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to the Secreta.ry of State, Dr. Henry
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the support within the Senate for the
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SOLD Marble Shiva Lingam 15"
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My experience with your company's service was excellent -- the statue actually arrived a day earlier than promised. The Buddha itself looks perfectly at home in my garden, as I hoped it would. The details in the face and clothing are exceptional and the patina is just right. I love it!Reviewer:John Bancroft (BRADENTON, FL, US)
We had a wonderful experience purchasing a stone Buddha from Kyle. He was very responsive to our initial questions and then allowed us "quiet time" to think through what we wanted. Kyle found the best shipping price for us and our 33" garden Buddha arrived packed meticulously. It looks beautiful on top of a small waterfall over our pool. I have promised Kyle a photograph once our spring foliage is out. In addition to our purchase, we enjoyed reading about Kyle's travels and life journey on his website. Clearly, bringing these statues to our individual homes is more than just a business for him- it is like sharing something that is important to him. If we ever decide to purchase another statue it will definitely be through Lotus Sculpture. Thanks so much!Reviewer:Aliya Khan (Dallas, TX, US)
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I was looking for a Ganesha murti that would suit the entrance to the new studio I and my beloved have created in Kyoto From my initial inquiry to the day of delivery, the service from Lotus Sculpture was stellar. Kyle answered my questions promptly, gave me two shipping options, and shipped the sculpture out the day I confirmed the order. I received the statue in only 5 days. It was packed with care, and very easy to unpack. The packing Lotus Sculpture used was molded to the sculptures form, which I felt showed additional care and respect for the murti. Once Ganesha was unpacked and stood up, I took some time to examine the artistry of the statue. It is actually even more gorgeous than it appeared in the photo. In fact, my beloved, who is not as passionate about the murtis as I, also remarked that he was quite handsome! It is a true work of art and devotion. I am extremely content with this purchase. If you are in need of a quality murti from a reliable dealer who exhibits a love for the statues they sell, I believe your expectations will be exceeded by Lotus Sculpture. Namaste.Reviewer:Mark Shveima (Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP)
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- Materials: Black Marble Hand Carved in Jaipur, India
- Total Height Including Base: 12 inches
- Base Width & Depth: 15 x 10 inches
- Weight: 27 pounds
- The Shiva Lingam is a manifestation of Shiva as a pillar of fire with his wife Parvati surrounding him as a yoni
- The Lingam is hand carved from one piece of black marble and is completely one of a kind. You receive this exact Lingam with your order
- The spout of the yoni is made to catch the excess liquids from daily puja ceremonies
- There are 4 cobras wrapped around the Lingam
- The Lingam ships directly from our California showroom
This Shiva Lingam is north Indian in style. It is carved from one piece of black marble. The Lingam has four cobras on it. One under the spout, another on top of the spout, another circling the Lingam and the final cobra on the backside of the Lingam. The yoni has a nice design. The yoni design is unique in shape and differs from the south India style of Lingam. The yoni is angled to capture any liquids poured over the Lingam during abhishekam.
The Story of the Shiva Lingam: Shiva saw not sense in the transitory pleasures of life, so he rejected samsara, smeared his body with ash, closed his eyes and performed austerities. Shiva's tapas generated so much heat that his body transformed into a pillar of fire - a blazing lingam that threatened to destroy the whole world. The gods did not know how to control Shiva's fire. Suddenly there appeared a yoni - the divine vessel of the mother-goddess. It caught the fiery lingam and contained its heat, thus saving the cosmos from untimely destruction.
About Shiva
Shiva was originally known as Rudra, a minor deity addressed only three times in the Rig Veda. He gained importance after absorbing some of the characteristics of an earlier fertility god and became Shiva, part of the trinity, or trimurti, with Vishnu and Brahma.
Shiva wears a snake coiled around his upper arms and neck symbolizing the power he has over the most deadly of creatures. Snakes are also used to symbolize the Hindu dogma of reincarnation. Their natural process of molting or shedding their skin is symbolic of the human soul's transmigration of bodies from one life to another.
Shiva's female consort and wife is Parvati; because of his generosity and reverence towards Parvati, Shiva is considered an ideal role model for a husband. The divine couple together with their sons - the six-headed Skanda and the elephant headed Ganesh - reside on Mount Kailasa in the Himalayas.
His guardian is Nandi (the white bull), whose statue can often be seen watching over the main shrine. The bull is said to embody sexual energy, fertility. Riding on its back, Shiva is in control of these impulses.
He often holds a trident, which represents the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu. It is also said to represent the threefold qualities of nature: creation, preservation and destruction, although preservation is usually attributed to Vishnu.
As the destroyer, Shiva is dark and terrible, encircled with serpents and a crown of skulls.
Shiva often wears sacred Rudaksha beads, perhaps a reference to his earlier name Rudra.
The crescent moon Shiva wears on his crown, besides being a symbol of Kama the goddess of nightly love, also represents the bull, Nandi, a fertility symbol.
Shiva holds a skull that represents samsara, the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Samsara is a central belief in Hinduism. Shiva himself also represents this complete cycle because he is Mahakala, the Lord of Time, destroying and creating all things.
Shiva is represented in a variety of forms. One such form is as a lingam. The ovoid shape is a representation of the absolute perfection of Lord Shiva - if that which is beyond form had to be given form, the lingam would be the closest form to the mystical experience of the absolute perfection of Shiva. Shiva is often pictured in a pacific mood with his consort Parvati, as the cosmic dancer Nataraja, as a naked ascetic, as a mendicant beggar, as a yogi, and as the androgynous union of Shiva and Parvati in one body (Ardhanarisvara).
Another example of Shiva's apparent synthesis of male and female attributes is seen in his earrings. He wears one earring in the style of a man and the other as a female.
Shiva's third eye is a symbol of higher consciousness. It is also a weapon he uses to destroy his enemies by emitting a fire missile which has the power to incinerate the three worlds. He can also kill all the gods and other creatures during the periodic destruction of the universe. Shiva's third eye first appeared when Parvati, his wife, playfully covered his other two eyes, so Shiva opened his third eye emitting his destructive missile endangering the three worlds.
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Long ago I heard couples talking about a book called "The Five Love Languages" and just about the time I heard the title my brain turned off and started wandering to other topics I keep stored in my brain's hard-drive for when "boring" conversations like this come up. I wasn't interested. Why? Well, to put it simply, the book had "love" in the title. I wish I could be more pragmatic, but that's it. I made up all kinds of assumptions just from the title, and I had come up with a vision of a book that contained all kinds of "mushy stuff" about relationships that basically women wanted men to know, but no man was ever going to read. Why? Well, it seems men don't read such books.
Fast forward to a conversation with a guy I had regarding his personal life with Christ, and I began to think of a few books that influenced me and he said simply, "John, I just don't read books." I hesitated, and then shrugged my shoulders. What else was there to say? When I talked about this phenomenon with another friend, he had a different response. When I told him about the guy who just doesn't read books he responded, "Really? Ya' think? The guy is having all kinds of problems in his Christian and personal life and then you found out he doesn't read books? Is it any surprise?"
It got me to thinking. There are a lot of guys out there who do read books, but there are also a lot of guys out there who proudly assert that "They don't read books" as though it were something to be proud of. I'm not saying a guy needs to get into "the mushy stuff" women enjoy in fiction, but there do happen to be some very good books worth a read. I am reminded by the oft repeated quote of "Charles Tremendous Jones" that says, "Five years from now you'll be the same person you are today except for the books you read and the people you meet." Years later, this quote was paraphrased to say "A man is never changed but by the books he reads and the people he meets."
Men don't want to change though. They resist being changed. I have never met a man yet who said, "I married her because I just knew she was going to change me into a better man." I fact, if that had been part of the marriage bargain up front, most men would probably never follow through with getting married. I say this in jest, but in some part of men there resides an idea that if we are good enough to marry the way we are now, then we should be good enough the way we are for the rest of our lives. However, that simply is never true, for everything changes in life, and men need to be able to change and grow and improve over time or risk becoming either irrelevant, or replaced.
Getting back to my original topic though, I eventually was encouraged strongly by a good friend to pick up and read "The Five Love Languages" with my wife. I was hesitant, but told him I would. I was just sure the book was going to talk about all the "mushy stuff" women love, and that the message would be something along the lines of "You're doing it all wrong. Idiot." I am happy to report that nothing could have been further from the truth.
In the end, there was a lot to be gained from reading this book together with my wife. We learned a lot about each other, I discovered some very interesting and encouraging things about myself (turns out I was doing a lot of things right already!), and also discovered ways to do the right things even better. My wife learned along the way as well, we were both helped through the process, and our marriage took another bump up on the ladder of success.
This would not have been possible if my manly ego had not been laid aside long enough to pick up the book, but it had me thinking about all the men out there who may be thinking, or even proudly saying, "I don't read books." This message is for you: "If you're not reading good books, then you're doing it all wrong. Idiot." Now go set your manly ego and pride aside long enough to realize you need to change as all things change in life, and the best way to make a change is to guide that change by reading good books and opening yourself up to being influenced by good people. Why? Because real men read good books!


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Marshwood and York will re-energize a football rivalry that lapsed for several years in the Western Class B championship game Saturday in South Berwick.
WHO: York (8-2) at Marshwood (9-1)
WHEN: 12:30 p.m.
Top-ranked Marshwood (9-1) and the third-seeded Wildcats (8-2) will play at 12:30 p.m. for a spot in next Saturday's state final at Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland.
The teams met in the opening game of the season on Aug. 31, with Marshwood winning 28-12. Both have come a long way since.
The Hawks' only loss was to Wells, 36-6 on Sept. 28. Marshwood avenged it with a 15-13 semifinal victory.
Besides the Marshwood loss, York fell 48-34 to Westbrook on Oct. 5, then avenged it with a 21-14 semifinal win over the Blue Blazes.
Marshwood has a five-game winning streak; York has won four straight.
"No one is going to remember what happened in the first game," said York Coach Randy Small. "This game is going to come down to adjustments and execution."
Both teams have been doing those two things very well. The Wildcats have a good balance between the run and the pass; the Hawks look to run first in their wing-T offense but can throw.
The Wildcats had some injuries early in the season but are now healthy in the playoffs.
"Having the injuries allowed us to play some other kids, which has added to our depth," said Small.
York quarterback Ross Hogan has a strong and accurate arm. Defenses can't stack the line of scrimmage because of Hogan's passing.
Cameron Roll is a strong running quarterback for the Hawks. Brett Gerry is the top running back, and Dan Lizotte and Nick Janes are the other top Marshwood runners.
"Neither team is going to throw the ball 30 times," said Marshwood Coach Alex Rotsko.
Rotsko is in his first year with the Hawks after a successful career at Longmeadow, Mass., and before that at American International College in Springfield, Mass.
"We had only three to four weeks to put in a new system," said Rotsko. "There was a lot of new stuff. I think the players have a good grasp of the offense and defense. We're pretty balanced."
Rotsko said he didn't know what to expect when he arrived. Adding to his challenge was that two top players were sidelined for the season because of ACL injuries.
Marshwood and York were rivals in the Southern York County League, then the Campbell Conference until Marshwood moved to Class A in 1989. The Hawks returned to Class B last season. The teams had some memorable games in the 1970s and 1980s, and now hope to add a new chapter.
"This time of the year, Saturday games are pretty fun," said Small.
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Science and Religion scholar Denis Alexander presents two models for relating Adam and Eve with the findings of contemporary anthropology. This essay was presented at the November 2010 Theology of Celebration Workshop
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Renowned Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke considers eleven barriers that prevent evangelical theologians from accepting evolution as a possible means of creation and what these barriers tell us about the tensions perceived by many Evangelicals between science and faith. Waltke's work was based on a survey sent to members of the Fellowship of Evangelical Seminary Presidents and their faculty.


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A study published by Geophysical Research Letters sheds new light on the connection between California's epic drought and human-induced climate change.
The study carries the decidedly wonky title, "Probable causes of the abnormal ridge accompanying the 2013-14 California drought: ENSO precursor and anthropogenic warming footprint."
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Both Democrats and Republicans bend over for King Coal, but Bush administration bends further
Both Democrats and Republicans bend over for King Coal, but Bush administration bends further
Known euphemistically as mountaintop mining, the process has enormous machines scrape away ridges to get at the coal seams below. The residual rock and dirt are then dumped or carted down the mountainside into nearby valleys and streams.
In 2002, with the Bush White House firmly in control, the Environmental Protection Agency rewrote clean water regulations to add mine waste to the list of materials that can be used to fill in streams for development and other purposes. In 2004, confronted with the so-called stream buffer-zone rule prohibiting mining within 100 feet of a stream — the Bush administration decided the rule only required companies to respect the buffer zone "to the extent practicable," giving the green light to further dumping
Studies have identified more benign, though more costly, ways to dispose of the waste. Other studies have warned unless alternatives are found an area larger than Delaware will be laid waste by dynamite and bulldozer by the end of this decade, poisoning water supplies and causing continuous flooding.
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It's not good enough that everyone is scrambling to get at the gazillion barrels of oil under the melting icecap, now they are going to scrape down to every last little Christmas-stocking-sized lump of coal that lies within the Appalachians. Never mind the short-sightedness of the whole scheme, pouring money into a finite resource at a time when we desperately need investment in R&D for alternate technologies. The whole business focuses on the willingness of the US industrial machine to rape and disfigure the planet.
I remain in awe of this administration's ability to bend over and ask for more from the guys with the money.
..... and spun as a bid for energy independence
I take no position on the nuclear power thing, as I am not up to speed on the technology, but I DO believe that we all have to recognize that we are power gluttons and adjust our habits and expectations. At any given moment in any house chosen at random you will find all kinds of things powered up, whether or not they are in use. And don't get me started on the single occupant vehicles sitting idling on the 401 etc for hour after hour every day! Yeah, people want power, but they waste it shamelessly and are not held accountable. Never was gluttony a more deadly sin, and its flip side is waste!
Fern, if you want to feel guilty and sinful about your wasteful energy usage, that's fine. Repent. Here's the thing though: Most Canadians, though they profess to support strong action against AGW, ENJOY using large amounts of energy. Bigger houses, more cars, lots more airline travel.
How does one explain this dichotomy?
It's no mystery to me that people love bombing around in big, expensive vehicles, escaping winter on a jet to Cuba and having a nice big house that draws lots of power. We've grown up in a society in which conspicuous consumption is encouraged, there's a disposable or drive-through everything, and it's "left-wing" to point out consequences. The guy with the most toys when he dies wins. I don't really believe that people will change their habits in the course of a few years -- that kind of re-focusing takes generations. But I do know many people who are quietly (or not so quietly) working away to promote alternative technology, car-pooling, mass transit, power conservation -- chipping away and gradually changing attitudes, showing by example that it can be done without going back to the cave. I remain optimistic.
It helps that here in Manitoba (and as well in Quebec and Newfoundland), we have hydroelectricity, which is far cleaner than coal. It's not a zero emissions source of energy, but it's much better than it could be.


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Elizabethton's City Council approved a reimbursement to a city homeowner for damages caused to the property after a city water line broke and flooded the home.
Victor and Nancy Hopson of Ridgefield Road had been working with the city to recoup the $7,182 they paid to repair damages to their home and yard after a water line break this past June. The city's insurer, the Tennessee Municipal League Risk Management Pool, denied the request for reimbursement because the city was not liable for the claim under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act.
Mayor Curt Alexander said when the 8-inch water line ruptured, the water destroyed the home's asphalt driveway. The water also flowed through the basement and washed away landscaping. The water line was located in the road, on city property, but the break occurred directly in front of the Hopsons' driveway.


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sounds like both Zack Ertz and Levine Troilolo are declaring
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i watched robert woods bowl game and if not for that qb looking like straight *** he would have went off...i'd be stoked to get him at #42...whatever that guy is in the pros i like it
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@TonyPauline: "As we've been reporting since start of October, Gavin Escobar/TE/SDSU officially in draft."
If the tight end position is ignored in the first couple of rounds, he could be an pretty good pickup in the third perhaps?
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2 - Terrence Brooks, FS, Florida State
3 - JuWuan James, OT, Tennessee
4 - Devonta Freeman, RB, Florida State
5 - Michael Schofield, OT/OG, Michigan
6 - Preston Brown, ILB, Louisville
7 - Dexter McDougle, CB, Maryland
I remain very interested in Levine Toilolo. I don't know how a man that tall manages to play with that kind of pad level, but I find it very intriguing.
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so far LSU is losing the following players to the draft
Barkevious Mingo
Kevin Minter
Brad Wing
Spencer Ware
Tharold Simon
Eric Reid
Michael Ford
Sam Montgomery
Bennie Logan
Still gonna have talent, but that is a lot to replace. Only 2 fairly easy will be Ford and Ware and that's because they have Hill and Blue
How do you college experts feel about Eddie Lacy in the pros? Now he is my kind of back! He is dominating today but I wonder is it the o line setting him up?
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As many weezer fans do, i often wonder why i like thier old stuff so much better. And I think I might have figured it out. I don't think that they are really getting worse, I just think they aren't putting as much into their music. Let me explain, In Hurley, i liked most of what i heard, but almost every song never had anything extra. And what I mean by that is they have a constant beat which is never broken up by fills. They hardly ever use solo's (I started another post questioning their lack of guitar solo's). The songs are very regimented, verse, chourus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus. They don't really use intros or outros and they lack all the in between stuff that makes a song so great. I think thier songs (from hurley) are good, but need to be spiced up a bit. And I don't want to get into an argument over their lyrics, but I think overall they could use a lttle more detail. "In the rain, in the sun, everybody needs someone" it kind of brings me back to the blandness of the green album. Go back and listen to all the extra stuff in their old songs, hear all the great parts of songs that you love that don't take place during the main riff or the verse or chours. I don't know, what do you think?
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Dr. Kazuo Miyashita from Hokkaido University reported seeing significant reductions in fat tissue in rats and obese mice fed the edible seaweed carotenoid fucoxanthin.
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KETTERING, Ohio (AP) - Superstorm Sandy's mayhem is upending the final week of the presidential race, with President Barack Obama calling off another of the waning days left to campaign and Republican Mitt Romney struggling to strike the right tone as he tries to close the deal with voters.
The White House announced Tuesday that Obama will not go ahead with a Wednesday campaign swing through Ohio. He plans to remain in Washington to monitor recovery efforts for the storm that practically shut down New York City and spread damage across the East Coast.
Romney and running mate Paul Ryan initially announced they were canceling events out of sensitivity for the millions of Americans in Sandy's path. But with only a week left to try to toss Obama from office, the GOP campaign was back on Tuesday with events in the critical Midwestern swing states of Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin, albeit with changes to the program.
"We have heavy hearts, as you know, with all the suffering going on, in a major part of our country," Romney said before helping collect food donations for relief efforts. "A lot of people hurting this morning, they were hurting last night. And the storm goes on."
Romney spoke for less than five minutes and avoided politics at what his campaign billed as a "storm relief event" in the same Ohio gymnasium as his previously scheduled political rally and with the same entertainment from country music singer Randy Owen. The event was moved up four hours and there were none of the usual attacks on the president, who was at the White House overseeing the response.
Effusive praise for Obama's leadership came in Tuesday from a surprising source - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican who has been campaigning for Romney across the country and who is a pointed Obama critic. He said in a series of morning television show interviews that Obama was in touch throughout the night as the storm struck New Jersey, including a call at midnight, and effectively expedited much-needed disaster relief.
"The president has been all over this and he deserves great credit," Christie told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I've been on the phone with him, like I said, yesterday personally three times. He gave me his number at the White House, told me to call him if I need anything, and he absolutely means it. It's been very good working with the president."
The White House said Obama was speaking frequently to other governors and mayors in affected areas. The White House released a photo of the president receiving an update on the response from the Situation Room.
"The president told his team that their top priority is to make sure all available resources are being provided to state and local responders as quickly as possible and directed them to identify and resolve any potential bottlenecks or shortfalls should they arise," the White House said in a statement.
Vice President Joe Biden participated in the videoconference from Ohio, where he spent part of the day holding in a Columbus hotel. First lady Michelle Obama had also called off her campaign events.
The president's campaign also tried to rise above the political fray in an email to supporters asking for donation to the Red Cross. "Soon enough we'll need to get back to work on the most important campaign of our lifetime," wrote campaign manager Jim Messina. "But the most important thing at this moment is that you and your loved ones are staying safe, and that the rest of us do what we can to help speed the recovery."
Millions were left without power as the deadly storm whipped its way through presidential battlegrounds like North Carolina, Virginia and New Hampshire and sprawled as far as the Great Lakes, where gales threatened Ohio's and Wisconsin's lakeside regions.
Romney helped collect grocery bags of donations from lined-up supporters after his brief remarks in Ohio, then headed outside to load bottled water, boxes of diapers and pallets of canned goods on a rented truck for delivery.
Romney refused to answer repeated shouted questions from reporters about how he would run the Federal Emergency Management Agency as president. He said during the Republican primary race that he wants to return control of some federal functions to the states.
Asked whether Romney favors additional federal aid to help recover and rebuild from Sandy, Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg responded: "A Romney-Ryan administration will always ensure that disaster funding is there for those in need. Period."
The storm wasn't entirely off limits from politics. Campaigning on Obama's behalf in Minnesota, former President Bill Clinton resurrected a line from Romney's GOP convention speech to suggest that he was flippant about Obama's advocacy of climate change legislation.
At the late August convention, Romney ridiculed Obama as someone who "promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise ... is to help you and your family."
"In my part of America, we would have liked if someone had done that yesterday," Clinton said, noting how oceanfront cities are coping with rising waters more frequently.
While officials in Obama's Chicago-based campaign had hoped he would be in battleground states every day this week, they said they weren't losing any ground by having him in Washington. Obama was still getting local media coverage because of his work on the storm. And aides said Clinton's active campaign schedule this week was helping to boost Democratic voter enthusiasm.
As of Tuesday afternoon, there were no plans to cancel Obama's campaign rallies Thursday in Nevada, Colorado, and Ohio, though officials said they continued to monitor the storm. The president may try to make up for lost time by adding more events to an already busy schedule this weekend and into next week, but those plans were still being finalized.
Romney planned to resume an aggressive campaign schedule beginning Wednesday, with three events in Florida with former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio. He planned to return to Virginia Thursday, after canceling events there Sunday before the storm.
Aides say they are reviewing his plans on almost an hourly basis, but expect the campaign to get back to normal. They are still considering a plan to send Romney to New Jersey later in the week, where he could meet with victims and gauge the storm damage with Christie. The move would follow the path Romney took after Hurricane Isaac threatened the Republican National Convention, when he toured storm damage in Louisiana with Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, also a supporter.
At the same time, Romney aides insist they are serious about expanding their efforts in battleground states largely considered safe territory for Democrats.
The campaign is launching a statewide advertising push in Pennsylvania, which aides say is in play, although Romney had no plans to visit the state. Ryan planned to campaign across his home state of Wisconsin in an attempt to expand the playing field. The campaign also invited local media to cover Ryan's plane landing Tuesday over the state border in Minnesota, which has been in the Democratic column since 1976.
The Romney camp also announced that a political rally in Des Moines, Iowa, would go on at the same time as previously scheduled Tuesday night, with Ann Romney filling in for her husband as the headliner. Ryan was slated to visit campaign offices in his home state of Wisconsin on Tuesday to thank the volunteers helping to collect relief supplies.
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08:22 AM ET 12.07 | The question is whether anyone would give him a shot. Former Red Sox star Johnny Damon, who played for Thailand in a recent World Baseball Classic qualifying round, said Thursday night he would welcome a chance to play in 2013 in the right situation. Damon, 39, hit .222 for the Indians in 64 games last season before being released. "I liked being home last season with my kids. But I'm in shape and if I could play, I would," he said. "We'll see what happens. I still think I have something left if I am used the right way." ... Damon and Hall of Famer Paul Molitor are the only players in history with at least 2,700 hits, 500 doubles, 100 triples, 200 home runs and 400 stolen bases.
How about the Toledo Mudhens?
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He could grow his hair long again and give the Toledo ladies a thrill...he'd be the biggest sex symbol there since Corporal Klinger.
Yes. But does he have the legs for it?
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Come back to Boston Johnny. Sox need another lefthanded bat off the bench along with a 4th OF. Plus he would be great in the clubhouse.
Molitor shouldn't be in the hof
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not a DH thing at all....its a position My issue is he was never a top guy in the league for any amount of time. IMO- you need to be dominant for a decent period of time- say 3-4 years...then be great for the rest of the time-Molitor was an accumulator- his stats & #'s were that of a real good player that hung around forever.Not a HOF'er (imo)
Stat wise he's basically Derek Jeter who didn't have the advantage of playing for great teams like the Yankees.
Stat wise he's basically Derek Jeter who didn't have the advantage of playing for great teams like the Yankees.
I was prepared to argue with you; but, the numbers over at baseball reference say you are correct. In fact the two most similar players to Derek Jeter are Craig Biggio and Paul Molitor.
I think all both Jeter and Molitor belong in the HOF. Jeter does get more points for being a shortstop.
With his age and lack of playing skills, what does he want to become, a team mascot?
I think all both Jeter and Molitor belong in the HOF. Jeter does get more points for being a shortstop.
I'd vote Biggio in as well.
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While Mayor Ed Lee is asking everyone to not indulge themselves in hard alcohol this weekend, he'll be at a bar himself, cutting the ribbon for one of the city's most famous watering holes: The Gold Dust Lounge. That's right, the long-awaited moment to imbibe at the eccentric bar has arrived. Aft ... More >>
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It's official: The Gold Dust Lounge will be shaking up cocktails again on New Year's Eve, when the historic watering hole is set to open at its new location -- with a big bash, of course. According to Lee Houskeeper, spokesman for the bar, city supervisors signed the necessary paperwork to allow the ... More >>
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Hey Tartine fans, get in line now -- Bar Tartine's sandwich shop officially opens today. Eater SF notes you can dine-in or take-out, but you're not able to buy the loaves you love just yet -- perhaps by f ... More >>
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Some things shouldn't change!Owners of the popular Gold Dust Lounge are not giving up hope to keep the iconoclastic watering hole open in Union Square. They are asking the community to stop by the dive bar on Powell Street tomorrow to hear their ideas for how to preserve the landmark bar. And if ... More >>
The landmark Gold Dust Lounge is being evicted on March 10 to make way for yet another Union Square retailer. News of the iconoclastic dive's demise hit the community hard, and grassroots efforts to save the popular watering hole has quickly sprouted. The news was confirmed on the bar's Twitter f ... More >>
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LINCOLN — Nebraska's Sweet 16 assignment in the women's NCAA tournament is the ACC champion deep in the heart of ACC country.
The sixth-seeded Huskers will play No. 2 seed Duke, which Tuesday night beat No. 7 seed Oklahoma State 68-59, Sunday in Norfolk, Va., a Naval port city just three hours from the Blue Devils' campus in Durham, N.C. Norfolk is also right next door to the Virginia Beach hometown of one of Duke's best players, center Elizabeth Williams.
Nebraska's 74-63 win Monday at No. 3 seed Texas A&M was a tall order fulfilled. Nebraska's first meeting with Duke is hardly any easier, considering the Blue Devils have been to three straight Elite Eights.
"Duke is one of the most talented teams in the nation," Nebraska coach Connie Yori said in a statement Tuesday night. "They have a roster filled from top to bottom with college All-Americans, all-ACC players, high school All-Americans and USA national program players.
"It seems like they are in the national championship discussion every year, and there are some really good reasons for that. They have great players and great coaches. It will be a great challenge for us to take on Duke Sunday in Virginia, but we are looking forward to the opportunity to play in the Sweet 16 again."
The Blue Devils (32-2) won the ACC regular-season title by three games and followed it up with a title in the ACC tournament despite losing starting point guard Chelsea Gray to a dislocated knee in mid-February. Their two losses this year were to Miami (Fla.), which lost to Iowa in the first round of the NCAA tournament, and Connecticut, one of three main favorites for the national title.
For much of Tuesday, it looked like the Cowgirls would deliver Duke a third loss, leading by 15 early in the second half. OSU executed its offense much like Nebraska did in its win over A&M. The Blue Devils turned up their trademark pressure defense to chip away at Oklahoma State's lead, but they still trailed 51-45 with less than eight minutes left.
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The Blue Devils are paced by Williams, a traditional center who averages 15.5 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. She's a key defensive stopper, too, averaging three blocks per game. Williams, who was the No. 1 high school recruit in 2011, allows Duke's guards to play for steals.
And Duke get steals — 11.6 per game. Eight players in its current nine-woman rotation have 20 or more steals. Duke's transition game is a medley of layups and 3-pointers; the Blue Devils have four players shooting better than 40 percent from beyond the 3-point arc.
So the Blue Devils are slightly more aggressive than the A&M team that Nebraska just beat, and have better shooters. They have seven high school All-Americans and 11 top 100 recruits. What Duke now lacks — what perhaps kept the team from a No. 1 seed — is a true point guard. Gray was that, averaging 13 points, 5.6 assists and 3.7 steals before hurting her knee in a win over Wake Forest. She had surgery March 15 and won't return until next year.
Husker point guard Lindsey Moore, meanwhile, just played one of her best games, a 20-point, 10-assist performance against the Aggies.
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First Listen: 'Farewell Transmission: The Music Of Jason Molina'
Jason Molina never sang to — or for — the many. The singer-songwriter, who died last year at 39, gave voice to despair and solitude, and to a lonely pursuit of the comfort and strength necessary to face each day. Whether he performed as Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co or Jason Molina, his big, yearning voice encountered only a small but intense cult following that heard in him a crucial combination of fatalism and fighting spirit.
Like many whose fan bases run narrow but deep, Molina was widely beloved by musicians; anyone who's ever tried to channel the blues would know how pure his were. Within the last year, Molina has already inspired two double-length tribute albums, each intended to help his family and spread word of his work. Both, while naturally uneven in execution, nicely convey the sturdiness of Molina's songcraft — not to mention his considerable gift for quotable melancholy.
Farewell Transmission: The Music of Jason Molina is the newer of the two collections — the other is last year's Weary Engine Blues — with proceeds split between the singer's family and a charity called MusiCares, which battles Molina's twin demons of alcoholism and depression. In 27 songs and just less than two hours, it provides a fine overview of the singer's best-known work, highlighted by My Morning Jacket's suitably epic take on the title track.
Given the reverence in which Molina's work is held, it's no surprise that Farewell Transmission rarely strays far from the singer's original intentions, though it's intriguing to hear Squares recast the almost impossibly desolate "Get Out Get Out Get Out" as a bold rock song. Molina's former bandmates even come together as Memorial Electric Company to perform a new track, "Arm in Arm," as well as to tackle the unrecorded Molina song "Trouble in Mind (Fade to Blue)." Between the incredible source material and a fine assortment of contributors — including Sarah Jaffe, Murder by Death, Catherine Irwin, Wooden Wand and another past Molina collaborator, Will Johnson of Centro-Matic — Farewell Transmission marks a fine way to both celebrate a great career and mourn a man for whom mournfulness was stitched into the fabric of his art.
First Listen: Death, 'Death III'
The Detroit band Death spent a chunk of the '70s making vital music that went almost entirely unheard for decades. Inspired in part by Alice Cooper, brothers Bobby, David and Dannis Hackney made furious, hooky proto-punk music that existed alongside bands like the MC5, yet never reached an audience. When it finally saw national release back in 2009, Death's music seemed to emerge from an alternate-universe canon.
Five years ago, ...For the Whole World to See surfaced as a frequently masterful lost album from the mid-'70s, and the years since have spawned a second collection of recordings (Spiritual, Mental, Physical) in 2011, a documentary (A Band Called Death) in 2012, and now a decades-spanning compilation titled Death III. Taken together, they paint a picture of a group that deserves its new-found place in rock history.
Given that its nine songs span nearly two decades — these recordings were made in 1975, 1976, 1980 and 1992 — Death III can't help but project an odds-and-ends vibe. Two tracks, "Introduction by David" and "First Snowfall in Detroit," are instrumental, while others convey the raw feel of home demos. But the recordings still capture the creativity of the minds that made them: From 1980, the skittishly paranoid "North Street" chronicles the perils that await the have-nots in Detroit, while "We Are Only People" spends nearly nine minutes transforming from a trippy, meandering seether to a boldly rocking epic.
Until recently, Death's story was one of obscurity and disappointment: an aborted major-label record deal, ill-fated attempts to regroup as The 4th Movement in the late '70s and, most sadly, the death of guitarist David Hackney from lung cancer in 2000. It took bassist Bobby Hackney's sons stumbling across some tapes in the family attic for Death's story to even begin to be told, but now there's a true archive to complement its amazing resurrection. As anyone who's seen the reconstituted Death on the live stage can tell you, it may well be time for some new recordings — welcome additions to an unlikely story that almost went untold.
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Food is life. It's the connective tissue between families, communities and cultures. At base, it's sustenance, and at its most complex, like when it appears in song, it can evoke nostalgia, carnal desires and comfort. For Kelis Rogers, R&B's resident provocateur, Food — her first album since 2010's dance-heavy Flesh Tone — is the embodiment of what she has always contended as an artist: that she can't be molded to fit inside one genre — one flavor, one dish, one cuisine.
Since her first blip on the radar in 1999 as the hook singer on Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Got Your Money," Kelis' work has run the gamut of musical experimentation; her approach has been nothing less than bombastic. Whether she was screaming about how much she hates you, spearheading the shift toward a new R&B sound or diving into the world of electronic dance music, Kelis has never been one to sound subdued or stagnant.
At 34 years old — post divorce, contract liberation and since becoming a mother — Kelis is beyond the point of trying to fit into any box that the industry has tried to squash her into, whether it was a label with misgivings or a radio station that couldn't figure out where she belonged. In flipping her sound once again, she found an unlikely partnership with indie/art-rocker Dave Sitek (of TV on the Radio fame) and the 13-piece band that came with him. The result is songs that we'd never have expected from the singer. Instead of playing her position and exploring with futuristic interpretations, Kelis tips her hat to the past with a palette that revels in soul, doo-wop and layered girl-group harmonies. It's a pace further away from the massive hit song that, more than a decade later, refuses to go down.
But there are also moments on Food when it seems that two steps toward a new life are stalled by a backward stumble to a not-so-forgotten past. On tracks like "Rumble," you can hear a mixture of relief and reluctance as she repeats, "I'm so glad you gave back my keys." There's no authority in the way she says it, but in the end, she's persistent enough that she's convincing herself, if nobody else.
With her signature throaty growl, Kelis relays what she needs throughout Food. Whether she's asking for something as deceptively simple as ice-cold water in a song like "Friday Fish Fry," or something as complicated as love itself on songs like "Floyd," where she huskily, sweetly, sings, "I want to be blown away," Food represents Kelis' most heartfelt demand — graciously intoned, especially compared to the ways she has insisted before — that we acknowledge where she is now.
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As of last September — some 36 years after their launch on Sept. 5, 1977 — NASA's Voyager 1 & 2 space probes were some 12 billion miles from home, easily the farthest man-made objects from Earth. Voyager's primary mission ended back in 1980, when both satellites provided the closest, most detailed pictures taken of the gaseous planets of Jupiter and Saturn and their moons before continuing outward into space.
But in addition to their planet-photographing abilities, both Voyagers also contain instruments able to record the electromagnetic radiation fluctuations of those heavenly bodies — which means they can pick up what truly is the harmony of the spheres. And since each body — be it an asteroid, Saturn or any of Jupiter's numerous moons — has a unique mass and elemental make-up, each emits a different "sound." Spread across seven seven-inch singles to be released on Record Store Day (along with a CD, digital and regular vinyl release), Lefse Records' The Space Project compilation features 14 modern bands and electronic-music producers who imbibe and ground such cosmic noise into an earthly delight.
For some acts, adding actual "space" to their space-rock is a given. Chilean duo The Holydrug Couple deploys leisurely drums and heavily reverbed guitars and organ in "Amphitrites Lost," then has the song dilate midway through to allow in the noise of Neptune herself. Former Lungfish member Asa Osbourne's spare project Zomes embraces the transmissions of Saturn for the haunting and hushed ambient drift of "Moonlet."
The lineage of artists and composers imagining the sounds of our solar system — think the exotic bachelor-pad swing of Esquivel, the outr� transmissions of Sun Ra or the "New World" weirdness of Joe Meek — is vast, and not every conjuring of the cosmos is so reverent. DFA's Larry Gus pays tribute to the moon Io and fills in all that space with Henry Mancini hi-hats, caffeinated piano lines, krautrock bass and garbled transmissions. And Blues Control weaves and floats in "Blues Danube" like a UFO operator about to get a DUI.
Curiously, The Space Project's finest moments are its most terrestrial. Beach House suggests not so much the weightlessness of space as the sensation of floating in a warm pond in "Saturn Song." And space-rock master Jason Pierce and Spiritualized's "Always Together With You (The Bridge Song)" meanders about before swan-diving into the interplanetary noise of its source. Ever so subtly, it announces: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating on earth."
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"This is a matter of the heart — a matter of the soul," Jesse Boykins III declares toward the end of his new album, Love Apparatus. His heart, soul, blood, sweat, tears and laughter have merged and culminated in the project, out April 22, which is his first full-length solo album in more than five years. When he released his last LP, The Beauty Created, in November 2008 — only 9 months after his debut, Dopamine: My Life On My Back — Boykins was an earnest, bright-eyed kid who emanated potential. With two records under his belt in a breakout year, he was on the radar of forward-thinking music blogs and new-school R&B fans alike. And then ... nothing. Aside from a peep here and there, he went quiet for the next half decade.
Despite not having a new album to call his own all those years, Boykins has crafted an eclectic and powerful presence in the undulating landscape of contemporary R&B. Now known equally for his sensuous vocals, unsettling charm and unduplicated aesthetics (see the photo above), Boykins has managed to remain musically relevant by collaborating with fellow Soulquarian-influenced artists like Melo-X and MoRuf and by putting his own spin on popular songs, like Drake's Jhene Aiko-assisted "From Time." His experiences over the past few years — which include touring extensively in Europe and working closely with electronic producer Machinedrum — have influenced who and what he represents in the present. Boykins took his ever-loving sweet time creating Love Apparatus, and reimagined himself in the process.
On the opening track, "GreyScale," Boykins stages an awakening. Over the rhythm of a heartbeat that sounds like it's been poised to pump for years, he seeks acknowledgment of his reincarnation and reinvention. By combining earthy, soul-tinged vocals with funk-infused new-age production from Machinedrum, Boykins carves a unique place in R&B. Not quite Miguel, nor Jeremih, but somebody all his own.
Throughout the record, the singer's breathy vocals are matched by Machinedrum's production, which expands and retracts with Boykins' every inhale and exhale. Against the backdrop of playful horns and flirtatious 808s on "Show Me Who You Are," Boykins seductively pleas with his female counterpart to let him see the real her. "I'll take haste to learn the trails of you," he promises.
And so goes the entirety of the album. Boykins is by now a professional persuader: he persuades romantic interests to believe in him, to trust his ability to love; he persuades himself that his love is worthy; and he persuades us listeners to give him an honest shot, to accept all that he's emoting, all those feelings he left out for us to consume.