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Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet will also be available for Central and South America.
Also: Space Brothers new broadcast time will be on Saturday at 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time.
Whats up guys,
Keikawa back again to hijack Michana's thread to make the last announcement of the day until we pick back up again next week with: Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet!!
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet is set to broadcast every Sunday starting on April 7, at 10:00a.m. Pacific Time for audiences in the following territories: U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, Central & South America, and Portugal.
"In the distant future, a planet covered almost entirely by oceans, known as Earth, grows in space. Ledo, a boy who has known nothing but fighting all his life, saw the sea there for the first time. On its vast, faintly green waters, men organize huge naval fleets and live modest but active lives. Due to language and cultural barriers, Ledo lives as a lonely foreigner... but he's not alone. Ledo is just beginning his days on this green planet, asking what he must do to survive here, and what he is living for."
Zettai Boei Leviatan is set to broadcast every Saturday starting on April 6, at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time for audiences in the following territories: North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Turkey, Central America, and South America.
Based on a new mobile game that GREE has launched in Japan, the trio of heroines in Zettai Boei Leviatan will be voiced by three very talented actresses: Ayana Taketatsu, Eri Kitamura, and Saori Hayami. Ms. Taketatsu has taken lead roles in hit shows like K-ON!, Star Driver, and Date A Live, while Ms. Hayami has appeared in hit series like Heaven's Lost Property, Bakuman, and East of Eden, and both share a common co-starring bond in the Oreimo franchise. Ms. Kitamura's accolades are far and wide, as her roles have extended from C³ to Nisemonogatari (alongside Ms. Hayami), Puella Magi Madoka Magica to LAST EXILE.
"On the blue and green planet of Aquafall: a storm of meteorites blasts through the atmosphere towards this peaceful planet, delivering an unknown scourge threatening all living creatures with extinction. Syrop makes a plea to enlist all the strongest of this world to join the Aquafall Defense, for she cannot save the planet alone.
While traveling, Syrop encounters three very talented warriors from the three dragon clans: Jörmungand, Bahamut, and Leviatan, each with a unique set of abilities that just might save the planet from its destruction."
We are continuing our spring announcements, the first one for today is Muromi-san which will launch on Saturday, April 6th at 1pm Pacific Time for premium members. Free members can watch a week after or get a 2-week free trial. It will be available in the United States, Canada, Central and South America, UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal.
One day, Mukoujima Takurou, a boy in high school who loves fishing, catches a pig tailed mermaid called Muromi-san who speaks in the Hakata dialect. She comes to visit Takurou often, along with her fellow mermaids Sumida-san, Fuji-san, Levia-san, Hii-chan, and even some other fantastical creatures such as Yeti and Harpy!"
As always, we've got more announcements headed your way, so stay tuned to Crunchyroll to see what's coming next!
3/15 - Sparrow's Hotel
3/15 - Oreimo 2
3/29 - Valvrave the Liberator
3/30 - Mushibugyo
4/2 - Majestic Prince
4/2 - Uta no Prince Sama 2
4/3 - Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W
4/3 - Hayate the Combat Butler! Cuties
4/4 - The Severing Crime Edge
4/4 - Samurai Bride
4/4 - Flowers of Evil
4/5 - Muromi-san
4/5 - Zettai Boei Leviatan
4/5 - Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
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Muromi-san seems like a lot of fun. Been interested in giving it a try,
Looking forward to seeing what else is getting announced before tonight
Great start today, Crunchy. Can't wait to see what's in store for us today. And thanks for availability for all those regions =)
Looks fun, thanks Crunchyroll!
So far this spring season is Great...Keep it going CR!!!
Seems that Q2 2013 is going to have less shows streamed on CR compared to Q1 2013 but at least they are shows that people seem to have anticipated.
I'll watch it because it seems like it might be hilarious
Alright, hoping CR is able to get a few more shows that I have yet to cross off my list of what CR has gotten:
Date A Live
RDG: Red Data Girl
Yahari Ore
Photo Kano
Shingeki no Kyojin
Suisei no Gargantia
Zettai Bouei Leviathan
Any of these as CR announcements will be awesome
What even
Aryoch wrote: Great start today, Crunchy. Can't wait to see what's in store for us today. And thanks for availability for all those regions =)
If there are more Kodansha licenses coming, this could be a good day for not only Latin America, but for Spain and Portugal as well.
But New Zealand getting a license that Australia missed ~ I think this is the very first time I've seen that happen.
Jaxx_Raxor wrote: Seems that Q2 2013 is going to have less shows streamed on CR compared to Q1 2013 but at least they are shows that people seem to have anticipated.
Maybe, and maybe not, but based on what? Remember, its still only day four of the main announcement week ~ by this time in Winter there were still five or more boxes that had not yet been put up.
8 years as a premium member, but no more
YES! I've been really looking forward to this one.
Maybe I'll give it a try to this one, for the comments I've read here in CR, it seems to be a funny series :D.
Yes !!!!! My saturdays are going to be epic !!
Murder Time. Fun time.
YAY!! We got Leviatan as well
Things are starting to turn out very nicely :~
Another one in the bag for CR
back online! add me and chat!
There's 1 more announcement for today. I hope they'll add a couple more boxes since there's still some shows I wanna see like Arata Kangatari, Attack on Titan, Date A Live and Gargantia. :~


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The host Eagles took a 17-8 lead early in the third quarter and held on to hand Tomales its first North Central II loss of the season.
Tomales (4-2, 2-1) took the lead initially on a touchdown run by Cody Titus. But a field goal by Connor Baer and an 85-yard touchdown run by Brian Freeman helped gave California School for the Deaf (5-1, 3-1) an 10-8 lead. Freeman broke the CSD career rushing record in the game.
A 25-yard touchdown run by Jacy Dike-Pedersen helped give the Eagles a 17-8 lead, and they held that advantage until the fourth quarter when Titus scored a touchdown on a short catch.
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My baby girl is 6 weeks old. We have had a breast feeding problem from day 1. She has a tiny little mouth and I've got ginormous nipples and so she has had a problem latching. To make matters worse, my left side is a 'flat' nipple. So in the hospital we used a nipple shield to help her latch. I have since stopped using the nipple shield after reading how it can affect supply. We were exclusively BFing for the first 2 weeks but she did not gain any weight so I was told to pump and supplement if needed.
Here is my current routine - when she shows signs of hunger I will nurse her, then give her 2oz of either formula or breast milk, then I will pump. I don't know if this is the right way to do things or not...
Now, at her 1 mth appt she gained a lb and so the Dr was happy with that. It was about an oz a day weight gain. I asked her if I could start eliminating bottles. She doesn't want me to since were weight gain is just ideal not over the top.
Baby girls latch is getting so much better on the right side and she actively sucks for about 3-5 minutes. After that she will do the occasional suck. As for the left side, well I've started using a nipple shell to help pull it out. This seems to help a little but it's still new and she doesn't seem to suck like she does on the right. I should say that she's always been a lazy nurser and always falls asleep straight away. Now that she's sucking a little I see a tiny light at the end of the tunnel.
I guess my question is - how do I know if she's getting enough milk from nursing? I don't think she is since she doesn't really seem to get much from the left breast.
I want so bad to EBF but I don't know how to get her to actively suck and get anything from the left side. When I pump I always seem to get 1-1.5oz from the left side. That's another thing, I don't know if my supply is good or not. I've been taking fenugreek and mothers milk tea.
She has gotten better and so that's what makes me stick with it. And I have read from other mothers who have it work after a couple months. I want to stick it out its just so hard and takes so long for a feeding. I love nursing her but my Dr has said it's not so good to just let her sit there and use me as a pacifier (as she does sometimes) since she will burn more calories than she's taking in.
I just don't know. I would love any input from you wise ladies! This is my first baby and I'm just on my own with this. My husband is pretty supportive but the rest of my family just doesn't understand why I don't just give her a bottle. I'm sorry this is so long and rambling - too many questions of the unknown! I just need some reassurance that I'm doing the right thing or a push in the right direction.
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November 30, 2005
One hundred and thirty members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed on to a plan, which they believe will expedite forest recovery efforts following a wildfire or other natural disaster.
Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., authored the Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act (FERRA). House Resolution 4200 is co-sponsored by Rep. Brian Baird, his Democratic counterpart in Washington state, Stephanie Herseth, D-S.D., and Wayne Gilchrest, R-Md.
The legislation is also being championed by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who chairs the House Committee on Agriculture. That committee helps set policy for the Department of Agriculture, which has jurisdiction over 191 million acres of national forests. The proposed legislation would also apply to 55 million acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management under the Department of the Interior.
Goodlatte has pledged to hold hearings in his committee during December and then expeditiously move FERRA to the House floor.
Walden said the bill provides tools and grants authority to federal land managers — such as the U.S. Forest Service — for a rapid assessment of conditions. The legislation would go into play if more than 1,000 acres of a forest are damaged by any catastrophic event.
Administrative appeals and litigation would follow the streamlined guidelines established under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, according to Walden.
He said adjacent nonfederal lands would also be included in the evaluation when desired by tribal entities, local government and private landowners. The evaluation would determine if expedited reforestation and other recovery work was needed to protect forest health.
Walden said land managers would then be able, if necessary, to harvest dead and dying timber, restore landscapes, remove excess fuel loads, restore water and air quality, and prevent an additional reforestation backlog.
"Today in America's forests, it can take three years for the federal government to cut a burned, dead tree after a fire. And by the time the decision is finally made, the trees have often rotted, become bug infested or lost most of their value. The Government Accountability Office reports that upwards of a million acres of forestland is in need of replanting. We can, and should, do better than that," said Walden.
However, Walden's legislation has drawn fire from the Sierra Club and numerous other conservation groups across the nation. The environmental community contends that FERRA "disregards important protections for clean drinking water and wildlife."
"This legislation is a gross example of misplaced priorities. We should be protecting homes and communities at risk from fires, not diverting scarce resources to damaging logging activities. Scientific research has shown that logging dead or dying trees damages streams, increases fire risk, destroys wildlife habitat and wastes taxpayer dollars," wrote David Willett, Sierra Club spokesperson, on Common Dreams News Wire.
Walden chairs the House Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, which has spent almost two years in public hearings on these issues. He said FERRA allows dead timber to be utilized instead of letting it go to waste. He contends the proposed regulations follow all environmental laws while streamlining the process to clean up and restore forests.
"This is a responsible, common sense bill. People use wood – to build homes, to make paper – and that wood needs to come from somewhere," said Baird. "We can use wood from trees that are dead or dying, or from trees that are alive and healthy.
"Furthermore, we can responsibly harvest wood here at home, abiding by environmental protections and creating jobs – or we can get our wood from clear cuts in equatorial rainforests where the environment is far more fragile and environmental protection and labor laws are far weaker or even nonexistent," he continued.
FERRA has also been endorsed by Dr. Hal Salwasser, dean of Oregon State University's College of Forestry, Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth and Lynn Scarlett, assistant secretary of the Department of the Interior.
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Rokita Serves as Panelist at Election Reform Summit
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Indianapolis, IN - Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita returned Monday from San Diego, California where he presented Indiana's successful provisional balloting process to representatives from all over the country at the second Helping America Vote Summit on Election Reform. The conference, presented by the National Association of Secretaries of State, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the National Association of Counties, examined the status of election reform in the United States and explored many issues states and localities confront as they continue their work to improve the election process.
Rokita presented Indiana's provisional ballot process, which is regarded as a national model. A provisional ballot allows a voter to cast a vote if the individual believes she is registered to vote in a precinct but her name does not appear on the precinct's poll list. A provisional ballot may also be used if the voter is challenged as not being qualified to vote in that particular precinct. The provisional ballot is kept separate from other ballots, and a bi-partisan election board decides whether the voter was qualified to vote in the precinct and whether the voter's ballot should be counted. Implemented in the wake of the 2000 election, the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) made provisional voting the law of the land.
Rokita offered at the summit an account of the 1888 election in Indiana after which evidence of "floaters" being hired to go from one precinct to another to cast votes for President was recorded. "In the absence of an effective voter registration system, these floaters may have provided the margin of victory in a presidential campaign," Rokita said. "No one knows for sure. However, if modern-day floaters appeared at several polling places on Election Day, the law requires these voters be given provisional ballots, whose validity can be determined later."
Rokita explained how the reforms put into place in Indiana following the 1888 election restored public confidence in Indiana's election process. He closed by referring to election reforms made after the 2000 election, "I contend that implementing reforms in the spirit of HAVA can and is beginning to have the same effect in restoring public confidence in the election process. And provisional voting supports our goal as election administrators - making sure every eligible vote counts."


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Managing Type 2 Diabetes: You Need a Plan
"I had to start thinking about what I needed to do to learn about lifestyle changes. I knew that something had to be done so I could maintain my good health."
Diabetes affects every aspect of your life. Making positive changes to your lifestyle can affect your diabetes in a good way. Changes can lead to better diabetes management and tighter blood glucose control, reducing your risk of long-term health problems.
In order to make a change for better diabetes health, it helps to have a plan. A good place to start is by asking yourself why you want to make a change.
"There can be thousands of reasons people might want to make change, but it needs to be internal, strong, and kind of gut level to be successful in the long term."
"You have to have a commitment. You have to look at your kids and say, 'I have to be here for them,' and that's what usually motivates me. "
"I just recognized I needed to stop for my own health, for my own benefit, and I like me. So, liking me … I like me better than I like those things that were opposed to me."
"I'm not a big advocate of 'You have to change for you.' Yeah you do, but my big thing is my family."
Take a moment now to think of the reason you want to make a change. Now, what is the one thing about your lifestyle that, if you changed it, would improve your diabetes management? Is it your food choices? Amount of physical activity? Quitting smoking?
When you are thinking of all the things in your life you may want to change to better manage your diabetes, it is easy to become overwhelmed. But take one step at a time. You have made a commitment to make a change. Now start with just one small change that you think you can make.
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Magnitogorsk 2 vs. Omsk 3 (SO)
Vasily Koshechkin [9], Magnitogorsk, SO Loss, 39/41, 1.85 GAA, .951 sv%
Season totals: 30 GP, 16-8-5, 4 SO, 2.07 GAA, .932 sv%
Vasily Koshechkin was beaten by both Omsk shooters in the penalty shot session as Metallurg fell 3-2. Ex-NHLer Sergei Kostitsyn scored the shootout winner and had an assist in the match. Ex-Lightning draft pick Dmitri Kazionov [10] failed to convert in his shootout attempt for Magnitogorsk.
Ufa 3 vs. Khanty-Mansiysk 2 (OT)
Andrey Vasilevskiy, Ufa, DNP
Season totals: 18 GP, 9-6-3, 1 SO, 2.25 GAA, .923 sv%
Nikita Gusev [11], Khanty-Mansiysk, DNP
Season totals: 24 GP, 2-2-4, -5, 8 PIM
Ex-Canucks draft pick Kirill Koltsov scored the overtime game winning goal in Ufa's 3-2 victory over Yugra. Yugra got a helper from ex-Lightning prospect Radek Smolenak [12] in defeat. Andrey Vasilevskiy sat backup in the match for Ufa. Nikita Gusev did not dress for Khanty-Mansisysk.
Bratislava 2 vs. St. Petersburg 3 (SO)
Jaroslav Janus [13], Bratislava, SO Loss, 36/38, 1.85 GAA, .947 sv%
Season totals: 21 GP, 8-10-3, 2 SO, 2.94 GAA, .891 sv%
Jaroslav Janus surrendered goals on 1 of 2 shootout attempts as Slovan fell 3-2 to SKA St. Petersburg. Janus did turn away ex-NHLer Ilya Kovalchuk in the penalty shot session.


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General Hospital
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Mollys in the beer aisle at a Ralphs grocery in Hollywood. Shes wearing a tennis skirt, pushing a cart, perusing the Bud.
A scrawny, longhaired white kid with a patchy mustache rolls by her side. He says, Yo, whats up, primetime? followed by Whats up, Ms. Tennis Skirt? Hes wearing aspirational hip-hop clothing no platinum, no leather, just multipocket cargo pants, canvas Converse sneakers and a stretched-out T-shirt. He hands her a card.
The card has a black mans picture on it. The man in the picture is dressed up ghetto-fabulous, but in silly colors, baby blues and powders. The mans wearing a nice new jersey, but has topped off his outfit with an odd, fur-covered Kangol cap. Hes standing in front of a locked-up call box at a nondescript housing complex. The card says VIP.
Whats this? asks Molly.
Thats a VIP pass for Kool Keith Entertainment. Im Sam Madina. Im his right-hand man. He parts with the words Give me a call.
Molly checks out of the supermarket, gets into her car with the beer and the card, and starts her engine. Knock-knock-knock. Sam taps on her window.
Yo, call me, Sam says, walking off toward a taxi idling in the parking lot. He slides into the cab, next to a black man in the back seat the guy from the card: Kool Keith.
Molly goes home with the beer, and thats where things get weird, because Im there at Mollys house. I flew into LAX an hour ago and am here for her party, hanging out with some old friends. Im here to meet Kool Keith, but Kool Keith, it seems, has found me first.
Its a nice day, a beautiful day, he says to me two days later when I meet him and Sam for the first time at a Dennys on Sunset. We woke up at 6 in the morning. We gotta patrol, see if anything new came into town. Look at those, he says, pointing out two women across the street. Possible APB, routine check. That was definitely a model X47, unidentified female objects. Ha-ha-ha. Those are some prospects over there.
Throughout the day, Keith and Sam proposition a number of women: 1) the two girls across the street (She has a nice little body, says Keith), 2) T-R-E-E-N-A, a middle-aged black lady walking toward her big black Cadillac, 3) a pair of teenage blonds Britney-style, according to Sam, 4) another middle-aged woman, this one toting a Louis Vuitton purse (18 to 87, Keith tells me, we like the maturity), 5) a skeptical mother with child (I got business, Keith says. Your business is different than my business, she replies) and 6) another pair of teens, two giggly black girls a hundred feet from a high school. Keith palms these two some cash with his card as Sam proceeds to explain: Women are the inspiration for all great art.
I ask Keith about these prospects.
I do photography, he explains. Intimate models of the ladies. Thats my hobby. I style up the ladies, you know? I analyze a lot of my colors, a lot of my backgrounds. I give them some nice shoes and boots and stuff.
His theory is that he plays the odds, says Kurt Matlin, a.k.a. Kutmasta Kurt, Keiths main producer since 1994. Some girls call him back from it, though. But thats not Keiths only reason for spotting prospects.
Its my way of promoting, Keith later admits, having given out dozens of cards, some of which bear the word VIP, but others that state, In Stores Now, each one emblazoned with his ghetto-fabulous portrait and the words Kool Keith the cover of his latest album, Matthew.
See, Keith comes first. More difficult to determine, though, is what it means to say Keith comes first. Does Keith come first in rap? Does rap come first for Keith? Or does life come first of all?
A man with as many aliases as prospects, Keith Matthew Thornton (a.k.a. Dr. Octagon, Dr. Dooom, Black Elvis, Rhythm X, Poppa Large, Big Willie Smith, etc.) is most often known as Kool Keith. Since debuting in the mid-80s as the front man for the Bronxs Ultramagnetic MCs, he has had one of the strangest, most circuitous and, in some respects, most continually relevant careers in hip-hop.
By the mid-70s, DJs such as Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa had laid the musics seed in the Bronx, playing sets at every community center, block party and high school gymnasium that would have them. At the dawn of the 80s, peers of theirs such as Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and more manufactured but no less important artists such as the Sugarhill Gang, Run-DMC and LL Cool J popularized the music, pushed its sonic boundaries and expanded its geographic ones.
As hip-hop began courting the pop market, the Bronx was left behind. LL and Run-DMC were from Queens; MC Shans The Bridge claimed that borough was the new home of hip-hop. MCs, DJs and b-boys from the eternally blighted Bronx didnt appreciate that. So when the Ultramagnetic MCs came together in 1986, they were not only among the first generation of groups who could anticipate commercial success, they also understood that the world had some fundamental misunderstandings about hip-hop and its history.
The new-school Ultramagnetic knew that hip-hop culture had gone askew in its transition from an underground phenomenon to a pop-cultural trend; it offered ä a corrective. If in its second wave the new school brought a multiplicity of new sounds the density of Public Enemy, the jazz of Gang Starr, De La Souls alt-hippie shtick, in California the gangsta stroll of Ice-T and N.W.A the first burst brought lyrics: Slick Rick, Eric B. & Rakim and, back in the Bronx, Boogie Down Productions and Ultramagnetic.
Me and Ced went to Clinton together, Keith remembers, speaking of Ultramagnetics Cedric Miller, a.k.a. Ced Gee. That was high school. His brother Pat had a lot of equipment. And they were producing a lot of different things together up there, but basically it was Boogie Down Productions and us. KRS-One [BDPs MC] used to come up there. Scott La Rock [BDPs DJ] used to come up there a lot before he got killed. The two groups and their fans were scattered among the projects: Patterson, Melrose, Jackson, Butler, Webster, Washington. This was ghetto modernism: In the Bronx, hip-hop artists had a sense of what had come before, a sensitivity to the boroughs decreasing centrality to its native art, and a desire to take the music to another level.
Ego Trippin was hot, and it was a big hit, Keith says, speaking of the groups signature single. Every day youd hear nothing but cars pass by MC Ultra! That was all you used to hear, every day, every morning. The songs main MC is announced by name. Kool Keith, the record intones as Keith chimes in:
They use the simple back and forth, the same old rhythm
That a baby can pick up, and join right with them
But their rhymes are pathetic, they think theyre copacetic
Using nursery terms, at least not poetic
On a educated base, intelligent wise
As the record just turn, you learn, PLUS burn
By the flame of the lyrics which cooks the human brain
Providing overheating knowledge, by means causing pain . . .
Best appreciated on Ultramagnetics first LP, 1988s Critical Beatdown, Keiths raps are pinched, relentless and just a little bit crazy, packed with witty disses and wild non sequiturs. A master of focused intensity, he juggles a litany of metaphors and obsessions through each song, bringing an idea back into the mix just as it begins to fade from the listeners mind a favored topic throughout his career has been cannibalistic violence revolving around other rappers brains.
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For Ultramagnetic, making money was not as easy as making records. The new school came at a time before labels like Def Jam or Priority had firmed up their relationships with major entertainment conglomerates. Hip-hop was still dominated by fly-by-night labels with names like Tuff City, Winley, Wild Pitch and Select, enterprises that often operated under the supervision of shysters, that chased trends rather than the passions of ghetto entrepreneurs.
Hot street acts such as Ultramagnetic were like currency for a small label, moving thousands of units with little promotion. Sign two or three good street groups and you could build a business, accumulating enough cash to push pop-rap acts via advertising, radio consultants or videos for MTV. Jumping among four labels in their eight-year career, Ultramagnetic was left behind as rap began making serious cash. Though they worked with celebrated hip-hop entrepreneurs such as Russell Simmons and Andre Harrell, their career got them noticed by hip-hop historians, not hip-hop accountants. The group disbanded in 1993.
Keiths solo career has been equally fraught. He moved from the Bronx to Los Angeles in 1994 after signing a solo deal with Capitol, but was cut loose a year later when the label laid off its entire black-music department. He signed with the Sony-affiliated Ruffhouse in 1998. Coming off the success of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill the first hip-hop album to win a Grammy for Album of the Year Ruffhouse seemed an ideal home; instead, the label proceeded to implode over conflicts amid its upper management. In 1999, after being delayed for more than a year, Keiths one album from that relationship, Black Elvis/Lost in Space, was released and marketed with a whimper by the curiously named Red Ink, Sonys indie distribution arm. He proceeded to publish on his Web site the names and e-mail addresses of all his contacts at Sony, asking fans to deluge them with inquiries about his albums desultory treatment. Keith was dropped shortly thereafter.
Between deals, though, Keith has remained prolific. He released his solo debut on his own Funky Ass label in 1997, the obsessively pornographic Sex Styles. In 1999, he put out First Come, First Served under the alias Dr. Dooom. Packaged in a ghetto-chic sleeve, Dooom lashed out against raps continuing dependence on misogynistic, ultraviolent hip-hop by fronting even more violent: Dooom was a serial killer who hunted down weaker rappers, i.e., all of them, including Keiths most famous alias to date, Dr. Octagon.
The story of Octagon offers proof both of Keiths uniqueness and of his inability to take advantage of hip-hops pop-culture dominance. While Keith and Kutmasta Kurt continued recording tracks for what would become Sex Styles, a friend of Kurts from the Bay Area began lobbying Keith to contribute to a quickie, one-off release. It all started in 1995, soon after Matlin had sent that friend, Dan The Automator Nakamura, a tape of two tracks featuring a new Keith persona announced in the title of one of the tracks: Dr. Octagon.
Automator started talking to Keith right at the time that things started going bad with Capitol, Matlin says. So Keith said, Okay, you want to do some crazy record, Dan, over your weird beats. Ill come up to San Francisco for a weekend and do an album with you, fuck it. Keith went up there for three or four days, recorded the album and came back and was like, Okay, I did it. And Im like, Did he pay you some money? And hes like, Yeah. Nakamura took two months to finish producing the record and got the renowned Bay Area turntablist DJ Qbert to scratch on it.
Released as Dr. Octagonecologyst at the end of 1996 on a one-off label called Bulk, within months the hip-hop intelligentsia had started to buzz over the records futuristic vision of rap in the year 3000. It was a mutant strain of hip-hop, as sonically abstruse as anything from the alternative rap movement trumpeted in the early 90s by groups such as Arrested Development and P.M. Dawn, and as surrealistic as the lyrical bricolage then being served up by Beck. (Beck and Keith are currently recording a handful of tracks together that await release.)
Halfsharkalligatorhalfman, Keith rapped, in one of his more notable logorrheic flows:
With my white eyes, gray hair, face is sky blue, yellow sideburns react my skin is colored lilac. My skin turn orange and GREEN in the lim-oh-zine, people think Im mixed with shark, drinking gasoline. Underwater I breathe with lizards on my sleeve walking down Hollywood Boulevard, room for credit card . . . LAPD through gray clouds couldnt see me, I first turned rainbow, closed my eyes, watched my brain glow. People got scared and ran away they think Im weird. I was born this way, halfsharkalligator . . . In my real world orangutans dance for Thanksgiving with skeleton bones and skunk tails, is my mission. Holding backward in raps on my power pack baboons clap and girl horses want to hit the sack with two bowls of ocean water monkeys sniffing ice contactjupiterfools Martians bring my rice . . .
Picked up in the U.S. by DreamWorks and in the U.K. by the hipster electronica label Mo Wax, the record sold well over 100,000 copies. Demands for Dr. Octagon to tour began to mount, but, unimpressed by the audiences responding to the project, Keith disappeared.
Dr. Octagon hadnt blown up, but it started to go, says Nakamura. We signed on to do Lollapalooza, and all of a sudden Keith decided he didnt want to be that alternativey. One day, he got a check it was practically a six-figure check from DreamWorks, and we never heard from him again.
Winning Keith an entirely new fan base among critics, college-radio DJs and fans of alternative rock, Dr. Octagon in large part spawned what has come to be known as underground hip-hop. Keith dismisses this new audience as corny white guys, alternative hippies or skateboard kids, despite the fact that this fan base has helped his post-Octagon records consistently sell upward of 50,000 copies.
But fame in the context of a hip-hop underground defined by middle-class, well-educated whites and blacks is not what Keith is striving for. What he wants is an audience among the same underground, the same urban children, he played to when he was back in the Bronx. He wants the type of audience that has propelled a number of regional hip-hop artists to success in the late 90s: Detroits Esham and DJ Assault, Houstons recently deceased DJ Screw, Tennessees Three 6 Mafia and Eightball & MJG, and the musicians on New Orleans No Limit and Cash Money labels, both of which have made it onto the national album charts with quick, cheap records made assembly-line-style by house producers such as Beats by the Pound and Mannie Fresh.
It remains to be seen, though, how much Keith is willing to alter his idiosyncratic style to satisfy any audience. Case in point is his Dooom album. While the records cover was designed by Pen & Pixel Graphics a firm that designed many of No Limits gaudy diamond- and female-studded covers for his album he had them parody their signature style: Keith is pictured next to a cockroach, rubbing his chin and holding a rat sandwich on a sesame seed bun.
One thing is certain: Hed rather not eat at Dennys.
Keith tells me to head south on Fairfax. I need to go on and get me some Golden Bird, he says, taking us to a fast-food fried-chicken restaurant in Crenshaw. Youll like Golden Bird. Its really good chicken.
Other rappers are fake, says Keith. Theyll come out here, stay in their Ramada Inn hotel rooms and smoke weed, and thats it. Theyll be staying at the Mondrian Hotel, scared to death, and send messengers to run out and get them some sandwiches. You know, a lot of guys are mouses. I cant live like a mouse. I cant make a record to be a mouse.
You see other rappers expending so much energy on this, on that, he continues. Record labels got them gassed to the point where theyre rentin titties for their video, giving them the private jets, rentin a few Rolls-Royces and Benzes so they look so fabulous. And theyre not recouped yet. Basically theyre just getting their first taste of Similac, their first breast milk . . . But you cant feed me cheese. Im not putting my head in those fucking mousetraps.
Give me four biscuits, Keith says to the woman behind the counter, and two orders of mashed potatoes . . . No potatoes? Give me that potato salad. Three fruit punches and . . . four breasts. The meat bleeds butter. The hot sauce burns.
The majors like people who are not smart at all, Keith says. When youre smart, they have bad things to say, like Hes smart, I dont want to fuck with him. He knows about his royalties. He knows about his points. He knows about his publishing. He knows his quarter splits. He knows his release dates. He knows if he shouldnt change to get to Europe or change in a fucked-up city for a connecting flight. He knows everything. He knows the business. They hate that.
This is the Slauson Mall, says Keith as we drive down the street. The Swap Meet! They have the good sneakers, the top sneakers. Thats all I buy, a lot of sneakers. I have so many sneakers they dont even come out the box. Inside the mall, he begins his search.
I want the sneaker that no one else is rockin, the most distinctive sneaker ever made in life, he says to the Korean shopkeepers, the Latino clerks. You know, the new ones where the smoke come out the back, the one with the rocket? You put the real gas inside. They got like the headlights on the side. When you walk some got the sound like Vrmmmm! Vrrmmmmm! You dont have the lights? Okay, Ill be back . . .
We go to the record stores Sangs Records, Music Power! Keith checks the racks, chats up the clerks, talks excitedly to a guy promoting a show in Australia. Keith tracks down girls and peeps cheap panties, airbrushed nails, electric-lime-green slacks: Angel Lingerie, Cool Cool Helen Jewelry, Temptation Underwear, Queen Nails, Leather Express, L.A. Sock & Cap. Later that evening, Keith goes upscale, takes Sam and me downtown, to South Los Angeles and Eighth streets the fashion district, merchants of brands like Tulliano, Dimensione, Angelino and Crème de Silk.
The alternative stuff doesnt excite me, says Keith. They use a cheaper material. And Im not into the Bronx black hoodie stuff: I am a Terminator Matrix robot! I like color: leather, silk, alligator, ostrich. A lot of people want to force the synthetic materials on the market, but I dont think I deserve that after 15 years of honorable rapping. Keith chatters with the salesmen, buys an expensive Coogi-style patterned shirt, picks up a pre-ordered pair of custom-made ivory pants with way-deep pockets. At M&M Clark Shoes he buys a $500 pair of citrus-yellow Maurys, a brand of alligator-skin loafers, peeling 20s off a fat stack.
I love the point that Im wearing my own football jersey and my own sneakers, and MCA or Columbia or Universal aint going to call me and say, Bring those sneakers back that you wore in the video, Keith says. Im all done with that. Im enjoying my life, traveling places by myself. I mean, you cant feed me cheese.
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To sum up Keiths current attitude, Id quote the chorus of F-U M.F., the first track on Matthew. Motherfucker, he says, like Richard Pryor in his prime, fuck you. Its an apt echo. Because, really, its comedians like Pryor who provide the model for an entertainer like Keith: He doesnt want you to aspire to be him, he wants to shame and amuse you for being you. Along the way hell prove that hes not only smarter, faster, funnier, but that hes deeper, darker altogether more real. More to the point, Keiths as dirty as Dolemite, as moralizing as Pryor and as verbally agile as Redd Foxx. Its been nice being with you. I hope you had some fun out of this, Foxx would say, closing his act on an earnest, almost penitent note. If anyone here in the audience has been offended by anything I might have said or done during the course of my trying to entertain you, I want you to know that, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart bang I dont give a shit.
The problem is, no one really gets Keith. Granted, he doesnt make it easy to determine when hes being serious, when hes commenting on the state of our culture, or when hes making jokes. Case in point: Summer 1999, Ruffhouse is set to release his major-label solo debut. South on Highland Avenue, past Sunset, in the middle of Hollywood, hangs a billboard of a young, sloppily attired white guy standing next to Keith. Black Elvis, it reads beneath Keith. White Manager, it says beneath the other guy. It turns out that guy is ex-manager Jeremy Larner, who got Keith his ill-fated deal.
The whole thought process behind that was entirely Keiths, says Larner. One day he said to me, Jeremy, youre young, youre starting to make a lot of money, you should start to become well-known. Look at Russell Simmons, he used to manage me. Look at Andre Harrell, he used to manage me. Hes like, Yo, lets do some shit, lets do a billboard. And Im like, What are you talking about? You must be out of your mind, and he kind of pressured me into doing it. There were actually two billboards, and they were up for nine months. And it worked. So many people saw it, and it was funny.
But one wonders who got the joke. Oblivious commuters and pedestrians? Keith and his management team? Or just Keith?
The basis of being a rapper is called frenetics, Sam says to me at the Slauson Swap Meet while Keith is off searching for the perfect sneaker. Its being able to put words together in a rhythmic pattern, and it has a lot to do with math. Know how when you were a kid in school you would study haiku and they would tell you 5-7-5 or whatever it was . . . 5-5-7? Thats all poetry is. Besides the meaning and the soul, the actual physical content of it, the wordplay, is frenetics. And Keiths a master.
A lot of rappers do two-bar cadences, like Yeah, whats up, Im here chillin on the map/Im onna drop the shit, and Im onna tell you the facts. Keithll come with an eight-bar cadence. Hell do four lines, and then the last word in the fourth line will be the rhyming word with the next four lines. People are like, Is he even rhyming? Hes like a Carerra: too fast for a regular car to keep up with.
Today there are a lot of rappers. They stop, they stick to their one cadence. Like Jay-Z. He hit the Jiggidy-jay. Jiggidy-aye. Jiggidy-why. Im so craaaay-zeee, and then he never went any further. Or like Ja Rule: Haaeeey whut you whaaaaant/Whut you really really whaant!/Huggh! These guys are yelling, and thats all they can do.
Keith does more, as on Dr. Octagons 3000, in which he riffs on a theme, then drops it; rhymes inside rhymes as if alliteration and terminal syllable sounds were his only guide, then picks up where he once left off:
As space Ive shown participator acts walk up clog up and mess up water down the sound . . . that comes from the ghetto.
In the middle, the core, you tour explore experience what is real you feel,
Changing ways commercial raps in the grave, stuff on disc thats very wack that you saved.
You think its good wont go platinum or even turn wood. Sell the cassette your homeys tape deck is wet.
You my pet, my poodle chicken noodles on the rise. Open your eyes and see my life.
Rap moves on to the year 3000!
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I been to places, says Keith.
You got people in different ghettos that sit in the same place, and I was never that guy. When I was a kid, people just sat on the block and drank beers. I think I was the only one to break away and go to DeKalb, Coney Island. People used to say you stuck, but theres no fence around the projects.
With Ultramagnetic, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday wed have some show at a skating rink. We were going to hole-in-the-wall places, spots that just been shot up the week before you got there, just real deep Vietnam spots. You had to perform for unhappy crowds and still rock people with gold teeth, and everybody was looking mean and hard. We would go to the clubs, and it would be so tense because somebody would get their chains snatched right next to you and a razor blade to the neck. And we would go to the clubs and chill. Right? Hah! Wed go to Philly, go to After Midnight, go to the Latin Quarter, go up to Connecticut, go out to Newark, New Jersey. The limos would pick me up in the projects and take me to the show.
I been to Miami standing next to the most beautiful models. Ive been out in London, Germany, walking through the subway stations looking at exotic girls from Paris, to down South in the mall in Memphis. Even Texas. I envision it: One minute Im at a truck stop, looking at real cowboys with spurs coming through. Next thing Im going through a ghetto in Houston. And then you can be in an exquisite restaurant in Paris. I got to see the world, and looked at a lot of things. The déjà vu of change.
Everyone now is just doing what I did in the 80s. Some hustler comes in with alligators on and pays you really real, 20s all in brown paper, and they say, Do what you want. Just being fly a kid making seven grand a night and splitting it with a group, and riding in limos, and taking your money, your Coogis, your chicks, and chip in together and party and stuff. Ive been through it. Those times . . . Just buying shit and leathers and jewelry. Every year I bought 10 rings for each finger. And the big plates on my neck, and the biggest pieces to the small pieces. From gold to all types of sorts of different elements of platinum to even just diamonds. Im glad I got to see a long time ago what rappers lust after right now.
See, rap is a high. But if you dont come down, it can fuck with you. You never slept. From sniffing cocaine, from that life of champagne coke days. Staying up late. Bags under your eyes. Smoking weed. Taking Ecstasy. Different shit. I felt times when my heart was gonna bust, and I just stopped. I just altogether changed my life and stopped fucking around.
A lot of these kids I work with just need patience, he says, speaking of kids like Sam, whom Keith is grooming to be a rapper while Sam serves as an assistant. Theyre entering the gates of hell. Its a roller coaster. Goes up and down, and people think its gonna be a straight line. Its a mean-ass roller coaster, but you gotta wait in line for it like the Cyclone at the park. These guys . . . take their record away, these guys wouldnt have any self-esteem left.
We pass a billboard for Disneys new film, 102 Dalmatians, and Keith riffs, They even got dogs up there now. Oh, there go the 102 Dalmatians! Give me one of the dogs autographs! Oh, give me the one with the spots! Which one? All of them got spots.
One thing I have is personality and humor, so I make the day go by just talking to people, vibing. I cant walk around serious all day with a doo-rag on my head and looking at people mean. I think that shit is for kids. Cause I grew up in the projects. I seen people get shot. I used to hold guns for people that did stickups and robberies. After a while, I didnt really care for all that shit.
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Now Im more laid-back. I enjoy being a citizen more than being a star. Its like baseball. I can play nine innings, not 24 hours. Other peoples pressure is to pull me back into the business, but I cant do that. My obsession with materialistic things is at a medium level. Sometimes I go to the ghetto-fabulous spots, but sometimes Im ready to just watch a movie and eat some oatmeal cookies. I buy sneakers for myself. I take my kids to the mall. I dont even watch cartoons no more, because to me the animation is looking at them now. I see myself when I was young, as a little kid, like on the back of the Matthew cover. At the time I was smartly animated. I see my kids in that same format, like characters of me in the past. Its cool, though, you know. I mean, I definitely love looking at that reflection.
Perhaps Keith is too advanced for the hood, too much the hip-hop futurist, but he might also be too down-home and insensitive for the scientists, too much Golden Bird and Slauson Swap Meet and triple-X.
You know whats a good thing? he says. That there are people all over the United States who know who Kool Keith is. Thats a big thing to be happy about, coming from the Bronx, knowing that you circulated something cross-country. I basically remain a legendary rapper.
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It's tough being the new kid, but newcomers to Cedar Fork will feel right at home. The school's diverse student population makes it a place where students of all stripes can make friends and fit in. The principal has a reputation for getting to know all of her students by name, and the school's extracurricular activities are fun and engaging. High standards and excellent teacher support make Cedar Fork an easy choice.
This pre-K receives high marks for its nurturing environment and committed teachers. Here, the littlest scholars have so much fun that they don't even realize they're learning, but they emerge from their time here fully prepared for their first steps into the world of elementary school.The GreatSchools Rating is a simple tool that helps you compare schools based on test scores and other available data, including student academic growth and college readiness.Morrisville, NC School Ratings from GreatSchools.org


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WILMINGTON, Mass. – Unlike some celebrities – and I'm not naming any names – that are out of control and don't know it, Bruins forward Brad Marchand knows there are times he needs his teammates or coaches to pull back the reins on him a bit.
Friday night on Long Island was one of those times. And Bruins head coach Claude Julien obliged the rookie by benching the speedy winger for the third period of Boston's 4-2 loss.
Marchand had taken a bad penalty — which was part caused by a bad break with a hard-around pass hitting the referee, and part cause by Marchand anticipating instead of reacting along the wall – late in the second period. The Islanders used the man-advantage to score and build momentum prior to their third-period comeback.
"That was tough. I know there's a message to be sent there, that I've taken a lot of bad penalties lately and I think they just want to kind of clamp down on it and kind of send a message before it gets out of hand," Marchand told TheBruinsBlog.net in a 1-on-1 chat after practice today at Ristuccia Arena. "I think it was a good time to do it. I got two bad penalties in a row, two games in a row, where they scored on them and they were pretty big goals. That goal [Friday] changed the whole game around, changed the momentum and it was tough. So I understand the situation. But I've got to rebound and show that I know why it happened and be better."
Marchand also took a third-period tripping penalty against Buffalo Thursday. The Sabres went on a 5-on-3 advantage and scored the tying goal in their overtime victory.
When you've been an agitating type of player your whole life, old habits die hard. Marchand had pretty much toned down his act this season until recently. His increased discipline level has combined with his scoring hands (19 goals) to make him a second-line performer, a key penalty-killer and a sometimes participant in the power play. With five minor penalties in the last eight Boston games, Marchand could tell he was starting to regress to his former overly rambunctious self.
"I knew I was getting a little hot-headed lately and I was taking penalties that I haven't taken all year. I was kind of getting out of my element a bit," he admitted. "I do have to settle down a bit. I think I'm trying to play the [agitator] role more than I need to, than I have in the past 50 games. So if I get back to playing the way I was before, play disciplined, I think everything should be OK."
It'll help matters if Marchand can get back on the scoring track. He's been stuck on 19 goals for eight games now, and his line with center Patrice Bergeron and either Mark Recchi or Rich Peverley on the other wing has become a non-factor on the score sheet. Marchand sounded upbeat today about the number of chances the line has been getting and was downright sunny about the fact that "it's just a matter of time before it starts going our way."
Julien believes that too, and also attributes Marchand's increased hot-headedness the scoring woes of the last couple weeks.
"I think the reason you're seeing what you're seeing right now is he seems a little frustrated. I think we all know why. He hasn't scored in a while and from 19 to 20 [goals], it's a big thing for him," said the coach. "There's no doubt there's some frustration there. And that's where he's got to get better as a professional player and say 'you know what, those things will come. And I can't let the rest of my game be affected by that.' So he's working his way through that and we've had that chat before and he's just got to stay with his program and our program because he's been a really good player for us. And he's got to remain that way. That's the part that right now has been hurting him and that's probably what's caused him to take some of those penalties as well."
The coach showed he wasn't holding a grudge by skating Marchand back with Bergeron and Peverley during practice today. If Marchand has learned his lesson, he'll keep his nose clean as far as the extracurricular activities and get it dirty digging for a goal or two. Then once again he'll be one of the Bruins' most important offensive weapons.


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If everybody is saying it then it must be true, yes? Well we did a little test here at Optimise Your Web and the link that points to my friend Dixon Jones's blog point to that with the phrase "Dixon the Briton Jones" and when you try searching for it with "" guess what comes up number one… http://dixonjones.com/. In this case there only one saying it, us. What does all of this mean? Anchor tags/text is important and still plays a major role, as this very mild sample shows, in the world of SEO.
What is to be learned? 1) Use you link-building strategy wisely and 2) be careful how you link to others and what you say in those links
P.s. Dixon is actually British and his name is actually Dixon Jones


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A band of severe thunderstorms ravaged the region with high winds and blinding rain on Thursday that has left many without power.
- A band of severe thunderstorms ravaged the region with high winds and blinding rain on Thursday that has left many without power.
A funnel cloud was spotted in Harford Township, Susquehanna County, during the onslaught, but the National Weather Service (NWS) has reported that no tornados were spotted in the Wayne County region.
The NWS did confirm a tornado touched down in Elmira, N.Y., and officials would be visiting the area Friday to determine the strength of that tornado.
Thursday night, drivers were met with roadways blocked with branches and trees. State Route 171 at Herrick Center was closed around 6 p.m. Thursday. Two houses fell victim to uprooted trees that crashed through the roofs. There were multiple large trees either partially or fully blocking roadways in Orson as well.
The Carley Brook area was also hit hard with reports of many trees down and even severe damage to roofs.
It appeared that the area around Milanville was also hit very hard.
Steve Ircha lives on River Road near the intersection of Calkins Road and had a tree blow over in his yard.
"I didn't even know it until this morning," said Ircha while surveying the damage.
He pointed out the tree actually struck another tree as it fell or it could have come crashing into his house.
Just across River Road, a tree took out a power pole and power lines. Crews from PennDOT were on the scene around 10 a.m. Friday and were removing the trees.
Local residents, who were standing in the road taking photos and watching crews remove the trees, said the storm struck at around 5 p.m. on Thursday and they feared power would be out for quite some time because of the heavy damage in that particular area. River Road was closed the entire time and was also shut down further south for a time when a tree fell across the road.
Across the river near Lake Huntington, N.Y., power went out just after 5 p.m. on Thursday and didn't come back on until around 6 a.m. Friday.
As of Friday afternoon, PPL Electric Utilities remained in a storm emergency from Thursday at 2:15 p.m. Throughout Wayne County, 1,375 people were without power as of Friday afternoon with 2,230 customers successfully restored.
Damascus Township was hit very hard during the storm, with 583 people remaining without power as of 3:45 p.m. Friday afternoon.
Other townships with the highest power outage count as of Friday were 52 in Berlin Twp., 147 in Dyberry Twp. and 156 in Mount Pleasant Twp.
PPL is expecting power to be restored to the area by the end of the day on Saturday. There were 650 individual trouble cases reported as of Friday morning, which means the pace of repairs can be slower in some areas. As of Friday morning, 14,600 customers remained without power with 61,000 people restored since the beginning of the storm.
On Friday morning, crews were seen assembling at the PPL lot on Highway 652 just north of Honesdale. Crews were coming in from various parts of the state and other states. PPL on Thursday, prior to the storm, said they had assembled crews in preparation for the storm.
If you are currently affected by the storm and are in need of ice and water, PPL has made free ice and water available to customers in the area at participating area vendors. Those locations are: Joe's Kwik Mart, Hamlin; Weis Market #106, Hamlin, Weis Market #157, Hawley; Weis Market #170, Honesdale; Joe's Kwik Mart, Honesdale; Joe's Kwik Mart, Newfoundland and Joe's Kwik Mart, Waymart.
All customers are urged to report all outages by calling 1-800-DIAL-PPL (342-5775) or by visiting www.pplelectric.com.
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The Coleoptera, or beetles, includes many commonly encountered insects such as ladybird beetles (family Coccinellidae), click beetles (Elateridae), scarabs (Scarabaeidae), and fireflies (Lampyridae). They live throughout the world (except Antarctica), but are most speciose in the tropics.
The oldest beetle fossils are from the Lower Permian (about 265 million years old; Ponomarenko, 1995); since then the group has diversified into many different forms. They range in size from minute featherwing beetles (Ptiliidae), adults of which are as small as 0.3 mm long, to the giant Goliath and Hercules beetles (Scarabaeidae), which can be well over 15 cm. While most species are phytophagous, many are predacious, or fungivores, or are parasitoids. They communicate to one another in many ways, either by use of chemicals (e.g. pheromones), sounds (e.g. stridulation), or by visual means (e.g. fireflies). They live in rainforest canopies, the driest deserts, in lakes, and above treeline on mountains.
In one sense the most unusual property of beetles is not some aspect of their structure or natural history, but their sheer number. There are more known species of Coleoptera than any other group of organisms, with over 350,000 described species. Perhaps the most famous quote about beetles comes from the great population geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, who was asked what might be learned about a Creator by examining the world. His response: "an inordinate fondness for beetles" (Fisher, 1988).


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January 22. 2014 1:00AM
Robbers hit two Manchester stores
— Police are investigating two store robberies that occurred Monday.
The first robbery, at about 4 a.m., was at the Cumberland Farms on Hanover Street. The robber was described as a white or Hispanic male, 18-20 years old, wearing gray cargo-style sweat pants, a gray-hooded sweatshirt, a red jacket with paint stains and brown shoes. The robber also had a black T-shirt covering his face.
The clerk said the robber had his left hand wrapped in a T-shirt and although the robber made no mention of a weapon, the clerk was unsure whether there was a weapon in the wrapped hand.
The second robbery was at about 5 p.m. at Title Loans, at 223 S. Willow St. That robber was described as a white male, 18-25 years old, approximately 5-foot-9, with a medium build.
The robber was wearing a black North Face fleece jacket, without a hood, and a black baseball hat with a flat brim. The victim could not describe the rest of the robber's clothing.
No weapon was displayed, but the robber kept one hand in his coat pocket, holding it in a manner to suggest he had a weapon.
Detectives are investigating the two robberies. A police spokesman said Tuesday they were not able to immediately rule out a connection between the two robberies.


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Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Dan Hesse and his board are expected to meet for the second time this year to consider whether to buy MetroPCS Communications Inc. The verdict may be different this time.
Hesse, Sprint's president and chief executive officer, is evaluating a bid after watching Deutsche Telekom AG swoop in with a deal to merge its T-Mobile USA business with MetroPCS, according to people familiar with the matter. Sprint's board rejected a MetroPCS takeover plan in February because it was too costly, people with knowledge of the talks said at the time.
Following a surge in its stock price, Sprint may be more likely to make a deal now, said Chris Larsen, an analyst at Piper Jaffray & Co. The shares have more than doubled since February, giving Sprint more buying power. Investors also are signaling that they want the company to be part of the industry's consolidation, Larsen said. That could put pressure on the board to act.
"A Sprint counteroffer may just make sense," Larsen, who is based in New York, said in a report. The company could pay $15 a share for MetroPCS, which closed at $12.69 yesterday, and still profit from the deal, he said.
Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier, is crunching the numbers and holding talks with its advisers to weigh the feasibility of a higher offer, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. The Overland Park, Kansas-based company's board is meeting to discuss the matter and could decide as early as next week whether to pursue a deal, the people said.
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Sprint also said yesterday that Keith Cowan, its president of strategic planning and corporate initiatives, will delay his planned departure by three months until January. Since he handles mergers and acquisitions, the move may suggest Sprint is considering a bid, Jennifer Fritzsche, a Wells Fargo & Co. analyst in Chicago, said in a note.
Scott Sloat, a Sprint spokesman, declined to comment on whether the company is evaluating potential counterbids. Andreas Fuchs, a Deutsche Telekom spokesman, also declined to comment on a potential bid by Sprint, as did MetroPCS.
Deutsche Telekom is proposing a reverse merger that would make T-Mobile a publicly held company. Investors haven't responded favorably to the complex deal, sending MetroPCS shares down 9.8 percent on the day the details of the transaction was announced. Shareholders would rather see a straight acquisition than a reverse merger, Larsen said.
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You might not remember this, since it was almost a year ago and we typically can't remember what happened last week, but last September college football analyst Trev Alberts was fired by ESPN for "not showing up for work", though we have mostly heard since then that Alberts was fed up with the cartoonish way the network was framing football debates. (And when Trev Alberts thinks you're lowering the level of discourse, you're lowering the level of discourse.)
Anyway, at the time, Alberts worried that his broadcasting career might be over, but he's in luck: Alberts will be team with Chris Rix — of all people — on CSTV this upcoming season. Every Day Should Be Saturday is all over this, of course, pointing out that the duo is pretty much the whitest team since the Smothers Brothers. We love EDSBS' take:
If we were producing the show, we'd let Trev have his own show where no one else is on set with him: no cue cards, no teleprompter, not even a camera man. It should look like a room from Saw, bare concrete walls and a flickering, sickly green fluorescent light. No torture, though; we'd just let Trev talk for thirty minutes as randomly selected highlights appeared suddenly on screen without warning or cue, forcing him to flail or die slowly right there on camera.
Vanilla Thunder Part Two, The Twinning: Rix, Alberts Together On CSTV [Every Day Should Be Saturday]
Alberts Crosses ESPN, Pays Price [Deadspin]


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The Mac App Store will most likely be accepted and used by most Mac users without much problems. Most people apparently don't care about ugly and inconsistent user interfaces, and the added benefit of central control over your applications will most likely make those that do accept it as a necessary evil. However, there will inevitably be people like me who don't want to have anything to do with the Mac App Store, and just want the damn thing to go away.
Since I was looking into cleaning up my Mac anyway (I needed iTunes to go away, since I don't use it and hate it with a passion), I decided to see what would happen if I were to remove the Mac App Store as well. It's quite easy to remove both iTunes and the Mac App Store; while Apple lists a 29-step (!) instruction set for removing iTunes, I just used AppCleaner, which seems to have worked just fine. I will still fine comb the file system with the 29-step guide by my side to make sure everything got deleted, though. Yes, Mac OS X looks good from a distance - but try and do something not approved by Cupertino and you're in a world of hurt.
I decided to delete the Mac App Store in the same way, and it seems as if it has worked. You can just drag the Mac App Store binary onto the AppCleaner window, and it'll find the associated files of the application outside of its bundle, and delete them as well.
It seems as if Apple has somewhat thought of this scenario (maybe they had enterprise users in mind?), since upon reboot, the menu entry in the Apple menu has changed back to its pre-10.6.6 state, where it pointed to Apple's Mac OS X software download page. However, as you can see in the shot below, upon trying to open an unsupported file type, the dialog still shows the newly added "Search App Store"-button. Clicking this button does nothing.
Overall, I haven't yet encountered any issues, but of course, this being unsupported means you could still potentially run into problems. I am personally not happy with the Mac App Store being snuck onto my machine without any way of telling Software Update not to, or without an officially supported option to remove the darn thing.


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Nearly half of the world's population watched at least a minute of the last World Cup, according to FIFA (.pdf). At this year's Brazilian extravaganza, we expect even more people to tune in, given that viewership increased 8 percent last time around.
But you don't need to know that to understand the global impact of the World Cup — especially in the countries whose teams play that day — whose effect on these nations is so deep that it can be measured by how people listen to music in the hours following the victory or defeat of their team.
Spotify reaches many of these soccer (ahem, "football") fans. To find out how their listening behavior differs based on whether their team wins or loses, we first looked at a World Cup qualifying match.
Our hypothesis: People in the winning countries would listen to happy party music, while people supporting the losing team might resort to less energetic music in order to cool off. However, our acoustic analysis of the top songs after both legs of the qualifying match between Sweden and Portugal in both of those countries actually didn't show much of a difference in terms of the energy level of listening in those countries.
But we did find something else, which we didn't actually set out to find. People in Portugal (the winning side) returned to Spotify after the match was over, presumably to celebrate with a post-game party.
Meanwhile, people in Sweden (the losing side) were less likely to listen to music after the match.
Sure enough, there it is: The blue line (Spotify listening in Sweden) continues to decline after the game, while Portuguese listening spiked hard in the hours following the game.
"On the usage graph, we can see both countries' usage rates go down as the game starts," said Spotify and The Echo Nest data alchemist Glenn McDonald. "After it ends a couple hours later, however, Sweden's usage continues to go down, and Portugal's leaps back up. The victors turn the music back on and celebrate, the losers go to bed!"
To see if the same thing happened during the Spain vs. Netherlands in the World Cup Group Stage, McDonald ran the same test on Friday's match, a stunning 5-1 upset for the Dutch.
"Well, it's not very dramatic, but there's definitely a bigger rebound after the game for the Netherlands than for Spain," said McDonald.
See that red line jumping up way more than the blue line? Although not quite as dramatically as in the Sweden vs. Portugal graph above, we once again see that when the match ended, the winning country's music fans tended to fire up Spotify more than those in the losing country (although the Spanish, unlike the Swedes, did increase their listening slightly after their loss).
Our conclusion, so far: People are more likely to listen to music on Spotify after their team wins than after their team loses.
(Note: These graphs do not represent absolute numbers; in other words, they show the amount of listening in each country, relative to how much listening happens there.)
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By John Katsilometes
About the time Joey Fatone of 'N Sync fame clambered onstage to sing a two-song medley of "Recipe for Makin' Love" and "Mustang Sally," you realized, "This is sort of an abnormal experience."
Unexpected flair was as abundant as shots of Crown Royal at the Stratosphere on Wednesday night as Frankie Moreno celebrated his 100th show and the announcement that his contract with the hotel had been extended two years, running through October 2015.
Fatone appeared near the end of the show, barely breaking stride as he made it to the performance from his appearance in "Dancing With the Stars: Live in Las Vegas" at the Tropicana to join Moreno onstage. The atypical performance was spiced by appearances by booze-toting showgirls, members of Blue Man Group playing on the thunderous "Black Mascara," Lorena Peril of "Fantasy" at Luxor (who soared through "Proud Mary" in the showroom where she once portrayed Christina Aguilera in "American Superstars"), a spin through "Tangerine Honey" by "Sin City Comedy" dancer Dori Bonilla, a beautiful take on Etta James' "At Last" by ex-Quiet Riot and Rough Cutt vocalist Paul Shortino, and even a "first pitch" tossed by ex-MLB superstar and Moreno family friend Orel Hershiser to Moreno's father, Frank. Another treat was an appearance by violin virtuoso Lisa Viscuglia, who years ago introduced Moreno to Joshua Bell, for a truncated version of "Walk Away From Me," a song not usually played in the show.
The show is usually an adults-only experience, but not for this occasion. Moreno's 8-year-old son Giovanni, who by the end of the month might need his own agent, played drums for one song, "I'm Sorry," and received a standing ovation. He knew enough to bow deeply at the end of the performance. Don't be surprised if Giovanni asks Santa for a gong this Christmas to fill out his kit at home.
It was a fun-filled experience, as the stage was littered with feathers in a freewheeling show that ran far longer than Moreno's usual 90-minute performance. Apart from the frivolity, the core news emanating from the show was that the Strat had reinvested in Moreno, who signed his original two-year contract in October after a lively eight-week run at the Lounge at the Palms.
The hotel has already spent a considerable sum on Moreno. It has financed an overhaul of the showroom (where carpeting and seats have been yanked out and replaced) and a new sound and lighting setup and pays Moreno and his 10-piece band to play four shows a week. It's not an expensive ticket (locals can get in for $20 a shot), and the hotel is not exactly wading in revenue simply through ticket sales in the 500-seat showroom.
But Moreno has value beyond hard ticket sales, and those who have the power of the purse know it.
"The show is a catalyst for a lot of things on our property, and it is an important part of branding our message about how we have repositioned the property," Stratosphere General Manager Paul Hobson said this afternoon in a phone interview. "We introduce people who come into the hotel to other features around the property. But we're in a good position with ticket sales to cover the cost of the show.
"We view Frankie's show through the lens of what it's doing for the property, and he's done a lot."
There is a feeling that Moreno can take on more nights, as the show grows, something he can handle. He sometimes performed six nights a week at various Las Vegas venues, including the Palms, in the run-up to opening at the Stratosphere. Before that, there were nights he played far past 2 a.m. at Rush Lounge at Golden Nugget.
"Adding another night is something we're amenable to, absolutely, as this builds," Hobson said. "We're not angling for a specific date, but we are ready when we reach that demand."
Wednesday's post-show party was elevated to a Stratosphere suite, where a hodgepodge of Las Vegas entertainers and scenesters stuffed the room to congratulate Moreno and his band (at one point, my father, visiting from Pocatello, Idaho, was caught in conversation with Peril, Fatone, Carrot Top and trumpet ace David Perrico).
Moreno is about finished with his upcoming self-titled CD release, which should be out by mid-July and was mixed by guitar great and studio master Pat Thrall at Studio at the Palms. Moreno originally intended to release the new CD on Sony Records, but that partnership is, at the moment, latent as Sony decides if and when it will work with Moreno again (he has recorded "Eleanor Rigby" with Bell on "Joshua Bell and Friends," a Sony Masterworks release). Moreno is plowing ahead, releasing the new album independently.
From an early sample of one of the new songs, "Missin' You" (which Frankie and Tony Moreno played during the latest episode of "Kats With the Dish" airing at 8 a.m. Friday on KUNV 91.5-FM), the new release is a powerhouse.
These are heady times for Moreno, the band and the Strat. As we say in toasts of goodwill, "Cinghiale." It's an inside reference, but it is appropriate, trust me.
Follow John Katsilometes on Twitter at Twitter.com/JohnnyKats. Also, follow "Kats With the Dish" at Twitter.com/KatsWithTheDish.


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The friendly fire directed at Sen. Ted Cruz from establishment Republicans is giving the Texan first-in-line status among Tea Party supporters and building a base for him to run for president, according to a new analysis from the University of Virginias Center for Politics.
To the establishment, Cruz is the embodiment of all the forces conspiring to threaten the GOP's long-term viability. And, on a personal level, they also just can't stand Cruz: He drives them crazy, wrote Kyle Kondik in Center Director Larry Sabato's popular Crystal Ball.
But, added Kondik, the venom directed at Cruz, whose effort to defund Obamacare led to a 16-day government shutdown, makes him an oversized hero to Tea Party supporters.
Not pleasing the establishment is music to the ears of Tea Party activists, and if anything the shutdown has endeared Cruz even more to them. Assuming Cruz mounts a presidential bid in 2016 hes headed to South Carolina next week after his Iowa appearance last Friday (hint, hint) the Tea Party could be a potent base, he said.
Kondik took note of the Twitter sneers GOP old bulls fired off as Cruz spoke to Iowa Republicans a week ago. [Mike] Murphy (@murphymike), an alum from John McCains rogue 2000 presidential campaign and a "Meet the Press" regular, was one of the establishment Republicans tweeting snark about Cruz during his speech, he noted.
Murphy tweeted: Sounds like we got trouble in River City Good citizens, make your check payable to Cruz Against Soviet Healthcare. Or just CASH
And thats nothing new, said Kondik: Ever since hes been elected, we here at the Crystal Ball have heard groaning from Democrats and Republicans alike about how much they dislike Cruz.
But could Cruz win the nomination in whats expected to be a crowded field? A big hurdle might be GOP endorsements, typically from the establishment and to establishment candidates like Mitt Romney.
At this point, its hard to imagine Cruz winning much support from party elites, so hed have to depend on the Tea Party grassroots, said Kondik, who noted that both parties have detoured with non-establishment candidates in the past and lost the Republicans in 1964 with Barry Goldwater and Democrats in 1972 with George McGovern.
His bottom line: Ted Cruz is riding high in some Republican/Tea Party circles precisely because he aggravates many high-ranking members of his own party. But his icy relationship with those party leaders might cause him problems if and when he decides to run for president.Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.