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Ten years after Argentina's economy collapsed, its capital, Buenos Aires, called the "Paris of the Pampas," has emerged as one of the world's most stylish cities.
Photographs by Brian Doben
One November afternoon, on Calle Honduras, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood known as Palermo Hollywood, Marcos Ayalla is taking a break from tending shop at Eterna Cadencia, a bookstore that caters to the latest designers and most fashionable people on the continent of South America. He drains a cup of espresso and turns to go back inside.
"The neighborhood was hell on earth ten years ago," Ayalla says. "Now, it's almost too full of life."
Farther down Honduras, Hollywood—with its succession of lighting and recording studios, TV stations and set design offices, ensconced in colonial palacios—gives way to the leafy streets of Palermo Soho. Life is found in abundance. There are vegan cafés, gastropubs serving space-age cuisine and coffee bars two deep with customers. A dance studio shares an entryway with a record store adorned with posters of John Lennon, Miles Davis and Arcade Fire. A minimalist electronics store displays a wall of iPads (at nearly twice the price of those sold in Apple stores in the States), and a place called Calma Chica sells handbags, furniture and rugs made from animal skins brought in from the fertile pampas just outside the city's borders.
On Calle Gurruchaga, near the bustling center of Palermo Viejo, there's Feliz and Bolivia, two men's clothing stores that have expertly cut local labels that you'll find on stylish porteños ("people of the port").
Like lower Manhattan, Palermo is divided into several distinct zones, each with its own character: Hollywood, Soho, Viejo, Alto Palermo and Palermo Chico, the latter of which has enough urban parkland to get lost in for days. To the south, the center of Buenos Aires is crowded with tourists exploring what many have called the "Paris of the Pampas."
In Recoleta, the neighborhood southwest of Palermo, the comparison is easy to make: The Belle Époque buildings that line the downtown streets are uniformly grand and ornate— especially the recently renovated grand-dame hotel, Palacio Duhau, which looks as though it's been plucked straight off the Marais. Tourists and stylish locals stroll Calle Defensa, from Recoleta to the bustling neighborhood of San Telmo. They have an ease that can be found only in Latin America. When you're here, style yourself casually.
Back in Palermo, the cafés that ring Plaza Serrano—Soho's central square—are filled at lunch with young porteños in business casual. It's a foreshadowing of the night to come. As alive as Palermo is during the day, nighttime is when it really shines.
was a common question for the better part of the last decade. All the life that Ayalla is celebrating in Palermo hung in the balance. "There was no reason to stay," says Maria Michael, a young architect living in Palermo Viejo. "There were no jobs, the crime rate was really high, and we were all afraid to go out at night."
What made the collapse so difficult for the hardy porteños is the fact that it was so sudden. Most of the younger generation had never seen such hardship. In a single year—2002— Buenos Aires went from being the most expensive city in Latin America to the cheapest. In the years immediately following the crash, the people who could manage to buy their way out of the country did just that. A large percentage landed in Spain, Chile and Brazil.
It's been a long road back to prosperity for the porteños. Throughout the past decade, tourists in search of easy bargains have helped to re-establish the Argentine economy. Once they visited, those travelers found a quiet sophistication in Buenos Aires' faded façades that they just had to tell their friends about. The winding cobblestone streets flanked by brightly colored buildings with antique wrought-iron balconies give Buenos Aires an Old Word European romance. But that's balanced by a sense of wildness— both from the massive ombú trees with gnarled roots sprouting on the streets and in the myriad parks, and from steamy tango dances to be seen in bars, restaurants and dance halls.
Palermo, with its nearly 500-year-old monastery and lush botanical garden and parks, was prime for a comeback. Eventually, its leafy streets came back to life with increased vigor. The nightlife, which begins with a decadent dinner at 10 p.m.—both the steak and the wines are among the best in the world—and seems never to end, is a barometer of the city's spirit.
"It's a good sign when a city doesn't want to go to sleep," says Michael. "It means we don't want to miss anything."
The brown and white shorts are credited to Tommy Hilfiger in your magazine. I have looked online, including Tommy Hilfiger's website, for these shorts but can't find them. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi Angela – sorry the full fashion credits will be uploaded, but just so you know those lace up shoes are by Hugo Boss. Regards, Nino Bauti (Fashion Editor)
Hi Nino,
I can't find the fashion credits – where is the red patterned dress on page 2 from?
Hi Carrie,
It's by YMC.
I too have searched for the Tommy shorts featured in Garden State of Mind with no luck. Anyone know where to find them?
I really like some of the men's styles. Can you upload the fashion credits please?


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Keep Pushing to RTM
Althought the posts have slowed I certainly haven't. Building the Beta 2 TR VM has been a much bigger job than originally thought. For beta participants if all goes well (and believe me things have not gone well up to now) the VM should be available for download this week. I've actually worked on five different VMs in the last three weeks for different projects... it's been pretty confusing.
I've been working on samples. There were quite a few API signature changes between beta 2 and b2tr, so that work has been going a little slower than I anticipated. The one big post I've been working on has been much slower than I hoped... the same sample in multiple languages (VBScript, VBA, C#, VB.Net). I thought I could get a tool to port C# to VB.net, and I did. But only the logic moves cleanly, for some reason I can't get the UI to move over. So I'm hand cranking a bunch of UI :(. I really want the multi language post out this week... we'll see how I do. The other thing of interest to me is error visualization. Specifically if I cancel an operation via a server-side event how do you present that to the user? I'm working on some guidance for that too.
The Project bug bash is over. We had a nice spike in bug submissions, hopefully that was interest in the contest and not poor product quality :). I hope you all entered in a buch of bugs and get a shot at the prizes. I'd rather see a faithful follower win than somebody locked in a dark hot office (oh that's me, never mind). I get to help review the bugs to pick the winners in the coming weeks. And don't bother sending bribes... all I get to see is the bug, none of the submitter information ;).
We're pushing to RTM here in Redmond with Project... I hope you are pushing your solutions too.


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Lost Gods (Book Review)
Chet Moran is a scrub who desires to turn over a new leaf once his young bride tells him of the impending birth of their child. Together, they run away to a place Chet believes to be a safe haven, but soon find themselves in even greater peril. Chet's life is claimed by the darkest of ancient arcane evils and discovers the true meaning of life after death. Now he must brave the many perils of purgatory on a quest to save his family from the corruption that consumed him and spare their souls from a world where lost gods roam.
Brom notifies the reader of Chet's impending doom within the first chapter of the book. He makes this insight painfully clear before the reader even knows who Chet Moran is. Withing the next few chapters you learn about him and his lover, Trish, and how his death comes to past. I found it a marvel just how quickly I found myself rooting for the two of them, despite my knowledge of Chet's death. Their connection is in part, why this book works so well, as their love is integral to the plot of the story. There were discernable stakes because Chet is not fighting to save himself, but rather to save Trish and their unborn child from his fate.
Purgatory, as the author imagines it, is at times a horrifying and fantastical place. There is a whole world of life after death and it was an utter joy to slowly unravel its mysteries. Entering this world of lost souls is at first disorienting, not because of Brom's skills as a writer, but rather because you are vividly experiencing the same feelings as the protagonist. Convincingly creating an entire world from scratch is a painstaking venture, but purgatory is a fully realized location complete with its own set of rules and cultures. I was both appalled and fascinated with every new detail Chet learned about his new surroundings. This book has everything a good fantasy novel should have: a quest to save a fair maiden, sword and sorcery, monsters and magic, angels and demons, and even guns. However, it has a strong influence of psychological horror and I often found myself mortified at the implications if Brom's vision of purgatory was real.
Perhaps the biggest compliment I can level at this novel, is its ability to make the reader self-reflect upon one's own beliefs about life after death, faith, and religion, and it does so in a non-pretentious manner. Brom points out the duality of faith; how many religions offer peace and serenity, but by the same token, offer eternal agony and damnation. Faith, by its very nature, is about give and take. Though the author is quick to point this out, he leaves it to the reader to make up their own minds about what it is they believe. Not once did I feel like he was trying to force feed me his own beliefs and it was greatly appreciated. This book is neither a celebration of faith or condemnation of it, but rather a catalyst for one's own internal deliberation.
There isn't much to complain about here, however, this book does have its flaws. Every now and then, I would stumble upon an awkward sentence or grammatical error. These mistakes didn't ruin the experience for me, but everytime I stumbled upon one, it disrupted the flow of my reading and took me out of the story. This happened enough times to make a note of it, but it did not ruin my overall experience.
Another, more benign complaint I have, is in regard to the fantastic artwork contained within the center of the novel. Brom is a rather prolific dark fantasy and horror artist. I was unaware that he was also a novelist until I was given this book during the holidays. It's his art featured on the cover and he made several character pieces to feature inside the book. My problem is with the placement of the art. I would have liked to have seen these pieces at a pertinent time of the story rather than placing them smack-dab in the middle of the book. I also wish there was more of his fantastic art featured as I've been a fan of his artwork for a long time and would have liked to have seen his world fleshed out in his paintings. The inclusion of a map for the underworld would have been very helpfull as well.
Lost Gods is a great read that I would recommend to any fan of the fantasy and horror genres. The book is 490 pages long and contains 100 relatively brief chapters. I was able to complete the book within a few days with some dedicated reading. My time spent with Lost Gods was satisfying and I hope it's a world Brom plans to revisit. I was unable to predict where he was going with most of his plot threads, which I found refreshing, and I look forward to reading more of his content in the future. Even though there is a palpable despair to Brom's purgatory, there is a strong current of hope beneath it that will leave readers feeling more hopeful about their own world.


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But the CLA said recreational users should have to seek landowners permission before flying over private land.
Government has introduced new laws to prevent the unsafe or criminal use of drones as part of a new package of legislation.
The announcement came from Aviation minister Baroness Sugg who confirmed earlier today (November 27) the move would allow drone users to continue flying safely and legally whilst allowing officers the right to order operators to ground drones or seize parts for criminal evidence.
Whilst measures to control drone use were widely welcomed, CLA legal adviser Andrew Gillett said the association would be pushing for recreational users to seek landowners' permission before flying over private land.
He said: "Drones have huge potential to benefit a wide range of industries, particularly agriculture so it is vital that regulations keep pace.
"An increase in the use of recreational drones with cameras is a real worry to farmers and landowners over their privacy, the potential for damage to property and the safety of people and livestock on private land."
The government will publish a draft Drone Bill for consultation and introduce secondary legislation amendments in spring 2018.
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Franksli1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 133 designs submitted by 41 freelance designers.
SilverMoon Games
We are a small team iPhone/Android game development firm that is just starting up and we are hoping to create a very well designed logo with your help! We are going to focus most of our attention on gaming for the mobile devices. We are located in San Francisco and we want to come off as being very modern.
Our audience will mainly be iPhone and the Android market. We will be primarily delivering our products through the app store and the android marketplace. Our main target will be the casual gamer while we do eventually want to cater to the hardcore crowd.
1. We want a well designed modern logo with a very cool font and tech savvy feel to it (web 2.0)
2. Two distinct colors (one will be silver, and the other is some shade of blue). SILVERMOON will be one word.
3. The words "silver" will be one color and "moon" will be another. Games should be under SILVERMOON and can either be spread out or can be aligned to the right.
4. Have two versions (one on a black background with subtle gradient/faded
edges and the other on a white background with subtle gradient/faded
5. Have a layered *.pdf file and hopefully have the fonts files as well.
Here's an idea of logo that I found. Hopefully something with a better font and better space management. I'm sure you guys can do better :)
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love love love the Everyday Tunic by Sew What you Love. When it comes to doing a sewing project, my least favorite part is always tracing and cutting out my patterns. Maybe it's because I am so excited about getting started with the sewing. Maybe its because I cut crooked. Who knows. But with this pattern, you only have two large pieces to cut out. Thats it! Only two! Once again this pattern uses knit fabric. I hear a lot of grief about sewing with knits from some of my other friends, but love sewing with knits. The more stretchy the knit, the more I can be lazy with my seam allowances (I know that's bad advice but its true). But seriously I love working with knits. This particular knit is somewhat see through so I wore a light colored cami underneath and it looked great. I also threw it over my sports bra on the way to yoga and had some sweet comments from my fellow yogis. I did also try this same pattern using a woven cotton and it didn't fit because it didn't have that stretch on the arms like knits do. I ended up taking it apart and making a scrub top out of the fabric so it wouldn't go to waste (photo of that to follow soon). This tunic is so easy and so fun to make, I am going to make a few more as gifts for Christmas!
Pattern: The Everyday Tunic from Sew What You Love
Pants: Lucky black denim
Boots: Mossimo black combat boots from Target
Large Thighs with complimentary child bearing hips: you can't buy this. it comes with age 🙂


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Kingpin: Life of Crime review
When it came out back in the late 1990s Kingpin heralded a new era where PC gaming aggressively sought to become part of mainstream culture. Its copious use of swearing and gratuitous violence was a sort of anguished plea directed at the masses – "It's really not nerdy to play PC games any more, look at me I'm cool…"
But Kingpin relied far too heavily on dubious shock value, while severely skimping on any form of gameplay depth or substance.
Using an enhanced version of the Quake II engine, Kingpin was a 3D action game which cast you in the role of a would-be gang lord. Players then guided their on-screen persona around a hostile urban landscape, killing anyone who got in the way.
Language that makes something like "Dexter" look like the "Gilmore Girls…"
One of Kingpin's key selling points was its liberal use of colourful expletives. And even I have to admit that for the first thirty minutes I spent playing Kingpin it was kind of mesmerizing hearing the "F" word bandied about with such enthusiastic abandon in a PC game. However, once you got used to the swearing you started to notice Kingpin's distinct lack of originality…
Like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake II, Duke Nukem 3D et al, gameplay of Kingpin consisted almost entirely of killing things. Sure there was plenty of stunning (for 1999) 3D terrain to admire, but you couldn't interact with much of it, so it really amounted to nothing more than shallow eye-candy.
Weapons in Kingpin included typical action game fare like the pistol, shotgun, flamethrower etc. Many of these could be bought in the "Pawn-O-Matic," using money stolen from safes, vanquished opponents, and so on.
As was the case in the (then) recently released Half-Life, players could recruit NPCs (non-player characters) to help in combat. This hired muscle would follow you around and attack anyone who posed a threat.
Violence and stupidity taken to a whole new level…
Depending on the context, I have nothing against the use of violence in PC games: the clever tongue-in-cheek stuff which popped up in titles like Dungeon Keeper 2 or Fallout could be extremely entertaining. But I do have a problem when a game used marketing blurb like (and I quote): "Shoot a snitch in the kneecaps, or snuff out a rival with a single head-shot and watch them bleed to death" or "…taking graphic violence to a whole new level."
This sort of crap could only have issued from the teeny-weeny brain of a wanky marketing executive. But my biggest problem with this form of marketing trash was that it was so obviously directed at kids because everyone else would have seen it for what it was – i.e. bloody tedious and stupid…
In designing a supposedly realistic depiction of gangland life, the creators of Kingpin conveniently left out many of the not-so-glamorous facets. Things like racial slurs, drug use and rape were all conspicuously absent from the game. Instead Kingpin was a cynical package which showcased all of the supposedly 'cool' aspects of gang culture, while omitting the negatives.
Admittedly, the game was incredibly vacuous and shouldn't be taken seriously, but it still managed to impart an irresponsible message: violence, and the threat of violence is the best way to get what you want. All I can say is: for a quick reality check, why not take a trip to King's Cross on a Saturday at 2.00am, pick a fight with a bikie outside a tattoo parlor and see what happens? Welcome to the jungle…
While a low-gore, non-swearing version of the game was also included, I ask you – without the four-letter-words and bloodshed, what's left of Kingpin? Not a whole hell of lot…although the box does make a nice beer coaster…
|Back when I first played Kingpin: Life of Crime in 1999, PC games still suffered from a 'nerd stigma.' In some twisted, misguided way I think that Kingpin was an attempt to address this issue. In my opinion it failed dismally. I noticed that the game has popped up on Steam recently so I felt it was worth posting this retro review, if only to let would-be purchasers know what they're in for…
|The Good:
|Used the Quake II engine to striking visual effect. Customizable weapons. Halfway decent AI.
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|Shallow. Vacuous. Dialogue sounds like it was written by a profane 8 year old having a psychotic episode. Very cynical.
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Seattle Shows
In January I broke my annual New Year's Resolution to forego resolutions, and decided to see at least one music show a month in 2012. And unlike the resolutions I actually document, this one is going swell. Fingers crossed that this post don't jinx it.
My first, Fitz & the Tantrums at the Showbox on 01/20, is what convinced me to make music a priority this year. The lead singer Michael Fitzpatrick, reminiscent of David Byrne in both appearance and intensity, is a seemingly bottomless well of energy and enthusiasm. And the opening act, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., was fantastic as well.
In February I saw Veronica Falls, who sound like my long-time favorite Heavenly but with all the sunny optimism replaced by dirge. (I like dirgy music, so that's a rave.) The real revelation of the night, though, was opener Bleached, who blew the doors off the joint. Between the two I was transported back to my days as an Evergreen State College slacker in the early 90s, catching Riot Grrl bands in downtown Olympia. Ah, youth.
Bleached, "Electric Chair". Daaaamn.
Last month I attended the show of the lovely Lomolo. And a few days later I finally saw Nada Surf, a band of which I have been a fan for some 20 years. I enjoy Nada Surf's new album The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy so much that I actually bought the CD, to play in my car. A CD! Remember those? Well I own one, again.
Not bad for an old square, eh? And I already have April in the bag. Last Tuesday I was a guest at an exclusive performance by The Lumineers, which you can watch on the Chase Jarvis website. And last night I had the great fortune to see Typhoon–or, at any rate, as many members thereof that could fit onto the Tractor Tavern stage (11 of 13).
That's me clapping at 1:48. I am helping the band!!
Honestly, this has been one of the easiest projects ever. My problem, if any, has not been finding shows I want to attend, but deciding from among the plethora of great options this city has to offer.
Here are some that I have resolved to attend in the coming weeks.
First Aid Kit, April 11 at the Crocodile Cafe: I am entranced by First Aid Kit's first single Emmylou, and listened to it incessantly for a week and a half after its release. First Aid Kit adds compelling evidence to my hypothesis that I am a total sucker for Swedish bands.
M83, April 26 at the Paramount Theater: "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming" clocked in at #6 on my list of Favorite Albums of 2011, and has only risen in my estimation since. Love that frog song!
Washed Out, May 2 at the The Neptune: The only song by this band I have heard is Amor Fati, and yet that alone has the show on my radar. It's either going to be them or The Jezabels, who play The Crocodile the following evening. Decisions, decisions … Update I just listened to Washed Out's "Within and Without" and The Jezabels' "Prisoner" back-to-back, and it was The Jezabels by a landslide.
Destroyer, June 3 at the Showbox: "Kaput" is another from my list of 2011 favorite albums (#2!), and I cannot wait to see these guys (or, rather, this guy, Dan Bejar) live.
Lomolo (again), June 29 at the Columbia City Theater: I bought a ticket to Lemolo's CD Release Party as soon as it was announced, as a way of showing support for a band I have long enjoyed; apparently I am not alone in my enthusiasm though, because the show sold out about an hour later. Fear not: Lemolo added a second release party for the following day, the tickets for which go on sale Monday, April 9th. I will send out a reminder that morning via Twitter.
Lemolo, "On Again, Off Again".
That's just a fraction of the many shows I have my eye on. I mostly track these via Songkick, which auto updates my Upcoming Seattle Shows Google Calendar as new concerts are added. I also maintain a Spotify playlist, which you can find here. Drop me a line if you intend to catch any of these, or if there's something you think I should add to my list.
Favorite Albums of 2011
Said the Gramophone yesterday released their annual list of the year's best songs. I put the 70 that were available on Spotify onto a playlist, which you can find here (assuming you have Spotify installed).
SoG has long been my favorite mp3 blog, and I was pleased to see many of my favorite 2011 albums made appearances on their list (except, inexcusably, my #1 pick). I'll emphasize that these are my "favorites"–I make no claim that they are the best. But they are the ones I most enjoyed in the last 12 months.
The Joy Formidable, "The Big Roar": Earlier this year I was itching to catch a show, and saw that The Joy Formidable", an unknown-to-me band, was coming to the Crocodile Cafe the following week. I picked up their one and only disk, but got sidetracked for a while and neither listened to the album nor attended the concert. When I finally put on "The Big Roar", I could feel my heart sinking with every track: craaaap, that show must have been fooking amazing! Given the reception The Joy Formidable has received since that missed opportunity in late April (e.g.), tickets to their next appearance won't be twelve bucks, that's for sure. Ah, regrets …
Destroyer, "Kaputt": You kids today may not remember this but, back in my day, when you bought an album and discovered that you didn't really like it much you would nonetheless listen to it a bunch in the hopes that it would grow on you, because you just blew all your allowance on this stupid "Glass Tiger" cassette and it wasn't like you could just go download something else. That, thankfully, is not something I have to do anymore. And yet I did it with "Kaputt" nonetheless. I was underwhelmed with my first few listens, but people with better musical judgement than I (which rules out no one) assured me that the album was terrific. Really? Well, if you say so. I don't know when it happened, but at some point I stopped listening to Kaput to make myself like it and started listening to it because I already did … a lot.
The Head and the Heart, self-titled: I probably listened to this album more than any other this year as it was a favorite of both myself and my eight-year-old son, something we could play in the car as a compromise between Lady Gaga and Elliott Smith. (Who prefers which I'll leave as an exercise for the reader …) This is the first album from the band, but the consistently high quality of the material is of "Best of" compilation caliber.
Lykke Li, "Wounded Rhymes": I went a little bananas for Swedish pop music this year, starting with Peter Bjorn & John's "Gimmie Some", then moving on to Lykke Li's "Wounded Rhymes", and then … well, actually, I just stuck with Wounded Rhymes, and have listened to it every week or so since. Featuring simple melodies and emotionally resonant lyrics, tracks like Sadness is my Boyfriend manage the neat trick of being both catchy and contemplative.
Wild Flag, self-titled: Since the breakup of Sleater-Kinney in 2006 I have followed the various members in Quasi, The Corin Tucker Band, and the TV show Portlandia. Now in Wild Flag, Carrie Brownstein's newest venture, we have the closest approximation of that classic S-K sound. Their live performance of "Romance" from SXSW earlier this year is well worth watching.
M83, "Hurry Up We're Dreaming": Now that LCD Soundsystem has closed up shop, M83 may become my go-to electro rock band (although they may have to duel for my affection with MGMT). In an era when so much emphasis is placed on the single, "Hurry Up We're Dreaming" is a nice throwback to the days when bands crafted albums instead of individual songs, something to listen to in its entirety when you're able. I have a fond memory of hearing Raconte-Moi Une Histoire for the first time while driving around, and totally cracking up at the kid's narrative. It would be great, right?
Kurt Vile, "Smoke Ring for My Halo": When I asked my friends for music recommendations early in 2011, Kurt Vile's debut album was the most oft-provided suggestion. I'm trying to figure out a way to describe it without using the the word "sensuous" and failing so I guess I'm not describing it.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, "Belong": You're not going to find this album on a lot of "Best of 2011" lists I reckon, but I am a total sucker for that 80's synthpop sound. (See also: The Killers, Ladytron, and, lord help me, Chromeo). It's as if they distilled my "Jesus and Mary Chain" Pandora station down into ten tracks.
The Decemberists, "The King is Dead": Colin Moloy was kind enough to contribute a post to my Infinite Summer project, and he then based the video for "Calamity Song" off a chapter of Infinite Jest, so I would be predisposed to like this album even if it wasn't awesome. Which it is. Awesome.
(A close second for "My Favorite Music Video of 2011" is the only other one I saw all year, Robyn's Call Your Girlfriend. Love it. Perhaps because of the aforementioned Swedish pop music mania, but still.)
Fleet Foxes, "Helplessness Blues": I put neither Adele's "21" on this list nor PJ Havey's "Let England Shake", but would be remiss to forego the "best albums of 2011" triumvirate entirely. So here ya go: Helplessness Blues by the Fleet Foxes, the sort of album that you can listen to intently while wearing headphones or put on as background music to a dinner party.
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|Then: On February 1, 1986, Samuel Scott and Douglas Echols were enjoying an evening with a female friend. Elsewhere in Savannah, Georgia, a young woman leaving a nightclub was kidnapped and raped by three men. Despite eyewitness testimony placing them far from the crime scene, and despite a solid mistaken identity defense, Samuel and Douglas were convicted in 1987. Samuel was sentenced to twenty years for kidnapping and life for rape; Douglas Echols was given five years. While in prison, Samuel wrote his own legal briefs in an attempt to prove his innocence, but to no avail. Released on parole in 2001, Samuel was required to register as a sex offender and to wear an electronic monitoring device. Unable to pay the monthly monitoring fee, Samuel was rearrested in early 2002. Finally, on October 7, 2002, DNA evidence proved what Samuel had always known: both he and his friend Douglas Echols were innocent.
Now: Samuel recalls well how difficult it can be to adjust to freedom: "When I was first out, I was confused, afraid even to cross the street. Being on my own was hard because I had no real social connections." In prison, Samuel learned to "stay out of harm's way," but also that "we are not alone in the world; we have to respect others." Nor did incarceration destroy Samuel's sense of humor. As he says with a laugh, "I never want to stand for head count again. And I'm so glad to have zip-up pants!" Happily married for three years, Samuel and his wife live in Pooler, Georgia. The Life After Exoneration Program has helped by providing emergency house payments and by offering Samuel the reassurance that he is truly not alone in this world or in the fight against wrongful conviction.
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Let's step back a bit and take a longer view of the scandals erupting in Washington over the past week. We have a hat trick of them emerging and growing, from the attempt to paper over the al-Qaeda connection to the Benghazi consulate attack, the IRS targeting and harassment of conservative groups for a three-year period, and a raid on the phone records of more than 100 reporters working for the Associated Press. Matt Lewis writes today that the three could converge into a powerful narrative of Barack Obama as Richard Nixon redux, or perhaps worse:
When political opponents are targeted, and when the press (the very people who ought to bravely call the administration out for it) feel threatened, themselves, they are less likely to hold the politicians accountable. The same rule applies to whistleblowers who might tell the press information that could embarrass the Administration. So how do you expect the press — and the whistleblowers — to feel after it was revealed that the Obama Administration had seized phone records of Associated Press reporters?
Nobody is saying this rises to the level of an authoritarian regime. But freedom requires eternal vigilance, so we should have zero tolerance for this behavior. We're treading on very dangerous territory here. If oppressing your enemies and silencing your critics doesn't constitute tyranny, I don't know what does.
In my column today for The Week, I point out that the media would normally insert itself into these scandals to run interference for the White House and proclaim it all just a "partisan exercise," as many painted the Benghazi hearing last week. The raid on the AP might have cut Obama off from his media apologists for good — or at least some of them:
Just when he needed a sympathetic media to help downplay the politicization of the IRS and the rinsing of the Benghazi talking points (which Obama dismissed as "no there there" in a Monday press conference), the Associated Press announced that the Department of Justice had seized two months of phone records of as many as 100 of its reporters and three of its offices. The presumed trigger for this was a leak investigation into a May 2012 story about the CIA operation in Yemen that kept an airliner bomb plot from reaching fruition. Rather than alert the AP that it would subpoena the phone records, the DoJ seized them secretly, claiming that notifying the AP would "pose a substantial threat to the investigation" — even though the APcan't bury the records of the phone companies involved, even if it was inclined to try.
Suddenly, conservative claims of active intimidation and pressure from the White House looked a lot less conspiratorial to the media. Erik Wemple at the Washington Post called the action "a dagger to the heart of AP's newsgathering activity." What source will trust that their identity will remain anonymous if the government can seize the phone records without warning? TheACLU called it "an unacceptable abuse of power," which is what conservative groups had called the IRS's attack on them for most of the past three years.
What does the harmonic convergence of these stories tell us? First, it's clear that at the very least, this administration has allowed abuses of power to run unchecked for years — out of ignorance at best, and malice at worst. The extraordinary attack on the AP and its reporting may get the media's attention, but the attempt to massage the Benghazi attack through 12 sets of talking points and to allow the nation's tax power to harass and attack the administration's opponents present a at least as great an injury to accountability and representative democracy. Perhaps now that the media has also become a target for the administration, they might start taking these injuries a little more seriously.
Even Andrea Mitchell is outraged, at least for now, as AP linked earlier:
Will that outrage last? Perhaps not at MSNBC, but the apologists may soon end up the small minority among the mainstream media after the assault on the AP. It's about five years too late, but at least we may finally see more attempts at accountability from the media in regard to the Obama administration.
So what lessons should we learn from this trilogy of abuses and cover-ups, as well as from Operation Fast and Furious and earlier scandals that the media mostly ignored? Glenn Reynolds writes today that trusting in government power is the big mistake:
The rest of the week consisted of scandal after scandal, suggesting that maybe our government is . . . a sham with which Obama, at least, can't be trusted. …
A cynic might conclude that these scandals are of a piece. The IRS harassment, focused at an IRS office in the key swing state of Ohio, crippled Tea Party groups during the 2012 election cycle. The blame-the-video spin, meanwhile, obscured the administration's, and the State Department's, culpability in terms of poor security and inept intelligence, while protecting Obama's triumphalist Osama-bin-Laden-is-dead-and-al-Qaeda-is-on-the-ropes election-season line on the war on terror.
Politics over principle — and public safety. That's what a cynic would conclude is going on here. And you know, these days the cynics are often right.
It's a lesson we apparently need to learn over and over again.
Update: Chris Cillizza hits a bullseye in a story more focused on Obama's "terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad" week, emphasis mine:
There's simply no escaping the fact that the IRS' targeting of conservative groups (without any similar flagging of liberal groups) happened on President Obama's watch. That he learned of the scandal from news reports on Friday despite the fact that senior officials at the IRS were aware of it as far back as 2011 makes it worse, not better as it relates to Obama's pledge to restore competence across all aspects of the government.
Then there is the AP phone records story. While the Justice Department will defend their actions as necessary to ensure leaks don't endanger national security and American lives — the phone records they obtained were tied to a failed terrorist attack last year — the idea of an arm of government secretly grabbing phone records from reporters is, literally, the opposite of transparency.
The cumulative weight of the series of stories, of course, is, potentially, the most dangerous thing of all for the Obama Administration. Group Benghazi, the IRS and the AP into a single narrative and it reads something like this: The government knows better than you. As a result, the government can do whatever it likes.
And has, at least until the media became one of its targets. This may fundamentally change that equation — or at least, it should.


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I was standing in the mall buying ribbon at 75% off, about eighth back in line, when I saw a guy with a camera. I assumed it was the typical news story about day after Christmas bargain hunters, and it was. I turned my attention back to balancing my armload of beautiful wired ribbon when I was approached by a reporter who asked me questions, and, as I do when I get a little nervous, I kept talking.
The next day, when I was at my mother's birthday party in the metropolitan Detroit area, I told my family I had been in the paper a that morning.
"Did you kill somebody?" they asked.
"Nope. I bought ribbon."
"Must have been a slow news day."
"She was on the front page, too," my husband said.
"Honey, I thought we had to move to Tennessee for a quiet lifestyle, but it turns out we just have to move to Lansing," my nephew said to his wife.
Even so, my son and I decided that in my leather coat and dark clothing (and obscured face) I looked like the baddest-ass, ribbon-buying mom in the mall.
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Monday, December 12, 2005
I have somewhat of a continuing saga here with the dance pad thing. I sent my husband to get the dance pad, but he came back with a box that included a dance pad AND the game...as far as we could tell. As we looked at all the large and tiny print on the box, including reference to something called XBOX Live, we were flummoxed. Did one have to have that? Was everything in the box that was needed? My husband found the address of the company and said we had to call them. "We're grandparents, for God's sake," he said. We called them; they called us back later and assured us we had everything we needed...XBOX Live offered more options, but the game could be played with the contents in the box. I think companies should start printing requirements in large print, and explaining every option with "You've got to have this" or "You don't have to have this, but it makes the game a lot more fun."
This is just one more event in the holiday preparations that makes me want to scream, "WHY IS EVERYBODY TRYING TO F*** WITH ME?" (Not nice Grandma talk, I know, but really, why are they?) I will explain other events if and when they get resolved.
This is just one more event in the holiday preparations that makes me want to scream, "WHY IS EVERYBODY TRYING TO F*** WITH ME?" (Not nice Grandma talk, I know, but really, why are they?) I will explain other events if and when they get resolved.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Weird Words
Do you know that experience you have where you say a word, and it sounds really weird and it keeps repeating in your mind and driving you crazy? I had that experience today with an entire sentence. I asked a clerk in a store, "Do you have the dance pad for Dance Dance Revolution--the one that's compatible with XBox, not PlayStation?"(Of course, I was Christmas shopping.) As I walked away, I was obsessed with the strangeness of it. It reminded me of part of a routine George Carlin did when I was in high school or college--things you will never say, like "Hand me that piano," or "Please saw my legs off." Maybe that was the weirdness of it. Even two months ago, I would not have anticipated the need to ever formulate such a sentence. Maybe now that I have written it down, it will go away.
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The South African Librarian
A man goes into a library and asks for a book on suicide.
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A major earthquake, measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale hit
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Hi, how are you? I went to Grahamstown last weekend to visit Haley and attend Brenda's birthday party. It was a nice affair where we dressed up and had name cards for our places. We even switched seats for each course to talk to a different person. It was very fancy and Eben (a friend of Rosa, Haley, and the host, Brenda) and I helped to cook between the salad and the main course. It was fancy and nice.
It seems like the
In other news (if you read from the story above), an e-diagnosis of hemorrhoids was correct. My doctor diagnosed me with a minor case of piles for which I'm currently taking medicine. We'll see if it goes away in two weeks time. It should. . . .(gulp!).
My church offers an HIV/AIDS and crisis pregnancy course to train people to staff a future HIV/AIDS and crisis pregnancy counseling centre. There is a course that you must take before this. But because I would miss too much of it due to lectures, they did not allow me to take it. I was SO elated when they allowed me to take the second course without taking the first because of my knowledge of AIDS since I do AIDS research. Then I still had to get the second course approved because I would miss the first hour each week for the first 4 weeks (lectures end in a week and a half, now). They finally approved it (thanks to wonderful Rachel, the church nurse). But when the first day came (two Wednesdays ago), the 2nd course I lecture was extended, so I had to give a lecture for that also on Wednesday from 1-3. This was problematic because I was supposed to do my 9-10 lecture and then be at church by 10:15. When the day came, I wasn't prepared to lecture at 1-3. And I decided the students were my first priority. Well, I didn't even work on the presentation until about 12 and it was the best one! A student sent an e-mail thanking me for switching (he asked me to change the style somewhat) and for teaching the material well. It was nice. BUT it meant that I missed almost the whole day. I decided to go anyway expecting them to kick me out. They let me in!!! I couldn't believe it. SO it was nice. So I went in and caught the end of the day and got to hear one of the leaders of the course treat all of us counselors (we're all counselors even if on an informal level in terms of informal experience among family and friends; we're all people that others lean on) like patients or clients. And we had to do a lot of touchy-feely introspection and sharing in a circle of confidence and vulnerability. It's strange a bit. It's like being counseled to be a counselor. But they say you must know yourself in order to counsel.


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A REIT commentator surfaced today that i had not seen before (probably just my miss due to information overload) … i thought this was a good quick review of the REIT landscapte https://seekingalpha.com/article/4097044-reits-foundation-become-increasingly-shaky
As with most commentators, one needs to critically review their insights and inferences … and look for opposing or at least differing opinions, e.g., Adam vs Brad from the Seeking Alpha crowd.
Where i ended up aligned w/ Adam: caution on OHI (maybe even reduce). Where i diverged: not FR, but STAG (from Brad), but the segment is compelling!


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Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.
She's a product of the "burg," a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six.
Out of work and out of money, Stephanie blackmails her bail-bondsman cousin Vinnie into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. Stephanie knows zilch about the job requirements, but she figures her new pal, el-primo bounty hunter Ranger, can teach her what it takes to catch a crook. Her first assignment: nail Joe Morelli, a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one. Morelli's the inamorato who charmed Stephanie out of her virginity at age sixteen. There's still powerful chemistry between them, so the chase should be interesting…and could also be extremely dangerous.
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THERE ARE SOME MEN who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me -- not forever, but periodically.
Morelli and I were both born and raised in a blue-collar chunk of Trenton called the burg. Houses were attached and narrow. Yards were small. Cars were American. The people were mostly Italian descent, with enough Hungarians and Germans thrown into offset inbreeding. It was a good place to buy calzone or play the numbers. And. if you had to live in Trenton anyway, it was an okay place to raise a family.
When I was a kid I didn't ordinarily play with Joseph Morelli. He lived two blocks over and was two years older. "Stay away from those Morelli boys," my mother had warned me. "They're wild. I hear stories about the things they do to girls when they get them alone."
"What kind of things?" I'd eagerly asked.
"You don't want to know," my mother had answered. "Terrible things. Things that aren't nice."
From that point on, I viewed Joseph Morelli with a combination of terror and prurient curiosity that bordered on awe. Two weeks later, at the age of six, with quaking knees and a squishy stomach, I followed Morelli into his father's garage on the promise of learning a new game.
The Morelli garage hunkered detached and snubbed at the edge of their lot. It was a sorry affair, lit by a single shaft of light filtering through a grime-coated window. Its air was stagnant, smelling of corner must, discarded tires, and jugs of used motor oil. Never destined to house the Morelli cars, the garage served other purposes. Old man Morelli used the garage to take his belt to his sons, his sons used the garage to take their hands to themselves, and Joseph Morelli took me, Stephanie Plum, to the garage to play train.
"What's the name of this game?" I'd asked Joseph Morelli.
"Choo-choo," he'd said, down on his hands and knees, crawling between my legs, his head trapped under my short pink skirt. "You're the tunnel, and I'm the train."
I suppose this tells you something about my personality. That I'm not especially good at taking advice. Or that I was born with an overload of curiosity. Or maybe it's about rebellion or boredom or fate. At any rate, it was a one-shot deal and darn disappointing, since I'd only gotten to be the tunnel, and I'd really wanted to be the train.
Ten years later, Joe Morelli was still living two blocks over. He'd grown up big and bad, with eyes like black fire one minute and melt-in-your-mouth chocolate the next. He had an eagle tattooed on his chest, a tight-assed, narrow-hipped swagger, and a reputation for having fast hands and clever fingers.
My best friend, Mary Lou Molnar, said she heard Morelli had a tongue like a lizard.
"Holy cow," I'd answered, "what's that supposed to mean?"
"Just don't let him get you alone or you'll find out. Once he gets you alone...that's it. You're done for."
I hadn't seen much of Morelli since the train episode. I supposed he'd enlarged his repertoire of sexual exploitations. I opened my eyes wide and leaned closer to Mary Lou, hoping for the worst. "You aren't taking about rape, are you?"
"I'm talking about lust! If he wants you, you're doomed. The guy is irresistible." Aside from being fingered at the age of six by you-know-who, I was untouched. I was saving myself for marriage, or at least for college. "I'm a virgin," I said, as if this was news. "I'm sure he doesn't mess with virgins."
"He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush."
Two weeks later, Joe Morelli came into the bakery where I worked every day after school, Tasty Pastry, on Hamilton. He bought a chocolate-chip cannoli, told me he'd joined the navy, and charmed the pants off of me four minutes after closing, on the floor of Tasty Pastry, behind the case filled with chocolate eclairs.
The next time I saw him, I was three years older. I was on my way to the mall, driving my father's Buick when I spotted Morelli standing in front of Giovichinni"s Meat Market. I gunned the big V-8 engine, jumped the curb, and clipped Morelli from behind, bouncing him off the front right fender. I stopped the car and got out to asses the damage. "Anything broken?"
He was sprawled on the pavement, looking up my skirt. "My leg."
"Good," I said. Then I turned on my heel, got into the Buick, and drove to the mall.
I attribute the incident to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.
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I stumbled on this series while looking for downloads for my new nook. The reviews were all so positive that I decided to try the first book in the series. This book had all of the elements of a great, fun read...characters that captivate, laugh out loud humor, drama, and suspense. It's neither overboard nor lack lustre, it's solid and incredibly entertaining!!! I loved it! I read it in one day and have already started on the second book! This may just be a new favorite author for me. If it weren't for others that took the time to write reviews, I would've have never given it a try, I'm so grateful!
Enjoyed it- a lot and will read more from this talented writer.
Whether you like romance, mystery, adventure, or humor, this book will satisfy. I have never read a book that made me laugh out loud like this one. The only problem is the series goes on forever and once you are hooked, you are hooked. Some of the in-between books aren't as good, but they are still worth a read.
I enjoyed this book so much! I have read most of Janet Evanovich's books and this one is the start of a great series!
I love this book!!! I love Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Series!!! I'm always giving the first book away to someone as a gift. I've had people tell me that they don't enjoy reading much. She comes out with book 16 this June, and every person I give this book to can't stop reading the series and is now anxiously awaiting the release of 16. There are also mini books that she has written. This book (and the others in the series) are laugh out loud hilarious. I got in trouble for reading it while I had bathroom duty during TAKS testing because I was laughing so hard that the students heard and wondered what was going on. The characters are fantastic and out of this world. The dialogue is superb. If you like to laugh, if you have a sense of humor, if you want to love reading this book is the one for you. As a bonus you get two really hot men to dream about and a mystery to solve. DON'T MISS THIS BOOK OR THE OTHERS IN THE SERIES. I'm telling you I have gotten people with 2 to 3 jobs, kids to raise, and/or just hate reading to sit down and devour these books. Give them a try, I don't think you will be sorry. Also check out her website.
I enjoyed the vivid characters and setting. If you're into "literature," this won't be up to your standards. If you have tender sensibilities, a refined sense of humor or require a more complicated plot, likewise, you'll want to pass. Me, I was looking for entertainment and I got it.
This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. It is so interesting that it is hard to put down until you are finished. I definately recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries or just wants to try something different. I can't wait to read the rest of the books in the series.
This is the first book I have read by this author. She develops the characters well and the storyline never gets dull. I don't happen to be a big fan of the "F" word, so did not like all the foul language. Certainly think characters can be developed with much less of that language; otherwise, it was entertaining.
Why is it that when people tell me that I should read a book, I take forever to read it. And when I do read them they are beyond good. This book is defiantly one of those books. My sister would hound me about reading this book. She would tell me about these books that are just plain amazing. Well she was right. You meet Stephanie. Stephanie had it all. She had the job, the house, the car, and the money. Well then out of nowhere she loses everything and she is going to her parents for help. Her parents are trying to be supportive but also they want her to find something so she can pay her bills. So she goes to her cousin Vinnie and starts working for his bail bond business. There she is given the chance to get some money by bringing in a fugitive. But it is not everything that it is cracked up to be. She encounters a lot of problems along the way. But she overcomes them to a point. I loved this book. It has everything that a fictional book like this should have. It was action packed with suspense, love, and energy. It really keeps you going and wanting more. I would defiantly recommend this book to anyone that wants a quick easy read that keeps you wanting it time and time again.
Mystery, suspense, passion and great humor.What more can a reader ask for? Stephanie Plum is quite the character, with real life problems, gutsy, down to earth and hilarious! She loses her job, sells some of her belongings and this is when she decides to become a bounty hunter. There is cute interplay between her and Joe Morelli, who she is trying to bring in for jumping bail. This is such fun, fast-paced and a real HOOT!!
Evanovich's first Plum book is entertaining and suspensful! I really liked her main character, Stephanie, and reading about her adventures as a rookie bounty hunter. The "bad guy" was crazy scary and kept me reading page after page. It's full of humor and wit, and will satisfy any mystery reader's hopes.
These books are incredibly clever and absolutely wonderful for a good laugh . . . Here's to hoping the movie is just as good as this book!
I haven't read much in the past 50 years but started because my mother-in-law reads about a book every two days. I sat down to read one book and now have a Nook Color and have read about 15 books. This is one of the best series. That Stephanie Plum is a real hoot and so is her grandmother. Love these books and have bought up to book 9 and will continue to buy.. LOVE IT
A great start to the series. I will definetely be reading more of these books. Stephanie is a great character and you cant help but love Grandma! I laughed so much!
Overall I thought this book was a quick and fun read. I'm not sure I loved it as much as others out there though. The writing's simple, plot not too complicated, characters enjoyable, but I feel that there are other books out there that capture mystery and romance a bit better. I didn't feel like it excelled in any category; I wasn't WOWed, but it had a nice balance of everything. Since the reviews for this series are so great, I'm giving the next book a try.
My best friend recommended the series and I'm glad she did! This is a fun and fast read. I immediately liked the main character, Stephanie Plum, and all the supporting characters. I've read the second book and plan to read the rest!
I read an Excerpt from this book and went ahead and bought the first box set with the first 3 books. Wow was I glad I did! The first 3 books hooked me from beginning to end. The best thing about this series is the main character doesn't take herself too seriously. I found myself laughing harder than I had in a while. I LOVE Grandma Mazur and Lula! These books are worth every penny and are most definitely not a waste of time. Buy the whole series. You won't regret it but be warned they're addictive. As soon as I finished the first 3 books I got online and ordered the next 3 box sets.
I recommend all of the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich to all my friends. Several have read them (I loan out the paperback), and they are as enthusiastic as me. My wife and I look forward to the Plum books.
Great series to read... the movie not so much
I read this book because I had seen the movie preview and needed something to read and I loved it! I read the first one and jumped right into the second, third, fourth...now I'm on #9 and can't get enough! The plot is mysterious and the whole time I'm trying to figure out what will happen next, but I'm always surprised! This seriew has it all...humor,romance, mystery, action, suspense, fright, etc etc I just cannotsay enough positive things about this series!
This is a great book
Great book. I flow through it and cant wait to see the movie and read the rest of the series.
Very funny and entertaining. Really enjoyed it. I have already started "Two For The Dough". Stephanie's character is so relatable!!! Love grandma Mazur!!!
I picked up this book after seeing this author's books everywhere. The covers are bright and eye catching. Due to that i decided to give one of the books a try. This is such a cute and fun story. It reminds me of my own life in some ways. I enjoy the playful banter between plum and morelli. I will keep reading this series. It's a quick read; you can't help turning page after page. Oh and i bought the ebook and there were maybe ten typos, not overwhelming but annoying. I didnt realize this would be such a common problem in ebooks.
Such a fun series.


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Marc Wik did everything he possibly could to help the Quad Cities River Bandits sweep the Dayton Dragons, but the River Bandits dropped the last game of the three game series Friday night, 2-5. Wik went three for four in the game with a run and a double. The loss snapped a five-game winning streak for the River Bandits.
The only scoring spike the River Bandits managed was in the 6th inning when Wik doubled with one out, then moved to 3rd base on a Brett Booth single. Jake Rodriguez walked for the second time in the game to load the bases. With a potential double-play grounder to shortstop, the Dragons got the out at 2nd, but a wild throw to 1st base allowed Wik and Booth to score.
The River Bandits were already behind at this time, for they left open the door in the 5th inning for the Dragons to score five runs, all off Michael Feliz (6-3, 3.44 ERA), after he replaced starter Chris Cotton, who threw four shutout innings. Frederick Tiburcio came in to finished the 5th, then continue to stop the Dragons for three more innings with only one hit, but the damage was already done.
In game two, Wik led all hitters on Thursday, also, reaching base on two singles and scoring one. Booth scored first during the 3rd inning when he was the first of four batters that walked, including Dayne Parker and James Ramsay, and J.D. Davis, which allowed Booth to score, putting the River Bandits up 1-0.
In the next inning, Chase McDonald became the fifth River Bandit to walk. The next two batters flew out, but Wik singled to keep the inning alive. That would leave two for Parker to hit a 3-run homer – his first homer as a River Bandit. The River Bandits would lead 4-0 at that point, and would hold that lead with a win 4-2.
Starter Chris Lee (6-5, 3.74 ERA) would not allow a run in his five innings, and Andrew Thurman would survive the next four innings to solidify the win. Lee gave up three hits and a walk. Thurman gave up two runs off four hits, a walk, and three strikeouts. Thurman, normally a starter, recorded his first save this season.
Wednesday night's game would see the River Bandits prevail 6-3 over the Dragons. Brett Phillips, Ronnie Mitchell, and McDonald would all have two hits, including all three hitting one double. The River Bandits' big innings were the 4th inning, in which, Phillips scored on a throwing error and McDonald scored on Jose Fernandez's single, and the 8th inning, in which, Ramsay, Phillips, Davis, and Mitchell all scored.
The River Bandits have won five of their last six games, leaving them five games behind the Western Division leader Kane County Cougars. River Bandits continue their road trip with a matchup in Bowling Green to take on the Hot Rods for three games, Saturday night, July 26. River Bandits return home to welcome the LumberKings of Clinton on July 29. Go River Bandits!


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People make no sense. Take this story out of Tacoma, Wash., for example: Two men have been accused of stealing a woman's possessions, money and identity, after they allegedly burglarized her home and found her corpse. The brothers allegedly wrapped up her body in a tent and moved it from her home to one of theirs, where it was later discovered under a bale of hay by police and cadaver dogs, reports CBS affiliate KIRO-TV.
Pierce County investigators estimate the 63-year-old woman had died, apparently of natural causes, a month and a half before the brothers broke in. They're accused of taking all her things, coming and going over the course of 2 1/2 weeks to collect anything of value, including cars, antiques and bank account information. The woman had been reported missing, but no one checked on her, and the police picked up the investigation when the woman's credit union contacted them to report large, suspicious withdrawals.
While the details of this story are very strange, what happened isn't terribly surprising. Identity theft is nearly as certain as death these days, and your risk of becoming a victim doesn't end with your life — actually, identity thieves target the deceased, because the fraud is less likely to be found.
So what can you do about that? Not much, honestly. Preventing identity theft is incredibly difficult, given how much personal data fraudsters can access through public databases, social media and post-breach data dumps online. The best thing you can do to minimize the damage of identity theft is monitor your accounts and devices for signs of fraud, and act quickly to shut it down when things look suspicious. As for the identity-theft-after-death issue, things are a little trickier. Leave instructions for how your family should handle accessing and closing accounts, checking your credit reports for signs of fraud after your death and filing your final tax return before a thief beats them to it. You can monitor your own credit for signs of fraud by checking your credit scores for free every month on Credit.com.
More on Identity Theft:
- Identity Theft: What You Need to Know
- How Can You Tell If Your Identity Has Been Stolen?
- What Should I Do If I'm a Victim of Identity Theft?
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Phnom Penh is the capital as well as the famous tourist attraction in Cambodia. It really is a worth place with a lot of exciting things to do and destinations to see
Phnom Penh Overview
The capital of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, is located at the confluence of three rivers – the Mekong, the Bassac and Tonle Sap. The city is divided into three sections – the north, an attractive residential area; the south or the French part of the city with its ministries, banks and colonial houses; and the centre or the heart with its narrow lanes, markets, foods stalls and shops.
Over the past four years, the city has undergone tremendous changes – businesses are springing up constantly and tourism is once again booming. Cambodia has one of the most liberal investment laws to further boost managed to retain its charm and character – cyclos that weave through traffic with ease, broad boulevards, old colonial buildings, parks and green spaces that reminds one of the country's French heritage, and above all its people who always have a smile for you.
Famous Attractions
Independent monument: The monument was built in 1958 to symbolise the independence that Cambodia gained from France in 1953. The French fully abandonned their interests in Indochina following defeat by the Vietnamese at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954. Independence is marked in Cambodia on the 9th November. The monument has a unique and peculiar style and doubles as a memorial to Cambodian patriots who died for their country.
National museum: The National Museum of Cambodia is housed in a graceful terracotta structure of traditional design (built 1917-20) just north of the Royal Palace. It is open Tuesday to Sunday from 8 to 11 am and from 2 to 5 pm.
Silver pagoda: The emerald Buddha sits on a pedestal high atop the dias. In front of the dias stands a life-size Buddha made of solid gold and weighs 75kg. It is decked with precious gems including diamonds, the largest of which is 25 carats. Also on display at the sides are the coronation apparel and numerous miniature Buddha in gold and silver.
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A college education these days can cost as much as a house. What's fascinating though, is that the most expensive colleges are not always the top ranked and there doesn't seem to be much of a relationship between tuition costs and what you can expect to earn upon graduation. We've compiled a list of the 20 schools whose graduates have ...Read More »
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Whenever the mention of American college and universities comes up in a conversation, two criteria invariably rise to the top of the rankings list: Academics and social life. More conservative (Forbes) college ranking articles and blog posts refer to academic standards, while more liberal (Rolling Stone) online publications tend to emphasize the party scenes of American institutions of higher learning. ...Read More »
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Picking an online university can be tricky but many of the questions you should be asking are much of the same that you would ask a traditional university. Questions like tuition and financial aid may seem fairly obvious, but there are also questions of accreditation which, with traditional universities, did not need to be asked. But, since online schooling is ...Read More »
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Two-year college is a popular option for those who want to avoid an expensive four-year bachelor's degree from a private college or state university. Several hot majors provide students with the opportunity to take classes and then transfer to a four-year program or get a high-paying job right away. 1. General Studies At a four-year college, many students get a ...Read More »
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Going to school online comes with a mountain of benefits. You can fit school into your schedule, including if you have work or family commitments that would keep you from a traditional college. Studying with an online program also means that you don't have to relocate, find a new place to live, etc. These reasons are fueling a tremendous interest ...Read More »
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Normally, some bloggers would follow-up a post like mine yesterday with a "...well maybe yesterday I was a bit harsh..." introduction, but I won't be doing that. Aside from the base set and maybe 1-2 inserts per series, 2013 Topps is not special. Series 2 was a major step down in player selection, photography and inserts.
But, at least there are no pies in the face.
Which I hate.
My JV baseball coach, also one of the most influencial human beings on my life, once said something after we walked-off versus a division rival:
"Act like you've done this before."
You'd think after so long in baseball, the adult men would do this, but they haven't. And so it get shoved in our face in the form of pie-in-the-face, walk-off jump-on-the-plate and horrific celebration cards. No thanks.
At this point I'd like to mention that that little rant there was not planned. But on the bright side, the pie-in-the-face cards have been replace with something much more palatable:
Autographing! This is the only autograph SP I've really noticed in Series 2, mostly because I just don't care. However, all of your Jose Reyes shall belong to me, soon enough.
On a side, 331 was the final card of Series 1. And the first card of Series 2. More Topps trolling.
Also, Jose's facial hair on any other human being would be so douchey that I would have guerrilla attack it with a Bic lighter or angry doberman.
While I have my issues with Topps Flagship, I am still going after all of the parallels for certain players. They just look so damn good in pages. My first numbered parallel of Series 2 is a camouflaged Melky Cabrera:
Which leads me to the question - is this photoshopped? The piping on the pants looks a bit odd, and the scrolling across the chest is a bit too bright, and oh, HIS GLOVES ARE ORANGE.
I would think Melky would have had enough time to find some new batting gloves after his, umm, suspension in 2012. Plus, as the fable goes, he left all of his shit in the Giants locker room once he got slammed...so why would he even have them as a Jay?
One thing I secretly enjoy about this one, however, is this:
Enough Series 2.
Hey! More Joses!
Jose Reyes roooooookies! And a Francisco Lindor purplefractor! These both came to me on Monday night, but at the time, I was hosting an old freind. I enjoy them, but am seriously thinking of un-slabbing one of those clunky cases. Boo.
Of course, I saved the best for last.
That's a thing I often do.
And it's a good one:
Oh yes.
Rymer Liriano is out with Tommy John surgery (I sit back and watch the hits roll in) in 2013, which means his cards can be had quite cheaply. I don't know how many of these I have yet, or how many I need, but I know it's not going to get any easier. Oscar Tavares, Dylan Bundy, Matt Harvey still remain, and they will not come cheap.
Also, that Lake Elsinore Storm logo is PERFECT for this insert set.
At least it's something.


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Today the students do this fingerplay all by themselves. I don't say it or do the motions with them. They were excited to do it all by themselves.
Students are finally getting the hang of echoing rhythms on a neutral syllable. I didn't have to repeat any of the rhythms. Soon I will introduce them to rhythm syllables.
We warm up our voices by doing sirens with the slide whistle. Then we sing the echo song "No More Pie".
Students are finally able to move to their at the board spots while I sing the song "One Bright and Sunny Morning".
We go over the expectations of the hammers before they each get a hammer. Then they sing the song without the teacher. I only ask them where should we tap the hammer next. I don't tap the hammers with them. Today I am watching to see whether or not they are tapping to the beat.
I review how to move from left to right and not to go too fast. I randomly call on students to come up to the board to tap the hammers as the class sings the song. I keep track of who had a turn using the iDoceo app on my iPad.
In this week's lessons students will say the poem and do the motions without the teacher. I don't say it with them and I don't do the motions with them.
The Mac Chicken Dance comes from Greg & Steves CD "Big!". I like this dance because it uses a lot of simple songs that all children should know (Itsy Bitsy Spider and Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes). It's also done to a very upbeat tempo. They even get to learn the "Chicken Dance". At the end they do the chicken dance starting slow and by the end it is so fast you can hardly keep up with it.


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Episode 1, Season 1 'Clifton Manor' Series
In 1912's Yorkshire, large mansions and sizeable staff are the norm among the wealthy. Clifton Manor is no exception. Episode 1 of the 6 Episode series introduces us to all the major players & a bit about their role in the Manor.
Anna Holden has taken a job at the Manor working in the kitchen. A step down from her previous job, Anna had no choice to accept any available offer due to a yet-to-be-determined issue. Lady Clifton, the matriarch, has many secrets. Day-to-day operations of the household are lightly overseen by her as she heavily relies on senior staff to keep the wheels turning. Her children are more involved in household matters than their mother & seldom seen father.
George 'does the books'. At the time Anna joins the ranks, George is beginning to question the ledgers and wondering about differing amounts recorded in the family finances. Feeling a change needs to be made, he rolls up his sleeves and digs deep into dark corners. Elizabeth is the baby of the family. Despite her title & net worth, Elizabeth would rather spend her days visiting the staff. Often overlooked, Elizabeth is the one tender-heart in a sea of selfish ones. Jane, their sister, should be worried about her upcoming wedding. Though a matter of convenience, it is an important affair. However, she seems preoccupied with matters from her past.
While we get to know the family & prominent staff members, we get peaks into the façade the family shows the world & the dysfunctional behind the scenes. As with any series, we are left with questions to explore & initial opinions on the fictional world we're in. Why is one padlocked door forbidden to all staff members? What's up with the family money? How many skeletons are in the closets of the Manor? Episode 2 will certainly reveal more details.
Set-up by installments like any other series, 'Clifton Manor' reads like a nifty soap opera. Romance & mystery around every corner, back-stabbing, betrayals – you name it. I happened upon the series by chance while searching for a new series. While there wasn't a major 'wow' factor, I thought it was well-done and enjoyed it. There's enough in this first episode to make me want to tune in to the same channel again.
I am especially fond of Elizabeth. Every family needs a person who cares for everyone more than themselves. We have to keep in mind that the time period relies heavily on Class Status and prejudice abounds. Regardless, 'Episode 1' is definitely worth the time and with colder weather on its way, it'll be a good way to spend your time. I give it 4 stars.