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How to Become a Young Living Member
I'm so excited you're ready to get on board : ) This post will show you everything you need to know about how to sign up to be a wholesale member. As you sign up, know that when you become a member with Young Living you are signing up for a personal membership. You are never required to "sell" oils or "host parties". You can use this membership to just purchase your own products.
If you decide that you want to start a Young Living business – just let me know! But to just get started with your membership, follow the instructions below…
Ready to become a member?
If you know you're ready, you can click below – if you need help with instructions/ordering, just follow the images below!
Where you begin
To become a Young Living member you need to select the "Member" box to ensure you get the 24% off retail price. Not only that, but this membership allows you to access educational tools through Young Living but also you can have Essential Rewards {think: Monthly Wellness Box} and more! BUT! You're never required to "host parties" or "do the business". Over 90% of Members use their account for personal use only.
Your Upline
When you click the link right from my website it will automatically put in my member number. This means you will be part of my team! I am so excited to have you on board. I'm here to help educate you on this new, enhanced journey to wellness.
Young Living is also an international organization! So whether you live in the United States, Canada, Japan, England or beyond, you can be a Young Living member!
Your Membership Info
This is a pretty easy section. I always recommend leaving the email communication on so you can know about promotions both through Young Living and our team. It is also helpful if you ever need customer service help.
Sign-in Information
Create your sign in info! I always recommend picking a PIN number that is easy to remember and not "top secret" If you ever need help on your account you'll have to share that with me and/or customer service to help with what you need. Choosing the last 4 numbers of your cell phone is always great!
Terms and Conditions:
Just check, "I have read and agree to the terms of the Young Living Essential Oils Member Agreement."
Choose your Starter Kit
Most new members start out with choose a diffuser with their Premium Starter Kit – the NingXia Red PSK and Thieves PSK are also great places to start if you're looking to improve overall health or if you want to "ditch and switch" your household cleaners!
Essential Rewards
You will also have the option to start the Essential Rewards program. This is a great program with many benefits including discounted shipping and free products. You are not obligated to sign up for Essential Rewards. If you are not interested in Essential Rewards you can skip it.
Either way – just click the "Next" button
Once you hit the "Next" button, if you don't choose to start Essential Rewards a window will pop-up asking if you want to proceed without it. Click "Proceed To Checkout" button.
Shipping and Billing
Select your preferred shipping method, double check your shipping address and enter your billing information. (Billing Information will stay on file and you can automatically use this card for future purchases.)
That's a wrap!
Just confirm your enrollment summary and click the "Activate and Place Order" button. Your membership will stay active as long as you spend at least 50PV in a calendar year.
So now you're a member! I'm so excited for you – you can do awesome things such as visit any Young Living farm!
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A New World Order
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Global Leadership in the 21st Century
March 14-17, 2019 – Baku, Azerbaijan
The 7th Global Baku Forum (7GBF) came at a particularly critical moment and a difficult crossroads in governance of the globe. Multilateralism is in retreat. The authority of international institutions is in decline. Big Power politics is regaining legitimacy. Democracies are struggling with profound existential questions. Cherished foundational values are being challenges. Xenophobia and intolerance are threatening open borders and the status of religious and ethnic minorities. The authority of Science and integrity of the media are under siege. New technologies are emerging faster than society and culture can adapt. Keynote speakers will include Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and addresses by current and former heads of state, foreign ministers, international diplomats and thinkers, including Ashraf Ghani (Afghanistan), Kerry Kennedy (USA), Fareed Zakaria (USA), Jeffrey Sachs (USA), Helen Clark (New Zealand), Vaira Vike-Freiberga (Latvia), Aleksander Kwasniewski (Poland), Tarja Halonen (Finland), Ilir Meta (Albania) and Wu Hailong (China).
Global Leadership in the 21st Century
Leadership in ideas that can lead to action
Special event organized by the World Academy of Art & Science
On March 17th a special event was organized for WAAS Fellows, special invitees and select 7GBF participants to discuss in open roundtable format the future of global leadership in the 21st century. Global leadership appears to be virtually absent at this critical juncture in human affairs when it is most needed to prevent the loss or reversal of the most important gains since the End of the Cold War. This meeting sought ways to revive and develop different types of leadership at the global level. It explored strategies designed to generate awareness of unutilized global potentials, mobilize and direct global social energies and resources for practical application, strengthen the effectiveness and functioning of existing institutions of governance, and release a broad-based social movement to transform the compelling challenges confronting humanity today into catalysts for rapid global social evolution.
The format of the special event was a moderated open roundtable for discussion of critical issues and constructive approaches for change.
Critical Global Leadership Questions for Discussion
- What type and forms of global leadership are needed to effectively address these global challenges?
- How can the global leadership gap be filled and where is the leadership to come from?
- How can we reconcile continued economic development with ecological security and the rights of future generations?
- What role can nation states and international institutions play individually and collectively to fill the leadership void?
- What role can civil society, universities, academies and business play?
- How will the multiple lines of social evolution that have led up to the 21st century develop and interact with one another in the future and what will be the consequences?
- By what means can the continued distribution and democratization of political and social power at the national and global level be achieved?
- How can our educational system be transformed into an effective instrument for meeting the challenges of human development in the 21st century?
- What organizing principles are capable of addressing all the pressing challenges confronting humanity today and reconciling the contradictions inherent in the unilateral and unidimensional strategies pursued by different nations to address them separately from each other and from the efforts of other nations?
- How can we reconcile the apparently contradictory objectives of economy and ecology; technology, employment and social welfare; social power and democratization; multiculturalism and national identity; national sovereignty and global governance; national security and global cooperative security?
- What steps can be taken to garner the direct support of the silent voiceless majority?
- What opportunities exist for concerted action and what gains can it achieve?
- How can we combine, coordinate and harmonize leadership initiatives at the global, multilateral, bilateral and national level?
- How can we ensure that rapid technological advances are made to serve rather than threaten and undermine rising levels of human welfare and security?
- How will nationalities respond and accommodate to increasing levels of multicultural contact and diversity?
- How will nation-states be motivated to cede greater authority to empower effective, democratic international institutions?
- How can human rights and dignity gain primacy over the exercise of power by the privileged and wealthy?

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I've got some tough words to say, and some tough parallels to draw but after seeing all the other angles addressed from judgment to relativism, I feel my point needs to be put out there.
This story did not surprise me because I see this happen to people frequently in many different topics. Such as women who are assaulted during birth, or just plain assaulted/raped. I am a rape survivor myself and have been helping other survivors for awhile. The predictability is in itself the tragedy.
It goes like this. First the woman is wronged, violated, lied to or misled. But instead of putting the blame on the perpetrator, she shoulders the full blame for whatever it might be, such as rape. Then because her mind cannot carry such a horrific burden, she goes into full denial, even pretending the rape never happened, it wasn't that bad, it was a misperception, etc.
This happens often in birth stories. Women (and their babies) are horribly mistreated, but then the woman turns around and almost worships the doctor. She thanks him and pays him. Instead of saying, "The doctor failed me and my baby" she says, "My body failed my baby but the doctor saved my baby!"
And you can see this clearly happen in Joshua's case. What these doctors did violated not only their own institution, not only the law, but also all common sense. They pressured a mother, lied to her, to solicit unnecessary surgery on a fragile baby with a severe heart defect. They chose to perform that surgery on him. And then they neglected him while he hemorrhaged and mistreated the hemorrhage many hours later.
By reading Jill's now-deleted blog post, you can see her take on the full burden of blame for her son's death. Not once does she speak out against the unethical doctors. Not once does she show any anger towards the surgeon who nicked her son's artery and caused a hemorrhage. Not once does she ask if the medical staff truly intervened soon enough or with the right tools. She takes on all the blame.
But a grieving mama can't handle that. No one can. So she deleted her blog post and is now in 100% denial, lashing out at innocent people who have nothing to do with Joshua's death instead of going after the REAL criminals, the doctors who are STILL practicing somewhere, the doctors who can do this to ANOTHER innocent baby without reprisal.
As someone who has worked through the stages of grief, who has taken on the blame and had to learn how get back to reality and NOT let the perpetrator get away with it, my heart breaks for Jill. The road she is walking is a dark and lonely one. I hope that she finds her way to a brighter one. And I hope someday Baby Joshua, and all babies who are forced to experience genital surgery against their will, find justice.
While on this topic, I wanted to expand my thoughts. I've been bumping into similar defense mechanisms in all of these topics the past week.
I am depressed at the way the survivors have to shoulder the blame. I've been talking about this issue all week... How the mamas are lied to, bullied, misled, pressured, etc into a variety of things and then THEY have to take the blame.
Thnk about our culture. A woman is raped or sexually assaulted and then SHE takes on the judgement. She is gossiped about in our culture..."too short of a skirt" "well you were asking for it" "well that's what you get for being pretty." HER body led the poor chap to attack her, apparently. She's at fault for not stopping the violation.
A woman is led to an unnecessary c-section and then SHE takes on the judgment, the comments...she claims her body failed. Others imply she wasn't enough of a "woman" to birth her child. If her child is injured or killed or deprived of certain physiological aspects such as gut colonization or bonding, does the doctor face condemnation Does the doctor stay up at night, thinking about the baby? Does the doctor have a scar on his stomach to remind him daily?
A woman is given outdated, ridiculous advice on how to latch on her baby or supplement. And SHE has to pay for processed cow's milk. SHE has to wake up in the night and feed her child a bottle. SHE has to care for her child after numerous ear infections or stomach bugs. It's all on HER. Not the nurse or formula industry who LIED to her. Then she has to listen to all the judgmental remarks about formula feeding and catch the judgmental glares in public.
A woman caves into the pediatrician's pressure to vaccinate her daughter and then SHE takes on the responsibility. SHE holds her screaming baby all night long. SHE watches her child slowly disappear. SHE bears the looks and the rude comments in public. SHE pays the medical bills. SHE drives her child to therapy. Does her pediatrician do any of this? Heck, you can't even sue the vaccine companies.
A woman is outright LIED to about circumcision and signs the paperwork. AND SHE LOSES HER SON! Did the surgeon even get re-training? Is it even in his file? What about the doctor who lied to her about reasons to circumcise before his 3rd stage of heart surgery was complete (or ever in all reality)? Does the doctor have to tell the siblings that their brother died? Are the nurses going to plan the funeral?
I'm DONE with this ridiculous bowing down to the perpetrators who run over the lives and wellbeing of babies and mamas without any consequences. And in fact, not only do they get the satisfaction of avoiding any condemnation or justice, but the mothers turn to them and fawn on them and release them of any responsibility!
I'm DONE with our hypocritical, judgmental society, that shoves the mama to the cliff, that tips her over the edge and then condemns her when she falls off into the abyss with judgment, rude commends, glares and cold shoulders.
I hear this EVERY DAY. I kid you not, every day I hear from a woman who was violated or her baby violated. EVERY DAY. But so few go on to press charges or sue or even speak out. It is changing. Slowly, with the communities available online, women are finding the strength to acknowledge the violations and to speak out against the perpetrators. I hope Jill and all other parents out there find the strength, too.


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Justin Bieber's heroic recovery
Our hero, Justin Bieber, God's special gift, having spent part of last night under medical supervision, has been released, and was photographed outside his hotel this morning...
With a cry-face on.
The agency caption to these shots is hilarious:
Bieber has to be "restrained" by his bodyguard from attacking...
It looks like that man is picking up a baby.
Check him out, with his hands underneath JB's armpits, as if he's lifting him out of the car like a toddler, despite the recent increased size of Justin's pectorals. Even his juice bottle looks like an infant's.
UPDATE: Now with video.


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Major's Cove, Farm Neck and a small number of relatively-new housing developents line Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road and Sengekontacket Pond, the latter a vast saltwater pond that spans the towns of Edgartown and Oak Bluffs and borders Nantucket Sound on the north. Houses in the area are a mix of grand modern homes and old fishing camps. Farm Neck Golf Club is a hallmark of the area.
Sengekontacket in the News
State Says Aggressive Action Needed to Restore Sengekontacket Pond
Kayakers Get an Intimate View Of Sengekontacket Pond's Beauty
Sengekontacket Pond To Re-Open Today
Bay Scallop Season: Edgartown Is Tops, Oak Bluffs Meatiest
Project to Dredge in Sengekontacket Sees Costs Increase
Two Towns Train Their Attention On Troubles at Sengekontacket


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Semantic markup is intended for computers to better "understand" our content so that they can do something useful with it. At the most basic level, this would involve a browser or assistive technology presenting the content to us in an appropriate way.
Rebelling against the specifications at the presentation level may have little consequence.
However, as we move further into the semantic web where "intelligent" programs are trying to infer meaning from our content it would be useful if authors adhered to the specifications, but as anyone who has written programs for the semantic web will know, authors often deviate from the specifications.
The semantic application has to perform extra checks on the content to ensure it fits with what is expected. The actual markup used in many cases is ignored.
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Though it has been widely practiced in North America for decades, its popularity has grown in recent years as many people discover how easy and enjoyable it is as a hobby. With a few specialized techniques, and the right tools to execute them properly, you can achieve impressive results, even using common shrubs and native plants.
For beginners and experts alike, well-made tools help ensure success. All of these tools and accessories are manufactured in Japan to strict standards of quality, and are simply superb to use. The shears, cutters, and wire-shaping tools are high-carbon steel with a black lacquered finish.


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After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
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Rated R for violence, language throughout, and some sexual referencesCastFrances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas HedgesDirectorMartin McDonaghWriterMartin McDonagh


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Broward County
Shutdown Day 3: Food distributor stalled, charter boat captains docked
Harriette Wilson-Greene stood on the ramp of an enormous warehouse filled with food Thursday, overseeing Rafik Tillman as he tossed box after heavy box filled with turkey, chicken and ham into the back of an overloaded Chevy Tahoe.
The food, as it has been for the past five years, was headed to the Omega Power and Place Ministry in Liberty City, where 160 needy families each week depend on it.
Wilson-Greene, Omega's pastor, hopes — even prays — that Thursday's haul won't be the last for a while.
The food supplied to her from Feeding South Florida in Pembroke Pines was the last shipment to the non-profit from the U.S. Department of Agriculture until the partial federal government shutdown ends.
"Oh, my God," exclaimed the pastor. "We're faithful providers. Send out the call, we need more of everything."
Feeding South Florida is just one of 202 food banks in the country hit hard by the Washington, D.C., stalemate. With 47 employees, it's the largest of nine in Florida, responsible for 30 percent of statewide distribution.
The agency distributes 35 million pounds of food a year from its 70,000-square-foot warehouse, everything from bananas and pears, to turkeys and hams, to soups and nuts, even baby formula. The USDA funding accounts for more than one-third of Feeding South Florida's supply chain. On Thursday, its six open loading bays were filled with volunteers heaving food into U-Hauls and other trucks.
The distribution center's 325 partner agencies supply food to 949,910 people.
"They sent us an email saying we can't order anything else. So once we distribute this, that's it," says Sari Vatske, the distributor's vice president of programs and initiatives. "We need Publix, Target, Walmart and Winn-Dixie to step up. We'll need to double efforts on food drives and fundraisers."
The sting of the shutdown was a little harsher to those doing business with the federal government on Day 3 of the standoff: Food distributors' shelves were emptying, small business loans were in a holding pattern, and Florida Bay's waters became off-limits to some.
Still, the outlook for any type of agreement to fund the federal budget remained bleak. President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner continued trading barbs, the Treasury Department warned of dire risk to the economy if the shutdown turns into a deadlock over the nation's debt limit, and work at the Capitol was halted for an hour when a woman tried to drive through barricades at the White House, then took off in her car with police in hot pursuit.
The car chase, which ended in gunfire, forced lawmakers in the House to recess even as they yet again considered bills to restore funding to selected parts of the government, an approach that has been repeatedly rejected by Senate Democrats and the president.
"The only thing preventing people from going back to work, and basic research starting back up and farmers and business owners getting their loans, the only thing that is preventing all that from happening right now, today, in the next five minutes is that Speaker John Boehner won't even let the bill get a yes or no vote because he doesn't want to anger the extremists in his party," Obama said.
Boehner wouldn't budge, calling the president's position, a "my-way-or-the-highway approach."
"The president's insistence on steamrolling ahead with his flawed program is irresponsible," the speaker responded.
The federal government has been partially shut down since midnight Monday, when the House refused to sign off on the federal budget unless the president's signature healthcare initiative was defunded. Since then the House has tried several times to pass bills that would fund specific items like pay for veterans, or opening the nation's parks. Those efforts have all failed.
Thursday back in South Florida, a day after limits for the National Institutes of Health made headlines, it was the fear of food drying up and a prohibition on fishing in waters of Florida Bay that took center stage.
Charter guides received a message from the National Park Service this week informing them that they are not permitted to take clients fishing in Florida Bay until the feds get back to work. That means that more than 1,100 square miles of prime fishing is off limits between the southern tip of the mainland to the Keys until further notice.
The closing affects not only fishing guides, but anyone with a license to conduct business in the park, including tour operators and paddling guides — anyone with a Commercial Use Authorization permit, said Dan Kimball, superintendent of Everglades and Dry Tortugas national parks.
Biscayne National Park is also off limits. Enforcement rangers will be on duty, Kimball said.
Capt. Mike Makowski, owner of Blackfoot Charters in Key Largo, estimates this eliminates 60 percent to 70 percent of his hunting grounds.
"This is going to put a lot of guys together in a small area close to the park," Makowski said. "It's going to be even worse on the weekend when we're going to have to compete with the recreational anglers."
The events in Washington have also affected small business loans. Because of the funding lapse, the Small Business Administration will only fund emergency loans, which means loans now in the works have come to a halt.
"Anybody who's been waiting for a loan closing can't close their loans because the bank isn't closing without the SBA guarantee," said Marjorie Weber, who chairs a Miami-Dade nonprofit called SCORE. "Everything is at a standstill.
The government shutdown even had folks in the Panhandle a little on edge. With Tropical Storm Karen bearing down and threatening to become a hurricane, the Florida National Guard announced half of its 2,000 full-time federal employees have been furloughed. It translates to valuable equipment that could be deployed during a storm not receiving proper maintenance.
"We will be affected," said National Guard Capt. Melissa DeLeon. "Our maintenance guys have been furloughed, so they're not here."
State emergency managers are working with the National Guard to fund the positions in the short-term with state money. They intend to apply for reimbursement later.
Miami Herald Staff Writers Douglas Hanks, Ina Paiva Cordle and Hannah Sampson, and Keynoter Reporter David Goodhue contributed to this report, which was also supplemented with material from the Associated Press and News Service of Florida.


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Open source CMS company Jahia has unveiled the commercial release of its Jahia 6.5 CMS. The company is hoping to differentiate the new product on the basis of its ability to bridge web, portal, social, search, mobile user experience, and content management with a single composite platform.
Jahia 6.5 combines the modular ease of PHP on top of the latest powerful Java frameworks to give developers the chance to build user-centric, content-rich applications combining any type of enterprise and web content.
Features include:
- Jahia Studio for fine-grained template customization and drag-and-drop website assembly using ready-made components.
- JahiaApps Forge — a community-based marketplace of ready-made templates and application modules.
- Choice of a wide variety of scripting languages, including PHP and jsp.
- HTML5 delivery of multimedia and graphical content, without the need for proprietary plugins and APIs.
"Jahia 6.5 makes module creation easier than ever before — more like a PHP solution such as Drupal — which is unheard of among Java platforms," said Emmanuel Garcin, VP of Jahia Solutions Group. "Our new release supports the smooth delivery of data from any source, and our new Jahia Studio enables users to compose composite content applications with zero coding."


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Sometimes, the hardest part of finding love is keeping a straight face.
For Jamie Newman, being a single guy isn't proving to be much fun, especially when confronted with a sexually belligerent divorcee and a goddess so far out of his league she might as well be a different species.
Mind you, being a girl in search of love isn't a bowl of cherries either. Just ask Laura McIntyre, who's recently contended with a horny estate agent on a quest for light relief, and a rabid mountain bike enthusiast with a penchant for genital display.
When Jamie and Laura bump into one another (quite literally) it looks like their luck may have changed – but sometimes finding the right person is only the start of your problems…
Based on real-life tales of dating disaster and relationship blunders, Love… From Both Sides is a warts-and-all romantic comedy for everyone who knows how tricky (and occasionally ridiculous) the quest for love can be.
More details coming soon!


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NASHVILLE, TENN. – Brian Ashley Jones has spent enough time as a Nashville-based singer, songwriter and guitarist to feel as if he's in the music business for the long haul.
Editor's note: Arts and entertainment writer Dan Armonaitis recently spent a few days in Nashville, Tenn. This is the second in a series of stories about people from the Spartanburg area who are having an impact in the Music City.
NASHVILLE, TENN. – Brian Ashley Jones has spent enough time as a Nashville-based singer, songwriter and guitarist to feel as if he's in the music business for the long haul.
Music "is what I'm supposed to be doing, and I can't imagine doing anything else," Jones said on a recent Thursday morning. "And most every other songwriter or musician I know who's done it this long pretty much has the same attitude. … We just all feel compelled to do it, even when it defies logic."
As he spoke, Jones was sitting in a coffeehouse near his home on the Music City's east side.
While the neighborhood known as East Nashville lacks the glitziness of Lower Broadway, Music Row or other nearby tourist destinations, it's been bursting at the seams with creative types for the past decade.
"If you're really serious about music, this is where you want to be," said Jones, who grew up in Spartanburg and attended Spartanburg Day School.
Jones has lived in East Nashville since 2002. Before that, he had shuffled back and forth between Music City and Atlanta for several years.
"Living here, there are so many opportunities to collaborate with people that I admire and respect," Jones said. "There's just so much talent here — so many great songwriters and other musicians. … It's just such a creative space to be in. I love being here."
In Nashville, Jones has done everything from session instrumental work to writing and performing his own material.
As a solo artist, he has a new album, "Out of the City," due out in June. Like his previous works, it's a genre-defying collection informed by everything from traditional country and bluegrass to blues and rock 'n' roll.
Jones said the eclectic nature of his music can be traced back to the artists he enjoyed as a youth, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, the Eagles, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Spartanburg's own Marshall Tucker Band.
"Most of the bands I grew up listening to had a lot of lateral movement stylistically, which is something you don't get as much of with modern bands," Jones said. "… They weren't afraid to do a blues song one minute and a country song the next.
"To me, that keeps things interesting. So that's what I try to do — keep it all somewhat cohesive but move it around a little bit stylistically — if only to keep myself entertained."
Of course, Jones isn't the only person being entertained by his music. His acclaimed 2008 release, "Courier," included a swampy instrumental called "Pull 'em Up," which was featured in the PBS television series "Road Trip Nation."
And evidence of the respect he commands in Americana circles can be found in him being listed as a featured act for this week's taping of "Music City Roots," a nationally syndicated radio program hosted by singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale. The episode will air locally on WGWG (88.3 FM) at 8 p.m. on an upcoming Monday, according to the station's operations manager and program director Jeff Powell.
"Doing stuff like that is just great," Jones said of his "Music City Roots" appearance. "It's those moments that you try to savor and say, 'Wow, this is the reward for all the hard work.' "
Jones said another such moment was when he and his band got to do a small tour with roots music legend Delbert McClinton a couple of years ago.
"Being able to play in front of nice, appreciative crowds like that and open for one of your heroes is the stuff you envision when you get into this business," Jones said. "I'm always really thankful for those moments, because there's certainly a lot that leads up to those things."
Jones has been playing music professionally for about 20 years, but it wasn't until he returned to Nashville in 2002 that he was able to support himself exclusively through music. He now tours internationally.
"It's a struggle in the beginning," Jones said. "But things get easier in some ways as time goes on, because you know more people and, hopefully, you've proven yourself a little bit along the way. But the reality is that it is a young person's game, so there's a point of diminishing returns with all that.
"I find music to be a fascinating business unlike any other — I always have — just because the ups and downs are extreme."
Jones considers himself a bit of a latecomer as a musician, having not taken his first guitar lesson until his senior year of high school. Before that, he'd been a soccer junkie.
"As I was getting toward the end of high school, I had had a couple of injuries and the writing was on the wall that I probably wasn't going to pursue being a professional athlete," Jones said. "I was already a music fan, so I decided to start playing guitar.
"… I spent a lot of hours and lost a lot of sleep just jamming along with old records. I would go out and see bands regularly, and I'd always keep my eyes glued to the guitarists and see what they were doing."
Jones said he has fond memories of going to see such well-known Spartanburg musicians as David Ezell, Matthew Knights, Jim Denton and Sander Morrison perform in the late 1980s and early '90s.
"Those guys were already on the road and traveling and doing things that I had only dreamed of at that point, and that was very inspiring," Jones said.
On Memorial Day weekend, Jones will join a couple of other former Spartanburg residents who have had success in the music business since moving to Nashville. Jones, Marshall Chapman and Peter Cooper will perform "in the round" on May 25 at Puckett's Grocery and Restaurant in Franklin, Tenn., just south of the Music City.
"I've done several shows with Peter over the years, including one at The Showroom in Spartanburg," Jones said. "But this will be the first time I've actually played with Marshall, even though I've known her for quite some time. They're both amazing songwriters, so I'm really looking forward to it."


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But if you want to talk United States of America, it's Broadcast on their first album that really rips that.
I agree, I'd prefer to keep this to direct references / uncredited samples / lyrical lifts rather than vaguer incorporated influences or else I'd just be Sylvie Vartaning it up over here
first track on Refried Ectoplasm, 'Harmonium', where the 70's DJ spools up a tape which promptly breaks and falls off the reel is lifted from an aircheck of Negativland's 'Over the Edge Vol 4 - Dick Vaughan'
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:44 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:47 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:48 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:49 (eleven years ago) Permalink
great work, Milton!
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:00 (eleven years ago) Permalink
is supposed to be based on the comic series Pravda la Survireuse by Guy Peellaert.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:00 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Yes, this is a nice thread. Milton rocks.
nabisco, do they really reference _À Rebours_? That's one of my favorite books ever.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:04 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Here are the YouTube dissections of musical origins I was talking about. Apart from a couple things that seem too basic to see as steals (e.g., the Canned Heat), they're mostly pretty clear lifts or pastiches, without too many stretches -- and a couple disappointing "oh man, I can't believe you lifted the melody" parts. Mostly it's rhythmic grooves and feels they're snipping from things and using as a basis for their own stuff.
Artists mentioned: Faust, Piero Piccioni, Canned Heat, Gal Costa, Krzystzof Komeda, Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, Sun Ra, Snapper, Wanderlea, Laurie Anderson, the Association, the Archies, Serge Gainsbourg, Neu!, Silver Apples, Steve Reich, and Plastic Ono Band (as source of "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" bass line -- this was the only one that kinda surprised me!)
― nabisco, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:09 (eleven years ago) Permalink
xpost turangalila I'm not 100% sure. 'against nature' is the title in translation and a direct reference would have used the original french. the lyrics do seem to me like a commentary or response to the book, I linked them upthread
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:26 (eleven years ago) Permalink
if it is a reference it's admittedly not a very direct one (though I'm sure they've read it) -- with those lines about 'war', probably something else made the song's orbit as well
I actually liked this translation better, but I went for the pop edition to underscore the reference
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:31 (eleven years ago) Permalink
You're talking about the bass line to "Metronomic Underground," I take it?
Yup, that's what I'm talking about, jaymc.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:53 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Milton I can't believe you didn't post this -
― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 25 October 2007 01:58 (eleven years ago) Permalink
xxpost Milton
Hmm... yes. "Living fantasy of the immortal"
I've actually only read it in Spanish. Going to buy this version you recommend!
― Turangalila, Thursday, 25 October 2007 02:01 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Gastr del Sol opened for Stereolab at the Metro in Chicago back in the mid-90s, and a couple weeks before the show I bumped into David Grubbs at the Hyde Park Kinko's on 57th St. He showed me the gig flyer he was printing up which read "Stereolab - 'John Cage Bubblegum' / Gastr del Sol - 'Steve Reich n Roll'"
― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 25 October 2007 02:03 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I didn't actually go that show tho. Dumb! I never saw Stereolab.
― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 25 October 2007 02:04 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― jaxon, Thursday, 25 October 2007 02:21 (eleven years ago) Permalink
it's been so long, but they ripped the bassline for a song directly from a yoko ono tune from her first or second solo album
― jaxon, Thursday, 25 October 2007 02:22 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― dad a, Thursday, 25 October 2007 04:17 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 25 October 2007 04:26 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Prokofiev's Symphonie Diabolique:
― dad a, Thursday, 25 October 2007 04:32 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― dad a, Thursday, 25 October 2007 05:27 (eleven years ago) Permalink
This is the future of an illusion
Aggressive culture of despotism
Living fantasy of the immortal
The reality of an animal
― These Robust Cookies, Thursday, 25 October 2007 06:27 (eleven years ago) Permalink
One of their tracks is based on "Disco Rough" by Mathématiques Modernes.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:20 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Can't think of anything less obvious right now (I thought I was a genius for spotting the 100 Years of Solitude thing once and then googled it and nabisco had already written about it on Pitchfork, thus I lose), but "Enivrez-Vous!" from Peng! takes its lyrics from a Baudelaire prose-poem.
I'd always wondered about some of these! Thanks.
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:27 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Maybe someone knows what that French Disco line really is: Bubble Withdrawal?
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:33 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― zeus, Thursday, 25 October 2007 11:21 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I have her CD somewhere, it is bats!
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 October 2007 11:23 (eleven years ago) Permalink
a lot of that youtube series of comparisons are a little on the vague side, but they're fun
I would not have compared 'Emperor Tomato Ketchup' to 'Why?' by the Plastic Ono Band, I'd have used "Les Histoires D'A" by Les Rita Mitsouko
Stereolab guilty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML9PWVm0wEQ
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:20 (eleven years ago) Permalink
& I will post these anyway
Sylvie Vartan - Cette lettre-là (1965)
Sylvie Vartan - Par amour par pitié (1966)
Sylvie Vartan - Irresistiblement
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:21 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Pack Yr. Romantic Mind:
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― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 26 October 2007 03:15 (eleven years ago) Permalink
that was feeble, sorry
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 26 October 2007 03:16 (eleven years ago) Permalink
brilliant thread, that Jirí Trnka film is mindblowing. good work!
has anyone mentioned family fodder yet?, as a general influence and specifically savoire faire and it's uncanny resemblance to (i think) wow and flutter. was it milton who mentioned upstairs somewhere that sterolab steals seem a bit disingenuous? i dunno if i could go along with that, their references generally seem pretty overt, if obscure. i think it's pretty key to the appeal of stereolab that you just know everything is pilfered.
― cw, Friday, 26 October 2007 11:51 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Yet nothing sounds quite like Stereolab. Sort of like a robot made of all sorts.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 26 October 2007 11:59 (eleven years ago) Permalink
holy shit this thread. overwhelming amount of info. more pls!
― CharlieNo4, Friday, 26 October 2007 12:22 (eleven years ago) Permalink
What Charlie No4 said above.
thanks, people
― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 26 October 2007 12:51 (eleven years ago) Permalink
"All good things to come.."
― Mark G, Friday, 26 October 2007 12:57 (eleven years ago) Permalink
MBV,Spacemen 3, Astrud Gilberto, Nico, Francoise Hardy.
― Zeno, Friday, 26 October 2007 13:12 (eleven years ago) Permalink
"Pause" samples the "Swedish Rhapsody" numbers station transmission.
(Numbers stations transmission consist of transient noise bursts with announcements.)
More info:
― dad a, Friday, 26 October 2007 14:03 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Wouldn't it be quicker to just list the things that aren't a direct influence on Stereolab?
Like uh........ummmmm........
― PhilK, Friday, 26 October 2007 14:07 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Corn Flakes
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 26 October 2007 23:52 (eleven years ago) Permalink
You obviously haven't heard the obscure 1996 comp-only track "Kellogg Oberheim Fondle"
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 October 2007 00:01 (eleven years ago) Permalink
i'm not on board with a lot of these, but ...
― jaxon, Saturday, 27 October 2007 00:23 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Does it count that they play this record sometimes before they go on mean it's a reference, or just a somewhat similar sound?
― Soundslike, Saturday, 27 October 2007 00:32 (eleven years ago) Permalink
-- jaxon, Saturday, 27 October 2007 10:23 (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Some of those are either acknowledged influences (Gane has said Flower Call Nowhere is based on Fearless Vampire Killers, which is obvious when you hear the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH bit) or incredibly tenuous links. Quite a few are disturbingly close though.
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 27 October 2007 01:19 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― keythkeyth, Saturday, 27 October 2007 01:46 (eleven years ago) Permalink
And from an NZ domain too.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 October 2007 01:47 (eleven years ago) Permalink
You poopheadz, I posted those just upthread!
The really tenuous ones are the things that seem common to a million songs, too common to count as a "steal" even if they're directly referencing the original -- the Canned Heat one is pretty free-floating in the whole world of music at this point, and the Archies one is like, umm, pretty common rhythm guitar sound.
― nabisco, Saturday, 27 October 2007 22:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink
now i see snapper, sorry.
― keythkeyth, Saturday, 27 October 2007 23:58 (eleven years ago) Permalink
astrud gilberto - "summer sweet"
listen to the verses and tell me that the organ sound and chord changes aren't like a total mid-era Stereolab sound.
― Steve Shasta, Sunday, 28 October 2007 00:38 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I'm getting a French Disko vibe from this 70s Aussie prog plodder:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmsy0UgqoA
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They include, by grade order, Josie Nichols, Kaden Wright, Emorie Jones, Zachary Graham, Chesney Cash, Parker Jones, Harry Jackson, Rylan Guettner, Bradley Dishman, John Kevorkian, Sierra Cowell, Anna Fink, Zane Edwards, Shayla Wood, Ty Mason, Brandon Williams, Natrice Childress, Cailynn Shelley, Daelyn Thompson, Dalton Carroll, Gracey Hixon, Elijah Payne and Natalie Booth.
Roane County Schools Coordinated School Health Program's fourth annual Run for Your Health will be on Nov. 3.
Run for Your Health is a 5K race/walk, with proceeds from the race used to supplement health and wellness initiatives for students enrolled in Roane County Schools. Efforts that create opportunities to promote healthy lifestyles are an integral part of the educational process and enhance academic success.
The race/walk beginning and ending at Fort Southwest Point has been sanctioned by USA Track & Field.
Students planning to attend Tennessee Tech University next fall should apply for scholarships now.
More than 550 scholarships are available to Tennessee Tech students, and the time to apply for the 2013-14 academic year is now.
The scholarship application system is open until Dec. 15.
Tennessee Tech offers a variety of generous scholarships funded by the university and private donors.
In fall 2012, more than a quarter of the freshmen class received nearly 800 academic scholarships worth more than $1.8 million.
While students were on vacation this summer, 76 educators from eight area school districts went to "summer school" visiting six businesses as part of the Educators in the Workplace program.
"This program is beneficial for both the businesses and the teachers," said Allen Lutz, education and workforce development specialist for The Roane Alliance, one of the program sponsors.
MONDAY — Chicken nuggets or entrée salad with hot roll or breadstick, whipped potatoes, steamed carrots, fresh fruit selection, chilled fruit cup and milk.
TUESDAY — Hamburger on bun, quesadilla or entrée salad with baked beans, variety spuds, lettuce-tomato-pickle, fresh fruit selection, chilled fruit cup and milk.
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Wild Re-Sign Defenseman Marco Scandella
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild have re-signed defenseman Marco Scandella to a two-year contract.
The team announced the deal on Monday.
Scandella was eligible to be a restricted free agent, but the Wild locked the 23-year-old before he could hit the market. Scandella missed training camp in January because of a groin injury and spent most of this season with the Houston Aeros in the AHL, recording 17 points in 45 games.
The second-round pick in the 2008 draft played in six regular season games for the Wild. Added to the active roster again right before the playoffs, Scandella had a goal and an assist in five games against the Chicago Blackhawks. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound native of Montreal has four goals and 11 assists in 89 career NHL games.
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The camera on Apple's new iPhone 5s comes with some pleasant surprises.
It's got a higher resolution and more automatic tech to make sure your photos are perfect. Best of all, it can take 10 photos at once and picks the clearest, sharpest one without you having to do anything.
The latest, greatest iPhone camera may still have the 8 megapixel resolution of the iPhone 5, but it increased its sensor area by 15 percent, to a 1.5-micron pixel size. Bigger pixels means more light can get in, and so the new camera can capture more detailed photos in low light.
The phone also automatically adjusts your white balance, exposure, tone map, and autofocus. If you're trying to snap an action shot, it can auto-stabilize by taking multiple shots and blending the sharpest parts into a single image. If you feel like slowing life down, you can play back your 120-frames-per-second videos at a quarter speed.
You can also hold down the shutter to activate the camera's new burst mode, which takes 10-frames-per-second and will suggest individual shots or a sequence of the best photos.
Take several photos:
Have the best one selected:
Sick of ugly color distortion caused by your flash? The new camera boasts "true tone" dual LED flash to match the color balance of the light in the room, either with cool blue or warm amber light.
Beyond regular pictures, the iPhone 5s camera can take either square or 28-megapixel panorama shots and it comes with built-in filters, so you might not even need to change anything before sharing it on Instagram.
Sure, most of these features can be found in typical point-and-shoot cameras, but that's the point — the iPhone now has all the basic capabilities of a standalone camera so users don't need an extra camera.


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The WSMP Board is made up of those organisations with an interest in migration who operate at a Wales strategic level. The following organisations are represented on our Board:
British Red Cross
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Among the dead were a man, two women and four children, all of whom were from the al-Dallu family, said spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra.
A 70-year-old woman, also believed to be from the same family, and a 22-year-old man were also killed, he said.
At least 20 people were injured in the strike, which flattened the three-storey building in Gaza City's Nasser neighbourhood.
Israeli air strikes have killed at least 18 Palestinians in the bloodiest day so far of its massive air campaign, as diplomatic efforts to broker a truce intensified.
With Egypt at the centre of efforts to broker a ceasefire, Palestinian officials said it was possible a deal would be reached "today or tomorrow."
Another three people died in two separate strikes shortly afterwards, one hitting Shejaiya in eastern Gaza City and a second in Jabaliya in the north.
Two Palestinian youngsters look through the rubble of their destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza strip (EPA)
The Israeli army confirmed it had struck "a few targets in northern Gaza City."
The latest deaths hiked the Palestinian death toll to 64 in almost 100 hours of raids, while three Israelis have been killed by rocket fire since Wednesday.
Israeli aircraft also hit two media centres in Gaza City on Sunday, wounding at least eight journalists, one of whom lost a leg, health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.
The military defended the strike, saying it had targeted Hamas operational communications and sought to minimise civilian casualties.
Israeli soldiers sit atop their tanks on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip (AFP/Getty Images)
Barack Obama said on Sunday it was "preferable" for the Gaza crisis to end without a "ramping up" of Israeli military activity.
"Israel has every right to expect that it does not have missiles fired into its territory," Obama said in Thailand. "If that can be accomplished without a ramping up of military activity in Gaza, that is preferable."
In Cairo, senior Hamas officials said Egyptian-mediated talks with Israel to end the conflict were "positive" but now focused on the possible stumbling block of guaranteeing the terms of a truce.
An outcome acceptable to Hamas would be assurances by the United States, Israel's main backer, to be the "guaranteeing party," one official said on condition of anonymity.
Security officials in Cairo said an Israeli envoy also arrived in Cairo on Sunday for Egyptian-mediated truce talks with Hamas.
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, meanwhile, insisted that "the first and absolute condition for a truce is stopping all fire from Gaza," and that all armed groups would have to commit to it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz (C) and Defence Minister Ehud Barak (AFP/Getty Images)
Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel was ready to "significantly expand" its operation against Gaza militants even as he prepared to receive French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who is on a whirlwind truce mission to the region.
"We are extracting a heavy price from Hamas and the terror organisations," Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting. "The army is prepared to significantly expand the operation."
Mr Netanyahu said he was holding ongoing talks with world leaders, "and we appreciate their understanding of Israel's right to self-defence," as thousands of Israeli troops massed along the Gaza border.
But William Hague, the foreign secretary, pressed Israel not to escalate the conflict by sending ground troops into the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.
"The prime minister (David Cameron) and I have both stressed to our Israeli counterparts that a ground invasion of Gaza would lose Israel a lot of the international support and sympathy that they have in this situation," he said.
Since the start of its Operation Pillar of Defence, launched after the killing of top Hamas military Commander Ahmed Jaabari in an air strike, the Israeli army says Palestinian militants have fired more than 800 rockets over the border.


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Toni Lamprecht
Born: 28.04.71 in Starnberg, Germany
Height: 188cm (6' 3")
Weight: 80-90 Kg
Born in southern Germany I started going to the mountains with my family at the age of 4. Together with my Dad, we climbed several 4,000-meter peaks in Switzerland in the early 80's. After a "short" alpine climbing career at the age of 14, I began looking for a new challenge and finally discovered "real" climbing. During the following years I became a "climbing-junkie"; I dreamed, thought and lived climbing every day (bouldering, sport or alpine). I wanted to collect ascents of hard sport routes all over Europe, make first ascents and tick off some of the important limestone alpine routes on the northern rim of the alps.
After another "short" career as a competition climber on the German National Team, I established my first sport-climbing highlight in 1990 with the first ascent of "Baby Basher", 8b+ (5.14a) in my home area Kochel. In 1992, a trip around the world changed my focus on climbing for numbers, ratings and competitions to adventure; basically seeking the experience of one's personal limits and the forces of our own nature. My climbing trips led me through many climbing areas in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. I immersed myself into the different cultures I visited, including Africa and Asia.
At the same time I began working with handicapped children and discovered that learning from other people would give my life a completely new source of motivation. Therefore, while I was still addicted to climbing, I focused on studying to become a teacher for handicapped children and later finished my degree in 1999.
And what happened climbing-wise? After realizing another grade-push in 1996 with "Ramayana" 8c+ (5.14c) and a few hard alpine routes, I went to the Bugaboos in Canada with a friend and we established "Power of Lard", an 8-pitch route along a beautiful granite pillar that went free in the 5.13 range.
The following six-month trip led us through many historical climbing areas in North America, ultimately ending up in Hueco Tanks, Texas where we met the Bouldering Guru Fred Nicole. For the following two years a crashpad was my main climbing partner... and I established a lot of really satisfying boulder problems over the following years. My personal bouldering highlights include: "The Dagger-Sit-Start" and "Bokassa's Fridge" (Fb 8c/V15). In 1999 I went on a long road trip with Klem Loskot and a bunch of other German-Austrian-bouldering freaks to Australia, where we established a lot of world class boulder problems up to Fb 8b+ (V14).
In the same year I released my first book, "Climbing with Mentally Handicapped People," and began working as a teacher in Munich, Germany.
What else? Ah the bands - I played in 3 bands: "Dead Clintons" (Punk-Hardcore), "Analstahl" (Old School Punk) and "G.Rag y los Hermanos Patchekos" (From Cuban to Folk music). ANALSTAHL is an old-school-punk rock band, 3 (vinyl-)records: "ANALSTAHL, Daneben, LIVE". There are still a few climbers at the concerts, though they get rare these days because of the strict diet and their hard evening endurance workouts- the most famous climber ever seen at such a concert was Fred Nicole. "G.Rag y los hermanos patchekos" is a musical mixture from Cuban and Latin over Tom Waits to traditional Bavarian songs, there is a lot for everybody (especially the girls). 4 CDs, biggest fans are female between 25 and 35 years old.
Adventure Climbing: In 2001 the lust for adventure climbing surfaced again and after a bunch of "bolted on lead sport-routes" up to 5.13 in the alps, I went with some friends went on my first expedition to Greenland, where we did two lines up a 1200 meter big-wall: "Aquasky", 7a (5.11) and "Easy or Squeezy" 7b+ (5.12) A4+, which marked a personal new step forward by not using a single bolt and leading nearly every pitch on-sight.
The same year I realized another long-standing project with "Die Welle (The wave)", 9a (5.14d). A year later I discovered a new game for the hot summer conditions with "Psicobloc", or Deep Water Soloing (DWS) in Mallorca, Spain. Psicobloc is route climbing in its simplest form: no rope, no top-rope or yo-yo work sessions, just pure climbing above the sea. I plan on heading back there for all the unclimbed projects in the area!
In 2003, I turned my attentions to bolting on lead once again with the multi-pitch "Rock the Casbah," 8c (5.14b) with Julian Heidinger.
At the end of 2004, I was part of a 7-member team of strong Swiss and German climbers that began a 6-week expedition to southern Greenland. The expedition was situated in the Fjords around the islands Tornarssuk and Quvernit near the Cape Farvel in the very South of Greenland, home of unexplored, exposed and 1400m high Granite-towers. Together with the brothers Michi and Ivan Tresch, Tom Holzhauser, Michi Wyser, Caro Morel and Wanja Reichel we established 9 new routes up to 5.12d (7c) and 7 first summit-ascents up to 1100m tall. The routes were steep with vertical walls and a bunch of hard off-width pitches in the upper 5.10 and 5.12 range. On our new routes we avoided placing bolts and tried to climb the lines in "one-day" pushes.
Since 2004, I have lived together with my girl-friend in Munich, where I work four days a week with "problem-kids". Besides my job and the daily climbing performances I still maintain the desire and motivation for travelling and a few of my planned forays include the USA, the Himalayas and Africa.
For example, in August-September of 2007 I went to the Tsaranoro Valley in the middle of Madagascar. We were a gang of four: Felix Frieder, Sandra Wielebnowski, Benno Wagner, and myself. Besides repeating a bunch of existing routes, we also managed to do an incredibly beautiful first ascent on the east face of Tsaranoro that beat all of our expectations: "Manara-Potsiny", 8a (5.13b), 600m, 17 pitches.
My targets for the future (besides health and my personal development) are still focused on travelling with friends, chasing my personal limits in all the climbing disciplines and having fun on the rocks with the help of the people I'm hanging out with.
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Jamaica was thrust into despair once again yesterday as the barbarism of some of its people was emphasised when another child became part of the chilling murder statistics.
The children I see in Jamaica today are passionate, strong, lively, enthusiastic, humorous and continually striving for success but under what difficult conditions and how many obstacles must they overcome?
The Institute of Jamaica (IoJ), the agency of Government responsible for preserving the country's tangible and intangible heritage, has been allocated $94 million for a revitalisation project, which will enhance its efforts to promote arts and culture.
Natalie Neita-Headley, the minister with responsibility for sports, said it is unlikely that Jamaica will ever have the vast number of positive drug-test results that were returned in recent years.
Proven Investments Limited has sold the loan portfolio of its hire purchase subsidiary, Asset Management Company Limited, to Access Financial Services for $500 million, a move aimed at consolidating the operations of both companies, says Proven's chief...
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Today is the birth of something new and refreshing for a new group of soca lovers.
As a Jamaican, I respond in support of the story about the challenges facing Sam James, 'Racism at Tryall?', published in The Gleaner on Sunday, February 1, 2015.
THE EDITOR, Sir:The Dispute Resolution Foundation (DRF) salutes one of its founding members and mentors, Mrs Avis Henriques, CD.
Some women look forward to the days of no period with great anticipation, while some simply wish it would just come regularly, especially those hoping to conceive.
The Caribbean yesterday joined the international community in observing World Birth Defects Day with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), noting that congenital anomalies, or birth defects, are the second-leading cause of death in children under five in the region.


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60th Road west of Remington Road
Brandon Allan Farrar, 33, of Peabody, lost control of his 1979 Chevrolet pickup on the shoulder, overcorrected, and drove through a barbed-wire fence at 12:43 p.m. May 6. No injuries were reported.
120th Road west of Alamo Road
Jeremy L. Voth, 28, of Goessel struck a deer with his 2006 Chevrolet pickup at 8:45 p.m. May 8.
150th road east of K-15
James M. Hoffman, 52, of Hillsboro struck and killed a deer with his 2001 Toyota sedan at 6:25 a.m. May 7.
Indigo Road south of 90th Road
Scott E. Crawford, 43, of Wichita struck and killed a cow with his 2001 Ford sport utility vehicle at 9:35 p.m. May 7. At 9:48 p.m., William W. Newlin, 70, of Wichita struck the cow, which was still in the roadway, with his 2009 Ford sedan.
Intersection of U.S. 50 and U.S. 77
Lenny Grier, 57, of Troy, Mo., entered the roundabout at too high of speed, hit the center of the intersection, hit the outer curb, and overturned, landing in a ditch in a 2013 Peterbilt semi owned by Coastal Carriers of Troy, Mo., at 6 a.m. May 4. No injuries were reported. Newlin was taken by Peabody ambulance to Newton Medical Center.
K-15 south of 220th Road
Richard D. Loewen, 44, of Hillsboro struck a deer with his 1991 Buick sedan at 9:15 p.m. May 7.
Nighthawk Road north of 310th Road
Brenden Michael Cole, 20, of Tampa lost control on wet gravel and went off the road, hitting a barbed-wire fence, embankment, and tree with a 2000 Chevrolet sedan belonging to Brad D. Cole, also of Tampa, at 9:10 a.m. May 2. No injuries were reported.
U.S. 77 north of 360th Road
Robert J. Hernandez, 20, of Fort Riley fell asleep and drove through a barbed-wire fence in his 1999 Ford coupe at 2:20 a.m. May 4. No injuries were reported.
U.S. 77 north of U.S. 50
Sherri L. Nelson, 56, of Lincolnville was driving a 2007 Chevrolet pickup owned by Terry A. Nelson, Lincolnville, when a bearing went out, causing a fire at 2:20 p.m. April 29. The fire went out after the truck was stopped. No injuries were reported.


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I'm trying to calculate the amount of flour (and water) in a certain number of grams of starter. The hydration is at 60%. I know that in 160 grams of starter, there are 100 g of flour and 60 of water, but what if I have a smaller or larger amount of starter in my recipe?
Here's the calculation
F= amount of flour
T = Total weight of starter
H=Hydration percentage
(F*H)=amount of water
T is known
H is known
I'm trying to solve for F and thereby find W (Water amount)
I just want to say that this website has been tremendously helpful, both in information and moral support. I'm baking loaves these days that I'm very pleased with and am now trying to "tweak" my formulas on a spreadsheet for timing and adjusting overall hydration.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 24 (UPI) -- Russian energy company Gazprom said it views a liquefied natural gas plant on the Gulf of Finland a step in a new regional direction.
Gazprom announced plans to build the LNG plant in the Leningrad region on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. The facility is intended to process 10 million tons of LNG per day.
The company said it would use its "best endeavors" to implement the project. Gazprom did not indicate when the project would be completed.
Gazprom chief Alexei Miller signed the deal for facility last week with regional officials.
"Gazprom has taken the decision to launch a fundamentally new and ambitious project -- the construction of an LNG plant in the Leningrad region," he said in a statement.
Gazprom's twin Nord Stream pipeline runs from the Gulf of Finland through the Baltic Sea to the coast of Germany.
Paolo Scaroni, chief executive officer of Italian energy company Eni, met last week with Miller in St. Petersburg to discuss progress made on the South Stream pipeline, a complementary gas pipeline planned though southern Europe.
Gazprom said construction on the offshore section of South Stream would start next year. A ground-breaking ceremony for the onshore section was held last year.


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Controversy over a note the owner of the Stingray Caf� on South Front Street in New Bern gave a lesbian couple as they left his restaurant recently has stirred a lot of angry comments.
NEW BERN � Controversy over a note the owner of the Stingray Caf� on South Front Street in New Bern gave a lesbian couple as they left his restaurant recently has stirred a lot of angry comments.
Ed McGovern�s note said the couple�s lifestyle was hurting everyone and said that God opposes homosexuality. He handed the note to Arielle and Shawnee McPhail after they had paid for their meal and were leaving the restaurant.
McGovern said Friday he was not doing any more interviews.
�I�m just letting this thing roll,� McGovern said. �It�s just getting out of hand anyway.�
Although McGovern did not wish to comment on the incident, he said it was not hurting his business and he was getting a lot of support.
The note McGovern wrote on notebook paper and handed to the McPhails said in part, according to WITN news, ��Please look at your life. See how it hurt(s) everyone around you. And ask the Lord to open your eyes before it (is) to(o) late. � The Love of Christ.
�P.S. my daughter also was gay. It destroy[ed] her life and my grandson.�
According to an interview the McPhails gave to WITN news, McGovern took offense when he saw them on the sidewalk outside his restaurant kissing. But the McPhails denied kissing, saying they were holding hands.
Repeated calls to Shawnee McPhail were not immediately returned. Arielle McPhail could not be reached.
People from California to New York are condemning McGovern�s actions on the Internet and some are asking for a boycott of the restaurant. By Friday, the review website Yelp exploded with angry responses. Even the Stingray Caf� website had more than a dozen angry comments.
But there were some comments supporting McGovern�s right to free speech.
The Sun Journal received a telephone call Friday afternoon from a woman, who only left her first name, who said her family usually has a reunion at the Stingray Caf� but since the letter incident they would not be returning.
�This is a black eye on the wonderful town of New Bern,� she said.
The woman said she saw the story on the Huffington Post website. Between Huffington Post and other websites, the incident has provoked comments numbering in the hundreds, and counting.
Other posts on the Stingray Caf� website included many comments from the gay and lesbian community, and one from a business owner: �Religion is personal. Business is public. Check your personal beliefs and problems at the door�.�
A comment supporting McGroven�s actions by �Sara� said, �I am glad that you took a stand. �I don�t even care for seafood, but hopefully soon will visit your restaurant. I pray God will bless you for doing what is right according to the Bible. Thank you!�


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With the Supreme Court set to hear argument this week on the use of racial preferences in student admissions by state universities, the deans of Harvard and Yale law schools ( Martha Minow and Robert Post) defend this practice in a Washington Post op-ed. Part of the defense consists, as usual, of touting the supposed virtues of a "diverse" student body. We have written about this tired, disingenuous argument in the past and will do so again as this latest case – Fisher v. University of Texas – moves toward resolution.
But Minow and Post present a more novel argument, one that makes the "diversity" riff seem well-reasoned and intellectually honest by comparison. Minow and Post suggest that their institutions consider race only insofar as it helps them assess the "character" of applicants. They do so by considering what applicants say about "the role that race has played in their lives."
Let's try to understand this. Elite institutions like Harvard and Yale typically admit classes in which Blacks are represented in percentages vastly greater than the percentages that would result from consideration of only objective criteria – essentially grades and test scores. A class that, under race blind criteria, might be only 3 percent Black will end up with, say, 10 percent Black representation.
Are we to believe that this huge bumps is results from the superior character of Black applicants as a group? In the eyes of Minow and Post, Black character must exist on a significantly higher plane than White character.
Long ago, employers and educational institutions sometimes justified racial discrimination based on claims that Whites possessed superior character. Blacks sometimes were said to be lazy, for example. But now it is Blacks whose character has been deemed massively superior.
What evidence of this superiority do Minow and Post rely on? In practice, as their op-ed makes clear, they rely on the ability of Blacks to write about race in some form of personal essay. In other words, superior character resides in the ability of Black applicants to BS law professors and admissions officers who are dying to be BSed. No one verifies the stuff that appears in these personal statements about race. Heck, no one verified Barack Obama's BS about the role race played in his life until he had been president of the United States for three years. At that point, even the sympathetic David Maraniss found that Obama was making it up.
In the context of law school admissions, there is one fact that provides a real glimpse into the character of applicants: How did they do during their four years in college? Many law school applicants will already have received preferential admission from the undergraduate institution they attended (I wonder how often this fact makes its way into the personal essay on how race affected the applicant's life). What did they make of this opportunity? Allowing for, say, a year to acclimate themselves, did their performance as an undergraduate demonstrate the qualities Minow and Post say are important, such as "curiosity," "drive," and "determination"?
If so, their college transcript will reflect it, and chances are they won't need the massive artificial edge conferred through race based admissions. Either way, though, performance is always a more reliable indicator of character than words.
But I doubt that Minow and Post are interested in individual character (isn't that just a "social construct," anyway). More likely, their interest consists of admitting a large number of Blacks (and perhaps other minorities) because they think it's the right thing to do as a matter of "social justice." One could respect them for this if they were more honest.