has been released from the missionary program, he finds out he's getting married!
But Hyrum does not look happy. In fact, he looks rather resigned. It became obvious Kellie was not one of the girl's he was expecting (ah....poor baby!) but rather than pout about it, he put on a semi-happy face. When we meet Kellie in the next scene, it soon became apparent why Hyrum was less than enthusiastic. And it really shows when Hyrum picks up Kellie for their "first date". Instead of walking up to her door, he just sat in his truck and she had to walk over to his truck and climb into it.
Now, when I was growing up, if a guy came to pick me up for a date and he honked his horn when he arrived, guess what? Yep, my Dad would not let me go out the door; that guy HAD to come to the door, and meet my Dad before taking me off on the date. Behavior like that is not only disrespectful to the girl, but to her family as well.
The Brethren made their decision, and Kellie, who apparently has been crushing on Hyrum since the 10th grade, gets to marry the man of her dreams after only 'courting' him after 14 days. This is how marriages are done in Centennial Park. But I think Hyrum's optimistically looking on the bright side. If his first wife was fulfilling his duty to God, perhaps he can still find his true love in a future wife.
Yep, I think I'm beginning to figure out the Centennial Park version of plural marriage. Accumulate wives until you find your true love, then accumulate some more.
It will be interesting to see how this saga between cousins Hyrum and Ezra will play out.
Polygamy, USA: God Has Spoken
In this episode, we continue the saga of several of Centennial Park's young folk: Graduated Missionary Hyrum; Ne'er Do Well Ezra; and Devoted Daughter Rose Marie whose quest for a husband seems to be at a standstill.
Plain and simple, Ezra has problems. A high school drop out, he yearns to be somebody. He wants to be noticed in his community, to be looked up to, to be a leader. But he just doesn't know how to go about it. He had a truck but when it broke down, he left it abandoned on the side of the road. And when Uncle Art waste his time and gas to haul Ezra's sorry azz to Salt Lake City, he wasn't even responsible enough to make sure he had his truck keys with him in order to retrieve his belongings from the locked truck. And now he wants to get married but he doesn't have a job and lives with his parents. The kid is an irresponsible mess.
The icing on this cake is Ezra still wants to live the Principle of Plural Marriage in Centennial Park. AND he desperately wants to get married, NOW. So he makes an appointment with the Brethren to plead his case.
I really don't know what Ezra expected the Brethren to tell him. When he returned from his meeting, he jokingly told Tiffany they were getting married, then quickly told her the truth. It seems the Brethren want Ezra to grow up before getting married. He must first find a place to live AND have $10,000 in the bank before they would approve of him getting married.
Even when you view Ezra and Tiffany's plight through a monogamist's eyeglasses, it is obvious these two "lovers" are way too immature to be contemplating marriage. On one hand, Ezra tries to act like a macho man, but instead of looking for a job, we see him lying on his bed with a TV remote in his hand. And I get the impression that Ezra's idea of his father helping him out is being handed $10,000 and a house.
But Uncle Art will not be fooled. He laid it out: Ezra is in LUST.
I think Uncle Art does care about Tiffany's well being and, like the other Brethren, know where this is all going end. In this case, I can see the wisdom of the Priesthood Council. Marriage is for now and eternity for them. If Ezra marries Tiffany, their marriage might last a year or two, at most.
And where are Tiffany's parents in all this?
The Brethren have given Tiffany a gift: she should thank them and walk away before she gets hurt.
Later, Ezra is offered a job in North Dakota. Now, if he was a mature adult, he would tell his father he's leaving for a job in North Dakota. But when he does tell his father, it's to ask his permission - no doubt hoping Uncle Art will relent and give him the $10,000 so he can stay in Centennial Park. So it must have come to a big surprise to Ezra when his father implied North Dakota didn't sound like a bad idea after all.
So we the viewers are left with a cliffhanger: Will Ezra leave for North Dakota? Tune in next week to find out.
Let's segue to something more light-hearted. Yep, I'm talkin' Hyrum's bachelor party! Oh yeah, and Kellie's bachelorette mani/pedi party with Rose Marie, the Thomson wives and two friends.
Here's a brief summary:
There were no strippers, and Hyrum can throwback a shot of tequila like a champ.
Kellie says she knows enough about Hyrum to marry him, and can't wait to be best friends with her sisterwives. She also knows exactly what she wants on her french tips.
Hyrum thinks Kellie "is sweet", but also thinks there might be some "sharks ready to eat his legs off" once he ventures into the deep end of the pool called marriage.
[Sorry, but I can't stand it when Marleen takes that sanctimonious tone of voice when she talks about how having sister wives is how women work out their salvation.]
Hyrum speculates his future to his posse by saying that he will get married and nine months later she will give birth.
Kellie feels that the one thing she and Hyrum have in common is their passion for their religion and that will make things easier for them.
I'm happy to hear there's SOME passion going on between Hyrum and Kellie!
Is it me or does Rose Marie sound more mature than Kellie? Rose Marie sounds like she knows what is expected of a wife -- making lots and lots of babies (no doubt courtesy of her father), but Kellie seems to ignore that part. She gives the impression that marriage is a big sorority party where she can hang out and be best buds with her sisterwives.
OK, the fainthearted may want to skip the next paragraph. This will be my opinion, and your mileage may vary...if you know what I mean.
My impression of Kellie is that she was not very popular in school and stayed in the background -- a lot. She saw Hyrum, and immediately fell into unrequited love. Luckily for her, she belonged in a religion where SHE could pick her husband. When the time came for her to submit a name, it was a no brainer: she said Hyrum...and lo and behold, it was approved. The problem is, she's emotionally stuck at being 13-14 years old. She's like a child, more concerned with putting
flowers on her french tipped nails. She thinks her sisterwives will be her friends, but probably hasn't given a thought if they become her adversary instead. I'm sure she'll pray about it and repeating Marleen's words - this is how she will work out her salvation. And if Hyrum's unhappy, he'll just get another wife, but Kellie will be stuck in a marriage based on duty to husband and home and having lots and lots of babies. She will find solace in her religion, and her husband will find solace in another woman. What a sad life to look forward to...
BUT...Hyrum and Kellie do tie the old knot, although I would have loved to see the ceremony. My guess is there was a lot of giggling going on by the bride.
In one of the most romantic acts by a husband ever seen on a reality show (take notes ABC's The Bachelor), Hyrum prepared a "tree of life" up on sacred Berry Knoll to show his devotion to his new bride. There were ribbons to signify Hyrum and Kellie being tied together from this life into the next. An empty picture frame that they will fill with pictures of their children. An oil lamp to represent being sealed together forever and Hyrum's priesthood to show them the way. And a bowl of fruit that signifies Hyrum providing the things Kellie will need to sustain her through their life together, even through the rotting of their flesh into dust (oops, I think Hyrum had a TMI moment there)
And what did Kellie do throughout his presentation? She giggled....
I wonder if Hyrum will do another tree of life for his next wives?
OK, that leaves us with Rose Marie, who unfortunately has not received any revelation which man she should marry.
She approaches her future duty as a wife like she was preparing for her final exams in school. Practice making dinner for twenty to thirty people. Practice taking care of kids. Practice running the household. Practice. Practice. Practice. She wants the family not the man. Practice. Practice. Practice.
She's ready to step away from her father's family, but she can't until she gets that doggone revelation. Why won't her husband's name pop into her head, like what happened to Kellie? Why? Why? WHY???
If you ask me, I think God is telling Rose Marie maybe she should be doing something else instead of being married right now. Like learning about the world and meeting new, different people. Maybe God is telling her she needs to further her education, and then perhaps, that name will be revealed to her.
After some thought, she decides to put her fate into the hands of the Brethren. She only hopes the man the Brethren come up with is not too old, and is pleasing to the eye. Fat chance, Rose Marie. You're going to marry...Uncle Art!! But just like the Ezra saga, we'll find out what happens in next week's episode.
The rest of this episode was mainly fillers.
At a dinner party hosted by the "Thomsons", we were introduced to a recent convert to plural marriage and his two wives. Besides the creepy fact he found out about CP's form of polygamy from chatting with an unseen man on the internet, he gives a toast that includes an unfortunate gesture to his 2nd wife who is old enough to marry and bear a child but not old enough to share a glass of wine, legally. Actually, we didn't need to know her age or that she was too young to drink, but it must have been important to him to mention it in his toast. Now he didn't remind me of a Warren Jeffs, but he did remind me of Winston Blackmore or even Willie Jessop. A creepy, faked gregariousness. I wonder why polygamy attracts these type of men?
Finally, we find out that each week, CP Mike ventures into Colorado City in order to replenish his family's drinking water supply. It seems the Centennial Park's ground water is contaminated with radium. Since he can't afford the $100 a month to have water delivered to his home, once a week he travels to Colorado City's community water faucet to replenish his supply.
Now, we all know that Colorado City is not known to be very cordial to outsiders. So why would anyone with half a brain knowingly antagonize the goon squad that patrols and protects Colorado City? Yep, CP Mike would. You know what, I think the REAL reason the goon squad was taking pictures was because of all the cameras from the reality show. They could care less about former Brother Cawley. It just seems to me all of this was just so....silly. And those 3 containers provides drinking water for a family of 22 for one week? I don't think so. Hell, just pay the $100 for water delivery and be done with it. Sorry CP Mike, no sympathy from me!
Next week, the season finale!
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Gran Turismo 6 Trailer: Start Your Engines
A brand spankin' new trailer and a whole host of new details for Gran Turismo 6 have just surfaced, unleashing a whole lot of info for fans.
A post on the PlayStation Blog drops a lot of Gran Turismo 6 knowledge on us, just a few weeks before the game becomes available.
For starters, over 120 new cars have been added to the game, bringing the total to 1,200+ cars. You'll be able to enjoy these sweet rides on 100 tracks, including some returning classic raceways and new locales such as Ascari, Spain and the Silverstone, Goodwood and Mount Panorama tracks.
GT6 will also boast a new physics engine, a new interface and better online features that support customized multiplayer games. Perhaps one of the coolest additions to the series is the GPS Logger, which will utilize the GPS on your phone or tablet to track your movements in the real world and translate it into the game's Course Maker. You'll be able to use your morning commute as your very own race course!
Watch the trailer above and await the coming of GT6 on Dec. 6 for the PlayStation 3.

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Queues are starting to form on some major roads in Calderdale this morning (Friday).
There is slow traffic on the M62 eastbound at junction 22, A672 (Rishworth Moor).
There is slow traffic on the A58 Wharf Street in both directions in Sowerby Bridge at the A6139 Tuel Lane junction.
Queues are starting to form on the A646 Burnley Road at Friendly because of temporary traffic lights, with one lane closed.
Traffic is slow on the A629 Huddersfield Road northbound in Halifax between the A646 Dryclough Lane junction and the Ward's End junction.
Traffic on the A629 Cow Green in Halifax is busy but moving in both directions at the Bull Green junction.
There are no reported problems on the trains and buses.
Weather wise, there will be sunny spells throughout the day, with lows of 11C and highs of 17C.


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Book captures yorkshire girl's almost 60 years in showbiz working with some of the greats.
When Pat Stewart posed on the railings of Blackpool promenade on a blustery day in 1951, little did she know the resulting photograph would become an iconic image of the twentieth century. It was also one that would follow her throughout her 56 years in show business. For Pat, a dancer, performed alongside some of the greatest names in show business, including Laurel and Hardy, Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill and the Beverley Sisters.
Now her story has been told in a new book co-authored by Doncaster writer and SYN columnist Veronica Clark.
"I worked alongside them all," Pat recalls. "Most of them were charming. I often found the bigger the star, the nicer they were."
The daughter of a Yorkshire miner, Pat's mother picked peas in a field to put her only daughter through dance school. At 16, Pat sneaked off to audition for a panto in Leeds, and from there joined the prestigious Tiller girls. It was summer 1951, when Pat was called to the stage door along with fellow dancer Wendy Clarke. Two men from the Picture Post magazine were waiting to speak to them.
"We couldn't stop giggling. We joked we'd been spotted by someone from Hollywood!"
It was the golden age of entertainment when dancers were epitome of glamour...Pat Stewart
The magazine was launching a competition and its photographer, Bert Hardy, wanted to take the girls picture. They posed on railings, but at the precise moment Bert pressed the shutter Pat's spotty dress lifted up in the breeze, exposing both her legs and bathing suit.
"It was four years before Marilyn Monroe's dress had fluttered up in the Seven Year Itch film, so, in many ways, me and my spotty dress beat Marilyn to it!" She laughs.
The picture became an iconic image that was reproduced on posters, adverts, tea towels and mugs.
Pat continued to high-kick her way at the end of Blackpool's North Pier. It was a time of charabancs, kiss-me-quick hats, and fish 'n' chips on deckchairs by the sea. It was also a golden age of entertainment when theatres and dancers were considered the epitome of glitz and glamour. Pat formed a duo with a male dancer called Nick, and together they performed in some of the best and worst theatres in the country. Together they travelled to West Germany to dance for the American soldiers. It was Pat's first time abroad, but she was struck by the fact that as England lay in ruins, Germany had pretty much rebuilt itself. The dance duo travelled to Africa, where the show had to be cancelled because the tickets were too expensive. With no money and no show, Pat and the rest of the troupe were stranded. They ended up dancing for their supper at a nearby hotel until their return flight home.
Over the years, Pat went on to befriend some of the greatest stars of our time, including Oliver Hardy, who gave her a signed photograph. She also met British bombshell Diana Dors, who persuaded her to bleach her hair platinum blonde. A few years later, Pat was principle dancer in a show in Weymouth where she met a stand-up comedian called Johnny Stewart, who wooed her both on and off stage.
"He was supposed to give me a stage kiss, but every time he'd asked me out for dinner I'd said no. He decided to get his own back and give me a real smacker in front of a packed audience."
The couple were married six-weeks later, but not before Johnny's decree nisi arrived at the theatre by post the morning of their registry office wedding. Together, the couple toured the world. Pat became a theatrical agent. She'd settled in Wales when the Aberfan disaster struck, killing 144 people, including 116 children. She knew she had to do something, so she formed a committee, and staged a fundraising show. Afterwards, Pat was sat in the bar when a group of suave looking men walked in.
"I noticed two of the men looked almost identical, but their jackets were bulging around the breast pocket."
It was the Kray twins.
"I didn't have a clue who they were." Pat admits. "But my friend went as white as a sheet and slid down in her chair as soon as she spotted them."
The Krays asked if they could represent Johnny, who felt obliged to give them his home telephone number.
"Soon afterwards, the Krays were arrested. They were later jailed for life at the Old Bailey , so we never did get the call. I think Johnny was relieved." Pat adds.
Pat's spotty dress made an appearance years later when a woman appeared on BBC's The One Show, claiming to be the girl in the photograph. But Pat still had the contact sheets from the original shoot so she was able to prove once and for all that she was the girl in the spotty dress.
* The Girl in the Spotty Dress, by Pat Stewart with Veronica Clark, published by John Blake, is available from all good bookshops priced £7.99.


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Modulok announced at SDCC 2013! So this will be left here for Multibot.
Two questions here - first do you think that Modulok and Multi-Bot will be like their predeccor - able to pull to pieces?
The 2nd question is should they come with removable plug in horde insignia. I could never understand why they never had the Horde symbol.


text: This week on Live Power Music, we have a lot of new artists~ Ranging from soft R&B vocals B'Brown to new trot singer Sun Duk, there's a variety of performances that you guys should give a try. Remember that once you watch these performances, if you're interested in them, make sure to request for their profile! But I'll probably have them up this week anyway ^-^


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Seriously. If you know me, you've heard me talk about them before. If I've ever had staff working for me, I have been known to call them minions "accidentally" once or twice. Oh, to have a minion would complete my life.
Don't judge. You like doing the dishes? You get daily back rubs? Your laundry puts itself away? Didn't think so.
I could get a man I suppose. But men are unreliable and there's a likelihood that he would put "lay flat to dry" clothes in the dryer. I don't need that.
Let me introduce you to Shmork. Shmork has my breakfast ready in the morning. He has a coffee waiting by my bedside and helps me get my ass out of bed. Since he's done my laundry, and knows what the weather is going to be like, he knows exactly what type of outfit I should wear each day. If I'm at work and need a coffee or snack, he is more than happy to drop a little something off for me. When I get home, I open the door to the smell of a delicious dinner. He knows all my mom's recipes. I never have to worry about not having booze in the house because Shmork knows how much I love my wine/beer/martini/cocktail.
Shmork does more than just help out around the house too. He helps make me a better person. He gets me involved in dance classes, and he even learned how to knit so that he could teach me how! Amazing, right? If I ever am in the mood for some hubba hubba, Shmork goes out and finds a man, bops him over the head and brings him to me.
Now, while all of you suckers are trying to find "the one", or fuming over your spouse leaving their clothing on every chair in the house, I will have my Shmork.
Shmork will never leave me.
Shmork will never cheat on me with another human. (He likes cats though so I can't have a cat...)
Shmork won't pretend he's listening to me while I ask him something, then look up at me with glazed eyes.
Shmork will not lie to me.
Shmork will never stand me up.
Shmork will never clog the toilet.
Shmork will never call me to bail him out of jail.
In short, Shmork will never let me down.
|Shmork, made on Despicable Me's Minion Maker


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"Tucson" excerpt
More info and downloads for this album further down ...
Steve Huey's bio of Ahmad Jamal at AMG contends that "Jamal's manipulations of space and silence, tension and release, and dynamics all broke new ground, and had an impact far beyond Jamal's favored piano trio format. As an arranger, Jamal made the most of his small-group settings by thinking of them in orchestral terms: using his trademark devices to create contrast and dramatic effect, and allowing the rhythm section a great deal of independence in its interplay."
In the early 1970s, Jamal began to broaden this experimentation both instrumentally and stylistically, moving beyond the trio format to include actual orchestral textures, vocal choruses and electric instrumentation, including the incorporation of a fender rhodes.
Like many jazz artists of the time who reached across the RnB and pop dividing walls and plugged in electric instruments, he faced a lot of flak from most jazz critics, many of whom continue to bypass or disparage this electric period.
These 70s albums are worth a closer look, so let's check them out ...
"The Awakening" in 1970. No electric keyboards here, but this acoustic piano trio album, some twenty years into his career, has the pianist wringing every edge of tonality from his instrument - he's creating denser textures than before, but simultaneously he's using silence and space to create drama as as alternately pounds and caresses the keys. It's as if he's reached some sort of epiphany as to the textures he can create with just one instrument at this time, and it's not surprising that he soon began to expand his instrumental palette.
'Effendi' excerpt
For a few tracks on his 1971 live trio album "Freeflight", recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival on June 17th of that year, Jamal establishes the main themes on acoustic piano then begins to solo on rhodes. He's somewhat enamoured with the instrument's on-board tremelo/LFO (the "pulsing" effect) and you can hear drummer Frank Gant setting complex snare drum patterns against the effect.
The dense, mid-range clouds of rhodes chords allow space for bassist Jamil Suleiman Nasser to improvise in his upper range. Jamal returns to the piano for more percussive sections and theme reprisals. The engineers are clearly not used to amplified instruments and are slightly 'off' the rhodes amp with their microphone placement.
'Bogota' excerpt
Released in 1972 but coming from the same 1971 Montreux concert, 'Outertimeinnerspace' contains two long live tracks. On the first of these, "Bogota", Jamal's increasingly utilising the individual strengths of acoustic and electric piano to widen the overall dynamic range of his compositions.Three minutes into the track, he turns away from his acoustic piano and begins to create clouds of tremelo rhodes chords, alternating with fast solo blues runs. Six minutes later, the acoustic piano returns with a percussive attack, then as the dynamics soften, he returns to the rhodes again.
Even as early as this concert, Jamal seems to have refined his "orchestration" of the two instruments to fit into the subtlety of his compositional dynamics.
'Superstition' excerpt
download : WAV of "Superstition"
Like Herbie Hancock and others before him, Jamal moves on from his initial fascination with the rhodes' effects panel and begins to explore the nuances of the instrument's dynamic colours, in particular exploring bell-like tones from careful manipulation of the tines, at times producing soft tones almost like a vibraphone.
Tracks such as "Superstition", "The World is a Ghetto" and "Children of the Night" continue to live on in many a beatmaker's MPC, and the album launched Jamal into a new RnB market.
'Ghetto Child' excerpt
The commercial success of the previous album led to 1974's "Jamalca" (DOWNLOAD) another album with Richard Evans' orchestral and vocal arrangements of well-known tracks, with Jamal on both rhodes and acoustic piano.
Tracks covered include Foster Sylvers' "Misdemeanour", Gaye's "Trouble Man" and a then-popular version of the "M.A.S.H." theme. I tend to find the acoustic piano tracks a little overblown here, with the orchestral flourishes competing directly with Jamal's equivalent ornamental keyboard "sweeps" and arpeggios in the arrangements, whereas the rhodes tracks "sit" better with the orchestra. Nevertheless, there's some great stuff here and it's well worth grabbing.
'Spanish Interlude' excerpt
Both the title and the style of "Jamal Plays Jamal", his 2nd album in 1974, seem to point to Ahmad Jamal taking some control back in the overall orchestration of his sound - he's co-credited with Richard Evans for the arrangements of the six original tracks that make up the album.
This time, both the acoustic piano and rhodes sit well alongside the rich string arrangements and occasional horns, and the voices are gone. His trio partners Jamil Nasser and Frank Gant, who'd been somewhat buried on the previous two albums, are both given space to breathe in the (relatively) sparser lineup, to which percussionist Azzedin Weston is added.
Several great tracks, "Eclipse" and "Swahililand" are personal favourites.
'Chaser' excerpt
Things are smoothing out a little (too much) in the electric tracks for the last of the big Evans productions, "Genetic Walk" (recorded in '75 but released much later) and the vocal choruses are back. Nevertheless, some interesting chords and textures in the string and brass arrangements carry over from the last album. There's a lot more acoustic piano than rhodes. and there are also three piano trio tracks that hark back to his earlier work.
With clashing styles and three or four different lineups recorded over several sessions, one could conjecture that there may have been some disagreement over Jamal's direction at this stage, with the pianist obviously eager to spend more time on his original instrument. This was his last album to hit the RnB charts.
Nonetheless, the music is really good - three small combo tracks with rhodes and acoustic piano : "Handicapper", "Tucson" and "Crossfire" - and two piano standards with simple bass accompaniment : "My One and Only Love" and "Prelude to a Kiss".
"Tucson" excerpt
Jamal produced the album himself, under supervision from Paul Gayten, a former New Orleans band leader who had turned to production.
sample trainspotter's alert :
Ahmad Jamal's been heavily sampled in hip hop - see the collections of originals-vs-flips in the miscellaneous section below. Anyway, the sample I noticed when listening to this album was the opening track "Handicapper". There's a few chords there that make up the body of a Marc Mac track called "Atlanta Walking" on his beats-and-civil-rights album "It's Right To Be Civil", which is worth checking out. I've also read that "Crossfire" is sampled in Dilated People's "Pay Attention".
'Bellows' excerpt
Later in 1976 Jamal recorded a live album with the same lineup, "Live at Oil Can Harry's". Jamal's just on acoustic piano, apart from some brief rhodes comping behind Calvin Key's solo in "Bellows", a track from "Genetic Walk".
There's another version of McCoy Tyner's "Effendi", an extended version of Jamal's best known song "Poinciana", and an original called "Folklore". Once again it's great to hear the chemistry between Jamal and Calvin Keys, and Seldon Newton's conga work drives this one along quite differently from Jamal's earlier live albums.
'Black Cow' excerpt
"One" (also on this blog) was recorded from May-July 1978, and has three producers : Richard Evans; 'Partridge Family' arranger/keyboardist Mike Melvoin and Sigidi (S.O.S Band) individually produce and arrange a large group that includes synthesisers (Melvoin), horn sections, vocal groups (Eloise Laws and others), and several percussionists (Paulinho da Costa, Bill Summers, Hal Blaine and others). My favourite track is a cover of Steely Dan's "Black Cow", with girl chorus vocals and Jamal on the clavinet. Check it out. Not one for the jazz purists!
'You're Welcome, Stop On By' excerpt
'Boatride' excerpt
On 1979's "Intervals", now also posted on this blog. Jamal is still on rhodes and occasional synth on a few tracks, but clearly headed back towards smaller acoustic groups. Half the album's produced by Paul Gayten, the other half by "Fifth Dimension" mastermind Bones Howe. AMG's Scott Yanow hates it, which for some of us counts as a recommendation. Other tracks are 'Jordie', 'So in Love' , 'Reggae', 'The Tube' and 'Bones'. This was Jamal's last release for 20th Century Records.
With the exception of some keyboard work on 1980's "Night Song" and 1985's "Digital Works", Ahmad Jamal primarily returned to the acoustic piano after the 1970s, and has gone on to release at least another thirty albums.
01. 'Handicapper' (7:37) - Jamal
02. 'Prelude To A Kiss' (7:50) - Ellington, Gordon, Mills
03. 'My One And Only Love' (8:48) - Mellin, Wood
04. 'Tucson' (9:10) - Jamal
05. 'Crossfire' (9:56) - Jamal
Bass - John Heard (misspelt "Hurd" on cover)
Drums - Frank Gant
Guitar - Calvin Keys
Keyboards - Ahmad Jamal
Percussion - Selden Newton
Released 1976
Produced by Ahmad Jamal under the supervision of Paul Gayten
20th Century Records
Catalogue # T-515
Recorded & Mixed at Village Recorders, Los Angeles, California
Engineer - Neil Brody
Photography - Michael Paladin
Art Direction - Jamico
Cover & Liner Design - Michael Levy
Illustration - Trici Venola
AHMAD JAMAL DISCOGRAPHY from Blogopolis
1951-55 "The Legendary Okeh & Epic Sessions" (APE) at vzdora.net / alternative
1951-55 "Poinciana" (compilation) at farofa moderna
1955 "Chamber music of the New Jazz" donated by Green (thanks!)
1958-61 "Cross Country Tour" (Argo comp, FLAC) at CIA Contributions #5
1958 "At the Pershing" Vol 1/2 in comp at My Jazz World
1958 "At The Pershing/But Not for Me" (APE) at Your Track Music Club
1958 "At the Pershing / But Not For Me" (MP3) at Musica En Harmonia group / alternative / alternative
1958 "Live at the Pershing and the Spotlight Club" at Musical Moadom
1959 "Jamal At The Penthouse" (MP3) at Musica Desde Las Antipodas
1959 "Jamal At The Penthouse" (FLAC) at Call It Anything
1961 "Alhambra" at Musica En Harmonia group
1962 "All Of You" at Sun Ship
1965 "Rhapsody" (MP3) at My Favourite Sound
1965 "Rhapsody" (FLAC) at CIA Contributions #4
1965 "The Roar of theGreaspaint, the Smell of the Crowd" at Sun Ship
1967 "Standard Eyes" at My My Jazz World
1967 "Alhambra" at Best of Both Worlds
1967 "Cry Young" at Sun Ship
1968 "The Bright, The Blue and The Beautiful" at Sun Ship
1968 "Tranquility" (FLAC) at Call It Anything
1969 "At The Top : Poinciana Revisited" at The Musik Lounge
1970 "The Awakening" (MP3) at Oufar Khan / alternative
1970 "The Awakening" (FLAC) at Flaclossless or CIA
1971 "Freeflight" also on this blog.
1971 "Outertimeinnerspace' (MP3) - thanks Gildas!
1971 "Outertimeinnerspace" (FLAC) at Call it Anything
1972 "Inspiration" (comp of 65-68 material) at My Jazz World
1973 "Ahmad Jamal 73" at My Jazz World
1974 "Jamal Plays Jamal" at Baby Grandpa
1974 "Jamalca" DOWNLOAD
1976 "Live At Oil Can Larry's" at Pharoah's Dance
1976 "Steppin out with a Dream" see base of this post
1978 "One" also on this blog
1979 "Intervals" also on this blog
1980 "Live at Bubba's" (FLAC) at CIA Contributions #4
1985 "Digital Works" at Inconstant Sol
1986 'Rossiter Road' @ Avax
1987 "Crystal" (APE) at vzdora.net / alternative / alternative
1989 "Pittsburgh" (FLAC) at Call it Anything
1989 "Pittsburgh" at Musica En Harmonia group
1992 "Blues Alley" at Musica Desde Las Antipodas
1992 "Chicago Revisited : Live at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase" at CIA
1995 "I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn" at vzdora.net / alternative
1996 "The Essence, Pt. 1" donated by Art Simon. Thanks!
1998 "Ahmad Jamal With the Assai Quartet" at Inconstant Sol
1999 "Live In Germany" (bootleg) at Bogard's Jazztapes
2000 "Ahmad Jamal Trio and George Coleman" (Zurich) at Ubu Roi
2001 "Live at Jazz Baltica" (bootleg) at Kingcake Krypt
2002 "In Search Of Momentum" MP3 at Musica Desde Las Antipodas
2002 "In Search Of Momentum" FLAC at Call It Anything
2003 'Live In Paris" (APE) at vzdora.net / alternative / alternative
2008 "It's Magic" at Jazz a Gogo / alternative
Ahmad Jamal Samples (4 volumes) at T.R.O.Y. or SL Saico
originals and hip hop flips
"Steppin out with a Dream" vinyl rip and scans by Simon666
"Superstition" track CD rip by Simon666.
The "Jamalca" rip is a 224kbps soulseek find from pre-blog days that I've re-upped for this post.
Apart from the blogs noted in the discography, album links within this post go to :
My Jazz World, Pharoah's Dance, Oufar Khan, Funky Disposition, Baby Grandpa, Rock Savage, My Favorite Sound, J Thyme Kind, Blak's Lair, Things and Stuff and Music, and Inconstant Sol.Thanks to Wallofsound for the series of Jamal posts at Inconstant Sol prompted by this post.
Please thank and support any blogs you click through to.
(please leave a comment if you grab these)
"Stepping out with a dream" – Ahmad Jamal (1976)
"Jamalca" - Ahmad Jamal (1974)
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Topic: Diablo 3
The long awaited Diablo 3 ladies and gents.
I am a Role Playing Gamer, like my father before me.
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The long awaited Diablo 3 ladies and gents.
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Devil Boy showed me this today I have not been able to see the clip yet but I am so, so, so, so much looking forward to the release of this game
This is just so funky
Diablo II is one of my favourite games
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I'm definitely getting this the day it comes out. Watch the gameplay trailer, it speaks for itself.
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Fanflippintastic, wow that is amazing Hehe everytime I see a trailer for Diablo I think they look amazing
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WAQL-PP 0.1 released
With this post I am proud to announce the first release of WAQL-PP, a WAQL Preprocessor for Java I was working on for the last two weeks. In one of the former posts I described the motivation behind this little project and how I planned to implement it. I'm rather satisfied with the result, so without further ado comes a copy of the release notes for this version. If you are interested just visit the project page to check it out.
WAQL-PP 0.1 released. This is the first release of the WAQL Preprocessor for Java. Here is a short list of the most important features: * Resolves Data Dependencies between separate queries by converting replacement objects into a textual representation. * Handles nested Data Dependencies from innermost to outermost. * Transforms Template List constructs into valid XQuery for-clauses and handles correlations between different Template Lists. * Parser tested against the XML Query Test Suite (XQTS). This release was developed against and tested with Java SE 1.6.0_22. It uses Apache Ant as a build tool, JUnit 4.8.2 for testing purposes, JavaCC 5.0 as a parser generator and has no additional runtime dependencies. It is currently being used as a component in the WS-Aggregation framework. Information about the project and general documentation can be found on http://www.antforge.org/waqlpp The WAQL-PP 0.1 release packages can be downloaded from http://www.antforge.org/waqlpp/download/waqlpp-0.1/ File : waqlpp-0.1-src.zip md5sum : 57d06bfedaf1abd6eeed793838d96fc7 sha1sum: 1a5fd2196a0916fd74479c4e7aaa57811b673e3b File : waqlpp-0.1.jar md5sum : bf97850f878014090eb9b9849e18ab37 sha1sum: 74c4e0e7e78bc16fea4bfd1b0954439e74636118 Enjoy! Michael Starzinger
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^^ like naix, wk etc. Wanted to get some advice, is it worth it even though the lifesteal stacks? Or is it better to go for damage items to get the most out of ur existing lifesteal?
armlet is enough
mom can be OK, but satanic is usually a no. Vlads only on support wk
thanks for the advice guys, one more thing, for WK damage (for higher crit) or att speed (to get crit more often)?
ac is pretty convenient, cuz it gives u as and armor reduction (hence higher crits). mjollnir is also good.
but something else - i looked at your WK matches in game history. You should try to get comfortable w dagger on WK. It will give you much more than any other item if you understand and use dagger in normal skill games .
On almost every carry it is important to get a mix of both attack speed and damage, it isn't usually efficient to just stack 1 or the other
So on wk you might go treads midas blink armlet basher or something, get both attack speed and damage with some armor
If you want to skip dagger, mom and sny become a lot better on WK. they make you harder to kite and mom in particular makes you impossible to ignore. Just beware dying too fast because you activated mom into 5 people
Other items worth trying to see how they "feel" on WK are blademail, Radi, and mjolnir. All are good situationally, blademail has some sick synergy with mom and the AoE from radi/MJ also
MoM, blade mail, armlet on wk is strong
I wouldn't build +dmg on wraith king just for the +dmg aspect. Build for other stuff he needs.
Armlet is the best dmg per gold item when active and since wk can sustain it with his built in lifesteal is amazing on him.
AC is really good because wk has extremely low armor. Sven and slardar at 16 have around 10 armor, wk has around 6, pretty significant. He benefits a lot from armor vs right clickers.
For +dmg items, mkb if enemy has dodge, deso if you need tower dmg or are way ahead and tanky enough as is, basher/abyssal if you need lockdown.
Satanic is fine on wk and lifestealer for late game instead of a heart, just don't build it til like you're 4th or 5th item. Like on lifestealer, phase, armlet, s&y, ac, satanic. WK, treads, dagger, armlet, ac, basher, satanic. Something like that order.
Id rather build wk like this:
Vs tanky heroes: tread-blink-armlet-heart(armlet always on).
Vs squishy burster: tread-blademail-blink-armlet-heart.
Armlet is just too good to passup on LS and WK and with heart that alwaya toggled on armlet is just the best feeling.
mom wk works sometimes
heart on wk is honestly just so awful
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In Ann Coulter's April 28 syndicated column, titled "Arab Hijackers Now Eligible For Pre-Boarding," the right-wing pundit described her search for the airline that, post-September 11, has "engaged in the most egregious discrimination" against passengers who appeared to be Arab, Middle Eastern, or Muslim, "so [Coulter] could fly only that airline."
Undeterred by airlines' "heated" denials, Coulter suggested some "great slogans" for those airlines accused of the most egregious acts of discrimination:
Like many of you, I carefully reviewed the lawsuits against the airlines in order to determine which airlines had engaged in the most egregious discrimination, so I could fly only that airline. But oddly, rather than bragging about the charges, the airlines heatedly denied discriminating against Middle Eastern passengers. What a wasted marketing opportunity! Imagine the great slogans the airlines could use:
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- "More Civil-Rights Lawsuits Brought by Arabs Than Any Other Airline!"
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- "You Are Now Free to Move About the Cabin -- Not So Fast, Mohammed!"
If John Kerry would promise to fire Norman Mineta and start racial profiling at the airports, I would campaign for him. Unfortunately, like George Bush, Kerry doesn't travel commercial air with the little people.
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if you're posting jazz house remixes see line woman needs to get a mention. that drum loop has been sampled so many times it's mental
if you're posting jazz house remixes see line woman needs to get a mention. that drum loop has been sampled so many times it's mental
Does anyone have a link to Woebot's top 100 Jazz records list? The only list of his i've ever been able to find is his top 100 records, which I love. Would love to see his favourite jazz records.
I've been on a Brazilian jazz binge for the last couple years, I've been listening to about one new album a day for that time, and I still have about 300 more on my itunes that I haven't been able to listen to yet. Its a companion to my online portuguese lessons and several books about Brazilian music and history.
I've made a handful of short mixes of bossa nova music to keep a record of what I've been listening to:
did you tronc today?
ok, well, if we're doing this then i'll share a few favorites. i'm far from a jazz buff but have gone through a few phases of interest. nothing obscure here, just things i find i can go back to over the years...
a treasure...
at different points in his career, each stellar in their own ways...
a bit more free-spirited...
"world" sounds melded with 70s electrified jazz-rock...
avant with a groove...
also, there's these:
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and on a ECM/Euro tip...
from "the zoo is far" album
some favorites:
bennie maupin - ensenada
dave holland - conference of the birds
some others not on youtube:
bobby previte - ballet
bunny brunel - touch
so i dig this melodic spacey ecm sound a lot. any recommendations?
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i know very little of the catalog. the wallumrod albums are fairly similar in sound, mostly good. have a few dino saluzzi albums, but i don't think they are typical of the label sound.
It's the aimlessNess of jazz that irritates, the assumption that I have all the time in the world. There's a good bit and you start getting into it, then you have to sit through a bass solo. Allow that jazz. Focus your mind.
I'm.sitting in a wine bar in Greenwich listening to middle aged white men play smooth jazz when I just wanna get a bit pissed and read my book
sometimes i think jazz was better before the album era. when they didnt have 20 min sides which they could stretch out over.
is this acid jazz?
cause i like this too...
Looking at that ecm thread is a reminder of the days when Dissensus had people posting that knew a,lot about music. Wasn't even all that long ago.


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Go barefoot or go home: 15 best islands you've never heard of
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CNN Bali? Been there.
Virgin Islands? Done that. Twice.
While many well known islands inhabit prominent spots on the average bucket list, there's another group of outposts that only the truly island-savvy know about.
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1. Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Don't feel sorry for the cast of "Survivor" having to battle the elements, construct shelter and scrounge for food.
Visit the motu (it means "little island") where "Survivor: Cook Islands" was filmed and you'll find an idyllic island.
One of 15 in Aitutaki, it sits in a stunning 8-by-10-mile coral lagoon shimmering with hundreds of shades of blue.
At low tide, you can walk so far out on a sandbar that your friends might mistake you for an errant sea bird.
Aitutaki has a nine-hole golf course (stray balls sometimes land in the lagoon or the airport runway) and a selection of upscale resorts, including Pacific Resort and Aitutaki Escape where you can get a memorable massage and where a chef will prepare an amazing three-course meal.
With its crystal clear lagoon, archetypical tropical scenery and New Zealand savoir faire (the Cook Islands is a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand), Aitutaki is a place anyone would volunteer to "survive."
Pacific Resort Aitutaki, Amuri, Aitutaki, Cook Islands, +682 31720; rates from $626 per couple
2. Utila, Honduras
This little paradise is only 11 kilometers long, but it has 60 dive sites, 18-meter whale sharks (don't worry, they're vegetarian) and some of the cheapest scuba prices in the Caribbean.
For as little as $140 per night, you can get your own deserted island, complete with a fully furnished two-bedroom house.
Most of the 2,500 locals live near Eastern Harbor, a tiny village with nothing but locally owned hotels, restaurants and dive shops.
Water Cay, one of many "caylitos" that make up Utila's collection of tiny islands, hosts Sun Jam, a two-day music and dancing fiesta the first weekend of August.
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3. Marettimo, Italy
The whitewashed houses, colorful fishing villages and year-round mile climate feel almost African, but this beauty is in Italy, in the Egadi Islands, just an hour by boat from Sicily.
There are no cars on the island -- that means no carbon fumes, no gunning motors, no taxi drivers honking for you to step it up.
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Richard Clark gives his views on the operation of American businesses.
You have to wonder sometimes about the state of American business. Across the board, companies consistently make the same decisions.
Time after time.
Company after company.
Same old, same old.
Companies react to recession and/or a downturn in profits in almost a predictable manner. First, the companies freeze salaries and/or change compensation plans, then they lay off staff and attempt to cut costs across the board. Next comes adjustments in pricing for the product followed by outsourcing.
Sounds like a solid business plan, does it not?
I suppose it works to some degree, although I haven�t seen the success very often. I�m the first to admit I may not be a business insider or knowledgeable in many so-called �business methods,� but I have always thought that if you produce a good product, more times than not, the company will be successful.
I know this is probably something of fairy tale along the lines of Snow White or the Lion King, but it�s what I believe. However, in today�s world of exorbitant executive salaries and corporate raiders, the product, as well as the common worker, has been overlooked, undervalued and, ultimately, replaced.
Krispy Kreme is a perfect example. The have the best product � in this case donuts � yet can not seem to get a foothold in their doughnut war with Dunkin Donuts. From way down here at the bottom, the problem seems crystal clear. Maybe me and my simplistic mind are attempting to oversimplify the issue, but it�s managed poorly.
No, I take that back. They are managed extremely poorly. High salaries for people that never touch a doughnut are the first problem. The second is probably a broken business model that they refuse to change.
We see companies reduce employees, which undoubtedly reduces the value of the product which, in turn, reduces the company�s overall value. You would think that sitting in the four walls of a board room (or any room where such decisions are made), these people would make sound business decisions.
Downsizing can, of course, bring short-term profits, an expert says, because trimming labor costs boosts the bottom line.
�A lot of this is done for short-term profitability, or to send a signal to the market that a CEO is taking strong action to try to reassure shareholders,� Wayne Cascio, a management professor at the University of Colorado in Denver, said. �And what happens is No. 1, they tend to cut out some of the very things that made them successful in the first place, for example research and development.�
However, in my experience, decisions are often made for very different reasons. Personal feelings often play into who stays and who goes. Self preservation far too often lends a hand into the decision-making process. You would think someone would see that cutting one person with the salary equivalent of 5, 10 or 20 average employees makes far more sense (especially if the one person doesn�t do much), but this never seems to be the case.
I get the �clean up the balance sheet� approach to business. Those people just want to renovate and flip. It�s much more like Monopoly money to those people. If that is your job, corporate raider so to speak, then it is different. However, for many companies, this is not the case.
Lip service is given about �how we want to put out a better product,� but in reality all they want to do is keep their own golden throne intact. I get it. Over the years, I have witnessed these changes several times and in several different industries.
Perhaps the most painful thing to see (besides, of course, the many lives torn apart by sudden unemployment) is the lack of flexibility at the top of these companies; refusing to change practices that clearly do not work. Relying on business models or structures that are extremely top heavy (if you have more titles or high-end salaries than you have bottom line employees, it�s a good bet the company is top heavy) and broken.
And refusing to reinvest in the infrastructure of the company, allowing it to age exponentially and become antiquated. However, you can best believe upper management bonuses and �reimbursements� get paid.
Many times, if proactive action had been taken, jobs would not have been lost. Most of the time, we are not talking about some fictitious bubble that burst, we are talking about mismanagement.
Let me put it another way. The fantastic thing about sports is if you do not win there are immediate consequences to those running the show. Complacent upper management leads to near-sighted decisions, which leads to doom. For those people, I ask: �When did Noah build the Ark? BEFORE the rain.�
In the world of business? Not so much. Poor decisions and retroactive actions are made, resulting in dwindling profits and market share, yet the same people will be called �Boss� day after day, year after year.
Really, who wants to fire their golfing buddy or their wife�s best friend�s husband? The time has come in American business when we should get back to the basics.
We need to start from the ground up and reaffirm our fortitude. There is no �easy button.� Talk is cheap. We need boots on the ground, not another �plan� that looks a lot like the �plan� we had before that didn�t work. Maybe it will take these antiquated concepts and models to burn to the ground before another will be born.
However, it seems that this is really and old concept. Workers matter. The product matters. And the rest will take care of itself.
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I was browsing Brett Lee's wikipedia article and came across this, link of the fastest recorded deliveries. It is a self admitted non complete database, but it is interesting to read.
I was browsing Brett Lee's wikipedia article and came across this, link of the fastest recorded deliveries. It is a self admitted non complete database, but it is interesting to read.
The speed at which a fielding team gets through the innings is overrated.
Not listed, and probably the most interesting, is one by Craig White.
He is repeatedly recognised to have bowled a 97 mph delivery (the fastest by an Englishman) but all I can find is the same claim rather than hard evidence.
Here is a cricinfo link to Lee bowling at 160.8 which is considerably quicker than anything attributed to him on that list.
In fact, from what I can see, it is a very ordinary and misleading list as it looks like the speeds were only taken from a short (maybe 2 yr) period
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Bunch of those records are from 2002 - I guess thats when Lee and Akhtar were both at full flow in terms of speed.
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Also, why are 140kph deliveries listed - surely a whole lot have passed 140kph and not listed?
Of course, White was injured in 2001 and thereafter only rarely hit even 90mph, never mind more than that, again. These days he barely even bowls any more, which is something of a shame.
But had he bowled a 97mph delivery sometime in 1999/2000, 2000 or 2000/01, I can't say I'd be terribly surprised.
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Personally I will not give it credit until a game is mentioned and a reliable souce cited. However, the claim can be seen all over the internet.
Worth looking into that. Might have a dig round later.
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Yeah, not the most comprehensive of lists.
Guys like Tait should have entries near the top by now.
Nantie Hayward there, his record is actually alright, why has he not played more?
Nantie had serious speed but you wouldn't have him in the side ahead of any of the current SA bowlers.
What an odd list, and obviously not accurate. According to it, Shane Bond has only passed 150km/h once, which I know is nonsense. I'm also certain I've seen a delivery of his hit 154km/h, and his top speed listed there is 151.2.
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Unpaid bloggers have lost their bid to get an appeals court to restore a lawsuit contending AOL Inc owes them a cut of the $315 million it spent last year to buy The Huffington Post.
A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Wednesday rejected claims that the bloggers deserved $105 million of the deal's purchase price.
The bloggers, who included social activist and commentator Jonathan Tasini, had claimed they were tricked into supplying free content to the news and opinion website.
They had argued that they gave free content to The Huffington Post on the understanding it would be provided as a public service and wouldn't be sold to a larger media organization.
The case had sought class-action status on behalf of 9,000 unpaid contributors to the website, which was founded in 2005. It was dismissed in March by Manhattan U.S. District Judge John Koeltl.
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The recent major court reform, referred to as Revision 7 to Article V, was approved as an amendment to the Florida Constitution by Florida voters in 1998.
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Previously, trial courts were funded by the 67 individual counties that each court was identified with. Appellate courts were funded by the State. As a result of the county-by-county funding variations, some counties could obviously afford to provide better funding for Court services, while others were able to provide only bare minimum service. Revision 7 required that both the appellate courts and the trial courts be funded through State appropriation, thus equalizing the funding levels across county lines.
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http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com/display.php?user=jwilcox1024Our own jwilcox got dinged. Yes, with a 180. I am scared.
Quote from: Pancho on January 19, 2006, 04:54:41 PMhttp://www.lawschoolnumbers.com/display.php?user=jwilcox1024Our own jwilcox got dinged. Yes, with a 180. I am scared.Wow.. I guess that puts things in perspective. Although I do feel bad for jwilcox.. that is a monster score, and I would have expected a better result.
Wow, Pancho is quick. I just updated my LSN profile 2 or 3 minutes ago. I'm not too suprised. Other than my 180, all I brought to the table was a life as an average white guy from a forgettable undergrad.I also keep on having a hard time posting this because all of you are providing so much instant commentary.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State softball first baseman Natalie Hampton has been named the Pac-12 Conference Player of the Week for her performance in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic last weekend in Palm Springs, Calif.
In the five games the Beavers played, Hampton hit .400 (6-for-15) with four home runs and seven RBIs. She has now homered in five of her last six games and six of her past eight. Hampton had hits in all five games and has now hit safely in 10 straight, tying for the team's season-high hitting streak. Hampton slugged 1.200 and walked four times last weekend to push her on-base percentage to .526.
She scored six runs last weekend, with three coming in the Beavers' 11-0 win over Colorado State. Hampton had three multi-RBI games and a multi-hit game against Maryland.
It's not as if Hampton just found her stroke in Palm Springs. She currently leads the team in the triple-crown categories with a .431 average, eight home runs and 22 RBIs. For the season, she is slugging .941 and has a .508 on-base percentage.
"I'm proud of Natalie," head coach Laura Berg said. "She's worked extremely hard and has played very well these last three weekends."
She is the first conference player or pitcher of the week for OSU since Mary Claire Brenner on Feb. 16, 2010, and is the 35th all-time for Oregon State. Hampton is the first Oregon State freshman to win the award sinceAudrey Roderfeld in March 2008.
The No. 24 Beavers have won 11 consecutive games and travel to the Easton Invitational in Fullerton, Calif., this weekend. Their first game is Friday morning at 9:00 a.m. against Iowa.
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This weekend the annual Supersonic Festival takes over Birmingham's Custard Factory arts complex for a sixth year, this year spreading its bill of avant-garde and mainstream-defying acts across a full three days.
With 2007's event – featuring Fuck Buttons, Mogwai, Wolf Eyes, Om, SunnO))) and more (review) – named Plan B magazine's festival of the year, and Battles returning to the event in a headline role – they previously appeared in 2005 rather lower on the bill – this year's Supersonic is set to be the biggest and best yet. Also scheduled to appear: Harmonia, Gravetemple, Rolo Tomassi, Oxbow, Wooden Shjips, Harvey Milk and Beestung Lips. And many many more.
DiS talks to organisers Capsule about the jewel in their promotions crown, profiles a selection of must-see acts participating this here, and gives you the full timetable. All in one neat and tidy article. Anyone would think we were fans… fans enough to sponsor the festival for a second year. Read on, digest, attend, enjoy, feel free to buy DiS a drink.
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Interview: Capsule
Hello Capsule – please introduce who you are.
Capsule is Lisa Meyer and Jenny Moore.
Supersonic is now a firmly established event on the domestic festival scene – you must be delighted to see it so revered, too. What initially sparked the desire to put on the first Supersonic? Looking back on it, did you think then, at the end of the first one, that it was an event that'd run and run?
It's great that we've been able to build the festival over the years, both in scale and in ambition, and that it has garnered so much support. The first Supersonic was just a one-day event with Coil *and LCD Soundsystem* as well as a host of other bands, and we really had no idea that it would grow in the way that it has, attracting an audience from all over the UK and further afield. We were very much inspired by Sonar Festival in Barcelona, which we attended in 2000; its use of venue, the city setting and the approach to programming as well as attracting a niche audience worldwide, which in turn made up a large audience.
*Just how early do you begin planning a Supersonic – immediately after the previous one? Or do you allow yourselves a little time off from it? Do you regard the event as the jewel in the Capsule crown, given your other shows home and abroad? *
We work on Supersonic all year round – it's reflective of our year-round program, as we're constantly searching out interesting acts to book for the festival and spreading the word. It's also about using it as a means of promoting acts from Birmingham, particularly when we do showcases at Sonar or South By Southwest. Although Supersonic is the biggest event we do and takes up the most time, all our activity is important to us, and putting on a show to 60 people is as valuable in many ways.
With each year I've been the bill seems to expand its reach to attract acts from right across the alternative spectrum – is there a mindset you adopt when approaching bands to participate, or is it within reason a simple case of if you like a band, you'll ask that band to play?
There definitely isn't a 'Supersonic type' of band, as we've both got very eclectic taste. However, we are interested in non-mainstream music. Supersonic is reflective of Capsule's year-round program and that has included everyone from Squarepusher to Merzbow, from Meg Baird to Melt Banana. The guiding principles of Supersonic are that artists should be engaging and inspiring, or a spectacle, and many are all three. We hope that the line-up reflects a music fan's approach for other music fans to enjoy.
*Where do you see Supersonic in the festival scheme – as a sister to ATP? Is it an event more in tune with continental festivals, or are there domestic events that you can see have inspired Supersonic in some way? *
We're massive fans of the ATP festival, and love the fact that it's a festival for our peer group and like Sonar you don't have to camp in a muddy field – we're too old for that. We've incorporated films and exhibitions from the start as that is where our personal interests lie, having both come from art backgrounds. It's important that each festival has unique qualities and doesn't replicate a 'festival' bill; we've never been interested in producing a generic summer festival. Where we might be similar to festivals like Roadburn, ATP and Sonar is that we are all true fans and have a real love for what we do, which hopefully shines through.
From the past festivals, what have been your favourite memories of Supersonic? Are there little things that you think will always stay with you, be they of a purely positive nature or because something's gone horribly awry?
Well, of course, the 2005 bomb evacuation will always stay with us – that was really pretty frightening as the security team jumped in their cars and left Jen and I to evacuate over 1,000 people, whilst the whole of Birmingham city centre had been closed down. But those stories become legendary. There are always highlights, too many to mention – it all seems quite surreal at the time because we're so busy, so it's great to look back at photos post the event.
2008's event hasn't even passed yet, but do you already have ideas for who you'd like to ask for next year's Supersonic?
No, that would be telling! We're always open to suggestions though.
*What are your tips for a Supersonic virgin, in order for them to get the very best out of the three days? *
The whole point of the festival is that for every band you know there should be a few that you don't, go and explore, dip into different rooms and check stuff out. There are also a couple of other exhibitions on around the Digbeth area including a show of Fluxus work at Vivid, well worth a look. Be adventurous, make new friends and of course try out the homemade cake.
Find tickets and further information at the official Supersonic website
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As stated above by Supersonic's own organisers, the object of attending the festival is to explore new music, to see bands you've not heard before. So do make an effort to catch all that you can, and peek a look at the other non-musical attractions – there's plenty of art on show, films to watch and cake to nibble. Here though, DiS picks five acts that we reckon you'd be super-silly to not check out.
Harvey Milk
From Athens, Georgia, Harvey Milk's latest LP Life… The Best Game In Town (review) proved the foursome – currently including ex-Melvins/Earth man Joe Preston – have lost none of their ferocity, first heard back on 1994's My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment Of My Love Could Be. Sludgy, rumbling basslines and body-rattling percussion are topped by vocalist Creston Spiers' truly demonic howls – if Aaron Turner's inhuman tones ever gave you nightmares, this'll make those dreams a reality. Despite the onslaught of their cacophonies, there's an accessible edge to Harvey Milk too – riffs are torn right from the ZZ Top songbook from time to time, and their live shows are unpredictably schizoid – your eyes and ears may burn for ten, but you'll be lifted clean off the ground for the next five.
Cutting Pink With Knives
As reported here, Supersonic 2008 will be Cutting Pink With Knives' final show on these shores, as the London glitch-punk trio hang their booty-bumping electro grooves up for good after a festival date in Belgium days after their Birmingham appearance. Never seen them? You're in for a treat – just don't think before you shake or you'll never get into it. Best experienced though they are on the floor, at eye level to their audience, the trio should be a cracking opener on Supersonic's outdoor stage on Friday night – especially if they do the right thing and leap down from their lofty vantage point. Dance along like you mean it, and send Cutting Pink off into the sunset with grins all over their smashing mugs.
Originally active between 1973-76, last year German Krautrock icons Harmonia reformed and since then have wowed gig-goers who've witnessed them; after already making an appearance at ATP, it seems natural for them to visit Supersonic for the first time. Formed around the trio of Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Möbius of Cluster, Harmonia can count Brian Eno as an ex-member and have, to date, released three studio LPs, the last (Tracks & Traces) not seeing the light of day until 1997, despite it being recorded in 1976. A live album was released last year, whetting appetites for the band's live return proper – they performed in the UK for the first time back in April, at London's Quuen Elizabeth Hall. Expect their Supersonic set to be one of the most-watched of the whole weekend.
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Beestung Lips
It wouldn't be right to preview Supersonic without focusing on at least one act participating that calls Birmingham home, and hometown live acts don't come any more acerbic that punk foursome Beestung Lips – anyone who caught them at our DiScover Club back in March will know they're a hugely entertaining but highly volatile lot. Riffing in a manner not dissimilar to Hot Snakes and The Jesus Lizard before them, the quartet are more than capable of leaving their audience breathless, if not battered, physically, into a sort of pleasurable submission. The band's six-track EP of last year, Songs To And From An Iron Gut (review), was actually released by Supersonic's organisers – clearly they've faith in their fireworks.
With their last LP Parades earning a rare 10/10 on this site – find the review here – it should come as no surprise to find Danish outfit Efterklang among our picks – their sumptuous, symphonic arrangements, mixing traditional instrumentation with plenty of electronic effects, are best experienced live, too, so their Supersonic performance is one we're truly excited about. If you've never seen them, expect music that aches and moans with all the heart of Arcade Fire at their most broken, but with added interest from clicks and beats courtesy of their computerised on-stage comrades. DiS has witnessed grown men bawl their eyes out to the band before, so don't go thinking any in-attendance gentleman is proper soft should their waterworks start up during the Danes' show. It happens to us all, sometimes.
Find tickets and further information at the official Supersonic website
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Friday July 11
Factory Club
9.30 Drumize
10.30 Dokkebi Q
11.30 Bogulta
12.30 Ove Naxx
1.30 DJ Scotch Egg
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11.00 PCM feat Karl from Bolt Thrower
12.15 Dälek
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Factory Club
4.45 Alex Tucker
6.15 Heatseekers
7.45 Justice Yeldham
9.00 Beestung Lips
10.15 Noxagt
11.45 Oren Ambarchi
12.30 Rough Trade DJs
1.30 The Attrociator
Outside Stage
4.15 Cath & Phil Tyler
5.30 The Owl Service
6.45 Magnetophone
8.30 Efterklang
10.00 The Heads
11.00 Wooden Shjips
12.45 Harvey Milk
Space 2
4.30 Black Sun
5.45 The Courtesy Group
7.00 Guapo
8.00 Thrones
9.15 Oxbow
10.45 Fuck Buttons
12.25 Battles
Plus theatre programme – see Capsule for details
Sunday July 13
Outside Stage
2.15 Einstellung
3.15 Max Tundra
4.45 Parts & Labor
6.00 Errors
7.15 Red Sparowes
8.45 The Oscillation
10.00 ZX Spectrum Orchestra
11.15 Harmonia
Space 2
2.30 Transitional
3.45 Orthodox
5.00 Asva
6.30 Earth
8.00 Fucked Up
9.15 Kikuri
10.45 Gravetemple
Plus theatre programme – see Capsule for details
DiScuss: Going? Excited? THIS EXCITED? DiS is fairly excited… we're just annoyed there's still so many days between now and then. Roll on Friday and a train from Marylebone to Brum.