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Sensei, aishite imasu
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Battle: Los Angeles
Aliens invade Los Angeles and it's up to the MARINES to stop them.
After the cluster fuck that was Terminator Salvation, and the not really a clusterfuck but not really focused on war Dances with Smurfs, it's good to see a sci-fi war movie.
|2010-11-13, 07:46
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While there have been many movies featuring the (US) military vs aliens, this is probably one of the few, if not the first in my experience that totally looks at the grunt angle of the battle on the ground-pounding frontlines. And this time it's US Marines vs aliens, not Space Marines
Totally on my list of must-see movies next year.
|2010-11-13, 07:55
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Therer are so much movies like that these days , not that i'm complaining , on the contrary i like those kind of movies ! Apocalyspe now
The trailer looks awesome with the bgm.
So it doesn't only happens in Los Angeles but the movie will focus there.
My first opinion was : Terminator Alien?
|2010-11-13, 12:44
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...Oh, yeah. I might actually go and watch this one...and that's coming from someone who seldom goes to the theaters nowadays.
BTW, were those biomechanical aliens? That's a welcome change from all those extraterrestrials going commando in our (potentially) biologically hostile world...the humanoid design kind of reminds me of Crysis 2 (vaguely, I must amend), truth be said.
...Strangely, I am not really surprised to see Michelle Rodriguez in this film. XD
|2010-11-13, 14:52
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Looks interesting.
The main thing all these "Aliens invade earth!" movies miss, is that they can simply drop rocks from the sky and destroy all of Earth's infrastructure. They don't need to land or even come into our atmosphere, until everything is rubble. Of course, that's assuming they don't have better weapons they could use from orbit.
So the meteor parts in the trailer look decent enough.
|2010-11-13, 15:33
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Exitus Acta Probat
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Anyway, we'll have to wait for the movie to see how exactly they're carrying out the assault, if they did something preemptive (like zapping out all comm. satellites out of orbit) to destabilize our civilization or if they are just content with their rendition of the D-Day landing, preceded by Shock & Awe-type surgical air strikes to prepare the terrain.
|2010-11-13, 15:50
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Carefully optimistic. As usual I love the concept, but it usually devolves into "OMG VISUALS! POPCORN BLOCKBUSTER" like most Hollywood action/military/apoc movies. Not that it's a bad thing, but... Yea. If user reviews gets better than Skyline, I'm in.
|2010-11-13, 16:08
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Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
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And you're not really preserving the local infer structure much better after having thousands of ground troops fighting over it with heavy weapons.
|2010-11-13, 17:10
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I wonder...what's bound to create more destruction and damage the said infrastructure - a massive colony drop whose impact and surface shockwaves can make everything collapse or turn to shrapnel in a wide radius...or the use of ground troops that can actually clear buildings in a relatively meticulous fashion? We don't even know if they have anything as big to throw at us (a nearby asteroid towed towards Earth's immediate vicinity for this very purpose) or if they can afford using one of their own space vessels for the orbital bombardment.
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|2010-11-13, 18:41
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Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong Shatterdome
Most militaries don't deal with heavily fortified hostile buildings by sending infantry into it to clear it room to room. Their usual response if they know it's heavily fortified is to blast it to hell with artillery and air strikes in coordination and support of infantry attacks. Those infantry assault troops will often use indiscriminate weapons themselves, like rockets and demolition charges.
Pretty soon that city you wanted intact isn't looking to hot.
But what the hell. This movie looks awesome.
|2010-11-13, 18:57
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I heard about this film awhile back.
Looks really good.
Supposedly it is loosely based on actual events (though not an alien invasion) of the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles.
BTW, thank you for the trailer Roger Rambo it is much appreciated.
|2010-11-13, 19:10
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Talk about a long wait eh?
|2010-11-14, 11:39
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Raw resources - we have quite a few, but nothing that can't be gained elsewhere. Hell, mining the asteroid belt would provide more. Dropping rocks on Earth is a nice way to reduce the human population and render it not a threat, thus allowing access to our resources.
Water - We have plenty, but again, you can get water elsewhere
A place to live - One of the more viable reasons for aliens invading, although that would mean the aliens are similar to us biologically speaking, which are fairly long odds. Dropping rocks gets most of the humans out of the way, and you can build up your infrastructure mostly unopposed then.
Food - Assuming they want to munch on our flora and fauna (and possibly us), dropping rocks wouldn't be too great an idea, but you could still land a few on the major threat areas, and leave plenty of wildlife and humans around. Humanity can also breed like rabbits, so we'll populate once again, providing a steady food supply.
Assholes - we got unlucky and the aliens are just douchebags, killing us off for fun, and to make sure we never grow up to be an intergalactic threat. Actually probably the most plausible reason for alien invasion. It's often been speculated that an alien species might decide to just wipe out other intelligent life so they'd be the only game in town; thus acting pretty much like gods.
In most cases, aliens can get what they need elsewhere; Earth provides very little, other than real estate and perhaps food. But it's fairly long odds of a species being close enough to us that would need either of those things.
|2010-11-16, 19:11
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Sensei, aishite imasu
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Neat interactive map.
Assuming those are alien landing zones...we're pretty screwed.
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Also Monday, the Denton Faith Alliance will be leading a community service project at the Fred Moore Day Nursery School. The nursery and day school is the sole sliding-scale child care center in Denton.
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The alliance is also working to raise $5,000 to buy groundcover for the playground and new equipment and supplies for the school. Donations can be made directly to the Fred Moore Day Nursery School, 821 Cross Timber St., Denton, TX 76205.
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Every January 25, traditional Burns' Night Suppers take place all over Scotland and in the homes of ex-pats.You may even find a Supper in your city.
What's involved? Read on...
Individual celebrations vary, but guests are usually welcomed by kilted pipers and the haggis, the centerpiece of the dinner, is also bagpiped into the room. Before dinner, Burns' Selkirk Grace is recited:
"Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit."
There are official readings, including the Address to a Haggis, which ends with the reader dramatically stabbing the haggis and the sausagey innards spurting out, and then a toast to it.
An invited speaker gives the Immortal Memory, a speech celebrating the life and work of Robert Burns. Others give an address to the men and then the women present, which is often includes a humorous jab at the opposite sex while complimenting their virtues.
Musical entertainment is an important part of the evening, and of course traditional foods - soup, cheeses, haggis and mashed turnips (neeps) and potatoes (tatties), then trifle or fruit pudding - are served and whisky, beer, and wine flow liberally.
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As everyday impurities find their way into our bodies, we may be left feeling tired or out of balance. Yogi DeTox is a gentle way to help the body cleanse itself by aiding the two primary filtering organs, the liver and kidneys. Our tea uses the time-honored purifying herbs Burdock and Organic Dandelion to support the liver, and Juniper Berry to promote kidney function. The traditional Ayurvedic cleansing blend called "trikatu" (Ginger, Black Pepper, and Long Pepper) supports blood flow, while Indian Sarsaparilla adds spicy flavor. When combined with an overall wellness program, DeTox helps bring healthy balance from within.
Brewing Directions
Get The Most Out of Every Cup:Bring water to boiling and steep 5 to 10 minutes. For a stronger tea, use 2 tea bags. Drink 1 to 3 cups anytime during the day, up to 10 tea bags a day. DeTox can be used everyday for up to 30 days. Pause up to 1 week before resuming.
Indian Sarsaparilla Root: Traditionally used as one of the herbs that gives the delicious taste to root beer, Indian Sarsaparilla Root has also been used medicinally as a "spring tonic" for its detoxifying features. Sarsaparilla contains plant hormones that are throught by herbalists to support and balance "heat" in the body.
Cinnamon Bark: Cinnamon Bark comes from a small evergreen tree that is native to Sri Lanka. Cinnamon is a pungent, sweet and hot spice that can warm and invigorates the body and support function of the respiratory and digestive systems. It can also help to promote circulation to the joints and support immune function.
Ginger Root: Ginger Root, the underground stem, or rhizome, of the plant Zingiber officinale, has been used in many herbal traditions since ancient times. In Ayurveda, ginger is known as the wonder herb, and it's no wonder, since Ayurveda uses ginger for a wide variety of conditions, including supporting digestion. Historically, ginger root was one of the most respected herbs for supporting joint health. Ginger has also been traditionally used to support healthy peripheral circulation, so it can help warm up cold hands and feet, and will also promote sweating when that is needed.
Licorice Root: Licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) is a flavorful, sweet herb that has been used for thousands of years and is still one of the most widely used herbs in all herbal systems. Licorice has been used traditionally to support the skin and the liver. It also is thought by herbalists to help soothe indigestion and the throat.
Burdock Root: Burdock Root - a member of the daisy family that originated in Eurasia - is now firmly established as a naturalized plant in North America. Herbalists value burdock for helping to detoxify the liver. The root is served as a food in Japan, where it is known as gobo. Resembling a long brown carrot, burdock can be prepared in the same way you might enjoy a carrot, such as fresh juice or in a stir-fry dish.
Dandelion Root: The root of a plant that many see as a pesky yard weed is a celebrated liver cleanser in the world of herbal medicine. Dandelion root has been traditionally used to support the liver, which in turn can support the skin.
Cardamom Seed: Cardamom seed is a uniquely flavored culinary herb in the ginger family. But cardamom seed is more than its delicious flavor. This herb is warming and has been traditionally used to support healthy stomach and digestive function as well as the respiratory system.
Clove Bud: Clove Buds are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the Myrtle family. The English name clove derives from Latin clavus (nail), as the shape of the buds resembles small nails. Clove bud is widely used as a spice in ancient Asian herbal traditions. With a warming quality, clove supports circulation and digestion.
Black Pepper: Not only is Black Pepper one of the most widely used culinary spices in the world, it also has a long history of use in traditional herbal medicine. A spicy herb that can help support digestion, it also supplies antioxidants, which can help to reduce free radicals. As a diuretic, black pepper can support water balance in the body.
Long Pepper Berry: Long Pepper Berry (Sanskrit pippali) is a peppercorn approximately one to two inches in length that is used in Ayurvedic and Chinese herbalism. Ayurveda considers pippali to help cleanse the blood. It is also renowned as a beneficial herb for supporting the digestive and respiratory systems.
Chinese Amur Cork Tree Bark: Chinese Amur Cork Tree Bark, called Huang Bai in China, is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs. It includes berberine, a natural chemical that makes the herb appear yellow. Traditionally used primarily to reduce "heat energy" in the body, this herb is also used to support bowel, vaginal and urinary function, and can help support healthy joints.
Japanese Honeysuckle Flower: Japanese Honeysuckle is a species of honeysuckle native to eastern Asia. Highly valued in Traditional Chinese medicine, where it is known as ren dong teng ("winter enduring vine") this cooling herb is used to help balance excessive heat in the throat and support the lungs. It is also used as an overall support to the immune system.
Forsythia Fruit: Forsythia fruit is the dried seed pod of Forsythia suspensa, a lovely bright yellow flowering bush that is among the first spring blooms in many northern climates. Native to China, forsythia fruit is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for detoxifying. Because of its detoxifying qualities, forsythia fruit often finds its way into TCM formulas to support the kidneys and skin.
Gardenia Fruit: Gardenias were originally found only in China and Japan, but today there are over 200 different species of gardenia, mostly hybrids, throughout the world. Gardenia fruit is used extensively in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), where it is known as zhi zi. TCM uses gardenia primarily to promote calm, but it is also used to support bladder and urinary tract health.
Chinese Goldenthread Root: Chinese Goldenthread Root is one of the coldest and bitterest herbs used in Chinese medicine. Goldenthread is a close relative of an extremely bitter and very useful American herb, the well-known goldenseal. In Chinese medicine, goldenthread is used to promote a calm mood and to support sleep.
Rhubarb Root: Rhubarb Root (Rheum palmatum) is a cold herb that is traditionally used to support bowel elimination. It has been used as a detoxifying herb for the entire body.
Winter Melon Seed: The winter melon seed (also known as wax gourd) has been used as a food and medicine for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The seed is thought by herbalists to be one that can help to "reduce heat," particularly in the large intestine. It also is used to support healthy lung function, the respiratory system and with urination.
Juniper Berry Extract: A juniper berry is not a true berry, but is a seed cone with unusually fleshy and merged scales that give it a berry-like appearance. Used as a spice in European cuisine, juniper berry has been used in traditional herbal medicine to support kidney and urinary tract function, as well as to help maintain healthy blood pressure levels that are already within the normal range. The essential oil can be stimulating to the kidneys. The warming and bitter properties support digestion and can soothe intestinal gas. Juniper berry can also be warming for the joints.
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In normal fashion when approaching the supposed launch of a new Apple device, people's minds start to wander. Noses start poking around and discovering tiny pieces to an enormous puzzle, and with just a few, tiny details, people try to put together an entire image. I can't say I'm not guilty, though. I did just that with the iPhone 5 with a 4-inch display that I just knew was coming last year ...
This time around, it's the iPad 3. All fingers seem to be pointing to an unveiling of the new iPad at an Apple event that is believed to be taking place during the first week in March. And the purported specs have been rolling in left and right. Will it feature a Retina display? Will there be a quad-core or dual-core chipset? Will the camera be better? What about RAM?
All of these questions will be answered in due time. At most, we're only two weeks and two days away from the alleged date, March 7. But the answer to all of the above questions is: it doesn't matter.
All of Apple's recent launches have been widely viewed as disappointing – initially, at least. The iPhone 4S, which we should have expected to be launched solo from the start, was thought to be a disappointing device because of its minor upgrades over the iPhone 4. A better camera, dual-core processor and global compatibility were the most notable differences, not the large display, projection keyboards and other outlandish ideas that were never even close to reality. Regardless, the iPhone 4S sold well. No, it sold remarkably well.
The same could be said of the iPad 2 last year, following up the original iPad. Sure, the dual-core processor was a nice step up, and so was the addition of cameras – though they were picked from the bottom of the bucket. But people were expecting a Retina display on the iPad 2, as well as more memory (both RAM and ROM). Still, the iPad 2 was a major success. Apple still holds the tablet market by a wide (and slowly waning) margin.
While my hopes will remain high, it's important to keep in mind that Apple is not a company ran by super humans. They've dealt with production issues and had trouble keeping up with demand for quite a few years now. Unlike companies like ASUS who are churning out new tablets like they're going out of style, Apple is a single company that is in charge of hardware and software. Simply put, their products take more time and demand is usually astronomically high. They have to consider that when designing these products. And while many of the rumored specs are within the realm of possibility, it wouldn't surprise me at all if a few are off base.
Apple has been a victim of its own hype over the last several devices; the iPad 3 and even the iPhone 5 will probably be no different. But the devices will still face record-breaking sales. They always do. Whether the iPad 3 turns out to actually have an A6 chip or the pictured A5X, whether it has the same display or Retina display, more or the same memory, or the same or better cameras, it will perform well in the market.
With the iPad 3 and even the next iPhone, there will ultimately be some additional hype, too, especially among the true enthusiasts. It is believed that these are the last products that Steve Jobs had a hand in creating, so there's sure to be some sentimental value attached.
I've owned both the original iPad and the iPad 2. While they weren't my favorite, they were still great tablets and fun to play with. I would be lying if I said I wasn't interested in or going to buy an iPad 3. But I'm not biting my nails over it, and I'm not stressing about the specs like I have in the past. It will be a great product no matter how you look at it. Pricing, however, will probably be that much harder to justify with so many cheaper tablets available now.
Tell me, will you buy an iPad 3, regardless of the specifications it brings? Or will the Retina display be the deciding factor? Are you selling your iPad 2 ahead of launch so you can buy the next one?


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I LENT my younger grandson one of my shepherd's crooks as a prop for his part in the school nativity play.
It had stood neglected, along with others, in a corner of my office since I retired from the farm.
Like Moses without his staff, a livestock farmer without a stick is unthinkable. They come in various shapes and sizes from rough-looking cattle herders –that are simply sticks, or even lengths of plumber's plastic pipe – to the fancy crooks we use on days away from the farm.
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While a stick is an optional extra for working with cattle, crooks are an everyday essential for shepherds. They give support and leverage when climbing steep braes, steady you on your descent, and are in effect a third leg, as well as being vital for catching nimble sheep. Younger, athletic types can catch sheep with their bare hands, but it isn't easy and you often end up with just a handful of wool.
With skill and the help of a collie, however, you can easily catch a sheep by the neck with a crook.
The idea is to stand about a crook's length away from a fence or drystane dyke. The sheep is then manoeuvred and encouraged to run through the gap between the shepherd and the fence, when it is caught by the crook.
Another type of crook, called a leg cleek, catches sheep by the joint of the back leg. Better still, unlike neck crooks, that require the shepherd to exert some strength to restrain heavy sheep struggling against it, those caught in a leg cleek tend to back towards the shepherd and consequently are easier to hold on to.
Made from a straight, stout hazel shank, crooks have a shaped and carved ram's horn handle securely fitted at the top. Some are ornate works of art that are only used at markets or agricultural shows, but everyday working crooks are plain and strong.
Ram's horns and stout, straight hazel shanks are very scarce resources.
Only horns from a mature, dead ram will do. After drying and curing for a couple of years, they are shaped by gently heating over an oil lamp – hard horn becomes malleable when hot.
I used to make crooks as a hobby when I was a young man. The idea is to crush the hot horn in a vice in such a way that the hollow in the centre is squeezed and it becomes solid.
Then the curly horn is twisted and set between metal plates in a vice so that when it cools it is no longer a spiral shape, but flattened into the same plane.
Finally, they're filed down, fitted to the shank, carved, polished and varnished.
Some are real works of art. Thistles, collie dogs, pheasants, grouse and fish are just some of the things carved on a fancy crook. Often the farmer's name and his farm are engraved on the side.
Good horns are scarce simply because, with the decline in the number of hill sheep, there aren't as many horned rams about as there used to be. Worse still, some shepherds set the horns on a young sheep to the desired shape in preparation for the autumn sales by heating them.
Such horns often develop soft or hollow areas beneath the surface as they grow and develop, and are difficult to make into nice crooks.
Good hazel shanks are often just as difficult to come by, as they are used by other countrymen, such as gamekeepers, for such things as pegs for setting snares.
Shanks are best cut in the late autumn or early winter when there is less sap in them.
They are then slowly dried in bundles in the rafters of the workshop for a couple of years.
If shanks are not thoroughly dried before they are fitted to the crook, they will twist and warp.
Those that are not perfectly straight after drying can be straightened by heating over a steam kettle and then being held firmly until they cool.
Too often in the past, I have had the disappointment of finding a nurtured hazel shank, that I had watched grow to perfection, taken by someone else before I could harvest it. I suppose that's where the saying, "you should aye cut a stick when you see it", comes from.


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Yellow Rain
Thursday was the annual yellow rain. The pollen was pouring out of the trees, and a storm rolled in from Alabama to wash it away. PG stayed inside, listening to podcasts while editing pictures from The Library of Congress. (This is the source of tonight's pictures.) This usually lasts until he hears something that distracts him, and makes him want to hear more. Tonight, it was a chat with Charlotte Chandler.
The real name of Miss Chandler is Lyn Erhard. She writes celebrity biographies, mostly pulled from interview transcripts. Most of the subjects of these books are deceased by the time of publication. Some naysayers claim that these interviews are fictitious. The linked article refers to a book Miss Chandler wrote about Marlene Dietrich, who was notoriously reclusive in her latter years.
Some say that you should never let petty concerns about truth interfere with the enjoyment of a good story. People with this attitude should enjoy this file of Miss Chandler reading from her book about Marlene Dietrich. Allegedly, the chanteuse had a private meeting in the oval office with John Kennedy.
In the early seventies, a hotel opened in Colony Square called the Fairmount. There was a supper club there, where people would pay large sums to see live entertainment. Marlene Dietrich performed there. "I have never been so disappointed in my life. She did the same songs that she had done for the last forty years. At the end of the show, somebody had to help her step down from the stage."
Maybe PG should have stuck with stories presented as fiction. With made up stories, you don't have to worry if it is true, or not. Tonight's entertainment featured a story, The Suicide Witch, on the Pseudopod podcast. The witch is a young lady, who is preparing a girl for a fake funeral. The plan is for her to join her bf after the psuedo burial. Sometimes things go according to plan.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers (TOL) reported impressive quarterly earnings earlier Wednesday, helped primarily by a 22% increase in the average selling price of its homes, to $706,000. But if you take a closer look at the foundation, you'll see some cracks.
Like its competitors, TOL has benefited from rising home prices, but even more so due to its focus on the higher end of the housing market, specifically in New York and California. The company's recent purchase of California land development and home building company Shapell Homes has further enhanced Toll's presence in that part of the high-end market.
Although demand was solid for the quarter, it was relatively flat compared to the earlier stages of the housing recovery. For example, net signed contracts last quarter were flat in units but rose 7% in dollars to $1.27 billion compared to the same quarter last year.
Moreover, everyone is talking about Toll's year-over-year operating margin improvement from 3.2% to 7.9%. However, this was mostly helped by a 4% decrease in selling, general and administrative expense costs to 11.5% of revenue. Further, gross margin only managed to grow 30 basis points year over year, hindered by the delivery of some Shapell Homes in the quarter.
The company will likely benefit from low inventories -- currently 5.3 months for new homes -- that will allow Toll to raise prices further. Considering these inventory levels are hitting lows during the popular spring and summer selling seasons, demand will likely remain constrained for the next few months.
However, once inventory starts to grow again and this increased demand levels off, Toll's ability to increase prices will lessen, thereby impacting upon the bottom line.
Furthermore, compared to its competitors, Toll appears to be overvalued on a variety of metrics. For example, at a trailing P/E ratio around 30, Toll is among the highest in the industry and drastically more than its competitors D.H. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), PulteGroup (PHM), Ryland (RYL), M.D.C. Holdings (MDC), and even KB Homes (KBH), which is the closest at roughly 25.
The same is also true when looking at the price to sales ratio which shows that Toll's is much higher at 2.2 than the next closest of 1.5 for LEN, as well as double the industry average of 1.1.
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You've set up your worksheet with all your row and column headings, and you've entered all your data. Then, you discover that it would look better if the rows were the columns and the columns were the rows.
You don't need to re-enter all that data! There is an easy way to convert your rows to columns and vice versa using the Transpose feature in Excel. We'll show you how.
Select the cells containing the headings and data you want to transpose.
Click Copy or press Ctrl + C.
Click in a blank cell on the spreadsheet. This cell will be the top, left corner of the new table of data.
Click the down arrow on the Paste button and select Paste Special from the drop-down menu.
On the Paste Special dialog box, select the Transpose check box so there is a check mark in the box and click OK.
The rows become the columns and the columns become the rows. The original set of data still exists. You can select those cells and delete the headings and data, if desired.
Isn't that a lot easier and faster than retyping all your data?


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4 killed in 2-car accident in Ochiltree County
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:18:22 GMT —
On Monday, four people were killed in an accident in Ochiltree County.
Manuel Jimenez, 32, of Canyon was driving a 2012 Chevrolet Captiva south on Highway 70 with two passengers, Eunice Jimenez, 24, of Canyon and a 2-year-old child.
Moises Ceniceros-Fraire, 34, of Booker was driving a 2006 Ford F-250 north on Highway 70 with Rodrigo Jiminez, 19, of Perryton, and observed the Captiva swerving. The F-250 moved to the shoulder.
The Captiva then overcorrected to the right and then sharply over to the left, going across the highway and striking the F-250 in the front left corner.
Both vehicles traveled into the bar ditch and the Captiva erupted into flames.
The F-250 rolled onto its top. The driver of the F-250 was able to escape before it also caught on fire.
All three occupants of the Captiva were killed in the accident. The passenger of the F-250 was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the F-250 was the only survivor. He's currently at Ochiltree General Hospital in Perryton in stable condition.


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As federal authorities consider whether to put the lesser prairie chicken on the endangered species list and rain down regulations on landowners to ensure its survival, it's time to take a moment and consider whether heavy-handed rules and court orders are the best means to achieve wildlife preservation.
The region dodged a bullet in June when the Interior Department agreed to voluntary conservation instead of regulations to protect the dunes sagebrush lizard, whose numbers are threatened by agriculture and oil and gas activities in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. But the positive outcome of that particular conflict between human activity and indigenous wildlife seems to be the exception rather than the rule when it comes to such matters.
The voluntary agreement was panned by environmentalists who preferred the lizard be declared endangered and all human activity threatening its survival be curtailed by edict.
And, as we have seen in matters ranging from forcing greenhouse gas regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency to putting a halt to an Austin water project that allegedly threatens a species of salamander, the courts remain an avenue through which advocates can impose their will beyond the intent of Congress or the clear words of a law.
It's fitting the House Committee on Natural Resources last month held an oversight hearing to examine how some groups exploit laws such as the Endangered Species Act, particularly through the courts.
The hearing, titled "Taxpayer-Funded Litigation: Benefitting Lawyers and Harming Species, Jobs and Schools," included written testimony from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples.
Staples urged the panel to modify the ESA to curtail regulations and limit opportunities for its misuse.
"Congress needs to step in to end this game of 'endangered chicken' once and for all," Staples said. "A sad irony of the implementation of the Endangered Species Act is it promotes regulation over incentives, often to the detriment of the species it proposes to protect. Rather than supporting proven conservation efforts, the ESA has been used to suffocate opportunities that promote species propagation through non-governmental, non-regulatory methods."
Just as the dunes sagebrush lizard agreement is a mutually beneficial solution to that species' protection, it's important a balance be struck between the needs of humans and the wildlife with which we must coexist. Putting wildlife's interests ahead of human needs may seem altruistic and honorable, but doing so amounts to taking without compensation the assets and livelihood of those on whom regulations weigh most heavy.
All too often those advocating extreme conservation measures bear little or none of the costs or consequences they so enthusiastically would impose upon landowners and society as a whole. Voluntary measures, however, achieve better results because landowners are partners in the process rather than victims of it.
Certainly, mankind should endeavor to protect all of God's creatures and allow them to thrive in their natural habitat— but the last we checked, humans are on that list as well.


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At this year's NBAA convention, Nextant Aerospace is making its debut in the static display with not one, but two of its new 400XT Beechjet conversions. The Cleveland-based company (Booth No. 8245) paused the flight testing program of its first Williams International FJ44-3AP-powered twinjet in order to fly it nonstop from Mojave, Calif., to Atlanta, while the company's fully furnished technology demonstrator–still sporting its Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-5 engines–made its first airshow appearance this past summer at NBAA's Regional Forum at Teterboro Airport. The Williams-powered 400XT (the company was required to change the name from 400NXT due to a copyright issue in another industry) made its first flight on September 8. Thus far it has logged approximately 80 hours of flight time including a September 26 cross-country trip from the company's headquarters at Cuyahoga County Airport in Cleveland to Mojave–where the testing program is based–which saw the nearly maximum-weight test aircraft easily reach a cruising altitude of 45,000 feet. "One of our goals is 2,000 nautical mile [NBAA IFR] range," company president James Miller told AIN. "On that trip, despite the fact that we were doing a lot of tests that had us slowing down and speeding up and climbing and turning, we would have just about hit 2,010, and of course to do that westbound is really significant." A 2,000-nm range would represent a 50 percent increase over the range of the base Beechjet 400A or Hawker 400XP. After the NBAA show, the company's six-day-a-week flight test schedule will resume with a goal of amassing 250 to 300 hours of flight by the end of the year, in order to wrap up the test program on schedule. Nextant anticipates FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) approval soon after. "We're expecting certification in the first quarter of 2011," said Miller. "That's what we've been advertising for the last year or so." According to Nextant, the remanufactured aircraft is meeting or exceeding all of its performance specifications and has already demonstrated some design improvements. By moving the engines out from the fuselage three inches and changing the angle of the engine exhaust nozzle, the company believes it has eliminated the shockwave that occurs in the chokepoint between the engine and fuselage, reducing noise, vibration and drag while at the same time improving fuel efficiency. The rebuild also involved increasing the size of the pylon by approximately 50 percent, which has contributed to the aircraft's lift. "We think we've altered the landing characteristics in a positive way," said Miller, who has flown about half the hours in the airplane. "It doesn't bleed speed quite as abruptly as the Beechjet does at any given airspeed." Another handling improvement that has been observed in the flight testing stems from the reduced residual thrust from the Williams engines. While the previous powerplants produced considerable thrust when idling, the FJ44s do not. "Extra residual thrust is like having your foot on the accelerator and the brake in your car at the same time," Miller said. "The car wants to go forward and you're using a lot of brake to hold it back. On the Williams engines if you bring it back to idle the airplane will actually stop." In addition to the new engines, the 400XT package includes the Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics suite, which Nextant received the STC for last year. It began construction on its second Williams-powered jet at the end of September and expects to complete three of the $3.9 million conversions by next May. By early 2012, Miller expects to have all six bays in the company's facility filled. By then, Nextant would have used up its current supply of six airframes, most of which came from the fleet of Flight Options, which is related to Nextant by common investors. The fractional provider is gradually phasing out its 400XPs in favor of the Embraer Phenom 300, and given that potential supply of approximately 60 aircraft, as well as those available on the market, Nextant feels little pressure in acquiring airframes for future 400XT conversions. "There's no shortage," said Miller. "I believe there's somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 Beechjets that could be purchased in the price range that would be conducive to our program."
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Nextant Beechjet conversions aiming for STC in early 2011
- October 19, 2010, 6:18 AM


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Since a good T&T thread evolved into a policy discussion, then why wasn't it simply moved to the appropriate forum rather than just closed.
That really a good question, Doyle, and it deserves a thoughtful response.
Under normal circumstances, such a thread would possibly/probably be moved to the L&CR forum. Under normal circumstances.
Because of the latest string of homicides, circumstances are not in any way, normal. We are, at the moment, being faced with some very real and possibly horrendous restrictions on our 2A rights.
The anti's have what is possibly the perfect storm to achieve their goals of disarming the public. The anti's are literally dancing in the blood of these defenseless children. Hell, they started their dance before the bodies had a chance to cool, let alone be taken from the scene. We are going to have to walk a very fine line in order to not be seen to be callous and/or indifferent to the victims.
The L&CR forum has seen a sudden influx of members wanting to express their own outrage at what the anti's are wanting to do. This has necessitated the closing of many threads.
While it is true, that many of these (now) closed threads could have been merged with one or two existing larger threads (on the same topic), we have decided to simply close them on sight. The problem was exacerbated, because by the time one thread was closed, two or more threads have been opened.
Quite simply, we don't have enough time or manpower to post a closing remark or move or merge the threads.
Now multiply that to other areas of TFL, and the problem becomes one of management. Hard decisions have had to be made in order to keep TFL focused on Rich Lucibella's goals. What you are seeing, in the short term, is the result of our decisions.
Public Policy discussions, as Mike has said, are not part of TFL's mandate. While we have allowed a few such discussions in the past in the L&CR forum, we are not willing to turn the forum into complete chaos.
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text: Meatball Tortilla Soup By Ree from ReesFrontier March 01, 2013 View This Recipe I'll get to this wonderfulness in a minute, but first... Last year, I had a lot of fun with Land O'Lakes. We made beautiful music---I mean delicious food!---together. There was this.. And this... Oh. And this. My kids were not impressed. This year, we're continuing the fun with more recipes starring my BFF Land O Lakes® Butter, as well as more online videos, because Charlie feels he didn't get enough face time last year. The diva. But wait! There's more! This year, Land O'Lakes and I decided to create more of a party atmosphere and invite some other food bloggers to join in on the fun through a new interactive forum called Kitchen Conversations. Kitchen Conversations is going to be about sharing recipes, tips, cooking experiences...and learning from each other's hits and misses in the kitchen. Joining the Kitchen Conversation panel are some friends of mine that are not only incredible food bloggers... but also all-around good souls: Brenda from A Farmgirl's Dabbles, Sommer from A Spicy Perspective, Julie from The Little Kitchen, and Maria Two Peas & Their Pod (whose son Caleb, I've decided, is my honorary nephew. What a cutie!) You can keep up on all the recipes and cooking love through the hashtag #KtchnConvo whether you're on Twitter, Pinterest or Instagram. You can also check out what we're doing right here on LandOLakes.com. Our first Kitchen Conversation was all about...food trends! Each of us shared a new food trend and a recipe to go with it. I loved what the other girls came up with, and I'm drooling over their recipes. As for me...my food trend is something I hold dear to my heart. Meatballs. Yes, I said it. Meatballs. I love the things! You might remember these scrumptious little wonders from last year. Meatballs are everywhere! It's true! You never know when you're going to bump into one of them. You could be walking down the street, minding your own business, when WHAM! There's a meatball. I love meatballs because you can serve them on toothpicks as appetizers, over pasta for a hearty meal, in a hoagie bun for a meatball sub...or sandwiched in between a small dinner roll for a quick bite. And you can put them in soup, which is what I did recently. It was divine! To describe this delicious soup as merely a "delicious soup" is the understatement of the year! First of all, it's beyond delicious! Flavorful, fabulous, and fantastic is more like it. And it's really much more than a soup: It's more of a stew. A stew full of wonderful texture and color, with an added bonus of yummy meatballs in every bowlful. My family absolutely inhaled it. The Cast of Characters: Land O Lakes® Salted Butter in Half Sticks, ground beef, Pepper Jack cheese, fresh parsley, egg, panko breadcrumbs, garlic, salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder, lime, onion, red bell pepper, corn, beef broth, diced tomatoes with chilies, tomato paste, black beans, and corn tortillas. It may look like a lot of ingredients, but it really is a cinch to throw together! The star of the show is the Land O Lakes® Salted Butter in Half Sticks, which I use like crazy when I cook. I was always one of those girls who had, at any given time, fifteen to twenty half-used sticks of butter in her kitchen door. It's true. These solve that problem! Since lots of my recipes call for 2 to 4 tablespoons of butter, the Half Sticks rock my world. First step for the soup, make the meat mixture for the meatballs! Combine the ground beef, Pepper Jack cheese, parsley, egg, garlic, salt, pepper, 1/4 teaspoon cumin, 1/4 teaspoon chili powder, breadcrumbs, and the juice of the lime in a bowl. Use your hands to smash and mush the mixture together... Then form the mixture into about 24 meatballs! Set the meatballs on a cookie sheet and throw 'em in the fridge to chill for about 25 or 30 minutes. This'll make 'em easier to fry. While the meatballs are chilling, prepare the other ingredients: Slice the corners off of two cobs of corn (or for a shortcut, you can just use 1 1/2 cups frozen corn kernels!) Dice up a red bell pepper and half a large onion. When the meatballs have finished chilling, cut the Land O Lakes® Salted Butter Half Stick in half... Then throw it into a soup pot or dutch oven over medium heat. When the butter is melted and sizzling, begin browning the meatballs, eight at a time... Turning them after about a minute, when the surface is nice and brown. (The meatballs don't need to be cooked through at this stage.) Remove them to a plate... Then throw in the second batch and brown them in the same way. Repeat until all the meatballs are browned, and set them aside for a bit. Without cleaning the pot (and don't worry about all the bits in the bottom of the pot; that means flavor, baby!) add the other 2 tablespoons of butter.... And when it's melted, add the onion, red bell pepper, and corn. Stir this mixture around and cook it for about 2 to 3 minutes... Then pour in the beef broth... The tomato paste... The diced tomatoes and green chilies (juice and all!)... And 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon chili powder, and 1/4 teaspoon cumin---same as the meatballs. I'm so matchy sometimes! Drain and rinse the beans, then throw them in... Then bring the whole delicious pot of fabulousness to a boil and let it cook for 3 to 4 minutes. After that time, add the meatballs back into the pot and gently stir them to combine, then reduce the heat to low and simmer the soup for 15 minutes or so, until the meatballs are done. While the soup is simmering, grab six corn tortillas and cut them into thin slices. You can certainly leave these out, but they add a great texture and flavor to the soup! Also, for fixin' time, slice some avocado and set it aside. The soup looks fantastic by now! And your kitchen smells like a dreamworld. Yum! Right before serving, throw in the tortilla strips and gently stir them in. They'll soften immediately and even fall apart a little bit...but boy, do they add great flavor. Serve up the soup in a bowl, and top with a dollop of sour cream, a couple of slices of avocado, some extra grated pepper Jack cheese, and a few cilantro leaves. This is totally, absolutely out of this world! Hope you love it as much as my household did. Meatball Tortilla Soup Ingredients Meatballs 1 pound ground beef 1/2 cup pepper Jack cheese 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, minced 1 egg, beaten 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin 1/4 teaspoon chili powder 1/4 cup seasoned panko or other breadcrumbs Juice of 1 lime (about 1 tablespoon juice) Soup 1 Half Stick (1/4 cup) Land O Lakes® Butter 1/2 large onion, diced 2 ears corn, kernels sliced off (or you can use 1 1/2 cups frozen corn kernels) 1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced 6 cups low sodium beef broth 1 14-ounce can diced tomatoes with chilies 1 4-ounce can tomato paste 1/2 teaspoon salt (more to taste) 1/4 teaspoon chili powder 1/4 teaspoon cumin 1 14.5 ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed 6 6-inch corn tortillas Fixins Sour cream Avocado Extra grated pepper Jack cheese Cilantro leaves Directions Combine all meatball ingredients and mix well. Shape into small balls (about 24 total) and chill for 30 minutes. After chilling, heat 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat in a heavy pot. Briefly brown meatballs in three batches, then remove to a plate. Add 2 more tablespoons butter to pan and allow to melt. Add onions, garlic, corn, and bell pepper and stir to cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Add beef stock, canned tomatoes with chilies, tomato paste, chili powder, cumin and salt. Bring to a boil, allow to boil for 3 minutes, then reduce the heat to a simmer. Add the beans, and then place the meatballs back into the pot. Cover and simmer 15 to 20 minutes until meatballs are done all the way through. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed. Cut tortillas into thin strips. When the soup is ready, stir the strips into the soup (they will soften). Serve the soup with a dollop of sour cream, a slice of avocado, a little grated cheese, and a few cilantro leaves. Disclosure: I've partnered with Land O'Lakes for an exclusive endorsement of Land O Lakes® Butter . This blog post is sponsored by Land O'Lakes. 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Genealogical Society
The Wake County Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the Olivia Raney Local History Library, 4016 Carya Drive, Raleigh. Jennie Gunther will lead the discussion on "Family Holiday Traditions and Recipes, and the Stories and Photos that Go with Them." Participants are encouraged to bring food, recipes, photos and stories of traditions to share. Meetings are free and open to the public.
Triangle Singles Club
Triangle Singles Club is an alcohol-free singles social club for residents ages 50 and older. The group meets at Northbrook Country Club, 4905 North Hills Drive, Raleigh. Dances cost $5 for members and $8 for non-members and include snacks and soft drinks. The weekly dances feature a variety of music including line, shag, two-step, waltz, cha-cha, swing and mixer. For details, go to Meetup.com/Triangle-Singles-Club.
• Friday, Nov. 21: Cha-cha with DJ J.R. Holloway, taught by Ken Lewis.
• Saturday, Nov. 29: East Coast Swing with DJ Dale Tharrington, taught by Ken Lewis.
Civil War Roundtable
The Raleigh Civil War Roundtable meets for a lecture program at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month in the Daniels Auditorium at the N.C. Museum of History, 5 E. Edenton St., Raleigh. Admission is free; new members are welcome.
TOPS Morning Club
Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Morning Club hosts 9:30 a.m. weigh-ins and 10:30 a.m. meetings Mondays at Hope Lutheran Church, 3525 Rogers Road, Wake Forest. One-year membership to the nonprofit weight loss support program costs $28. For details, go to tops.org.
The Hi Rise Toastmasters meet from noon to 1 p.m. every Wednesday at the Downtown Express Library, 336 Fayetteville St., Raleigh. For details, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 919-807-4866.
Social clubs
Specialized Recreation Services of the city of Raleigh offers three social clubs for individuals with developmental disabilities. The clubs encourage the development of appropriate leisure and social skills. For details, call at 919-996-2147.
Newcomers Alumni
The Raleigh Newcomers Alumni Club is seeking new members. The club has weekly or monthly meetings of its book club, game and card groups, plus luncheon and speaker programs, bridge, mahjong, hand & foot, recipe group and stick & chat. For details, email email@example.com.
Vanderbilt Bridge Club
Vanderbilt Bridge Club offers competitive bridge games Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings at the Quail Hollow Swim Club, 800 Orleans Place, Raleigh. Beginner bridge classes are also offered. For details, call 919-847-8963.
Capitol Bridge Club
The Capitol Bridge Club meets for competitive bridge from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Fridays at Jaycee Community Center, 2405 Wade Ave., Raleigh. For details, call 919-996-6833.
Seniors dance club
Pullen Park invites seniors 50 and older to its dance club, which meets from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Pullen Community Center, 408 Ashe Ave., Raleigh. The club dances to live ballroom music, including foxtrot, waltz, swing and Latin tunes. The cost is $8 per person per week. For details, call 919-831-6052.
Newcomers Club
Newcomers Club of Raleigh invites members and prospective members to the Welcome Coffees held the first Friday of the month from 10 a.m. to noon at the JJ Crowder Masonic Lodge, 9920 Falls of Neuse Road, Raleigh. For details, go to www.newcomersclubraleigh.org.


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Shortly after moving from Japan to the United States in the late Eighties, Yuka Honda landed a job writing about American food for a Japanese magazine. On the surface, the position seems to have little in common with her current role, as half of a resolutely eclectic band known as Cibo Matto, but Honda knows better. In her world--a world like no one else's--the connection is astoundingly obvious.
"I'm kind of doing the same thing now that I was doing then--writing about different cultural things," she notes in heavily accented English. "Like, one time, I wrote something about burgers, which are very differently perceived in Japan and in the United States. If you ask for a burger in Japan, you get meat mixed with onions, bread soaked in milk and all these extra things; it's like a meat loaf. And in the United States, it's just more like chopped meat. The same thing is true for sandwiches. In Japan, sandwiches are more like English sandwiches. Very thin. And here it's more of a substantial meal. So I wrote about that, too.
"But when I was writing those things, I wasn't only writing about burgers and sandwiches. I was writing about America through burgers and sandwiches. It's not that it's my unique style, but I found out that it was a really good way to understand another culture. Because everybody eats."
If this explanation doesn't fully underline the correlation between ingestibles and Cibo Matto, the act's CD, Viva! La Woman, released by Warner Bros., will. The roster of songs reads like a slacker's grocery list: Selections include "Apple," "Beef Jerky," "White Pepper Ice Cream" and a cover version of the Sammy Davis Jr. smash "The Candy Man." However, a look below the surface shows that these tracks are not entirely gastronomical. Take these lines from "Artichoke," which Miho Hatori, Honda's partner, delivers in extremely idiosyncratic English: "My heart is like an artichoke/I eat petals myself one by one.../Your hands are like a rusty knife/Are you gonna keep on peeling me?"
In short, Cibo Matto (an Italian phrase, lifted from a Seventies flick, that roughly translates as "crazy food") uses metaphors that taste good. But verbally and musically, what the act is really about is juxtaposition. Honda, a keyboardist who wields her sampler like a light saber, thinks nothing of slapping together rock, punk, hip-hop, jazz, house, techno and other assorted avant-gardeisms. Rather than jab these styles into a listener's ears one by one, though, she blends them together so thoroughly that they wind up sounding like a completely fresh entity. Hers is a mysterious recipe--one that she's not about to share. "People mention that I'm putting different things together, but they really don't know what those different things are," she says. "All they know is that I'm mixing up a lot of things."
Honda has been dealing with disparate societal input since shortly after she achieved consciousness. Because of her father's work with an international trading firm, her early years were spent in Germany and Denmark, where she got her first taste of prejudice; she told Option magazine that her parents pulled her out of one kindergarten because of racist remarks flung at her by the other children. When she was seven, the Honda clan moved to Tokyo, where young Yuka's European manner was fused with the mores of Japan. As a result, Honda emerged with a personality that was not wholly of any specific land and an uncommon worldview that's turned out to be a valuable aid to her music-making. "I've never really tried too hard to think about how I see things, because it's normal to me," she claims. "But I guess because I've seen so much, I'm kind of used to putting things together in my mind that other people wouldn't."
Given her melting-pot childhood, it was only natural that Honda would gravitate to New York City. She arrived there in 1987 and before long began working with an astonishingly diverse array of acts, including Brooklyn Funk Essentials, hip-hop's Sha-Key, and Cobra, a brainstorm of forward-looking jazzbo John Zorn. Hatori joined this list after emigrating from Japan in 1993, and within a matter of weeks after she and Honda met, the pair were part of Leitoh Lychee, a punk combo frankly inspired by the Boredoms. When the group ran its course, Honda and Hatori started engaging in the casual musical experimentation that finally birthed their current group.
Although the complexities of Viva! La Woman suggest otherwise, Cibo Matto "started as a live band," Honda says. "A lot of the songs that we ended up recording we played pretty much like they are at live shows. We did a slight tweaking of things here and there and changed some things, but they basically sound the same. I played all the samples live, and that's what we're still doing--because I think it's more interesting."
In Tchad Blake and Mitchell Froom, who produced the CD, Honda and Hatori found the ideal collaborators. Between them, the two have overseen several of the most sonically intriguing discs to appear in the last decade, including offerings by Los Lobos, the Latin Playboys, Tom Waits and Soul Coughing. The combination of their playfully inventive approach to the studio, Honda's skilled manipulation of previous recordings (Ennio Morricone gets a co-writing credit on "Sugar Water") and assorted found sounds provides Viva! La Woman with more atmosphere than is present in most solar systems. You don't merely listen to the album; you tumble into it. After spending 45 minutes or so in this intricate environment, you may never want to leave.
By the same token, the album is not so highbrow as to be off-putting. Its accessibility was not an accident. "That was one of my goals," Honda admits. "I've been involved in the downtown scene a lot and have seen a lot of amazing musicians, but I'm not that academic myself. I always thought it would be the greatest thing to do something that maybe Miles Davis would have loved, but also something that my mom would love. Not like she's dumb or anything, but she doesn't have a musician's ear. And I'd want her to like it, anyway.
"I don't want to go in and say, 'This is really amazing because I did five-four over three-seven and it's an impossible thing to do, blah-blah-blah.' If I have to explain why something is good, then it's not that good. I feel like if something is good, you should be able to hear that it's good right away and enjoy it. I feel the same way about the movies or books that I like. I want something that's entertaining and there's a plot that totally makes sense to me, but at the same time I like to have all these other things that I can look around at. I find that very exciting."
With their current tour, Honda and Hatori aim to bring this vision to a wider audience, in spite of problems that threatened to keep them off the road. Specifically, the two had arranged for Sean Lennon--the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, whom they'd met while remixing one of Ono's recent recordings--to back them up on their cross-country journey along with another member of his band, Ima. But at the last minute, Yoko intervened. "Yeah, Sean's mom took him this time," Honda reveals. "She was playing New York, and she needed him with her. I couldn't really say anything." A quick scramble resulted in the hiring of a new rhythm section consisting of Maki Takahashi, a veteran of the act Blonde Redhead, and Laura Cromwell, from God Is My Co-Pilot. According to Honda, "They're both my friends. I just really like to play with people that I know. I believe in relationships."
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She's less thrilled by the press the band has been getting lately; journalists hesitant to plumb the depths of its sound have instead dubbed Honda and Hatori "cute." They are, but to concentrate on this attribute to the exclusion of musical analysis is belittling, as Honda acknowledges. "'Cute' is a tricky one," she says. "To some people it means different things. But I think on a certain level, it's demeaning to us. It has a lot to do with appearances, and that makes us conscious about avoiding certain things." When asked for a specific example, Honda responds with disarming simplicity: "Whatever appears cute. You know what I mean?"
Still, Honda puts her foot down at the suggestion that she stop writing about food--because in her mind, she hasn't been. "None of our songs is about food," she insists. "They just have food titles. The Rolling Stones had a song called 'Brown Sugar,' but it wasn't about food, either."
Cibo Matto, with Babe the Blue Ox. 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23, Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, $6, all ages, 294-9281 or 830-


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Speaker raises awareness on human trafficking
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 03:01:45 GMT —
Although slavery was legally abolished more than 100 years ago, it still exists today in the form of trafficking. The Kirksville community had the opportunity to learn why it is so important to put a stop to this practice.
Human Trafficking Awareness Week at Truman State University concluded this evening with guest speaker, Jenny Williamson Williamson is a founder of a safe house, Courage Worldwide, for trafficked girls in California. Williamson is also the adoptive mother of a former trafficking victim, and that's why putting a stop and raising awareness on this issue is close to her heart. Those who attended also learned ways to put a stop to trafficking. Some of those ways include volunteering with a local advocacy group, talking to legislators and law makers to raise awareness on the issue, and hosting an awareness event such as a documentary showing.
"This issue is one that is done in secret. And so, if we don't know it's happening, then we don't know that there's victims out there that need service," said Williamson.
Williamson travels around the United States visiting communities to help raise awareness on human trafficking.


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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What every body echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a-going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned any thing of absolute value by living. Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons, as they must believe; and it may be that they have some faith left which belies that experience, and they are only less young than they were. I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me any thing, to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Fender, Professor of American Studies and Director of the Postgraduate Centre in the Humanities, University of Sussex, this new edition of Walden considers the author in the context of his birthplace and his sense of its history: social, economic and natural. In addition, an ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which Thoreau gave increasingly close attention as he became acclimatized to his life in the woods by Walden Pond.
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Middle South
July, 2001
Regional Report
In the Garden
Bountiful Butterflies
Now that the summer sauna season is here, I'd rather watch my garden than actually work in it. The goldfinches come and go as they harvest still-green sunflower seeds. Almost any hour of the day I can watch butterflies sipping nectar from my flowers. I...
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Butterfly Portraits For a quick look at the most common butterflies you're likely to see in your garden, check out...
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Purple Coneflower With or without butterflies for company, I think purple coneflower ( Echinacea purpurea ) comes...
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- Empty Your Freezer
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