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And what does Keyshia think her fans want? Well according to a recent tweet, "more depressed, fed up, n*ggas ain't sh*t" music." Keyshia says she recognizes that not all of her fans have moved on like she has and that "not everybody is happy."
The 30-year old mommy and wife says she is still thankful for those fans who have grown with her and plans to release more upbeat tunes to keep them happy as well.
All in all Keyshia says she "gets it" and is ready to just make music and money.
Editor's Note: As much as I adore Keyshia and am happy to see her successful in both career and life in general, I think it is a mistake for her to assume the poor performance of her last album was based on the fact that the music was more upbeat and happy than it had been on previous records.
Happy, upbeat music can and does sale records. This is why Pop and Rock & Roll are such huge sellers. The content on Keyshia's last album wasn't the problem- it was the quality. The songs sounded thrown together- as if they were fillers left over from previous recording sessions.
Twitter is not the best place to get advice for one's upcoming record and sadly Keyshia is listening to what a few fans have to say via the social media outlet.
No matter how sad the songs, if there is not quality writing and production behind them, they will falter on the charts.
This is also where Keyshia can learn a lesson or two from Mary J. Blige, who refused to bow down to pressure to sing about a life she no longer lives. Blige said rather than sing inauthentic songs to her fans, she'd rather just step her game up.
The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul has spoken.
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Is Keyshia serious?
Beyonce's "4″ is one of my favorite albums of the year and "Love On Top" is my favorite off the album right now and I'm single and dating at the moment. SMH. "Love" is one of Keyshia's biggest hits she was NOT MARRIED when she recorded that song. Stop It.
This is why her album didn't sell. PPL see that she has a nasty attitude. And to think folks were saying she was the next MJB, gtfoh. That last album was trash, it wasn't the topic of the songs, like BS said, it was the quality!!!
You need to go find Manny, get a little more humble, strengthen that voice, improve your stage presence and concentrate on writing and recording good music cause. The End!!!
What happened to just making good music, she should just put to music were her life is right now. If you are in a happy place because your married new house with child, then get passionate about that and maybe somebody who is going through something may feel if you made it maybe I can too.
I thought her last album was great. It was much better than "A Different Me", now that album should have tanked because it was horrible. In an album you need happy music and a few songs that talk about how fed up a woman is with her man. Not every fan is happy or sad in a relationship, so you need both so they can relate. Anyway bump all this where is Monica..lol
Is she out of her mind?? I agree with the editor's note.Don't blame ur fans for the reason why your album failed.How about,make a good song,and then you won't have to worry about your album failing.If she is willing to make "more depressed,fed up…" music then she is not even being real to herself.
@BADGIRL23…..you're on point!
I think the above poster is right … She does not have the best personal rep. I think that's the same reason Jill Scott go not Grammy nods. They say she is nasty and difficult to deal with. That will hold you back.
I actually think that A Different Me was her best work. She had upbeat tempo songs like Please Don't Stop which was my favorite. Keyshia seems like she loses focus so easily. Once she got married and had the baby, the hunger went away.
just sayin
hmmm Keyshia i wouldn't do that if i were you. Like everyone else here said, i think it's the quality that everyone had a problem with, no the subject matter. You can make happy songs that your fans will love too
I agree and disagree with her, the man bashing, desperate, lonely, bitter ghetto songs made her famous , so obviously most of her fan base wouldn't appreciate her being in love and in a healthy relationsip, but keyshia is not making an effort at building a new fanbase , her songs are cheasy, and she doesn't seem to try anymore, like mary she needs to go back to the drawing board
Rotfl @ the mandatory beyonce plug in, you ppl deserve some type of award.


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We all knew Jon did what he did out of patriotic concerns. Unlike others, he did not need to steal others peoples ideas to carry it out. He did what he did because he cared, not because he could get away with it.
We all know that there are people that have done everything they can to ride on the back of Jons work, including everything up to, & including, trying to steal his very identity and his creation of Its Happening.com
Those are the snake oil salesmen......... here is the real deal:
Armchair warriors
Want to feel as though youre playing a role in the war on terror? Log on to ItsHappening.com and fire away.
"AAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'm addicted to chat! Oh no!!"
Though this cry of anguish did not come from me, it easily could have. For the past few months, Ive spent a good part of every day tippety-tapping a manic Morse code on my computer keyboard: refresh ... post ... refresh ... post ... refresh, refresh, refresh. My works becoming an annoying distraction. My girlfriend insists she can detect a glazed, Charles Mansonish look in my eyes. The other day, while visiting a friends house, I snuck away for a few minutes to engage in a quick online confab. Rude? Maybe. The thing is, I cannot help myself. Like Jim, the author of the above post, I am hooked on chat.
Actually, Jim and I are not so much hooked on chat as we are on a particular chat site: ItsHappening.com. More specifically, were hooked on the sites subject matter. ItsHappening bills itself as a "discussion board relating to current world affairs surrounding Islamic Jihad and the US-led war on terrorism." And this terrorism is what draws us in. Elemental, Axl, Roman Agenda, Professor, Winter, Stupid Guy, Bag Sniper, Lucifer, Debunker, Old Dutch, Jas2000, CentaurMyst, AJ Crowley, Allan Jennings, Hoodwinker, G-Nome, B.A.D., Jim, me, and the rest of the sites pseudonymous die-hards have one thing in common: we are Al Qaeda addicts, jihad junkies. Its a sickness.
Yet the question remains: why should we all be drawn so compulsively, so inexorably, to this particular site?
Nobody, even me, fully understands my obsession with this," writes the sites owner and operator, Jon Messner, in, appropriately, an e-mail interview. "As obsessed as I am, there are many others who quite literally live on the board." Hes not exaggerating. One recent evening, I left ItsHappening in the middle of a debate about Israels right to exist. When I turned my computer on the next morning, the same people were there, having the same debate theyd been at it all night. "ARGH," as Jim so succinctly puts it. "AAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"I am addicted to this site," Jim writes. "I feel like I personally know these people!" But Jim, like the rest of the ItsHappening crowd, does not go there to make friends. Despite the fact that youll find some light banter, and even flirting, on the site, it is not what youd necessarily call a friendly environment. "As a matter of fact," writes a recent poster in response to a perceived slight, "Ill give you a loaded gun which you can point at my head and before your pudgy little finger can depress that 4lb trigger Ill have your sorry ass on the ground upside down with both your gun and your arm shoved so far up your ass that youll blow your own fucking brains out."
Because ItsHappening is largely unmoderated, the site is raw, emotional, and often highly entertaining. It is also hugely popular. "[On] the slowest days the site gets between 5000 and 7000 visitors," Messner writes. "But when certain issues are prominent for example, when Dirty Bombs were in the news the spikes in traffic have gone as high as 70,000 visitors a day." Though many of these visitors take a quick look and then clear off, there are many who dont. On a good day, or a bad day, scores of us stick around to babble, lament, pontificate, browbeat, threaten.
ItsHappening is not so much a marketplace of ideas as it is a sprawling flea market. On any given day, the site will contain dozens of wildly disparate discussions or threads ranging from explorations of Americas reliance on Iraqi oil to debates over the existence of God. And then, of course, there are the rabid back-and-forth exchanges that everybody loves so much: "I am bring forth an army that loves death as much as you love life"; "You are fools to believe that all Americans love life more than death. That will be your undoing." This may be ugly stuff, but theres no doubting that it comes from the heart. In the ongoing public debate over Americas war on terror, ItsHappening is where the rubber meets the road.
"The site is something different," writes B.A.D., a long-time regular. "It is not just another conglomeration of articles through a media source, but rather real thoughts, from real people." More important, perhaps, those "real people" include me. In a conflict that often leaves ordinary citizens feeling powerless, theres something oddly reassuring about having a forum where you can chip in with your own two cents even if your audience is made up, in the words of one poster, of "250 armchair experts."
At the very least, when you post on ItsHappening, you can expect a diverse audience: bored housewives, old soldiers, policy wonks, professional wags, office laggards, sociopaths, and people claiming to be Islamic militants. Moreover, should you so desire, you can discuss Donald Rumsfelds obfuscation or Osama bin Ladens kidneys with people from all over the world: Messner has tracked users back to Italy, Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Botswana, Kirghizstan, Rwanda, Swaziland, Algeria, Ireland, Antarctica, Iran, Ghana, Lebanon, Guadeloupe, and a hundred other countries. Its not too rare to find an Al Qaeda sympathizer in Stockholm swapping insults with a true-blue patriot in Montana, with dramatic results.
"All supporters of jihad and terrorism will have your children feasted upon. Im blood thirsty and am ready to sink my knife into some towelhead motherfucker."
"And we are ready to sink our AKs into your ugly little coward faces. May the curse of God be upon you!"
Even though such outbursts are scorned by many of the sites faithful the above exchange was followed by a post asking, "Do you two want something to drink with that?" this stuff can get pretty bloodcurdling at times. As Messner puts it: "This is a unique forum in that you actually have the opportunity to dialogue one-on-one with someone whose passion in life is to see you dead, your society and culture destroyed. Every now and then, there is an exchange that gets scary, and one of the participants disappears. These people are playing for keeps here on both sides."
Hold on a minute: death? Destruction? Playing for keeps? Why dont we throw in a few aliens and some talking rabbits while were at it? Who knows, maybe the Abominable Snowman frequents the site from time to time. Actually, in fairness to Messner, he doesnt seem to be your average Internet conspiracy nut. In a profile aired earlier this year, CNN described the ItsHappening creator as a "Web warrior," and thats what he is. In the electronic front of the war on terror, Jon Messner is firmly entrenched on the frontlines.

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Therefore, brothers and sisters, you must be patient as you wait for the coming of the Lord.
Courageous patience
7 Therefore, brothers and sisters, you must be patient as you wait for the coming of the Lord. Consider the farmer who waits patiently for the coming of rain in the fall and spring, looking forward to the precious fruit of the earth. 8 You also must wait patiently, strengthening your resolve, because the coming of the Lord is near. 9 Don't complain about each other, brothers and sisters, so that you won't be judged. Look! The judge is standing at the door!
10 Brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of patient resolve and steadfastness.
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Bonus DVD includes stories and bonus features from the popular "Read and Share"TM "DVD Bible" series. Each story is three minutes long to keep toddlers attention span engaged.


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Yamamoto lost to
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in his debut match in the first match of a show in the Korakuen Hall. Initially Yamamoto worked low card matches for NJPW, normally on the losing side to gain ring experience. On December 27, 2003, Yamamoto lost to
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in a match where the winner would get a match on NJPW's most prestigious show, their
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. Yamamoto participated in the 2004 Young Lion Cup where he defeated
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, Aikya Anzawa, and Hiroshi Nagao to earn a total of six points, not enough to qualify for the finals. Yamamoto also participated in the 2005 Young Lion Cup where he only won one match, defeating
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. In 2006 Yamamoto participated in his first G1 Climax tournament, losing all four matches. Yamamoto teamed up with
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to compete in the 2006 G1 Climax Tag League, defeating Giant Bernard and
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to earn their sole victory in the tournament. On January 8, 2006, Yamamoto and
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Toru Yano
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and a returning
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. Over the summer of 2007 Yamamoto began teaming regularly with
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forming a team called "New Japan Dragons", earning a match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship against the then champions, Bernard and Tomko, albeit in a losing effort. For the 2007 G1 Climax Tag League Yamamoto teamed up with
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, while they defeated three teams (Hirooki Goto and Milano Collection A.T., Togi Makabe and Toru Yano, and Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko); the team ended up in last place. On November 2, 2007 Yamamoto wrestled his last match for NJPW, teaming with his mentor
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in a losing effort against Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano.
Developmental territory (2007–2009)
In late 2007 Yamamoto was signed by
World Wrestling Entertainment
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(WWE) to a full time contract, which meant that he had to relocate to the United States. He immediately was assigned to WWE's developmental territory
Florida Championship Wrestling
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(FCW), to undergo assessment and training in the "WWE Style" of wrestling. Initially he wrestled as Mr. Yamamoto, then simply as Yamamoto. He briefly teamed with Sheamus O'Shaunessy under the team name "the Movers and the Shakers". Later on he changed his ring name to Yoshitatsu, before tweaking the spelling to Yoshi Tatsu, the name he currently works under.
On June 30, 2009, Yamamoto joined the ECW
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under the ring name Yoshi Tatsu. He had his first match that night, defeating
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, although he lost a rematch to Benjamin on the July 9 episode of
. On the October 20 episode of
, Tatsu defeated
Zack Ryder
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to become number one contender for the ECW Championship, although he failed to win the championship the following week against
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. On the December 22 edition of
Yoshi Tatsu defeated Jack Swagger to earn a spot in the ECW Homecoming battle royal where the winner would challenge Christian for the ECW title at the
Royal Rumble
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. On the January 12 edition of
, however, Tatsu was not able to win the battle royal when he was eliminated by Kane. At the
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Tatsu competed in his first Royal Rumble match, but was eliminated by
John Cena
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. Tatsu then formed a tag team with Goldust and the duo became the number one contenders for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship but failed in capturing the titles on the final episode of
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brand on the February 22, 2010 edition of
, where he teamed up with Evan Bourne and
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to defeat
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Randy Orton
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Ted DiBiase
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, and Cody Rhodes), after Orton turned on his partners. Tatsu won a 26-Man
Battle Royal
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in the dark match to open
WrestleMania XXVI
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by last eliminating
Zack Ryder
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. In July 2010, Tatsu would be involved in a few backstage brawls with
The Nexus
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to try to help
John Cena
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get rid of them, which he failed to do. Yoshi then went to Japan to promote the new
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video game. After months of not appearing on WWE television, Tatsu returned on the November 11 episode of
WWE Superstars
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, defeating Zack Ryder. On the November 29 episode of
, Tatsu teamed with
Mark Henry
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to defeat
WWE Tag Team Champions
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Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater, after a distraction by John Cena. A week later, Tatsu and Henry received a shot at the titles in a Fatal-4-Way Elimination Tag Team match, which also included
The Usos
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and Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov. Tatsu and Henry were the first team eliminated in the match. On the February 14th edition of Raw, Maryse and DiBiase were about to kiss but instead Maryse kissed Tatsu. On the 24 February episode of Superstars during the match between
Daniel Bryan
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and Ted DiBiase, Yoshi Tatsu came out and gave Maryse flowers but Maryse hit DiBiase with the flowers before Bryan used the LeBell Lock on DiBiase, making him tap out allowing Bryan to win the match.
SmackDown and NXT (2011)
On April 26, Tatsu was drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2011 Supplemental Draft.
Tatsu was a WWE Pro for the fifth season of
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, also known as
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, with his rookie being Byron Saxton. On the April 26 episode of
, Tatsu was attacked by Saxton after Tatsu cost his match against Lucky Cannon. This would cause tension between the two until the May 17 episode of
, where Tatsu would defeat Saxton. On the May 31 episode of
, Saxton was the second rookie eliminated.
After Saxton's elimination, Tatsu began a feud with fellow NXT pro Tyson Kidd, whose rookie was also eliminated. Their feud stemmed from Kidd breaking Tatsu's toy figurine of himself and stealing one of the toy figurine's legs. Both wrestlers would trade wins during their series of matches, and Tatsu claimed back the stolen figurine leg by winning a Necklace on a Pole match on the July 26 edition of
. After the match, Kidd brutally assaulted the right leg of Tatsu, causing Tatsu to be absent from
for more than a month.
However, in the next few weeks, a mysterious Japanese symbol would appear on the TitanTron to distract Kidd during his matches. The symbol turned out to be the
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lettering for "
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" – a message from Tatsu. Tatsu returned on the September 6th episode of
, where he debuted black tights emblazoned with Kanji characters and the Japanese flag, had his small lock of blond hair dyed red and had half his face painted. Tatsu would go on to defeat Kidd on that episode to end the feud. Tatsu later explained that his new look and wrestling style was due to him wanting to better portray
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, Japanese pride and the aggressive style of Japanese wrestling; he also explained that his face paint was a tribute to
the Great Muta
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As Tatsu, Yamamoto is featured as a playable superstar for the
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video games. He was previously featured in
King of Colosseum II
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Wrestle Kingdom 2
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under his real name.
Personal life
Yamamoto is a graduate from
Kokushikan University
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with a degree in
political studies
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In wrestling
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Wit: Voltaire and Frederick the Great
Voltaire and Frederick the Great were friends and conversed in French, as all European aristocrats did at the time. And they were witty.
One day, Frederick invited Voltaire to come join him at his castle, Sanssouci, in Potsdam, by writing the following note (Caution: This may not display properly in an RSS reader):
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venez sans
Voltaire did not miss a beat and replied with his own note:
G a
And they both began to look forward to their next meeting!
Voltaire immediately understood Frederick's note to mean "venez souper à Sanssouci"–ie, come dine at Sanssouci. The word venez is "sous" (under) the letter p. The word sans is "sous" the word ci.
So he replied by saying J'ai grand appétit: Capital G = "Gé grand"; lower-case a = "a petit".
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OMG, that's funny! I wonder if Voltaire went so far as to LOL. I think I'm out of my depth, again. I'm going to go back to watching cat videos on youtube. (no, I've never texted, either). Sarcasm is not only a low form of humor, it is also a manifestation of one's insecurity.
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I think Voltaire also said, in his reply
ASince he had grand appetit it would have to be à grand souper
PS LOL in French is sometimes shown as "mdr" – mourir de rire, but I think most French speakers go for LOL these days…..
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Fixed the highjumping crew bailout,Added proper missiles and sounds for the ATGM system.
I have totally forgotten everything I learned from Arma 1 addon making... so this pack has some issues with ArmaII.Not to mention I didn't have the tools.
First thing is the rvmat problems that make it dependent on the tracked.pbo.The only way I could get around this was to add them into the tracked.pbo package.All you do is de-pbo the tracked.pbo and add the included rvmats to the data\detailmappy directory.If you DON'T do this, what will happen is the game will nag you about it on startup and the textures will be flat/matt without the ArmaII "shinyness"(no biggy really but I personally like the shiny textures better).I also couldn't find a missing rvmat for the helmuts sitting on the tanks fenders...so it will nag also if choosing a tank with extra details on it.
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If stuttering uhh, uhh, uhh counts as points them Obama won by a mile.
What you can't face is that Obama off the teleprompter is a terrible speaker. I also think he is a lazy president. The foreign policy debate will be interesting.
As far as your bull and matador analogy; sometimes the matador gets the horn,
especially the inexperienced one.
Such petty right-wing talking points.
BTW, the bull analogy was not mine, it came from the Denver Post and I think it appropriately assigns the role of the bull to Romney, who proved he was full of BS as usual with his lies.
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It's raining here in Austin today and that keeps me from doing some fun stuff, which is to stay keeps me from eating at a lot of food trucks, as opposed to a few, and keeps me from walking Sixth Street and taking in a lot of the other visual treats on the empty campus in the city that is so proud of the fact it is so weird.
That got me thinking — and this is what happens when I'm cooped up for a while.
Though I'd never compare myself to a basketball player, I do know those guys are sequestered today until they head to the arena two or so hours before the 8 p.m. CST game. That's not fun. And that's not the end of the late-start road games. This is just the beginning of that, as well as the eventually ruthless road trips.
Again, not a player, don't play one in this space, but, man, that gets old after a while … and this is going to be going on for WVU for a while. And hasn't WVU battled and lost to indifference throughout this season?
There's a lot to manage and endure and, really, there isn't much of a blueprint to unroll and study. Everything is new in this inaugural Big 12 season, even for a veteran like Bob Huggins who, we sometimes forget, has a Big 12 season on his resume.
"I honestly haven't been through this," he said. "I was in Kansas. We were basically an hour (flight) from everybody. I've never been through this before, this kind of travel on a day-to-day basis."
WVU (7-6, 0-1 Big 12) makes the first of nine conference road trips and the final non-conference road trip today when it travels to Austin, Texas, for Wednesday's 9 p.m. ESPN2 game against the Texas Longhorns (8-5, 0-1). The Mountaineers will take charter flights to each, but the closest trip is more than 850 miles to Ames, Iowa, and that Iowa State game is part of a potentially difficult sequence.
"Don't get me wrong, we've done it before," Huggins said. "In non-conference games at Cincinnati, we played everybody. We played Washington. We played Southern Cal. We played all those people, but it wasn't like one at home, travel four hours, come back and play at home and then travel four hours. I've never done that."


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A third suspect was arrested Wednesday in the double homicide that occurred Monday in Houston County.
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Evans is being held without bond in the Houston County Law Enforcement Center.
On Tuesday, Houston County Sheriff's investigators arrested Thomas Kelley and Coleman Crouch in connection with the murders of two people Monday in a home on Chadwick Road.
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Running From The Bulls
And these guys do this on purpose.
And these guys do this on purpose.
The white suits are actually meant to mean surrender, but why the hell would a bull care about that.
I want to go to Spain, get hammered, and possibly get gored on my next vacation.
A near hit.
Tossed by bull.
They dont like it when you do that.
Bull takes on two guys.
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I am making a credenza out of curly maple for a friend. The maple, is expensive but oh so spectacular! I want to put a finish on the credenza that is worthy of the wood, but so far my efforts have produced dissappointing results.
On scraps from cut-offs I have: 1) sanded to 220 grit; 2) applied Zinsser Bulls Eye Seal coat: 3) applied TransTint dye ("vintage Maple" a lighter color); 4) sanded to 1000 grit; and 5) applied Watco "Danish oil" (Natural color).
The end grain sucked up the dye, but so did the rest of the surface. Sanding has not made lighter appreciably the surface between the end grain.
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Round Barn with Tree HousePosted Friday, March 16, 2012, at 12:00 AM Ray Owen wrote about the barn in this story published in the Southeast Missourian on April 11, 2002: No corners for goblins No one is quite certain where the idea of the round barn originated. Some say the round structures were created to keep the devil from hiding in the corner. Old-timers say the advantage of a round barn was that goblins and spooks couldn't hide in the corners. Other benefits of round barns include the inexpensive construction cost because of the use of less lumber and better insulation against the elements. Round barns have always been a rarity, but they did flourish during the late 1800s. Round barns could be found everywhere, even in Cape Girardeau, where two of the architectural gems were built almost side-by-side. They were thought to be built around 1919 on adjoining farms along South Sprigg Street. One of the barns was destroyed by fire in 1929. At the time it was owned by Giboney Houck. The second round barn, which was razed about 1982, was originally on the Anna Kay Farm, which later became the Campbell Farm. The latter barn, built on a concrete base, included a silo in the middle of the barn where food was dispensed to livestock inside the barn. The barn, red in color, was featured in a recent "Faces & Places" of the Southeast Missourian. "I can't understand why the old red round barn on South Sprigg was razed," says Tom Giles of Cape Girardeau. "To this day, I smile when I pass the former site of the barn as I am reminded of the time-worn joke we told all the kids." The joke concerned a farmer's horse, or maybe it was the farmer, who went crazy in the barn, looking for a corner. "The old red barn was a piece of craftsmanship, from the inside out," said Jeannie Troy, who had an opportunity to see the inside of the structure. "There were few, if any, like it in the area," said Troy. "It must have been quite a source of pride for the owner. There was a circular rail suspended from the roof that allowed farmers to convey hay bales or any heavy object all around the barn. I recall hearing my father relate an old joke about the barn. It involved a hired hand who went crazy trying to find a corner." Sadly, the barn no longer stands. "It was taken down a few years ago," said Dave Burger, who farmed the land for more than 20 years. Dwight Taylor, another farmer who farmed the land for a while, said he used the barn for cows and horses when he lived there. "They had wedge-shaped stalls," said Taylor. John Freeze of Cape Girardeau remembers the old barn. "My dad may have helped build it," said Freeze. "We could never find out who the builders were." Round barns are a novelty, and not many remain today. One architect said that to achieve its circular shape, the wood siding had to be cut green and bent in large presses. Most of the round barns were built of wood, but a few were constructed of brick. The roof was usually the first to deteriorate. The roof of the barn here was filled with holes and decay. The lower part of the round barn was used to house the livestock -- horses, cattle, hogs -- said Taylor and Burger. Circular barns ranging from 60 to 90 feet in diameter were practical; they could accommodate as many as 100 dairy cows with space to spare. In fact, cows were one of the driving factors behind the origin of the round-barn, according to some sources. In the book "Stories from the Round Barn" by Jackie Dougan Jackson, it says that "an aerial view of a cow shows it to be wedge-shaped and therefore arranging these wedges around a circle represents the most efficient use of space." Other benefits of round barns included the inexpensive construction cost because of the use of less lumber and better insulation against the elements. Round barns have always been a rarity. According to Jackson's book, reasons for this are unclear, but may include the slow development of the self-supporting ceiling and the difficulty in enlarging the structure for expanded use. There are only 153 round barns listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but there are many barns, not on the registry. Meanwhile, the round barn continues to be an appealing landmark for artists, photographers, history buffs and curiosity seekers. Previous blogs: Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] The tree house wasn't there when I shot the round barn in 1966. http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-phot... -- Posted by Ken1 on Fri, Mar 16, 2012, at 8:49 AM
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A small natural rock arch graces the belay at the top of this route. You can easily walk off this route to the right (NNE - or on to set a toprope). A decent route too, an optional nut placement just off the deck leads to the first bolt. From here either climb the groove to the left or the fin to the right of the bolts. You'll find a very easy 15-20 foot runout from the last bolt to the anchor.
Optional small not prior to first bolt, five bolts, and two bolt anchor.
Extremely dirty up at the top. I can't trust any of that rock.
Be careful on the walk-off. There are many loose blocks in the slot to the NNE... One star for the cool arch. No more because of the uncomfortable belay stance and loose rock.
This route is easy to find if you simply make a right turn as soon as you arrive at the Monastery. Unfortunately we didn't make it so easy on ourselves and tried to approach from the bottom of the Outer gates. Got the grand tour of many gullies. the route itself is "ok". First bolt a little high, but easy rock. After that a bit of variety. For more fun try going straight up the fin rather than working left or right.
Was looking for something easyish without pebble pinching slab climbing, and this served quite nice. Interesting stemming near the last bolt into some loosey choss, but it's easy there. Worth doing just to check out the cool arch. Seemed a touch hard for 5.6, but maybe I tried to make it challenging.
Great climb in a great area. I didn't see any problems with loose rock at the top, and I thought the bolts up top set up a great belay stance. I give this route two stars, one for the climbing and one for the arch and belay set-up at the top.
Good climb. We used the optional nut before the first bolt and that was nice. If you climb the groove to the left of the bolts I think it felt pretty 5.6ish, the bear hug to the right of the bolts had a few 5.7 moves maybe. Fun either way.
Cool because of the arch. Not cool because the tree is all up in your business while belaying from the base.


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What is the purpose of the new drive? Is the old one failing? General slow down? More storage? If it is generally slow, you can always format the computer, While bit rot is not as big of problem on OSX it still is a problem. A new faster drive is always nice too. Know that SATA 6 drives will work in SATA 3 computers, also you will still see a fairly large performance increase (Depends what he does with it) going from any HD to any SSD. Know that SSD's do vary in speed a ton. The decision to go to SSD or not I think will mostly depend on how much stuff he stores/wants to store and how much you want to spend. I am guessing he is in collage or late High school and if he is like most kids in this age group, they have a ton of music, and lots of photos, so things might get a little squeezed if you go with a reasonably priced ssd. Vague questions receive vague answers . . . . . .
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At Wharton, we're committed to you as an individual. Our large community includes students of many backgrounds, including married students, parents, international students, women, and members of traditionally underrepresented populations. The exchange of ideas among students and faculty from different backgrounds and perspectives creates a powerful environment for learning and leadership development. At Wharton, diversity is not defined by geography, gender or professional background, but in the ways in which life experiences have shaped the members of our class.
Whatever your background or lifestyle, you'll find the support you need at Wharton and at Penn. Cultural and affinity organizations like the African American MBA Association, Greater China Club, and Out4Biz (the gay and lesbian student association) nurture an appreciation for diverse cultures while providing a community for students who share similar backgrounds and interests.
Explore Wharton is a very special two-day event in Philadelphia at the Wharton School. This two-day event focuses on Wharton MBA opportunities for prospective women, LGBT, and under-represented racial/ethnic groups.


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Trailer Model Hoof Trimming Chute
In the hoof trimming industry, it is very important to have your tools close at hand, and easy to access. For that reason, we've added a compartment to house your tools, medication, blocks, wraps, and so forth. Both models include hydraulically-controlled outriggers to aid in stabilizing the unit and come standard with a fence designed to protect both the equipment, and the cattle..
- Hydraulic Station for ease of operation.
- Tandem Axle Trailers come with brakes and lights that hook up and detach in less than five minutes.
- Front door can be hydraulically opened and closed for ease of operation, and to make a smooth exit for the animal.
- All hydraulic control valves are situated by the back door and control five different aspects of the machinery including: Station, front door, belly bands, chute layover, and outriggers. These operations can be handled by one man in one spot independently.
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Subject: [AR-ROLLCALL] Franklin and Randolph Co.-SHELTON,WHITE,SATTERFIELD,KARNES,MERIDITH.
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:51:30 EST
Surnames I am looking for:
Franklin County
John SHELTON and wife Mary (Satterfield) SHELTON
1.) Clarence Ephrin SHELTON born 1877 in Franklin Co, Ark. died 1951 in
Greene Co. Ark. wife Martha (White) SHELTON
2.) Alvin SHELTON
3.) Laura (Boles) SHELTON
Randolph County
Joseph Edward KARNES / wife Martha (Meridith) KARNES
Gordon M. KARNES / wife Martha Ann (Kirk) KARNES
Mike KARNES / wife Frankie (Caldwell) KARNES
Charlie MERIDITH / wife Lettie (Crays) MERIDITH
Thank You!
Larry Shelton
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Cubs Depth ChartCubs 40-Man Roster InfoMLB Rules Info
++++++++++++++ 39 players (plus one contract pending)
* bats or throws left # bats both
PITCHERS (20) Jake Arrieta Dallas Beeler Alberto Cabrera Kyuji Fujikawa Justin Grimm Liam Hendriks Edwin Jackson Blake Parker * Brooks Raley Neil Ramirez Hector Rondon * Zac Rosscup * Chris Rusin * James Russell Jeff Samardzija Pedro Strop Carlos Villanueva Arodys Vizcaino * Travis Wood * Wesley Wright
CATCHERS (2): Welington Castillo * George Kottaras
INFIELDERS (10): # Arismendy Alcantara Darwin Barney Starlin Castro Donnie Murphy Mike Olt * Anthony Rizzo * Luis Valbuena Christian Villanueva Josh Vitters * Logan Watkins
OUTFIELDERS (7): * Brett Jackson Junior Lake Justin Ruggiano * Nate Schierholtz Jorge Soler * Ryan Sweeney Matt Szczur
CONTRACT PENDING (1): Jose Veras, P
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The Cubs have sent RHP Casey Weathers outright to AAA Iowa.
Alfonso Soriano homered twice and Brett Jackson whacked a three-run home run, leading the Cubs to an 11-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies in Cactus League action at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park in warm, sunny, and windy (sometimes VERY windy) Mesa, AZ, this afternoon.
The Cubs have optioned Tyler Colvin and Marcus Mateo to Triple A and called up lefty Scott Maine and speedster Tony Campana.
Maine was sporting a 2.84 ERA in Iowa, striking out 21 in 19 IP, while walking just 8. Hard to imagine he'll be any worse than what he is replacing.
Campana was sporting a good luck line of 342/383/442 in Iowa earning his promotion. I wish him well, but he'll be hard pressed to find enogh playing time and such good luck in the majors(.423 BABIP in Iowa this season). He does bring speed with him, being successful in 8 of 9 stolen base attempts this year and 144/186 for his minor league career (77.2%). Of course, Yadier Molina wasn't playing in those leagues during the same time, so he probably won't see that success translate either.
Colvin did need to start getting some regular at-bats, although it's hard to figure out why he can't get them over Fukudome, Byrd or Soriano. For a team that already hits plenty of singles without walking much and in desperate need of some power, Colvin seemed closer to a cure than Campana, but neither will be effective without regular use.
It's also of note, as mentioned in the comments, that the Cubs are about to begin interleague play at American League parks starting off at Boston this Friday. Barring injury, Colvin cannot be recalled now for 10 days, leaving the Cubs DH options Reed Johnson, Castillo, DeWitt, Campana and Baker or more likely one of those play the field while the likes of Ramirez, Soriano and so forth get a defensive rest day. It's foresight like that keeps a century-plus losing streak alive.
Anyway, the appropriate deck chairs have been moved on this Titanic. May the disaster continue...
It's your first start of the season, chance to impress the manager and the fans...Cubs need a pick-me up. Tommy Hanson, ace-in-training on the mound just struck out the side in the first. He unleashes a 95 mph fastball down the middle of the plate, might be the best pitch you see the entire at-bat. You calmly let it go for strike one. Bravo. Make him think you know something. Next pitch is another fastball but Hanson misses well inside. 1-1 now, and Hanson mixes it up with a slider but it's outside. A hitter's count and you know the fastball is probably coming. The catcher sets up away and Hanson rears back and fires. He misses his target...badly, ball is right in the lefty sweet spot down and low. You bring the hands in, uncoil the swing and *crack*, you know you hit it good. You're a rookie though, put your head down and start running. A muffled cheer and the ump twirls his finger, time to break out the home run trot but don't show up anybody or you'll get one in the ear next time.
Jesus Heyward ain't got nothing on you Tyler Colvin...well other than probably having a much better major league career. As for rookie theatrics, you're neck and neck.
Ryan Theriot had three hits, and Marlon Byrd, Mike Fontenot, and Jeff Baker mashed home runs, leading the Cubs to an 8-1 victory over Dusty Baker's Cincinnati Reds at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park under mostly cloudy skies in warm Mesa, AZ.
Tyler Colvin went 4-5 with two singles, an RBI triple, and a solo home run, but it wasn't enough, as the Cubs and the San Diego Padres played to a 2-2 tie in front of a Cactus League record crowd of 13,462 at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park this afternoon in sunny Mesa, AZ.
Derrek Lee crushed a two-run double, Aramis Ramirez and Tyler Colvin had two hits a piece (and Colvin also stole a base and scored two runs), and Ryan Dempster threw five innings of shutout ball before tiring in the 6th, as the Cubs and Royals played to a 5-5 tie in Cactus League action at Surprise Stadium this afternoon.
Bryan Lahair cranked a three-run homer to tie the game and then later doubled and scored, leading the Cubs to an 11-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in Cactus League action at sunnny and warm Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park in Mesa this afternoon, in what was the first-ever appearance by the Reds at HoHoKam Park. (The Reds relocated their Spring Training camp from Sarasota, FL to Goodyear, AZ this year).
Brad Snyder crushed a game-winning two-run double off the CF Batter's Eye in the bottom of the 9th, scoring Bobby Scales from second base with the tying run and Sam Fuld from first with the winning run, as the Cubs edged the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-7 in Cactus League action in front of 11,775 fans under sunny skies (65 degrees) at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park in Mesa this afternoon.
Tyler Colvin went 3-3 with two doubles and a solo HR, Derrek Lee and Marlon Byrd singled and homered, Sam Fuld blasted a two-run home run, Brad Snyder ripped a 450+ foot solo HR, Kosuke Fukudome doubled and singled, Starlin Castro tripled, and five Cubs pitchers combined to throw a three-hitter, as the Cubs drubbed the Oakland A's 9-3 in front of 7,496 fans at the 2010 Cubs Cactus League Opener at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park in sunny & breezy Mesa this afternoon.
box score
Here are my "2010 Cubs Top 15 Prospects."
If there's anything good about this Milton Bradley suspension other than not having to read about the last idiotic thing Milton said, is that the Cubs are calling up Tyler Colvin. Well it would be good if Lou Piniella wasn't managing, because then he would just play Sam Fuld, Jake Fox or Micah Hoffpauir and Tyler Colvin the rest of the season with a few at-bats for Kosuke Fukudome sprinkled in, but instead I imagine it'll be more Scales, Fuld and Fukudome than anything else and that makes me want to throw a brick at the TV screen. And let's say I wouldn't be all to upset if that brick magically traveled through that TV screen and knocked some sense back into Lou.
For those that might have missed the former #1 picks career arc, he was a suprise first round pick at #13 in 2006. There were reports later that some teams were thinking about taking him later in the first round, so there's no way he would have lasted to the Cubs next pick in the 5th round and then the Cubs picked up a first round talent in Jeff Samardzija who slipped because of his football committment at the time. Then the Cubs ruined it all by giving Samardzija a major league contract but that's for another time.
Colvin then had some decent seasons in Boise and Daytona in 2006 and 2007 but struggled badly in 2008 in Double A. Ended up that he had a bum elbow and went under the knife for Tommy John Surgery at the end of last year after trying to play in the Arizona Fall League. He was ready by the start of this year, but just in DH capacity and started the year off in Daytona. Once the Cubs felt he was healed up, they brought him back to Tennessee for his second tour and in half a season he put up a .859 OPS in what is normally considered a pitcher's league with 35 XBH's and earned Southern League player of the week twice in August. He still strikes out at a Mark Reynolds rate with no walks or patience to offset that, so let's just say I'm not on the edge of my seat, but I'd like to see the kid get plenty of opportunties to play the rest of the way.
You may have come across the news that Tyler Colvin had left the Arizona Fall League due to an elbow injury. Supposedly it was something that was troubling him for much of the 2008 season and according to our pals at Inside the Ivy, Colvin did undergo Tommy John Surgery on Sunday. The procedure has become rather common place these days and Colvin should be back for a good portion of the 2009 season although it's likely he'll start out in extended spring training in Arizona before being assigned to a minor league affiliate.
That does take him off as a potential trading chip this offseason, although his .736 OPS in AA probably already took care of that.
Tentative rosters for the 2008 Arizona Fall League (AFL) were announced yesterday (they are incomplete and also subject to change), and six of the seven Cubs prospects who will be playing for the Mesa Solar Sox this fall have been named:
doug drabek is their pitching coach...and 34 year old jr house is the manager.
i still miss mark behind the mic during late-night ARZ broadcasts...hokey as hell, but fun if you're into his schtick.
Generally true, but this Mark Simon guy was tweeting about it during the year: https://twitter.com/msimonespn/status/333961801937...
Mark Grace has been named the hitting coach for the Class A Hillsboro Hops (D-Backs Northwest League affiliate).
The article says it's a proprietary stat so I don't think we, the general public, have access to it. Which is kinda cool. I wonder what else they have??
Somebody posted a similar article about Rizzo early last season, and it seems like he was having similar issues. At the time, Rizzo was also leading the league in percentage of balls in play registered as well-hit by whoever was keeping track of that. Don't know where he was at season's end, because I can't seem to track those stats down.
That was a great article indeed. I didn't know about the actual existence of the Well Hit statistic but I figured there had to be one. His slump still sounded awful though as he apparently couldn't leg anything out AND didn't have any Well Hit AB's for a month - not sure how that is auspicious. But the overall trend of his Well Hit avg seems pretty good and well above replacement.
that's a nifty little article....
A reason to this Ruggiano will have a bounce back year in 2014.
I demand a refund!
and the answer is no...back to the land of support tickets I go
is commenting working any better? They were saving but returning an error message?
I'm thinking Castro should start hoarding his money in the US.
Cubs still signed LHP Jonathan Sanchez to a minor league deal (as a reliever), LHP Tsuyoshi Wada (as a starter), LHP Tim Hottovy and OF Mitch Maier to minor league deals.
The post is still awesome Tim, especially the Bud Light lyrics.
Twins to sign Kurt Suzuki. So we've got one lesss-crappy catcher to worry about.
And we're back...today's fun was all our hosts fault. They had to restore from a backup from this morning so some things were lost. Apologies to all...