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Billed as the completion of an informal trilogy about Southern California musicians, following 1987's "Border Radio" and 1999's "Sugar Town," Allison Anders and Kurt Voss' "Strutter" is a genial throwback to the slew of deadpan indie comedies that followed in the wake of "Stranger Than Paradise" nearly three decades ago. It probably would have fared better commercially back then, but this breezy tale of Los Angeles hepcats, shot in retro-cool black-and-white, is enjoyable enough to attract scattered niche sales in all formats, possibly enhancing theatrical gigs by tying them to live musical ones.
Brett (Flannery Lunsford) is in a funk — not to be confused with a funk band, which would hardly be his style. The never-seen girlfriend he swears is the love of his life decided to end their relationship just as they were about to move in together. Now instead, he's moving back in with not-entirely thrilled mom Lu (Luanna Anders) and her on-and-off boyfriend, Frank (Craig Stark). At least Brett's still got his '60s garage-psych band — until the other members start announcing that they, too, are moving on to greener pastures. Adding insult to injury is the news that his ex has started going out with Damon Welsh (Dante White-Aliano), the musician/music historian/record-store owner who's his personal idol.
The perilously slight, loose screenplay gently kicks Brett down to various comically low ebbs before pulling him up again, notably via a romance with film buff Cleo (Elyse Hollander), and a desert road trip taken with Frank and Damon. This voyage is partly a pilgrimage to honor the spirit of late country-rock guru Gram Parsons, and elsewhere the pic often plays like a checklist of acquired tastes that bestow coolness on the devotee: Lee Hazelwood, John Cassavetes, tiki bars, etc.
A project like this, obviously made with friends and family, can easily become too insular and self-congratulatory. But Anders, Voss and a likable cast (largely composed of musicians, natch) extend their good times to the viewer by maintaining a self-deprecatory, casual, shaggily humorous tenor throughout.
Adding cachet is an original score by Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis (who appears during the closing credits to perform a guitar-store solo), though onscreen perfs by other bands are at least as appealing. Entirely crowdfunded via Kickstarter, the pic's sub-$25,000 budget is belied by polished packaging, with Voss' monochrome lensing taking good advantage of under-the-radar locations.

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Pope Francis Holds Inaugural Mass
Pope Francis was officially installed as Pontiff Tuesday and indicated the Church must be at one with the people. Catholic News Service's Francis Rocca explains. Photo: Getty Images.
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... the the ... the start of a new era for the Catholic Church Pope Francis celebrated his inaugural mass today at the Vatican ... will his grand debut set the tone for his papacy ... here with us to talk about all that more is Francis Rocca Rome bureau chief of the Catholic News Service's Francis good morning ... morning I should call you Frank ... my team together keeps a straight yes ... alright so ... one thing or a star with the Pope's homily in particular today ... was ... well of the fall far simpler message Benedict ... came as a long discourse three pages course in Latin ... and that's not what we got from the new Pope ... no that's true he does it make ... a direct reference to some more abstruse concepts that had been dictated province are away like to talk about that's true although I think there is a lot underneath that there is a lot of learning that can you can you can tease out ... on yes ... to some that out for us but what it what would you make of it ... well the thing that struck me today is the one I think was probably carried on ... also that everyone was ... the day did talk to Number Times about the environment and the need to protect creation ... and set a striking the severity of the day we met with the journalists ... on sadder day ... so that environmentalists and since he's he's in continuity with an eighty two U S unit was called the green post it would introduce that lean into ... into cable teaching ... but one thing is to use the word or some version of an Italian of the word on that that that strengthens protect the official chives a she said more than thirty times in a speech that was thirteen hundred words long ... I which is really more like it's a stake in custody over for or well being the custodian ... there's a sense of being vigilant of the guard like a guardian angel ... this is the word ... that he kept using over and over and over and he said that's the job of all the swirls was to take care of each other in a way to ... guard each out there ... ah but also this job ... ahh and I think that again The and that word has multiple many facets but I think there's a sense that he's going to be caring and tender and talked and imports of tenderness even a strong leader ... resulted in the vigil ... and and that was something maybe didn't come across this translation I think that that these ... initial news ought to be vigilant about okay now the ... Pope ... also continues to make lots of ... what folks are saying our gestures of humility and another one that was interesting today ... he wrote in an open air car suppose to the bulletproof Pope will be a we've all come to expect what's behind that ... well you know as you remember also on Sunday morning after she off to celebrate mass in small church inside Vatican City to spontaneously walked over onto the gate and there were people massed on the other side and around St these people haven't been vetted they were just a crown Research ... shaky hands they're like oh ... my God like a politician I can ... say is being off Dish and I'm saying is that the condom ... of a company to contact with people ... I think that must be getting his insecurity out people online anxiety and with a huge so will the permit him to continue do that you think ... he doesn't look right so he doesn't act like someone who's willing to be told what to do right at the very starting to think the momentum and selected Pope ... he did a few ... of the nine hour later we stand in for his crowning entire world ... the truth and he immediately starts departing from Vatican protocol ... where the shawl that he typically would wear that moment he didn't get in the elevation is on fidelity to the elevator or the Cardinals to get lost in the cards he said adding ... he's been from the very first moments he's not exactly wants to do and he's not losing any weight on you know we do it this way all the talk as quite remarkable it isn't and Justin ... Gaston get folks in context here we've been speaking about them the Pope will be over ... eighty people like to joke about that but ... of course John Paul the second was shot when he was with was driving along so that's why ... the deadly that's why he created the public Deal the first place right ... yet unlike with a figure of less than six hundred prominence is no way a hundred percent protect anyone remember that Benedict was knocked down ... by ... a woman obviously a ... little unstable woman and and Cardinal who's with who broke ... up broken sentences kept but to sell and you know and like he's taking more risks I think evidently been been been been baked in ... ok ... Frank rocket thank you so much for joining us this morning


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Very Sick Kids = Late Updates.on March 6, 2011 at 19:43
Unfortunately all three of our kids have come down with something. So we have three vomiting children to take care of! Even taking time out to write this info blog is more than I should be away…
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A Baltimore man died after being handcuffed and collapsing during a traffic stop on Route 1 in Elkridge, Howard County Police said Saturday.
An officer stopped Hakeem Muhammad, 51, about 9:15 a.m. as he was driving south on Route 1 near the exit to Route 100 and determined that he had suspended tags and lied about his identity, according to police.
After the officer arrested Muhammad and handcuffed him, he complained that he did not feel well and collapsed, police said. The officer and paramedics both did CPR on Muhammad, and he was taken to Howard County General Hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to police.
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One of the highlights of the parc is that there is a geodesic dome.
It been raining all day, I had to drive into the city to drop off a good friend and one of Oceans who came up to the cottage over the weekend. This is my beautiful Ocean and her bubblegum in the back seat of the car. I love this picture.


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How STAR WARS EPISODE VII's Release Date Might Make History
We were shocked that Disney had no Star Wars news to give at the D23 convention, not even a release date. We know that Episode VII is scheduled for 2015, and we assume that it's coming out in May, the usual Star Wars month. But what if it isn't? What if Episode VII still comes out in 2015 but breaks the Star Wars release mold?
Multiple sources have told me that right now Disney and Lucasfilm have December circled on their calendars, with a mid-month release - the 15th - being most likely. That would take Star Wars out of the crowded summer and, more importantly, give JJ Abrams and company a couple more months to work on a movie that's already running a tighter schedule than most of the other Star Wars films.
Why haven't they announced this? Possibly with a big 'We're giving you a Christmas gift' campaign? If I had to guess it's because they're not even sure JJ will make that date. They could push it back all the way to actual Christmas. Or perhaps it gets pushed out of 2015 altogether. That's obviously a last resort, as Alan Horn took the stage at D23 and recomittted to 2015.
Every single other Star Wars movie has been released in May, so moving to December is, symbolically, a big deal. It takes the movie out of what promises to be a bloody, ugly summer. And it gives Abrams and company more time to get the movie made. I'm all for it. What do you think of a potential December release?


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Film Review: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune
A long-overdue tribute to a leading Vietnam-era voice of protest.
A definitive and long-overdue tribute to songwriter Phil Ochs, a leading voice of Vietnam-era protest. Ochs' life was intense and tragically brief, but his legacy of soaring melodies and incisive lyrics still inspires.Interested?
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As Willie Nelson taught us, you just can't play a sad song on a banjo. Folk legend Pete Seeger unveils his newest protest song.
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The New Life Starts Here
- Jay Swartzendruber
- 2004 19 Apr
"Can I tell you a story?" she asks. Is she kidding? "Storyteller" is Sara Groves' middle name. And both in her art and in her life, Sara's stories are her language of choice.
With the March 23 release of her new album, "The Other Side of Something" (INO), Groves' melodic narratives are as deeply personal as ever. There's a good reason for this.
Start by picturing Sara at the age of 4 – that's when the Springfield, Mo., native recalls a simple yet profound conversation with God in which she "wanted to know if Jesus would come live in my heart." As she puts it, "That was sort of the beginning of my journey."
True – 4 years of age would prove to be pivotal for Groves in other unusual ways. As her faith journey started, her pilgrimage as both a musician, via piano lessons, and a songwriter also began. "My mom has always been a songwriter, too," she says. "She's really artistic that way and does choir pieces occasionally for the church. I've always seen her writing music, so it was very natural for me to mimic her."
While Groves' songwriting didn't reveal its prolific potential before she was a young adult, the faith that informs it anchored itself throughout her childhood. As her parents made a focused effort to nurture a healthy, spiritual environment for their children, they also inadvertently created a family atmosphere that would enable Groves' potently relational songwriting style. "I think that comes from the home she grew up in," affirms her husband, Troy, who married Sara after they attended Evangel University in Springfield.
"What always amazes me about her songwriting is how she puts her finger on how to say what she needs to say, how to translate that in a sort of poetic yet lyrical way that just makes sense. Sara's folks are both educators, and lots of conversation goes on in their home. They're the kind of family that when dinner's done, things are just getting going. They will continue with the conversation at the table for hours. That's her foundation."
"I had been writing music all those years in college but hadn't matured in it," explains Sara, who now lives in Minneapolis with Troy and their two young sons. "I've always written from a therapeutic place, so a lot of the songs were really just long and rambling and exploring emotions. It certainly wasn't palatable for a larger audience. Then I started doing it more as a hobby and a craft and really enjoyed that. My father-in-law and my husband were the ones who said [my music] is for other people. They said, 'When you sing in church it ministers … let's make an album.' To me that was a very big deal because it was putting myself out there and acting like I wanted to do this. I never wanted to actually admit to someone that I wanted to do it. God just had to speak to me and say, 'False humility is worse than pride.' Every time someone gave me a compliment, my "Aw shucks" routine was not any more holy than just saying, 'Thank you. God gives good gifts.'
In the same way people often raise funds for a short-term missions trip, Sara's father-in-law drafted a letter asking about fifty of their friends and family to financially support her first studio endeavor. The response trumped the highest expectations, and "Past the Wishing," her first independent album, released in early 1998. Sara and Troy watched in grateful amazement as her music began to connect with a mass audience and attract the attention of record labels.
"As soon as we entered into the whole music industry, we very quickly had to get an education on how that worked," Sara says. "Troy was my defender. He started learning everything there was to know about the music industry – he became my lawyer, my manager, my booking agent … everything."
The next few years and a second custom CD, "Conversations," would see Sara establish herself as one of America's most well-received independent artists. After introductions to several recording companies were made, she and Troy found a kindred spirit in Jeff Moseley's artist-oriented label, INO Records (MercyMe, CeCe Winans). "When I first heard Sara's music, I heard it over the Internet, and I fell in love with it," says Moseley, INO's founder, president and CEO. "I got a CD, and I remember going home and talking to my wife. I looked at her and said, 'I think I've found an artist we need to work with.' And she listened to Sara's CD and said, 'You know what? You're right. She has to be heard.' For us Sara was truly a labor of love. Early on I remember thinking that it didn't matter how many records she sold; I felt like she was going to be important for the marketplace.
INO picked up "Conversations" and, adding two songs to it, distributed the album nationally as Sara's label debut. Sara soon landed a No. 2 pop hit at Christian radio with "The Word" and gained industry acclaim with a 2002 Dove Award nomination for "New Artist of the Year." And while INO had initially hoped Sara's re-issued indie album would sell 30,000 to 40,000 copies, "Conversations" actually went on to connect with more than 120,000 fans.
Two years, a second CD – "All Right Here" – and several radio hits later, and Sara's artistic stage would be primed for a breakthrough album. Just raise her production budget once again, let her do her thing, and she'd be good to go. Right?
Not so fast. This is Sara Groves we're talking about – what she lives is what you get. "The Other Side of Something" indeed.
Several months prior to Sara's record label debut, she and Troy had welcomed their first son into the family. Kirby, who's now 3 and a half years old, would become a focal point for unprecedented turbulence in Sara's relationship with God.
"I've been a believer all my life – I never rebelled," she begins to explain. "I never had a time in high school where I was rebelling against my folks or anything. I've always been really passionate about my walk with the Lord and wanted to represent God and represent my dad – who's a pastor – well. And I've always said [to God], 'Wherever, whatever, take everything. Make me, break me, send me to Timbuktu, whatever; but Your will be done in my life.' But when I had Kirby, suddenly, instead of just for myself, I was saying for him, 'Take him, make him, break him, whatever.' And I saw what 'whatever' meant in other people's lives around me. I was in a season of my life where a lot of God-fearing people – good people – were experiencing incredible hardship. A couple – friends of ours – lost an infant child, a girlfriend was having three miscarriages and just after my aunt had been reconciled with her son, he disappeared. They found his body in a field and still don't know what happened. He has two young boys.
"I had grown up thinking, 'If you do these things, then God will bless you this way.' And I was finding out through all these godly people in my life, who were following the Lord and doing these things – A, B, C – that hard things were still happening to them. "I don't know if this is the case with every new mom; but, for me, I started becoming 'mama bear' and really was on the defense against the Lord. I said, 'I want to know what I can land on because this son is my most precious possession. What are You going to do with him?' And I went to the Bible to find, 'You will always be safe.' That's what I thought I wanted. I wanted safety, and I wanted assurances that I would always be comfortable. Instead, I found Jonah running from God, Job scratching himself with a piece of clay and men plotting to kill Jeremiah. David, Paul, Peter – all of God's own – strung out, hurt, beat up, messed up, and I got so … I was hurt."
That year Sara and Troy were on the road 270 days. She became fatigued. In her words, "All my gauges were on empty – my spiritual gauge, my emotional gauge, my physical gauge – all of them were pegged on empty." She continues, "With all these characters in the Bible and all these people in my life, I became their lawyer to God. I was saying, 'Lord, leave Jonah alone. He doesn't want to go to Ninevah. He's tired. And leave me alone. I don't want to go to Ninevah. I'm tired. And don't have me swallowed by a whale – that's lame.' I was just angry. And Job, tell God, 'The second family doesn't cut it.' I just systematically went through all these things, and I was harboring this rebellion in my heart. Basically, at the end of the day, I was having a hard time swallowing the 'sovereignty pill.' It's a big pill to swallow. But that's the pill that says, 'Bad things happen to good people.' And He's working things out for our good, but we don't always understand it. And the Lord didn't have to, but He systematically answered every single question I raised."
But before the answers started coming, Sara spent several months defiantly challenging God's personal nature. "I was sitting up in front of the bus talking with our new driver, Dick. He was a total [Ned] Flanders guy. ('God is good all the time.') And I was not in that place at all. My attitude was so rotten. I said, 'Tell me your testimony.' He told me his only son had been shot by a friend goofing around with a shotgun. He was 16 years old, and Dick lost him. In the wake of their grief, he and his wife heard about a ministry to adopt terminally ill children from Russia. With everyone saying, 'You're crazy. You're in the middle of grieving. Why are you doing this?' they began adopting these children and either nursing them back to health or … One of these boys died in their home.
"So I'm talking to him in the middle of this season in his life. And it was so interesting, and it moved me; but I didn't quite 'get it.' And I went back to my bunk and was about to fall asleep when I felt the Lord just whisper in my spirit, 'Go up front and tell Dick, 'The second family doesn't cut it.' I had said this months earlier about Job. The Lord was listening to me, and I just balled … just fell to pieces because Dick and Job know something about grief and about gratitude that I will never understand.
Likewise Sara revisited the biblical histories of Jonah, David, Jeremiah and the rest of her "clients." She realized over and over again that her perspective and the convictions based on it had been far too narrow and one dimensional.
"All these people I set up as my reasons to not believe ended up being the very men who pointed me to God," she explains. "Jeremiah says, 'It is good to serve the Lord.' He ends up saying, 'His Word is good. It burns in me. And I can't hold it in.' And every single one of those people – Paul in chains and Peter upside-down on his cross – all of them end up saying, "It is good to serve the Lord." And in my heart I just said, "I want to know what they knew – to say in the middle of loss and pain … that bad things happen to good people. I am compelled to serve You because it is good to be with You.
"I grew up in a church environment that emphasized holiness. I love my background, and I value that as my homebase. But the focus on holiness became a hope to me. When I say in 'Compelled,' 'I have a new hope that blows away the small hopes I knew before,' my small hopes were that I could be holy, that I could actually clean myself up enough to be holy like Christ. And I tried to do that, and I made a pretty good go at it. I was a good, good person. But when I found out I wasn't holy, that I couldn't make it, it was unbearable. I kept sinning. And so I ran into the arms of a 'grace message.'
"Each camp has a name for the other one," she explains. "The one calls the other 'legalism,' and the 'legalism' camp calls the other one 'sloppy grace.' I ran into the arms of 'sloppy grace,' and I needed that message – that God loves me no matter what I do. But that camp tends to focus on our failing and falling. And so I spent a lot of time saying, 'Oh well … God made me; He knows I'm a sinner. I'm going to sin, fail and fall. And that's who God is – He's going to meet me and meet me and meet me.' I wasn't comfortable there either.
"This album is marking an epiphany that they're both true. God is calling me to a life of holiness, and He loves me no matter what. And somewhere in the middle of that is a new hope that blows away these two smaller hopes, that at the end of the day I am marked – I'm a child of God; and no matter what I do, He's not going to let me go. I am fighting the good fight, and it's not going to be determined by one action, one sin or one good work. It's going to be determined by finishing strong, and He's not going to let me go. And I just have to keep waking up every day and saying, 'My stuff is Your stuff, and I trust You.' And that's what the Lord has worked out in my heart these last two years. He's said, 'I want all your stuff, and your righteousness isn't in the balance every day. 'You've got a mark on your heart – you're My child. I've adopted you.'
"So that's what I'm on the other side of. I'm coming out of this legalism-grace war … And it's a great freedom and a great gratitude that He would keep teaching me."
"This whole album is trying to document that struggle for me – and hopefully that place of victory. And right now I'm in a place of extreme gratitude. I feel like I was in a fight with my best friend for the previous year and then this last year coming home, I just had time off the road; Troy and I had time to heal – we just had time to get back in our Bibles and hear from God. So we're coming out swinging … coming out of the corner, knowing that greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. We're compelled to serve Christ, and I'm ready to go out in concert and give a rally call to all the people who are selling themselves out to smaller stories. We need to hear the call of Christ on our lives and to not just settle in but to pursue and live fully for Christ."
The Soundtrack
"Production-wise we went to make a 'movie,' instead of a 'play'," explains Sara Groves about her new album, "The Other Side of Something" (INO). "This time, I just said, 'You know what? I want to play. I want to have fun. And I'd like to add some other gifts into this.'
While Sara turned once again to her long-time friend and collaborator, Nate Sabin, to skillfully anchor most of the album's production, four of the CD's key tracks — lead single "The One Thing I Know," the hook-driven "Compelled," the empathy invoking "Esther" and the eclectic jazz epic "The Boxer" — would be helmed by Charlie Peacock (Switchfoot, Twila Paris).
"Sara and her husband, Troy, are the 'real thing,'" says Peacock. "It's so rewarding to work with people who love Jesus, good words, great art, family, goofing and just being human in general. I enjoyed producing Sara's music, but I'd pay her just to listen to her tell stories. You know it's good when you thank Jesus for creating particular people and with the Groves, I've done just that."
While Peacock's fingerprints artfully enhanced "The Other Side of Something," it was Sara's faith-deepening experience and beautiful knack for communicating truth through story that delivered the goods. In light of the past two years it might seem superficial for music critics or record label types to ponder the momentum of Sara's career and anticipate the timing of a potential "breakthrough" album. Regardless, one can't help noticing the far too uncommon intersection of relational depth, gutsy faith, optimism and tough love expressed via the fan-friendly folk-pop and the articulate, thoughtful lyrics on her new CD.
In describing the album, Sara says, "On other albums I strived to have different themes, make sure that two songs don't say the same thing. And this time I just let the songs just flop all over each other. I think that's because I was writing all this music from the same place."
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Healthy Food in Health Care
Healthy food cannot be defined by nutritional quality alone. It is the end result of a food system that conserves and renews natural resources, advances social justice and animal welfare, builds community wealth, and fulfills the food and nutrition needs of all eaters now and into the future.
Yet common practices in our modern, industrial food system are creating significant global health and environmental problems. In the United States, the four leading causes of death—and largest sources of healthcare expenditure—are directly linked to food: stroke, diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Industrial food production, dependent on significant amounts of synthetic pesticides, fossil-fuel based fertilizers, water, and energy, is contributing to climate change and degrading ecosystems by polluting soil, water, and air. The industrial food system's reliance on production inputs such as antibiotics and growth hormones to compensate for crowded and unsanitary livestock conditions are compromising drug efficacy and placing human and animal health and welfare at risk.
Our Healthy Food in Health Care program harnesses the purchasing power, expertise, and voice of the healthcare sector to advance the development of a sustainable food system. Our advocacy campaigns bring the sector's clout and perspective to bear on critical food systems issues such as the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture, aligning dietary guidelines with health and sustainability principles, harmful chemicals in our food systems, the climate-food connection, and opportunities for health care to make upstream investments in public health.
We partner with over 1,000 hospitals across North America to source and serve foods that are produced, processed, and transported in ways that are protective of public and environmental health. Our advocacy work with thousands of health professionals has resulted in the creation of sustainable food purchasing policies, environmental health curricula, and advocacy for healthy food policy at federal, state and local levels.
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Find Momo
Momo (a sweet black and white border collie) is hiding in every shot on Find Momo, by visual artist Andrew Omer Knapp. I'll never get tired of this.
"Riding through Vienna on a bus, something dawned on me that I'd never thought of before: While moving along, I kept seeing places and sites that live vividly in my memory because of events that happened there: The faded Czech gasthaus where I often ate dinner during a bitter cold winter and where one evening before the food came, I finished writing my book THE WOODEN SEA. The outdoor restaurant next to the Danube Canal where A and I sat one glorious summer afternoon while the annual Viennese Gay/Love Parade was marching by a hundred feet away, trance music blasting. Memories like that. I realized everyone has their own very personal and private map of where they live. If a million people populate a city, then there are one million different maps. Whether it's a city or a small town, there are precise sites and 'x marks these spots' all over it that are important or sacred or yes, sometimes crushing— but only to you and occasionally the others who shared the experience with you. Although everyone has their own map, they rarely overlap because what matters to me, what I remember about the importance of those places in my life, frequently means little to you and vice versa. Only after you've been with someone a long time are your maps similar. Even so, there remain places the people in our lives, even intimates, will never know the significance of to us: the park bench where you were kissed, a bar where he wept, the café with the huge windows that serves the great bagels, even those airport exit doors you watched so intensely while waiting for them to arrive that miraculous December night… The rest of the planet will pass these locations without a glance or a thought. But whenever you pass them you think there it is— that one is fixed forever on the map of me."
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Audiobooks: Fiction
I am a passionate believer in the beauty and utility of audiobooks. (It helps that I drive about an hour a day.) Humans spoke and told stories before they wrote. Homer sang or chanted. Your experience of a story may be enhanced or transformed by listening to a skilled artist bring to life. I cannot imagine reading Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels, because the amazing Lisette Lecat, a South African actress, has given them life inside my head with her singular readings. If you love the experience of being read to, here are some of our carefully chosen titles. If you want books to be delivered in an old and an always new way, try an audiobook soon. (Success and technological parameters have driven me to divide our audiobooks into three different pages. Be sure to browse our audiobook-nonfiction and audiobook-poetry-and-drama on their own pages.)


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Would you like fries with that swine flu shot?
Sounds silly, but health officials in Champaign, Illinois, are serious about the effectiveness of their drive-through H1N1 vaccine program, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The town employed the first drive-through vaccinations on Nov. 21, and they managed to inoculate more than 450 people. That's a lot more than the 300 people an average clinic in Chicago can handle, and none of the Champaign residents even had to leave their car.
Just like the fast food purveyors the program is modeled after, drive-through H1N1 vaccines could spread.
The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have highlighted the Champaign-Urbana program as a model for success.
The kudos are the culmination of a years-long initiative to implement a city wide pandemic preparedness plan in Champaign.
In 2007 the CDC gave the city a grant to develop a plan that could bring together every public entity, including police, coroner, sheriff, University and public health officials in the event of a large scale health problem.
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Charmed By Jericoacoara
Por Kay Rodriguez
Never will I forget the feeling of sipping a cool capeta while sitting at a wooden table on a warm summer night, toes buried in the sand as stars sparkled above. Scents of saltwater and grilled meat filled my nose as smooth jazz notes from the Jericoacoara Jazz and Chorinho Festival drifted through the air, the breeze pulling tiny wisps of hair across my sun-soaked skin. Here in Jeri, as the locals call it, it's too easy to forget what day it is, or even the hour.
I was with a new friend – a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Irish guy who had just quit his law job to backpack around South America – and after a day of kitesurfing it was about time to relax. We ordered drinks of the local specialty and conversed about work, relationships, and of course, travel while sitting in front of the dark, nighttime ocean. The waves were calm and the air was cool, perfect for a thoughtful conversation.
We'd just come from watching the sun set on top of a majestic sand dune, a nightly ritual for residents and tourists alike. As the last bits of burning sunshine slipped below the horizon, everyone applauded, children running down the dune and into the ocean, screaming in pure bliss. Speaking of bliss…did I mention where we were?
The Trek to Jericoacoara
Located about 6 hours outside of Fortaleza, Jericoacoara is a small beach town located in the middle of a Brazilian National Park. Admittedly, it's not easy to get to – from Rio I took two flights, one to Brasília and the next to Fortaleza, stayed one night in Fortaleza, then took a six-hour bus and a one-hour truck ride to arrive at my Pousada on the central street of the town. (Apparently, there's also an option to go straight from the Fortaleza Airport to Jericoacoara via 4 x 4, but it's expensive and only leaves as certain times of the day.) I was exhausted by the time I arrived, having traveled for well over 10 hours through 4 different vehicles.
However, here in Brazil we have a saying: vale a pena or "it is worth the effort." So, of course, I boarded my bus from Fortaleza's rodoviária and hoped for the best.
After six hours on the road, my first bus finally arrived in Jijoca, a small city outside of the national park where the sand dunes begin. Luckily, I had met some new friends on my first bus who were painters living in Jericoacoara. Because Jericoacoara's supplies are limited, they had just come from Fortaleza carrying three or four bags of paint, canvases, and other artistic tools. They confessed to me that a lot of people fall into the tourist trap of paying over 6 times the price of a truck ride from Jijoca to Jericoacoara, so they hustled me into a tightly-packed van of locals and I paid a whopping R$7 for my ride through the dunes, as opposed to as much as R$50 or R$60 that they tend to charge tourists. What a deal!
On the way to the town, where all of the tiny pousadas are located, we passed through what seemed like miles of golden sand dunes and valleys showing off wild horses, donkeys, and cows. I felt like maybe I was in the Sahara desert, or on a primal, deserted island. I looked at my local phone – no cell service – and I smiled to myself at the thought of being disconnected for a week. I mean, after all, this was my vacation. Passing through the dunes in the back of a rusty pickup truck, the wind lapped my face, refreshing and cool, as the sun slowly started to creep behind the sand. I crossed my fingers and hoped I'd make it to my place by sunset.
By some leap of faith I did. No one was in the reception area so I dropped my stuff off in the front desk and sprinted, camera in hand, to the beach. This was the result:
Jeri's Quaint Town
The town of Jericoacoara took me by surprise. It was the kind of place that could only appear in a romance novel, small cottage-like buildings laced with vines and flowers, and hanging lights dangling from the trees. Painted signs marked most of the restaurants and hotels, and it was easy to tell that the shops were all family-owned, overflowing with artisan work and "local specialties." There are no paved streets in Jericoacoara, only sand roads on which trucks can drive. By the end of my three-day stay I would have ventured to say that the town was almost utopic, with it's nonexistent crime rates, vibrant lifestyle and glowing people. It was definitely a nice breath of fresh air from the constantly moving Rio de Janeiro.
I stayed in the wonderful little Pousada do Tadeu, located right on the town square on the main road, where the jazz festival was going on. What magic! I had a window that opened up right to a balcony with a hammock, through which I'd crawl on relaxed nights to write or nap or listen to the drifting sounds of chorinho and the chatter of drunken voices. The weather was perfect pretty much every day, fluffy little clouds laced a light blue sky, which blended with the hues of the flat ocean.
I imagined myself falling in love here in Jericoacoara, underneath the gnarled branches and roots of the beachside trees, the sandy roadways, the scents of bonfire. A life without pavement seemed all too good to be true, but here I was, relaxing in perfect harmony and making new friends with whom I shared many a great drink, a few breathtaking sunsets, and an unforgettable three days.
I loved Jericoacoara so much I've decided to split my writing into two posts – this one is the first. Have you ever fallen in love with a place so much you couldn't stop thinking about it? Tell me your stories in the comments!
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At thirty-five minutes past the start time of the Creatures of the Wind show, a drill could be heard backstage. What were Anna Wintour's favorite patchwork kids, the unlikely duo from Chicago, doing back there?
Based on past performance, anything was possible, and they enchanted in their strongest collection yet. At first, the collection looked more restrained — salable — than last season, then the show got quirkier (a yellow and purple brocade dress with holographic detail) and more layered as it went. Models all wore sheer hairnets, fastened just under the chin. Some of the outfits, like a futuristic vest in oversized gingham print, were so bright and proportionally fun they resembled children's clothes. Other standouts included 50s-style long full skirts (one pink, one adorned with sequin patterns), and tiered, layered jackets worn together. One floor-length dress, stunning in its simplicity, was a moss green sack-back with bows on front — a beauty from another era.
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Game 116: Toronto at Tampa Bay
Today's lineups:
Fourth place AL East, 18.0 GB
1. Marco Scutaro, SS
2. Aaron Hill, 2B
3. Adam Lind, LF
4. Lyle Overbay, 1B
5. Vernon Wells, CF
6. Randy Ruiz, DH
7. Edwin Encarnacion, 3B
8. Rod Barajas, C
9. Joe Inglett, RF
Starter: LHP Marc Rzepczynski (1-3, 4.38)
Third place AL East, 11.5 GB
1. Jason Bartlett, SS
2. Carl Crawford, LF
3. Evan Longoria, 3B
4. Ben Zobrist, 2B
5. Carlos Pena, 1B
6. Willy Aybar, DH
7. Gabe Kapler, RF
8. Dioner Navarro, C
9. B.J. Upton, CF
Starter: RHP Matt Garza (7-8, 3.80)
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It's getting hard to even watch the Jays games with Vernon Wells playing. So far today in 3 innings and 2 at bats, he's left 5 on. Why aren't we batting him 9th?
Why is he batting at all?
Here's why Wells is still batting.
salary 2010: $16.143,000.00
salary 2011: $26.643,000.00
Salary 2012: $24.643,000.00
Salary 2013: $24.643,000.00
D-day for draft signings has arrived and the Jays still have 6 of their first 10 draft picks unsigned. They're not alone, the Yanks have none signed or at least announced and the Sox only have 2 signed.
It looks to me like the direction given by Sellick of dropping slots is not being received well by the draftees as most teams have a lot of top 10's not signed-maybe an average of 30% have.
If that is how the day finishes and we don't see a fury of signings today, it will be for all intents and purposes a wasted draft. Let's hope that's not the case with the Jays.
All draftees should do themselves a favor and take a look at the rosters of most rookie teams and they'd note a massive influx of kids from the Dominican Summer League (DSL) on all rosters, including the Jays.( probably over 50% at the GC Jays).
Maybe there's a message being sent.
I just had a look at the top 3 picks for the 20 years 1985 to 2004, far enough back that top picks should have made their mark in the majors. Six of the 20 first round picks have played less than 25 games in the majors, and the rate is higher for the second and third round, a failure rate of about 33% in the top 3 picks! The failure rate for the entire first round is 50-60%.
Given the millions paid out in signing bonuses to the top 3 picks, and the fact that about 1/3 of it goes down the drain, it's no wonder that baseball wants to reduce the slot money.
The Nationals have apparently offered Stephen Strasburg a record $12.5 million signing bonus and the contract hasn't been signed. Scott Boras, Strasburg's agent is looking for more and used the $50 million received by Dice-K's team in Japan as a measure. Boras also represents the next two players in the draft who are unsigned as well.
Boras, in effect is holding up draft signings across the board, since a number of draftees wait to see what the number one guy gets and use it as a measure.
The funny part of this is if Strasburg doesn't sign, the Nationals will pick first again next year and likely pick him again, that is if he isn't injured or performs poorly, either of which is a possibility.
In my opinion, Strasburg is crazy if he doesn't take this deal, regardless of what Boras tells him. I also hope the Nats remain firm and if he doesn't sign, let him stew for a year, then pick him again next year and offer him $1.5 million or get lost.
There really has to be a limit on signing bonus's because if there isn't ( and $12.5 million is there) the only teams who will be capable of the top talent will be large market teams, the same ones who now sign all the best free agents.
Travis Snider isn't in the Vegas lineup tonight; maybe Boston is in for a surprise tomorrow night.
You are right on Strasbourg, gsjays. I can see a young player trying the draft, and then deciding to go back to college, get more experience, and then maybe get picked higher the next year. In this case, you can't get picked higher than #1, and by sitting out a year, Strasbourg is essentially wasting a year of professional earnings at the peak of his career, and there are only so many of those.
The $50 million figure doesn't make much sense, either. Dice-K was the best pitcher in Japan's top league, with several years of proven value behind him. The $50m was to the team, not the player, and was paid for the loss in value the team would suffer with the loss of the player. No such case here.
You are right on Strasbourg, gsjays. I can see a young player trying the draft, and then deciding to go back to college, get more experience, and then maybe get picked higher the next year. In this case, you can't get picked higher than #1, and by sitting out a year, Strasbourg is essentially wasting a year of professional earnings at the peak of his career, and there are only so many of those.
The $50 million figure doesn't make much sense, either. Dice-K was the best pitcher in Japan's top league, with several years of proven value behind him. The $50m was to the team, not the player, and was paid for the loss in value the team would suffer with the loss of the player. No such case here.
I thought I heard August 17 somewhere as the date when Travis could be safely called up without losing arbitration years. Of course, the boy has been working VERY hard lately, and maybe he just sat down for a rest!
Strasburg signed for about $15 million, but it also includes his first 4 years salary. So in spite of the fact, it's a ridiculous number, Scott Boras's attempt to turn draft signings into free agent dollar levels at least partially failed, although he sucked Seattle into paying up to $9 million for Dustin Ackley over the next 5 years and San Diego into $6.25 million for Donavan Tate.
Clearly, Boras's strategy is to force teams to bring his clients up sooner ( because of the investment made) and effectively prepay what once was the low cost years on a prospect. This is not good for the game or the players Boras represents.
I suspect Boras asked the Jays for a ridiculous amount for James A Paxton, which is why he's unsigned. Frankly, the Jays look like geniuses for signing Chad Jenkins for $1.359 million and a tip of the hat for not over paying for Paxton.
Strasburg might end up being a good pro pitcher, but, imo, he's more like to end up like Mark Prior than Roger Clements. The reason is, the Nats will likely rush him to the majors before he's really ready and built up serious innings and arm strength in order to internally justify his contract. If that's the case (and I cannot imagine them doing otherwise) then Strasburg will likely suffer similar consequences as Prior (the last big bonus baby) did when he pitched for a little over only 4 years for the Cubbies, won 42 games, hasn't pitched since 2006 because of injury and probably won't.
Snider's up and Inglett's sent back down. Would it ever be cool to see Snider take Beckett deep tonight.
Great news there GS. I can't wait to watch him play the rest of the season. I just hope that Cito sticks with him in the lineup against lefties. Bad news is that Millar is still on this team.
Update via Jordan Bastian's tweet: How much will Snider play? "He'll play against everybody," said Cito.
"He'll play against everybody," Good news and he should be playing against everyone. His year to date numbers in Vegas justify it as you can see:
Against right handers: .315/.416/.661
Against left handers: .396/.473/.667


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
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Muscle relaxants are medicines that block transmission of nerve
impulses to the muscles. They sometimes are also referred to as neuromuscular
blocking agents. These medicines are often used during
anesthesia but do not usually affect consciousness and
do not provide pain relief (analgesia). They are given through a vein (intravenously).
Some general anesthetics also cause some muscle relaxation. But
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Avocado with Broccoli and Carrot Slaw
Crisp, shredded broccoli and carrot are a great match for buttery avocado. This salad mixes all three vegetables into a tasty avocado, broccoli, and carrot combo.
Preparation time: About 10 minutes
Yield: 2 servings
1 small avocado
2 or 3 medium carrots
1 bunch broccoli
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon sesame seeds
Peel the avocado and cut it into thin slices.
Shred the carrots and broccoli until you have 1/2 a cup of each.
Arrange the avocado slices, carrots, and broccoli on a serving plate.
Stir together the oil, lemon juice, soy sauce, sugar, and sesame seeds in a cup.
Pour this dressing over the avocado, broccoli, and shredded carrots.
Per serving: Calories 263 (From fat 210); Fat 23g (Saturated 3g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 332mg; Carbohydrate 14g (Dietary fiber 6g); Protein 4g.


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Hanging on a fence watching the parade pass by
Everything in New York City seems to be done on a grander scale. The newspapers said an estimated two million people lined the streets to celebrate the Yankees' World Series win. Two million!
We were just two people watching it on TV at home in Maryland, Ken and I.
"I enjoyed watching the city's reaction to winning the championship," said Ken, "because they haven't had one in nine years. I also liked hearing what the players had to say, like CC Sabathia's comment, 'There's nothing like winning in New York!'"
Ken is delighted for the players able to experience such a conquest in their first year with the Yankees, such as Sabathia, Mark Teixeira, and A.J. Burnett.
No doubt watching the festivities elicited his own happy memories as a Baltimore Oriole during a victorious time in 1983 after the Birds had clinched the World Series (also upsetting the Phillies). Ken sat not on a float in Baltimore's World Series parade but on the back of a convertible Oldsmobile with his family.
On a much smaller scale than the parade in New York, Ken remembers, "People got very close to the convertibles carrying the players. They were able to touch us – that wouldn't happen nowadays. My two young boys were in the car. Justin [then age 4] didn't like it. He said the fans were too close – it made him uncomfortable."
In the throng of that boisterous scenario on "Oriole Boulevard" near Fayette Street, there was only one place for me to go for a better view – up.
My sister-in-law Susan and I braved the crowd in our Orioles caps and corporate clothes to watch the convoy (I'm on the right). Making sure no one could see under our skirts, we somehow climbed up onto a skinny piece of a wall and daringly hung on to a fence to afford us clearer glimpses of the titillating celebration over the hairy heads of the other million fans (or so it felt – I do not know the number).
Between us we held hand-to-hand with a small stuffed Oriole mascot while the ballplayers and their families shook hands, accepted pats on the backs, and grinned ear-to-ear in the hype of an overwhelming reception from the deafening massive crowd.
I was an average Orioles fan like the rest of the screaming people showing pride for our home team. Had someone told me that October day that one Mr. Ken Singleton passing by to the shouts of "Singy!" and "C'mon Ken hit it in the bullpen!" would one day be my husband, I would have laughed at the notion and probably fallen off the wall.
"It was fun," said Ken, who remembers that people were hanging off street poles and out of office windows. At age 36 and ready to wrap up a long and productive baseball career, it had taken him 13 seasons before he had the opportunity to play on a World Championship team.
"Winning the Series was such a feeling of accomplishment," he said. "For that particular season no team played better than us. We went down in history for champions of that year."
Gleefully, the Orioles had returned to Memorial Stadium on 33rd Street by bus from Philly. Ken remembers that "the fans had been waiting for us – they were all over the place! In the parking lot and everywhere, in spite of it being close to midnight. There were so many people cheering us on, it was hard to drive through the streets."
Since then, the Orioles have hosted several World Series Reunions at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, holding onto that precious era. Ken and many of his former teammates have been invited back to reminisce.
"I'm sure Cal Ripken thought he would be on many more championships teams," said Ken. Cal was then in his second season as an Oriole. "But it never happened again. It's been 26 years."
Hubby wears his World Series ring proudly and often. "Winning was the culmination of a good year," he said.
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Ken is a Great announcer (my favorite Yankee announcer) and one classy guy. It's obvious that he is married to one intelligent, classy woman too. Congratulations and all the best to both of you. TL
Mrs Singy…love your blog…and tell Mr. Singy, he is great as an announcer…never knew how much I missed him until the tbs and fox idiots took over. Those other stations really need a guy like Ken that do it all…I'm starting a petition with mlb to avoid all idiot announcers regardless of their affiliation.
I saw your hubby at spring training a few years ago, but I thought he'd like to be left alone for his dinner at the nice restaurant. darn…should have gone for the autograph
Thanks TL … and thanks also Rallylunch to both of you for the nice comments …
Rallylunch – you used your best judgment in letting a man eat his dinner. There is a time and a place for autograph-seeking I say! Mrs. Singy said a word or two about that (as did the wives of Johnny Unitas and Eddie Murray) in the September post "Fanatic Fans – Nice or Obnoxious"
… enjoy!
Mrs. Singy
I was thinking Ken would have been on one of the floats for the parade. Well who can blame him for choosing the couch next to Mrs. Singy?!
The parade was a great morning. I got there at 8am and was still 4 rows of people back, but we could see relatively well. The energy was terrific. It was my first ticker-tape and kind of rounded out the whole 2009 season experience for me.
Only 90-some days til pitchers and catchers report!
Aww c'mon Chris … don't count already … gimme the off season for a little while! Happy you felt such parade enthusiasm. I don't think anyone at YES mentioned Ken being there, so he came home. He was definitely ready for the off season.
Hi Ken
I was looking for you as I watched the parade. I watched on FOX, then WPIX then I realized , he must be on YES. But no Ken Singleton to be found. You truly deserved to be there and also recieve a key to the city.
Glad that you are okay though, I truly hope it was your choice not to attend. You have many fans that really enjoy your coverage. Have a great off season and see you next season. Say Hello to the family.
Take care


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I love the prompts that I have been using for these blogs. I know this blog may be somewhat controversial. I wrote it a couple of months ago, and it's been sitting in my "draft" file since then. Please understand that I am not trying to anger anyone but it's a topic that I strongly feel needs to be considered.
Many people seem to be getting irritated every year when they are being told "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas". Why? Are you one of those? Have you considered some of the reasons behind the change?
After all, the United States was not organized to be a Christian nation. Studying our founding fathers, many of them were not traditional Christians, but Deists. They knew about religious intolerance and they didn't want the United States to be formed based on one religion. So, people of all religious beliefs were supposed to be welcome and accepted here. Are we doing that now?
Please let me tell you a brief, personal story. In 8th grade I became friends with Diane who was in orchestra class with me. She was Jewish. How did I know? Because in the 1950s and 1960s all of the Jewish students missed a couple of days of class in September, right after school started. Well, that year was the first year I sent out Christmas cards to my friends, probably only 5 or 6 that year. But, I didn't feel that I could send a card to Diane, because I knew that she wasn't Christian. My mother suggested sending Diane a Hanukah card. I did. Then, for the next 4 years, I sent a Hanukah card to Diane and she sent a Christmas card to me. Even though we often rode together to orchestra practices because our parents took turns driving, we never spoke about it. It just "wasn't done."
I realize that the majority of the U.S. population is Christian. However, is that any reason for us to "push" our holidays onto everyone else? How would we feel if we, individually, were no longer in the majority? Permanently?
So now, when we hear Happy Holidays, should we be insulted or should we consider that the speaker is trying to make sure not to "push" his religious belief on to us? Since we all look similar, how are they supposed to know what our religious preferences are? And should we be more considerate to those we meet and wish them a Happy Holiday, since we can't be positive which holiday they may celebrate during the month of December? So, please wish people a Happy Holiday or Merry Christmas, or some other special term, and let's all have a great peaceful December.


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l^te clax ^Aspect Why should there be a continuing interest in the techniques of valuing inventories? The simple answer is that "inventory" is one of the most important factors in the existence of any business. It accounts for a large part of the company's investment in assets, and it is usually the largest single cost on the income statement. It is important, therefore, to know what is an "acceptable" inventory for tax purposes; what the Internal Revenue Service is doing in this area to insist that taxpayers follow accepted rules; and what the courts have said about the subject. "Inventories" is a subject that is too often taken for granted, insofar as income taxes are concerned. That is, "good" accounting dictates what to do and we naturally follow along for tax return purposes, accepting the bcok inventory as correct for tax purposes with no further thought given to this item. But how many people, and especially those responsible for tax planning and tax returns, have become involved in the technical tax ru!es? These rules are discussed in the following paragraphs, and their implications analyzed. THE TAX LAW- SECTION 471: Perhaps the natural starting point is a glance at the law on this subject, since in the final analysis this will dictate the acceptability of an inventory for tax purposes, and will also enable an appreciation of the "problems" involved. This very brief "law" is Section 471, the General Rule for Inventories: "Whenever in the opinion of the Secretary or his delegate the use of inventories is necessary in order clearly to determine the income of any taxpayer, inventories shall be taken by such taxpayer on such basis as the Secretary or his delegate may prescribe as conforming as nearly as may be to the best accounting practice in the trade or business and as most clearly reflecting the income." This one sentence is then "interpreted" by the IRS in several pages of Regulations, and in greater detail than the basic law itself. The basic law contains two tests to which every inventory must conform: First, it must conform as nearly as possible to the best accounting practice in the trade or business, and Second, it must clearly reflect income. It follows, then, from the first test that inventory rules cannot be uniform but must follow trade customs within the scope of the best accounting practice in the particular trade or business. The second test, the clear reflection of income, requires that the inventory practice of a taxpayer be consistent from year to year. Consistency, however, is not sufficient as a test if, in other respects, the inventory fails "clearly to reflect income." Consistency in turn has three aspects: 1. Consistency in the method or basis used from year to year; 2. Consistency in the method or basis applied as to all items in one inventory; and 3. Consistency in the method used in the opening and closing inventories of the taxable year. Thus, inventories must be calculated according to acceptable accounting practices and must also clearly reflect income. The regulations, in explaining the basic law, indicate that the most common inventory valuation methods are cost and cost or market, whichever is lower. These terms are then defined as follows: "Cost" in regard to "normal" inventory is defined in three different ways: (1) In the case of merchandise on hand at the beginning of the taxable year, the inventory price of such goods; 16 THE QUARTERLY
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