text:
Tonight's GOP debate from Detroit is on Fox News Channel, which may mark the renewal of hostilities between Trump and moderator Megyn Kelly, They haven't been together since the first Republican debate way back in August.
So much has happened to the candidates since they last met on the debate stage. Ben Carson and his movie-star hands stepped down from tonight's event, after promising to bring all the candidates together tonight for a kumbaya moment to promise this debate won't be a repeat of the last mud fight.
Super Tuesday's big winner Donald Trump started the day being called a greedy, vulgar, misogynistic bully by Mitt Romney. The GOP front-runner responded that the 2012 GOP nominee had been so desperate for his endorsement back then that "I could have said, 'Mitt, drop to your knees' – he would have dropped."
Meanwhile, Trump's replacement on NBC's reality series The Apprentice, Arnold Schwarzenegger is out campaigning for Gov. John Kasich in Ohio.
Marco Rubio has perfected the losing/winning speech after taking just one state on Super Tuesday. But on the bright side, the senator from Florida has developed an impressive repertoire of cogent observations about Trump's hands, pants, spray tan and hair that should come in handy tonight.
And Ted Cruz has been virtually-endorsed by Caitlyn Jenner, who told The Advocate she hopes that, once he's elected, she'll be named his "trans ambassador to the President of the United States."
So lace up the gloves and butter the popcorn — here is Deadline's live blog of the latest fracas.
Remember when Megyn Kelly jokingly told Stephen Colbert on his show that
she will start tonight's debate with "Apology accepted."
Will @realDonaldTrump hit the stage with a handkerchief in his pocket to later hand to @marcorubio as a stunt? That's a serious question.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 4, 2016
I can't wait for Ben Carson to accidentally wander on stage and ask if anyone's got a light
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 4, 2016
So much for the "civility." Are the Red Wings on?
And they kick things off with Mitt Romney question to Trump. "He was a failed candidate, should have beaten Obama easily. He wants to be relevant." Then recites his talking points.
Is this a Fox News crowd or one from Fox's "Married … With Children"?
Rubio wins First Megan Kelly Reference prize!
Marco, you know what they say about guys with small strategies…
Donnie, it's time to freshen up your insults.
Trying … not … to … picture … Putin … holding … a ruler … right … now.
Donald Trump's OJ moment: "[Rubio] hit my hands. Look at those hands are they small hands." noted Rubio's reference to his hands was really a suggestion something else was small. "I guarantee there's no problem. OK? Moving on."
Donald Trump schlonged Marco Rubio. And we're 7 minutes in.
Make Penis Size Great Again
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 4, 2016
No wonder @MittRomney picked today. It obviously was intended to and has impacted the debate opening. Romney crashed the debate.
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) March 4, 2016
OK, I promise to stop. Probably.
First appearance of Unintelligible Shouting. Already the closed-caption people are falling behind.
Oh yeah, John Kasich.
I'm picturing Ben Carson sitting in his living room yelling, "CALL ON ME, DAMMIT!"
We're about a week away from one of these guys just literally taking their junk out on stage at a debate.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 4, 2016
Hey John, this just in: You're written off.
Kasich: Now you're going up north to my turf. Watch for drive-bys.
Chris Wallace asks Rubio: 'How many jobs have you created?" Is Wallace in the tank for Trump?
Cheap shot from Wallace on how many jobs have you created. That's not his line. Would You ask Peyton Manning how many classes he's taught at Cambridge?
Again with the tired insults. "Little guy." "Disgusting." "Loser." "Choke artist." Get me Bruce Vilanch!
I love when Trump defends starting off life with "only a million dollars" from Dad.
Key lines from one of the great protest songs of the past quarter-century, James McMurtry's "We Can't Make It Here Anymore":
"Now I'm stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store
Just like the ones we made before
'Cept this one came from Singapore
I guess we can't make it here anymore."
Second appearance of Unintelligible Shouting. Closed-Caption people send out SOS.
"Bringing education local?" What, every town gets a one-room schoolhouse?
Look at this. Fox News is graphics whipping Trump!
Oh, I get it: Trump's plan is for more regulation of Big Phrama. THAT will get him elected.
"Little Marco and Big Donald" was a great indie film, a favorite at Sundance three years ago.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 4, 2016
Trump ignored whole graphics trap. Donald Trump: Graphics denier.
Cruz: Trump for many years part of the corruption in Washington by giving loads of money to them.
"thre will still be a Post Office to receive the post cards" -Cruz
so there's that
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 4, 2016
When I think of "getting along with people," I think Donald Trump!
I think Kasich has small hands. Now I can't stop looking at their hands — and I hate myself for looking!
And @JohnKasich reminds everyone –again, rightly– "It's not a theory for me" re balanced budget. Locking up OH
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) March 4, 2016
#DonaldTrump: "a recent article somewhere said I'm a world class businessman" so there. #gopdebate
— Hilary Rosen (@hilaryr) March 4, 2016
"A recent article somewhere" is Trump for "exhaustive research."
Oh yeah, Megyn Kelly's here.
Trump finally acknowledges Megyn: "Hello Megyn. Nice to be with you. You're looking well."
Hugs all around.
Is this all on the record?
Will somebody tell this guy the American presidency is not like running a business?
Trump's best moment, sounding like a reasonable negotiator, when asked about off record conversation with NYT on immigration, says sometimes you need to be flexible.
It's about time Arizona's Sherrif Joe endorsed someone in this race.
Re that ad just now, I envision a sequel: "Miracles From Heaven 2: The Return of Mitt Romney"
Trump, who wants to open up libel laws to punish journalists, now says he's protecting journalists https://t.co/DqEqMJCbWn
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) March 4, 2016
OK, so about that really weird lean-in Trump made toward Cruz awhile back — it reminded me of this:
Pop quiz: Which will Trump release first?
His taxes
His New York Times interview
His hand size
All the yelling from crowd is like those yahoos at a golf tournament yelling "Get in the hole" after a guy tees off.
Wallace: "Donald Trump, you are wearing a blue tie."
Trump: "No, it's red,"
Wallace: "Okay. Guess there's no way to tell." #GOPDebate
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 4, 2016
BREAKING NEWS! Trump changes a position!
Trump just came out in favor of smart Mexican immigrants
"Quintupling" — it's the new fiving!
Trump: "We're only going to let smart people in through the Swiss cheese. if you're smart enough to navigate Swiss cheese — you're in!"
Who's up for a new constitutional amendment? Force the lame-duck president to train his replacement!
New York Times tapes are to Trump what emails are to Hillary
You can't hiiiiiii-iiide your lyin' Ted. (R.I.P., Glenn Frey.)
Trump continues to insist that Florida is such a hot state, no one wants to work there.
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) March 4, 2016
"Doc, look out, it's the Libyans!"
Keeping up with the heavy metal theme, re the terrorists' families:
Trump comes out against Geneva Convention.
I'm callin' it:
Wage jihad, sign a death warrant. ®
As a matter of pure skill, the four best debaters lasted (though @LindseyGrahamSC is their equal in skills set)
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) March 4, 2016
Kasich makes his move. Wasn't even asked a question and gave impromptu speech.
Every foreign policy mandarin mentioned by Trump just got expelled from the Council on Foreign Relations.
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) March 4, 2016
According to Politico. Here's how much time each candidate has had to speak:
Trump: 12:22
Cruz: 4:57
ubio: 4:42
Kasich: 4:28
In re Arnold's video game ad that played during debate break:
If @realDonaldTrump saw this ad break, he'd probably add @Schwarzenegger to his list of favorite national security experts. #GOPDebate
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 4, 2016
Why is it that every major American city seems to have a "historic Fox Theater"? Are there no new ones?
Is it possible to be sympathetic to Trump. He's asked to respond to six pieces of video?
Megyn video trap flops.
Trump: "Megyn, I have a very strong core. But I never seen a successful person who wasn't flexible."
Trump just ran their video speed trap.
"Not just talk but a record of achievement." Interesting…
If they really want to appeal to voters who have worked in restaurants, hold the next debate in Hollywood.
Hey, a D-minus gets you a diploma at Trump University.
Third period of Unintelligible Yelling. Rank discrimination against Closed caption-ers.
They boo Trump saying "excuse me" to Kelly? Sheesh.
Donald's next call to his lawyers: Settle this Trump U case!
I love how Trump pulls percentages out of thin air — he does it all the time.
The @marcorubio strategy which doesn't impress some is a disciplined but risky attempt to win his home state by discrediting Trump
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) March 4, 2016
Are you as tired of the "couldn't get elected dog catcher" line as I am? Criminal penalties should be levied.
Best Line of the Night: Ted Cruz: "Donald, learn not to interrupt. Count to 10."
Serious question, and I don't mean this as a twitter joke: are they serving booze in this venue?
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 4, 2016
Rising blood pressure makes Trump more orange.
Going on way after the bell and not caring — John Kasich is the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu of the GOP.
Kasich steps in to act like adult. Making speech about a whole different topic. What people are hungry for is "who can fix this". He finished speech strong with :
Let's Stop Fighting.
The fewer the number of candidates on stage, the tougher time Trump seems to have.
Tolerance and respect and common sense … oh my!
Kasich revises and extends remarks on cupcake makers and same-sex weddings.
— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) March 4, 2016
Thanks for bringing up the Supreme Court, Ted.
It is the constitutional right of every American to hunt partridges with an Uzi.
Arm the French. Now that's American.
Dems support the 2nd Amendment. We also support common-sense gun reforms. They go hand-in-hand to keep our freedoms & people safe #GOPDebate
— D Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) March 4, 2016
"Donald has a tenuous relationship with the truth." Nice.
The moment when yoga became an issue in the 2016 race for president. The "downward dog" jokes write themselves.
That bumper-exit music sounds curiously like "You Really Got Me."
Ted Cruz/Marco Rubio — Best Debate Cross-talk Act Ever:
Cruz to Trump who starts to interrupt him. "Try not to interrupt. Breathe. Breathe. You can do it. I know it' shard."
Rubio: "When they're done with the yoga, can I answer a question?"
Cruz: "I hope we don't see yoga on this stage."
Rubio: "Well, he's very flexible."
I guess there's no irony in playing a Mitsubishi ad during the break.
I think Ben Carson is winning this debate.
— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) March 4, 2016
Let's all refuse to make cupcakes for anyone who does anything we agree with! I will not make cupcakes for people who believe in hell!
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) March 4, 2016
Rubio's voice has that early-march candidate's rasp to it. Same with Clinton.
We have discovered common ground.
Trump's second warning to Geneva Convention: When I say [the military] will do what I tell them, they'll do what I tell them."
World War III — coming soon to a South China Sea theater near you.
"I'm not biting," Kasich said to Chris Wallaces' baiting question about some dumb joke video Wallace said was made by Kasich's campaign. "Let me take you around the world." Then he ticked off his foreign policy positions. Lesson for candidates: Wallace gotcha question? Just say no.
Kim Jung-Un has asked his nuclear weapons to be made ready. Mr. Trump, what do you do?
He'll do what I tell him to do.
*mushroom cloud.*
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) March 4, 2016
They're making all the candidates pledge their support for Trump nomination?
Trump asked if he will support Republican nominee even if it's not him. " Even if it's not ME?!" He said he would.
It's closing comments time!
Kasich: Go back to Washington. Formulas. Fix Washington. Send you power.
Rubio: I'm all grown up again.
Cruz: You like cops. you like soldiers. You'll like me.
Trump: I'm proud of myself and I'll give you the chance to be proud of me.
Awkward fist bumps all around.
Post-debate Trump-fawning: "You look tired. You tired?"asks Bill O'Reilly, solicitously.
We're tired. That's it for the 11th GOP debate. Get some rest.


text:
Minneapolis SEO Company | Local SEO Services
Here's a video from one of our competitors:
http://www.NorthStarSEO.com – We Help Businesses Succeed Online!
NorthStar SEO is a Minneapolis SEO company that provides local SEO services throughout Minnesota and the upper Midwest.
We help small businesses get found on Google by concentrating on 4 key areas:
1. Your Website
2. Google Places
3. 3rd Party Directory Sites (i.e. Yelp)
4. Customer Reviews
We provide affordable small business seo services so if your business isn't getting leads or sales from Google, contact us. We can help!
Contact us for a FREE SEO Analysis!

subset: commoncrawl


text:
"Behold the beast with the barbed tail, who flies
past mountains, scattering armies, smashing walls!
Behold the beast whose stench sickens the world!" [17.1-3]
Even by Dante's standards, that's a pretty dramatic introduction. The beast is Geryon, and Canto 17 of the Inferno begins by suggesting danger to the pilgrim. But despite the scary opening lines, and the equally scary descriptions that follow, Geryon is there to be of service to Dante. He is the one who enables the pilgrim and his guide to descend to the pit that contains the circle of the fraudulent, carrying them on his back as he negotiates his way down a huge break in the pit of hell toward the bottom. Canto 17 is thus about transitions, bringing Dante and us from the realm of violence to the realm of fraud. But, as if to suggest a connection between violence and fraud, Dante's encounter with the last of the violent, the usurers, is sandwiched between the appearance of Geryon at the beginning of the canto and the ride that Dante and Virgil take on Geryon's back at the end.
Like so much of the Divine Comedy, this canto is divided into three parts. After the description of Geryon, which carries the reader through the first thirty lines, Virgil tells Dante to go and encounter the last of the souls in the circle of the violent, the usurers. Here in the second part, while Virgil seems to be busy negotiating with Geryon, Dante watches these souls bitterly insult each other. In the third part of the canto, beginning with line 76, the pilgrim rejoins Virgil who has already climbed onto Geryon. Dante, despite real fear, does the same. He holds on tight and they begin the descent. They dismount, and Geryon departs, "vanishing like an arrow from the string" [line 136]. The pilgrim is now ready to encounter Fraud.
This canto should be required reading before going to see The Big Short, the current film that portrays the horrendous financial crisis that hit Wall Street, the nation, and the world in 2008. This is the canto that explains what went wrong with Wall Street, dramatizing a moral position on money and its uses. It is no accident that we encounter the usurers in the same canto that moves us from violence to fraud. I think that the poet is suggesting that usury, while it officially belongs in the circle of the violent, tilts strongly toward fraud. Dante's description at this point is very vivid. The sinners are weighed down by their moneybags, pouches that display each family's coat of arms, and they eye each other's heraldry suspiciously and malevolently. What is the poet getting at with his condemnation of usury? What is usury, anyway? This canto was a much harder sell before the mess on Wall Street. A textbook definition that one often hears, after all, is that usury is lending money at interest. Whoa: without loans paid back with interest I would not own a house, I would not own a car, and I would not have put my kids through college. Is that what Dante has in mind?
Think about it this way: Dante is asking, what does it mean to employ money simply for the sake of making more money, without any thought to the common good? In this scenario, which provides a moral framework for understanding both the heads of famous Italian banking families who are eyeing each other in hell and the hedge fund managers of our own time, money has taken on a life of its own. Money, which should exist simply as a medium of exchange, begins to "breed" and soon spins out of control. The point of money for the usurer is to make more money. The point of more money is even more money. The point of money for Dante, and for the moral system which the poem dramatizes, is to provide resources for the common good. Hedge funds managers employ PhDs in physics to find the cracks in the system, and bankers bundle sub-prime mortgages. These modern day usurers probably do not know or care that the principles and practices of banking that they are piggy-backing on, that provide the framework of the system they are gaming, were in point of fact invented in the Florence of Dante's time. By casting a cold eye at what was coming into being in his own time, Dante tells us what is happening in ours.
The example of Hedge Fund Managers surely helps us understand the nature of the sin. But most of us are not Hedge Fund Managers. Does that mean we are off the hook, that the canto is about sins that other people commit? Maybe not. What happens if we allow ourselves to really think about all the ways in which we too objectify and idolize money? For all of us in America in the twenty-first century, to a greater extent than we are willing to admit, money is the way we keep score, in big ways and little ways. Looking at the restless anger and envy that dominates the figures Dante encounters here in Inferno 17 should give us more than a little pause.
There is no way Dante and Virgil can get to the bottom of hell without the help of Geryon. Surely that is a reminder of the fact that the entire journey is a grace, a mercy that Dante receives but does not deserve. But it is complicated here by the fact that Geryon is not only Dante's "ride" down to the realm of the fraudulent. Geryon is himself an embodiment of fraud, a strangely composite beast having "the features of an honest man"…"but the trunk down below was serpentine" [lines 10, 12]. It gets even more complicated when, in the midst of the journey, described as though they are swimming through the air, Dante invokes the figures of Phaeton and Icarus, both emblems of pride, mythical figures whose own journeys took them too close to the sun and led them to death. One way to look at it is that the journey of these two mythological figures is upward through pride in their own resources, while Dante's journey by contrast is downward, guided and helped by others, so that in invoking these figures the poet allows the reader to see the difference between their journey and his. But pride is a constant danger to the pilgrim, a theme that will be picked up even more forcefully in the Purgatorio.
Dr. Ron Herzman is a member of the English Department at SUNY Geneseo. He has taught, written, and lectured extensively on Dante. This year he is a Fellow at the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham.


text:
WESTFIELD, NJ — On Sunday, Santa Claus ditched the reindeer for photos with dogs at the Knights of Columbus Hall on North Avenue in Westfield to support the seventh annual fundraiser for Brendan's Meadows dog rescue organization.
Pet owners paid a suggested fee of $10 for a picture with St. Nick to help the all volunteer, non-profit, no kill dog rescue and placement operation. Brendan's Meadows was founded in 2009 by Clark resident Kerry Mooney, whose father, Brendan, believed "A house is not a home without a dog."
The 100 percent volunteer organization is comprised of a small group committed to giving dogs a second chance in life. It has foster homes in Scotch Plains, Westfield, Clark, Mountainside, Cranford, Summit and Toms River.
TAPintoSPF.net is Scotch Plains-Fanwood's only free daily paper. Sign up for our daily eNews and follow us on Facebook and twitter @SPF_TAP. Download the free TAPinto App for iPhone or Android.


text:
Machina/The Machines of God
|Machina/The Machines of God
|File:The smashing pumpkins machina cover.jpg
|Studio album by The Smashing Pumpkins
|February 29, 2000
|November 1998 – October 1999
|Sadlands, Pumpkinland & Chicago Recording Company, Chicago, Illinois, United States
|The Smashing Pumpkins chronology
|Singles from Machina/The Machines of God
Machina/The Machines of God is the fifth album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on February 29, 2000, by Virgin Records. A concept album,[4] it marked the return of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and was intended to be the band's final official LP release prior to their first break up in 2000. A sequel album — Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music — was later released independently via the Internet.
As with its predecessor, Adore, Machina represented a drastic image and sound change for the band that failed to reconnect the band with chart-topping success. However, after the relatively brief Adore tour, the new line-up with Chamberlin and the former Hole bass guitarist Melissa Auf der Maur mounted longer international tours that returned the live incarnation of the band to guitar-driven hard rock style.[5]
A remastered and expanded version of the album was announced as a part of the band's project to reissue their back catalogue from 1991 to 2000, though Corgan announced in July 2015 that the release was tied up in legal issues with their record label.
Background and concept
After the Adore tour ended in the second half of 1998, lead singer/guitarist Billy Corgan immediately began to work on new material, playing new songs as early as October of that year.[6] In the same month, the four original band members convened, and decided that Jimmy Chamberlin would rejoin the band, and that a final album and tour would be mounted before the group disbanded permanently.[7] "If you want to know what Jimmy brings back to the band," Corgan told Q, "then listen to Adore and this new record back-to-back. It speaks for itself."[8]
Corgan envisioned a lengthy concept album in conjunction with a musical theater approach to a tour, based around the idea of the band playing exaggerated versions of themselves, as the press and public seemed to view them.[9][10] He later explained, "the band had become such cartoon characters at that point in the way we were portrayed in the media, the idea was that we would sort of go out and pretend we were the cartoon characters."[9]
From there, a story was conceived revolving around a rock star named Zero (based on the public persona of Corgan) hearing the voice of God, renaming himself Glass, and renaming his band The Machines of God.[citation needed] Fans of the band were referred to as the "Ghost Children".[citation needed]
Corgan started recording demos in late 1998 and the band entered the studio in early 1999.
Much like previous albums, the songs were first tracked acoustically at Corgan's house in late 1998[11] before the band set to work on them at their practice space and the Chicago Recording Company. The recording was conducted with the team responsible for finishing Adore – co-producer Flood and engineers Howard Willing and Bjorn Thorsrud.
The band took a break from recording in April 1999 to embark on the Arising! tour, which took the band to nine small clubs.[citation needed] After the tour's conclusion, the bass guiatrist, D'arcy Wretzky, left the band, leaving the rest of them in a difficult position. Corgan later said, "This put a stress obviously on the full integrity of the project, because it was connected to the band not only bringing the music to fruition fully, but also the public component of being in character. I ended up in a broken band with a half-ass enthusiasm towards finishing a project already started."[12]
Flood later remembered, "We decided that we were going to have to make a very different kind of record [...] we pretty much went back to the drawing board. Certain songs on the record are survivors from that first period, but it meant a shift in the ways songs had to be formed."[13]
Corgan described the new recording process for Machina, now focused more on the song development than on the concept:
|We spent most of the time trying to take the songs as far as they could be taken down a particular avenue. So if it was gonna be proto-cyber metal, we tried to make it very proto and very cyber. If it was acoustic, then we tried to not fall into the typical ballad-y kind of aspects. That's where we spent most of our time. The songs were probably written in about a day.[14]
In the end, the theatrical qualities of the live performances and appearances were mostly abandoned. Many of the songs on the album refer to the ending of love and relationships (both romantic and otherwise), most of them obvious references to the band themselves. Corgan described "This Time" as "my love song to the band".[15] According to Corgan, the album was structured so that the first eight tracks would be "more poppy", and the last five "more arty".[16] Generally, Corgan appraised the sound of the album as "a rock 'n' roll approach with pop sensibility".[17] After the electronica-influenced Adore, Machina was a return to the distorted guitar sound of previous albums, though synthesizers and acoustic guitars were still heavily used.
Marketing and release
Sample of "The Everlasting Gaze" from Machina/The Machines of God (2000), the first single from the album. A return to the dense, guitar-heavy sound of previous records.
|Problems playing this file? See media help.
Corgan presented Machina to Virgin Records as a double album, but the label was not interested after the disappointing sales of Adore.[18] Machina was released as a single album on February 29, 2000, with a bonus disc, Still Becoming Apart, available at certain stores.
A video was made for "Stand Inside Your Love", the planned first single, in late 1999, but at the last minute, "The Everlasting Gaze" was issued as the album's first promotional radio single in December 1999. "Stand Inside Your Love" was released as the first commercially available single on January 21, 2000. "I of the Mourning" was also released as a promotional single and received limited airplay. "Heavy Metal Machine" was issued as a promotional cassette but was not distributed to radio stations.[19]
On March 9, the band went on the Thursday edition of @MTV Week at Broadway Studios in New York City for a half-hour live TV special. During the broadcast they performed "The Everlasting Gaze" as well as "I of the Mourning" after an online and call-in voting competition between three songs from Machina. The special also featured Carson Daly interviewing the band members and online chats with the band, and an interactive online video for "The Crying Tree of Mercury".
On May 23, Corgan announced on KROQ-FM that the band would be breaking up at the end of the year.[4] The band reconvened in a studio to finish off the leftover Machina tracks, but Virgin remained uninterested, so the band released Machina II on their own in September, handing them off to fans to distribute free over the Internet.[20]
The video for the final single, "Try, Try, Try", directed by Jonas Åkerlund, was released on September 11, 2000, but did not receive much airplay due to its explicit content.[21]
Glass and The Machines of God
Although the full extent of the original concept went unrealized, the storyline of Glass was tied to the album's release and marketing. A sequence of writings, by Corgan, were released under the name "Glass and the Machines of God" starting in the CD booklet and continuing over the Internet and elsewhere.[22] Additional entries, under the name "Chards of Glass", were posted by the band while on tour.[23] Corgan challenged fans to solve the "Machina mystery" hinted at through it all, and in December 2000 posted his favorite fan interpretations.[24]
The booklet artwork, a series of paintings by Vasily Kafanov, loosely told the album's story while hinting at themes related to alchemy, chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art.[citation needed] The album was nominated for a 2001 Grammy for Best Recording Package.[25]
In June 2001, a viral marketing campaign written by Jim Evans and Ben Allgood was launched via the Smashing Pumpkins message board, encouraging users to seek out mysterious websites and video clips. This early example of an internet-based alternate reality game eventually unveiled the news of a new online animated series by Sony based on the Machina story. Due in part to the changing circumstances surrounding the album's rollout, the series was shelved before any episodes were completed, though several portions have been leaked to YouTube.[26][27][28] Corgan later said, "Yeah, I think you can find a few bits and pieces, but it never got finished unfortunately. That would've at least explained what the fuck I was trying to do [laughs]. I'm not even sure now what I was trying to do. But I was trying to do something."[9]
|Professional ratings
|Aggregate scores
|Review scores
|Entertainment Weekly
|Los Angeles Times
|Pitchfork Media
|Rolling Stone
|Slant Magazine
|The Village Voice
Machina is the second lowest-selling commercially released Pumpkins album to date, with U.S. sales of 583,000 units up to 2005.[40] Although it entered the U.S. charts at number 3, selling 165,000 copies in its first week,[41] sales declined sixty percent the second week,[42] and continued to slide. Regarding the disappointing sales, Jimmy Chamberlin commented, "It was like watching your kid flunking out of school after getting straight As for ten years."[43] Corgan, in 2008, summarized the failures of the album:
|I think the combination of the band breaking up during that record, D'arcy leaving the band... Korn was huge at the time, Limp Bizkit was huge at the time, so the album wasn't heavy enough. It wasn't alternative enough, it was sort of caught between the cracks. And it was a concept record, which nobody understood. So the combination of those elements was a career-killer... Adore didn't alienate the audience, they were just sort of like, 'Oh, it's not the record I want.' [Machina] alienated people.[44]
According to Metacritic the album received generally favorable reviews scoring 66 out of 100 based on 15 reviews.[29] NME criticized the album for not sounding like a band effort.[33] Others contend that Machina brought together the rock sensibilities of Smashing Pumpkins' early albums with the atmospherics and lyrical maturity of Adore. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times called Machina "an exceedingly impressive and hard-driving record"[45] and contended that it was the band's "masterpiece".[46]
"Machina finds the quartet back at their grunge-rocking best…" wrote Clark Collis in The Daily Telegraph. "[Corgan] seems re-energised as a writer and singer with the likes of 'Stand Inside Your Love' and 'Try Try Try' standing among their best work to date, while the lyrical refrain of the epic 'Glass and the Ghost Children' should please all those who like their rock music to be mean, moody and not a little psychotic."[47]
In Q, Paul Elliott described it as "mostly, a wonderful rock album" that was "not without its faults." "'Heavy Metal Machine' is a hokey title for a dull rock song. 'Glass and the Ghost Children' sounds like mid-'80s U2 pretending to be The Doors… Often Corgan is at his most effective when he keeps it simple… 'With Every Light' is the gentlest song on Machina, and perhaps the best."[48]
Potential reissue
The album is scheduled to be reissued on CD and vinyl sometime in 2016, this time resequenced as a double album with the Machina II material as was originally envisioned. The original co-producer Flood will be involved with a complete remix of all the material and sequencing into its original order as a two-disc concept album.[49] He further explained that part of the restored concept album will be a suite simulating a live Machines of God concert, possibly with crowd noise added, with a mix inspired by Kiss' Alive!.[50]
As of July 2015, the reissue's release has been put on permanent hold due to legal troubles with the record label. Corgan has said he has spent a lot of time on this and wants it to be released, but the legal issues need to be resolved first.[51]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Billy Corgan.
|"The Everlasting Gaze"
|"Raindrops + Sunshowers"
|"Stand Inside Your Love"
|"I of the Mourning"
|"The Sacred and Profane"
|"Try, Try, Try"
|"Heavy Metal Machine"
|"This Time"
|"The Imploding Voice"
|"Glass and the Ghost Children"
|"The Crying Tree of Mercury"
|"With Every Light"
|"Blue Skies Bring Tears"
|"Age of Innocence"
Some releases — namely, European and Asian Hut Records versions, and all vinyl editions — have an added track, "Speed Kills". This is not the Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music version, but the version that appears on the "Stand Inside Your Love" single. On the international CDs, the song is edited nearly two minutes shorter than the original, and the last four tracks are resequenced. Some early promotional versions of the album have an extended version of "The Sacred and Profane" with two bars of electronic drum beat at the beginning of the song, and a slightly different mix of "Age of Innocence".
Chart positions
- Album
|Australian Album Chart[52]
|Top Canadian Albums[citation needed]
|Billboard 200[41]
|German Album Charts[53]
|New Zealand Album Chart[citation needed]
|UK Album Chart
|Danish Album Chart[citation needed]
- Singles
|"The Everlasting Gaze"
|Modern Rock Tracks[citation needed]
|Mainstream Rock Tracks[citation needed]
|"Stand Inside Your Love"
|Modern Rock Tracks[citation needed]
|Mainstream Rock Tracks[citation needed]
|UK Singles Chart
|Australian Singles Chart[citation needed]
|"Try, Try, Try"
|UK Singles Chart
A number of songs were recorded in some form or another during the Machina sessions but did not make either Machina/The Machines of God or Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music:[11]
- "Autumn" (instrumental, not to be confused with the 1994 demo "Autumn Nocturne")
- "Death Boogie"[55]
- "Drain"
- "Here I Am"
- "Laugh"
- "Lover"
- "Soot and Stars" (later released on Judas O)
- "Winterlong" (later released on Judas O)
"Autumn", "Drain", "Here I Am", "Laugh" and "Lover" can be found on the Machina Acoustic Demos bootleg, which has been leaked on the Internet.
- Band
- Billy Corgan – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, piano, production, art direction, mixing
- James Iha – guitar, bass guitar[56]
- D'arcy Wretzky – bass guitar (certain tracks only)[56]
- Jimmy Chamberlin – drums
- Additional musicians
- Mike Garson – piano on "With Every Light"
- Production
- Bill Douglass – mixing assistance
- Flood – production, mixing
- Vasily Kafanov – sleeve paintings and etchings
- Tommy Lipnick – technical assistance
- Tim "Gooch" Lougee – technical assistance
- Jef Moll – mixing assistance
- Alan Moulder – mixing
- Andrew Nicholls – mixing assistance
- Erin Piepergerdes – mixing assistance
- Scott Schimpff – technical assistance
- Greg Sylvester – art direction
- Bjorn Thorsrud – recording, mixing, digital editing, compilation, additional programming
- Howie Weinberg – mastering
- Howard C. Willing – recording, mixing
- Thomas Wolfe – art direction
- Yelena Yemchuk – art direction
- Mike Zainer – mixing assistant
- ↑ Farley, CHristopher John (March 6, 2000). "Music: Machina/The Machines of God - The Smashing Pumpkins". Time. Retrieved July 26, 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Ferguson, Jason. "The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God". MTV Online. Retrieved July 26, 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Leas, Ryan (October 29, 2013). "Smashing Pumpkins Albums From Worst To Best". Stereogum. Retrieved July 26, 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Interview with Billy Corgan, May 24, 2000, KROQ-FM
- ↑ Reiley, Laura (February 7, 2000). "Review: Smashing Pumpkins Play Visceral Show in Northern California (02/7/2000)". Archived from the original on February 29, 2000. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "spfc.org : Tour History – Dates : 1998/10/31". spfc.org. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Kot, Greg (January 2002). "Pumpkin Seeds". Guitar World.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Q, March 2000
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Borges, Christine (July 20, 2010). "Q&A: Billy Corgan Reveals Biggest Regret, Weighs Indie Versus Corporate Rock Ahead of Tonight's Show at Revolution". browardpalmbeach.com. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ VH1 Storytellers. Episode 49. August 24, 2000.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "spfc.org : Studio Sessions : Late 1998 – Sadlands (Billy's House)". spfc.org. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ [1] Archive of [2]. September 12, 2008.
- ↑ Thomas, Richard (October 2008). "Signal to Noise: The Sonic Diary of the Smashing Pumpkins". EQ.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Basham, David (March 2, 2000). "Billy Corgan Discusses Painless "Machina" Sessions". mtv.com. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Corgan, Billy (June 8, 2011). "Twitter / Billy: I Bet You Didn't Know That ..." Twitter. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Smashing Pumpkins Return to the Fray". wallofsound.go.com. March 10, 2000. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "[Billy Corgan interview]". INSite.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Corgan, Billy (November 29, 2000). (Radio interview). Interviewed by VanOsdol, James. Unknown parameter
|program=ignored (help); Missing or empty
|title=(help)<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "..: SPfreaks :." spfreaks.com. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "spfc.org : Studio Sessions : Jul 2000 – Chicago Recording Company". spfc.org. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ The Smashing Pumpkins – Greatest Hits Video Collection (1991–2000) ("Try, Try, Try" video commentary). November 20, 2001.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Glass and the Machines of God
- ↑ Chards of Glass
- ↑ "contest winners". December 13, 2000. Archived from the original on February 15, 2001. Retrieved August 8, 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Grammy Nominees - 2001
- ↑ GATMOG - Episode one
- ↑ GATMOG - Episode two
- ↑ GATMOG - Episode three
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 "Critic Reviews for MACHINA/the machines of God". Metacritic. Retrieved January 12, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "MACHINA/The Machines of God – Smashing Pumpkins". Allmusic. Retrieved August 23, 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Browne, David (March 3, 2000). "Reviews for Standing on the Shoulder of Giants; MACHINA/the machines of God". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 12, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Nichols, Natalie (February 27, 2000). "Pumpkins' Luscious Noise Coats Familiar Ideas". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 29, 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 "MACHINA/The Machines Of God". NME. February 23, 2000. Retrieved August 23, 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ DiCrescenzo, Brent (January 31, 2000). "The Smashing Pumpkins: MACHINA/the machines of God". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved January 12, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "The Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/The Machines of God". Q (163): 84–85. April 2000.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Pareles, Jon (March 16, 2000). "Machina/The Machines Of God". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 23, 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Cinquemani, Sal (April 7, 2001). "Machina/The Machines Of God". Slant Magazine. Retrieved June 20, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Weisbard, Eric (March 2000). "Age Against The Machine". Spin. 16 (3): 145–46. Retrieved November 30, 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Christgau, Robert (March 28, 2000). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved November 29, 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Cohen, Jonathan. "Smashing Pumpkins to Reunite?". billboard.com. June 21, 2005.
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 Martens, Todd. "Dixie Chicks Return 'Home' to No. 1". billboard.com. February 5, 2003.
- ↑ Boehlert, Eric. "My, how the Giants Have Fallen: Oasis, Pumpkins Suffer Huge Sales Slides In Second Week". rollingstone.com. March 15, 2000.
- ↑ Fricke, David. "Smashing Pumpkins Look Back in Wonder". Rolling Stone. December 20, 2000.
- ↑ Corgan, Billy and Jimmy Chamberlin interviewed by Matt Pinfield. WRXP. November 6, 2008.
- ↑ DeRogatis, Jim. "Smashing Pumpkins Reclaiming Rock Glory." Chicago Sun-Times. February 29, 2000.
- ↑ DeRogatis, Jim. "Pumpkins Return in Force." Chicago Sun-Times. December 20, 1999.
- ↑ The Daily Telegraph, February 26, 2000
- ↑ Q, April 2000
- ↑ "Smashing Pumpkins: "I'll have the last laugh"". FasterLouder.com. April 26, 2012.
- ↑ Graham, Adam. "The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan on the past, the present, the future and 'Mayonaise'". Detroit News. October 21, 2012.
- ↑ "http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/23/smashing-pumpkins-billy-corgan-tour-interview"
- ↑ "The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina – The Machines of God". =australian-charts.com. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "charts.de". Retrieved June 8, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 "Machina/The Machines of God". The Official Charts Company. May 6, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Studio Sessions : Nov 1998 – Oct 1999 – Chicago Recording Company". spfc.org. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 56.0 56.1 "Smashing Pumpkins – Forums". eventide.com. July 18, 2011. Retrieved October 9, 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Pages with citations using unsupported parameters
- Pages with citations lacking titles
- Pages with broken file links
- Music infoboxes with deprecated parameters
- Articles with unsourced statements from October 2012
- Articles with empty listen template
- Articles with unsourced statements from April 2009
- Articles with unsourced statements from June 2013
- 2000 albums
- Albums produced by Billy Corgan
- Albums produced by Flood (producer)
- Concept albums
- English-language albums
- The Smashing Pumpkins albums
- Virgin Records albums
- Heavy metal albums by American artists
- Dream pop albums


text:
Our world is raised up and grounded by the sediment of history, of myriad moments, small and large, in which opposing forces have clashed and left shattered fragments, not the least of which are the bodies of human beings, in the deadzone between competing ideologies. Art awkwardly straddles this crust. Harold Macmillan's most famous comment, when asked what was most likely to blow a government off course ("Events, dear boy. Events."), captures some of the inevitability of conflict and the dysfunction of societies. These days, because of the heightened communication landscape we inhabit, we can barely move for events. To be glib, how artists approach and respond to these events varies enormously.
Public Service Broadcasting must be fans of those BBC4 documentaries that turn up on midweek evenings when there's very little else to show; black and white stock footage of British Leyland factories churning out second-rate motors that they proudly trumpet as "putting the Great back in Great Britain." Off camera meanwhile, the remaining colonies are hastily being handed back to the locals, the pound plummets, and the increasing irrelevance of the country drips like a running sore into the splintering national consciousness of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
A concept album about the end of mining in South Wales has the potential, then, to end up somewhere between two poles; either a) a touristy jaunt through the valleys picturing saintly miners and their long suffering but resolute wives and families, while, in the background, the Emperor in Whitehall sends in the storm troopers, or b) a bilious, fiercely socialist screech cloaked in misery, violence and entropy. What we actually get is a curiously disjointed affair with a few obvious reference points (a bookend of miners chirping like nightingales, an Orgreave-inspired bit of turgid angst-rock) and some less predictable fare.
The centrepiece, in my mind, is the near five-minute long 'People Will Always Need Coal'. Public Service Broadcasting's access to the BFI's archive enables them to draw out numerous hubristic statements of the sustenance that coal would continue to provide to the fathers, sons and grandsons of generations of Brits. The musical accompaniment is a cosy, rambling instrumental that foregrounds the clipped tones of public information films and tries, politely, not to get too much in the way. That's a curious decision for an album dealing with conflict, and a built-in upshot of including large chunks of untreated archive footage to tell, not show – the reverse of the old cinematic adage.
There is a great ambiguity to placing this track before 'Progress' - since what the mining unions and the communities they represented most definitely did not believe in was what we would today label 'progressive' ideology. The communities of the late 70s were little changed in many respects from those of the 19th century. If progress wasn't quite the enemy, it was certainly an unwelcome visitor. 'Progress' at least doesn't nail its colour to any particular political mast – a theme throughout the album. It's refreshing to hear an artist trying to service the middle ground of the argument, although there is, predictably, zero commentary from the establishment side of the debate.
'All Out' represents the final, furious stab of resentment during the 1984-85 miners' strike. It's a dispute that continues to divide communities, and the samples wisely focus on broad issues such as the generational, creeping distrust of the police rather than getting into specifics of the massive variation in observance across the different regions or the government's long-gestating tactics. Unfortunately it also sounds a bit like Audioslave.
There are softer moments. 'They Gave Me a Lamp' illustrates the stronger role women gained in communities as pressure began to tell on their family budgets and on the mental health of laid-off patriarchs. The backing track isn't the strongest on the record, recalling Apple's stock iMovie music, but the samples are fairly heartrending. 'You + Me' is a dual language ballad, not expressly political but suggestive of the relationships that would sustain communities through the worst days, weeks and months, as money stopped coming in and people began to starve. It works better than much of the rest of the record despite the melodrama.
Public Service Broadcasting have tried to do something important with Every Valley. It's not a straightforward matter to weave history into music, trying to make specific reference to the reality of the very local effects of economic hardship and the changing face of communities. Reactions to the album vary between the vitriolic and hugely enthusiastic, neither of which is earned. The album neither distorts history nor succeeds on a purely emotional level.
There is a responsibility on artists who want to translate history into art, in the same way as there is for historians taking bare facts and data and setting it into a context that carries not only ideology but emotional truth. Public Service Broadcasting's intentions are to be praised, even if the result is weak and unfocused. If the SDP leadership had formed a band, it would sound like this.


text:
Fortune Cocktail Promo
Get a chance to win a free drink at any of your favorite lounge, bar and restaurant at Marco Polo Plaza Cebu!
At El Viento Poolbar and Restaurant, at the Lobby Lounge or at the Blu Bar and Grill, sip a glass of Marco Polo Plaza Cebu's Fortune Cocktails and get a chance to win the next round of drink for free.
Here's how it works:
- Simply buy your drink of choice.
- Spin the Fortune Cocktail Wheel.
- If you hit the same drink as your drink of choice, then the selection is yours for FREE!


text:
How Cute
How Cute is "Grace" ? Each month with my Tuesday class we make a small project that is achievable in the day. Today we made this cute little rag doll, her name is "Grace" and the pattern is by Ros Quinlen. Her dress has been made in Pink Chenille with strippy pants. All the ladies had fun making her, I managed to remember to take a photo but not before a couple had already left.
It was very cold here today so we had the pot belly going in the shop again to keep us all snug.
Tomorrow I have another two day retreat, this time I have all new comers to my shop, these ladies have all travelled up from the central coast to spend the next 2 days sewing and making themselves a new patchwork quilt.
Thanks for dropping by


text:
The Cazenovia Southern Railroad
This abandoned railway started out as the Cazenovia and Sauk City Railroad, which built a line between La Valle and Cazenovia, Wisconsin, in 1909. (The C&SC was actually a reorganization of a previously-failed railroad, the Lone Rock-La Valle Railroad, which was incorporated in 1904 but dissolved by 1907 without having laid any track.) The purpose of the line was to connect the Chicago and North Western mainline at La Valle with ports along the Wisconsin River to the south (namely Lone Rock by the LR-LV, and Sauk City by the C&SC). Construction started in La Valle, but only reached as far as Cazenovia, 5 miles away.
The railroad was renamed to the Cazenovia Southern Railroad in 1913.
In July of 1935, a number of bridges along the route were severely damaged by floods, effectively severing the CSRR. As happens so often with other short line railroads that encounter the same predicament, the bridges were too costly to repair, and the CSRR abandoned the line in its entirety in 1937.
Today, Wisconsin Route 58 lies atop a majority of the abandoned grade.
Locals nicknamed the RR the "Puckety-Chute," saying that the small engine made a sound like that when pulling a consist on the right-of-way. Mail between Caz, Ironton and LaValle was often carried on a gandy-dancer, a hand-powered cart. More info can be obtained from the Sauk County Historical Society in Baraboo WI.


text:
Home / Christmas Plants
Christmas Plants- Send Christmas cheer this year with a lovely Christmas plant from Send Flowers! We carry an assortment of poinsettias, including both red and white, Christmas cacti, and other beautiful blooms. These Christmas December 25, 2018 gifts are easy to care for and make the perfect home decoration for the holidays.
Page(s): « Previous 1 Next »
Plants for Christmas
Send a plant to friend or family member this Christmas December 25, 2018 for the holiday season. Plants are the perfect gift, a great decoration in a room and they are easy to take care of. The most popular Christmas plants are poinsettias, which we offer in multiple sizes. Each plant is delivered by a local florist with a free card message. Order today for same day delivery to a home or office. Sending flowers plants for Christmas will happy them further embrace the Christmas spirit!


text:
Australian Vacations
So, you will be thinking about taking an Australian holiday or holiday?
Australia is a fantastic nation providing something for all. It has loads of sunlight, amazing shores, an outback landscape this is certainly stunning and of course some great towns and cities and the Great Barrier Reef.
Australian holidays may be what you would like them is. But ensure you do a little careful planning. Never undervalue how big Australia helping to make getting around difficult if you count exclusively on an automobile or campervan. You will need to combine it with air travel.
Just take some advice from a local that has been indeed there, seen it and done it! Arrange your journey in sync with all the Australian Weather. Fortunately it does not matter once you travel, there is always someplace in Australian Continent which hot (or cold!)
If you prefer sunlight, then most of Australian Continent is hot from October to March. For most Australian spots, here is the most useful time for you visit.
The very best end of Australian Continent (such a thing north of and including Cairns and Broome) features two seasons – the wet while the dry. The dried out season may be the time when you need going. It's just not a good concept to go within the damp as roadways and destinations are often shut because floods. There clearly was one exclusion for this though. Don't be put-off visiting the Great Barrier Reef. It might rain somewhat on your way out to the reef plus the ship trip might be a bit rocky but its certainly beneficial.
If the usual tourist path associated with East coastline isn't really drifting your motorboat, after that head to the most truly effective end of Australia. Right here you are able to encounter some fantastic outback activities and appreciate the stunning views and bird life into the nearby nationwide parks of Kakadu and Litchfield. This location is steeped in conventional aboriginal tradition -a must see area if you wish to get acquainted with the aboriginal Australian Continent.
Australian continent holidays need at the very least 3 months to enjoy. Anything reduced will feel very rushed. Maybe you are among the fortunate people and now have a couple of months to explore Australian Continent. If that's the case, Australian Continent has heaps to on offer.
However long you've got, make an effort to incorporate an outback experience, a minumum of one city many beach/coast. Like that, you are getting a proper feel for just what Australian Continent is all about.
I suggest the next places, particularly when it's your very first time right here. Yes, some of them are extremely touristy however you cannot arrived at Oz rather than do all of them.
Sydney – There's more to it compared to the connection and opera house but they are specially stunning and need a visit.
Melbourne – an overall total comparison to Sydney with its great shopping and small lanes to explore.
Ayers Rock – a really memorable aboriginal knowledge – even spiritual!
Kangaroo Island – the area to see pets in their natural environment
Jervis Bay – Amazing beaches. You will believe you're in haven.
The Barrier Reef – Come and view the fishes and possibly also learn to plunge.
Think about it – what are you looking forward to!
Mcdougal Jennifer Schellington features almost five years connection with travel around Australia. http://www.realaustraliatravel.com provides essential advice about travel around Australia plus great places to see, including hidden treasures that only the aussie's understand. Just click here for more information on Australian vacations.
Discover More Holiday Articles


text:
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Pulp Redux/ Labyrinth Update
Here's a few glimpses of what I have been doing with my Labyrinth book for the Pulp Redux Collab. I've added a piece of foam board to my cover and created a niche for a 'dead' circuit board to go in. You can see the cover and the story about it here.
I love the way the green side of the circuit board looks so jewel like (it also reminds me a bit of pac man! lol) and the maze like pattern is perfect for the labyrinth theme. My son came home from school the other day and was quite impressed to see Mum's been dismantling a circuit board and I had to tell him I'm not all paper and nests ya know!
I havn't been blog cruising for a few days, my Dad's been staying with us and I got a new nephew this week but things are settling down again and I hope to be 'out' and about visiting you all soon! Thankyou for your visits, they are very much appreciated!
8 comments:
- deb said...
well thank heavens you finally posted something new!! I had to keep leaving so I don't ruin my surprise!!
- October 22, 2009 at 7:17 PM
- ArtPropelled said...
Very exciting images, Lisa. I've been toying with circuit boards myself lately. What attracts me to them is that some of them look like aerial photographs of an African village. Just back from exploring your pulpredux blog and am so loving the imagery!
- October 22, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- Annie said...
I love looking at circuit boards! They are as fascinating as maps for me.
- October 23, 2009 at 1:17 AM
- Debrina said...
Gorgeous, tantalizing shots, Lisa. I've been busy working on mine today; hope to have some shots up tomorow!
- October 23, 2009 at 11:15 PM
- La Dolce Vita said...
wonderful work!
- October 24, 2009 at 3:08 PM
- October 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM
- The Artful Eye said...
I'm so excited for you and this project. I wish I could continue but this is not a good time.
My best to you.
- October 24, 2009 at 9:04 PM
- Seth said...
Wow that glimpse looks great. Love the stack of pages.
- October 28, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
On last week I got a notification email about the acceptance of a paper that I am one of the authors. The paper will be presented in IEEE International Workshop on Scalable Computing for Big Data Analytics (SC-BDA 2012). This SC-BDA is the conference in conjunction with the 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2012).
The title of this paper is "A Demo Paper: An Analytic Workflow Framework for Green Campus". Dr. Chonho Lee is the main author of the paper. The other authors are me (Sivadon Chaisiri), Bong Zobir, and Prof. Bu Sung Lee. In the SC-BDA conference, we are going to demonstrate a cloud-computing-based workflow framework developed by our team. In the paper, we presented details of an application related to "Green Campus" which will be solved by our workflow framework. This application can be represented as a scientific workflow which deals with a large amount of data (larger than 100GB). The size of data has kept increasing in which the data size was expected to finally be larger than a terabyte. To execute such a workflow associated with big data is our research work. In this work, several research issues need to be addressed. The details of this work can be found in the paper which will be available by this year in IEEE Xplore.


text:
Hello Eric,
I apologize for jumping in on this thread, it's that it seems to be in the same channel a an issue I'm having that has been posted on this thread. I received an answer to the original topic but not the follow up topic.
Any help would be great.
(or reprimand and deletion for butting in here);)


text:
Review of 2012 Anime Part 2 ~Spring~
Like every year Spring gave us more anime we knew what to do with! Unlike winter I actually watched everything as it aired. Save for those kiddy shows that I'm not following being Bakugan, Inazuma Eleven, Jewelpet, and Metal Fight Beyblade. Saint Seiya had another season but since I haven't seen any of that franchise to begin with that wasn't watched either. A season 2 of Pretty Rhythm aired but since season 1 isn't even finished being subbed that wasn't watched. When subs appear I'll watch it for sure since I'm enjoying season 1 of it alright.
Some short anime called Koi-ken aired but I haven't even seen raws for this appear. I'm ok with that since it apparently is based on a popular dating sim which I'm so not all about. Space Battleship Yamato 2199 looks interesting but I'd prefer to watch the first stuff for that before jumping into something new. Ozma I didn't watch because I want to do some fun stuff with the Leijiverse stuff eventually.
There was actually very few shows that I didn't enjoy watching this time around. The amount of great shows to choose from was just that good! Even the shitty shows had a few good things to offer so I can't complain about them too much either. I still wish more people would watch Gon...
Best Show of spring is SO hard to choose but I'm going to go with Space Brothers for sure. Honestly if it wasn't for that cat anime I'm blogging it surely would have been #1 of 2012! SPACE!!! Polar Bear Cafe is a super close second for spring too.
Worst Show of spring is Natsuiro Kiseki because while it had an interesting enough idea, cute girls doing stuff just doesn't do it for me in a drama setting.
Here's my big list of Best to Worst shows of spring 2012:
- Space Brothers / Uchuu Kyoudai (still airing) 10/10
- Polar Bear Cafe / Shirokuma Cafe (still airing) 10/10
- Mysterious Girlfriend X / Nazo no Kanojo X 10/10
- Fate/Zero 2 10/10
- Gon (still airing) 10/10
- Jormungand 9/10
- Tsuritama 8/10
- Kimi to Boku 2 8/10
- Sakamichi no Apollon / Kids on the Slope 8/10
- Folktales from Japan (still airing) 8/10
- Ginga e Kickoff!! (still airing) 8/10
- Sengoku Collection 8/10
- Zetman 8/10
- Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle 2 7/10
- Acchi Kocchi 7/10
- Queen's Blade: Rebellion 7/10
- Accel World 7/10
- Eureka Seven Ao 7/10
- Gakkatsu! 7/10
- Kuroko's Basketball 7/10
- Kore wa Zombie desu ka? 7/10
- Haiyore! Nyaruko-san 7/10
- Arashi no Yoru ni 7/10
- Recorder to Randoseru 2 7/10
- Sankarea 6/10
- Lupin III ~Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna~ 6/10
- Saki 2 6/10
- Dusk Maiden of Amnesia / Tasogare Otome x Amnesia 6/10
- Hiiro no Kakera 6/10
- Medaka Box 5/10
- Cardfight!! Vanguard 2 5/10
- Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan 5/10
- Upotte!! 5/10
- Kuromajo-san ga Tooru!! 5/10
- Yurumates 3D 4/10
- Hyou-ka: You Can't Escape 3/10
- Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden (still airing) 3/10
- Shiba Inuko-san 3/10
- Natsuiro Kiseki 2/10
Surprise enjoyment: Ginga e Kickoff!! is a children's soccer show that should be watched by everyone! Mysterious Girlfriend X is a romance anime that I had no hopes for going in but ended up being one of the best romantic anime I've ever seen. Acchi Kocchi had great winter episodes which surprised me.
Surprise fail: Medaka Box ended up being quite lacking... I'll have more to say about it in the fall review.
Honorable mentions: Arashi no Yoru ni I'd like to see more of honestly. Lupin III ~Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna BOOBS! AKB0048 is fun but still lacking in awesomeness for me but at least there's a lot of SPACE! Shining Hearts has one of the most hilarious ED's ever! Eureka Seven Ao is finished finished now right?
366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 159/366 Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
Day 159/366
Kore wa Zombie desu ka? is about a boy who dies but gets turned into a magical boy by a girl who he accidentally took her powers from her. He now is surrounded by strange people!
I like these very much. Plaid pale yellow skirts with simple white shirts and a big in your face red bow tie. They aren't special or anything but the skirt makes it awesome. Boys just wear their same old same old so no picture of that!
Overall: Sure!
Spring 2012 First Episode Impressions of Shorts and Continuations
I couldn't resist watching the spring season like I did for the winter season so I'll give some first impressions on all I've watched.
Gakkatsu - Made a post about it!
Shiba Inuko-san - A strange one about a girl who is a dog yet goes to school like a normal person. I'll give it a few more episodes before I choose weather I want to blog it or not. I'm sure I'll end up doing something with it.
Yurumates 3D - I actually expected this to be a full on series not a short episodes one because there are already 2 ova's of it. Can't say this will get better with time.
Recorder to Randoseru 2 - Picks up right where S1 left off. (Did anyone aside from this person and me watch it?) This show is silly pandering to both girls and boys. I oddly find it quite amusing.
Kuromajo-san ga Tooru - Meh not very interesting since I can barely remember what it was about. I just remember it was too long being at 7 minutes... Which you know... Is never good for a short episode series to give an impression of.
Season 2+
Fate/Zero - Picked up right where season 1 left off. It's good to have it back~
Kimi to Boku - More boys and cats. Can't go wrong here in my opinion~
Kore wa Zombie desu ka? - Yet another that picked up right where season 1 left off. This first episode even felt like the first episode of season 1.
Phi Brain - Again, picked up right where season 1 left off. I look forward to my weekly dose of puzzles~
Saki - So the mahjong girls are back. I'll watch it because I watched S1 but I'm going to expect the same results as S1... Meh.
Queen's Blade - This first episode kicked off with a booty-licious pirate babe! I was amused. Good to have Queen's Blade back for my weekly dose of awesome boobs and hilarity!
I've kept up with Cardfight!! Vanguard but haven't watched any of the S2 yet. I will watch it though as I've become fond of the show somehow... Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream has slow subs but they are getting there so I'll wait till I can finish S1 before diving into S2. Jewelpet S4 I have no interest in due to not having seen any of the other seasons of this show. I kinda want to but I'll wait till season 1 appears. There's a bunch of other kiddy anime airing as well of course but I don't keep up with them either.
Continuations of franchises
Eureka Seven - Now I'm not the hugest fan of Eureka Seven but I highly enjoyed this first episode. I really think that old dude with the glasses is pretty darn hot too. I hope this one exceeds my low expectations for the franchise.
Haiyoru - This had a short episode series made so I wasn't expecting to like the full anime as much as I did. Somehow they improved on the shitty little short and made it watchable. I can't say that I believe the series will stay this way though. I give it 3 more episodes before it suffers the same fate as the short episode series.
Lupin III - A series focusing on Fujiko? Fuck yes! And I wasn't shocked or offended by the amount of boobs that was in this either unlike most people. I mean really... It's about Fujiko!
SD Naruto Rock Lee - Worst than I thought it was going to be... Which wasn't good to start with. I'm sad that the bf actually liked it...
Arashi no Yoru ni - I love this movie to bits. This series weirds me out a bit due to the English cast and the CG but I think I'll get over it. Mei has something weird going on as well that I hope to get over as time goes on. Overall though it was a fun watch.
The only one I'm not watching since I haven't seen any of the series at all is Saint Seiya. Maybe I'll get around to it at a later point this year but I'm actually not counting on that. It is however a series I really do want to watch sooner than later so... Eventually!
Expect at least 3 more posts with all the other new NEW anime first episode impressions within the next few days. ^__^
~A Look at Anime to Come~ Spring 2012
Like this winter I'm only going to watch season continuations and wait till everything else has finished airing. I will be picking a few that I feel I will like to keep up with though. This brings my total up quite a lot from 6 shows in winter. I dropped 2 of those to watch at a later date because after 2 episodes they just weren't doing it for me. Another and Mouretsu Pirates will be better off marathoned, I hope... All the others keep pleasing me greatly. Especially Poyopoyo!
Since Spring is a busy time of year anime wise my total jumps from 4 watching titles in winter to 11 new titles for spring! For a full list of anime going to air click here and here. I won't be picking up any new anime to blog because I think I still have my hands full with what my current plans are. (Like always)
Eureka Seven is getting another season focusing on another young boy. I wasn't a huge fan of the first show but it did have some really great moments and when some characters weren't being annoying great characters too. Hilariously enough I'm excited for more Queen's Blade! Gotta love big busty ladies fighting among each other for an awesome title!
Haiyore is finally getting a full anime. They made a lot of shorts for it that's for sure so I knew it was only going to be a matter of time before it got a full series. Can't say I care about it though because the shorts didn't do it for me. So when I'm not pleased with the shorts it's generally a no brainer that I won't care about the full version. Arashi no Yoru Ni I can't believe is getting a full anime. The movie was great but thinking that this series is going to span 52 episodes is just odd to me. I doubt anyone will want to sub all of it anyway.
Season 2's: Fate/Zero (YAY!!!) Kimi to Boku (more boys being cute for another season) Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka? (S1 was entertaining enough to get me to want to watch a S2) Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle (This is a very fun shounen show about solving puzzles. It's kind of a sleeper hit imo since it's getting another season and all) Saki (Girls playing boardgames... I was meh for the first one but meh enough to want to watch another season of it. I love boardgames!) Yuru Yuri (YAY!!!)
The only new anime I'm looking forward to is Space Brothers. I'm expecting something more awesome than Planetes. Now you might be thinking "Planetes is the best! Nothing can beat it!" or "Man if you weren't swooned with the anime read the manga!" 1. It's hard to get me to read manga and 2. I'm a strange person when it comes to me and SPACE stuff I like. It's pretty random actually. Something has to set me off in order to REALLY enjoy it for it's spacey goodness! This is partially why I'm not too pleased with Mouretsu Pirates.
There's a few others I have my eyes on that people have been talking about. Like this Mysterious Girlfriend X. It doesn't look like my kind of thing but it could be good. Hiiro no Kakera to girly it up because Hakuouki Hekketsuroku didn't do it enough for me. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia could be good but I have a feeling it will go the Gosick route for me. Kingdom looks like it will be right up my alley but I have suspicions that it might not get subs anytime soon. I'll wait and see what happens if I'll pick any of these up.
Review of 2011 Anime Part 1 ~Winter~
This winter we got 20 shows. Quite a bit more from last years 12 or so. All shows that aired were watched. There are a few ova's that I didn't pick up but that's not an issue since they are related to series I haven't seen yet. Everyone should know by now that I make it a yearly goal to watch all anime that airs in the year. I've been doing that for the last 3 years. I find it pretty fun and it makes these posts awesome. Anyway onward with winter aired anime!
Winter is either really fun or kind of meh. Unlike the last 2 years this year I didn't get a 10/10 anime that aired which I found a little weird because pretty much every season I get one of those... "Everyone's" top anime of the year/decade came out. Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica was fun but I just couldn't get into it as much as everyone else. I do however love Kyubey very very much. I'd make a contract! /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
Suite Pretty Cure has jumped to the top of the pretty cure franchise for me. It's quite awesome and exceeded my high expectations that Heartcatch created. I only hope that the upcoming Smile can match the awesomeness that has become Pretty Cure! <3 Siren!
Best Show of winter is Level E. It did wonderful things in a hilarious way. I laughed a lot. I only wish that it could have been longer. It needed just a little extra bit of something to be amazing. All the characters were really great. The show almost seemed like it was a parody of sorts for Men in Black since it was about aliens on earth but no one else knows about them.
Worst Show of winter is without a doubt is the oh so terrible Onii-chan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne... So bad that most people watched this show with sccsav while drinking because that was the only possible way to get through this show. Unless you are me of course! Everything about this show is offensive...
Here's my big list of Best to Worst shows of winter 2011:
- Level E 8/10
- Suite Pretty Cure 8/10
- Wolverine 8/10
- Fractale 8/10
- Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica 7/10
- Beelzebub (still airing) 7/10
- Gosick 7/10
- Kore wa Zombie desu ka? 7/10
- Supernatural The Animation 7/10
- Kimi ni Todoke 7/10
- Dream Eater Merry 6/10
- Freezing 6/10
- Mitsudomoe 5/10
- Cardfight!! Vanguard (still airing) 5/10
- Infinite Stratos 5/10
- Rio: Rainbow Gate 5/10
- Wandering Son 4/10
- Dragon Crisis 3/10
- Starry Sky 2/10
- Onii-chan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne 1/10
Surprise enjoyment: Supernatural The Animation was quite enjoyable. It probably helps a lot that I haven't seen the American show it originally is. I really like that ED. Beelzebub started off pretty weak but after a while I sank in and started to really like the characters.
Surprise fail: Gosick I honestly expected much more from. Sure it has a pass rating from me but I really just wanted to be wow'd by it and that never happened.
Honorable mentions: Rio: Rainbow Gate! Sharks, Gambling, and boobs! Fractale is a show everyone hated on but I still got a lot of enjoyment out of it regardless. Wolverine was super fun and Landon agrees! Wandering Son is my most hated noitaminA show. The only one I hate actually. Which is hilarious because everyone loves it.


text:
I am looking into getting what I have referred to as the Zemation network and decided to leave this to the personal post that you sometimes just need to get out. When I got here I was a little surprised to see that its been two years, let alone the fact the I didn't really know what I wanted or needed to put here.
More of a reflection of how tired i am. I'm tired of worrying about every little thing. I'm tired of tracking every penny, I'm tired of having to know that I can't let my kids play outside without wondering each and every moment all the horrific things that could happen. I'm tired of feeling alone and isolated when I'm surrounded by friends and family all the time. I'm tired of not having the energy to study the things I need to get out of support. I'm tired of wondering whats wrong with my relationship thats been bothering me. I'm tired of feeling like I'm a shitty storyteller who is more along the lines of an idea generator and not a completer. I'm tired of feeling like theres some way i'm failing my kids even though i don't know what it is. I'm tired of feeling worthless all the time. I'm tired of feeling like i'm gonna snap at any moment and break down. I'm tired of being responsible. I'm tired of holding back. I'm tired of being the nice guy. I'm tired of being the nerd. I'm tired of being the scapegoat. I'm tired of feeling as if i have so few aspirations.
What is it that drives those the accomplish things. What is it that keeps them going when others give up.


text:
So this week started ouut with two exciting concerts: Tegan and Sara and The Glow in the Dark Tour (Lupe, N.E.R.D., Rihanna, then Kanye West).
Monday I met Anna after work and walked over to Terminal 5, munching my beet salad with asparagus and goat cheese and walnuts that I picked up from Thalia to Go (my faaaaavorite lunch spot) along the way. We listened to the opening band, An Horse, a bit, but they did not compare to Tegan and Sara. Only one of their songs seemed unfamiliar - at every opening chord I had that "ooo" of recognition and anticipation. Compared to their recordings, their concert voices and instrumentation was right on par. Occasionally in the few opening lines their voices would fumble a bit, and once Sara started off-key a bit, but overall they were quite strong. They also changed the tempo and added extra lines, bridges, etc., of some of their songs which I appreciated. I expected to be able to see above the crowd, given my 5'9'' height, 1 and 1/2'' heels on my boots, and female demographic of the Tegan and Sara audience, but alas, this one 6'6'' boy kept moving around and obstructing my view. Then I would move, then he would move. It was annoying. Although I think Williamsburg Music Hall is my favorite venue, I still liked Terminal 5 more than the next venue I would go to, Madison Square Garden.
We got the Kanye tickets through work. One of our vendors offered to take us, and even dangled backstage tickets in front of us, since one of her friends works on Kanye's legal team. Although she got two, since she couldn't get enough for the whole group so she had to give them back. We still had pretty good seats - I was actually happy not to stand on the floor, since I was (am) still feeling a bit sick and didn't want to stand after the concert the previous night. A lot of teenagers from New Jersey were at the concert. Some of them created matching neon graffiti t-shirts, and ALL were wearing those plastic slatted neon aviators popularized by Kanye. I actually planned on procuring a pair for myself before the concert, but I was kind of happy my plans fell through since everyone else had the same idea. A lot of these teenagers were from New Jersey - "New Jersey in the house?" got an embarrassingly loud response.
I didn't really get into the concert. Much of the music seemed pre-recorded, I felt so far away from the artists, and I also felt like I was part of an audience selected not by fandom but by dollar signs and subscription to mass popular culture. With a lot of concerts, I get a sense of kinship - I like bands hyped on the internet, etc., but not on the radio, so it's like a big mass of people who all have the same artist playing on their iPod, and you can finally figure out exactly who the audience is for the band's music. So m Not so for this concert. It was all, whoever saw Kanye on TRL and spend $150 bucks on ticket kind of audience, picked not because of their unique interest but their willingness to spend money to consecrate their radio-induced fandom. I think my disinterest also stemmed from the people I was with - you can't really get crazy with managers and directors, your boss and your vendor's boss. I was chatting with the head of sales, who was sitting next to me, and when I mentioned how much I liked the Peter Bjorn and Paul song "Young Folks" playing in between sets, even though it was kind of over, he whipped out his Blackberry, imputing the bands I mentioned (I also had to correct his spelling, saying no, it's spelled B-J...) While his eagerness to get hip with the times was cute, I felt like I was at a moment where indie culture was being commodified. The people I was sharing this music with, this experience with, were just noootttt the people Kanye raps to - we were all pretenders. The whole experience felt so fake and hollow. Rihanna also did a remix where she covered a few songs, including M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" and Lauryn Hill's "That Thing". Her cover of "Paper Planes" bothered me much more than the Lauryn Hill cover. To me, much of M.I.A.'s music is subversive and political - just as she has publicly displayed outrage for having her gunshots removed from the tracks on her David Letterman performance and MTV viedo, I worry that her political message gets lost when it's transferred into popular culture. I feel rather rusty on this, though cultural hegemony/imperialism, etc., come to mind when I think of this experience. I need to brush up...
Kanye's performance itself was such ego - he had his songs tell of story of him being stranded on a planet and needing some force to bring him back to Earth. He sang a song about shooting stars. Sadly, these were not enough to bring Kanye back to earth. His fem-robot eventually revealed to him:
"We need the brightest star in the universe to bring your spaceship back to Earth. We need YOU, Kanye. You're the brightest star."
For sers?
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Weekend Update
Posted by JustAddSugar at 9:00 AM
Labels: concerts, kanye west, lupe, madison square garden, music, N.E.R.D, rihanna, tegan and sara, terminal 5
No comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
The Paris Junior Eagles, behind a dominating performance on the ground, defeated the Lamar Junior Warriors Thursday night at Warriors Stadium to run their record to 3-0 for the season and 1-0 in the 3A-4 Conference. The final score was 34-6.
On offense, the Eagles ran 36 plays for 348 yards, an average of 16.5 yards per play. Of that, 21 plays were runs for a total of 340 yards, or an average of 16.9 yards for each running play.
Cole Norton led the Junior Eagles rushing attack, getting 200 yards on only five carries. He scored three times and it could have been four. Norton's 60-yard run for a touchdown was called back because of a holding penalty.
Nate Davidson carried the ball four times for 86 yards, scored twice and also scored a two-point conversion. Kris Graham had five carries for 50 yards.
Defensively, the Junior Eagles held the Junior Warriors to 118 yards.
Lucas Garcia had eight tackles and six of those were tackles for lost yardage. Preston Stinnett also had eight tackles. Raece Trusty had five tackles and three of them forced lost yardage. Dante Stanford had three tackles and two of them forced lost yardage. Dakovan Wise got an interception, which he returned for 43 yards.
The Junior Eagles got off to an early start and by the end of the first half, it was 22-0. Lamar scored its lone touchdown in the third quarter, which ended with Paris enjoying a 28-6 lead. The Junior Eagles scored once in the fourth.
The final margin could have been larger but the Eagles committed five turnovers in the game and were called for what Coach Marc Tucker labeled "a ton of penalties."
"We're going to work on those mistakes," he said. "We're going to be more disciplined. The problems we had are very fixable problems."
Despite the mistakes, Tucker likes where his team stands now.
"I knew Lamar would be a good test," he said. "Of course, we set goals and expectations. Our goal is to win the conference championship, but we have a lot of work to do."
Next Thursday, Paris will entertain Mansfield at Eagles Stadium. Kick off is at 7 p.m.


text:
Meet Daniel & App Updates
Note: All pictures and quotes in this post were reprinted with permission.
Hey everyone, Let's be Social! has been out for about 10 days now, and we're really excited about our progress. We've had some positive reviews published (you can check those out here and here), we've met our expectations in terms of downloads, and we're already hard at work on the next version of the app. If you've downloaded the app and have some feedback about things you'd like to see, drop us a line and let us know. We take user feedback very seriously, so your comments will have a major impact on the next version of the product. If you send us an email, I promise you'll hear back.
One other place you can leave feedback is our review page on the app store (click on the ratings & reviews tab). Leaving a review will help other people find us – not only do people trust apps with more ratings, but Apple actually makes apps with ratings appear higher in search.
Anyway – the real reason for this blog is to pass along some awesome feedback we got from a mother in Massachusetts. She downloaded Let's be Social! and started using it her son Daniel, who has autism. She passed along some thoughts on the app and shared some pictures of Daniel using it. Here's what she had to say:
What a great app! You did such a great job making it user friendly! Especially for parents to make those social stories! Love that you made it easy to add photos and really personalize for each child! The question aspect is great too! We can really tell if they are comprehending! I'm recommending this app to my son's school teacher as well! This app is so functional across home and school settings! Love the positive reinforcement when you complete a lesson! You can see in Daniel's reaction at the end of the social story! He was proud!!! Thanks for making a difference for these kids who struggle with communication!
Her feedback is incredibly inspiring for us – it reminds us why we started this company. We put a ton of time into the design of the app, so it's great to see that some of our features – like the positive reinforcement at the end of a lesson – are having a real impact.
Hopefully we can reach many more people like Daniel! Thanks to Daniel's family for passing along their thoughts and pictures. One additional note – if there are specific situations that your child/clients are struggling with, let us know. We're currently creating more content for the next version of the app, so your scenario could pop up as a new lesson!


text:
A Flyer is a form of paper used for advertisement. Commonly flyers are distributed or posted in public places or send through mails. Flyers are used by individuals, companies, organizations etc. There are several type of flyers are used for different purposes and each flyer contains a particular content. We can see several type of flyers in our day to day life.
Now a days different methods are adopted for announcing a particular event. Flyers plays a powerful role in event announcement. Flyers created using different methods. Photoshop is one of the best way used to create flyers. It increases the beauty of each flyer. Different texts and light effects can add to the Flyer using PSD. Flyers are used for different purposes such as Political rallies, different types of parties, promote a good or service and more.
Here we present free Flyer MockUp Templates PSD for you and each of the flyer presented here has a nice and attractive look. You can use and design new flyers using this mockup's. Different types of flyers are available here including music flyer, party flyer, food flyer and more. You can select appropriate flyer according to your requirement. You can add your own text to describing about the event. It's free feel to use and download.
Desk Flyer Mockup PSD
A one page flyer with fully organized layers and editable using Photoshop. A4 sized flyer can be used for your business advertisement marketing. You can replace your own content by editing the PSD file.
Single Flyer Moockup PSD
A single page company flyer mockup in editable format. Replace your flyer design by clicking the smart object layer in this PSD file and showcase your work to clients.
Page Flyer MockUp PSD
A simple one page flyer mockup with smart object layer, that can easily removed with your own content.
Flyer Mockup PSD Template
Here comes with a unique Poster/Flyer mock-up template for absolutely free. Its easy to edit the PSD file because all files are layered. we used smart object tool, So you can easily add your image. In this mock-up 3 U.S paper will hold your design. The main focus goes to the center's one, the other two are blur. Peoples eye will stuck at center point.
Club Flyer Mockup PSD
A party club mockup with simply editable psd file, replace your content with smart object and check your work before printing and delivered to customers.
Flower Mockup PSD
A simple mockup template for your coming summer events. Download and edit using Photoshop for replacing with your own content.
Energy Flyer Mockup
Nice fresh flyer, A4 format with modern ecological theme. PSD source and AI export file included.
Electro Flyer Mockup PSD
Restaurant Flyer Mockup Template
Corporate Flyer MockUp PSD
Business Flyer PSD Mockup
Professional Flyer Mockup
It is a single page professional flyer mockup with nice and elegant look. This is fully editable and you can add impressive texts about your flyer. Hope this is very helpful to your design.
Poster Flyer Mockup
Electro Flyer Mockup Template
Business purpose Flyer Mockup
A single page business purpose flyer mockup in editable format. Replace your flyer design by clicking the smart object layer in this PSD file and showcase your companies ideas to to clients. Hope you like it.
Company Flyer Mockup PSD
A4 PSD Flyer Mockup
Flyer Mockup PSD Template
Flyer Mockup
Awesome Flyer Mockup
Nice colored flyer mockup and it is designed for companies. Many companies uses the flyers to present their product and services. You can use this flyer mockup for company related works. Hope you like it.
Event Flyer Mockup Psd
Nice attractive Event Flyer psd Mockup to showcase your design in an elegant way. It uses nice color schemes and hanging effect for the design purpose.
Free Valentines Party Flyer PSD Template
Colorful valentines day party flyer template for your great design works. You can easily edit and add your own quotes to it.
Summer Festival Flyer Mockup
Summer Festival flyer mockup psd template designed with good color schemes and well organized layers.
Free Business Flyer PSD
Creative free Flyer Mock-up for business related design works. It uses smart layers to the design process.
Free – Corporate Flyer Template MockUp
Simple and nice looking free psd flyer template mockup can be used for corporate related designs.


text:
Worried about changes to the SAT essay scoring after the launch of the new SAT in March 2016? Don't be! Although the essay's scoring has changed, the College Board (the folks who make the test) has been really clear about how the new SAT essay will be scored.
First things first: the minimum score you can receive is 2 and the maximum score you can earn is 8. That's because two different graders will be scoring your essay on a scale of 1-4. However, you'll be getting these scores in three different categories: reading, analysis, and writing. It sounds a little confusing at first, so let's take a look at how it works in action.
The SAT Essay Process
On test day, you'll take 50 minutes to write the SAT essay. The SAT essay's now optional, by the way, but some schools will still require that you take it. You'll read a passage and then write an essay on a given topic:
"Write an essay in which you explain how [the author] builds an argument to persuade [his/her] audience that [author's claim]. In your essay, analyze how [the author] uses one or more of the features listed above (or features of your own choice) to strengthen the logic and persuasiveness of [his/her] argument. Be sure that your analysis focuses on the most relevant features of the passage. Your essay should not explain whether you agree with [the author's] claims, but rather explain how the author builds an argument to persuade [his/her] audience."
Notice! This topic is the same every time! It's only the passage itself that changes. You'll then analyze the argument and write your essay.
The Scoring Process
Once you hand in your test, your essay will go to one scorer. He or she will give you a score of 1-4 based on how well you understood the reading, another score of 1-4 based on how well you analyzed the argument, and a final score of 1-4 based on how well you wrote your own response. The essay then travels to a second grader, who repeats this process. Finally, the scores in each category are added together, for three overall scores of 2-8.
Scoring Criteria
How do you get those perfect triple 8s? The College Board lays out exactly what they're looking for in their essay-scoring rubric. An essay that scores a 4 in reading will show that you've understood the text thoroughly—that includes the central ideas, important details, and how they all work together to create an argument. In terms of analysis, an essay scoring a 4 will be insightful and demonstrate a "sophisticated understanding of the analytical task." In other words? Make sure your essay evaluates how the author uses evidence, reasoning, and stylistic elements to make his or her point.
A lot of students worry about the "Writing" score, but you don't have to be Shakespeare to ace this section of the test (or get a perfect Writing score). What you should do is make sure that your writing is precise and clear. Include an introduction and conclusion; vary your sentence structures; keep it formal; and leave several minutes to proofread at the end of the 50 minutes. Voila! The new SAT essay!
(A Quick PS)
The score for the essay is no longer included in the total 400-1600 SAT score. Instead, you'll receive your three essay scores separately.
Wondering how the ACT and SAT essays compare? Check this out.


text:
To some, it doesn't matter what you do: once you are charged with being a female* in public, you can't win. Take this article and the following comments about Angelina Jolie and two of her children going to the movies - let's see how the kyriarchy responds to that seemingly innocent act:
- Treating motherhood as a public spectacle.
- Putting a young girl's body up for public vote.
- Expecting females at all ages to express the proper amount of femininity (while playing a shell game with that that actually looks like) and either:
- Pitying one for not expressing enough femininity, or
- Shaming one for expressing too much femininity.
And the fact that people can find these things "cute" is a symptom of how sick society really is.
*This post seeks to analyze the way the public treats those who are presumed female girls, and makes no speculation as to the actual gender identity of these children


text:
My primary job at work is to be the point person for in-depth literature searching. I don't do all of it, but for science and technology needs I get first dibs and then I share out work that can be better done by another librarian (bio goes to A.C. who has a bio degree) or if I am too busy. In-depth literature searching is typically anywhere from 4-40 hours worth of work, pulling information from external information resources and arranging it so that it's useful for the end user. Once I do a reference interview and then go back and forth to make sure I understand what's needed, I do the searching, I analyze the results, and then I deliver the results of the search. This often results in an in-person meeting, but there's always some text aspect.
I most often deliver my results in a word document. I start by encapsulating what they requested and providing a brief summary of the most salient points. In this summary I also mention if there are promising areas that turned up in the search or if there was a notable lack of information in an area. I then have a clickable list of headings which jump you down to citations that fit each heading. Sometimes there will be a discussion under a heading describing what's going on in this part of the literature or anything interesting. I deliver the citations with an abstract and sometimes I'll highlight things in the abstract. Recently, I've been including a section all the way at the bottom with search methods and resources used. A couple of times my work has been turned over to an external sponsor who was surprised/impressed that I found so much and has demanded to know how I did it. I track this stuff anyway (the scientist in me) so now I'm adding it more proactively to the report. My boss is big on branding so I might go back to putting a logo at the top, but I've been leaving that off recently.
Other times I've added things to a wiki or SharePoint site, I've delivered a database of citations, I've created a spreadsheet of data, and I've delivered a kml file to be used in Google Earth. Sometimes I'll just deliver the results in an e-mail, it just depends.
MaryEllen Bates talks at conferences about how to best package the results of your search. I highly recommend attending one of these sessions. I'm pretty sure she's written this up,too, so check it out.
So what's brought this up now is a ResearchBlogging overview of an article [*] on delivering results using 2.0 technologies. I can't cover the article better than Jacqueline does, so I'll refer you to her blog post. I'll offer here just some general thoughts.
- access to the full text of identified articles – I've used RefWorks' openurl output format to allow recipients to locate full text using our open url resolver, I've attached particularly relevant articles to the e-mail, I've provided direct links… but what happens most often is I'll get a highlighted report back or a set of item numbers back and I'll e-mail the pdfs.
- the authors had problems with e-mails getting lost – I don't know that that has happened, but sometimes my report won't be viewed for a couple of weeks, and then I'll hear back about it
- they ruled out RefWorks because it required two sets of logins/passwords – hmm, why not RefWorks with RefShare? Why two sets of passwords?
- SharePoint wikis suck. I would probably use some other type of web part – even a discussion board entry for each article.
- they really didn't use the 2.0 aspects of the 2.0 tools – particularly in the case of the wiki. The most valued aspects were access without a lot of logins and then access to the full text without a lot of clicks.
I would be interested in hearing other approaches – particularly using newer tools.
[*] Damani S, & Fulton S (2010). Collaborating and delivering literature search results to clinical teams using web 2.0 tools. Medical reference services quarterly, 29 (3), 207-17 PMID: 20677061