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Thought i would share this, dreamt I talked to avey tare and asked him about if he read reviews about his music and he says yeah, its a process.
dreaammsss that I once haaadddd. Did I have them anywaaayyyys? Seaaamss that I once haaadddd. Now I'll have them all the timmeee. I once dreamt I saw Avey and we started taking some photos. I can't find that entry in my dream journal though.
that was no dream!
It was a super weird dream, like I was at this pro snowboarder's house and avey is just chillin there. There was this big pond at the house and it was full of fish from the ocean and the house was up in the mountains it was cool
i keep dreaming that I'm going to animal collective concerts but I never actually get there!
I had this super weird dream the other night about a dystopian society where adolescents competed in an isolated facility to procreate, I think the idea being that only the fittest should be able to breed - eugenics. It was awesomely scary. I think I ended up escaping with one of the girls but we got caught and sent back to the facility.
^ That's cool. Last dream I had, besides some incredibly weird stuff involving a foreign side street and a toy soldier which broke in a freezer, was this tiny little Chinese take away shop which was decorated really brightly. All these red banners and gold things and this woman behind the counter, and in the dream I just stared at it intently for the longest while. I love dreams. I wish we could record them on video or something. That would be so immensely cool.
Clawed, that sounds like a great plot for a film! I dreampt recently that I was walking down a surreal version of my hallway and when I had gotten to the end I placed my body against the end's wall. I placed my fists on either side of my head and tried to push to the other side of the wall/portal. As I did that I heard a voice say "God wants to take you to the next level". I pushed halfway through and saw infinite whiteness and some moving shapes and other indescrible things things. In my mind this was heaven but I too scared to go to the other side because I thought that would mean I would have been dead. I wanted to be able to go back.
freeky man. I've been afraid of bees as of late. I dreapt that a dear was running through a city. I chased the deer down and shot it with a gun. I grabbed it by the antlers and pulled it up but its head came off. Out of the neck came millions of bees swarming towards me. When I looked down they were crawling up my chest and I was engulfed in bees and I woke up with poop in my pants... not really but I was frightened
I really wish Australian film companies would make more ambitious films like Mad Max these days - most are just dramas or the occasional comedy/animation. The Outback is such a perfect setting, and it's literally in our backyard.
We once had a 'Last Night I Dreamt..' thread aggessss ago. This could be the new one! horray! You better all keep it up, then you can achieve realising your dream signs, then lucidity! The other night I dreamt that Jonas Bjerre of Mew was a lovely, fluffy, orange cat and he was talking to me as the cat. Oh it was just bliss.
We still have it I just can't be bothered finding it.
Last Night i dreamt that i was laying in my basement with a bb gun, it was odd
I had that really crazy dream recently (a couple nights ago)- you know how when you are dreaming- events switch around, times all weird, and you seem to go from one place or another? theres no structure, just a big train of thought. well in my dream i realized this was happening, and it was super vivid just like real life. It seemed like forever. It really sucked when i realized nothing was real and everything was just morphing around yet i didnt know i was dreaming. i was super confused and it just sucked. But now that i am awake i think its really cool that that happened and im glad it did. Mitch (in response to first post)- I've had a very similiar dream! I went to my first animal collective concert (yeah i know... i like to consider myself an avid fan but i've never gotten the chance . ) and after the show me and my buddy were hanging out with avey and went to subway. i asked him a buttload of questions. haha
Had a dream one night that I was at an AnCo show and I walked into this weird barn looking place by the stage. Then avey, panda and the whole gang were in there and I just talked to them it was fucking awesome I woke up feeling like a king
[quote=Shallfish]I had that really crazy dream recently (a couple nights ago)- you know how when you are dreaming- events switch around, times all weird, and you seem to go from one place or another? theres no structure, just a big train of thought. well in my dream i realized this was happening, and it was super vivid just like real life. It seemed like forever. It really sucked when i realized nothing was real and everything was just morphing around yet i didnt know i was dreaming. i was super confused and it just sucked. But now that i am awake i think its really cool that that happened and im glad it did.[/quote] Hey :} have you ever had a lucid dream? Sounds like, if you could achieve such consciousness often you can control your dreams, its so much fun.
i still don't believe in those cuz if it actually worked (and worked REALLY well) you'd never want to wake up! cuz you'd basically be in mental heaven!
G.O. and curses, I used to really be into that stuff not long ago. But it's hard, it's like training your own mind. I've been in a lucid dream a couple dreams, but not through much effort on my part. They're always very short and very unclear besides. And VERY surreal. That's the best part!
goooooo i think its physically impossible to sleep for over two days. some people get addicted to dreaming and take sleeping drugs such as tylonol pm. I've had lucid dreams before but I am not trying to achieve control over all my dreams. Usually when I realize I'm dreaming either somthing I wake up shortly after or it turns into a nightmare and i wake up shortly after. Once I kept dreaming and was able to control my dream. I don't remember most of the dream but some parts are very vivid. very surreal and amazing. I love dreams.
[img]http://www.invisiblebooks.com/duchamp-etant-donnes-part-1946-66.jpg[/img] Oh, man. I wish dreams were like Inception and you could change them and stuff.
dreams dreams- Curses- i have never had one sadly. I've only had 2 that even came close. The one i mentioned above, and one when i was a kid. When i was a kid i dreamt i met a girl so perfect i wanted to keep her as my best friend, but i knew i was dreaming. so i tried all i could to escape my dream with her with me. it was weird. im not sure i'd consider it lucid.. it wasnt vivid enough i think. Also nice to meet you! Mzro- You should PM me and tell me about your knowledge of the lucid junk. It sounds super intriguing and i bet you know more than i do! Also, nice to meet you too!
ohhh, that sounds like the sweetest idea for a book, movie, video game, action figure, hoodie
had a dream the other night that i went to terence mckenna's house and he kept feeding me mushrooms
[quote=Purplesage]ohhh, that sounds like the sweetest idea for a book, movie, video game, action figure, hoodie[/quote] I actually started writing a script based of it with my pal- but we abandoned it. haha
Hi Shallfish! I'm really not knowledgeable about lucid dreaming, I know some stuff but I never really tried too hard myself. But if you want, there are some mantras and some small changes to your everyday thought process that can make it easier or more possible. For example, supposedly (never worked for me) if you randomly ask yourself throughout the day "Am I dreaming?" it should filter into your dreams eventually. Stuff like that.
I've heard of something pretty similar. My buddy looks down at his hand randomly throughout the day- he formed a habit. So since he does it so often- when he does it in his dream and notices his hand looks different it makes him conscious of his dream. I tried that, but it never worked. haha What else ya got?
Another thing some people mention is digital clocks - look at them twice, and the times should be different, alerting you to the fact you're dreaming. Now, for some stories of my pathetic attempts The first night I tried to have a lucid dream, in the night I dreamt that I was in this REALLY unrealistic, weird situation, and I went along with it like a sheep. At one point, I even asked someone for the time. I guess that should have reminded me of the time-checking thing, but it really didn't. And then, in the morning (which strangely enough is when my most vivid dreams occur, after waking uo early) I had my first lucid dream. I basically dreamt that I put a red bag on the left side as I sat down, and as I turned it had moved to the right. I immediately became lucid, but got overexcited and just swooshed awake. I think I was still in sleep paralysis for a half-minute when I woke up, it was so weird. Most times when I'm lucid, it happens with nothing triggering it halfway through a dream, and usually I lose it pretty quickly or wake up a short time afterwards. But yeah, dreams are awesome. I should really start doing this stuff again. What sucks is, I think a lot sort of so I'm not the type of guy who's alert all the time. That isn't too good for lucid dreaming, since you go along with dreams so much more if you're not alert (don't know how to explain this too well actually) Monologue finished.
I dreamed last night of bitches and sluts... so sad. I question reality on an almost daily basis. Some things just seem to damn vivid, other things are surreal, sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming but then decide based on how fast time is going. Will it be just like I'm dreaming? Will it be just like they're dreaming?
[quote=Dave]had a dream the other night that i went to terence mckenna's house and he kept feeding me mushrooms[/quote] Awesome
it was really weird. in my dream, mckenna was nothing like the brilliant orator he was in life. more like a gleeful psychedelic madman babbling silly nonsense. purp, keep going. it'll clear itself up. if you don't like the way consciousness is now, my best advice would be to try something different.
Mzro, thats pretty cool. I'm not very alert at all though.. haha. I get lost in though all the time.
Has anyone ever dreamed in black in white?? I too was really into the limitless possibilities dreams seemed to contain in my salad days. When I was little I had a dream wheel that would spin and it would land on whatever I wanted. I used to be able to make myself dream lucidly by thought. I also used to think that dreaming sent you to a different world and the people in it were angels who could tell me the future. Once I had a dream that was inside a pseudo-heaven and there was only a waterfountain and I saw a person there and I asked her who I was going to marry and she said something along the lines of "i cannot tell you yet".
I also have dreampt in third person where I have no physical body but witness the dream from above. I used to be able to dream whatever I wanted, but my mind has become so cluttered that it is almost impossible. Essentially, I believe dreams are windows into the soul and a person's current mentality. Dreams only last, at the most 10 minutes, and we have many dreams through out the night, but we only remember select few so I believe they are meaningful. Things may conicide but they don't "accidentally coincide", in life and in dreams (which are connected). Everything in dreams are symbolic which is why I believe in the accuracy of dream dictionaries. ALSO has anyone heard of astral projection?? I really want to be able to that sometime before I die.
I am sorry for the triple post (please no one hate me). I could talk about dreams forever. I was wondering what your favorite dream was (as a child)?
I HATE marshmallows but not you cuz ur sweet as a marshmallow but not as gooey and you don't melt. Don't sweat it bubbula. I used to have lucid dreams a lot as a wee youngin' too. I think as we carry more mental weight it's harder to let ourselves go so freely in that way that lucid dreaming seems to require. I don't remember a favorite dream. I do remember a recurring nightmare in which I would be flown down the hall of my house in darkness, and I was really scared of the dark so as I moved away from the hall light further into the darkness this overwhleming panic just took over. An aside: it's really too bad mods can't move threads anymore, since the old dreams thread had extensive discussion of lucid dreams, among other things. For awhile I was getting these fantastic high-jumping dreams where id be able to bound over treetops and lampposts, soaring hundreds of feet in the air gleefully with each jump. Good stuff, flying dreams are fun. Falling dreams are not! My dreams have been distressing of late. My life has been distressing of late. It meshes.
Read this thread, not sure if I really know what's going on between everyone. Yet another reason why I shouldn't leave this forum.
The space between. You know, that space isn't really empty. That space is imaginary! What's separating us, really? I mean, really. What's separating us, really?
dreams can come true! look at me as i look at you! you know you got to have them!


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Chemotherapy given into a vein (intravenous) goes directly into your blood and is carried to all areas of your body.
It can be given through:
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- a central line – a long thin tube inserted into a vein in your chest
- a PICC (peripherally inserted central venous catheter) line put into a vein in the arm and threaded through to a vein in the chest
- an implantable port (portacath) put into a vein and has an opening (port) under the skin on your chest or arm.
When your cannula, line or port is in place the chemotherapy drugs can be given into it by injection, as a drip or through a pump. Your nurse will check that the cannula, line or port is working properly before giving you the chemotherapy.
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The cannula is put into a vein in the back of your hand or lower arm. Your nurse will place a see-through dressing over it to make sure it stays in place. The cannula is removed before you go home.
Central lines, PICC lines and implantable ports
Lines and ports are used to take blood samples as well as to give you chemotherapy. You can go home with the line or port in and it can be left in until your course of chemotherapy is over. This means you won't need a cannula or needles put into the veins in your arm every time you have chemotherapy or blood tests. You can also have antibiotics, fluids or a blood transfusion through your line or port.
Your specialist nurse will explain how the line or port will be put in. Once it's in place, the nurses will show you how to look after it.
When your course of treatment is over, the line or port will be taken out. A doctor or nurse will do this for you, usually in the outpatients department.
Many people won't need to have a line or a port. It depends on the type of cancer you have or the chemotherapy treatment you're having. They can also be used if there are problems with the veins in your arm, or if you're very anxious about having needles put in.
Central line
A central line is a long, thin, hollow tube that is inserted into a vein in your chest. They're sometimes called skin-tunnelled central venous catheters. But you may hear them called by brand names, such as Hickman® or Groshong® lines.
PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central venous Catheter) line
A PICC line is a long, thin, hollow tube that your doctor puts into a vein near the bend in your elbow. You'll be given a local anaesthetic to numb the area before the line is put in. The specialist nurse or doctor gently threads it along the vein until the tip sits in a large vein in your chest. The end of the line comes out just below the crook of your elbow. Once it's in place, the PICC line is taped firmly to your arm to prevent it being pulled out of the vein.
Implantable port (portacath)
An implantable port is a thin, soft plastic tube with a rubber disc (port) at the end. It can be put in under a general or local anaesthetic. The tube is inserted into a vein until its tip sits just above your heart and the port lies under the skin on your upper chest. Once it's in place, you can feel and see the port as a small bump underneath the skin of your chest, but nothing shows on the outside of your body.
To use the portacath, a special needle called a Huber needle is passed through your skin into the port. Your nurse can give medicines into the vein or take blood. The skin over the port can be numbed with an anaesthetic cream first so you don't feel any discomfort.
Having intravenous chemotherapy
Chemotherapy drugs given into a vein (intravenously) can be delivered in different ways. Your chemotherapy nurse will wear gloves and a plastic apron while giving you chemotherapy. This is just a precaution to protect them from any spillage of the drugs.
As an injection
The chemotherapy drugs are injected directly into a vein through your cannula or central line over a few minutes. Sometimes a bag of clear fluid is attached to plastic tubing and connected to the cannula or line in your vein first (called a drip or infusion). The drug is injected into a connection or tap on the plastic tubing and flushed into your vein with fluid from the bag.
A drip through a pump
The chemotherapy drugs are dissolved in a bag of fluid and given to you as a drip that runs through an infusion pump. The nurses set the pump to give you a controlled amount of chemotherapy over a fixed time. This can be from 20 minutes to several hours, depending on the chemotherapy you're having.
A drip on its own
Sometimes chemotherapy is given through a drip without a pump. The nurses set the rate and check it regularly to make sure it's at the right speed.
Through a small pump
Some types of chemotherapy are given over a few days and are set up at the hospital so you can go home with it. The chemotherapy is in a small pump which your nurse connects to your central or PICC line. The pump is small enough to be carried in a bag or belt holster.
You, and sometimes a relative or friend, will be taught how to look after it. Some pumps are battery-operated so you need to be careful not to get them wet when you're washing. There are also disposable pumps that are operated by a balloon mechanism or spring control.
Your nurse or pharmacist will explain how to look after the pump and who to contact if you have any problems.
When the infusion is finished there may some fluid left in the pump. Some pumps need to be overfilled to get the correct dose so this may be normal. Your nurse or pharmacist can tell you if you should expect this.
If a chemotherapy drug leaks
If a drug leaks into the area around the vein while being given, it's called extravasation. This is uncommon but can happen if a cannula dislodges and isn't in the correct position in the vein. Extravasation rarely happens with a central line.
Your nurse will be very careful to prevent extravasation when giving your chemotherapy. Some chemotherapy drugs can damage the tissues so it's very important that extravasation is dealt with straight away. If you notice any swelling, pain, stinging or redness during your chemotherapy, tell your nurse immediately. If you develop any of these problems after you go home, contact the hospital straight away.


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A movie I starred in got into Sundance! Here's the trailer:
So far, it's gotten good reviews from Variety, Slug Magazine, IndependentFilmQuarterly, and others (here's the Variety Review, and here's the Slug Review).
Our movie got paired with one of Derek Waters' "Drunk History" shorts, which means... if anyone wants to see the short, they have to see the feautre. And the short stars Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle.
Adam wrote/directed/edited/starred in the movie, and I play his best friend who enjoys drinking, partying, and Heelys. Our friends Jayme Ratzer and Valerie Jones also star in it.
Here's how it all happened. A couple years ago, I acted in an indie movie my friend Adam Bowers made called "New Low" in Gainesville Florida. He wanted to make a feature before we moved out to LA... so we shot one on my camera (a DVX 100B). Adam spent the next year or so editing and mixing the film from our apt in LA... while I made a bunch of YouTube videos.
Then one day, Adam called me and said, "Our movie got into Sundance."
The drive to Park City was nuts. It was my first time seeing snow, and I happened to be driving in it. And it was 2AM. Tanya wanted to stop and get a hotel, but I was all, "Noo no, I got this." Then we got a flat tire.
Luckily, we stopped in Cedar City at the most helpful Shell station in existence - they fixed our tire and gave us free coffee (thanks Ty and everyone else for helping)!
Anyway - Park City. None of the cast have ever seen snow, and Park City is a snow globe. We're surrounded by mountains, and there are 3 feet of snow atop every car, yard, and house. Also, there's an impenetrable glass dome surrounding the city.
It was fun walking around with a lead actor badge, getting free swag from Timberland (here are some pics of us wearing their apparel), Affliction (in case I ever want to wield some skulls and sequins), T-Mobile, uh... Aveeno. And more. Awesome.
Also we had some photoshoots and interviews, and we were on the morning news over there too. Here's a pic Tanya took of me being on it.
Adam submitted it as an afterthought - literally hours before the deadline, after one of his friends convinced him to submit (Thanks, one of his friends!). And then we're sitting in a huge condo within walking distance of everything at Sundance. It was surreal. By the way - thanksto Adam's dad for letting us all stay in this awesome condo!
Plus, I owe Wayne Federman $36. He said he'd prefer it if I gave him an Amazon Gift Certificate, so it'd feel like he was getting a present. Speaking of which... I should probably go take care of that.


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PORTLAND, Ore., April 6 (UPI) -- James Harden returned to his typical high-scoring self Friday while leading Houston to a 116-98 triumph over Portland.
It was Harden's second game back after missing two contests with a sore foot and he reached the 30-point mark for the first time since March 17.
He scored 33 points, grabbed seven rebounds and handed out six assists in what was Houston's fourth straight win. The seventh-place Rockets stayed three games in front of the eighth-place Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference playoff race.
Jeremy Lin added 22 points for the Rockets, who limited Portland to 2-of-20 from 3-point range.
LaMarcus Aldridge piled up 32 points and 13 rebounds for the Trail Blazers, who have lost seven in a row to fall out of playoff contention.


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Wesley Pue, University of British Columbia, and Rob McQueen, Griffith University, have posted an essay, Law's Empire, which introduces a forthcoming symposium issue of Social Identities. Here's the abstract: Scholars of culture, humanities and social sciences have increasingly come to an appreciation of the importance of the legal domain in social life, while critically engaged socio-legal scholars around the world have taken up the task of understanding "Law's Empire" in all of its cultural, political, and economic dimensions. The questions arising from these intersections, and addressing imperialisms past and present forms the subject matter of a special symposium issue of Social Identities under the editorship of Griffith University's Rob McQueen, and UBC's Wes Pue and with contributions from McQueen, Ian Duncanson, Renisa Mawani, David Williams, Emma Cunliffe, Chidi Oguamanam, W. Wesley Pue, Fatou Camara, and Dianne Kirkby. This paper introduces the volume, forthcoming in late 2007. The central problematique of this issue has previously been explored through the 2005 Law's Empire conference, an informal but vibrant postcolonial legal studies network, in publications of Melbourne University's Postcolonial Studies Institute, UBC Press' Law & Society series and through special issues of Law Text Culture, Law in Context and The Journal of Social Justice and Global Development.
Here's the table of contents for the symposium issue:
Rob McQueen, `Speaking and listening to words is how we know who we are`: An Introduction to `Laws Empire'
Ian Duncanson `Identities in the Colony and the Family: tragedies of ascription and transgression in two Australian films'.
Renisa Mawani `Legalities of Nature: Law, Empire and Wilderness Landscapes in Canada'
David Williams, `Maori social identification and colonial extinguishments of customary rights in New Zealand',
Emma Cunliffe `Anywhere But Here: Race and Empire in the Mabo Decision'
Chidi Oguamanam and W.Wesley Pue `Lawyers' Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-1960: 'the fighting brigade of the people'
Fatou Camara 'Women and the Law – A Critique of the Senegalese Family Law'
Dianne Kirkby 'Honorary Chinese? Women Citizens, Whiteness and Labour Legislation in the Early Australian Commonwealth'


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text: Big Beach Sports 2 returns with rugby, cricket, disc golf and football. Players also participate in competitions featuring surfing, canoe, water rocket and dune buggy races in either single player mode or through multiplayer challenges, going head to head with up to four players. Additionally, players can use the Wii Balance Board to ride the waves for a full-body surfing experience. Did you hear that? Finally a surfing game to use the Wii Balanace Board. Our experience tells us to not get our hopes up but hey, its a start! Read reviews of Big Beach Sport 1 here. Watch for Disc Golf on the PS3 soon. Trust us, it will be great!


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Cat Stevens
A true Seventies singer-songwriter—Cat Stevens gave hushed, mesmerizing performances.
Stevens' body of work is one of sophistication, truth-seeking and creativity informed by spirituality. His music was both what he was looking for and his way of looking.
Use the fewest words, sing in the quietest voice, place fingers on strings with the lightest touch.
Such are the apparent strategies of Cat Stevens. In his classic songs, there is a hush at the core, a whisper willed by a singer in search of focus.
Take "The Wind." The vocal that sits at the song's center doesn't seem so much performed as channeled, as if it's emanating not from the singer, but from the acoustic guitars that stroke and trace the vocals, forming chords that curl into rounds. Listen closely and you'll hear a third element—uncredited, but palpable. Around Steven's soft voice and feathered guitars lies a specific kind of silence, and audible absence, creating an ambience unlike anything heard on any other recording.
The words and music of "The Wind" speak of eternity, yet they last just one minute and forty seconds. It's an ideally ironic opening song for Teaser and the Firecat (1971), an album that both warmed the listener and pushed the singer into a fervent search. Could anyone who heard such songs in 1971 have been truly surprised to learn that Stevens' snub of the music business—one of the most bracing and misunderstood rebukes in pop history—had its roots in the very material that first made him a star. His classical cuts, like "On the Road to Find Out," "Wild World" and "Into White," all center on seeking. They ache to pull back life's curtain, to find out what can and can't be seen. If so earnest a pursuit led Stevens to leave pop for a protracted time, it also accounted for his looming popularity in his commerical prime. The focus and introspection of his songs dovetailed perfectly with the rise of the singer-songwriter movement in the early Seventies. That surge saw a broad range of artists moving away from the amplification and theatrically to mine the inner life. Of all the stars buoyed by this march—from Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne, to Elton John and Carole King—Stevens rates as the most spiritually determined.
Yet that mission took nothing away from the beauty that made his songs into hits. Or the vocal range that made them widely varied. Or the mortal lusts and needs that made them relatable. Those skills owe a lot to an early start in music. From his youth, Stevens displayed a will to match formal melodies to fine words.
Born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948 in the Marylebone neighborhood of London, the singer had a Greek-Cypriot father (Starvos Georgiou) and a Swedish mother (Ingrid Wickman). They lived above the family's restaurant, Moulin Rouge, and everyone, including the children, helped out with the business. But by the time he was a young teen, the budding musician had started playing piano in earnest and, by 15, he added guitar to his skills, inspired by the Beatles. He was also influenced by West Side Story—intrigued by the musical's sweeping songs and knowing view of clashing cultures. Stevens' love of both show tunes and folk music would later show in his work: the former accounting for its rich perspectives, the later evident in its sonic sparsity.
As a youth, Stevens also took up drawing, a skill later displayed in the purposely naive paintings that adorned the covers of his best-known albums. In 1965, at age 17, the aspiring musician got his first published deal with Ardmore & Beechwood. He recorded his "The First Cut Is the Deepest" as a demo for them. The song would later become a modern standard.
By 1966 he had chosen the stage name Cat Stevens because, as he explained in interviews, his girlfriend said his eyes had a feline shape and allure. At 18 he met manager/producer Mike Hurst of the British vocal group the Springfields (which also included Dusty Springfield). Hurst helped Stevens land a record contract, leading to his first single, "I Love My Dog," which inched to Number Twenty-Eight in the U.K. It was followed by "Matthew & Son," a formal orchestral-pop confection that made it all the way to Number Two. His first full LP—also titled Matthew & Son—featured "I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun," which went Top 10 in 1967, and "Here Comes My Baby," a Top 5 chartmaker when the Tremeloes covered it.
While Stevens' follow up album, New Masters (1967), fell short of the U.K. charts, it did include "The First Cut Is the Deepest," which became a smash when covered by P.P. Arnold. The song would be recorded by Rod Stewart, James Morrison, Sheryl Crow and scores more. Crow's 2003 version of the song won her a Grammy nomination two years later and landed Stevens back-to-back ASCAP Songwriter of the year awards (in 2005 and 2006). But as promising a pop career as Stevens enjoyed, he found his image—as a budding pinup and polished star—unsatisfying. Even so, he might not have made a major change in both his music and his philosophy if a medical emergency had not shaken his life to the core. In 1969 he contracted tuberculosis, and the disease nearly killed him. He spent months recuperating in King Edward VII Hospital in West Sussex, followed by a full year of rest and recovery. The long stretch gave him the time he needed to imagine a different life, by a new point of view. It was here that Stevens began to study religion and philosophy. His creativity exploded. He wrote scores of songs: the albums they appeared on would rocket him to fame. Stevens vowed to leave behind the heavy orchestrations and booming echo chambers that defined his first two albums. To do so, he got rid of his first manager, and wrangled his way out of his initial contract with Deram Records. He hired agent Berry Krost, who landed him an audition with Chris Blackwell of Island Records. Blackwell gave him creative carte blanche, and Stevens set about honing his new sound with key help from producer Paul Samwell-Smith, formerly the bassist with the Yardbirds.
In America, Stevens signed with a label just as artist-friendly as Island: A&M. Samwell-Smith then provided a crucial suggestion that helped Stevens complete the sound he sought. The producer introduced him to the former session guitarist Alun Davies, whose fingerings proved a perfect mirror for Stevens' crystalline new direction. Davies worked with Stevens throughout the rest of his commercial run, and even returned to perform with him when he re-emerged as Yusuf Islam nearly three decades later.
Their first album together, Mona Bone Fakon, released in June 1970, featured the hit "Lady D'Arbanville," about Stevens' girlfriend of the time, Patti D'Arbanville. The song helped the album go gold on both sides of the Atlantic. It was an ideal setup for the next album, the one that made Stevens a superstar and still endures in its popularity and resonance to this day. Released in November 1970, Tea for the Tillerman became a Top 10 smash, driven by the woodsy sounding, acoustic guitar-driven single, "Wild World."
Tillerman encapsulated the trademark Stevens sound. Despite its seeming simplicity, its melodies retained a formality that showed marked sophistication. Moreover, Stevens' vocal range allowed him to express a broad spectrum of characters and situations. The finest example, "Father and Son," found him singing both tenor and baritone parts with equal authority (delineating the title characters' differing points of view). It remains one of his most aching works.
Stevens equaled Tillerman's juggernaut less than a year later with Teaser and the Firecat (1971), which included his ranging from the rousingly idealistic "Peace Train" to the fresh-faced "Morning Has Broken" (with its classical piano part), to "Moon Shadow," which mimicked the holy glow of "The Wind."
Many more hits followed, in an increasingly broad range of styles and arrangements. One U.S. Top 10 song, "Another Saturday Night," even integrated Caribbean inflections. By the 1977 album Izitzo, Stevens ventured far enough from his past to bring in synthesizers, the supposed opposite of his seminal acoustic pieces.
By that time, the singer had already started his religious sojourn. In a revelatory incident in 1975, Stevens almost drowned off the coast of Malibu, California. The trauma sharpened his quest for a more spiritually focused life. He found his way into Islam, changing his name to Yusuf Islam in July 1978. The singer's next album, Back to Earth (1978), would be his last pop record for decades.
Stevens started to make music again in the Nineties, though, at first, it was of an entirely religious nature. He endured media-fueled controversies over the years, fed by Islamophobia. He didn't start exploring secular music again until the new millennium, leading to the release of An Other Cup in 2006. Though the album reached no higher than number fifty-two on the U.S. charts, the undimmed beauty of its songs charmed critics.
Despite the decades separating this music from his earliest, An Other Cup presented a philosophical through-line. It focused on the quest for solace, the journey to calm, as well as the acceptance of their evanescence. Considered together, Stevens' early and late songs form a singular question: How can music of such quietude carry such force?
Inductee: Yusuf Islam a.k.a. Cat Stevens (born July 21, 1948)


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The Boone Collection consists of over 3,500 East Asian artifacts gathered by Commander Gilbert E. Boone and his wife Katharine Phelps Boone. The Boones acquired most of these objects in the late 1950s, during a three-year tour of duty in Japan. Consequently, the objects are predominantly Japanese (accounting for over 50% of The Field Museum's Japanese collection), but a significant number are also from China and Korea.Read more about Boone Collection


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I'm still blogging in my mind, but no one has invented the Telepathic Blog App yet, so I can't prove it. I did, however, attend a fun and refreshing little blog conference here in San Antonio last weekend, and I am really, truly, planning to start blogging again. Soon. Maybe.
In the meantime, here's a quick little project I did this morning for my kiddos, and I thought I'd take a moment to share it with you. This is the first printable I've ever shared, so be kind. 🙂
Books I Have Read – Title, Date finished, Author, and 2 line Summary for 5 books (free printable in PDF format)
Every time one of my younger children finishes a school book, I take him or her out for an inexpensive treat – a dollar burger, a trip to The Dollar Tree, or something similar. If they want, I let them wait and use 2 outings at once for a trip to the dollar theater (which actually costs $2 for each of us). They always ask if reading a "regular" book can count, but I would be taking someone out every day of the week if I were that generous!
But here is a compromise: With this printout, they can earn an outing every for 5 books they have read – and they'll have a good start on writing a mini book report! As they gain practice, I'll add a few more lines for the summary and switch to a 2-page format. It will be easy since my printer does 2-sided printing painlessly.
Of course you can make up your rules, but I did put just a few requirements for my own children as to which books are acceptable:
- It must be a new book that you have never read before.
- You must read it – audio books are great, but they don't count toward this goal.
- It must be at an appropriate level for you.
In the future, I might require that a minimum number of books on the list be non-fiction.
My kids are already enthusiastic readers, but I think this will encourage them to read with more purpose, seek out new titles, and retain more of they read since they will be summarizing each book as they finish it.
Do you use something like this? Would you like to? If you download and use this, I'd love to hear what you and your children think!


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Council members Support Better Wages For Security Guards
City Council Members Brewer, Gonzales, and Jackson along with community leaders rallied today in the Financial District calling for better wages for security officers. The security officers employed by Elite Investigations Ltd, protect commercial office buildings that house some of Manhattan's most prestigious businesses, yet some earn as little as $8.00/hr. "I put my life on the line every day to protect the people and property in my building,� said James Barnes, an Elite security officer. "I am a husband and father of five. My family depends on me to provide for them, but Elite has not given me a raise in the past four years. Six months ago I was forced to take a second job.�
"As state president of the NAACP, I am deeply concerned about the poverty level wages that our security officers earn. These officers - many of them people of color - deserve to make sufficient, stable wages to provide for themselves and their families,� said Hazel Dukes. Elite Investigations Ltd employs over 650 security officers in the tri-state area and protects more than 5.7 million square footage of property in New York City. Reflecting a trend in the private security industry, the majority of Elite's security officers - over 80% - are people of color.
"Elite should act responsibly by paying security officers a living wage,� said Council Member Gale A. Brewer. "Security officers are on the frontlines of protecting our city. They work hard to keep us safe and should not have to worry about making ends meet.�
"Security officers keep our residents safe,� said Council Member Robert Jackson. "They risk their lives to protect multi-million dollar buildings, yet they have to struggle to provide for their families.�
"Security is one of the few non-fast food jobs available to residents of my district,� said Council Member Sara Gonzalez. "Security companies like Elite exploit this by paying low wages that keep our communities in poverty.�
Since 1999, the New York State Department of Labor has sustained wage and hour complaints brought against Elite. In addition, Elite is currently under investigation by the New York Division of Human Rights for "engaging in unlawful discriminatory practice."
"The wages paid by Elite makes security a dead-end job,� said Lenore Friedlaender, Local 32BJ Vice President. "The low wages lead to high turnover that potentially jeopardizes building and tenant safety.� With more than 75,000 members, Local 32BJ is the largest private sector union in New York City and the largest building service union in the country.
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One reason Annex D3(a) has a more complicated example of feeder sizing is the circuit is being divided up into different runs with different temperature requirements. But another reason is the neutral calculations are complicated by the fact that the load isn't calculated on the basis of VA per square meter or square foot. Thus, 210.11(B) does not apply and we cannot assume the load is evenly distributed. Before we look at the implications of this, let's see how dividing up the circuit affects the feeder sizing for the ungrounded conductors.
First of all, dividing the circuit this way means you essentially have two sets of feeder conductors supplied by one breaker but you're treating each set as if it's a different circuit. Each will meet its own set of requirements for the conditions it's in. Because the one set has terminations, its temperature rating is limited by the ratings of its terminations. Because the other set has its terminations outside the high temperature area, its temperature rating isn't strictly limited by that of its terminations.
The upshot for the high temperature set is that, instead of using a 3/0 conductor from the 60°C column, you can use a 1/0 conductor from the 75°C column (Table 310.15(B)(16). That's a significant savings labor and materials.


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Women?s Golfer of the Week ? No. 7
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Alainey Muro of Texas at Brownsville has been named the NAIA National Women's Golfer of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Muro was selected based on her performances from April 23 - 29 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated group golfer of the week selections. The honor is the first for Muro.
Muro, a freshman from McAllen, Texas, carded a school record 145 in the two-round NAIA Unaffiliated Group Tournament April 23 - 24 to capture the event's individual championship and a berth in the NAIA Women's Golf National Championships in Greenville, Tenn., May 15 - 19. Her performance led the Scorpions to a second place finish amongst Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference, Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference and Red River Athletic Conference foes. Muro set the tone for the field early with a program record-tying round of 71 before wrapping up the competition with a 74 in day two.
On the year, Muro owns five top-five finishes and an average round score of 80.2.
Nominees: Sunny Powers, Concordia (Ore.); Brittany Branker, Milligan (Tenn.); Taylor Kline, Northwestern (Iowa); Makenzie Bruce, Reinhardt (Ga.); Rachel Hosterman, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Liz Stephens, Cumberlands (Ky.).
2012 Composite Award Winners
Week 1: Jessica Schiele, Oklahoma City
Week 2: Maggie Yang, William Penn (Iowa)
Week 3: Anna Arrese, Oklahoma Christian
Week 4: Jada Bennington, William Woods (Mo.)
Week 5: Dani Bellet, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.)
Week 6: Anna Arrese, Oklahoma Christian
Week 7: Alainey Muro, Texas at Brownsville


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Create Your Own Floating BookShelves
So I have a rather vertical home. And I thought a way to make my meager apartment look larger was to get rid of all the shelving units I had and put the books on the walls…but in a stylish way. While looking around on tumblr I found ! really like invisible bookshelves. Like the ones above.


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A person can only say so much about countertops, and Glennon Doyle Melton had said enough. Enough about countertops and Little League and all the ways her life was good and healthy and enviable. It was exhausting, and it was not the whole story.
It wasn't even the beginning of the story.
To her church friends and neighbors, Melton, 37, was the lovely, wise, smiling, designer-jeans-wearing mom of three darling kids.
And she was — is, in fact — all those things.
She is also a recovering bulimic and alcoholic. "For 20 years, I was lost to food and booze and bad love and drugs," she writes in her very funny, astonishingly brave new book, "Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed" (Scribner).
Presenting one side of herself without the other started to feel false. "I wanted my insides and outsides to match," she writes.
She toyed with introducing herself at the playground with a showstopper: "Hi, I'm Glennon. I'm a recovering, well, everything, and most recently I've been struggling with isolation and intimacy with my husband, and I've also been getting quite angry with my kids for no reason. I feel awful about those things. But yoga is helping. … How are you?"
Her sister suggested she tone it down — filter it, she said, for her family's sake.
"I asked her if 'filter' meant 'lie,' and she said yes definitely," Melton writes.
But who would that help?
If any good could come from her two decades of turmoil, Melton knew she had to share her past and current life with anyone who wanted to listen. She bypassed the playground and went a little bigger.
She founded Momastery
.com, a website launched on the premise that motherhood is like a monastery: "A sacred place, apart from the world, where a seeker can figure out what matters and catch glimpses of God." She started blogging at The Huffington Post. She gave a speech at TED (the global speakers conference aimed at sharing stories and ideas) titled "Lessons from the Mental Hospital." She wrote "Carry On, Warrior."
She wants her story — the whole of it — to make people feel less alone and less inferior.
"We live in a time when it's never been easier to compare ourselves to each other," she told me by phone last week. "But we only see two dimensions of people's lives. You see a picture of your friend dragging their kids in a wagon to the petting zoo and, meanwhile, you can barely get breakfast on the table, and you think, 'I'm not doing this right.'"
Melton, God love her, has the courage and the resolve and the wit to show us all of her dimensions. She's the anti-Instagram.
A parenting magazine recently asked her to write an advice column about raising happier kids.
"I don't know," she said. "I think the kids are all right. I'd rather help make mamas happier."
Which is, in many ways, the same thing. Happier mamas make for happier kids, after all.
"This all stems from the fact that I felt really, really alone for 35 years," she says. "I've been a freaking mess and I've felt horribly alone. And now I'm talking about it all and now I don't. And that makes all the difference."
The response has been mostly positive. She gets her share of detractors, of course. But she focuses more on the lives she's touching and the minds she's opening.
"I was at a book signing last week, and a woman said to me, 'I disagree with a lot of what you say, but I feel like you've taught me how to love someone I disagree with,'" Melton said. "That's one of my favorite things anyone has ever said to me."
People frequently ask her if she's "better" now.
"Better is a troublesome word for me," she writes. "Better suggests increased value, and I think I was worth exactly the same when I was a falling-down drunk as I am now: a sober, loving, creative wife, mother, sister, daughter and friend. … I prefer the word healing to the word better."
Those words, all of her words, make the world a better place.
And a healing place.
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Filed under: Art, Basketball, Bread City, Jeff Koons | Tags: 1980s Aesthetics, 1980s NBA, Art History, Basketball Art, Costacos Brothers, Jeff Koons
The Costacos Brothers' awesome 1980s sports posters were hung on bedroom walls across the country with scotch tape and awe. And in 1985, they were also hung in a gallery by Jeff Koons, who went on to sell them for hundreds of thousands of dollars as his own work.
Call it a hostile art takeover. How else could Koons manage to appropriate six of the Costacos' well-known basketball posters for Equilibrium, his first solo show? It was easy. He went to Nike, bought the rights for an undisclosed amount, and started printing the certificates of authenticity.
Curators can spin Koons' conceptual power move this way and that. But here's the real deal, straight from his 1992 Taschen book: "It's about artists using art for social mobility…white middle-class kids have been using art the same way that other ethnic groups have been using basketball — for social mobility."
In contemporary art and basketball, big personalities rule. Koons saw something of himself in the Costacos Brothers' one-shot athlete mythologies. He indulged this superstar artist fantasy by finding a way to justify flipping the posters as his own product.
From the perspective of today's age of 24/7 internet image curation, where support for authorship is zilch, the whole story doesn't seem that shocking. The idea of cool images being re-contextualized is familiar to anyone who knows understands what "re-blog" means. But how many re-blogs have you heard of netting $150,000 at Christies?
Tracking down the Equilibrium posters on the web is difficult, these days. After all, creating scarcity is a key element of how Koons transformed them into expensive art objects. So like bedroom sunlight faded so many Costacos posters over the years, every blog hit devalues Koons' work a tiny bit more. Enjoy.
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who's the secretary!?! thats such an awesome poster!
awesome to hear the costacos/koons story too! your blog is a pleasure as usual!
hmmm…. I am not sure Jeff see's himself as the capable pro athlete… have you ever heard him talk?…his mind is probably more like Michael Jackson's…who bought the Beatle's song rights…no?…I heard Jeff say he is like Alicia Keys…
art as social mobility…interesting… art classes and art schools are generally more important to students who don't do well in school. i must look up to my father as the dr. dunkenstein of these folks….the godfather of free speech advocacy (porn), the educator of banality and all things neo pop
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To wrap up the year I'm joining a few other sites in writing about our favorite or most memorable single ride of the year. A year ago I would have thought that my ride on one of the new wing coasters, Wild Eagle or X-Flight would had to been my ride of the year. But, I love the adventure of visiting theme parks for new experiences. They can be surprisingly bad or, like in this year's best ride, surprisingly good!
Mystery Mine & The Power of the Unknown
Completely new experiences can be hard to come by when you've traveled around a good bit. There are clone coasters out there like the to Batman – The Ride coasters that I rode this year for the first time. Then there's rides like the aforementioned wing coasters. They were brand new to me and everyone else. But I'd covered them in detail for months, been interviewed about them, and had almost ridden them in my head before arriving at Dollywood and Six Flags Great America. They were awesome rides. Both received a 9 (Excellent). But, Mystery Mine earns the distinction of Ride of The Year.
I had purposely not researched Mystery Mine this year so that I'd be in the dark (See what I did there?) about the ride's details. And I'm glad that I did. Rides that combine dark ride and roller coaster aspects (like the highly rated Revenge of the Mummy) rampp up the adventure scale ten fold. Even though it's not a long ride, there's a lot going on. So, it feels a good bit longer. The opening dark ride aspects were fun, but at the top of first hill I had no idea what I was about to experience.
Here's how I described it in my Mystery Mine review:
I had many enjoyable experiences this year at all of the parks that I visited, but this particular first ride on Mystery Mine takes the cake because of the surprise aspects from the theming, small but powerful drop, the second drop, and the hang time from the heartline-dive loop combo that feels like an eternity. Mystery Mine is not the best overall coaster I rode this year, but it definitely gave me the best ride of the year.
See what others have said:
ThemeParkRides.org – Most Memorable Ride Experience of 2012
Coasterblog – My Single Favorite Ride of the Year
The Coaster Guy – My Best Single Ride Experience of 2012
Coaster101 – Best Ride of 2012: Beast at Night
What's Your Take?
What was your best single ride experience of the year? Did you have a memorable night ride or fun experience with a friend or family member?


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PYONGYANG — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un unveiled Saturday a renovated Korean War museum with a US-baiting centrepiece in the form of the spy ship USS Pueblo, captured in 1968.
Kim, wearing his trademark black Mao suit,cut the red ribbon on the monumental Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum after inspecting an honour guard in front of thousands of war veterans and invited foreign guests.
Entering the museum's main doors, the first sight greeting visitors is a four-metre high coloured statue of what looks remarkably like Kim, but turns out to be a youthful representation of his grandfather and the nation's founder Kim Il-Sung.
Much of the museum collection is a paean to Kim Il-Sung's strategic battlefield brilliance — credited with bettering the might of the US military in the Korean War.
The 1950-53 conflict essentially ended with North and South Korea occupying the same territory they held at the start, but the 1953 armistice is celebrated in the North as "Victory Day".
The museum opening coincided with the 60th anniversary of the ceasefire, which was never cemented with a treaty, leaving the two Koreas still technically at war.
Giant statues aside, the main draw of the museum is the USS Pueblo, berthed on the river bank next to the main museum building.
The Pueblo was attacked and seized by North Korea's navy on January 23, 1968. One American sailor was killed in the assault and 82 others were captured and held prisoner for 11 months before they were freed.
US Naval authorities and the crew of the Pueblo insisted that before the capture, the Pueblo was miles outside North Korean territorial waters.
The ship is still listed as a commissioned US naval vessel and a US Senate resolution in 2008 declared the Pueblo was the first US Navy ship to be "hijacked" by a foreign military in more than 150 years.
For North Korea it remains a prized Cold War trophy and proud evidence of its ability to secure victories over its great "US imperialist" foe.
Inside the ship, which has also been renovated, pride of place is given to handwritten confessions signed by some of the ship's officers.
The opening of the refurbished museum was one of a series of "Victory Day" events held in Pyongyang this week, and followed a massive military parade in the capital on Saturday morning.
"This museum is a shrine of victory that will let the whole world know of the heroic fighting spirit and brilliant exploits of our army that defeated the US imperialists for the first time in history," Kim Jong-Un's top military aide Choe Ryong-Hae said in a speech.
The opening ceremony ended in the evening with an extravagant 20-minute firework display.


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Spell Heightening, Improved (3.5e Equipment)
From D&D Wiki
Spell heightening, improved [Synergy]: A weapon with this enhancement has all of the benefits of a least spell heightening weapon, except that it heightens any spell in it by 3 levels.
Prerequisite enhancements: Spell Storing, Least Spell Heightening, Lesser Spell Heightening.
Strong Evocation (plus aura of stored spell); CL 12th; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Heighten Spell; Price +6 bonus.
See also:
- Spell Heightening, Least (3.5e Equipment)
- Spell Heightening, Lesser (3.5e Equipment)
- Spell Heightening, Improved (3.5e Equipment)
- Spell Heightening, Greater (3.5e Equipment)
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Hanley Ramirez No, Everth Cabrera Yes
By Jonah Keri
Hanley Ramirez is a consensus Top-2 pick.
Troy Tulowitzki's in most people's Top 20, and some people's Top 10.
Jimmy Rollins' stock has dropped a bit, but he remains a high-round
favorite among fantasy shortstop picks.
In deeper leagues, you can safely ignore all of them.
your draft is all about finding value. One of the best sources of value
this year will be cheap steals – especially from the shortstop
position. In deep mixed leagues and especially NL-only leagues with 10
teams or more, several lightly-regarded shortstops figure to bring a
lot of hidden value in late rounds.
Leading that pack is Everth Cabrera. The 23-year-old San Diego Padre
swiped 25 bases in his rookie season last year, tied for 6th among MLB
Cabrera's impressive steals total came despite playing in just 103
games last year. Project those numbers out over a full season, and 35+
steals become a realistic goal; no MLB SS swiped more than 33 bags in
2009. Cabrera figures to get that additional playing time too. He
showed decent plate discipline, walking in 10.5% of his plate
appearances and notching a .342 on-base percentage. Cabrera also played
solid enough defense to earn his team's trust as an everyday shortstop.
Cabrera will never be confused for a five-category beast like Ramirez.
He hit groundballs on 62.7% of the ball he hit in play last year, an
astronomical figure that severely limits his ability to rack up
extra-base hits. A look at his Spider Chart (bottom center) shows that Cabrera offered
value in the Runs Scored and Stolen Bases department. His other fantasy
categories aren't pretty: His two home runs put him miles below the
league average even at a more power-deficient position like shortstop,
and you're probably not knocking in a ton of runs if you're constantly
chopping the ball into the ground either.
Cabrera's value could hinge on his batting average. His .255 mark last
year was sub-par for someone with little to no power and a .325 batting
average on balls in play suggests that the culprit wasn't necessarily
bad luck. On the other hand, Cabrera's speed should work to his
advantage, helping him leg out infield hits. If he can hoist his line
drive percentage a bit higher than last year's 14.8% and stick in the
everyday lineup, we could be looking at a .280 hitter with 80+ runs
scored and 35 steals.
Cabrera sports an Average Draft Position of 249. But his B-Rank (Bloomberg Sports' proprietary ranking of all players) of 190 demonstrates his significantly higher upside.
Grabbing Albert Pujols or Chase Utley near the top of your draft, then waiting until the late rounds to grab Everth Cabrera (or Cubs shortstop Ryan Theriot,
a player with similar skills) as your starting shortstop and source of
cheap steals, could pay big dividends for your team this season.
For more information on Everth Cabrera and hundreds of other players,
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I, too, think Cabrera is a steal (sorry, bad pun). . Cabrera seems to be the more ML caliber player (better plate discipline), but Escobar is slated to hit 2nd in a top-heavy lineup, while Cabrera could end up hitting 9th.
Sorry, some html error with my first comment–I simply wanted to say that I had written a post on the relative value of both Cabrera and the Brewer's rookie SS Alcides Escobar.
I could not agree more. Hanley Ramirez, Troy tulowitzki and Jimmy Rollins all stand out as top notch among the fans but still when it comes to Everth Cabrera, things are quite different. After all, he was sensational when he swiped twenty five bases last year in his rookie season. That itself has made his mark in the game. Besides, he was tied sixth among MLB shortstops and that is something that is really quite remarkable!
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
What Am I Doing with Social Media?
I have a lot of friends on Facebook, followers on Twitter and now Google Plusers (still not sure if I like that term). Sometimes people will be friended or circled by someone like me with a lot of connections and want to steer clear because they think I am up to some nefarious endeavor. Hence this post.
So what am I really doing with social media? What is my goal? You'll be surprised and you might not believe me. Some of you won't trust me and still think I'm up to something mischievous. The rest of you will know it's just my honest, goofy self.
At heart I am a teacher. For years now I have been a genealogical instructor and speaker. I like to help people expand their knowledge so that they can better track down their family history. Years ago before I was into genealogy, I was a volunteer as an English as a Second Language instructor for adults. The idea of learning and education has been in my core right from the start.
I am also a connector. I like to meet people. I also like to connect people who don't know each other. When two people who have common interests and would benefit from making a connection, I like to help make that happen.
I like to grow things and have fun. When I was in high school I belonged to a club called AFS (American Field Service) which sponsored exchanges with foreign students. When I joined the club as a freshman it was small and dwindling. By the time I graduated it was a large thriving club. What did the club do? We had fun! And we got to know students from other countries which is another thing I really loved. There was no purpose to it except to build a fun club with people of like interests who we wanted to spend time with.
So back to social media. Wrap all that stuff up together and add a little internet and social media and there you have me now. My sinister goal is to find people on the fringe/working solo who are interested in genealogy and bring them into a greater community so that they can learn more, become better genealogists and find companionship with people who have similar interests.
Am I selling something? No, not yet. Though some day I would like to write some books and hopefully someone will buy those. But don't hold your breath because I've been saying that for a long time. No wait, I am selling something! You can buy my last webinar on CD from Legacy Family Tree! I forgot about that. Feel free to buy lots of copies and give them to all your family members! :)
Am I being secretly sponsored or paid to promote content? Yeah, I wish! Thank you for thinking that I am a big fish in a small pond but corporate sponsors don't agree that I am. Besides, I've determined that nothing is going to alter my voice or opinion. I want to write or say whatever comes into my head and having total autonomy over that works best for me.
So there you have it. That's what I'm all about with social media. So let's connect, learn, have great discussions, have fun and get on with it!
Photo Credit: Photo by isforinsects and used under the creative commons license.
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I love the post! But, it is no secret that you are a friendly, sharing and giving person. I will take the witness stand on that - and we met through social media!
Keep it up, the world needs more of you!
Don't apologize for having something to sell, you can have an opinion and sell something, as long as your honest, and I've never known you to be anything but..ReplyDelete
I circled you on Google+ and follow your blog because I feel I can learn from you,and you're giving me food for thought, genealogy wise. Others I've circled because I feel I can mean something to them. Maybe not today, but certainly at some point. Maybe one day, this connection might be useful to you, too.ReplyDelete
Taco, I'm surprised you don't think I've benefited from your connection. Or perhaps you are being modest. You were the one, after all, who inspired a blog post of mine that lead to a very active internet discussion with responses on several other blogs. I would say I find you very thought provoking (in a good way!).ReplyDelete
Nice one, Marion! Thanks for friending me!ReplyDelete
You are merely doing what social media are engineered to allow you to do quite effectively. I found your posts and comments interesting, and have enjoyed seeing what you have to say.ReplyDelete
I'm actually rather disappointed you're not up to something sinister and nefarious...HA! Okay, seriously, I'm glad to have connected with you via twitter, and am honored you followed my blog, and secured yet another genealogist blog follower for me. Though I'm not a genealogist, I find your writings about it quite fascinating, so am glad to have connected with you and your work, and for my introduction to this field. So keep on doing what you're doing...it's all great stuff!ReplyDelete
I don't remember how I heard of you, but I am very glad you "circled" me and I love to read your blog. Keep doing what you're doing.ReplyDelete
I wasn't trying to be modest (my 'About me' on blogger reads "I am not certified for anything, but I do think I know what I am doing."), but I'm aware that, at this point in time, there's infinitely more that I can learn from you than you could from me. In that light, looking forward to your seminar tomorrow (evening for me)!ReplyDelete
Marian, this is a great mission statement! I love how you've figured out what is so satisfying to you in genealogy. I wish you great success. I'm happy to be your +1, twitter and facebook friend.ReplyDelete
Great goals for social media. I, too, want to find people who are interested in the same things I am (family history and writing) and share what I learn and learn from them. I also do want people to visit my blog as I have so much fun creating it and write it to be a)easy to read and easy on the eyes; b) lots of vintage photos to immerse readers in the past I'm writing about, and c) connect with readers on a human level. That whatever I'm writing about will hopefully resonate with another -- not just as my family story -- but as a human story. I appreciate what you've written here.ReplyDelete
Hi Marian, thank you for the circle, love your post and activity in this field.ReplyDelete
My company is trying to better understand our role and service to the genealogical interest of our product buyers (it was not our original goal). We are positioning ourselves to be a good student, I hope, of this topic by asking our customers how they are making the connection between emerging physical monument technology and traditional genealogy tools.
What we have learned is that this relationship and topic is nearly unknown to most, even experts in the field, and is generally undefined and in need of some structure that is at least partly outside of our own expertise.
It is from this position that I hope to connect with one or more genealogically or historically oriented individuals that might have some interest in participating in the seed stage creation (and definition) of what I suspect will ultimately be a foundational tool for future genealogical research.
This effort is being approached as a not-for-profit endeavor where my company would do a bit of a hand off of know-how, contribute foundational tools and technical support - hoping we can get other companies to contribute as well (we are very small).
If you think you might be interested in learning more about this and what assistance is needed, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
John Bottorff
GM - Objecs® | RosettaStone Microchip™


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Elizabeth Stark, along with her husband Brian Campbell, has been chronicling her passion for simple, seasonal recipes on the popular food blog, Brooklyn Supper, since 2008. Brooklyn Supper was recently named a finalist in the 2015 Saveur Blog Awards for Most Delicious Food.
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The amount of coffee I drink in a day:
A full pot (or two.)
My most impressive parenting skill:
A perfect, flaky pie crust every time.
The one piece of advice I'd give to a new parent:
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