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Hi there and welcome to Ado's Blog. I am obsessed with nostalgia, especially 1960s & 1970s nostalgia and I enjoy nothing more than reflecting on days and times that have sadly long since gone! So join me, as I take a nostalgic gander down Memory Lane and celebrate all things past and occasional present, both good and bad! (All images used that are copyrighted are copyrighted to their respective publishers and are only used here for review purposes.)
Sunday, 8 April 2012
Sacha Distel on the TV Times (1972)
Sacha Distel graces this classic TV Times cover from 1972. Accompanying Sacha on the cover are the late Susannah York & (The Bitch) Joan Collins in a production of Noel Coward's Fallen Angels.
Fallen Angels is a play that opened at the Globe Theatre (now called the Gielgud Theatre) in 1925 and starred Tallulah Bankhead.
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The Vulcan's Vulcan - Remembering Mr Spock
First portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in the original Star Trek series, Mr Spock also appeared in the animated Star Trek series, two episodes of Star Trek; The Next Generation, seven of the Star Trek feature films, and numerous Star Trek books, comics, and video games. In the 2009 film Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy reprised his role alongside Zachary Quinto, who played a younger, alternate-timeline version of the character and Jacob Kogan playing Spock as a child.
Spock serves aboard the Starship Enterprise, serving as science officer and first officer, and later as commanding officer of two iterations of the vessel. Spock's mixed human-vulcan heritage serves as an important plot element in many of the character's appearances. Along with James T Kirk and Leonmard McCoy, he is one of the three central characters in the original Star Trek series and its films. After retiring from Starfleet, Spock serves as a Federation ambassador, contributing toward the detente between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. In his later years, he serves as Federation ambassador to the Romulan Empire and becomes involved in the ill-fated attempt to save Romulus from a Supernova.
The character was initially depicted as the USS Enterprise's science officer for the original pilot, "The Cage" (1964). Although "The Cage" did not air, Spock's eleven years of service under the command of Captain Christopher Pike are referenced and depicted in "The Managerie" (1966) and other episodes. The character's first broadcast appearance is in "The Man Trap" (1966), which introduces him as the ship's science officer and first officer under Captain James T Kirk (William Shatner). Star Trek depicts a "troika" of Spock, Kirk, and Doctor Leonard McCoy (De Forest Kelley); while McCoy often acts as Kirk's conscience, Spock offers the captain an emotionally detached, logical perspective. The character also offers an "outsider's" perspective on "the human condition".
Star Trek also presents elements of Spock's upbringing and family. "Journey to Babel" (1967) depicts his parents: Sarek (Mark Lenard), the Vulcan ambassador to the Federation, and Amanda Grayson (Jane Wyatt), a human. Spock's decision to join Starfleet, rather than attend the Vulcan Science Academy, ran contrary to his father's wishes. The relationship between Spock and Sarek is strained and often turbulent, although rooted in an underlying respect and carefully restrained love for each other. The 1973 animated series episode "Yesteryear" shows seven-year-old Spock choosing to pursue a Vulcan lifestyle devoted to logic and suppressing emotion.
At the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Spock is no longer in Starfleet, having resigned and returned home to pursue the Vulcan discipline of Kolinhar. Spock is unable to complete the Kolinahr ritual after he senses the coming of V'ger, and rejoins Starfleet to aid the Enterprise crew in their mission. Spock, promoted to captain, is commanding officer of the Enterprise at the beginning of Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982).
At the film's end, he transfers his "Katra" – the sum of his memories and experience – to McCoy, and then sacrifices himself to save the ship and its crew from Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban). The sequel, Star Trek 3 - The Search for Spock (1984), focuses on his crewmates' quest to recover Spock's body, resurrected by the Genesis matrix in the previous film. At the film's conclusion, Spock's revived body is reunited with his katra. Spock is next seen in Star Trek 4 - The Voyage Home (1986), which depicts his recovery from the after-effects of his resurrection. In the film's final scene, he joins the crew of the newly commissioned USS Enterprise - under Kirk's command. In Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier (1989), Spock and the Enterprise crew confront the renegade Sybok, Spock's half-brother. Star Trek 6 - The Undiscovered Country (1991) reunites the Enterprise crew on a mission to prevent war from erupting between the Federation and Klingon Empire. Spock serves as a special envoy to broker peace with the Klingons after a natural disaster devastates their homeworld.
Spock appears in "Unificatoin" (1991), a two-part episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Set 75 years after the events of The Undiscovered Country, the episode focuses on Federation Ambassador Spock's attempt to reunite the Romulans with their Vulcan brethren. Filming of The Undiscovered Country overlapped with production of this episode, and the episode references Spock's role in the film.
Spock's next appearance in the live action Star Trek franchise is the 2009 Star Trek film. In the film's prologue (set 19 years after the events of Unification, and as depicted in the graphic novel Star Trek: Countdown), Ambassador Spock (Nimoy) promises the Romulans he will use Vulcan technology to save them from a rogue supernova that threatens to destroy their Empire. The mission is only partially successful, and in the aftermath Spock is pursued into the past by Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan driven mad by the loss of his homeworld and family, setting into motion the events of the film.
In the film's opening act, Nero's ship emerges in the year 2233, and through its interaction with the inhabitants, inadvertently creates an "alternate, parallel 'Star Trek' universe". Stranded in the alternate past, the prime version of Spock helps alternate, younger versions of himself and Kirk (Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine, respectively) thwart Nero's attempt to destroy the Federation.
The film also features Jacob Kogan in several scenes depicting Spock's childhood, including his abuse at the hands of other Vulcan children due to his half-Human heritage, and his relationship with his parents (Ben Cross and Winona Ryder). The film also depicts Kirk and Spock's initial clashes at Starfleet Academy, and the gradual development of their friendship based on shared mutual respect, what the elder Spock calls "... a friendship that will define [them] both in ways [they] cannot yet realize." A major change in characterization from the primary timeline is alternate Spock's involvement with alternate Uhura (Zoe Saldana), his former student. At the end of the film, the young Spock opts to remain in Starfleet, while his older self stays in the altered universe to aid the few surviving Vulcan refugees, as Nero had destroyed Vulcan, Spock's home planet.
Spock, as originally described in Gene Roddenberry's 1964 pitch for Star Trek, is "probably half Martian, he has a slightly reddish complexion and semi-pointed ears". Early versions had the character ingest energy through a plate in his stomach. Writer Samuel A Peeples told Roddenberry these attributes made Spock too alien, and suggested "he should at least be half-human and have the problems of both sides", believing the human traits made the character more interesting and able to comment on the human condition more believably. Spock's home planet was changed because Roddenberry thought if the show was a success, humans might actually walk on Mars during the series' run.
Roddenberry sought an alien-sounding name when he created "Spock", and did not know until later of Dr.Benjamin Spock, the famous pediatrician and author. In the initial, rejected pilot, "The Cage" (1964), Spock is greenish yellow and from the planet Vulcan. After DeForest Kelley in 1964 stated his non-interest in playing the role, Roddenberry cast Nimoy because he knew him from a guest appearance in his pilot Lieutenant; after Roddenberry saw Nimoy's thin face and sharp features, no other actors were considered. Had Nimoy turned down the role, Roddenberry would have approached Martin Landau.
The "pointy ears" worn by Nimoy while portraying Spock are a form of facial prosthesis, mainly composed from molded and painted syntactic foam. The foam was created by filling a ceramic matrix with hollow particles called microballoons, which result in a low density prosthesis that is easily worn. However, the process of ungluing the ears was painful for Nimoy, and meant that he had to come in an hour and a half early before filming, and stay behind for a half hour each day after filming, to apply and remove the glued pieces. The pain and inconvenience were so great that when producer Robert H Justman jokingly proposed plastic surgery, Nimoy momentarily considered doing so. NBC was concerned about Spock's satanic appearance, however, and asked for the character to be dropped; according to Oscar Katz, the network was worried "the 'guy with the ears' would scare the shit out of every kid in America". Publicity shots of the character were airbrushed so Spock had normal eyebrows and round ears. With Katz's help, Roddenberry was able to keep the character. Throughout the character's television and movie appearances, the shape of Spock's ears has varied, due in part to the different makeup artists applying them.
Spock did not originally have the logical manner which would become associated with the character, this instead being a trait of the character Number One (Majel Barratt). However, Number One was dropped in developing the second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1966). This episode presents a more fully formed Spock, with his trademark logic. Nimoy liked the character's newly logical nature, observing the character is "struggling to maintain a Vulcan attitude, a Vulcan philosophical posture and a Vulcan logic, opposing what was fighting him internally, which was human emotion". Spock's behavior has been described as representing, in part, a type of normative judgment. Spock's Vulcan Salute references a sacred hand position used by the ancient Jewish priestly class. Desilu vice president Herbert Solow believes Nimoy was the key contributor to the character's depiction. Nimoy recalled, "As a Jew from Catholic Boston, I understood what it was like to feel alienated, apart from the mainstream...There were a number of values in 'Star Trek' that I felt very comfortable with as a Jew".
Leonard Nimoy had not intended to join the cast of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, but was enticed back with the promise that his character would be given a dramatic death scene. Leonard reasoned that since The Wrath of Khan would be the final Star Trek film, having Spock "go out in a blaze of glory" seemed like a good way to end the character. In an earlier draft of the script, Spock had died in the first act in a shocking demise that the movie's producer Harve Bennett compared to Janet Leigh's early death in Psycho. Fan reaction to leaked news that Spock would be killed was overwhelmingly negative, and one fan paid for trade-paper advertisements urging Paramount to abandon the plan. Some fans even went so far as to issue death threats against Leonard Nimoy's family. According to Bennett:
By April 1981, a revised script was completed that moved the character's death into the movie's final act. Spock's death scene was shot over three days, during which no visitors were allowed on set."For some reason fans got the impression that he [Nimoy] wanted Spock dead. He'd written a book "I Am Not Spock," and that gave people the idea. Anyway, when a fringe group of Trekkies learned that we were going to kill the Spock character, it was like we'd taken a child of theirs onto the Brooklyn Bridge with the intention of throwing it off. And their reaction was, "let's get Leonard."
Spock's death was intended to be irrevocable, but Nimoy had such a positive experience during filming that he asked if he could find a way for Spock to return in a later film. The scene showing Spock's mind meld with McCoy was filmed without actor DeForest Kelley's prior knowledge of what was going on. Test audience reaction to Spock's death and the film's ending (the tone of which was dark and final) was poor, so Bennett made it more uplifting by adding the final scene revealing Spock's casket on the Genesis Planet and Nimoy's closing "These are the voyages" monologue.
Director Nicholas Meyer objected, but did not stand in the way of the changes, and even Nimoy did not know about the new scene until he viewed the film, but before the film opened, the media reassured worried fans that "Spock will live" again.
The Wrath of Khan had its first public screening at a science-fiction convention in Overland Park, KS on May 8, 1982, almost a month before general release. Although Paramount executives were concerned that Spock's death would set the fanbase against the movie, the audience actually applauded following Spock's final death scene. "It was sensational. I hate to be given to superlatives but it absolutely reached everything we wanted it to. I couldn't ask for anything better," said Co-producer Robert Sallin of the audience's reaction at the advance screening.
However, critical reaction to Spock's death was mixed at the time. Film critic Roger Ebert lauded Spock's death: "He makes a choice in STAR TREK II that would be made only by a hero, a fool, or a Vulcan. And when he makes his decision, the movie rises to one of its best scenes, because the 'Star Trek' stories have always been best when they centered on their characters." On the other hand, The Washington Post's Gary Arnold stated Spock's death "feels like an unnecessary twist, and the filmmakers are obviously well-prepared to fudge in case the public demands another sequel."
A quarter of a century later, Spock's death in The Wrath of Khan ranks number 2 on Total Film's list of 25 greatest Star Trek movie moments, and number 1 on IGN Movie's top 10 Star Trek movie moments.
Zachary Quinto was cast in the role of a young alternate-timeline Spock for the 2009 Star Trek film, directed by J J Abrams. Quinto mentioned he heard about the new film and revealed his interest in the role in a December 2006 interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The article was widely circulated and he attracted Abrams' interest. Quinto expressed interest in the role because of the duality of Spock's half-human, half-Vulcan heritage, and how the character "is constantly exploring that notion of how to evolve in a responsible way and how to evolve in a respectful way. I think those are all things that we as a society, and certainly the world, could implement."Nimoy subsequently befriended Quinto. Although Quinto watched some episodes of the show during breaks in filming, Nimoy was his main resource in playing Spock.
From early on, the public's reaction to Spock was strongly positive, even fanatical. Headshots of Spock became popular fan souvenirs, with the rare ones of the actor laughing the most valuable. To Nimoy's great surprise Spock became a sex symbol, and teenagers asked questions about current events such as the Vietnam War and LSD as if he were the Vulcan scientist. A fan even asked the actor to lay his hands on a friend's eyes to heal them. Nimoy recalled, more than a decade after the show's cancellation:
The "Star Trek" phenomenon continues to amaze and confound me. It was incredible, and it still is, although it is gentler now than it used to be. For a time, it was hysterical – it was so wild I had to be very careful where I went. If I went to a restaurant, I had to plan my entrances and my exits so I wouldn't be mobbed and hurt. Same thing in hotels and airports – any public place. It isn't that hysterical any more, but it is still a potent force.
NASA made Spock an informal mascot of the space agency. Nimoy was invited to be guest of honor at the March 1967 National Space Club dinner, and to take an extensive tour of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. The actor concluded from the warm and intense reception he received that astronauts like John Glenn and aerospace industry engineers, secretaries, and shareholders alike all regarded Star Trek, and especially the character of Spock, as a "dramatization of the future of their space program".
UGO named Spock one of the 50 greatest TV characters. According to Shatner, much of Star Trek's acting praise and media interest went to Nimoy.
Spock has been parodied by, and has also been the inspiration for, pop culture works in various media. Composer/keyboardist George Duke's 1976 Solo Keyboard Album features two tracks which pay homage to Spock: "Spock Gets Funky" and "Vulcan Mind Probe". Rock guitarist Paul Gilbert wrote the song "Mr. Spock" on his Space Ship One album. Swedish synthpop band S.P.O.C.K. makes music heavily influenced by the Star Trek universe. Even Nimoy got in on the act; assuming the Spock character, Nimoy recorded a number of novelty songs, the first being "Highly illogicall", in which Spock pointed out the foibles of human thought, such as relationships, automobiles, and greed. The second song, "A Visit to a Sad Planet", was darker in tone and told the story of Spock visiting Earth in the future and discovering it had been ruined by war, violence, and environmental irresponsibility. According to comic book writer and editor Bob Budiansky, The Transformers character shockwave as inspired by Spock. Spock's utilitarian perspective that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" is cited in a legal decision rendered by the Texas Supreme Court.
Spock's physical appearance in the Original Series episode "Mirror, Mirror" (1967) has itself spawned a trope of the "evil twin" archetype found in various fictional genres. In that episode, several members of the Enterprise travel to a parallel universe inhabited by evil versions of themselves. The parallel universe version of Spock is distinguished physically by his goatee.i09 said Spock's beard in the episode introduced "the best shorthand ever for evil parallel universe duplicates". Examples of the evil goatee's appearances in other media include Bender's "evil twin" Flexo in Futurama and a 2009 episode of The Golbert Report featuring Stephen Colbert and congressman Dan Maffei wearing fake goatees while pretending to be evil versions of themselves. The name of progressive rock band Spock's Beard is a direct reference to Spock's goatee in this episode.
In addition to television, feature films, books, and parodies, Spock has also been portrayed in fan fiction. Since 2004, the online fan production Star Trek: Phase 11 has continued the further voyages of the cancelled initial series. The fan-series' creators feel "Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the rest should be treated as 'classic' characters like Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman, Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, or even Hamlet, Othello, or Romeo. Many actors have and can play the roles, each offering a different interpretation of said character."
Spock was portrayed by Jeffrey Quinn for the first three episodes of Star Trek: Phase 11. Brandon Stacy, who succeeded Jeffrey Quinn and Ben Tolpin in portraying Spock, also served as a stand-in for Zachary Quinto in the 2009 Star Trek film.
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From the looks of this gorgeous building, you wouldn't think it was part of a water treatment plant, but the LOTT Clean Water Alliance in Olympia, Washington is all about cleaning water in plain sight. The new Regional Services Center, designed by the Miller Hull Partnership, is dedicated to water reclamation as well as water conservation and educating the public. With a LEED Platinum certification and a 2011 AIA COTE Top Ten Award, LOTT combines an office, education and technology center and provides wastewater treatment services to 85,000 people in four local communities.
Located on the site of its existing Budd Inlet Treatment Plant, the new facility provides space for a new water treatment laboratory, office space for all the district's employees and the "WET Center" (Water Educational and Technology Center) for community outreach and childrens' programs. The new four-story building was designed with a contemporary, industrial aesthetic, and serves as an iconic symbol for the neighborhood. The Miller Hull Partnership was able to reduce energy use by 50% within the building through the use of natural lighting, exterior louvers and energy efficient design. Reclaimed timbers from a warehouse that was demolished near the site were used in construction of the building.
A public plaza and pond surrounding the building is the heart of the facility and part of the low energywater reclamation system. Water from the pond is used for irrigation, toilet flushing, industrial uses and irrigation for the green roof on top of the building. In order to enter the building visitors must cross over one of two bridges over the pond and interactive exhibits explain the pond and the water reclamation system. Landscape design around the building focuses on native plant and water reduction strategies.
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Today I'm participating in Joy Campbell's WHO'S YOUR HERO? blogfest. I'm not sure my entry satisfies the criteria:
EVERYBODY has a hero/heroine. It can be real-life or a fictional hero/heroine.
Here is a list to get you thinking...
1. The Perfect Hero
2. The Misfit
3. The Grizzled Old-Timer
4. The Everyman
5. The Anti-Hero
6. The Prodigy
7. The Loner Hero
8. The Tragic Hero
I'm sure that's enough to get those creative juices
flowing. You can write a story/flash fiction, share an anecdote, write a poem... remember, you are only limited by your imagination...
Join us if you have a hero you can tell us about in 300 words.
There will be incentives, such as Amazon gift cards.
In my view, Hero's are born, not made. I do not believe all hero's fulfill their destiny; I think some fall aside and never realize their potential when the moment of decision comes, some use their gifts in egotistical quests for dominance over others, and some hide from their destiny.
But a few who are thrust into the position of Heroism rise to the calling and humbly bear the costs. My favorite hero's have always had to make a choice to be THAT person. As with the superhero's Spiderman, Iron Man, Batman, Captain America, men born with the capacity to do great things but needed an inciting event to thrust the decision upon them; everyday hero's also make a choice to heed the cause of greater good.
As a young girl, I satisfied my desire to witness heroism through the fantasy genre. Anne McCaffrey introduced me to Jaxom and Ruth in The Dragon Riders of Pern series. Jaxom was fathered by a villainous usurper, not expected to be anything but a duplicate of his father, but after being chosen by the runt dragon Ruth, the pair overcame their ddisastrousheritage with innate curiosity and a sense of integrity that consistently put them in a position to be saviors of their planet. David Eddings offered Belgarion, a farmboy born of the line of kings, gods and wizards, and when he stupidly asks the question "why me" his grandfather answers simply "who else would you trust to complete this task."
Everyday hero's don't have superhuman or magical powers. Perhaps they exist to perform one task only at just the right moment and die in the attempt, or are lost in obscurity as they continue with ordinary lives. Or perhaps they make a lifetime commitment to heroism; firemen, police, soldiers, doctors and nurses.
Anyone can be a hero at any moment in their life, simply by choosing the path of empathy and integrity.
I hope you enjoyed my take on the WHO'S YOUR HERO BLOGFEST hosted by JL Campbell. Click here for the list of participants and/or to add your own name to the list and write your own post.


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Friday, March 18, 2011
News: FUTUREWORLD (1976) Now on DVD
Futureworld takes audiences back to the Delos resort and its robots, and starred Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner. Yul Brynner makes a brief appearance as his iconic Gunslinger in a dream sequence. It's nowhere near as good as Michael Crichton's original film, but it's fun.
The disc includes a non-remastered but high-quality transfer in the original 1.85:1 theatrical aspect ratio, and includes the original trailer. No other extras are included.
The disc is currently only available for mail order through the major online retailers, including Amazon: Futureworld
Futureworld is also currently available on Netflix Instant for online viewing.
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Having seen the movie in recent years, I can say that it's pretty bad. The Yul Brenner cameo was so wasted. The original was really good and really inspired The Terminator in many ways.ReplyDelete
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Here's a surprise for you, the National Association of Realtors doesn't know how many homes are for sale. Yesterday's existing home sales announcement included NAR's estimate that there are 2.2 million homes for sale. Our data shows that it's overstated by a third.
There are actually approximately 1.7 million homes on the market (active inventory) right now.Altos Research tracks homes for sale in the 900 most populous counties (colored blue above) around the US.
NAR doesn't disclose precisely the methodology they use, but their data is sourced from participating MLS organizations. NAR's estimates are influenced by the reporting structure in those member associations. Incidentally, Realtor.com claims to have 4.7 million homes for sale, but that's clearly a meaningless marketing number (more is better, right?) It includes duplicates, empty land, and other flotsam. Disregard that number.
The truth is that all these numbers are estimates. The best way to know for sure is to count them all.
When we count our data, and adjust for those counties, the total is closer to 1.7 million. (Altos Research covers 90 million residential homes in all 50 states. It's not *everything* but the rest is very rural, so it's really useful, see map.)
Why are they over estimating? No, it's not because the scoundrels are trying to trick you. My guess is that some of these estimates include properties that already have offers. The number properties in "pending" state can be as high as 100% of the active inventory in many markets this year. As listings get offers quickly, then take a month or more before the transaction closes, these properties sit in pending state. The hottest markets this is most true, for example Las Vegas and San Diego have had screaming demand and price appreciation this year. They have huge stocks of properties "pending". Different regions give different labels to the condition, but the result is the same. The sale hasn't "closed" so the listing is technically active. But the property really isn't for sale any more. Is that active inventory? Our take is that these are not active. If you're shopping for a home in that market, your Realtor isn't going to show you a house that is already in some stage of contract with another buyer.
The lesson, as always, is read the headlines with a critical eye. Also, give us a buzz if you want the full scoop on the active housing inventory every week.


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I'm not sure if this has been addressed in a previous post Roy, but I'd like to have the ability to draw a bounding box around a selection of plants so everything within would be selected and then easily moved. Or a Select All feature so we could move everything if creating other gardens within our areas. This would also help when rotating crops the following year.
Just a thought
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Thursday, 2 February 2012
Bar Glitter
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God created you with gifts that fill an important need in the local church and make an eternal difference in the lives of people. Below is a list of areas where you can find a place to serve in our church family.
We are looking for happy, energetic, and excited people who want to make every person's visit to Church Of The King special. Help make an eternal difference by ensuring that each guest feels welcomed and loved from the moment they step out of their car. Below are specific areas where you can serve:
- Parking Team
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Take equal quantities of excitement, energy, and adventure. Mix it with meaningful teaching, storytelling, and song. Voila, you have the children's ministry of Church Of The King! We offer age-specific classrooms for children 6 weeks all the way up through 5th grade. As part of Kings Kids, you'll interact with children and families while helping with our mission to introduce kids to Jesus in an environment that is safe, friendly, and fun. Whether providing a warm smile, sharing a cheerful disposition, or lending a helping hand, our volunteers make a difference in children's lives week in and week out, and we believe this is a great opportunity for you!
**To protect the youngest in our church, a background check AND extended volunteer application are required prior to being scheduled to serve.
At Church Of The King we believe that every Christian is called to be a minister. Do you love talking to people about Jesus, praying for specific needs & requests or visiting the sick and elderly in the hospital? Pastoral Care opportunities include:
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As a church we are committed to serving and resourcing our community. Do you love helping others in need? Community Outreach opportunities include:
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The Creative & Worship Arts team at Church Of The King oversees our services and big events from the creative and production standpoint. Join our team of production and worship volunteers as they serve our church family each week. Some areas of service include:
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Miley Cyrus attended a private party at Top Shop at Club Paris in Chicago. She went up to the DJ and requested he play some of her own songs like "Can't Be Tamed," but strangely enough, the singer made it crystal clear that she did NOT want "Party in the USA" to be played. Wonder why?
Liam Hemsworth, Cyrus's on-again off-again boyfriend, attended the event with her, along with her mom Tish Cyrus. That night she took to her Twitter to say:
I am so stoked to be in 2 of my favorite places in the world… Chicago and TOPSHOP!
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Albany, NY (PRWEB) August 27, 2007
Independent rock label Equal Vision Records has signed Fred Mascherino of Taking Back Sunday's side project, The Color Fred, and will release his first studio album, Bend To Break, on October 30th.
Before joining Taking Back Sunday as lead guitarist and co-vocalist, Mascherino and his former band Breaking Pangaea released their Phoenix EP through Equal Vision in May of 2003, and have continued their artist/label relationship ever since.
"I've been a fan of what EVR has been doing for a long time. From Saves The Day to Coheed and Cambria to Circa Survive, I feel like there's always a certain integrity to the records they put out," says Mascherino.
Equal Vision's label manager Dan Sandshaw continues the mutual sentiment saying, "I have always loved Fred as a person and respected him as a musician. I really like how Fred's songwriting has evolved over the years, and I can't wait to see what he does next."
Fred once again chose to work with producer Lou Giordano (Sunny Day Real Estate, The Lemonheads) to record Bend To Break, whom he met during the sessions for Taking Back Sunday's gold-selling album, Where You Want To Be.
Bend To Break was completed last month at Millbrook Sound Studios in the peaceful mountains of upstate New York.
"Millbrook is two hours from everywhere," explains Masherino. "It was the perfect place to get away and focus on just the record and nothing else. It was one of the best experiences of my life."
Bend To Break will be available in stores everywhere on Tuesday, October 30th. Expect The Color Fred to be touring in the months leading up to the release.


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Memset has won the Innovation in Business award in the Surrey Business Awards 2006/07. The award recognises the significant development of virtual dedicated servers by Memset. Launched in the latter part of 2006, a new version of Memset's virtual machine created a new generation of virtual dedicated servers. The new machine is able to provide users with all the benefits of a dedicated server but at a fraction of the cost. It was the culmination of three years of progressive development of its Miniserver™ machine, which has made Memset a leading provider of hosting solutions for business users.
Over 300 people attended the glittering awards ceremony at Mercedes Benz World in Weybridge on 8 February 2007. Eagle radio presenter, Peter Gordon, handed the award trophy to Memset's managing director, Kate Craig-Wood, "I am absolutely delighted to receive this award. We strive to take an innovative approach in everything we do at Memset and recognition of that will mean an enormous amount to the team."
As well as pioneering products, Memset also has innovative business systems, including automated billing and administration systems. All are developed in-house. It was also the first UK Web hosting company to become carbon neutral in August 2006.
The Surrey Business award for Business Innovation follows Memset recently being voted Best Web Host of the Year in the highly acclaimed PC Pro Service and Reliability awards. "Coming hot on the heels of being voted the UK's best Web host, this award will really put us on a high for the year", said Craig-Wood.


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David (my Lil' Miracle) is teething. I know I still haven't shared that "Lil' Miracle" story I promised *covers face* I'll get to it soon enough, I promise :o)
So, Lil' Miracle has itchy gums and tries to put everything in his mouth. I got him some Farley's Rusks and he loves them. I should be happy right? He's chewing on something that's good for him, buying a whole box wasn't a waste.... Well, I wasn't. This is why
He "over loved" the rusks. Stuff was in his hair, on his socks, the car seat was messed up. aaaarrrghhh!! Who has time to clean up after all this? As if I don't have enough on my plate already!! I had to give him a bath afterwards and as I put the box of rusks on the shelf, I made up my mind NEVER to give him any more.... then I heard the still small voice...
"What would happen if I refused to let you enjoy things just because of the mess I would have to clean up after?"
*Sigh*. I just became humble... What was I feeling like? Miss too-busy-to-give-her-baby-a-bath. I'm learning to stay grateful for the many blessings in my life that money cannot buy.
Love. Life. Laughter. Family. Friends. Good health. Salvation.
I'm off to my Zumba class and as I dance and work my body to the red hot dance steps, I'll remember to be thankful that even though I've got a "chinese-flat" bum, i can still shake it ;o)
What are you grateful for? Please share and let's remind ourselves of how blessed we are.
Thanks for coming again and again.
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ROCK ISLAND, Illinois — A chance for Quad City farmers to see the latest trends in equipment and land management is coming up Sunday, Jan. 15 - Tuesday, Jan. 17. The 26th Annual Quad Cities Farm Show is held at the QCCA Expo Center.
Equipment was rolled in Friday and shows off everything a farmer needs for planting and harvesting. Organizers say this show is unique because it's able to bring in huge farming equipment.
"Some of the farm shows don't have the doors, the size we have so basically they're 10x10 shows where they hand out the literature - we have the equipment so the farmer can crawl under, he can look at it and spend a good 4-5 hours here each day," said Dick Sherman, show manager.
Parking and admission to the show is free. Doors open on Sunday morning at 10 a.m.
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catur-vidha bhajante mam
janah sukritino 'rjuna
arto jijnasur artharthi
jnani ca bharatarsabha
"O best among the Bharatas, four kinds of pious men begin to render devotional service unto Me—the distressed wanting to regain loss, the desirer of new wealth, the atman inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute."
He tells Arjuna to carefully listen to what Sri Krishna is going to tell. Chatur vidha = four types, jana = of people, sukritho = of good deeds, bhajante = surrender unto or pray, mam = Me [Sri Krishna]. He calls these people as sukritho or blessed ones, in contrast to dushkrito or bad deed people mentioned in the last sloka, while explaining the four types of people who never supplicate to Him. Arjuna asks who they were? We have to clearly understand these four types, as based on these Sri Krishna is going to tell more and so these categories must be well founded in our minds. We have already seen that entities are three:
- Chit - matter with intellect, billions of atman.
- Achit - matter without any intellect, all inanimate objects like materials, our body, stone, etc.
- Isvara -Paramatman, God, possessing both Chit and Achit as His dependents and His property.
Some others desire to be happy with atman anubhauam or experience. These persons consider materials as low and regard atman as superior and everlasting. They know atman is an embodiment of Gyana and Ananda, and so desire to have atman sakshatkaram and feel that pleasure is everlasting. They are called kaivalya aarthi.
Some others desire to be with God only. They are called Bhagavallabha aarthi.
Thus there are four types of people in devotion to Him.
Sri Krishna tells that all these people approach Him.
- Artha = regaining lost wealth.
- Artharti = need of new wealth.
- Jijnasu = to have atman anubhavam.
- Jnani = to associate with the Lord.


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For a combined pledge of $150, I will create a new classical composition of at least 3 minutes in length. The person contributing the plurality of funds will be able to have the composition bear his/her name. (For instance, if your name is Smith, and I compose a rondo, it would be called the Smith Rondo, Op. 70 – or you could choose a different name of appropriate dignity.) Any donor would be able to recommend whether the composition be predominantly in a major or a minor key – as well as the key itself (e.g., C major, A minor, etc.). (Note: Secondary themes or variations on the main theme may depart from the main key if this would reinforce the integrity and develop the intricacy of the composition.) If a majority of donors favors a particular key, I will write the piece in that key.
Once composed, the work would be released online for free download and streaming and would be licensed as Creative Commons. It will be available on the pages of my online magazine, The Rational Argumentator, as well as on my YouTube channel. Others would be free to share it as well.
The creation of art and music through distributed patronage, as well as the subsequent free availability of such work, can liberate both creators and the consuming public and unleash a new era of high culture for vast numbers of people. No matter who you are, you can be a patron of classical music in this electronic age.
The composition will be created electronically using Finale 2011 software – probably using several pianos, but other instruments may be incorporated as well. Finale 2011 can create sound quality closely resembling a human performance on a traditional instrument. At the same time, electronic playback can enable the composition to possess speed and virtuosity beyond the abilities of a human performer.
I am asking for combined donations of $150 as compensation for the time in composing this work. I anticipate that the process will take about 5 hours of complete focus, and so I would be compensated at $30 per hour. I can create the composition within at most one week after the funding goal has been reached.
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Swansea City full-back Neil Taylor is 'flattered' to have been linked with a move to Arsenal reports the Daily Star.
The 22-year-old defender has impressed for the Swans in their debut season in the Barclays Premier League, and recently signed a new four-year contract at the Liberty Stadium.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has been credited with an interest in the Welsh international as he looks for an answer to his defensive injury crisis at the Emirates Stadium.
"I'm flattered by the interest from Arsenal," admitted Taylor. "I'm enjoying my football at Swansea but it's a great thing to hear."
Arsenal will get the chance to see Taylor at close quarters when they travel to South Wales to face Swansea next weekend, and the defender says he is relishing the prospect of another tough contest.
"People are already saying what a big test Arsenal are going to be for us," he added. "But the way we look at it, it is also a big test for them coming to the Liberty.
"We want to carry on doing as well as we have been at home and it's about time we won a game against one of the top teams.
"I don't see why they can't be that big scalp. When we played them at the Emirates, we should definitely have got a result. Instead, only a freak goal on the day saw us lose.
"Only Manchester United have beaten us in 10 league games at home and, hopefully, if we can give a good account of ourselves, we can make it a tough day for them."


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Matt Shipp, free-jazz-piano hero of the Lower East Side, says his new CD, DNA, released this week, will be his last. After a frenzied period during which he has released fourteen discs since 1992 under the various rubrics Matt Shipp Duo, Matt Shipp Trio, Matt Shipp Quartet, etc., etc., the 38-year-old Shipp declares he is retired from making records.
"What's the use -- I've got too many sides out as it is," remarks the bespectacled, slightly built author of such alchemically titled works as The Multiplication Table, Symbol Systems, and Critical Mass, as he sips nonalcoholic beer at 2A, the Avenue A hangout around the corner from the tiny studio apartment where he lives with his wife. "I don't feel the psychological need to continually flood the market with this material. Besides, I have finished my primary opus. My temple is structurally complete. To add to it now would be merely ornamental. A patching of concepts. Embellishment for the sake of the cash advance. That's a kind of cynicism I'd rather not get into."
Mid-career "retirements" by jazzmen are not unprecedented. Sonny Rollins, at the height of his unmatched powers, withdrew from the scene for almost two years, during which time he was discovered "woodshedding" tunes like "Surrey With the Fringe on Top" upon the windswept walkways of the Williamsburg Bridge. While admiring the Mohawk-headed Rollins's fierce unconformity, Shipp does not plan on following in the saxophone colossus's footsteps because "it would be kind of heavy, getting a piano up there." But even if Shipp plans to continue playing club dates (mostly as a sideman with the stellar David S. Ware Quartet) "to pay the bills," there is a rush of aesthetic uplift to be gleaned from his decision to "shut up for a while and smell the grass." Indeed, in a culture of glut, where a little reticence qualifies as a blow for creative freedom, Matt Shipp emerges as one of an increasingly rare breed: a legitimately iconoclastic Lower East Side bohemian artist.
Then again, Shipp has always been a serious sort, in a deep-blues-self-referential kind of way. At age 12, growing up an only child in Wilmington, Delaware, Shipp says, he prayed so much that his Episcopalian pastor became concerned. The pastor told Shipp's father, a police captain and lay minister, that the young musician was in danger of becoming "a religious fanatic." Although Shipp continues to read transcendental philosophers like Emanuel Swedenborg and Meister Eckhart for fun and considers himself "possibly the leading twelfth-century-Christian-mystic jazzman below 14th Street," this obsessional religious fervor was soon transmuted to the piano, which Matt began practicing fourteen hours a day, seven days a week.
It was in this "dreamworld" period of adolescent hermeticism that Shipp (and his lifelong imaginary friend-alter ego Mr. Chromosome, "a young black mathematician-geneticist") began to fuse the highly disparate elements that make him perhaps the most provocative, if narrowly appreciated, pianist of the nineties. As archly romantic as he is archly angular, his work can sound like a resourceful, if sometimes maddeningly abstruse, D.J.'s montage of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism -- a transit through the psychotropia of Scriabin, the hardtack note clusters of Cecil Taylor, reconditioned riffs swiped from (unaccountably) adored seventies stadium bands like Rush and Styx, and onward to a ton of Ellington ("He's like Plato or someone"). It's an often difficult style that Shipp says made him a perfect candidate for the New York free-jazz scene, "the most despised and lowest-selling of musical idioms."
Indeed, what is often called "free" or "avant-garde" -- the aggressively envelope-shattering music pioneered in the sixties by people like John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Sun Ra -- is considered by many to be useful only for the quick clearing of crowded rooms. To Shipp, however, "outside" jazz's hard angles and gut cries (Jimi Hendrix is counted as a key free player) constitute "an ever-expanding universalist pooled language . . . a glossolalia" approaching that of pre-Babel times, "a potentially endless process into the unknown" in line with what's described in Alfred North Whitehead's Process & Reality, another favorite book.
Therein lies the pianist's main bitch with the "hopelessly decadent" major jazz labels and the mainstream state of the music in general. "It's a death industry," propounds Shipp, no slouch with a jazz polemic. "If you're dead, that's good, because then you can be repackaged, but if you're trying to build a music, like it took Monk twenty years to build, forget that." Coming in for special abuse is the well-tailored personage of Wynton Marsalis, whom Shipp describes as "a Reaganist neoconservative . . . an academic . . . a roadblock." These sound like fighting words, and the usually mild-mannered Shipp has been party to several dustups over the years, most famously squaring off with the occasionally pugnacious cultural critic and Marsalis confidant Stanley Crouch after an awards dinner. For his part, Crouch, no fan of Shipp's "European music," says "there wasn't going to be any great glory for me putting my foot in his ass."
Aesthetic feistiness has not exactly made Shipp rich. Appearing on small- to no-profile indie labels located from Switzerland to Woodmere, Long Island, and sending out disarmingly boyish press releases handwritten in his looping scrawl, Shipp rarely tops 3,000 sales per disc. Last year, he finally cleared enough to keep him from day gigs in the scholarly section at Barnes and Noble or serving as an art-school model, a natural job for Shipp, given his cuddly offhand sexual allure. Once "suicidal" after a bad performance, Shipp now feels he's "made a name" big enough to maintain his material needs. "You know, my rent's only $500; I keep my expenses low. . . . It's the usual Lower East Side artist dilemma: torn between the romance of the underground and desperate, urgent craving for recognition."
As million-dollar condos go up around him, he feels like "a jazz fossil," but there are still those in the neighborhood who enjoy his passions. Just a few weeks ago, Lenny Kaye, the grand boho guitarist of the Patti Smith Group, asked Matt if he was interested in playing with Patti. Shipp wanted to, "but the studio was in New Jersey and it was going to be at night. By night, I'm pretty stressed out. All I want to do is relax and read like, maybe, Whitman or Eckhart and watch WCW or WWF on TV. . . . I'm a pretty big Stone Cold fan, you know." Shipp also is encyclopedic on seventies half-hour TV, but his true mania is pro boxing, which he's written about in fanzines as being similar in mind-set to jazz; he often fantasizes himself in the ring while playing. It's indicative of his florid inner life that when his favorite, Michael Spinks, faced Mike Tyson, the musician dressed in a suit and tie while listening to the fight on the radio.
Shipp says he's known for some time that the current DNA (released by the New York-based indie Thirsty Ear) would be his final musical statement. "Working through all these records, I always knew where I was in the project, what fraction of the whole I'd completed. I'm just organized that way," Shipp says. Certainly there is symmetry in the fact that that disc is a duo with the bassist William Parker, a fellow Lower East Sider (and former Cecil Taylor sideman) with whom Shipp has forged an enduring collaboration. A deep-souled man who can sometimes be seen wheeling his bass through the rain on Avenue B, Parker recalls, "Matt just came up to me, out of the blue -- this young guy, said, 'Here,' and handed me this pile of music. . . . I looked it over and said, 'I can work with this.' " Asked about Shipp's "retirement," Parker smiles: "Matt's got a lot of ideas."
This said, DNA, an off-angled quilting of Shipp's usual moody fury, seems an appropriately apocalyptic capstone. After an hour of staccato yet never un-tuneful intellectuality (including a barbed-wire reading of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," sounding as if it's playing in the head of a mortally wounded soldier at Bull Run), Shipp exits with a straight, heartfelt "Amazing Grace." "To give thanks," the former altar boy notes.
Tonight, on the Lower East Side, Matt Shipp is practicing at a studio on Avenue A. His apartment is too small for a piano, so he comes here and lays down his $8 an hour. With the lights of the massive Village View apartment complex twinkling out the window, the thin fingers of Shipp's surprisingly delicate hands spider across the keyboard, taking cues from a stack of tiny notebooks he almost always carries with him. "They're mostly note groupings, nothing I'd ever play onstage or on a record, just things I'm working on," Shipp says. "The idea is, play these things until I submerge the forms into the substrata of my unconscious mind. Then I might forget them, but down deep, in the foundation, they'll still be there." Shipp says this process, which he calls "meditative and regenerative," could take years, but then again, a musical temple is not built in a day.


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D.C. Hanoy | Athens, GA USA | 04/26/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This 1989 live CD has its heart in the right place, and although it's the best Lords since Frontier Days, it represents a holding pattern more than a return to past glories. The overall sound is pretty hot: Eric Ambel's slide raunch cuts a swath through Scott Kempner's scratchy (and underrecorded) rhythm guitar, while Frank Funaro and Manny Caiati bash'n'crash like a runaway train. The set list is strong (good cover of The Flamin' Groovies' "Jumpin' in the Night"), despite the fact that much of it was taken from their last two so-so records. But, to their credit, "True Love" and "Judas Kiss" have never sounded better. - John Dougan, Option
Smokin' live set, especially Ambel's raunchy slide guitar. I didn't find Kempner's guitar significantly "underrecorded" as stated in the Option review. In fact, they seem fairly well-balanced -- Kempner in the left channel and Ambel in the right. My only complaint is the CD should have been longer, although I know it was marketed as an EP. Two covers (if you don't count parts of "Psychotic Reaction," "Pictures of Matchstick Men," and "Wipeout" interspersed throughout the CD) and an excellent "Judas Kiss.""
Excellent Live Set
gengen | Franklin, NC | 06/09/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"For some reason I remember this getting mostly poor to lukewarm reviews when it first came out. In retrospect, it's not bad at all and definitely worth having if you're a fan. A good mix of originals and covers, and yes it is short - only seven songs.


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My personal favorite of the great vintage chypre, this one is a spicy floral version with lovely plum and peach accents: Rochas Femme.
Fabulous Chanel soap eggs, a delicious way to smell vintage No 5; they provide extra creamy, dense lathering and in my small hands, a perfect fit!
Spring vacation is only 10 days away and I am awaiting several shipments of old books and a couple of other surprises (to share with you all!)
The Vintage Perfume Vault; where the vintage vogue lives.


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Number 426, July 15, 2007
"Get a rope."
Confessions of an Illegal Immigrant
Credit The Libertarian Enterprise
I have enjoyed J. D. Morris's articles on immigration and have neither the desire nor the knowledge to contradict anything he has said. I would like to tell tale of an illegal worker. I lived, usually legally, on a tourist visa, in Mexico for more than 5 years. I occasionally overstayed my visa, making me an illegal immigrant
I often worked, always illegally. I played music, tended bar and taught English. The bar tending and playing music always got me in trouble. The teaching, never.
Finding work in Mexico can be difficult, even for a citizen, and Mexicans will get quite upset about a foreigner taking their jobs. Every time I got a job playing music or bar tending someone would rat me out and I would get a visit from a Government functionary who would warn me to stop. I was never arrested or even threatened with deportation. When I taught English (illegally) I was invited to the Chief of Police's house for dinner (his daughter was one of my students).
As my Spanish and my skill at bribery improved I began smuggling power tools and consumer electronics into the country. Much better money than teaching.
I fell into the Mexican habit of not paying too much attention to what day or even which month it was so I sometimes overstayed my visa. I would sneak out via Belize or Guatemala and then re-enter, legal again, not having missed more than a day of work teaching Mexican kids to say, "John saw the train"
About 4 times a year I would go to Texas and load up on circular saws and ceiling fans and bribe my way past the border guards. I got caught once. It took a large bribe and I was sent on my way with all my stuff but minus all my money. (Except for the twenty I had stashed in my sock)
I doubt that this adds anything to the immigration debate, but I had a good time, made a few bucks and didn't go to prison.
Clearly the Mexican government should have done something about me and people like me. I'm glad they didn't.
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The Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch is real. The slightly bulgy piece of wrist wear works in conjunction with Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets so you're not pulling them out of your pocket every time they ping or vibrate.
The body of the Galaxy Gear is stainless steel , and at about 74 grams , it's fairly heavy.(conventional metal wristwatches can run up to 100 grams before weight really becomes a problem, but this weight is usually distributed over the entire watch, which makes it feel more balanced.)There's a sleep/wake button on the right-hand side, and the watch powers itself down quite quickly.
The Galaxy Gear is a full-color Android-based device about the size of an old calculator watch.It runs its own applications and was shown running apps developed by both samsung and third- party partners and has a pedometer that can track the wearer's activity.
The Galaxy Gear unveiled at IFA today notifies you of incoming emails, texts,and message via a Bluetooth 4.0+ BLE connection. A preview of the alert shows upon the watch's 320*320 1.63 inch super AMOLED display. you can accept or ignore those new messages.If you get a message you decide does require your attention, a smart Relay feature will bring the entire note to the screen of a full-size samsung Galaxy when that phone or tablet is picked up.
Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which will cost RS. 22,990.Till the actual launch date, samsung will let interested users walk into select stores and try out the device.


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DJ Jimmy Jatt demands public apology from Terry G for slapping protege
During the first edition of 'D'GOOD, D'BASH & D'FUNNY' a concert by comedian Hammed Basheer popularly known as Bash which held at Shell Hall, Muson Centre, Lagos. Terry G got offensive and slapped a DJ known as DJ Phreez – a trainee DJ under Legendary DJ Jimmay Jatt.
Reports say 'he overstayed his time, and even said if he's not allowed to finish his performance, he'll cause trouble. Then the DJ played another artiste's song and Terry went over to give him a terrible slap, smashed the microphone on the stage and left'.
So as DJ Phreez pulled the music off his set, Terry G walked up to him and slapped him. Terry G has defended his actions but DJ Jimmy Jatt is having none of it and demanding a public apology.
'I think it was a reaction of an unruly artiste. The DJ has been coordinating the performances without issues. Terry G wasn't even billed to perform. He called the organiser and begged to perform then they gave him a time frame and he used more than his time. The organisers used their voice-over guy to call him from the backstage that his time was over and he said if he hears the voice he'll cause trouble'.
Dj Jimmy Jatt who was in the audience continued to say, 'Then he went on to perform about three more songs. He was messing up and people were leaving while he was performing. The organisers were losing crowd and they went to tell the DJ to stop playing his songs so Terry G can get off the stage.'
'Apart from that, if it wasnt my boy involved and an artiste slaps a DJ in my presence, I'll stand up for the DJ', he added.


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Sanctuary Tours – 2018 Tour schedule
For 2018, the tours will run every Sunday between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Saturdays in July-August.
Please note, no tours scheduled on Memorial Day or Labor Day weekend.
Saturdays (July 7 through August 25) 10am
Sundays (June 3 through August 26) 10am
All Tours begin at Egret Espy Trail entrance at 114th Street and Second Avenue
Tours provide information on the natural history and wildlife of the Sanctuary, as well as discuss ongoing restoration efforts. Tours are 1 hour and suitable for families.
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On Saturday September 20th, four baby Eastern Box Turtles emerged from a nest, followed by a fifth baby on Sunday September 21st. more...
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Rice Bistro (CLOSED)
If you're strolling down Lincoln Avenue and happen upon Rice Bistro, taking a look at the menu posted just outside the door isn't going to do much to lure you in. Spring rolls, tom yum, pad si-ewe, broccoli chicken…there's nothing here you haven't seen before. But the swinging wooden door just to the left helps to sweeten the deal. Push through and you'll find your way to a back patio that could only be described as plain but sufficient for us Chicagoans starved for outdoor experiences—any outdoor experiences. Even those that involve pad thai with a side of exhaust fumes.
Luckily, there's no sputtering traffic spoiling Rice's patio. Instead, there is a nice view of the glowing St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church, an always-welcome BYOB policy, and a sweet server who genuinely seems to have your interests at heart when she cautions against ordering the panang noodles "spicy." Turns out, "medium" packs plenty of heat, but it's standard Chicago American-Thai nonetheless, sweet from a heavy dose of coconut milk and sporting a generic "curry" flavor. The tom kha holds a bit more interest, carrying that sour-sweet of kafir lime leaf and a jolt of spicy galangal. Pad thai lands squarely in serviceable territory, meeting the checklist of required ingredients but leaving your palate a bit bored. To counter that boredom, take over the back patio with a large group, arrange a menu beforehand with the accommodating staff…and bring plenty of booze.
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Then all I heard was screaming. My heart stopped. I flew out the door. Everyone was running in one direction. But not me. I froze at the porch. My eyes scanned the street. Where were you? I was looking for the most important three kids. No, two, because Caleb wasn't there.
So far, I could only see Georgia. I saw the tears were pouring from her eyes. My heart dropped into my stomach. The fear, it lodged in my throat like a ball. "Darryl!"
I shot to the edge of the garden. The street was a war zone of twisted metal and tilting poles. Streets lights were held up by cables and solider like old oak trees.
"Someone call 911!" I yelled and pushed my way through the crowd. I dreaded what I'd find there. Some combination of you mangled with a car.
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The Crusaders perpetrated a century of genocides that murdered a million people, equivalent as a proportion of the world's population at the time to the Nazi holocaust.
One of the first things you must learn about history that the large numbers in medieval and ancient chronicles rarely correspond to the literal truth. "100,000 men" doesn't mean that the chronicler actually had access to an actual count: it just means that it was a very large army. And almost always, the large numbers are inflated.
Since there were nine numbered Crusades in just under 200 years, a million deaths would require over 100,000 murders per Crusade.
This is profoundly unlikely.
Even if we assume that half the dead were civilians, this requires the average Crusade to consist of an army of 40,000 strong fighting to the death and an opposing army of the same size suffering 25% dead.
But our best evidence is that the armies were much smaller and less willing to die.
And the Crusades stretched over seven generations, so the denominator is seven generations of lives, not one.
Also, although there were atrocities, I do not think the Crusades were as a whole genocidal in intent.
I can't shake the impression that Pinker doesn't like religion much, and is at best careless in his examination of evidence that supports his bias.


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At 4:30am Rich and I arrived at Chris' place and we all jumped into his car for the rest of the drive. There was much talk about what we wished we see over the course of the day. Our first bird for the day was a Laughing Kookaburra as we waited in the dark at Waikerie for the ferry to take us across the river. We arrived at Gluepot just as dawn was breaking and soon after driving through the gates we spotted two emus. We met up with another F&P member who had been camping at Gluepot for the past couple of days, and progressed to our first stop with high hopes of regent parrots, the Grasswren Hide. Here I was treated to not only some great birds, but Rich was kind enough to lend me his 300mm for the day, and I also got to try Peter's 400L for a short time in the hide!
Mulga Parrot (Psephotus varius) pair.
Female Regent Parrot, Polytelis anthopeplus.
The activity at the hide was incredible, mallee ringnecks jostled with mulga parrots and grey currawongs for the best drinking spot. Soon after they were joined by a flock of approximately 15 regent parrots, a life bird for me and a stunning one at that. The noise and activity escalated before most of the birds spooked. We didn't have to wait long however and most of the birds returned, the first flock of regents was replaced by a smaller second flock and we also got to see striped honeyeater and common bronzewing. The lighting was fairly poor with a bit of cloud, but the experience was just magic.
Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor), clearly top-dog at the bath
Male Regent Parrot, Polytelis anthopeplus
Striped Honeyeater, Plectorhyncha lanceolata. A striking bird, even with it's monochromatic feathers.
Some opportunistic hunting around the hide found some white-browed treecreepers, no decent photos, but great to see. Our next task proved near impossible. We pulled over at a spot that is renowned for red-lored whistler and striated grasswren. After much time walking and searching, and more walking and fruitless searching, we finally found a wren. It ended up being a variegated, but we did find a striated grasswren a short time later. I managed to get my very first feeble glimpses, but it was enough. We did find two whistlers, but they were both female goldens, there was much disbelief!
For lunch we planned a drive to old Gluepot, here we decided we could look for the reported major mitchell's and eat lunch in the hide, a brief side-stop on the way in a little active patch of mallee found us quite a few species for the day list including jacky winter and white-fronted and white-eared honeyeater. We arrived at old Gluepot in separate cars, three of us first in the one found a flock of 8 major mitchell's. We were all thrilled and started our approach for some better photos. Unfortunately, Peter who was driving to join us flushed a flock of white-winged choughs whose alarm calls flushed the major mitchell's! The first thing Peter did on arrival was ask us if we'd seen any majors...! Nobody was thrilled.
Major Mitchell's Cockatoos, Lophochroa leadbeateri.
The hide at old Gluepot was a haven for the honeyeaters, spiny-cheeked, brown-headed and red wattlebird flitted here and there and bickered about this and that while we ate lunch. A fruitless search was conducted afterwards in the direction the major mitchell's fled to, though we glimpsed a wedge-tailed eagle overhead and Chris found a stunning owlet-nightjar. Just as we planned to move on from old Gluepot we all heard a single unmistakeable call of a major mitchell. We all hurried in the direction, there was much more fruitless searching.
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater, Acanthagenys rufogularis.
Giving up on the majors we headed back towards the Grasswren hide. We stopped along the way when a chestnut quail-thrush dashed across the road in front of the car. We ended up sighting two but we couldn't get them to cooperate for photos. Meanwhile, a southern scrub-robin was having a bit of fun with us as we were stalking the quail-thrush. We ended up spending quite some time trying to get the little fellow to cooperate, but I think he outsmarted us nearly every time.
Southern Scrub-robin (Drymodes brunneopygia) finally caught in the open!
The final stop was some searching around the grasswren hide, we came across a nice little patch where we tried to get a red-capped robin to perch on an attractive looking branch. Ten minutes later, he had landed on everything but the branch we intended. Still, we ended up setting ourselves up near a perch he was using and came away with some shots from there instead. As it was getting near dark, we returned to the homestead and walked to the dam hoping to see some nightjars hawking for insects. The night was too cool but I did get to see my very first splendid fairy wren (a female of course) and the dam was abundant with bronzewings on dusk (and a nasty feral cat).
Male Red-capped Robin, Petroica goodenovi.
Overall, it was a productive day and we netted 45 species, 3 of which were new for me and I brought my year list up by approx 20 species! Besides seeing the birds though, it was simply great to get out with like-minded people and enjoy the day seeing, photographing and discussing birds with them. So thanks to them for a great day. :)


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Pathobiology of Preoperative Chemotherapy: Findings From the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel (NSABP) Protocol B-18
Fisher ER, Wang J, Bryant J, Fisher B, Mamounas E, Wolmark N
Cancer 95(4):681-695, August 15, 2002
Background: Examination was performed on pathologic material from patients enrolled in the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project (NSABP) protocol B-18, in which the clinical effects of preoperative (preop) and postoperative (postop) doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide (AC) were compared.
Methods: Of the total number of 1523 patients, 1234 patients (81%) were in the pathologically evaluable cohort. Six hundred twenty-six patients had been randomized prospectively to receive AC postop and 608 had been randomized to receive AC preop. Preentry diagnosis was made by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and/or Tru-cut biopsy (TC). AC-induced and other pathologic changes were identified, and their relation to pathologic response and overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) was determined. Frequencies of the number of lymph node metastases, their size, stromal reaction, and extracapsular extension (ECE) were compared in the two treatment groups, as was their correlation with OS and DFS. Survival estimates were based on 9 years of follow-up.
Results: Approximately 13% of primary breast carcinoma cases exhibited both a clinical complete response (cCR) and a pathologic complete response (absence of invasive tumor [pCR]) to preop AC. An additional 7% of patients exhibited a pCR in the absence of a cCR. A pCR occurred in 38% of those patients determined to have achieved a cCR. Poor nuclear grade of the tumor cells in the pre-entry FNA and/or TC specimens significantly predicted a pCR. Patients with the latter exhibited a better OS and DFS compared with those with a pathologic partial response (presence of sparse invasive tumor [pPR]) or no pathologic response (pNR). Epithelial alterations considered to be induced in tumors by preop AC were comprised of types 1 and 2 giant cells with meganuclei, apocrine metaplasia, and cytoplasmic vacuolation. They had a high degree of specificity (range, 86-99%) but a low sensitivity (range, 7-38%). All were predictive of a pPR and were found to be related adversely to OS and DFS. A fibrous stromal reaction noted in tumors or their putative sites in the preop group was found to have only modest degrees of specificity (63%) and sensitivity (74%). Moderate/marked sclerosis of basement membranes of the ductal and ductular elements of the terminal ductolobular unit (TDLU) was significantly more frequent in nontumor-bearing areas of breasts from patients in the preop treatment group compared with those in the postop treatment group (67% vs. 48%; P < 0.0001). The degrees of change in the TDLU in patients in the postop treatment group were found to be unrelated to age. Lymphatic tumor extension in the primary tumor, as well as a positive lymph node status, were less frequent in the preop treatment group compared with the postop treatment group. The OS and DFS were nearly identical in both treatment groups, being 69% and 55% and 70% and 53% in the preop and postop treatment groups, respectively, at 9 years. A fibrous stromal response to lymph node metastases was found to be significant for DFS but not OS. ECE was similar in both groups (55% vs. 48%; P = 0.12). Only 1% of ECE was found to be related to axillary failure in both treatment arms combined. There was no significant difference with regard to the parameters of survival for patients in the postop treatment group whose lymph nodes contained micrometastases (< 2.0 mm) or mini micrometastases (< 1.0 mm) (the latter detected immunohistochemically with anticytokeratin), and a true-negative lymph node status (not immunohistochemically converted to positive). Conversely, there was no apparent difference with regard to OS in preop treated patients with lymph node micrometastases, mini micrometastases, and macrometastases (P = 0.19). Those with mini micrometastases had a significantly worse OS compared with those with a true-negative lymph node status (P = 0.0007). DFS remained worse for patients in that treatment group with micrometastases and mini micrometastases compared with those with negative lymph nodes, although it was better than that for patients with macrometastases (P = 0.02).
Conclusions: Poor nuclear grade of tumor cells in the preentry FNA or TC specimens in the preop group was predictive of a pCR. AC-induced meganuclear giant cells and apocrine changes and nuclear and histologic grades of the primary tumors also were found to be prognostically significant in patients in the preop treatment group, and the latter two variables were found to be significant for those patients in the postop treatment group. No evidence was found to support the need for axillary lymph node radiation for ECE of lymph node metastases. Extended pathologic or immunohistochemical procedures also appear to be unnecessary for the detection of lymph node mini micrometastases, at least when traditional postop chemotherapy is used. The adverse relation between such small metastases and OS and DFS after preop AC appears to be related to the timing of the chemotherapy administration rather than any pathobiologic reasons.
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Saturday, 5 April 2008
Visions of you in shades of blue .......
This is my youngest new friend he's 4 weeks old and models his new crochet shawl beautifully!!!
I am currently working on a blue blanket for a lady at work who is soon to become a grandmother, this baby is a boy too!!
This is my first serious attempt at filet crochet - still a work in progress but a very enjoyable one. I am using aran weight yarn and a 4.5mm hook, which grows very quickly. The pattern is a baby blanket from 'Celtic Crochet'.
A close up of one of the heart squares.
The family situation is still the same. My Mum (in law) bought me this lovely plant to cheer me up, isn't it gorgeous. I'm hoping to finish the baby shawl in the next day or two. I am itching to start a new project.
I have no interest in the knitted afghan I am supposed to be making for my daughter. She wants something very plain (boring), it only needs to be finished for next winter, so I have got bags of time for that. It's an ideal project to do when watching a complex tv programme.
Will catch you all soon, keep tweaking
love Aruba
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Daily Incidents For September 14, 2006/
Shoplifting Suspect Arrested after Stealing and Attempting to Return MerchandiseYesterday around 6:30pm officers from District 6 responded to the Old Navy Store at 8 Allstate Rd in Dorchester. Upon arrival responding officers there spoke to Loss Prevention officers from Old Navy, who reported that the suspect entered the store with an Old Navy bag and proceeded to shoplift close to three hundred dollars worth of merchandise. The suspect then attempted to return the stolen merchandise for store credit or cash. The suspect, Teniele Johnson, 22, of Dorchester was arrested and charged with Shoplifting. Officers Initiate Investigation Resulting in a Gun Arrest Approximately 7:19pm yesterday officers from District 2 attempted to stop a male who they believed to be carrying a weapon. After suspect was stopped, officers subsequently determined him to be in possession of a firearm and attempted to place him in custody. The suspect became violently combative and required the assistance of several other units before he could be placed under arrest and transported to the district station. The officers recovered a handgun. Suspect, Kevin Johnson, 21, of Dorchester was arrested and charged with Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, Possession of Firearm with Altered Serial Number and Unlawfully Carrying a Loaded Firearm. Suspect Arrested in Dorchester After Soliciting Plain Clothes Officer About 10:45pm yesterday, officers from District 11 made observations of a suspect attempting to flag down cars in the area of Kimball St. and Dorchester Ave. exited their unmarked police car to make further investigation and inquiry of the suspect. The suspect greeted and solicited the officers for sex for a fee. The suspect, Lynn Goldberg, 44, of North Quincy was arrested for Prostitution and an outstanding default warrant for Violation of Auto Laws and unpaid fines. Intoxicated B&E Suspect Arrested After Being Found Standing Over Victim At approximately 2:57am today, officers responded to 225 Georgetown Drive in Hyde Park for an unknown. On arrival officers met and spoke with two victims. One of the victims stated that she woke up to find the suspect standing and swaying over her bed in a drunken state. Officers based on their investigation determined that the suspect entered the apartment through one of two open windows in the rear bedrooms. According to the second victim the suspect, is known to her and her mother. The combative and intoxicated suspect, Bengy Barlatier, 23, of Hyde Park was arrested and charged with Breaking and Entering.


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Mark Ramprakash was never going to be a great Test cricketer. Steve Waugh was.
That's simplistic (not for the first time). Given better support by selectors and management Mark Ramprakash could have been a better Test player, but not a great one. It's indicative of an 'if only' mentality which has no place in top level sport. The ingredients of a Test class batsmen aren't just technique and timing. More than either of those it's mentality and determination.
Take Steve and Mark Waugh. Mark had all the shots (and then some). On his day he made batting look easier than sighing at your own worthlessness. Steve on the other hand looked borderline ugly at the crease. Who was the better batsman? It was Steve, unquestionably. He scored more runs at a greater average and inevitably scored them when they were most needed. He made no excuses and he made sure he made the most of every opportunity.
Steve didn't need the support of anyone because he made bloody certain that everyone else needed him. People say that he made the most of what he had, which is tantamount to patronising him. In reality, making the most of what you have is an absolute necessity as an international batsman.
To say: 'If only Ramprakash had made more of what he had, because he had the talent,' is akin to saying: 'If only Matthew Hoggard had more natural batting talent, because he makes the most of what he has'. Mark Ramprakash made the least of what he had. He wasn't an underachiever. What happened in Mark Ramprakash's Test career happened for a reason.
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On February 12, 2013, Lake Hamilton School District Voters approved a 3.9 mill increase to the district millage in order to meet the facility needs of our growing school district. The positive vote will enable the district to replace some older facilities, expand existing facilities and provide new and improved academic, music, art, agricultural, athletic and multipurpose facilities for our students. During the campaign, we pledged to our public that we would make the very best use of their millage dollars as we plan, build and maintain these new buildings.
In an effort to keep our public posted on the progress, changes and challenges faced during this construction process over the next three or more years, we will use this section of our webpage to communicate as we move forward on these projects. Your Millage Dollars At Work will be updated throughout the process and we will use this as a communications tool to try to answer questions we might receive through phone calls, personal contacts, email and Facebook about the construction process. We hope you find this helpful and informative.
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Days after his Office mate Jenna Fischer said "I do," John Krasinski has exchanged vows with his real life leading lady, actress Emily Blunt.
According to US magazine, the groom's Leatherheads co-star George Clooney, together with girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, were among the guests at Villa D'este in Coco, Italy on July 10, 2010 to witness the bride walk down the aisle in a sweetheart draped Marchesa Bridal creation of cream chiffon accented with embroidery.
The ceremony was the culmination of a love story which began in 2008 and had led to the placement of a 3-carat round diamond and platinum Niel Lane engagement ring on the left hand of The Young Victoria star in August 2009.
Emily Blunt's engagement ring:
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Big Ten Football: 5 Top Performers from Spring PracticeMay 5, 2014
Big Ten Football: 5 Top Performers from Spring Practice
Spring practices are in the rear-view mirror for the Big Ten, and fans now have to endure the long summer layoff between now and fall camps. But there's plenty to get excited about over the next few months, especially with these great spring performances from around the conference.
From Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Piscataway, New Jersey, and Lincoln, Nebraska, to College Park, Maryland, there were plenty of standout performances this spring. Granted, we're talking about overly glorified scrimmages, but with these standouts, fans have a little bit more insight into what the team's 2014 outlook might be.
We've put together a brief list of the top five spring performances from across the Big Ten and, in no particular order, have neatly packaged them here for your enjoyment.
Freddy Canteen, WR, Michigan
Michigan is in need of some surprise impact from unlikely sources, and early enrollee Freddy Canteen might just be such a source.
Canteen (from Elkton, Maryland) was a 4-star recruit according to 247Sports' composite ratings, but he was listed third among incoming receivers to Michigan, behind Drake Harris (Grand Rapids, Michigan) and Maurice Ways (Beverly Hills, Michigan). During the spring game, however, it was Canteen raising some eyebrows with his performance.
Canteen has now created some buzz about Michigan's receiving corps—badly needed after the departure of Jeremy Gallon and Drew Dileo. Canteen started with the first-string offense during the spring game and was a frequent target over the course of the afternoon. His biggest highlight came on a 44-yard reception.
At 6'1" and 170 pounds, Canteen is also capable of moving between his spring position in the slot to an outside receiver at the drop of a hat. If Michigan is to have any lasting success in 2014, that kind of versatility—not just from Canteen, but team-wide—will be an important component.
Imani Cross, RB, Nebraska
No one ever wants to see a player unable to participate due to injury, but Nebraska fans should take some comfort in knowing that if the worst happens to 2013 Big Ten rushing leader Ameer Abdullah, Imani Cross will be ready and more than able to take over the starting duties.
The junior was nothing short of amazing in the spring game, Cross carried the ball six times, amassed 100 yards and found the end zone twice.
Add Cross' clear abilities to those of Abdullah and sophomore Terrell Newby, and it's instantly clear that Nebraska will be very, very good at running the football in 2014.
Shilique Calhoun, DE, Michigan State
Shilique Calhoun emerged last year as an unexpected defensive standout on a team filled with defensive standouts. Despite entering his sophomore season as a relative unknown, Calhoun managed to rack up 37 tackles, 7.5 sacks, 18 QB hurries, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and an interception.
And those three turnovers he snagged? He scored a touchdown on all three.
So what can we expect from Calhoun in 2014? If his spring game performance is any indication, quite a bit. He got to Connor Cook twice during MSU's spring game—which was an actual game—and was perhaps the defensive star of the contest for Michigan State.
It's also worth mentioning that sophomore tight end Josiah Price had five catches for an impressive 81 yards and the game-winning touchdown with 27 seconds remaining. With the lingering questions about the status of Michigan State's graduation-depleted defense, however, it was Calhoun's performance that is probably most reassuring.
Derrick Willies, WR, Iowa
It seems as if Iowa's Kirk Ferentz is always in the midst of a rebuilding year. Each season, the Hawkeyes are just a piece or two away from really competing for a spot atop the conference standings, and each season, Ferentz adds a few more pieces just as a few other pieces graduate.
But 2014 might be a different story. With the Big Ten realigning once again, this time (thank God) into the East and West Divisions, Iowa's chances are suddenly improving after spring practices—and there's the fact that other traditional powers out west might actually be rebuilding in 2014.
One of the true bright spots for Iowa this spring has been redshirt freshman Derrick Willies. After hauling in five receptions for 142 yards and a touchdown in Iowa's spring game, Hawkeyes fans are starting to buzz about this 6'4" wideout with explosive ability.
An explosive passing game might be just what the doctor ordered for Iowa. Rather then relying on the solid but predictable power running game, Iowa now has weapons in every position on offense. If Willies lives up to expectations next fall and the rest of his teammates can follow suit, a run at the West Division title isn't out of reach for the Hawkeyes.
Brandon Ross, RB, Maryland
Despite leading Maryland in rushing yards last season with 776, Brandon Ross' sophomore season left something to be desired. With just four touchdowns and averaging 64.7 yards per game (which somehow led the team), the Terrapins' ground game was completely underwhelming in 2013.
As Maryland edges ever closer to its Big Ten debut, however, it seems as if the players—not to mention head coach Randy Edsall—have gotten the message: The foundation of success in the Big Ten starts with a solid rushing attack.
Ross seemed intent not only on solidifying his role as starter this spring but also eager to prove to the rest of his new conference counterparts that Maryland is here to compete. Ross put together half as many touchdowns in Maryland's spring game as he had all of last season with two scores and 90 yards on just four carries.
The rest of the primary offensive backfield, Albert Reid and Jacquille Veii, combined for 154 rushing yards, further proving that Maryland is gearing up to run right at those staunch Big Ten defenses come the fall.
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