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Single of the Week!
Get Shakes - 'Love Hate' / 'She Found The Diamonds' (Shake Recordings)
Let me begin by being irksome and not talking about Get Shakes, even though they have earned the top spot and deserve to be talked about. Because (as we have chanced to remark before) life, love, music - none of it is fair, no one ever said it was, it is merely our duty to go about making the best fist possible, without upsetting our fellow mens. Lecture dispatched, we turn to !!! - a band about whom I could quite honestly bore you rigid, representing as they do a very odd mix of the completely daggy and staggeringly cool (a dread word granted, but I have no alternative). I've never seen a band work a room like they, I've never seen a front man whose dancing was such utter woe, and yet who was – absolutely in parallel - so magnet-like. They are a mess. And yet, something happens when they play live or make a record, and it's a delicious mixture of punk's flicked Vs and disco's abandon; straps falling sexily down and being left there. (I. LOVE. THEM.) I say all this so that when I tell you Get Shakes put me in mind of !!!, you will know what high praise I mean it to be. Granted – these Shakes are a shinier, poppier proposition. But they come from a similar place - tipped on the precipice about to overdo the attitude, pouting at you like a trollop. Proper blippy disco music then, that swaggers and grins.
The Afternoons - 'I Want It Anyway' (Saturday)
This sort of very British, jangle classicism never really goes away and I'm rather glad. Even if it doesn't seem to do terribly well. Even if bands like Hal disappear after making an album so perfect, lush and heartfelt only the most deliberately unromantic sorts could fail to be converted, still I am won over by anyone who makes music this unashamedly glowing, one might almost warm one's hands on it. This is a cup of Horlicks pop tune, hitting its rock marks like a seasoned RSC cove who still calls everyone darling, but isn't bitter about the younglings hogging the best parts.
Kerogen - 'Witness' (Lewis Recordings)
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At this point in my playlist I took off my headphones and finding them wanting, shot them a long, withering look. The trouble - as I find to my wallet's horror - is that they only ever last six months. So like the gadget stinge I am, I buy mid-priced rubbish that is horribly inadequate when some dreamy sort finally sends me a dubstep record with PROPER BASS ON IT. And despite the fact that 'Witness' is very like the sort of Orb-ish chill-out record I could be found listening to as a nipper (when by rights I should have been tucked up in bed) – all unchallengingly pretty pianos and watery bubbles popping – it is saved by dubstep's requisite ingredient, darkness. And as this doom zooms in and out of the middle distance, suddenly 'Witness' is a balanced record; proffering The Bleakness in one hand and Wispy Calm in another. Which is to say, I really liked it. But as readers of this fair portal know, the man what really knows is DiS' own jimitheexploder, who tells me how Darkstar's 'Aidy's Girl is a Computer' has 'just dropped' (you know, one does wish one could get away with saying 'just dropped' but I really do find I cannot). Jimi – whose enthusiasm for this remarkable genre is humbling - he say "Now that's a single!" And let's face it, I know who I should be more inclined to take my dubstep recommends from. That on is here.
Bless Beats/ Janee feat. Tinchy Stryder 'Sex In The City' (Moshi Moshi)
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I. SAID. KWY-ET. And you can all turn to page 47 of the set text, because today we're going to be re-tooling the theme tune used in the television adaptation of Ms. Bushnell's modern literary classic. Now then, a gold star to the first of you to put up their hand and give me a word that rhymes with 'city'. Anyone, anyone? Oh do come on. Alright, yes - you boy – Adams. Pity - is that what you said? Good, excellent. And you there – Lukowski – do sit up straight Lukowski, you won't get anywhere in life slouching like that - what gem of linguistic brilliance are you about to offer your classmates? Witty? Why yes, that works, a merit for you too. Anyone else. Slater? I say, is it really usual for a boy of your age to have a beard? Most impressive, and yes, serendipity, you little smartarse, very good indeed. And what of Masters Stryder & Bless? What word do they know that rhymes with city? Oh, they're not serious, surely. That's the word they wish to employ on an actual record? TITTY? I mean, do bear in mind they've had what - ten years? - to think of it.
Rob The Rich - 'Tiger' (Modular)
This is a bloody great heap of a thing. But hold up, WAIT A MINUTE – I preface this review by the following crucial informatory nugget - which is that I quite like bloody great heaps when they sound this exuberant. And when an accordion hums in and out, while some pleasingly wavery vocals soar over the top. And then some choppy drums herald the arrival of a proper Big Indie chorus (which in fairness I'm less sure about, because it's a bit too blaring, a bit too whoopstheregoesmysongstructure). The thing is – and this is a good thing, I think – you can hear how spent Rob The Rich must be when they finish playing this song, you can smell how sweaty their hair; can see their clothes clinging to them. Overall - a whole lot of enthusiasm has been bodyslammed into this single, which despite not being perfect, I find I admire. Buy it here.
Grammatics - 'Double Negative' (Dance To Radio)
Are Grammatics a bit emo? I only ask because I managed to miss emo entirely – it occurring at a time in my life when I was in a sort of musical wilderness, love-latched to an extreme and constant sufferer of Tinnitus. And to be perfectly honest, getting excited about bands – a pleasure he couldn't share – felt a bit like rubbing his nose in the smelly stuff. However many years it is later, and I still find myself rather unable to pinpoint exactly what emo means, much less how one is meant to spot it. And I get the impression it is a very bad thing; that it might possibly be filed next to Prog in the Pantheon of Wrongness. All of which is a roundabout way of explaining that if emo is what I think it is, this record has it in spades, and yet is all the better for it. But also that I must be a bit of one, and that on the strength of 'Double Negative' I fancy I am almost proud to be. Were the single a tiny bit reined in, I would draw those dread three letters in Big Caps on my forehead.
Housse de Racket - 'Synthetiseur' (50 Bones)
I doubt you remember, but last week I mentioned the marked proliferation of very very French pop music. And yes, I did just use French as a descriptive adjective and yes, I intend to do it again in a minute. [<<<<< Very possibly not my first bit of hactual tautology there! But then, at least I know what it means!] Anyway there I were, mentally trying out appropriate categories for my upcoming Singles of the Year list ('Most Rousing', 'Most Blue', 'Best for Singing' – tis all dreadfully scientific) when I realised we almost certainly need a pigeonhole for 'Most French'. Again I bellow - vaguely xenophobic small-town idiotholes like me are being courted, our lowest common denominator senses of humour are being stroked like slinky cats who've just returned from the kitty spa. Or at least, that some God of Music somewhere is smiling down. Knowing full well that I like nothing better than putting on a pisspoor French accent and singing along to bands with pleasingly silly names, that sound like packet desserts considered the height of sophistication when I was a child. And who sing very camp disco songs about synthesisers. Or "sint-teh-teez-errs" as Housse de Racket would have it. In any event, whatever I've done to appease them, I must have done it A LOT. This is magnificent fun, ticking all my boxes like a robot doing a Census.
Kano - 'Rock'n'Roller' (Bigger Picture Music)
I've done my research for this one, you shall be glad to hear. Scouring in real-life cupboards for my copy of Kano's first long player and finally locating it, down the back of my record collection's imaginary sofa cushions (under some ill-thought out, fluffball purchases). Anyhoo, do be grateful because then I went to the trouble of sitting for a whole afternoon, staring at his wondrously long and distracting eyelashes. The trouble is, for all young Kano's fulsome charms (many of which, I feel compelled to assure you, are not aesthetic), 'Rock'n'Roller' is a crashing disappointment. It leaves me to draw cheap comparisons with similarly named films by Guy Richie, and it's about as convincing as the ex-Mr Madonna's cockney origins; flimsy as something with Made in Taiwan stamped on its thin plastic bottom. Kano is much, much better than this record would have you believe. But though I am sad, I promise to keep the faith. And you should too.
Meleka - 'Go' (Defenders Ent)
I realise this is an incongruous, UK funky house entry on our usually more raggedly-inclined chart. And it's got them desperate, ihatechoobutiloveyou ladyvocals which personally I find nigh-on irresistible. Good job too, because I suspect you're not going to be able to move for hearing this. Although probably not down the indie disco.
Theo Bard - 'Listen Carefully EP' (Tape Records)
Worthy of note not because it is a finger-picking folk record, but because it is a finger-picking folk record that confounds a few of the lyrical expectations of the genre. So instead of the usual tale of a red-right-handed man dashing out some poor poppet's brains with a rock, we have all the dull ephemera of life as a young man in Britain Today. Not perfect - but in its favour, honest. MySpace here.
Records Deserving Of A Special Mention And Which Would Have Been Writted About Were I Able To Spend All Week On This Column! Which I Sort Of Do Already! Does Anyone Want To Lend Me A Tenner! Etc!
Smoke Fairies - 'Sunshine' (Music For Heroes)
Post War Years - 'Soul Owl' (Wealth)
Ex Libras - 'Radar' (Wirebird Records)
Los Campesinos! - 'These Are Listed Buildings' (Wichita)
Beat The Radar - '18, 19, 20, 21, 22' (Akoustik Anarkhy)
And The Rest!
Grum – 'Heartbeats' (Heartbeats)
Lemonade - 'Bliss Out' (Sunday Best)
Duck Sauce - 'aNYyway' (Data Records / Ministry Of Sound)
Ladyhawke - 'Magic' (Modular)
Röyksopp featuring Karin Dreijer – 'This Must Be It' (Wall Of Sound)
The Wave Pictures - 'Strawberry Cables' (Moshi Moshi)
Swanton Bombs - 'Doom' (Young & Lost Club)
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From Pawtucket To Cooperstown
This is Hall of Fame induction weekend in Cooperstown and 50 of the 65 living Hall of Famers are expected to take part in this year's festivities, including Lehigh Valley IronPigs manager Ryne Sandberg.
After spending three days in Pawtucket this week, Sandberg missed Thursday's game at McCoy Stadium to travel to Cooperstown.
"Just going there and being amongst the Hall of Fame members – that's still a treat for me and that will never end," Sandberg told me. "To sit next to Willie Mays, or Mike Schmidt, or Sandy Koufax – the names go on and on. I go there and take it all in. The Hall of Fame does a very nice job of making it a casual setting where all of the guys get together for golf, dinner, and parties, so we all get to hang out. Going back is always a treat."
Sandberg was inducted in 2005 along with former PawSox and Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs. Is the 10-time All-Star and 9-time Gold Glove Award winner still in awe when he's around his childhood heroes?
"To some extent, but maybe a little bit less than seven years ago because I know them now and they're great guys," Sandberg said. "I've become friends with a lot of them – my wife and Bob Gibson's wife got very close from going to the Hall of Fame, so now we get together and go to dinner in the off-season and stuff like that. I never thought that I would be going to dinner a few times a year with Bob Gibson – a guy that I wouldn't have wanted to stand in there and try to hit off – but he's a great guy and now we're friends. That's really what comes from this and it's a very unique club."
This is the second time in a little more than a month that Sandberg has returned to Cooperstown. On June 15th, Lehigh Valley had an off-day before beginning a series in Pawtucket, so on the bus ride north from Allentown, the team took a detour to the Hall of Fame.
"That was organized and orchestrated by the Phillies organization," Sandberg said. "They want to try to get each affiliate up there within the next four or five years. They thought it was a great opportunity since I'm the manager at LehighValleythis year to start that off. The travel wasn't bad and I know that once the guys got there, they saw some great stuff. We spent about 3 hours there, had lunch, and had a great off-day. All in all, I thought it was terrific. Some of the players had been there, but others that hadn't must have thought that it was awesome."
Sandberg's Hall of Fame plaque mentions the "tireless preparation" that helped him become one of the best second baseman in major league history. Now he's working toward becoming a big league skipper, and plans to use this weekend to pick the brains of some of best managers ever.
"When I got into managing in 2007, I found myself going to the Hall of Fame and sitting at the same table with Earl Weaver and Tommy Lasorda and Frank Robinson," Sandberg said. "It's pretty cool to hang out with them and see if I can pick something up. I hope to do more of the same because I'm always trying to learn something. Any little crumb that I can pick up along the way that will continue to help me be a better baseball man."
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By the way, when the Lehigh Valley IronPigs made that bus ride to Cooperstown in June, they used a bus company that causes frequent confusion and occasional hysteria when it rolls into International League ball parks.
Bieber Tourways is based in Kutztown, PA and has nothing to do Justin Bieber (although I'm sure they would welcome his business).
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In March, I told the story of how Bubba Bell – now with the Buffalo Bisons – became friends last winter with hockey legend Wayne Gretzky (you can read it here).
Bell gave private hitting lessons this past off-season to Gretzky's son Trevor, who was recently selected in baseball's amateur draft.
"He just got drafted in the 7th round by the Cubs,"Bell told me before Friday's game against Pawtucket. "He's really close to signing. He's got some shoulder issues that he's going to get taken care of so that he can start playing next year, but as far as I know, he's about to sign and go to Arizona. He's going to let his dad handle his representation which I thought was the best idea in the world. I'm excited for him to get his shoulder taken care of and see what happens."
The Toronto Sun reports that Trevor has in fact signed with the Cubs. According to the paper, the fact that Chicago has not announced the signing could possibly mean that Gretzky received more than the slotted bonus money.
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Fighting For First – The Pawtucket Red Sox will look to move into a tie for first place in the I.L. North for the first time since April 22nd as they face the Buffalo Bisons in game two of a 4-game series at Buffalo's Coca-Cola Field on Saturday night.. The PawSox won the opening game of the series 4-2 on Friday as Ryan Lavarnway went 2-for-4 with a 2B, HR, and 3 RBI. That victory coupled with Lehigh Valley's 6-3 loss to Columbus, closed the gap between the 1st-place IronPigs and 2nd-place PawSox to one game. The series in Buffalo continues tomorrow at 1:05 pm before concluding on Monday at 7:05 pm. Pawtucket then moves to Allentown,PA for a key 4-game series vs.LehighValley. Pawtucket returns home one week from tonight (Saturday, July 30) for an 8-game homestand that features four games vs.Louisville and four more vs. the Buffalo Bisons.
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Which thoughts/considerations underlie this project?
The pendant comes from that part of the exhibition "over/under" called "horizon". It consisted of sawn-out children's drawings combined with pictures of celebrities. The drawings were put on classical jewellery, such as the pearl necklace, the medal, the signet ring. They were a comment to the very constructed images of persons and their stories that are overflowing the medias today.
Combined with the children's drawings and the very raw design (regarding the materials and the whole set up), the classical jewellery came to appear as a sort of cliché, suddenly pointing to a larger perspective that went beyond the world of jewellery. Thus, this was a way for me to use "the story of jewellery" to reflect certain types of medias' cliché-ridden caricatures of very complex people, situations and themes.
How can one perceive this piece in relation to your other works?
The pendants from this series are part of my seeing the jewellery as an exchanged narrative between people. But besides that, these pieces also reflect my interest in working with surfaces, as well as using classical jewellery as an expression of modern clichés.
Which materials and/or techniques have you been using?
The figures are cut out in metal and rivet with bone and horn. Their eyes and glimmer are made of faceted glass brick. The chains are made of respectively silvered brass chain and ribbon, referring to old-fashioned toilet chains and the kind of ribbon used for medals.
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Is it too soon to wonder if Lost's latest gimmick is falling a bit flat? At the very least, last night's episode was the second in a row that Sawyer stole, and that feels significant. Spoilers below.
I'm not sure whether it counts as a spoiler that Lost is showcasing two different realities this season - one in which the castaways are still stuck on the island, and one in which their plane never crashed. But there are already rumblings that the "flash-sideways" reality, featuring the same old characters in a new context, is more of an interesting exercise than a thrilling storytelling device.
Fancast's Matt Webb Mitovich even asked Locke actor Terry O'Quinn about it yesterday:
Q: If there's been one knock on Lost's new season, it's that the alternate reality where Flight 815 didn't crash has left people a bit cold. Are those storylines going to get more compelling?
A: I have no way to read that kind of thing; I simply do my best when I'm performing it. But I've been told by one person who's seen it that in the episode coming up, [the "sideways" storytelling] really kicks in.
In any case, the "flash-sideways" format was especially jarring last night, since we weren't even watching the same Locke in the Island-verse as in the LA-verse. The Island-verse version of Locke, of course, died at Ben's hands a year or so back, and since his corpse was brought back to the island, he's been impersonated by the Man In Black, aka the Smoke Monster, aka Smokey. Meanwhile, the LA-verse version of Locke was never healed by the island, and thus still grapples with his disability.
So last night, the two Lockes went two different ways. Smokey, who's apparently stuck being Locke forever, railed against the restrictions the island wants to put on him, shouting Locke's famous rallying cry, "Don't tell me what I can't do!" twice for good measure. Meanwhile, the O.G. Locke, back in L.A., went through a slow (and painful to watch) process of realizing that people should tell him what he can't do, partly with the help of a slightly patronizing Rose.
A big part of the "flash-sideways" segments seems to be the puzzle-hunting aspect, looking for all the stuff that's different in this world, plus the chance meetings between Oceanic 815-ers along the way. For instance, not only is this Locke still with his beloved Helen (and planning their wedding), but he's also friends with his dad, judging from Helen's remarks, plus his cubicle wall:
We get to see Locke interact not only with the still-cancer-stricken Rose, but also the happy-go-lucky Hurley, who gets major points for correctly identifying Randy Nations as a douche. And then, of course, all of this culiminates in Locke getting a substitute-teacher job at a school... where a very different Benjamin Linus is a teacher.
The mind boggles! So this version of Ben either never went to the island, or got off before it sank. And Locke somehow managed to screw up his spine without having the huge confrontation with his dad. And maybe his dad isn't a con-man in this universe — which has huge implications for Sawyer. It's fascinating to watch the dominos fall.
And yet, for some reason, both this "flash-sideways" and Kate's, last week, seem to be lacking in narrative energy. I mean, people go places and do stuff, and make defining choices. Last week, Kate made the choice to be altruistic and help a pregnant woman (not realizing the connection they shared in another reality). And this week, Locke made the choice to accept the limits people want to put on him. (This came at the end of a long string of disability-porn moments, including the never-ending malfunctioning chair-lift.) But since we don't know how these incidents relate to events back on the island, or to the characters we've been invested in all this time, they feel a bit like digressions, in a way.
Put it another way: There's a reason why "Elseworlds" comics staring DC Comics characters never sell quite as well as the regular comics. People want stories that are in continuity, that are at least theoretically going to resonate with the character's history, going both backwards and forwards. So far, at least, the "flash-sideways" segments feel less weighty than either flashbacks or "flash-forwards" did.
But like I said, that may be more of a problem with last night's episode in particular, because they weren't even the same John Locke in both segments. So it felt like while Sawyer and Smokey were saying things to reinforce our sense that the late, lamented Locke was a bit of a loser, the "flash-sideways" segments showed us the "other" Locke accepting his limitations. And that wasn't entirely compelling.
The Island segments of last night's episode, on the other hand, were pretty thrilling and gripping - although as I mentioned, Sawyer stole the show for the second week running. The grief-stricken, wife-beater-wearing, booze-hound Sawyer seemed to make his own defining choice last night - he's going to join up with Smokey to rebel against the island's dictates and get the hell off this lush tropical rock. For someone who just wanted to be left alone last week, Sawyer is suddenly eager to get out and discover answers and get all proactive. But this isn't the first time we've seen Sawyer flip-flop.
And you pretty much can never have too much Steinbeck-quoting, gun-toting Sawyer, totally holding his own against the entity that's overawed and outsmarted Richard Alpert and Ben Linus all last year. Plus Sawyer climbing down the hazardous cliff ladder and snarking his way through the Major Revelations about Jacob and the Island.
It's great to be seeing a new side of Sawyer on the island, instead of having to go to an alternate L.A. And Sawyer's grief and rage continue to be the most compelling emotional beats on the show.
So what did we learn from/about Smokey last night? Let's start with the last thing: Jacob had this weird cabin, in which he'd written a ton of names, including the names of all the people he'd touched off the island in "The Incident." And each of those Oceanic 815er's names corresponded to one of the infamous Numbers. These people were candidates to replace Jacob as the island's sole protector, which makes you wonder why he didn't just come and tell them that right away. (And why he "chose" Hurley so much later than the others, in that L.A. taxi.) Also, if the Others, Jacob's supposed followers, had known Sawyer was a "candidate," maybe they wouldn't have roughed him up quite so much?
In any case, presumably there's a selection process for Candidates, which tends to kill them. (Judging from all the other names.) And because Locke was a Candidate, as Smokey tells Alpert, he was able to get inside the statue and bring Ben "Stabby McStabberson" Linus.
But even though Smokey managed to kill Jacob, he still hasn't won his freedom, which is why, as Ilana puts it, he's "recruiting" for his little gang. First he tries to recruit Richard Alpert, which doesn't go that well, and then he has better luck with Sawyer. I'm seeing echoes of season four, when the castaways split into "Team Jack" and "Team Locke," based on whether they believed the Freighter People were friendly. (The division between the two teams seemed a bit random back then, based on moving chess pieces around as much as anything else. Wondering if it'll be the same this time?)
Smokey also tells Sawyer, "Before I was trapped I was a man... i know what its like to feel joy, pain and betrayal, and lose someone you love."
And there's the shining child, whom Smokey and Sawyer can see, but whom Alpert apparently can't. (I wonder if this is related to having been touched by Jacob?) Is this Aaron, somehow back on the island? Jacob reincarnated? Or someone else? Whoever it is tells Smokey, "You know the rules. You can't kill him." (Does this refer to someone other than Jacob?) And this occasions Smokey shouting Locke's catch phrase in anger. Oh, and Smokey also tells that Jacob has been manipulating his chosen candidates, giving them nudges at the right times, to bring them to the island — and his manipulation of Jack appears to have consisted of giving him a candy bar at just the right moment to accentuate his defiance of his father.
Oh, and I loved the Smokey-cam point of view at the start of the episode. That was a lovely bit of horror-movie-esque monster-camming.
And finally, Ben Linus was just as conniving and awesome as always, carefully telling Ilana one lie - that Smokey killed Jacob - amongst a host of truths. And I loved his little speech at Locke's funeral: "Locke was a believer. He was a man of faith. John Locke was a much better man than I will ever be, and I'm very sorry I murdered him." (As Frank says, strangest damn funeral ever.) And then the other Ben, the prissy schoolteacher who instantly sees Locke as a kindred spirit, looks like he'll be a fascinating character to watch.
So all in all, the island segments added some pretty intriguing pieces to the puzzle and delved a lot deeper into Smokey's character. Plus Sawyer seemed to make a choice that looks like it'll reverberate for the whole rest of the series. Meanwhile, the off-island segments were fun for Easter-egg-hunting purposes, but mostly seemed to be designed to reinforce a pretty damning view of poor, dead John Locke. Here's hoping the "flash-sideways" device starts to show more narrative drive in the upcoming episodes.
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Following the long, cold winter, the last thing any of us wants to do is spend time inside organizing our house. But now is a good time to do a few quick projects that will still leave plenty of time to enjoy the outdoors and give you the satisfaction of keeping things on track.
•Clean out your car
Take advantage of the next few weeks to clean out your car. It's not freezing cold or sweltering hot, which makes it the perfect time to take a garbage bag out to your car and throw away trash. Clear out the trunk and glove compartment and don't forget to look under the seats. Bring anything inside that shouldn't be in the car, like toys, newspapers, extra phone cords, books and travel mugs. And if you don't have a first aid kit, jumper cables, and other safety products in your car, this is a good time to get them.
•Take a home inventory
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•Clean your closet floor
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•Tidy up the cabinet under your kitchen sink
This space gets a lot of use, which is why it's so important to do a thorough cleaning once in a while. Take everything out and recycle almost-empty and old cleaning products. Consolidate all of the plastic shopping bags and put them in your car so you can recycle them at the grocery store. Neatly combine reusable shopping bags and discard any that are past their prime. If you use plastic bags to clean up after your dog or for other purposes, you can pick up a container just for storing plastic shopping bags. Wipe out the bottom of the cabinet before putting everything away.
•Update your electronic address book
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•Organize your jewelry
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•Complete one or two items on your to-do list
Write the thank-you notes you've been putting off writing, use a gift card you've had sitting around, or send the package you have been meaning to send. The time spent completing the task will be minimal compared with the time you've spent worrying about not having done it. I promise.
•Clean out your pantry
Take 10 minutes to review the expiration dates on your pantry staples and consolidate any open bags of flour. If products have expired, throw them out. Then make a list to refresh your pantry so you're ready to entertain this summer. With the end of the school year approaching, this is a good time to assess your storage containers. Those that are damaged or no longer have lids should be discarded.
•Frame your favorite photos from the past six months
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None of these projects is quite as fun as going on a bike ride or heading to the pool, but a few minutes spent de-clutter-ing and organizing now will make the summer months even more enjoyable and relaxing.
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Welcome to this weeks update….
Whilst browsing through all those halloween news stories, i came across one from ny1.com called "Aliens to invade house in Clinton hill for halloween" (posted 25th october,2007). In the past (on their front lawn) these houseowners put up gravestones (with topical things placed on them, with names and issues) for halloween.
This year however, a new feature is a UFO among the tombstones; on halloween night costumes and music will be used…. If you clip on the link above….see dial up broad band link and click on it for video. Cool…
At news.rgj.com, there is to be a "Supernatural Nevada Day planned" (posted 26th october,2007).
"While some stodgy states might downplay local conspiracy theories, the Silver State will flaunt its weirdness in full color down main street this weekend" (extract from article). Sounds like a good event to me; just a shame i'm in the UK! It plans to have beard contests and bands competing against themselves too, as part of the entertainment, plus suitably dressed people.
At tbo.com it states that "Whirling ufos puts Colony Hills couple In Spotlight" (posted 27th october,2007). It mentions that "They seemed to spin in four invisible corners, then zoom together in the center, spin, rhythmically separate and do it all over again". However, later on in the article, one person remains skeptical (as there is more than one witness), and believes that it is possibly spotlights.
In TheStar.com "Ex-defence minister joins search for aliens" (posted 27th october,2007)…………… "A new group is pushing for full disclosure about extra-terrestrials, and they've enlisted a former Canadian cabinet minister to help make their case" (extract from article).
AT wiltonvillager.com "Mysterious UFO identified" (posted 27th october,2007)….. "WILTON — A flying object — one Wilton resident couldn't identify Monday night — turned out to be a low-flying blimp heading towards Fenway Park" (extract from article). It did amuse me that later it commented that "Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said it's not uncommon for blimps to park on the grass of Brainard. "Normal operation," he said. "Nothing unusual about it.""
Billy booth at http://www.ufo.about.com/ discusses a good point in "UFOs or Chinese Lanterns?" Basically, many UK UFO sightings are attributed to lanterns (IE…. weddings, celebrations) but does that account for all of them? if only one is truly a UFO, then it needs investigating…. the problem is that there is a vast amount from this year, and it would be a truly hard task to sift through all of them; not impossible by any means but difficult.
Here's a very strange story…… from the telegragh.co.uk "Aliens caused Sicily fires, says officials". It says that "Aliens were responsible for a series of unexplained fires in fridges, TV's and mobile phones in an Italian village, according to an Italian government report". Later on, it mentions that this is only one of several explanations (the other one being top secret weapons). Strange indeed.
In thisisexeter.co.uk "Strange lights glowing in the sky over Exeter have residents bemused , confused and feeling slightly silly"(Extract from article-posted 25th october,2007), in " There's something weird up there".
At the ocregister.com "Ufos like the quality of life at Tustin" (posted 24th october,2007)…. it mentions that UFOs where first known properly in this area in 1965, when a sighting made the headlines. The article mentions other sightings from Tustin….
In the oregonlive.com (posted 25th october,2007) "It came from outer space,says man" and "For Keith Rowell, tracking UFOs in Oregon requires both skepticism and belief" (extract from article)….
At the Emeraldcoast.com "Is there Anybody out there?" (posted 26th october,2007)….
"It did not take long for the town of Gulf Breeze to become the center of one of the most controversial cases of its time. Television stations, newspapers and radios were filled with reports of the sightings. Air Force, MUFON and several independent investigators became involved in the case" (extract from article).
Other articles include:
"Brazos Past: Waco's encounter with UFOs" (posted 27th october,2007).
"Roswell incident not explained to Richardson's satisfaction" (posted 26th october,2007).
"Officials identify Danbury Airport's Mysterious UFO" (posted 26th october,2007).
"Poll finds ghost believers aren't alone" (posted 27th october,2007).
" Strange light phenomena near Antipodes Islands" (posted ? october 2007).
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Last year started out strong for middleweight prospect "Smiling" Sam Alvey. Getting finishes in three wins over four fights had him riding high as he entered into The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson.
His experience on the show however, didn't go as well, as a first-fight exit ended his UFC hopes almost as quickly as they started.
"Outside of The Ultimate Fighter, I thought my year in MMA went very well (in 2012)," said Alvey. "I had a couple big knockouts, quick knockouts, and aside from a little setback where I went down to New Zealand and got robbed by the judges down there, it was a very good year with a lot of great fights."
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"Working with Dan Henderson and Team Quest and having an Olympic-size boxing ring, I'm very comfortable wrestling in a ring. So, I think my wrestling will be more than enough to take him down and stay on top."
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Although John Carroll didn't grow up a part of Memphis, the city has become a part of him.
The Murfreesboro, Tenn., native moved here in 2004, and has become a force for good with his City Leadership consulting group and Choose901 initiative.
After attending Union University in Jackson, Tenn., to study public relations, he returned to Murfreesboro and Middle Tennessee State University for a Bachelor of Science in political science and business administration. Work took him to Dallas, where he met his wife and stayed for four years.
Nine years ago, wanting to take a career path that was for-profit, but also benefited society in some way, he came to Memphis as vice president of Ugly Mug Coffee, the company with a conscience that worked in organic and fair trade goods.
He also was a part of a movement of people from around the country who relocated here for the church Fellowship Memphis. He worked as operations director, overseeing building, finances and programming.
During his first week with Fellowship Memphis, Carroll was approached by someone looking to start a homeless ministry.
"I thought, 'that'd be great, we should do that,'" Carroll said. "And about five minutes later someone walked up to me and said, 'Hey, can you help me out, I'd be really interested in starting a tutoring ministry.' I realized in that moment that I wasn't going to be able to manage all those kinds of things."
Instead of starting a group of individual ministries, Carroll and others on staff sought to create a system where their church could "help and be a part of, and significantly engage in other nonprofits," he said. "There are too many nonprofits in Memphis not to engage in them."
He went to these organizations to collect information on where and how to send and train volunteers, and what other resources they might need that Fellowship Memphis could help them acquire. They were working with close to 40 nonprofits and the church began City Leadership Residency, hiring people to work specifically with those nonprofits.
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Carroll had seen Fellowship Memphis through its growth and realized a skill set that facilitated such growth. He separated the residency from the church in 2010 to create City Leadership, a nonprofit consulting firm to help catalyze leaders for the city of Memphis.
"What I started finding was these nonprofits where I could help them manage their transition, serve their leaders, be an adviser for them, research for them, consult with them, help them make the right decisions," he said.
It has grown over just a few years working with a variety of organizations and employing a staff of 11.
Carroll calls himself a workaholic and says he gets "really excited about seeing pockets of change and making things happen that others didn't think was possible." When he moved to Memphis, he said, he encountered people who were down on the city, negative speak that didn't quite fit with what he was seeing every day.
"Don't get me wrong; Memphis has its problems, but Memphis is awesome," he said. "I fell in love with the place and fell in love with the people and fell in love with the culture. The city just wooed me."
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He has researched and written on the challenges of recruitment of a specific age and class of leaders, and Choose901 was fostered as "an umbrella where we can create a message to millennials about the opportunity to invest their life and enjoy their life right here in Memphis."
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Farmers and ranchers are invited to talk about the opportunities and challenges in livestock production and the impact of agriculture to rural communities and statewide revenues and infrastructure.
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Event: Marathon
Height: 5-8
Weight: 140
Born: April 4, 1965, in Kenya
Current Residence: Albuquerque, N.M.
College: South Plains Junior College '89; Lubbock Christian University '91;
Northern Arizona '94
Coach: Self
Agent: Self
Club: Nike
Career Highlights: 2-time USA Marathon champion ('05, '06); 3-time winner of Honolulu Marathon ('98, '01, '02)
younger brother of Ibrahim Hussein, who is a three-time winner of the Boston
Marathon and the event's first champion from Africa, Mbarak Hussein's best
finish at the Patriot's Day classic came in 2002 when he placed fourth after
finishing fifth in 2001. A resident of Albuquerque, N.M. since 1987, Hussein
took the U.S. citizenship oath in 2004. He is the two-time defending U.S.
marathon national champion and set two U.S. Master's records in 2005 by running
the half marathon at the Philadelphia Distance Run in 1 hour, 3 minutes, and 23
seconds and the 25 K at the Fifth Third River Bank Run in 1 hour, 17 minutes,
and 12 seconds.Despite all of his success, perhaps his most impressive
accomplishment came at the Lilac Bloomsday Run in Spokane, Washington on May 6th
of this year. That morning Hussein set both a Master's U.S. and world record in
the 12 km with a time of 36 minutes and 6 seconds. Formerly a middle distance
specialist, Hussein was an NJCAA champion in cross country as well as in both
the 800 and the 1,500 meters for South Plains Junior College; later, he also won
national titles in the 800 and 1,500 while at Lubbock Christian University, an
NAIA school.
2007: 21st at World Outdoors (2:23:04)...9th at USA 10 km Champs (29:22)…bests of 2:23:04 & 29:22.
2006: USA Marathon Champion (2:13:52)…7th at Seoul Marathon (2:12:53)…best of 2:13:52
2005: USA Marathon Champion (2:18:28)…2nd at Honolulu Marathon…best of 2:18:28
2004: Ran personal best of 2:08:10 in Seoul, Korea…best of 2:08:10
2003: 2nd at Honolulu Marathon (2:15:01)
2002: 1st at Honolulu Marathon (2:12:29)…1st at Seoul International Marathon (2:09:46)…1st at America's Finest City Half-Marathon (1:03.00)…best of 2:09:46.
2001: 1st at Honolulu Marathon (2:15:09)…fifth at Boston Marathon…best of 2:12:01.
2000: 3rd at Honolulu Marathon (2:15:38)…best of 2:15:38
1999: 3rd at Honolulu Marathon (2:16:55)…2nd at San Diego Marathon…best of 2:10:45.
1998: 1st at Honolulu Marathon (2:14:53)…best of 2:14:53.


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The concern about falling off or over the fiscal cliff is too late. We took that dive months or even years ago when we continued spending more money than was available.
The only way we will ever get out of the ugly situation we�re in is for us to face up to those years of irresponsibility by paying off those debts and creating a realistic budget that can pay for essentials and balance of debt. By essentials I mean the nation�s first priority to protect its citizens from foreign attack or natural disasters.
We can bounce around ideas about taking more from the wealthy but in reality the only real and fair way to get a balanced budget is a flat percentage tax on personal income without deductions, or a flat sales tax doing away with income tax.
We need to stop the ridiculous practice of paying taxes to the federal government that is then given back to states in the form of grants by some undeterminable method that adds costs to the handling of the monies. Each state needs to create a tax system that allows them to manage their own budgets.
Somehow we have to get our representatives, state and federal, to refuse approval of any spending other than for catastrophic reasons and we have to demand control of how our taxes are used.
If our voices are loud enough for long enough and in unison, there is little limit to what can be accomplished.
Take the time to learn how to contact your individual representatives and remind them you�re evaluating their performances.
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Kings Mountain


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|Morning Coffee: George Mendoza
Good morning, good God!
This morning, Lord, I want to offer you
all the interruptions in my schedule,
in my plans, in my day, in my week -
in my life!
I offer you the bumps along the way each day
that throw me off balance,
that leave me mistrusting my step
and unsure of my path...
Help me take the bumps with grace, Lord:
use them to get my attention,
to keep me alert,
to pull me out of my ruts...
I offer you the unexpected phone calls
and the knocks on my door,
the fresh demands on time already scheduled,
the faces and voices that interrupt my plans
to do what I thought I was supposed to do...
Help me understand that you're in charge here, Lord,
and that you know better than I
where and when and how I might best serve you -
and that your view of my day is wider, deeper, greater
than my own...
I offer you the interruptions that distract me, Lord:
especially the little, annoying ones
that only seem to get in the way of more important tasks...
Make me patient - even grateful
for the ways you turn my head,
whisper in my ear, take me by the hand
and turn me around from my momentary focus
to someone else, to another task,
to some moment filled with a grace, a blessing
my impatience might keep me from finding...
And I offer, too,
the bigger twists and turns I take, Lord,
over months and years:
when the unexpected demand begins to shape my life;
when the unwanted work becomes my daily job;
when my heart's desire is put on hold -
and I don't know why...
Help me to accept, Lord, that
"it is what it is..."
that in all things you are present,
that no matter where my road leads me
you will never hesitate to interrupt your day
to walk my path with me...
When the unanticipated hovers like a cloud, Lord,
show me the silver lining
and let your light shine through with warmth...
Give me the grace of acceptance,
to live my life a day at a time,
an hour at a time,
trusting that in every moment
you are there...
Open my heart wide
to all whose paths cross mine today, Lord,
and let no appointment keep me from meeting you
at every turn,
on schedule
- or by surprise...
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Finland's representation abroad comprises diplomatic missions and consular missions.
Diplomatic missions refer to embassies and their separate offices in different states and permanent and special missions to international organisations and cooperation organs. Finland has also diplomatic missions called liaison offices.
Consular missions refer to consulates general, consulates, and offices under the administration of a consulate general, headed by a career official, or honorary consulates, led by an honorary consul.
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Walter Koenig as Captain Pavel Chekov
Walter Koenig reprises his role as Pavel Chekov from the Original Series. Walter Koenig â actor, director, screenwriter, novelist, acting professor, and comic book creator â was born in Manhattan in 1936 to Lithuanian Russian Jewish parents.
Nichelle Nichols as Captain Nyota Uhura
Nichelle Nichols reprises her role of Nyota Uhura from the Original Series.
Nichelle was born in Robbins, Illinois, near Chicago. Her father was both the town mayor of Robbins and its chief magistrate. She has studied in Chicago as well as New York and Los Angeles.
Alan Ruck as Captain John Harriman
Alan Ruck reprises his role of Captain John Harriman from Star Trek: Generations.
Alan Ruck started studying theater in high school and then at the University of Illinois. Later he began acting professionally in Chicago, appearing in numerous productions, including the Goodman and Wisdom Bridge Theaters.
Tim Russ as Tuvok
Tim Russ is reprising his role as Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager.
Born into a military family in Washington, D.C., Tim was raised on Air Force bases around the world. He and his younger brother and sister spent time in the Orient and the Middle East before his family finally settled in Sacramento.
Garrett Wang as Garan
Garrett Wang portrays Garan, an ambitious and devious Security Chief.
Garrett Wang portrayed Ops/Communication Officer Harry Kim on Star Trek: Voyager. A graduate of the Starfleet Academy, Harry boarded the Starship U.S.S. Voyager after a stellar academic career.
J.G. Hertzler as Koval
JG Hertzler is portraying Koval, a ruthless, ambitious Klingon First Officer.
John Garman Hertzler is best-known for playing Chancellor Martok on Deep Space Nine. However, his "Star Trek" links go back to 1990, when he appeared in an episode of Quantum Leap opposite Scott Bakula, the man who became Jonathan Archer.
Chase Masterson as Xela
Chase Masterson portrays Xela, the sultry, seductive Orion communications officer.
Chase Masterson is probably best known as the sweet and sexy Barjoran Dabo girl Leeta on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She originally auditioned for the role of "Marta", Jake Sisko's Bajoran girlfriend, on DS9.
Gary Graham as Ragnar
Gary Graham portrays Ragnar, a strong, brooding freedom fighter.
Versatile actor Gary Graham is probably best known for his starring role as "Detective Matt Sikes" in the television series Alien Nation (1989-1990), which was followed by the TV movies:
Crystal Allen as Navigator Yara
Crystal Allen portrays the ship's Navigator, Yara. Crystal Allen guest starred as "D'Nesh," one of three Orion Slave Girls presented to Jonathan Archer in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Bound."
Ethan Phillips as The Data Clerk
Ethan Phillips is known to Trek fans as the Talaxian Neelix, a member of an alien race indigenous to the Delta Quadrant.
Born and raised on Long Island, New York, Phillips grew up as the only boy of six children.
Lawrence Montaigne as Stonn
Lawrence Montaigne reprises his role of Stonn from the Original Series episode "Amok Time."Lawrence starred or co-starred in twenty-five films in the U.S. and in Europe and also appeared in more than two hundred television episodes.
Cirroc Lofton as Sevar
Cirroc Lofton played Jake Sisko, the son of Captain Benjamin Sisko, and the youngest regular cast member of any Star Trek series. An army brat who doesn't remember life on Earth, Jake had been aboard four different starships before his arrival on Deep Space Nine.
William Wellman Jr. as Charlie Evans
Rangy, sturdy-looking actor William Wellman Jr. portrays Charlie Evans from the original series episode âCharlie X.â Wellman was born in Los Angeles on January 20, 1937, one of seven children born to legendary director William âWild Billâ Wellman and his fifth wife, one-time actress Dorothy Coonan Wellman, who appeared in a few of her husband's pictures.
Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand
Grace Lee Whitney is reprising her role as Janice Rand.
Grace Lee Whitney was born Mary Ann Chase in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Whitney started her entertainment career as a "girl singer" on Detroit's WJR radio. She soon opened in nightclubs for the likes of Billie Holliday and Buddy Rich, and toured with the Spike Jones Band.
Herbert Jefferson Jr. as Colonel Galt
Herbert Jefferson Jr. portrays Colonel Galt, a freedom fighter.
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- A ENB HD6 Cinematic Lighting Enhancement
HD6 Additions and Tweaks to ENB v0102 - For Filmic Days and adjustable Darker Nights / Caves
Available also from Skyrim Nexus
Included are a normal nights and darker nights variant, along with ability to alter how dark night / interiors are WHILE playing with a keypress (1 + pageup / pagedown). Along with various additions to enbeffect.fx such as color balance / brightness / contrast / saturation for day and night and the addition of an adjustable vignette to make it easier for you to tweak it just right for you.
Important change to skyrim.ini to work right: bFloatPointRenderTarget=1 - details below
Please check the comparison images here, you can easily navigate with cursor keys, and click 'Full Size' to see less jpeggy version:
Click to see Before & After Screenshots
Including obligatory man in underwear wielding sword
Beware most darker night mods entirely disable the moon light meaning no more cast shadows at night which IMO is an unacceptable loss and plunges everything into a dull flat ambiance. This does not do that.
And all other ENB mods right now break Khajiit night eye, this does not
Also all other ENB mods alter the color / gamma of textures, this is not inherently bad; it is different so they have a very different look than the normal skyrim, a bit more cartoony/colorful look which many like. This does not do that so brown hair doesn't go blonde like most ENB mods for one example.
Includes various additions and changes to EnbEffect.fx such as adding a customisable Vignette and numerous color controls explained further in the file and in included readme
Install it Manually, Copy Contents into your Skyrim folder, not your Data folder
Start the game with launcher on first run, because video options must be reconfigured.
If you have problems, disable crossfire, msi afterburner, precision or d3doverrider, disable anti aliasing / MSAA, disable SSAO / Ambient Occlusion in enbseries.ini
You need to set some skyrimprefs.ini :
Note for Ambient Occlusion and perhaps other things to look right you need to set
iMultiSample=1 (MSAA may duff up SSAO)
bFXAAEnabled=1 (If you want to get rid of jaggies)
sD3DDevice="ENB" (which should exist and already be set after using the Skyrim launcher once)
And while you are at it these are worth adding:
Note you can interchange the versions and edit the settings by just changing the enbseries.ini and enbeffect.fx file. While the game is still running, pop back in and see the change instantly. And you can toggle it off entirely with Shift-F12 to see the game before this was installed.
Performance is still being worked on by Boris
Your comments / suggestions are greatly appreciated, thanks!
This is all possible thanks to ENB created by Boris Vorontsov, thanks!
More information can be found here from the original by Boris:
Boris Vorontsov - Original Ultimate graphic enhancement
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Ron Greenfield, founder of Individualized Fitness Solutions and owner of No Limits Fitness in Voorheesville, NY, is a certified personal trainer and sports conditioning specialist who works with various high school and collegiate sports teams throughout the Northeast. He can be reached at www.rwgfitness.com.
As fitness professionals and club operators, we are constantly telling our members about the importance of tracking workouts so that they can determine what is working and how much progress they are making. Yet when it comes to creating a marketing plan and updating it, we usually make it last on our to-do list.
Why do a new plan when the goal of generating new members hasn't changed? It is imperative that an annual plan is completed so that we -- just like our members -- can track our progress and make the necessary changes that are needed to ensure success.
Here are six tips to remember when developing your annual marketing plan:
1. Create specific timelines. For example, it is probably too late to order holiday gifts for your clients on Dec. 1. Ask yourself when the project is slated to begin and what is the target completion date. When are results expected?
2. Consider if each action was a success or a failure. If your direct-mail campaign got few responses, it might not be the smartest idea to do it again until you figure out why it didn't achieve the desired results. Once you do that, you can modify it to create an even greater chance of success next year.
3. Decide who is responsible for each step in the plan. Who is taking responsibility for the action, and who is following up to make sure the action was completed? Make sure the person assigned to a project agrees to the project and knows when the project should begin and end.
4. Weigh the cost of each step against the benefit so that you can budget effectively. If you reduce prices for a special membership sale, will volume make up the discount? What is the break-even point? Was the benefit of the project to bring in additional members, and, if so, how many can be attributed to that particular action? How many referrals will be generated through an ad or Web site? Does the cost equal the result? These are questions you have to ask yourself.
5. Track the success or failure of each step. Are you asking potential members how they heard of your facility or what motivated them to join? What specific tracking tools are you using? Consider adding questions to your application that address tracking.
6. Make the plan fluid so that you can make changes when needed. Circumstances change. Just because it is in the plan doesn't mean you have to do it or do it in the particular time frame that was set. Be flexible to what your facility needs.
Remember to take your own advice. A marketing plan is to your benefit, just like a workout card helps members get results.