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Our first introduction to the House Show Concept was made by a lovely lady named Emma Hill. Here's how this all came to be:
About three years ago, my husband was preparing to go for a run. Before he goes, he generally downloads the most recent TBTL podcast to listen to while he's out. Typically during the run as he's listening, they'll play an indie artist or sometimes, not-so-indie and he'll think to himself, "When I get home, I'm going to download that song…that was AWESOME!" and most of the time, he forgets because of that runners high or forgetfulness…you know how it goes.
But…three years ago…he actually remembered. From that moment on, Emma's song Meet Me At The Moon was a part of our regular playlist rotation and we all really loved her sound – all of us being; my older daughter Katie, my younger daughter Alissa and my husband and myself. It wasn't long before we knew every word and were singing our faces off to this song on road trips in the car and trips to the grocery store.
Right about the time my oldest daughter Katie was about to turn 16, she decided she wanted to take up the Ukelele. She has a lovely signing voice already and she just decided one day that she wanted to be able to pluck along with her singing on a Uke, so we bought her one. She taught herself a few songs and one of the first songs she learned was Emma's Meet Me At The Moon. The first day she sang it for me, I was pleasantly surprised enough that I grabbed my cell phone and took a shaky video of her playing and singing the song.
Something was gnawing at me in the back of my mind and I decided to just see where it led me. I wanted to somehow get this video to Emma. So, I went online, Google searched "Emma Hill" and found a few things – one of which was a publicist. And BAM – there was an email for this dude. So, I went ahead and sent him an email, introduced ourselves and how we came to find Emma's music and asked him to view the YouTube video and if he could somehow get it to Emma, we'd be grateful.
Well, he did. And here's the video. And she commented on it. And we all freaked out a little bit.
It wasn't long after the YouTube video was posted that I found her on Facebook. I liked her band page and I started scrolling. She shared the video of my Katie singing her song and was truly touched by it enough so that she found us on Facebook and we started talking about how she comes out to the West Coast during the Fall and Spring for house shows and told us she hoped she'd see us at one sometime. One thing led to another and we started talking about hosting our OWN house show with her and found out what her minimum was – and she shared with us that if we invite enough people to just charge $10 at the door and that should cover it when she adds in the sales of her CD's and T-Shirts, etc that she sells.
We've hosted Emma Hill and Bryan Daste several times over the last couple years. We've driven down to Portland to surprise them when they launched their new album and have grown to be very good friends. We try to support them whenever we can by helping promote and create a sense of urgency for people to go see them whenever and wherever they are playing.
Here's the title track to one of Emma's Albums called, "The Black and Wretched Blue"


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Monday, 19 January 2015
Winter Stamping ~ Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge
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Watched Frozen, was disappointed it was like watching a bad stage musical, had to switch off as not my version of Disney at all!ReplyDelete
Despite that i adore your wintry Tag, some fab techniques and textures. A pleasure to gaze upon, mwah:-) xxx
I love this Emma xx JanReplyDelete
Fabulous tag! Love the upside down design! It looks beautiful on the easel. The snowman is wonderful and the layers are just yumm!ReplyDelete
Lovely Emma, lovely fresh crisp feel to this piece. Love your background and design and the many layers you have included. Tracy xReplyDelete
Gorgeous tag!ReplyDelete
So cool that you've used the tag upside down! It looks perfect and your snowman is fabulous! Hugs, SandraReplyDelete
brrrrrr! i love these icy colours. hey i watched frozen only 9 days ago so you watched it well before me. i thought the blues were awesome as is your creation, hugs xxReplyDelete
WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW STUNNING AND GORGEOUS, LOVE ALL THE YUMMY DETAILS, YOU ARE SO AMAZING, LOVE IT XXXReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous, Emma! The sweater background just gives it an instant cozy feel :)ReplyDelete
Simon Says Stamp!
Emma, starts to become difficult to comment on your work! They are always masterpieces, this is one of my favorites! I love the shade of blue you used! BArbarayayaReplyDelete
How can I commentbon brilliance?ReplyDelete
Wow.... this is such a gorgeous creation, Emma. The colors and layers of embellishments are stunning! :)ReplyDelete
Fantastic project. I love all those layers.ReplyDelete
Such a pretty tag Emma! Love all the layers and sweet snowman! The ribbon treatment adds such a touch of elegance!ReplyDelete
Beautiful layers--so much wonder in a small space!ReplyDelete
Beautiful winter piece Emma!! Love the background with all the layers and textures. Your snowman and the bits and pieces are gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Such a beautiful card. I love all you backgrounds I especially like the added charms on the bottom.ReplyDelete
I think I'm the only person in the entire universe that hasn't seen Frozen yet. Even so, I've still somehow heard the songs enough to get them stuck in my head (thanks, neighborhood children)! Now THAT'S a powerful movie! But I digress. The point is, your tag is amazing! How absolutely and utterly clever of you to turn it upside down! Where do you come up with these things?? I always see something I've never seen before when I check out your blog. I also really like how you crumpled and crinkled the Frosty card. Fabulous!ReplyDelete
I love this.ReplyDelete
Thank you for all your comments and messages, they are all appreciated and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon...
Emma ~xx

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"Under the continued artistic leadership of Suzie Leblanc, music director Alexander Weimann and stage director Marie Nathalie Lacoursiere, Le Nouvel Opera is dedicated to the production and workshopping of repertoire from the baroque and classical periods in the form of Operas, serenatas, intermezzi, singspiel and other artforms where dance, theatre, commedia dell'arte, visual arts and singing are blended together into one spectacle.
While deeply committed to an understanding of performance practice, part of the company's mandate is to make this repertoire relevant to a modern audience by making as many connections as possible to contemporary life and culture. To this end, the company has made education an integral part of the company's future plans."
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Saturday Morning Recap: Scott Hentges, Sartell [AUDIO]
Scott Hentges dropped by the AM 1390 The Fan studios Saturday morning to discuss the Sartell-St. Stephen Sabres' 27-19 win over Alexandria Friday night. The head coach also talks about his team's setback last week at Tech.
The Sabres will host Willmar next week (Friday, 6:30 on the FAN).


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How to Feel Happier
The other day I saw an ad on the Web offering advice on "how to feel happier."
"How to feel happier."
I should have snapped a screen shot, but I didn't. Still, ads and stuff like that are common enough that everyone has probably seen it or one like it.
I won't make you pay for the answer though. To make yourself feel happier, take Prozac or two dry martinis.
Shall we get serious now?
But I WAS serious. That's how you alter feelings - with drugs or self-imposed delusions. That isn't honest. And since when is it mentally healthy to be dishonest with yourself?
This idea that we control our feelings and that they should be disconnected from stimuli that cause them is doing great damage in Western society. It is absurd and ridiculous.
It is self-evident that external stimuli cause our feelings. We can only lie to ourselves about our feelings: we can't change them.
This is as true of psychological feelings as it is of physical feelings. Those feelings are processed to produce emotions. Emotions motivate behavior, but they do not control it - not unless the rational mind cedes that function.
Emotions are not bad. Often, without strong emotion, we would not have the motivation to act, even though our rational mind sees that we should act. Hamlet, for example, was greatly tempted over time to just allow the murder of his father to pass. It was his strong emotions that kept him on task, though he never gave in to their fury, which tempted him to just murder Caludius and be done with it.
So, emotions are necessary. Without them we are paralyzed. Reason and emotion must work together (even fight with each other now and then) in the mind of a properly functioning human being.
What's more, the entire gambit of human emotions includes both negative and positive ones. If you take away the negative ones, what have you got? Is there any such thing as "happy" if you don't know what it is to be sad? Can you even FEEL happy unless you also know the feeling of being sad?
I'll tell you what the result of this idiocy is = total numbness.
This rot doesn't even pass a basic nonsense check.
It's fear-based, the product of a mentality that wants to insulate itself from the world so that nothing can make it feel bad, so that nothing bad can happen. It's an attempt to control your "little world" just like a narcissist tries to control hers - through authoring a work of fiction.
Plus, it's just another way to blame the victim for their feelings. They talk as though people just feel things out of the blue. They never breate a hint of blame for a feeling like unhappiness on hardship, abuse, abandonment, unfair play, war, illness, troubles in the home, or anything else. They always blame it on some imaginary inadequacy in the person feeling unhappy.
Maybe THEIR feelings are always phony put-ons like a narcissist's mask, but not everyone's are.
The people promulgating this junk are treating your unhappy feelings as the problem - not the real problem = whatever is causing those unhappy feelings. That's stupid. That approach precludes any solution to the real problem.
They treat your unhappy feelings as a weakness, a character flaw in you. Does that make sense?
According to them, you should correct this flaw. What does that mean? It means that the FLAW isn't in anyone causing your unhappiness. The FLAW is anyone made unhappy by their actions.
Right, the sin is in being unhappy, not in making others unhappy.
These scrambled-eggheads must have to keep half their brains shut down at all times to avoid a crash that takes the whole system down.
Look what they're saying. According to them, you are "responsible" for your feelings, so, in the middle of a war zone, you are to blame for being unhappy and you should therefore be a good boy or girl (so as not to rain on our day) by being "happy" instead.
And when professionals cash in on these memes, that really sucks.
They don't all do that though. When looking for a good one, look for one with a rational and sensible approach to feelings. One who never encourages you to repress them. One who will tell you that are times when you should get angry. One who helps you DEAL with them and GET THROUGH the pain.
Until you do that, you never will heal. Ironic, eh? By denying your real feelings, you never do heal so that you CAN be happy again. You just turn yourself into a numb zombie who acts "happy-happy-happy" all the time while feeling miserable deep down inside.
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"The Reluctant Orchid" (short story): A murder gone wrong
This engaging little tale relies for its science fiction part on the unusual murder weapon.
Story summary (spoiler).A loner with low self esteem is living in isolation, feels bullied by his dog-trainer aunt, & decides to kill her.
This loner also has a well-respected-by-peers hobby - he is a very good orchid grower. On one of his visits to the dealer, he bargains a little unfamiliar orchid that looks dead. And plants it in his nursery.
After a while, he has more than he bargained for! This orchid is carnivorous - has grown large tendrils, has a well developed nervous system, can produce intriguing sounds, & eats meat.
Our villain decides to use this orchid as a murder weapon. So he trains the orchid - kind of preparing it for the big event.
On D-day, he brings his aunt within easy reach of the orchid. And something amazing happens!
Very good story.
See also.
- Tom Williams' "Florescence" from Antipodean SF, #111 (August/Sseptember 2007): Generally similar theme, but a far less interesting story compared to Clarke's.
Fact sheet."The Reluctant Orchid", short story, review
Author: Arthur C Clarke
First published: 1956
Rating: A


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Unknown Nobleman in Armour
Gillis Egidius Claeissens
circa 1536 – 1605
Unknown Nobleman in Armour
Painted circa 1565-70
Oil on Panel: 13 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches, 34.3 x 28.5 cm
● Sold
- Possibly in the collection of Jacob Duijk, Middleburg, Zeeland, 1740s;[1]
- Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847 – 1929), Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire; and by descent to
- Neil Archibald Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, his sale,
- Sotheby's, 25 May 1977, lot 2419 as 'School of Sir Anthony Mor';
- Private collection, Wilton Crescent, Belgravia, London.
- [1] Before the picture's recent restoration, it had a later coat-of-arms in the upper right background which was removed as it was a later addition. This included in its left shield a blue and golden fess (wavy) between three golden canards, with a canard between a golden and blue pair of wings on the top of the helm. The bearer of these arms was Jacob Duijk of Middelburg in the province of Zeeland, circa 1740; however, the symbols in the right shield were not decipherable.
The painter of our portrait can clearly be associated on stylistic grounds with a small corpus of works by a recently identified artist, Gillis Egidius Claeissens, hitherto known as the 'Monogrammist G.E.C.', all of which are notable for their high finish, remarkable attention to costume detail, similar designs and comparative small scale.[1] Amongst these is a pair of portraits of an unknown noble couple of almost identical dimensions as ours, in the collection of the Hallwylska Museum in Copenhagen, and which bear the monogram 'G.EC'.
Gillis Claeissens was born in Bruges in 1526, the second son of Pieter I Claeissens (c. 1499 – 1576), history painter and portraitist, and the grandson of painter Alard Claeissens. Gillis and his younger brothers Antoon (1541 – 1613), Pieter (c. 1542 – 1623) and Ambroisus (d. 1616) all followed in the family tradition. He was admitted as a Master of the Guild in Bruges on 18 October 1566. In 1570 he was still in the workshop of his father, while Antoon joined that of Pieter Pourbus, another artist with whom he has previously been associated on account of stylistic similarities.
In contrast to his brothers, who became official painters to the Magistry of Bruges, from 1589 at the latest, Gillis Claeissens was at the Brussels court in the position of painter in title to Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, and governor general of the Low Countries. He returned to Bruges but then went back to Brussels in 1596 to enter the service of the Archdukes Albert and Isabelle. In 1600 he painted for them a Christ on the Cross, which was placed in the palace chapel in Brussels. In 1604, he painted a miniature portrait of the Archduchess. Shortly before his death on 17 December 1605, Gillis Claeissens received a commission from the cathedral for the restoration of the high alterpiece of the church of Watervliet, near Bruges. He was buried in the church of St. Jacques either in the chapel of Tonneliers or of St. Leonard.[2]
Sixteenth century portraits of sitters depicted in armour traditionally portray royalty, a pictorial tradition whose Renaissance precedents notably include François Clouet's Equestrian Portrait of François I (c.1540, Uffizi Gallery, Florence) and Titian's portraits of Emperor Charles V on Horseback (1548, Prado Museum, Madrid) and Philip II in Armour (1551, Prado). Our young nobleman was therefore likely to have been of some distinction, and certainly of wealth; such fine and ornate armour would have been very expensive indeed. His costume is chosen to display his wealth and heroic prowess, for he wears a richly gilded breast-plate and his left hand clasps the golden hilt of a sword. His right arm rests on a French-style close-helmet, which could be worn open-faced for a parade or ceremony, or with a removable 'falling-buffe' visor for combat, while jaunty red hose emerge from his breeches, intricately embroidered with costly silver thread.
This portrait, recorded at Mentmore Towers, near Leighton Buzzard, was in the collection of the 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of England in 1894 – 1895. He was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny and was educated at Eton and Christchurch, Oxford from 1865 – 1869, when he was sent down for buying a horse, Ladas. Rosebery was reputed to have three aims in life, all of which he achieved: to win the Derby,[3] marry an heiress and to become Prime Minister. In 1878 he married the greatest English heiress of her day, Hannah de Rothschild, only child of the famous Jewish banker Baron Mayer de Rothschild. Through Hannah, he acquired Mentmore Towers, which had been built by Mayer Amschel de Rothschild. It is possible that this picture may have been acquired by de Rothschild, and already hung at Mentmore before it was inherited by Rosebery.
Rosebery served as Foreign Secretary in Gladstone's brief third ministry in 1886, and became leader of the Liberal Imperialist faction of the Liberal Party. When Gladstone retired, Rosebery succeeded him as Prime Minister; his selection was largely because Queen Victoria was known to dislike many of the other leading Liberals, but according to his biographer, Robert Rhodes James, Rosebery soon lost interest in running the government. After the government lost a vote on army supply in June 1895, he chose to regard this failure as a censure, thus on 22 June he and his ministers tendered their resignations to the Queen. In later years he turned to writing, publishing biographies of Lord Chatham, Pitt the Younger, Napoleon and Lord Randolph Churchill.
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Nidor, a world given life by titans
Temple of Lamashtu
A foul temple underwater off the coast of ziggarat. Sarnaash and Orienna Piras did battle here against the Adaro. Sarnaash met his end, but Orienna was able to sink the underwater temple to the bottom of the ocean.
When passing through the temple, Orienna came to the realization that this temple was far too old and complex for the adaro.. seems to have been a temple for a previous god many eons ago.


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SENIOR POWER: Grandparenting is a Gerund… and a Lot More
Many of today's grandparents want to define for themselves their specific relationship with their grandchildren. Few want to baby-sit regularly or be responsible for child care. Some enjoy taking care of their grandchildren. Most women resist the stereotype of the doormat grandmother -- always there when anyone needs her but otherwise not in the way.
In California, the high cost of raising a child challenges the state's most vulnerable caregivers—grandparents. A recent study found grandmothers who raise their grandchildren struggle with depression, while another study about the same time reported that closeness between grandparents and adult grandchildren may ease depression! It has been suggested that the health cost slowdown is great for grandparents, but even with Medicare coverage, American retirees over age 65 spend more on health care than on food.
Arab American elders are facing the rest of their lives alone, says Mohamad Ozeir (New America Media, April 21, 2013). Isolation and neglect describe their current condition-- most emigrated from places where aging is not an "issue" [problem.] Life expectancy in many Arab countries is at best only a couple of years more than the average retirement age in the United States. Longevity for Arabs in the United States is about two years shorter than that of non-Arabs, partly because Arab elders have high levels of chronic illness. Government-subsidized residential centers such as the Freda Centers in Michigan address part of elders' needs while also presenting new challenges. For example, the high illiteracy rate among Arab American elders, especially women, makes understanding the rules and communicating with senior developments managements and providers very difficult. Some elders violate rules by frequently babysitting their grandchildren; others cook and do laundry for their children. Many of the elders are in poor health and have inadequate treatment for their ailments because they lack information about health services or preventive care. The salient issue [problem] is social isolation, fed by infrequent visits from loved ones and feelings of guilt for being away from their families. Intensifying this problem is the tendency to view isolation as a normal stage of aging.
In Great Britain, a new study contends that grandparents who are "carers" need time off. Elderly people living alone are being urged to take in a "lodger" to help with household chores and enable them to remain in their own homes as long as possible. (Daily Telegraph [London], August 30, 2013).
In Germany, emigrant nursing home residents is a controversial movement. The "export Grandma" trend has been denounced as "gerontologic colonialism" compared to nations exporting their trash. Families respond that a lack of affordable quality care at home makes it their best option in order to provide a dignified old age for elderly parents -- and save money. One in five Germans would now consider going abroad for a nursing home (not for themselves, doubtless,) according to a survey by pollster TNS Emnid. "… when your parents get older, send them to Poland," says a 66-year-old daughter. Her mother's new home is in a Polish ski resort. The daughter chose the nursing home sight unseen after studying its website and meeting with a nursing-home placement broker . The trade-off for both mother and daughter, who used to live only a two-minute walk apart, is the 350 miles separating them. The owners say half the residents will soon be Germans, who have state-mandated long-term care insurance through a nearly 20-year-old program, a benefit out of the reach of most people outside Europe, including the United States. Not every Polish nursing home advertising in German on the Web is what it seems. However, one, a small residence near the German border, promises rooms that sleep four for an unusually low price of 400 euros per month, with an on-site nurse and mushroom hunting excursions. Read Naomi Kresge's report "Grandma Export Exposes German Struggle With Care; German Grandmas Sent to Poland as Costs Converge," adapted here with permission from Sept. 15, 2013 Bloomberg Newsletter.
Grandpa, A Young Man Grown Old is a book by Harriet Langsam Sobol with photographs by Patricia Agre. Don't let the facts that it's 33 years old and in the public library children's collection deter you. It's a good book. Seventeen-year old granddaughter Karen's views of her grandfather, Morris Kaye (79 at the time) are juxtaposed with his descriptions of his life. A widower, he lives alone in the Westchester County home he once shared and commutes to work. He writes "My office is directly across from the main branch of the New York Public Library so I can go there as much as I want to…When I was a young boy, the books that I read opened the walls of my life. There was a library in my neighborhood of Manhattan called the Seward Park Branch."
The Flat opens with the motion picture's director and members of his family gathered in their grandmother's apartment after her death. They are there in order to clear out the contents. Fifty-year old Arnon Goldfinger soon finds various items that reveal an astonishing chapter in the family's history that had been kept hidden for decades— their grandparents' close friendship with a Nazi couple. Goldfinger's first full length film, The Komediant, released in 1999, was an award-winning documentary about a family of Yiddish vaudeville artists and the history of the Yiddish theater. The Flat is his second full length film, in 2011, an Israeli- German coproduction.
Marion Lois Ward was nineteen when she was employed to teach in a rural Vermont grammar school and met the man whose remembrance still evoked pleasure for her when I knew her many years later. He was a farmer, big and attractive to women, but with a mean disposition and enemies. There were to be separations and divorces among their thirteen children who, despite poverty, foster homes, epidemics and fires, made it to adulthood.
Marion Ward Wheeler was twenty-two years old in 1892, when she bore her first son, my father. The autumn of the year that he was fourteen years old and the harvest was in, the barn was full, ready for the long cold winter. When his father's enemies set fire to it, the depressed patriarch swilled down poison, leaving the oldest son to help his mother on the manless farm.
Through the years, Grandma Wheeler remained accessible to her sons' former wives and their children, although my visits were restricted to times when my father and his latest wife were not expected. More than a half-century later, my grandmother and I would sit together and talk during my visits to Vermont. I sensed that I was special, at least to her, because I was his child as well as his only child. Most of my father's sisters seemed to accept my presence for Grandma's sake. Most of his brothers made it clear by sullen silence, glaring or absence that they did not.
In winter, Grandma would be in her rocking chair in the warm kitchen, and in summer, on the porch. The year I was fourteen I visited at Christmas. A big black cook stove in the kitchen and a potbelly in the living-dining room heated the rural house. The double bed in the unheated, upstairs bedroom was warmed before I jumped in. I thought about my father sleeping in this bed during his visits. That he was not alone hadn't occurred to me.
Summer visitors and city folk with houses in the area dropped in to use the telephone, get their mail, and gush over the country folk. Grandma lived with her youngest daughter whose handsome hardworking husband was devoted to her. One afternoon during that winter visit my grandmother was alone with several "state" foster children and me. She must have been around seventy-five years old at the time, in good health except for rheumatic knees that required a cane. I was the cause of their piling too much wood into the potbelly stove. When the stovepipe caught fire, she calmly stood up and took over, raising her raspy voice slightly but firmly. A neighbor knew that if Grandma Wheeler sent word, it meant now. He blew in, ran upstairs, and tore open the floorboards and cleaned out the smoldering mice nests snuggled up against the warm chimney. That evening she arranged a sugaring-off party for my benefit.
As an adult, I continued to visit when I could, welcomed perhaps because I came from a distance to visit Grandma. In 1957, I drove to Vermont for her eighty-seventh birthday. She and I were sitting together on the porch when a man in an old-fashioned horse and buggy drove by on the narrow dirt road, and she said wistfully "Your grandfather courted me in a buggy like that."
Marion Lois Ward Wheeler's reputation as a strong, caring woman had grown over the years. I knew the final time I visited would be the last, and I tried not to cry when I was leaving. I slipped the aunt with whom she lived a note asking that she let me know when the time came. I couldn't say it. To earn money in ways country women could, these two had managed the United States Post Office in the converted living room. They had boarded the "summer minister" in the spare bedroom. My aunt – the child who was six months old at the time of her father's death – had driven the school bus and tended store. Together they cared for "state" foster children. More than fifty children had called my aunt mama and my grandmother grandma, been kissed good night every night, and received an occasional slap. Most stayed until they reached age sixteen, when the state required them to leave the system. There might also be one or two grandchildren in residence because their parents were for some reason unable to care for them.
My grandmother was a matriarch so well known that her funeral in 1963 drew crowds that filled the Grange Hall in the isolated rural community. A friend drove me up from New York. Cars and other vehicles were parked everywhere on the unpaved road and in the dooryard. Country style, a member of the Attending Sheriff's Posse approached my friend about the car in which we had been seen arriving: a tire was low… would we like him to fix it? After we were bedded down in the big bed upstairs, my aunt drove alone in a pickup truck through the stark rural darkness, up the narrow, winding dirt Stage Road to the remote cemetery at the top of the hill to be alone once more with her mother.
Adapted from The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually; A Memoir. Inkwater Press, 2013.


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As the first meeting of the new Lamlash SWI session featured Pretty Gorgeous bespoke millinery, the October meeting could justifiably have been entitled Truly Scrumptious.
Kathy Allan of Lamlash brought along three sponges layered with jam and butter cream and crumb coated ready for decorating.
Even at that stage the precision of the cake stack hinted at the care Kathy puts in to all her cakes.


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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said Tuesday he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court over stiff sanctions imposed against Penn State University because of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
The Republican governor scheduled a Wednesday news conference on the Penn State campus in State College to announce the antitrust filing in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg.
The sanctions, which were agreed to by the university in July, included a $60-million fine that would be used nationally to finance child abuse prevention grants.
The sanctions also included a four-year bowl game ban for the university's marquee football program, reduced football scholarships and the forfeiture of 112 wins but didn't include a suspension of the football program, the so-called death penalty.


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Angry Birds is one of the most popular games in the world today. Built by developers from famous Finish studio Rovio, this incredibly simple logical game became instant phenomenon when it was released on the mobile platforms such as iOS and Androd. Now, several years later, Angry Birds can be played anywhere, and even on your internet browser.
After visiting Angry Birds website, you will instantly be able to start playing this easy-to-play and addictive game, packed with challenge and fun. By controlling your game with mouse, you will have complete control over your playstyle and will be able to perform everything you need, just like on mobile phone or tablet device.
Don't think that Angry Birds is only made to be a mobile experience on portable devices. Try this browser version and don't leave the world of Angry Birds no matter where you are!


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Celtics fans gave Kevin Garnett a standing ovation Monday in what could have been his final game in Boston.
Celtics fan favorite Kevin Garnett may have made his final trip as a player to Boston on Monday night, and the fans paid tribute to him with a standing ovation in the fourth quarter.
Garnett did not play in the game because it was the second half of a back-to-back for the Timberwolves, but the fans still rose to their feet during a timeout late in Boston's 113–99 win.
The ovation came while the TD Garden staff played the "Gino Time" video that Garnett is quite fond of. (ESPN.com's Chris Forsberg has a good history of the Gino Time clip.) Typically the arena's video board shows clips of fans in the stands dancing during the segment, but Garnett was shown instead on Monday.
KGino Time pic.twitter.com/bUv6495UDW— Kyle George (@kyoo) December 22, 2015
• Celtics' R.J. Hunter hits half-court shot, dad has flashbacks
Kevin Garnett soaks in #GinoTime one last time at @tdgarden pic.twitter.com/CFuu3vkQhv— Marc D'Amico (@Marc_DAmico) December 22, 2015
Garnett appeared to tear up after the tribute.
After the game, Garnett called the moment "the cherry on top."
KG talks to the media postgame and reflects on his experience in Boston. pic.twitter.com/2M7GQXGcnO— Boston Celtics (@celtics) December 22, 2015
Garnett, 39, has not said this season will be his last. He signed a two-year contract with the Timberwolves in July.
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The 44-year-old driver of a car that veered into oncoming traffic leading to a crash that sent 10 people to the hospital was driving on a learner's permit that he had had for more than a year, according to state records.
Sebastien Bukuru, of Westbrook, was driving a Ford Explorer east on Marginal Way when the car crossed the median, destroying a road sign, then crossed a lane of traffic and collided with a westbound Jeep Grand Cherokee. The Explorer had just passed through the intersection of Preble Street Extension.
Police are investigating whether a medical condition may have contributed to the crash because the Explorer left no skid marks before the collision, indicating the brakes had not been activated. Speed also appears to have played a role in the severity of the crash, which destroyed both cars and sent all 10 people to the hospital.
The crash happened at 11 a.m. Sunday in front of 132 Marginal Way and police shut down the road for four hours while they reconstructed it, police said.
The driver of the Jeep, Marcelina Dakiti, 35, of Portland was listed in fair condition at Maine Medical Center on Monday.
Bukuru was issued a learner's permit on Oct. 21, 2011, according to the secretary of state's office. It's unclear whether any of the other three adults in the car had a license, which is required for someone with a permit.
There were six people in the Explorer and four in the Jeep. Immediately after the crash, two people in the Explorer were in critical condition and the four in the Jeep were in serious condition, police said.
One of Bukuru's passengers, 39-year-old Clarisse Uwimana, was in fair condition Monday. Information was not available on two other adult passengers, Clemence Nyinawumuntu, 34, and Penine Nduwayo, 41.
Two younger passengers, 12-year-old Joshua Irasubiza and 15-year-old Pamela Ishimwe, were treated and released from Maine Medical Center.
The Jeep's driver, Marcelina Dakiti, and two occupants, 8-year-old Jayvan Khamis and 5-year-old Marvin Dakiti, were in fair condition Monday afternoon.The other occupant, 6-year-old Jeissey Khamis, was treated and released.
Police closed Marginal Way for four hours while they reconstructed the crash.
No charges had been brought in the case by Monday.
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It's wrong to love a pencil sharpener this much, but I don't care!
We have had a ROTTEN year as far as pencil sharpening goes.
Here's the RECAP from our last post if you missed it!
Holy smokes...who would think that sharpening pencils could drive someone to drink???? Ok so maybe not drink, but pretty darn close! We started out the year with 2 cans labeled "SHARP" and "NEEDS SHARPENING". Great plan! Worked really well except the kiddos are big fans of their pencils. They have some sort of connection to those little wooden writing thing-a-ma-bobs. And when they returned to the "SHARP" can to pick up their pencils...well let's just say that didn't always go so well. As in---you're 5! Let's be honest, are you gonna always find YOUR pencil in the can or the sparkly star pencil or the one with the WHOLE eraser still in tact! People!! We had some serious issues with not getting the right pencil back. We thought about writing their names on their pencils with a sharpie, but that just sounded like too much work on our part!
So we had sweet George the maintenance guy come install a brand new kickin' it old school crank pencil sharpener so they could go back to sharpening their own pencils. Of course THIS would be a success because surely those pencil sharpeners have come a long way and are just sharpening like butta....right! Maybe we should have know there was trouble when sweet George installed the sharpener on backwards!!! When he left the first kid went to christen the thing and HELLO!!!...crazy town! He did come back and install it correctly, but the story only goes down hill from there!
So...here's the whole entire sad story. The #1 pencil sharpening RULE! You may ONLY sharpen pencils between the hours of 7:30 am and 8:00 am! NO SHARPENING during the day because ALL that noise makes us want to pull our hair out!
Good rule. Easy to follow, right? Not so much! At least not for 2 of our cutie pies...let's call them Spunky and Sassy (to protect the names of the
In their defense, those darn cheap pencils from the warehouse were a pain to sharpen. The lead kept constantly falling out every time it was sharpened! The pencil sharpener kept chewing those pencils up like a beaver would a log! The pencils were like 2 inches short by the time the sharpener worked and the lead stayed in!
Needless to say...I was SAD! So...so...sad!
But NO MORE my friends...no more!
Insert heavenly angel music, rainbows, puppies, kittens, and any other happy image here!
Because THIS is what we are going to do to make it
Troy, over at Classroom Friendly Supplies, is a teacher and owner of this great product! I think I have a crush! I let Troy know of our pencil sharpening woes and he sent us a sharpener to try out! And oh my goodness...I am in LOVE!
So here's our official review!
It was shipped to my house so I haven't clamped it down like I will in my classroom. I used it just holding it with my hand which worked just fine, but the clamp will help my littles be able to control it much better.
A picture is worth a thousand words!
Also, it was really very easy to use. I'll admit I watched a quick little video from his website to save me time figuring out how to work it! So simple to use!
The price is TOTALLY worth it and he gives BIG discounts if you order in bulk. Our PTA is planning on purchasing one for EVERY classroom. (Did I mention we LOVE our PTA????)
It was pretty darn quiet too! I think I wouldn't even mind if the kiddos sharpened pencils between the hours of 7:30 am AND 2:30 pm with this baby installed!
It's not ABSOLUTELY quiet. Like... there is some noise coming out of this thing, but who cares when you get points like that...the FIRST time you sharpen! Which means even if there is some noise...it only lasts a brief few seconds and the kiddo is DONE! Not like before...sharpen, lead breaks, teacher cries...REPEAT 4,000 times! WAHHH!!
So if you don't have one of these babies, we HIGHLY recommend getting one to save your sanity! We even think this beats our electric sharpener on quietness, sharpness, and... people...did I mention that my sharpener is PINK! LOVE!


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The release of the film "Interstellar," directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and David Oyelowo, has polarized the cinematic community since its release. Some praise its visuals and scientific accuracy while others slam it for being too long and completely preposterous in parts.
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Astrophysicist and badass extraordinaire Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter this week to lay bare his criticisms (and praise) for the space-faring flick, not the first time he's done so. He picked apart last year's "Gravity" via Twitter as well, but has much more praise for "Interstellar."
He puts in his two cents on everything from the depiction of wormholes to zero-G to whether a truck can drive on a broken wheel. Check out some of his quips below!
"Interstellar" is now playing in theaters.
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I thought I would post a short article, but here is a link to the process, in pictures, on my facebook page.
I'll try to answer questions depending on time.
Nvidia Rework Photoset (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.526860140709055.1073741825.178842612177478&type=1&l=db5d68dc52)
More articles coming, I've been meaning to catch up on some writing after finishing my CCNA coursework.


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Paul Pluzhnikov wrote: > > I have no other solution than using --whole-archive to linker right now, > > You do have other solutions, e.g. explicitly list objects that must > be linked in, and the linker will do the right thing (pulling in > only necessary parts of the libraries). > Unfortunately using --whole-archive doesn't seem viable right now since autotools don't allow positioned ldflags which means that when I add --whole-archive I really don't know how it will be positioned within other arguments. Right now it's in the beginning which will include _all_ of the archives and results in error for some reason I don't know. Still, including all archives is not ok. Again, although I may have to all this stuff automatically it is very wierd that this is not an automated process. Isn't this a normal problem: an interface with some libraries using the interface. The core creates and destroys the object of the libraries through the interface. Obviously there is no reference from the core to the object files of the libraries. No reference from the interface to anything in the library... This seems a normal issue which turns out to be a nightmare to solve. :-/ > Cheers, > -- > In order to understand recursion you must first understand recursion. > Remove /-nsp/ for email.
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I recently purchased the Blockbuster OnDemand set top box called MediaPoint. Made by 2Wire, it costs $99 for the hardware, and it comes with 25 complimentary rentals, so it's a relative wash if one views all 25 movies. This service competes with the traditional Pay Per View rental services from cable/DBS providers like Comcast & DirecTV, and with the Netflix streaming subscription service offered through a Roku box, LG DVD player and now through the XBox 360.
The box is good-looking, compact, has all the necessary AV plugs for almost any type of video (HDMI, composite, component), and also has a USB slot and memory slot for future expansion options. It comes with a simple AV cable, remote control and power cord.
The set-up of Media Point should be really easy - the software is simple to understand, it's a quick process to activate the box by inputting a PIN code into the web site, and it can mostly be done using the small remote control. However, in my case, the box simply didn't recognize my WiFi signal, no matter where I placed the box, and the power cord itself is too large to easily plug into other powered components, so I had to find a separate outlet, for which the power cord was too short to reach.
Once we worked out those issues by plugging it into an Ethernet port, the software worked well, providing a clean menu of options with a simple branching tree of genres, along with instructive graphics, the ability to preview a movie before renting it, and a set of lower priced $1.99 rentals, as well as the standard $3.99 ones.
In general, I like the service EXCEPT that simply put, the selection of movies SUCKS. This is not unique to Blockbuster, but Comcast at least has all the big recent movies available, and Netflix has a larger selection of movies and TV shows, so it doesn't seem so sparse. Blockbuster OnDemand has roughly 2,000 movies available, a lousy set of TV shows, and outside of what I would consider 5 mainstream hits like Iron Man, it's Most Popular category has almost nothing recognizable, even from a media junkie like me.
The service allows you to watch the movies pretty quickly after the progressive download begins, and the quality appears better than what I see from the Netflix streaming service, especially if a microwave or wireless phone gets turned on during the movie, so the quality seems pretty strong. If one is already a Netflix subscriber, even at the $8.99/month service, the Netflix service is a better deal since you're not paying per movie.
However, in my case, I have a Tahoe house with broadband, but not with cable/satellite service, and when we want to watch movies, it's painful to attach the laptop to the TV to use either Slingbox or some type of PC-oriented service. The Blockbuster OnDemand service has done a really nice job of providing an easy way to connect a video box to a TV, and to deliver possibly compelling content to users.
If BB can only improve the content offering, then BB will have a niche, but interesting video service, but the momentum in this category is still with the rapidly improving traditional Pay Per View and Netflix video services.
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I don't really get the Wrangler Brutes album. I think maybe it sucks.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
So is "Mosh", as J-Shep says, the most important thing Eminem will ever do, or is it just the Beastie Boys conscious-move that everyone has been waiting for since he first started gay-bashing? We won't know for another six days. Is the song any good? I probably won't know that for a long, long time. In the meantime, it's a jarring, exhilarating spectacle. That anger in his voice is real; game recognize game. Welcome aboard, Marshall! (Go to hiphop.com to watch the video. Now.)
I said on Jess's site that I'd be stealing his DJ Paul and Juicy J = Lungfish thing, and here I am doing it! Except they switch it up just a little bit more than that. Their beats on the Lil Wyte album are a lot harsher and more brittle than usual, and that makes sense because Lil Wyte raps about 50% faster and is generally about 482% more amped than just about anyone else who works with Three-6. Paul and J lean a little bit lighter on their John Carpenter piano and hit the itchy hit-hats just that little bit faster. Lil Wyte sounds like a southern Eminem, which is the obvious thing to say, but it's true. He's all dork-amped and endearingly nerdy and adenoidal and he rhymes "ham sammiches" with "shenanigans". He's going to be the Willy Nelson of the next generation, a rising legacy shining across every nation. He doesn't stretch out his vowels into weird new formulations the way everyone else in Triple-6 does; he just hammers away at the consonants. He sounds really, really nervous. There's a DVD included with the CD, and he bounces his leg like crazy through the whole interview. But does he drop the N-bomb? I thought I might have heard him do that a couple of times. Can't do that, Lil Wyte. And this line: "I roll with murderers, robbers, drug dealers, killers, and rapists"? Murderers, robbers, drug dealers and killers are one thing, but since when do you get badass points from hanging out with rapists? Can we never hear that again, please?
GTA: San Andreas looks great. The gameplay is pretty much the same as it was in Vice City, but you can do a couple of new things like ride a bike and climb a wall and lock on to someone when you're fistfighting so you don't end up just running around like a chicken with your head cut off. All the missions are pretty similar, too, which means I do them over and over again while screaming at the TV in frustration every time I fuck them up because I'm terrible at video games. But everything looks really cool. The game doesn't have the same all-star voice lineup as Vice City; the only blockbuster-for-a-video game talents are Samuel L. Jackson as a cop and Axl Rose, Chuck D, and George Clinton as DJs on the radio stations. Instead, we get semi-obscure West Coast rappers in major vocal roles: MC Eiht, Yo-Yo, Kid Frost. That rules! And the radio stations are amazing. It would've been cool if they'd stuck a little bit harder to the time period, but then they wouldn't have been able to put on "Don't Be Cruel", so I guess it's all good. And man, some of these songs, "Nothin' But a G Thang" and "Dre Day" obviously, but also "It Was a Good Day" and "Voodoo Ray" and Primal Scream's "Movin' On Up" and Faith No More's "Midlife Crisis". Seriously.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Look, man. I was excited for Def Jam: Fight for NY and for NBA Live 2005. I copped both those games on the days they came out (a first and a second for me, respectively), and I've seriously been enjoying both of them. But they're opening acts. GTA San Andreas, the main event, drops today, and I can barely sit still at work. I wonder what'll be on the soundtrack this time....
I like Interpol's Antics, really. But I think I'd like an instrumental version a lot more. I am way feeling the epic glistening throb. I am so not feeling the idiot mewling nonsense in a fake arch British accent that he probably learned from watching Velvelt Goldmine. I think maybe Paul Banks was in a lot of plays in high school.
Friday, October 22, 2004
Wow, Gary Payton didn't take that loss in the finals too well. (credit: Catchdubs)
Le Tigre's "New Kicks" has been getting a lot of hate lately, and it's sort of puzzling. I only attended one of the giant anti-war protests, the one in DC in January 2003, the same day I bought my PlayStation 2 and a week before I met Bridget (busy week!), but I can vividly remember the feeling of being in a crowd of hundreds of thousands all charged up and all focused. It's a good feeling, to stand with a huge group of people to say something that you want said so loudly and forcefully and angrily. We didn't change anything, of course, but it felt good. There's a lot of that feeling in "New Kicks". I like it.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Jon Stewart on Crossfire: spectacular (link courtesy Yancey). This New Yorker story about the way Bush managed to swing the entire country toward an extremist agenda: magnificent. Bush cannot win. That cannot happen. At this point, I'm so sick of talking about politics, and politics seems to be all I can talk about.
Here's Jessica Hopper on CMJ, making me very proud and happy that cocaine is not a part of my life and never has been. I really, really wish I could write like Jessica Hopper; she is amazing. Wanting to write like Jessica Hopper is the new wanting to write like David Foster Wallace.
Speaking of DF-Dub, I'm in the middle of Oblivion right now, and it's pissing me off. I absolutely love Wallace's nonfiction, especially the John McCain piece and the experiential postcards in A Supposedly Fun Thing. He is a spectacular writer and creates amazing scenes, but he cannot tell a story. Or, rather, he can't end one. I haven't read all his fiction, but I plowed all the way through Infinite Jest, and I felt like I'd been taken for a sucker when it was over. The stories in Oblivion all have great moments, but so far not one of them has had an ending that I could consider to be even remotely satisfying. It's frustrating; he comes so close to greatness so often, but he keeps letting it all slip away. I wish he'd just stop writing fiction.
Le Tigre and Lil Wyte both have albums coming out today. I haven't heard either yet, and I'll be buying both after work, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I'll be putting on Lil Wyte more often. What does that say about me? Does it make me a bad person?
I said some pretty blase things about the Diplo album yesterday, but I should say that I end up reaching for it pretty often, along with the new joints from Interpol and Macha. These are all good wallpaper albums, and the things that I like about them are the same things I don't like about them. They fade right into the background, so they're just about perfect for when I'm at work and I'm all busy and harried, which is most of the time these days. Every once in a while a great little snatch of melody or production trick will sneak up and grab my attention, but mostly they become pleasant sweeping mush, which is sort of nice, but I'm not sure I want to be the dude who's into pleasant sweeping mush, you know? I'm still young.
Actually, the Macha album is a pretty interesting case. My friend Jason saw them open for the Ex a little while ago and said that they sounded like something John Tesh would compose for the closing ceremony of the Olympics. I've never knowingly heard any of John Tesh's music, but I can sort of see it. The album starts out with a couple of proper songs with pings and beats and swooshes and mildly sad, contemplative vocals. A couple of these songs are really great, especially "Smash & Grab". Then the album becomes mostly instrumental and sort of seems to be aiming for Eno territory, somewhere between Before and After Science and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, except somehow more earthbound: quiet whistley melodies and occasional percussive flurries and glisteny plings. The first time I heard it was a sunny Sunday afternoon, and I fell asleep under a window on my living room couch while it was on. That was great. It hasn't sounded quite as good since.
Monday, October 18, 2004
I've seen the Faint and TV on the Radio before, one time each (the Faint at Northsix in New York, TVOTR at the Supreme Imperial in B-More), both headlining when they were just bubbling over, when both of them seemed like the coolest things in the world. Both of them played amazing, breathtaking shows, the sort of things I'm going to remember when I'm very old. Well, neither one of them seems quite like the coolest thing in the world anymore, and both have pretty much bubbled over, and neither one attacked the stage like they did the last time I saw them, but I still had a great time seeing both of them at the 9:30 Club last night. TV on the Radio only really connects in a larger venue when they play songs with hooks, and that's like a third of their material, but even their more diffuse stuff kicks up a big swirley haze, and, you know, I just like them. The new Faint stuff doesn't get the party started the way the stuff on Danse Macabre does, but they still play the older songs, and so they still get the party started. Right now they're touring with two big TV screens that play little video art clips that go along with each of the songs. They videos are fun, but the band shouldn't let itself be upstaged like that. I can watch TV at home. (Bonus points for using footage of monster trucks, points off for using it during "Erection" to depict them phallic metaphors instead of because monster trucks ar awesome.) But DC pulled through; the crowd upstaged both the band and their TVs. It's a real treat to be part of a huge, amped crowd that knows every part of every song and just wants to jump up and down a whole lot and wave its hands in the air. Good job, DC!
The new Diplo album sounded really great on the drive back, but I'm afraid that the album doesn't sound all that great in contexts other than long nightime drives home. "Diplo Rhythm" and "Summer's Gonna Hurt You" are both pretty great by themselves, but the rest of the album is too diffuse and DJ-Shadowy, and that's not where his strengths are. I am so looking forward to the Philly Hollertronix party, with special guest Bun B. Who else is going? Hit me up!
Mastodon totally rules, dudes. Leviathan just destroys.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Despite the enormous stadium plonked down in the middle of my city nine years ago like some impossibly gaudy concrete-and-purple UFO, I had somehow managed to live my entire life without once attending a professional football game (probably something to do with having only a very cursory understanding and appreciation of the game). But last night. M & T Bank Stadium. Monday Night Football. A hard-fought loss to the underdog Kansas City Chiefs. Thoughts: football fans are some loud-ass people, on some serious Gladiator shit. Baseball and basketball fans are some pansy-ass tea-sipping New Yorker readers in comparison. In the upper deck, dudes high-fived total strangers even on only-kinda-good plays. (I need to work on my high-fiving technique.) 90% of the people around me rocked the purple jerseys. I felt like a total douchebag in my argyle sweater. It's really hard to tell what's going on a lot of the time without the benefit of TV announcers and graphics and whatnot. Football players do a lot of work to convince their opponents that someone has the ball who really doesn't. This might work or might not work on said opponents, but it definitely works on mark-ass fair-weather fans up in the cheap seats. The best part: fireworks! I had fun!
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas is a sad and gorgeous book. It brings the narrative pyrotechnics with a weirdly effective symmetrical structure, a whole lot of barely-intertwined short stories that doubled back on themselves. I'm not sure why these stories, how exactly all of them are supposed to interact with each other. But I really, really loved it.
Monday, October 04, 2004
When I was 16, I saw Avail and Citizen Fish at the Black Cat. It was the best show I've ever seen and probably will ever see. I'm 25 now, and an Avail show doesn't mean the same thing to me. But holy god I had a good time last night. I was feeling all miserable and out-of-place, standing around all mopey during the boring opening acts and wondering where all my peoples were at. But then Avail stepped onstage, said, "hi, we're Avail from Richmond, VA," and then launched into "Southbound 95" and that was it. It was over. I lost my shit. I have nothing but good feelings for Avail, especially since they're all like mid-30s with beer guts and fading tattoos and their crowds are shrinking and they aren't touring with Rancid anymore and it's been a while since every band they knew was blowing up but they still tour like nobody's business and play their hearts out and go off and just bring the heart-on-sleeve deep-dynamics unpretentious everyday-dude hardcore and then go back home to their day jobs. I will always rep Avail, man.
Speaking of crunk, I am totally going to the Ravens game tonight, dudes.
I did not write this. I swear to God.
One of my P-Fork colleagues gave the Travis Morrison record a 0.0. That is not how it goes down. Travistan isn't a great record. It's not as good as any Dismemberment Plan albums except maybe !. But it's still a good record. Travis set out to do a studio-pop singer-songwriter record, and he succeeded on his own questionable terms. He's still the same dude, still writing the same kind of songs. And many of Travistan's pleasures are entirely sensory: a multitracked vocal, a bubbling synth bit. It sometimes gets too cutesy for its own good, and Travis doesn't really have the voice for some of the notes he tries to hit, but he hasn't lost me yet.
Friday, October 01, 2004
I'm feeling good. It's Friday and there's a nice little chill in the air and the sun is out and carry won the debate hands-down and Avail is playing at the Ottobar on Sunday. And ! It's time for another one of these guys:
Quarterly Report
A couple of notes real quick. I did a much longer version of this, but then the computer ate it and pissed me off. I haven't heard the new joints from Devin, Diplo, or Macha, and I'm amped to hear all of them. Gretchen Wilson's Here for the Party and Petey Pablo's Still Writin' in my Diary: 2nd Entry are two of my favorite albums of the year, and I bought both of them in the last three months, but both of them are too old for me to list them here. Apologies to Q and Not U, Devendra Banhart, and Interpol, all of whom almost made it on to this thing.
Top 5 Albums
1. Dizzee Rascal - Showtime. I wasn't all that into Boy in Da Corner; it seemed too much like a critical novelty - different and unexpected, but also unformed and uncertain and oddly tentative. Showtime is none of those things; it's a sheer blast of total audacity. A lot of reviews say that Showtime is Dizzee's attempt to gain an American hip-hop audience, and that may be true, but I hear his jungle and 2step influences much more clearly; "Stand Up Tall", for one, certainly doesn't sound like anything on 92Q. On Boy, Dizzee sounded rangy and awkward, but here he's cold and focused and intent. He's got the swagger and the thousand-yard stare. He's become a rapper. The music is cold and alien and real, except when it's warm and inviting and real. I downloaded "Dream" from Fluxblog before I heard the album, and I hated it then, but it works beautifully in the context of the album, a ray of light in the darkness. And "Imagine" is the saddest, prettiest, most eloquent and thoughtful and heart-wrenching emo gangsta lament in forever.
2. Bjork - Medulla. Only Bjork could have done this, made an entire world out of the sound of the human voice. I like listening to Medulla on my discman when I'm walking around; it lends this absurdly epic air to, like, the homeless dude on the corner or the pigeons outside the bus station. It swirls and wooshes and opens up and spins and dives. It's sad and expansive and euphoric and heavy. It follows its own set of rules.
3. Young Buck - Straight Outta Ca$hville. I was absolutely unprepared for how hard and strong this record is. It's a smooth, dangerous machine. Even when the beats are made by Lil Jon or DJ Paul and Juicy J, they sound like Havoc and Red Spyda: cinematic, windswept, creeping clanks and humming guitars and easy glide. Buck's voice is a cool snarl. It's dark and scary and empty and totally devoid of feelings, grainy video from a place where you never want to go.
4. Old Man Gloom - Christmas. I know exactly nothing about Old Man Gloom. I don't know where they come from or what they look like or who their friends are. I bought the album because a couple of critics I like liked it and said it was ambient shoegazer death metal, which sounded pretty awesome. Well, it is awesome. There's all these long, almost silent stretches of beeps and hums and nothing and then this riff will ring out and all of a sudden you'll be caught up in this hurricane of steamroller riffs and screams and rumbles and crashes out of nowhere. It's a jolting, visceral, physical experience. I have no idea why it exists. Heavy.
5. Masta Killa - No Said Date. I'd read that this album had all the original Wu members on it, so I was expecting a standard Wu-Tang album of eerie gothic bangers. I would've been happy with that. But No Said Date is more like a gullier Madvillainy than anything Wu. It's all muted drum claps and said trumpets and muttered vocals buried in the mix, a creepy ride through the background. I'd never really noticed Masta Killa, and that's why: he fades into the background and plays the corners. He's got nothing to prove. And plus the old-school banger has great metallic synth washes and Ol' Dirty sings the Baltimore club classic "You Big Dummy", so I'm happy.
Top 5 Singles
1. Big & Rich - Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy). This song is a ridonkulous machine of joy, a neon spaceship Whack-A-Mole machine. The guitars stomp and the fiddles and banjos surge and the vocals soar and it thrills and it kills like the horns on my Silverado grill. My favorite bit is the spoken-word part where John and Kenny take a breath and shake their heads like they can't believe they've just made something this awesome, and then they pull it together to scream the "And we made love!" part. I'm just glad something like this exists.
2. Armand Van Helden feat. Spalding Rockwell - Hear My Name. Oh my god I love this song. It has a grin factor of one billion. What an absurd, delirious blast of euphoria. This song just seems to move from peak to peak, getting dizzier and crazier and more ferocious until it explodes. It makes me want to stick my head out the car window and laugh and laugh.
3. Snow Patrol - Run. I love huge, anthemic, wounded Britpop epics. "Clocks" is my jam! This one has sort of nothing verses, but when the chorus comes in it opens up and drops out and bells and violins come flying up out of the depths and just carry the song off into the clouds. This song is like looking through the window of a plane as it's about to take off and take you somewhere where you're not quite sure you want to go so you just sigh and look out at the sunset and hope you don't crash.
4. Crime Mob - Knuck if you Buck. I love dense, wired screaming-in-your-face crunk, but I'm even more into slow, creepy horror-movie crunk. This song is fucking terrifying. The evil, glistening piano stabs turn into a choir of ghost children and the beat is just screams and pulsing drums. The vocals are really low in the mix like they're just part of the beat. And! This track has girls on it! Two of them! And they sound amped and tough as hell! I love that! This song sounds pretty much exactly like late-90s Three-6 Mafia, which totally rules.
5. Juvenile, Wacko & Skip - Nolia Clap. My favorite single of the decade thus far is probably "What Happened to That Boy" by Baby feat. Clipse and produced by the Neptunes. There's a lot to love about that song, but my favorite thing other than maybe Malice's ice-cold punchlines is the slow, underwater synth pulse. "Nolia Clap" has something similar: the bass strings and whistles and claps and beeps come together into this hypnotic burble that sounds like it's popping inside your brain.


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What is the Iliopsoas Bursitis?
It is the inflammation of the iliopsoas bursa (the largest bursa in the body) that lies between the front of the hip joint and the iliopsoas muscle (a hip flexor). It helps reduce rubbing and friction between the bones and soft tissues that meet at your hip joint capsule. It can also be mistaken for iliopsoas tendinitis or hip joint arthritis. It can become inflamed due to overuse or trauma, which can result in muscle tightness or imbalance.
What causes Iliopsoas bursitis?
It is most commonly the result of the following:
- Hip Pathology
- Recreational Injuries which require repeated hip flexing, such as
- Soccer
- Ballet
- Jumping Hurdles
- Martial Arts
- Infection of the bursa (which is rare)
What are the symptoms of Iliopsoas Bursitis?
The onset of pain will generally be gradual with symptoms slowly worsening over weeks or months.
- Pain and tenderness that radiates from deep in the groin region or front of the hip radiating around and down the front of the thigh and down to the knee
- Pain is increased with hip flexion
- Pain in the front of the hip that will usually be experienced for a short period of time during
- Vigorous activities like jogging or kicking a ball with your instep
- Getting up from a seated position
- Extending your leg while driving
- Walking up stairs
- Bringing your knee up to your chest (especially against resistance)
- Lying down without support
- Limping, which results from:
- Weakness in the upper thigh/hip area
- Only one leg is involved
- Taking smaller steps because of hip tightness
- Hip stiffness and tightness in groin as well as the knee, as a result of a tight iliopsoas muscle.
How is Iliopsoas Bursitis diagnosed?
Your APM physician will perform a comprehensive physical examination, tha may include:
- A Physical Exam with stress on the bursa may identify the condition
- Imaging test may be done to confirm the diagnosis and rule out other possible injuries or conditions. These test can include:
- X-ray to rule out bony problems that may cause pain
- Bone Scan
- MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
- Hip Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
How is Iliopsoas Bursitis treated?
Your APM physician will do a thorough evaluation, ask about your symptoms and examine the affected region. Treatmment may include:
- Rest and ice to the painful region
- Modification of activities—avoiding the activities that worsen symptoms
- Use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Use NSAIDs cautiously and for limited periods. Talk with your doctor about the NSAIDs you use.
- Use of a walking cane or crutches for a week or more when needed
- Physical Therapy
- Instruction on how to stretch your hip flexor and rotator muscles
- Corticosteroid injections with a local anesthetic.
- This is an injection into the bursa. Typically long lasting relief is achieved when combined with lifestyle changes. If pain and inflammation do return, another injection may be considered.
- If an infected bursa is suspected (a rare circumstance), fluid is removed from the sac for testing.
How can Iliopsoas Bursitis be prevented?
Avoidance of behaviors and activities that inflame the bursa will help to prevent the occurrence of hip bursitis. Avoid repetitive activities that put stress on the hips. These include, but are not limited to:
- Avoidance of behaviors and activities that inflame the bursa will help to prevent the occurrence of iliopsoas bursitis.
- Exercise regularly to maintain strength and flexibility of the hip muscles.


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i just have to remind myself that people act a certain way on the internet and a certain way in real life. they may not notice these differences, i may not notice these differences--like those pictures that aren't exactly alike--and you may not notice these differences. i'm trying to break that barrier, that fourth wall, as best i can, to give you a sense of who i am beyond holographs and photos and words. but for those who are aware of those differences, for those who have trouble breaking and balancing, i have to remember to be open-minded; to be gracious, because there is always more depth than what meets the eye. and one of the worst things man is known for is judging a book by its cover.
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Summit of Amazon Countries Want Rich Nations to Pay Them for Global Warming
A summit of 9 South American economies announced this weekend that they want the "rich" nations to pay them for global warming junk science.
The BBC reported:
Nine nations in the Amazon region have called on rich countries to provide poorer nations with the funds to preserve forests.
The nations, meeting in Manaus, Brazil, also discussed supporting a 40% reduction in global emissions by 2020.
The meeting comes shortly before the key global summit on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Amazon nations agreed on broad principles rather than concrete steps, correspondents said.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva chaired the meeting of delegates from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela and Surinam, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy representing French Guiana.
Related… The Obama Administration will fund an offshore oil drilling project in Brazil but will not allow US companies to explore and drill at home.
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Swift wrote:How did they get the SBM's RT up to Qld return?
Not under it's own steam I hope.boronia wrote:Perhaps it could now be classed as an RTi
And rename Bustech "Aldenham Works Qld".
Bustech have a low loader, the RT did the trip up and back on it (loaded and unloaded at Mt White)


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A heavy duty start to this week's new listings with Brazilian thrash titans Soulfly, getting some kind of cheesy Londonist thumbs up of the week, back over here on the 7th February at the Astoria to pummel some heads with their excellent new Dark Ages album. Trivium's star is certainly shining in the metal firmament at the moment so a somewhat triumphant return to the Astoria on March 15th. Sludge rockers Monster Magnet, again at the Astoria, on the 12th March. And Londonist recommended US punks Alkaline Trio head down to the Brixton Academy on the 16th November.
For the more sensitive of hearing Carlos Santana will be trying to inject some soul into the lifeless desolation of Wembley Arena on the 13th May, and Alison Goldfrapp brings her super silky sexually charged electronica back to Brixton with new dates on the 9th and 10th February.
Carl (I may not be as successful as Pete but at least I have a better life expectancy) Barat's Dirty Pretty Things club is back at Koko tomorrow night with the once reigning monarchs of the sideburn, Supergrass. And congratulations to Koko for a not undeserved award for best live entertainment venue at the Bar Entertainment and Dance Association awards. There must be worse ways to turn 1.
Talking of birthday's London's Leaf label celebrates ten years of promoting left-field and innovative fusions of electronica, jazz, classical, rock, folk and pop with shows from Caribou, Colleen and Hanne Hukkelberg amongst others. Full details here


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|CONCERT REVIEW: Tabernacle, Atlanta [06/05/2002] by Steve
|Sunday, 13 August 2006
Evening service began a little past nine. Lines were long, older couples, mostly. Frail, I may say, pleasant enough, and knotted at the wrist. The Tabernacle's lure spidered well across the American Southeast, eavesdropping said to me. It tasted of mixed company. Name a city, state your last encounter--if any--please give your Christian name and turn thirty degrees to meet tagalongs. Mine was the first pew--though steel and never for kneeling. Judging press photos, the gaunt crowd, and the album being toured I expected a humble, soft-spoken man. Suspended within his cult status and above sweaty antics. With these in mind I rushed to the right for a forearm's length of rail and a profile shot of Cave's Roland. I wondered how long until my back would hurt from leaning hunching.
I was bogged down by them, although I had already counted on becoming introverted, I found comfort in the sightlessness of my folded hands where I was free to sing along and throw my sundry halellujahs (the face that came to mind, however, was unexpected). The two to either side were obviously friends of fans of the Bad Seeds. They nodded every now and again, but usually their efforts were spent creeping slowly along the railing, advancing their power over the barricade and gaining territory, little despotic Napoleons. During 'Fifteen Feet,' however, the burden lifted when I looked up from my hands to spy Cave's feet at my sector of the stage. The refurbished chapel turned playhouse turned concert hall and its wrathful Father for the evening; be they tears or simply sweat running through rivenes ground through years of them, the finger waved viciously my way reinforced His commandment: Save Yourself.
Cave spent much of his time at stage left where he was reciprocated more adequately. Blixy was on the right, and perhaps his demeanor was rubbing off on the crowd. One can hardly blame Cave for lingering there. I'm imperfect, however, and I do blame: The black-haired girl who had followed him from Berlin, the Blonde chatty one doing the same since New York (who bragged of 5 encores yet would not contribute to getting him back for even the first). I blame the brown-haired girl, not because she had clearly never heard him before (I am no elitist), but because of her malignant eyeshots to anyone who showed a little too much fervor. I don't believe she moved a bit, nor do I believe the balcony seats were full. The invitation was open--I caught her glaring at me and I mouthed her a nice smile and a 'fuck you.' You don't go taking the front spots because you want a good view, you do it because you want a personal experience. You want to scream along with the man with the microphone and you want to respond. Same to you, ich am ein Berliner--I promise, I won't ask you or anyone to clap or root for an encore from your walkman, in your leibenstraum.
He slipped a few times, going as far as to lay down both the "table and the wire" (perhaps this doesn't require a permit?). He stopped everything with a 'fuck' and laughed along with the crowd. The show consisted of most of "No More," a few off of "Boatman's Call," and then the Seeds' classic hits. The first encore brought out the (us) creeps from their niches, blessing us with Milhaven, whose verses he broke up in order to introduce the rest of the band.
The second and final encore ended as I hoped it would. The set flashed a sickly yellow red and for the most part the crowd lost its snobbish bearing. Those who did not yield to the purple-coated inferno were consumed by it. I enjoyed very much assisting a rather vocal fellow behind me in ousting the snobbish brown-haired girl from her solemn perch. Both of us now with plenty of territory on the rail (wherewhich to produceth bountiful harvest of fury), an angry boyfriend with leverage enough only to make my smile more teethy, and a terrible shrieking emanating from Blixy (I swear such things cannot be). The purple coat came roaring and singled me out with a big grin and a few stabbing points and introduced the audience to Stagger Lee. The song included an overture including Stagger's encounter with the Devil--the lights dimmed and a red beam bathed Cave as he sung softly this verse. It was a drama, it was fear of failure, oh what would be Stagger's fate?
I was not let down, the crowd shed its despair--Stag puts four holes in the motherfucker's head [sic]. Could there be any doubt?


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Christmas. The only time when it's acceptable to wear a paper crown on your head whilst sat on a deckchair (otherwise more suitably named 'emergency seating') surrounded by other family members who also have paper crowns on their heads.
It's as bizarre as it is fabulous, as far as a season goes, and never passes without one or two little hiccups.
Here, for you, I have drafted a 'handy hints and tips' checklist to hopefully help Christmas run that little bit smoother.
1. Alcohol does not make you invincible and/or exempt from injury: This is first because it's the most important.
Before you make any rash decisions after you've had a few, weigh-up the situation. Ask yourself- where, how, and why.
If you can't answer, you probably shouldn't do whatever it was you were going to do. But, of course, no one is stopping you…
2. Practise reactions for Oscar worthy performances. You're probably going to get socks instead of that new perfume you've been hinting for the last four months. Prepare yourself by practising in mirror following reactions: Surprise, delight and appreciation.
3. Re-cap general knowledge. Family game of Trivial Pursuit - inevitable.
Being a member of the losing team- unacceptable.
Be sure that general knowledge is up-to-scratch for when event occurs. Don't listen to that one family member who claims it doesn't matter who wins or loses. This is a trap.
4. Specify dietary requirements to the chef before Christmas Eve.
Would you like more mashed or roast potatoes? Would you prefer a chocolate orange or a Milk Tray?
These are important questions to consider this run-up to Christmas because it's the only time of year we can be justifiably gluttonous.
Don't waste the opportunity.
5. Have a fabulous time. Let your hair down, be prepared for a little drama, eat loads of choccy, spoil your loved ones, turn up the fire and drink loads of whiskey - but not too much. (See tip number one)
6. Monopoly is NEVER a good idea: No, seriously. Don't do it.


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Since winning the Choice Music Prize in 2008 for the critically acclaimed 'Ritual', Jape has toured extensively and has been quietly producing an array of new material, songs that have been carefully crafted and have become the best of Jape's career.
"I had thought that the follow up to Ritual was finished about three times so far, but I kept getting drawn back to writing more and more songs, trying to push my songwriting as hard as I could and see how many different styles and moods I could try out, to feel out the album. Eventually, I realised that you could just keep on doing that forever so I decided it was time to start letting these songs go for a walk around the place. "
music/is/for/losers is proud to release the new Jape album Ocean of Frequency, September 30th in Ireland and October 17th in the UK.
Ocean of Frequency was recorded in Blackbox Studios in France with David Odlum (Tinariwen, Gemma Hayes) and features fellow Jape members Glenn Keating (bass), Ross Turner (drums) and Matthew Bolger (guitars).
Jape began making music in 2003. Originally started as the solo project of Richard Egan (The Redneck Manifesto, VisionAir), the band has evolved over the years into one of the most exciting live acts in the country, not to mention releasing 3 critically acclaimed albums to date – Cosmosphere, The Monkeys In The Zoo Have More Fun Than Me, and
Ritual. Using an innovative mix of live instruments and hardware samplers and sequencers, the sound that Jape creates spans a range of genres and encompasses many different styles. From gothic to pop, Jape continue to surprise the listener with their eclectic blend of meticulously crafted lyrics and upbeat electronic rhythms.