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Fishing Cow Creek Ranch with FE Guides
Fish Enchantment Guides offers ice fishing and fly fishing trips on Cow Creek Ranch in Pecos, New Mexico. This is a wonderful Ranch with endless fishing opportunities and we are proud/fortunate to be guiding here. We are thrilled to be the exclusive ice fishing guides on the lakes at Cow Creek Ranch. FE Guides and the CCR Managers; Lanier and Mike Hartnagle, have a great passion for ice fishing and have developed a business partnership making this winter hard water opportunity possible. All trips must be booked over the phone or email through FE Guides Owner Matt Pelletier or Lanier Hartnagle at the Cow Creek Ranch. Let's go fly fishing or ice fishing with flies at Cow Creek Ranch! CONTACT US to reserve your trip!
Full Day Fly Fishing Trips:
1 Angler-$450, 2 Anglers-$600, 3 Anglers-$800. Rates account for private water access fee and lunch. Tax, and guide gratuity not included.
Half Day Fly Fishing Trips:
1 Angler-$350, 2 Anglers-$500, 3 Anglers-$650. Rates account for private water access fee and lunch. Tax, and guide gratuity not included.
What to expect for fly fishing trips:
The ranch has over 4 miles of river fishing available along with 7 mid size lakes. Everything is in close proximity so you wont have to be in a car driving all day to get from spot to spot. These waters are home to big rainbows, browns, cutbows, brooks, cutthroat trout, and the occasional palomino trout. Whether nymphing deep plunge pools, sight fishing with dry dropper combos, or chucking big streamers at one of the lakes; you're sure to have a great experience fishing with FE Guides at Cow Creek Ranch. It's important that you print turn by turn directions!
Full Day Ice Fishing Trips:
1 Angler-$450, 2 Anglers-$600, 3 Anglers-$800. Rates account for private water access fee and lunch. Tax, and guide gratuity not included.
What to bring:
A 4×4 truck with decent clearance, warm waterproof clothes and boots (It's suggested that you dress in layers), warm gloves, hat, beanie, and polarized glasses.
What to expect for ice fishing trips:
Ice fishing at Cow Creek Ranch is a special opportunity provided exclusively by FE Guides and is a catch and release only service. Expect great scenery, solitude, and trophy trout fishing while fishing with flies through the ice! With seven lakes to choose from we rest each lake without fishing it again for at least 7 days so you'll get fresh action from beautiful fish! I addition to fun and friendly service, we provide a sled, shack, gas auger, Marcum LX-7 sonar, rods, tackle, coffee, hot cocoa, a hot lunch, instruction throughout the day, and all other gear and safety items necessary for ice fishing. FE Guides want this to be an adventure we take together as we truly enjoy teaching and sharing our passion and experience with others.
CONTACT US to reserve your trip!!
Cow Creek Ranch, where the fly & ice fishing experience of a lifetime becomes a yearly tradition!


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Heidi sent over this mind bender: NRJISD. She writes:
Vanity plates: better than coffee!
Get it? It says "energized." This one is so annoying that every time I glance at this photo my eye twitches a little. I hate this plate.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Try Decaf Next Time
Heidi sent over this mind bender: NRJISD. She writes:
Posted by HorribleLicensePlates at 5:16 AM
Labels: California, completely annoying
2 comments:
- Intense Guy said...
Thanks for decoding this!!
I was getting cross-eyed trying to make heads or tails out of it.
- April 2, 2010 at 6:27 AM
- LadyStyx said...
*wanders off and attempts to get rid of the massive eye twitch*
- April 4, 2010 at 12:16 AM
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Morgan Currie: IS Alumna Selected for Stanford Fellowship
Scholar of urban data policy will conduct research in Stanford's Digital Civil Society Lab.
IS alumna Morgan Currie ('13, MLIS; '16, Ph.D., Information Studies) has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford. She will be working with Stanford professors Lucy Bernholz and Rob Reich, the lab's founders, researching frameworks for how civil society can use digital resources for broader public benefit.
Currie's research examines how cultural, political, and economic factors interact with the design and development of public data infrastructures, and how these systems influence new economies, forms of governance, civic behavior, and political struggle.
Currie was selected for the fellowship to develop her proposal of a research project, based on her dissertation, about the intersection of government and private sector data.
"Government databases are often used by private companies or created with the help of private companies," says Currie. "One example is Google Maps, using public transit data, or Waze, using street closure data in their platforms. Policing does this with predictive policing algorithms, which are proprietary. Public data on arrests and police reports have become a part of these private algorithms that then create 'hot spots' to determine where policing forces are going to go."
Currie says that the immediacy of digital platforms has had a significant impact on both government and private records, and calls for an understanding of the consequences by the average user.
"[There is] more interest from the private sector [around] public data," she says. "There have long been examples of the private sector using public data, like the weather industry. But I'd say there's even more of an interest now [from] big internet companies like Yelp, Waze, and Google. That's another interesting intersection of government and private industries booming now as well. The worry is that these private services turn citizens who want to use public data into [mere] consumers of these platforms."
Currie also researches how government data spawns new forms of democratic participation.
"Events like hackathons [have] given rise to civic activity based around programming and working with data," says Currie. "That coincided with the release of public data sets from urban data portals, specifically through [former] President Obama's Open Data policy. Coinciding with these government websites that release data sets are [individuals] who make apps for civic purposes. One of the most successful ones in Los Angeles is one that helps navigate 'food deserts' [and shows] where to find resources around food using public data. It was created by volunteers who got together on their own time and made this app."
Currie points out that the digital domain also acts as a publicity tool for government, affording it the ability to showcase how effective it can be.
"There is a lot of interest now in using public data to help governmental departments come up with metrics to track their performance over time, their promises to the public about how efficient they're going to be, and how they're going to address problems like keeping streets clean from illegal dumping, repairing potholes, or climate change initiatives," she says.
Currie, who earned a master's degree in new media from the University of Amsterdam, was drawn to the UCLA Department of Information Studies because of her previous exposure to its scholarship.
"Even though the new media program wasn't linked to information studies, a lot of my professors in had similar research interests to professors at UCLA [Information Studies]," she says. "Through my coursework I encountered writing by Johanna Drucker, Chris Kelty, Ramesh Srinivasan, and Leah Lievrouw. My professors knew them; they ran in similar circles and all studied the effects that digital media and the internet have on society. I was already familiar with the work of these professors, and it was very exciting to study under them."
Currie was recently a lecturer in the School of Media, Culture, and Design at Woodbury University. She has also taught an undergraduate course on "Information and Power" at UCLA. This coming academic year Currie will also be studying scientific data that needs rescuing, either because of political vulnerabilities or because of actual material or physical vulnerabilities, through the Research Data Alliance United States Research Share Fellowship.
Currie says that her interest in government data began when she first moved to Los Angeles and attempted to use phone apps to navigate its public transportation system. She was curious to understand how government data became interoperable with the platform of the phone app.
"There's now a bigger need for research on governmental data and its stewardship by government, the public, the private sector – and a degree in IS from UCLA puts our alumni in a strong position to have a voice in shaping how these data assets can be accessed and used for public good," says Currie.
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Father and Daughter T-Shirts {Father's Day 2013}
I finally got started on part of the Hubby's gift for Father's Day. I found the idea on Pinterest. Here is the original link here. I knew I wanted to do this ever since I came across it last year. I love the look of the baseball tee and I found both of mine online at jiffyshirts.com. The site offers tons of options that are sure to fit your demands. I used my craft cutter machine to cut the t-shirt vinyl. I then pressed the design with my heat press. If you don't have a heat press, you will need to order the special iron-on vinyl that Silhouette offers.
Of course I had to make one for my daughter as well! She looks super-cute in it!
The fonts I used for these shirts were: American Captain, Brannboll, Sedgwick, and Mister Sirloin BTN Rare. All of them are free fonts except for Mister Sirloin.


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If you're interested in getting more automotive bang for your hard-earned buck, Vision Ford Lincoln has the solution: a used Ford. You can find the vehicle you love at a price you'll love even more. And, because Vision Ford Lincoln takes the time to thoroughly inspect every used car we sell for long-lasting performance and overall quality, you can count on driving home a vehicle that really is as good as new.
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I do feel compelled to note, however, that this paper and communication are both about an experiment, and that he has not yet reported finding such chisel stones. Admittedly, there has probably been little awareness of their possibility so no one has looked for them. Also, Keyser also commented that as they are smaller and lighter than the hammer stones they may have regularly been carried away as useful tools, not dropped in the ground when the petroglyph is done as so many hammer stones were, " that's the beauty of a chisel stone—you can carry two or three dozen of them with the same weight as a single good-sized hammer stone." (Keyser 2016)
And I also must confess that I have never examined the fine lines in a petroglyph for this phenomena, superimposition yes, mis-strikes no. So in the future I will have another line of evidence to look into.
Those who would like to dig a little deeper into this example are referred to the 1999 paper by Keyser and Rabiega, cited below.


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An attorney for a Maryland man who has spent over four years imprisoned in Cuba will argue before a federal appeals court that he should be allowed to sue the U.S. government over his imprisonment.
An attorney for Alan Gross, who was working in Cuba on a government contract when he was arrested in 2009, was expected to appear Friday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A lower-court judge threw out the lawsuit against the government in 2013, saying federal law bars lawsuits against the government based on injuries suffered in foreign countries, but Gross' lawyers appealed.
Gross was detained while working to set up Internet access as a subcontractor for the U.S. government's U.S. Agency for International Development, which promotes democracy in Cuba. It was his fifth trip to Cuba to work with Jewish communities on setting up Internet access that bypassed local censorship. Cuba considers USAID's programs illegal attempts by the U.S. to undermine its government, and Gross was tried and sentenced to 15 years in prison...


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Is Pinterest a part of your marketing strategy? If your company has any connection to women, crafts, home décor, food, DIY projects or family, it should be. If your company doesn't have any of these connections, don't rule yourself out — many other types of companies can do well on Pinterest as well.
Do you know how many users are on Pinterest?
According to the latest tally, there are 70 million users on Pinterest.
Simply pinning a few pieces of your content is not a strong marketing strategy. If you want your business to do well on Pinterest, your marketing strategy needs to include specifically targeting the types of people most commonly found on the site.
The Pinterest Demographic
According to several studies, nearly three-fourths of Pinterest users are women. This means that your Pinterest marketing strategy should be predominantly geared toward women. Of course, one-quarter is no small amount either, compared to the number of users on Pinterest. Gear your marketing strategy toward men, and you may find a niche with little competition.
Annual Household Income
According to another study, approximately one-quarter of Pinterest users make over $100,000 per year. This means that whether you sell expensive or less expensive products, there are users on Pinterest who would fit well into your marketing strategy. Do not be afraid to gear your marketing strategy accordingly.
Modea also notes that half of Pinterest users have children. Whether your marketing strategy targets parents or the child-free, your target audience is on Pinterest. Even if you sell products for children, who are not on social media sites, parents very frequently browse Pinterest looking for ideas for things they can buy and do for their children. This sets Pinterest apart from other social media sites.
If you haven't included Pinterest as part of your marketing strategy yet, your company is missing out. Companies who use Pinterest to drive traffic and create sales as part of their marketing strategy often experience higher company growth and sales than those companies who do not.
At Turn The Page Online Marketing, we want our clients to utilize social media marketing to their advantage. We'll provide information on other social media outlets that may benefit your business, so check back to our blog!
Call us today if you're ready to get started on tailoring your online marketing strategy with a new website, business listing optimization, Pinterest marketing and more!


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|The process of making a square.
|A collage of the finished quilt with some close-ups of panels.
|The process of making a square.
|A collage of the finished quilt with some close-ups of panels.
Can you clarify more on using the long strips from the sheet to use as a border? I'm confused on how that worked.
Did you cut six long strips, sew all of the squares to it on a vertical side? And add on the next vertical line of squares?
And then cut more long strips from the sheet and do the same on the squares' horizontal edges?
Hi. I will attempt to explain. I cut the sheet into strips, some long, some short. The short ones I used to make each row of squares. I sewed a strip to one side of a square, then sewed the next square to this strip by placing the second square face down onto the strip before sewing. Does that make sense? Then when I had a row of squares with strip in between each one I sewed the row to a long strip of sheet.
Do you know what I mean? Maybe I need to do a more detailed blog post on this technique.


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In October 2009, HEPCA divers teamed up with GUE Egypt (Global Underwater Explorers) and Colona Divers in a project to install new moorings to secure the wreck and improve the safety of diving her. It is hoped that more and more technical divers will come to appreciate diving this unique wreck as the ship is almost entirely intact and the accommodation area easy to explore. Her masts rise up to around 15m below the surface.The Hebat Allah project also recognises the importance of this wreck as an artificial reef in offering a unique marine research opportunity to monitor reef growth from a baseline of her sinking five years ago. An initial assessment of marine life and coral presence was undertaken in October and recorded some extensive fish life including groupers, lionfish, many schooling fish and also a turtle. There were several coral species, including some hard corals, but their current poor coverage is likely to be due to both the depth of the wreck and also the fact that it lies some distance away from an established coral reef.Going forward, HEPCA and GUE Egypt, with the support of Colona Divers, are intending to dive the Hebat Allah frequently with the following goals of the project in mind:1. To maintain the constant presence of the mooring lines (previous lines have been lost due to fishing activity and incorrect mooring practices) in order to maximise the Hebat Allah's potential as a safe and exciting technical diving site2. To survey and document the coral growth and marine life diversity at depths greater than 35m, thereby using the Hebat Allah as a valuable marine research site, as well as continuous monitoring of the overall condition of the wreck.
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Any way, I moved to plan B. As you can see, my fascination for the darling From the Heart Birdbrains continues. I am using Broom Flying Birdbrain for the first time (and love her to bits!). I also used my Gelatos for the first time. The background was stamped and heat embossed first. Then I blended 3 colors of Gelatos for the background and 3 colors for the big, bright moon. I just blended them with my fingers and a baby wipe. I also put Wink of Stella on the moon and her cloak and hat.
You are definitely going to want to visit the Girlfriends to see what new thing they have pulled out of their wagons. Then, link up at Little Red Wagon blog. Can't wait to see what you use that is new.


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Darby Kalp
I had him 2 semesters in a row for gym. Excellent gym teacher and his classes are always very fun. The best classes were the baseball ones by far.
BEST MATH TEACH AND SOCCER COACH!!!! YA SWOSSA CHAPMS!!! he knows what he is teaching
i only had kalp for like 3 weeks but those were the best 3 weeks of my life...why did we have to get switched...now im mad
Kalp ur awesome but talks alot about nothing very intresting makes me want to go to class every morning have a feeling im going to fail tho if u know what i mean..:):)
kalp is one of the best math teachers ever but likes to drop the chalk alot
great math teacher...explaing everything....and is pretty fun...sometimes...you can get away with a lot
Made everything easy to understand. Great help overall! Yo da' bomb!
thank u for helping me understand math!!! ur a great teacher and can be very easygoing!
WOW, Mr. Kalp, thank you! Wish all of our teachers were like you!
Yay! Math class! Great teacher, helpful, a bit sarcastic upon occasion... but great.
You make me wanna... (Become a Mathmatician)...Ya right ;)
best math teacher ever!!!! hes fun and easliy understood but he can go a little to fast a times!~!!!!!
A corny comedian...but an amazing teacher! He explains EVERYTHING


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Adams Free Library
2 North Main Street PO Box 5813605 Adams , NY
United States
Phone: 315-232-2265
Fax: 315-232-226543° 48' 34.8228" N, 76° 1' 24.9924" W
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New York US
Each day offers a different movie musical. If you love musicals come and enjoy and have some musical fun. Sing along if you know the lyrics.
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Repeats every day 6 times.Monday, July 30, 2018
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2:00 pm to 4:00 pm


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Friday, April 10, 2015
Rodney from Charlevoix shared a word that has a specialized meaning among software writers. It's obfuscation, and it means the deliberate attempt to make coding unreadable. That sounds counterproductive, but Rodney said it's useful if you are trying to conceal the purpose of a code, or if you are trying to safeguard your product against reverse engineering.
The word obfuscation has a more generalized meaning, but it still revolves around obscuring, concealing, or confusing an audience. It often involves using words deliberately chosen for their esoteric nature or using jargon not readily available to the general public. A popular bumper sticker years ago was Eschew Obfuscation, which compactly and humorously serves as an illustration.
Originally, in Latin, the –fusc- sequence meant some dark color, at different times described as black, dark brown, or muddy gray. (This reminds me of the murky definition for ecru: greyish-pale yellow or a light greyish-yellowish brown.)
Over time, the word left the realm of color and extended to mean ideas or expressions that are vague, obscure, unclear, perplexing, befuddling, or bewildering.
Listen to Mike's program in real time every Tuesday morning, 9:10 - 10:00 a.m. EST, by going to wtcmradio.com and clicking on Listen Now. You'll also find about a month's worth of podcasts there under The Ron Jolly Show.


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Eight landowners and the nonprofit Living Rivers are suing the City of Moab over a decision relating to the proposed Lionsback Resort.
The city entered into a zoning status agreement with the developer LB Moab Land Company, LLC and the Utah Schools and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, on Feb. 28, 2017. The zoning status agreement was a compromise between the city and the developer, which classified a change to the development plans as a "minor change" subject to administrative approval rather than a "major change," which under city code would be subject to further public hearings and would have to be approved by the Moab City Council.
Revised plans for the first phase of the proposed resort, which is located on SITLA land at the old Lionsback Campground, now include a hotel consisting of 50 three-bedroom units and a parking area to be located behind the hotel. The original plan featured a lodge with 50 single rooms.
The plaintiffs in the case contend that the city's decision to enter into the zoning status agreement was illegal.
"[The zoning status agreement] illegally … classifies changes and amendments to the [development] as a 'minor change' when the changes are actually 'major changes' as defined by Moab City ordinance, thereby denying the public and specifically the plaintiffs the right to participate in public hearings on the changes, a right they are entitled to for any 'major change' which the proposed changes certainly are given the nature and character of the changes," said the legal complaint … The city made the determination that the amendments and revisions to the MPD were 'minor changes' in order to appease SITLA and LB Moab, but not based on an actual review of whether the amendments were in fact 'minor changes' or based on substantial evidence."
In the city's legal response to the suit, they said that the zoning status agreement was valid.
"There existed a genuine dispute between the City of Moab and LB Moab/SITLA as to the scope of existing land use entitlements and the rights and duties of the parties under those entitlements. The zoning status agreement constitutes a valid and binding accord and satisfaction whereby the parties agreed to settle certain disputes without resorting to litigation," Moab City Attorney Chris McAnany wrote in defense of the city. "The council's decision was made in good faith, after receiving the recommendation of the planning commission, and input from the public at a public hearing. The decision was supported by substantial evidence in the record, and was not arbitrary, capricious, or illegal under the subject ordinances, being instead based upon a careful evaluation of the neighborhood and the probable impacts of the proposed development."
McAnany said last year that this new plan constituted a major change under city code, but SITLA and the developer said that ambiguities in the code and communications from previous city officials led them to believe that they could proceed with the new plan as a minor change, without undergoing a public review, as would be required in the case of a major change.
Under state law, SITLA has the right to withdraw from city land use approval processes, something the city did not want. SITLA had said it would consider withdrawing if the zoning status agreement was not approved.
The plaintiffs say in their legal complaint that they are adversely impacted by the changes in the development plan, and that the city has denied them their right to present evidence of said adverse impacts at public meetings.
The argument for the case was originally scheduled for April 10, but has been rescheduled to May 8 at the request of the plaintiffs.


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Step stylishly into the new season with our fall/winter edit of women's shoes and boots. Put your best foot forward in sleek killer heels, classic pumps and bold block heel boots. Preppy loafers are your work BFF while sporty sneakers help nail the athleisure trend of the moment.


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alexa z design etsy shop has the cutest prints ever. it was so hard for me to choose which one i liked the best. if you're ever wanting to spice up your house, add a cute little print on your end table, or maybe on that wall that's looking a little bare, go to this cute shop! these are the two prints i got:
i thought both of them described both of us so well. we lived in virginia beach for awhile, and now we are trying to figure out what state we'll be living in next. it may not be every state in the country, but i have definitely learned that home is wherever mr. schroeder is. it was hard to finally come to that conclusion. but it feels right. and i apologize in advance for the terrible pixelated photo. but i thought the top print looked perfect on my end table in my living room. it is the cutest thing!
so next time you're considering purchasing some prints, go see what alexa z design has in her adorable shop!
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Those are so cute! I'm definitely in love with the states one. I'm going to check out her prints now!ReplyDelete
Love her stuff! Especially the new ones she just put in the shop. :)ReplyDelete
cute stuff. Not that I'd purchase any but I do wish I was crafty and artsy and creative and could do spunky things for myself for my room. Like I want to do something cool and awesome to the bulletin board that I just have random pics floating around. but not sure what would look good and what wouldnt.ReplyDelete
so cute! :)ReplyDelete
oh you are so sweet! thank you!!! :)ReplyDelete
I love her blog and prints. They are all so cuteReplyDelete
those are so fun.ReplyDelete
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Monday, October 1, 2012
#6 We have Pandas (repost)
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This is really wierd, both the original and the repost show up on icatcher as just html files, no audio.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2012 at 9:31 AM
im having problems with the repost too! :( I can listen just past the original glitch and then it just quits again. Love the show guys! Hope you work out the tech issues soon.ReplyDelete
Thanks guys! We are working on them and hope to have the site functioning properly today!ReplyDelete
Great podcasts. Question: Have either of you seen a leveling map with suggested level for your pets before entering a zone to go battle/capture?ReplyDeleteReplies
No I haven't, I can label a map though, I just need to find a good blank one to start. (I have been doing a lot of pet collecting!)Delete
I am sure there's an algorithm for it, I just haven't figured it out yet.
hey, i just added a Browse by Zone for my website over at www.petbattlearena.com, you can mouse over all the zones to see what pets you can catch and what level they are :)Delete
- AnonymousOctober 4, 2012 at 11:16 AM
I don't know if you guys noticed, but if you look at your pet journal on your armory page on battle.net, the advanced filters have a checkbox for "epic" and "legendary" pets. I know there are some epic ones in the list now that are not "epic quality" but the fact that there is even a box for a "legendary" pet was very interesting.ReplyDeleteReplies
I know! I am waiting to see if the next battle.net update changes this, or if it is a chance of something super special.Delete
Not sure how I feel about this right now, as anyone with a legendary pet will have the edge over everyone who doesn't (Kind of like blues vs. grays/whites/greens) but it would be really cool to see!
hey Alludra.ReplyDelete
i just listened to your podcast and i liked it, i made a website that you guys might like :) www.petbattlearena.com its a database for battle pets. if you want to talk at some point hit me up at firstname.lastname@example.com, or firstname.lastname@example.com. id love to do an interview at some point or something along those lines.
i have the same passion about pet battles as you do, and id love to share ideas and such.
kind regards Sunturion.


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The door was shut but Agnes waited in the hallway, her hands folded in her lap as she faced the long hallway.
"Good morning," I said, bending down and squeezing her shoulder. I was on my way to visit someone else in the nursing home but I always made time for Agnes.
I remembered the day when she was able to navigate using a walker. Then as her feet and legs began to fail her, she switched to a motorized wheelchair. Now her memory loss had made the motorized controls too confusing. So she made her way with a simple black wheelchair.
Her round face broke into a wide smile. "Good morning to you as well."
Back in the day when Agnes could still walk, she and the hobbits had one thing in common: height. Well, the lack of it. Now Agnes sat in a short wheelchair so that her legs didn't dangle like a toddler.
"Are you getting your hair done today?" I had glanced at the sign on the door and knew the hairdresser was due any minute.
"I'm just waiting," she said. The smile got bigger, if that were possible. "I like to watch legs."
"Legs?" And then I bent again to her view.
"You see bow legged people. Knock kneed people. Long steps. People in sandals and people in boots."
Standing had deprived me of a unique view. "I never thought about that."
Agnes nodded. "I don't mind waiting. This is kind of interesting."
"Enjoy," I said, patting her on the shoulder again.
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Sci-fi blockbuster The Hunger Games has continued its reign atop the box office after seeing off the competition for the fourth week in a row.
The much-hyped movie, which stars Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth, has now become the first film in three years to hold onto the top spot for one month since James Cameron's Avatar was released in 2009.
The film grossed a total of $21.5 million at the weekend, bumping its domestic earnings to a staggering $337.5 million.
The Three Stooges debuted in second place with takings of $17.1 million and thriller Cabin in the Woods entered at third after raking in $14.9 million.
Rounding out the top five were the 3D re-release of Titanic ($11.6 million) and Jason Biggs' comedy American Reunion ($10.6 million) in fourth and fifth place, respectively.


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After, what we believe has been a successful last season, we are happy to confirm 2018 – 2019 season
we will be streaming all KNSB-Cup and Bokalen competitions in Figureskating in the Netherlands.
Additionally we are equally proud that we have been requested to provide our services to Live streaming the Padeltournament in june 2019 from Alkmaar.
We have shown quite some Skill .Online already. We've streamed Figure Skating events in both the "KNSB-Cup" and the "Nationale Bokalen" last season including a very succesfull Challenge Cup week(end). Having started our first stream about two years ago, we can now proudly state we have had well over 35.000 visitors and viewers so far to our live streams and we intend to grow even further.
We are currently still working on expanding our website to also contain a webshop that will allow all athletes, that took part in any event we have streamed, to come in an purchase a recording or more elaborate production of their performance.
Whether this is to, allow parents to actually watch their pride and joy perform without having to track them in their viewfinder, to proudly show friends and family what progress you've made, explain to your classmates what it is that you train so hard for when they play or whether it is to support your athletic development by watching back to see where you did great and where you can find room for further improvement together with your choreographer, trainer and/or coach. Show Your Skill .Online provides productions in different details to cover most needs. Special requests can always be put forward and we will look at them on a case by case bases (please use our contact form).
In the mean time you are all invited to e-mail your video requests and all and any event organisers are invited to request a quotation to live stream their sports event.
We will continously work on building our systems and marketing to further support your needs and requests, please share any of your ideas with us so we can build together.
Follow our facebook page to keep up to date with our progress and new livestreams planned, or check back here to find out what's new.
Hope to see you back here soon,
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Welcome to a new feature, Eating with the Pols, in which we talk to local politicians about New York food issues.
Meet City Council member Eric Goia, who has been serving since 2002. Not only does he represent one of the most delicious districts in the city–District 26 encompasses Woodside, Sunnyside, Long Island City and Astoria–but he also recently made news by reportedly supporting the Los Angeles fast food ban, sparking speculation that a similar measure might take root here. We asked him to clarify, and it turns out that Gioia has a lot of interesting things to say about the state of food and poverty in New York.
What's the most pressing food issue in New York today?
Food stamps have been a big issue for me since 2002, when I started looking into how the city allots them. The basic breakdown is that about 1.9 million people qualify, and just over a million receive them, so about half of the people who qualify for food stamps don't sign up for them.
In studies, we found that it's working people, people who are not on other forms of public assistance, and there are two reasons they don't apply. One is: 'I didn't know I qualified,' and the other is: 'I know I qualify, but the red tape is so thick, that I can't take time off work to go get it.'
The food stamp program is fully funded by federal government, so it's inexplicable that the city wouldn't make it more accessible, when there are literally billions of dollars to feed hungry children available, that's billion with a 'B.' I'm happy to say that, in part because of my advocacy, the food stamp application has been reduced from 24 pages to 4 pages, and the application offices are kept open later. I'd like to see the application fully online, so that people can do it at work, or go to into a library and fill it out.
Last year, I lived on food stamps for one week to see how it was–I thought it would be difficult but it was even more difficult than I thought it would be. For one thing, no coffee, so two or three days later, I got a headache. And what was fascinating were other things you take for granted. If you're working a 12 or 14 hour day, and you're not going to be close to home, you've got to think about what to pack to bring from home to eat. So you end up lugging around a PB and J, and that's your dinner. And it's far more difficult for those who do this everyday.
There's a misconception, spread by the radical right, that if only poor people knew how to eat better, they'd be healthy, and heart disease, obesity and diabetes wouldn't be the terrible problems that they are. But when I was on the food stamp diet, I could only afford the less healthy choices, like ramen and processed cheese. We shouldn't kid ourselves that it's only about education, we have to allow people to help themselves, and give them the options to eat healthy. That means signing up more people for food stamps, which will increase the federal funds coming to New York, and increase the purchasing power in less affluent neighborhoods. If you drop 10 million dollars of money to buy food into a neighborhood, a smart grocer is going to open a store there.
And we need to encourage greenmarkets, food co-ops to expand accept foods stamps. The biggest offender is Costo–they don't accept food stamps, in part because they think that people on food stamps can't afford the Costco card. There's this misconception that everyone on food stamps is destitute. If you have a family, and make under 24 thousand dollars a year, you qualify. That's a school crossing guard's salary.
What about LA's fast food ban–you were reported as being in favor of similar measures in New York. Can you explain your stance on that?
Look, I think that's extreme. That being said, when you look at the long term health consequences of these terrible diets, the heart disease, the cost for public hospitals, the lost productivity, I think everything should be on the table, and we should applaud creative thinking. I don't blame them for thinking out of the box.
I think it's hard for people to fathom that hunger is a problem. But hunger and obesity are two sides of the same coin.
Can you explain how hunger and obesity are related?
When you're poor and hungry, and your kids are hungry, you'll do anything you can to put food in that belly, the more the better. You'll go for big, processed cheese-like strips, the lightest, cheapest bread, whole milk rather than skim milk. You can buy a two liter bottle of coke for a dollar, but milk costs 5 bucks. It's not that people don't know the healthy choices, the decision is made for them by the prices on the foods.
How do you respond to people who say that it's patronizing to say tell certain segments of the population what to eat?
I think that's partly right. But I also think that predators often wrap them in the liberty of their victim. You talk to folks who lost their home: It was their right to sign those documents. You have to balance liberty and governance. We really do have to be creative.
I think of your district as being a particularly good place to eat. Where do you like to go out to eat?
I grew up in the neighborhood, and my family been there 100 years, but I'm still finding new places. We found a place on Saturday called My Thai [8347 Dongan Avenue, Elmhurst]. That was fantastic, really good Thai food.
Then there's Manetta's [10-76 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City]. If you like non-fancy Italian, like grandma would make on Sunday, that's the place. They were closed for two weeks. I almost starved! My wife is Cuban and she thinks El Sitio [68-28 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside] is the best Cuban in the city.
There are great Indian places…and Donovan's [5724 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside] has great pub food. You can't go wrong in my neighborhood.


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Abstract: The Sardinas-Patterson's test for codes has contributed many effective testing algorithms to the development of theory of codes, formal languages, etc. However, we will show that a modification of this test proposed in this paper can deduce more effective testing algorithms for codes. As a consequence, we establish a quadratic algorithm that, given as input a regular language X defined by a tuple (�, M, B), where � : A* → M is a monoid morphism saturating X, M is a finite monoid, $B \subseteq M$, X = �−1 (B), decides in time complexity $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ whether X is a code, …where n = Card(M). Specially, n can be chosen as the finite index of X. A quadratic algorithm for testing of ◊-codes is also established. Show more
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Authors: Hoang, Cuong | Le, Anh-Cuong | Nguyen, Phuong-Thai | Pham, Son Bao | Ho, Tu Bao
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Abstract: Automatically building a large bilingual corpus that contains millions of words is always a challenging task. In particular in case of low-resource languages, it is difficult to find an existing parallel corpus which is large enough for building a real statistical machine translation. However, comparable non-parallel corpora are richly available in the Internet environment, such as in Wikipedia, and from which we can extract valuable parallel texts. This work presents a framework for effectively extracting parallel sentences from that resource, which results in significantly improving the performance of statistical machine translation systems. Our framework is a bootstrapping-based method that is …strengthened by using a new measurement for estimating the similarity between two bilingual sentences. We conduct experiment for the language pair of English and Vietnamese and obtain promising results on both constructing parallel corpora and improving the accuracy of machine translation from English to Vietnamese. Show more
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Authors: Lai, Hien Phuong | Visani, Muriel | Boucher, Alain | Ogier, Jean-Marc
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Abstract: The feature space structuring methods play a very important role in finding information in large image databases. They organize indexed images in order to facilitate, accelerate and improve the results of further retrieval. Clustering, one kind of feature space structuring, may organize the dataset into groups of similar objects without prior knowledge (unsupervised clustering) or with a limited amount of prior knowledge (semi-supervised clustering). In this paper, we present both formal and experimental comparisons of different unsupervised clustering methods for structuring large image databases. We use different image databases of increasing sizes (Wang, PascalVoc2006, Caltech101, Corel30k) to study the scalability …of the different approaches. Then, we present a new interactive semi-supervised clustering model, which allows users to provide feedback in order to improve the clustering results according to their wishes. Moreover,we also compare, experimentally, our proposed model with the semi-supervised HMRF-kmeans clustering method. Show more
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Authors: Nguyen, Ngoc Trung | Duong, Anh-Duc
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Abstract: We consider the following problem: Given n red points, m green points and p blue points on a plane, find a trio of red-green-blue points such that the distance between them is smallest. This problem could be solved by an exhaustive search algorithm: test all trios of 3 different colored points and find the closest trio. However, this algorithm has the complexity of O(N3 ), N = max(n, p, q). In our previous research, we already showed a heuristic algorithm with a good complexity to solve this problem based on 2D Voronoi diagram. In this paper, we introduce a better …heuristic algorithm for solving this problem. This new heuristic algorithm has the same complexity but it performs much better than the old one. Show more
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Authors: Pham, San | Gascon, Viviane | Dinh, Tien
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Abstract: To maintain patients at home as most as possible, healthcare services are nowadays quite diversified. We present the case of a public medical clinic offering activities, mostly to the elderly, at a daycare center. Users are brought into the daycare center by bus or by taxi. The global problem consists in defining routes to pick up users while assigning them to time slots in the week. At first sight this problem could be viewed as an asymmetric multiple vehicle routing problem. However many additional constraints must be considered. In this paper, we propose a metaheuristic including two phases to solve …the problem. In the first phase, the initial solution is determined using one of two proposed constructed algorithms and is improved using tabu search in the second phase. These algorithms are tested on 10 problem instances. Experimental results are presented. Show more
Keywords: vehicle routing problem, sweep algorithm, saving heuristic, tabu search
Citation: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 130, no. 2, pp. 231-246, 2014
Authors: Thanh, Tran Thang | Chen, Fan | Kotani, Kazunori | Le, Bac
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Abstract: Emergence of novel techniques devices e.g., MS Kinect, enables reliable extraction of human skeletons from action videos. Taking skeleton data as inputs, we propose an approach to extract the discriminative patterns for efficient human action recognition. Each action is considered to consist of a sequence of unit actions, each of which is represented by a pattern. Given a skeleton sequence, we first automatically extract the key-frames, and then categorize them into different patterns. We further use a statistical metric to evaluate the discriminative capability of patterns, and define them as local features for action recognition. Experimental results show that the …extracted local descriptors could provide very high accuracy in the action recognition, which demonstrate the efficiency of our method in extracting discriminative unit actions. Show more
Keywords: Discriminative Patterns, 3D Skeletons, Local Descriptor, Improved TF-IDF, Action Recognition
Citation: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 130, no. 2, pp. 247-261, 2014
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Yet it occurred to me that I never gave my students at the same level the opportunity to prepare in this way. I'd set up a speaking activity and expect them to go straight into it. Was it, I wondered, the most effective way to develop their confidence in their ability to speak fluently and effectively in English?
The activity sequence that I'm going to describe here grew out of that realisation. It aims to give the students :
- The chance to develop ideas so that they know what they want to say before they start.
- The chance to rehearse silently what they want to say and think about how they can express more complex ideas, asking for the teacher's help as necessary.
- The chance to see their first attempt as only a rehearsal, to receive feedback and then have the chance to "polish" their performance until they are happy with it.
- The chance to move to a more challenging activity as soon as, but only if and when, they are ready for it.
The sequence can be applied, with a few modifications, to most types of speaking activity, but I'm going to describe it here with one that I've found particularly successful : anecdote telling.
Anecdote telling is a natural part of everyday social conversation. One person starts talking about something that once happened to them, and while they're speaking everyone else is thinking of a similar story that they can then tell themselves. This activity exploits this tendency and can easily be built into any lesson focusing on a specific topic or vocabulary field. It will not necessarily be instantly successful as, as with many classroom activities, it works best when students are used to it, and know what to expect and how to get the most out of it. The activity has five stages, and I'll use the example of a lesson focusing on the topic of the weather to explain them :
Stage One - a Teacher Model: Start by telling the students an anecdote about a time you were once caught in bad weather. I usually choose from : the day I had to drive through Switzerland in a blizzard; the time my house got flooded during a day of torrential rain; the time when I got lost on a mountain in the fog; or the day when I flew through a sandstorm. Check comprehension afterwards by asking the students to compare with their partners what they understood. This sort of teacher model not only gives the students ideas on what to say themselves, it also provides excellent listening practice and, most importantly, is highly motivating: students love hearing about their teacher's 'real' life, and if you can catch their interest at this stage it can help motivate them towards the whole of the lesson.
Watch your students while you slowly ask these questions, and their body language will tell you when they've all thought of something to talk about. As a story comes to mind they will probably look up and to their left (1), and they'll start to smile and to nod. (2)
Gaze left usually means recall
Once you're sure your students have all thought of something to talk about, ask them to sit silently and prepare what they want to say. They should mentally rehearse their ideas, and should identify anything that they don't know how to express. Tell them that at the end of the silent phase, you will provide any vocabulary that they need, but that you won't help at all during the conversation phase.
The first time you try this, don't expect it to work perfectly. Students won't necessarily see the point of the preparation, and may feel strange about sitting in silence. If you persevere with the technique, however, they will start to realise that the more they prepare in silence, the more successful their conversation is, and will start to really utilise the time you give them.
Stage Three - Vocabulary Input: Once the students have had a couple of minutes to prepare silently, ask them if they need any vocabulary or other help expressing themselves. If they ask how to say something using a verb structure which is too complex for them, reformulate it more simply for them (For example a third conditional If I'd known I wouldn't have gone can be expressed using the simple past : I didn't know so I didn't go). Encourage them to explain the words they need using circumlocution strategies: What do you call the type of weather when little bits of ice fall out of the sky? If they can develop this type of strategy, it will help them greatly in real communication situations and it is in itself a way of increasing fluency.
Make sure that you do this part of the activity with the full attention of the class – the listeners as well as the speakers will need to understand the new vocabulary. List the words that the students request on the board and leave them there during the activity.
Stage Four – Storytelling and Feedback: The students tell their story to their first partner. Meanwhile the teacher circulates and notes down what the students say. Often this will be errors, but do try and note down anything 'impressive' that the students say too, for example if someone has remembered an expression used in a previous unit. Transfer your notes to the board and, after the conversations have finished, give language feedback. During the follow-up, the students can also have a second chance to ask for vocabulary.
Stage Five – Repeating the Story : Students then change partners and repeat the story. This time, their story should come much more easily to them, as they've now already had two 'rehearsals'. Again the teacher can monitor and do a follow-up as necessary.
Students then change partners again. If they still feel the need to 'polish' their own story, they can repeat it again. Stronger students, however, can have the option of now telling one of the stories their previous partners told to them.
This process can be allowed to go on for as long as the topic and the activity remain interesting to the students and they are gaining something from the activity. As the course progresses and students increase in fluency, the number of repetitions, like the silent preparation time, can be slowly cut down. However, the repetitions have two advantages :
- Students are extending their vocabulary by using and hearing the words that arose in the vocabulary input stage again and again. Those students who go on to tell someone else's story will be using productively not only the words which they requested themselves, but also the words involved in the other person's story. Everyone, however, will have received a high 'dose' of vocabulary at the receptive level.
- They can go on repeating their own story until they feel they've got it 'right'. This greatly increases their confidence in speaking English, and therefore their motivation. Stronger students don't get bored, because as soon as they want to, they switch to the greater challenge of telling someone else's story.
1. This insight comes from NeuroLinguistic Planning. For more on how NLP can be used in the ELT classroom, see Using NLP in ELT
2. Body Language is, of course, culturally determined and this may not be true for all groups. What signs tell you that your students are ready to start? Send us a comment!
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Officers were called to Pennsylvania Avenue and Mariposa Street about 7:30 p.m. and met with several witnesses to the shooting. The witnesses told cops they saw a man standing on the overpass with some kind of firearm, police said, and he was shooting at the train.
"After shooting at the train, the suspect was seen placing his gun into a bag and walking away from the scene," the Bayview Police Station reported.
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History of Senegal. This is a short overview to the history of the African nation of Senegal.
Wikipedia notes, "The Republic of Senegal is a country south of the Senegal River in West Africa. Senegal is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south. The Gambia forms an enclave within Senegal, following the Gambia River more than 300 km inland. The Cape Verde islands lie some 560 km off the Senegalese coast."
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Archaeological findings throughout the area indicate that Senegal was inhabited in prehistoric times. Islam established itself in the Senegal River valley in the 11th century; 95% of Senegalese today are Muslims. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the area came under the influence of the Mandingo empires to the east; the Jolof Empire of Senegal also was founded during this time.
In January 1959, Senegal and the French Soudan merged to form the Mali Federation, which became fully independent on June 20, 1960, as a result of the independence and the transfer of power agreement signed with France on April 4, 1960. Due to internal political difficulties, the Federation broke up on August 20, 1960. Senegal and Soudan (renamed the Republic of Mali) proclaimed independence. Leopold Sedar Senghor, internationally known poet, politician, and statesman, was elected Senegal's first President in August 1960.
After the breakup of the Mali Federation, President Senghor and Prime Minister Mamadou Dia governed together under a parliamentary system. In December 1962, their political rivalry led to an attempted coup by Prime Minister Dia. Although this was put down without bloodshed, Dia was arrested and imprisoned, and Senegal adopted a new constitution that consolidated the President's power. In 1980, President Senghor decided to retire from politics, and he handed over power in 1981 to his handpicked successor, Abdou Diouf. Abdou Diouf was President from 1981-2000. He encouraged broader political participation, reduced government involvement in the economy, and widened Senegal's diplomatic engagements, particularly with other developing nations. Domestic politics on occasion spilled over into street violence, border tensions, and a violent separatist movement in the southern region of the Casamance. Nevertheless, Senegal's commitment to democracy and human rights strengthened. Diouf served four terms as President. In the presidential election of 2000, he was defeated, in a free and fair election, by opposition leader Abdoulaye Wade. Senegal experienced its second peaceful transition of power, and its first from one political party to another.


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The Patriot Guard has been given the distinct privilege of standing to honor for Sgt Clayton M. Willey, US Army, age 24 who suddenly passed on 11 April at Ft Hood, Texas. He was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is the beloved son of Robert E. and Linda F. (nee Mooney) Willey, brother of Darin E. Willey, also survived by his grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
We All Got To Go Some Time
I can't say I was much of a fan [1], the odd single here and there aside, but it does strike me as odd that TP hangs so much blame around Britpop's skinny shoulders for its own immediate co-option and commodification; for the countless sins of Blairism and the hedonistic fuck-everyone attitude that slowly solidified around it.
After all, it strikes me that insofar as there had previously been a marriage of rock or pop and politics, it had more or less died out in a fireball of its own preciousness come the mid-eighties. If there was a lot of politics in music by 1994, it was mainly coming from the music press itself, usually in the form of angry arguments over Morrissey's latest damnfool pronouncement, or just letters pages stuffed to the arse with well-educated, white middle-class people angrily denouncing each other for being well-educated, white and middle class.
The Rock Against Racism stuff was still going in the early 90s IIRC, but I don't remember many Clash albums being fired around, or anything in a similar vein. I'm too young to recall now, but it strikes me that the whole Free Nelson Mandela/Racist Friend thing was wildly popular for all of five minutes, then sealed away in Room 101 never to be mentioned again except in cringey, you-had-to-be-there tones.
There was a lot of greenie activism around groups like the Levellers, but all of that was squarely and serially shat on as horrible crusty nonsense by the UK music press, with a lot of jibes about dreadlocks and dogs-on-strings that would probably get funny looks these days [2].
The incipient horrible-rap-rock fusion bands - I'm thinking Rage Against The Machine and Senser in particular - were overtly and angrily political, and instantly dismissed as hypocrites for railing against the, like, capitalist machine of selling records etc, amongst other sins. [3]
And there was still a lot of Criminal Justice Bill activism in the dance music scene, even if I recall it mainly concerning itself with the right to get blammed out of your head on powerful pharmaceuticals and play really loud music in fields. I recall attempts to dragoon the Britpop crowd into this, to no avail.
Elsewhere... Well I'd remind you that Britpop wasn't really the soundtrack of the mid-nineties. Maybe it was different down south [4] but a walk through a student halls in 94-96 was as likely to turn up Whigfield, Alanis Morrisette or Sheryl Crow as it was anything by Blur or Oasis. Remember the horror, brothers and sisters: the Outhere Brothers; Michael Jackson's hideous Earth Song; Babylon Zoo; Mark Morrison; endless fuck-awful Rhythm-Of-The-Night four-chord dance shitefests; Bryan fucking Adams still having hits. Boyzone. [5]
There was a lot of bizarre, off-beat electronica around but even hip-hop was well on its way to becoming the farcical, comedy-capitalist cavalcade of bitch-slapping, gold-flaunting cash-cows that it is today. That Wu-Tang clothing label may not have started the rot, but it wasn't exactly a predictive stretch from there to Daddy Day Care - slim pickings for your enterprising, heavily-politicised music hack, even if it's a comparative feast to what followed.
Anyway, it's quite sad that a lot of journalists in a dying form decided to pin a lot of hope on Britpop as a saviour, because they might as well have prayed for a cultural revolution led by Gina G. It was pretty obvious even in 1994 that the sum total of a cobbled-together, aren't-we-just-great bout of British self-love was going to be Let's get pissed, shout at each other about whether the Beatles or the Kinks were better and make a shitload of cash off advertising.
Realistically, the only phenomenon in the music scenes of the era that scared parents and politicians was the possibility that they'd end up on the front page of the Sun, sobbing about Our Rave-Drug Hell next to photos of their kid on a ventilator.
It seems to me that maybe there was a period in history when music could be a galvanising force in politics; when a teenage statement like men growing their hair long or women shoving safety pins through their hooters was enough to make the whole system shiver with horror. That period's called "The Distant Past" and in all likelihood, any attempt to recreate it is going to be buried under a thousand pop-culture printed lunchboxes and ironic T-shirts before you can say "iTunes".
I'm open to correction here, but I recall most of the UK's music scenes being thoroughly depoliticised and hedonistic long before e.g. Suede hoved into view, and this particular crowd's figureheads were singularly ill-equipped to carry flags for anything other than pouting, competing to see who could shove the most drugs up their stupid faces and wibbling about their favourite records.
So it's kind of odd to see Taylor lamenting a grand missed opportunity in Britpop to create some kind of artistic/political national consciousness when in all likelihood, there was no opportunity of the sort. If Britpop was all lager and pouting and taking nothing seriously, well, so was everything else, and it'd have taken a lot more than her out of Echobelly in a tight top to change it.
As far as I can tell, the true topic of Taylor's long lament isn't so much the end of an era in music, as it is the end of the relevance of music journalism. And that's a bit of a shame, but we all got to go some time.
1. Put it this way - I was seventeen in 1995. At the time, my favourite album was Led Zeppelin II and I wasn't much receptive to any new artists who dared to try anything more ambitious than really angry songs about being really pissed off about nothing in particular. If this strikes you as the initial warning signs of a perpetual adolescence, then you can pat yourself on the back for perceptiveness.
2. I recall the Melody Maker belabouring the Levellers for Hope Street, a song which was meant to be about the false promise of the National Lottery: "Well, guess what? More people want to be millionaires than want to be crusties, you soap-dodging c*nts", was the response, or words to that effect. So maybe not that surprising that politics wasn't high on the agenda.
3. Bands who are not only responsible for their own offences, but those of the horrific pack of meat-headed, ham-fisted Nu-Metal cretins who followed in their footsteps.
4. And it should be recalled that, as TP observes, Britpop was really all about London. I can't say the endless Mockney bollocks or flag-waving much stirred me, but then I was every bit as arsey then as I am now, if not more so.
5. If any of the acts mentioned in this post are favourites of yours, there's no need to defend them here. Trust me: whatever you were listening to at the time, I was probably totally gung-ho about something much, much worse.
17 comments:
- john b said...
Political stuff, bang on.
"not the soundtrack to the 90s" - less convinced. Boy bands, terrible once-good previous generation artists still having hits, and mindless 4/4 dancery are timeless; but Britpop is what differentiates the mid-90s from other eras (in the same way that acid house did the late 80s, &c &c).
- flyingrodent said...
Aye, fair enough - I meant something more like "not everybody's soundtrack to the mid-90s".
I think the interesting question about Britpop is how it got so big when it did. I understand your point about other awful bands that were around at the time, but that is always the case and in this period other 'scenes' were relatively minor.
Apart from possibly Radiohead and Pulp, most bands did not produce their best work at the 1994-1997 'peak' of Britpop, and many indie bands that were lumped into Britpop had their roots and influences in the more productive and creative 1987-92 era. It could merely be a matter of style or 60s nostalgia, but that could theoretically happen at any time. There have been post-punk/new wave 'revivals' since, but none has been nearly as commercially successful as Britpop or achieved as much media publicity. So it remains a bit of a mystery why Britpop became such a prominent phenomenon and, as someone who was 18 in 1996, it certainly seemed that way.
Bit of a mea culpa sed tu quoque ad maximum that Parkes piece. I know the music press is and was always about hype as opposed to discerning quality but he went out with Lauren Laverne ffs. This line of "it was all shit and I never really liked any of it and even the records I kept are crap" is just too easy to take. I wonder what his review of oasis at knebworth actually said (I could probably find out since my old MM's are still at my parents'.
This was the music of my youth and I am quite wedded to it so am very much subjecrive on this. But as you say, a lot of the vitriol about it not being a specifically politicised movement is just bitter old hackspeak of which John Harris and Dorian Lynskey are also guilty. Punk was mainly about going out and getting fucked - ditto every other movement since the 1950s. This is the music journo equivalent of decency - invent a past that never existed then find everything since a pale shadow of it.
He's right that Britpop was mainly about ambition in terms of trying to appeal to big audiences (but Parklife wasn't that, really - in fact no Blur record was - The Great Escape was far too weird for that too). And really a lot of the piece is a rant about success. Parkes was first and foremost a Manics fan, and really fucking hated it when they got big not least because "someone called me a cunt in the toilets at a manics gig for doing my hair in a mirror". He and his journo chums were complicit in it all - he's having his cake and eating it.
- flyingrodent said...
I think the interesting question about Britpop is how it got so big when it did.
A thriving underground scene with a lot of fans in the right places at the right time; a couple of bands get popular enough simultaneously; chuck in some traditional record industry cash-grubbing, signing up every act they could wedge onto the Britpop bandwagon, and wahey! A ready-made British pop boom.
I think it probably took on the union flag-waving character that it did because of the football/Engerlund Oasis fans and the happy/unhappy coincidence of Euro 96 in the same place. Certainly, I noticed the pissed-patriot thing picking up big time after that. Chuck in a couple of pportunistic magazine covers, and that was pretty much all it took IMO.
- flyingrodent said...
This line of "it was all shit and I never really liked any of it and even the records I kept are crap" is just too easy to take.
I was hinting a bit towards this though not at TP particularly* - I don't remember much about him specifically, any more than most of the other music hacks of the day. His chat about his negative Knebworth review chimes with what I remember though - a lot of complaints about being miles away from the stage, hearing the music through a time-delayed second sound-system, and every song half drowned out by the huge, pissed-up crowd. Plus, it'd be a bit daft to say you dissented about it when back issues are still floating around and quotable.
But as you say, a lot of the vitriol about it not being a specifically politicised movement is just bitter old hackspeak of which John Harris and Dorian Lynskey are also guilty.
Yes, I think so. I think there were high hopes for Britpop, expectations that realistically, it could never possibly have met. And I suspect that even if it had, it probably wouldn't have been good enough - that's why I mention all the early 90s crusty/shouty bands, who were far more political but didn't get any respect for it because their music wasn't popular with the hacks. And to be fair, much of that music just wasn't very good. At all.
He and his journo chums were complicit in it all - he's having his cake and eating it.
This may be a valid criticism and I was kind of aiming in this direction. If this was 1999 or so, I might be able to tell you definitively - I loved all that music crit stuff, back in the day, and still bought the mags even when I was living on a pittance.
Sadly, all the bullshit I've learned since has forced all of that old bullshit out of my left ear, so I can't really judge.
*Fun fact - Like I say, I was 17 in 1995. And, Taylor Parkes was born in the same year as my Mum.
- ejh said...
Not everything in that last paragraph can be true.
- flyingrodent said...
Not everything in that last paragraph can be true.
Having thought a bit on this, you're right - I was seventeen, TP was born in 1958, and my Mum was actually born in 1957. This is down to me miscalculating my Mum's age, but so long as nobody tells her I messed it up, I might yet get away with it.
Also, I notice from his Wiki page that it was Taylor Parkes' birthday on Wednesday, so many happy returns to him.
In the online age, I can't ever remember a music journalist's article that has caused such a minor stoosh as Parkes Britpop piece, that in itself is interesting when you look at the quality of music journalism now or the depressing NME website. That we are discussing the axis of music, culture and politics is something to be cherished in this electronic day and age.
I think the criticisms of Parkes in the comments here are a bit harsh, although I do agree with rodent's piece (written as brilliantly as ever). Parkes does have, as we all have, the power of hindsight and he does admit in parts that he bought the bullshit at the time. Does this mean he must always hold fast to his 1995 attitudes? Of course not, it's 20 years and a lot of water under the bridge musically, culturally and politically. The Blair/Campbell/Britpop No.10 summit ensured that one can never divorce the music and culture of the time from the politics.
Parkes piece as I read it, isn't about the disillusion after the political and cultural promise of Britpop, it's the fact there was never any politics or awareness at all. It's why the high heid yins of Britpop all ended up in No.10 with the king of vacuity himself. Politics and celebrity in this sceptered isle could no longer be separated. From Blair meeting Noel to Gordon Brown leading the tributes on the death of Jade Goody- it all started in the mid 1990s.
That it has taken Parkes until a 'significant' anniversary to bulldoze the cultural and political legacy of Britpop doesn't lessen the impact of his polemic nor the fact he 'was there' and enjoyed it. So what if he was "having it" at the time? If Parkes has a 'crime', it is to have put naïve hope into any music trend as a force for change in the first place, but the charge of hypocrisy for having been caught up in it at the time is I think too strong.
- ejh said...
I was born in 1965 and as far as I am aware Taylor is younger than I am.
- flyingrodent said...
That's simply not possible - if it were true, it would suggest that somebody had put an incorrect thing on Wikipedia. Surely not.
Yeah, Taylor is 41 or 42, so was born in 72 or 73 or something.
If Parkes has a 'crime', it is to have put naïve hope into any music trend as a force for change in the first place, but the charge of hypocrisy for having been caught up in it at the time is I think too strong.
For all that people want to go on about Noel Gallagher, I've always thought that "please don't put your life in the hands of a rock and roll band, they'll throw it all away" is 1) a pretty poetic line and 2) a spot on perfect epitaph for the Blair years
I don't disagree with the sentiment of the last comment but Parkes in that piece is not actually claiming to have put faith of hope in the "movement" - he pretty specifically says the opposite, that he never listened to any of it willingly and never thought much of any of the bands. Despite working for one of the biggest agents in the hype machine and dating a fairly well-known participant in the movement. It's not good enough - for me at least. It's one of the easiest pieces to write imaginable. The same thing is true of the John Harris book - identify a few shit pieces of music, some of the obvious excesses of the time, and pretty much write it all off largely because the hype you generated looks a bit silly in retrospect. Luke Haines tweeted a quote from Parkes, supposedly from 1994, which criticised The Auteurs for not getting on board with britpop. No idea if that's true or not, but it definitely is true that there's nothing the music press likes more than movements - Melody Maker, while Parkes was there, championed New Wave of New Wave, britpop and romo (and I'm probably forgetting others too). Like I said, it's just too easy to turn around and say "actually it was all bollocks".
On politics and musical movements - I was 13 when parklife came out, I remember where I bought it and how much it cost, I had "girls and boys" on tape single having bought "Modern Life is Rubbish" on tape on the recommendation of, well, Select Magazine. I didn't care about the politics in any of the bands I listened to at all - in fact I disliked "Different Class" partly cos it was too preachy. I don't think I'm especially unusual in that (well maybe the last sentence). when bands of musical movements are primarily political, they're generally shit and also almost always scorned by the music press. Parkes is claiming to have wanted britpop to be something he would have hated as well (incidentally it is surely unfair to have a go at Albarn for selling music to adverts when the fucking clash did it too).
As a note, it was only Noël Gallagher and Alan McGee who went to no 10 iirc. Blair and Campbell tried to "enlist" Albarn before the election but he declined.
You can probably tell that I have a real fondness for all of this, music and culture, and I bought all the music papers and mags between 1993 and 1998. And I never really remember self-identifying as a britpop fan. I liked almost all the britpop bands (though I remember disliking most of the bandwagon jumpers like cast, lush, ocean colour scene), but I was also buying American indie rock, hip hop and dance music. All of which the Melody Maker was writing about at the time - in fact I remember how big a deal it was when they put Underworld on the cover in I think 1993. A lot of these anti-britpop pieces (the Hann in the guardian was the worst) seem to forget all the other excellent music being made in the 90s and lump all guitar music in together to boot. And in the end it surely is popularity that's the problem. I remember people at Oasis gigs saying things like "it's just like Spike Island" - at the end of the 80s, particularly with the Stone Roses, there seems to have been a movement towards a genuinely big fan base for British indie that oasis in particular exploited. Like someone on here has said, there was a lot of shit music around in the 90s too. I'm happier seeing Blur winning Brit awards than, I dunno, Robbie Williams.
- ejh said...
I'm happier seeing Blur winning Brit awards than, I dunno, Robbie Williams.
How ambitious is that, though?
The best thing to do is to disregard awards full stop.
And OC- 'Different Class' was too preachy? It was hardly openly political anyway, but the social commentary is one of its best features, and at least half the songs are Jarvis Cocker's usual take on sex and sleaze. It wasn't exactly 'Generation Terrorists'.
Agreed on Different Class, but I've never loved that album like a lot of others seem to. I think Parkes wanted every britpop album to be Generation Terrorists!
I take your point ejh. I think part of the weirdness of britpop was bands who'd typically struggle along for ten years just about making ends meet suddenly realising that if they altered their sound a little big - made it cleaner and made the hooks more obvious - they could sell in the hundreds rather than tens of thousands.
A lot of it was also about what it opposed - grunge (and I'd still much rather listen to a mediocre britpop band than a mediocre grunge one) but also 80s music per se - the synths, the earnestness, being intentionally esoteric. I'm still prejudiced against 80s music as a result in fact.


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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
פסח Pesach 2017 has concluded. I hope everyone's was blessed. I learn things every year, and this year I did some deep reflecting and thinking, just sort of processing some of the things I read.
While I realize my life, and our lives in America today, have little if anything in common with the Israelites held captive in Egypt all those years ago, in the Haggadah, it says "In every generation each individual is bound to regard himself as if he personally had gone forth from Egypt". Hmm, I've never been to Egypt, and I have no desire to go there now. But I have watched The Mummy movies several times. Even the old black and white one. But that's not what it means. Turns out, we all have our own Egypt, Pharaoh and Moshe.
In each one of us there is an Egypt and a Pharaoh and a Moses and Freedom in a Promised Land. And every point in time is an opportunity for another Exodus.
Egypt is a place that chains you to who you are, constraining you from growth and change. And Pharaoh is that voice inside that mocks your gambit to escape, saying, "How could you attempt being today something you were not yesterday? Aren't you good enough just as you are? Don't you know who you are?"
Moses is the liberator, the infinite force deep within, an impetuous and all-powerful drive to break out from any bondage, to always transcend, to connect with that which has no bounds.
I wonder, how many of us are in chains of one sort or another? Work situations, relationship situations, health situations, financial situations? There are no limits to the things that can bind us. I might take a minute to mention that former Congressman Bob McEwen points out that when you look at the effect of taxes, working and not being allowed to keep the fruit of your labor is slavery. For those fans of Hillary and Bernie.
How could I make such a statement in the middle of talking about Pesach? Well, because Rabbi Tsvi says
Tell it in first person, in the now. Don't say, "Long ago, the ancient Hebrews…" Say, "When we were slaves in Egypt, the perverse socio-bureaucratic system thoroughly crushed every individual's sense of self-worth!" Everything that happened there parallels something in each of our lives. We are truly living it now. We are simply examining our own lives in the dress of ancient Egypt.
See? It's relevant!
There is a point during the Seder where the youngest child present asks four questions. Hmm, would this present a problem? Cowgirl kitty refused to ask the right questions. No problem, Rabbi had the answer.
No children? Let an adult ask. There's just you? You be the child, and G‑d will be the father. While you're at it, ask Him a few other difficult questions for us all.
Oh, I'm good with this! I'm so good with this! What's more? We're not limited to four!
Part of the Seder is eating Matzah. My Kosher for Pesach Matzah came from Israel. I've been eating Matzah since last Monday night, the 10th. This is a mitzvah, a commandment. Yep, until there is another Holy Temple, this is the only mitzvah we can eat. And according to Rabbi, this is an incredibly powerful thing. An amazing thing. Matzah has been called the bread of faith or Emunah.
Emunah is when you touch that place where your soul and the essence of the Infinite Light are one. It's a point that nothing can describe. Where there are no words, no doubts, no uncertainty, no confusion—nothing else but a magnificent oneness before which all the challenges of life vanish like a puff of vapor.
I should have ordered like a gazillion cartons (5 boxes to a carton) of this!
We too began buried in Egypt, all but losing our identity. But that furnace of oppression became for us a firing kiln, a baker's oven, the womb from whence we were born in the month of spring. In our liberation from there, we brought our fruits of freedom to the world.
Miracles happen when Divine energy from beyond the cosmos enters within. Why did miracles happen in Egypt? Because we believed they would. Those who didn't believe in miracles saw only plagues. To see a miracle, you need an open heart and mind, open enough to receive the Infinite. That is the opening we make when we thank G‑d for the miracle of our food.
Aren't these amazing thoughts to ponder and ruminate on?
And then, there's the miracle of the parting of the Sea of Reeds, the obstacle.
But the greatest of barriers turned into the greatest of miracles. Not only did the sea become an ambush for the enemy, but also a path that led the children of Israel to their ultimate freedom.
So it is with every obstacle. When you're out to do the right thing, the entire world is there to assist you—including the most formidable threats, the most impossible challenges. The bigger they are, the more impossible to traverse, the greater the miracle they will provide.
That is the true reality of everything in this world: to serve you on your mission. What is your mission? To make this world miraculous.
And obstacles are miracles waiting to happen.
So, I think we all struggle with slavery of some sort, perhaps this will give you some hope, and maybe a different perspective. The children of Israel went into Egypt as 12 different tribes, and came out a nation. These are just some of the things that really struck me this year, and I'm still chewing on some of them. Unlike the matzah which I am now loading with my leftover yummy charoset which I munch right down.
I'll leave you with one final Pesach thought, because A) it's a really good one, and B) it has a picture of a camel.
Got the popcorn?
Here's a song I learned in school, I love this version. I know it's by a group called Tractor's Revenge, but the words are wonderful. I have it on my phone, so I sang it at the end of my Seder.
It has the meanings in English, it's wonderful!
Then there is this one, wonderful thoughts, Passover: I'm in Love with the Taste of You, this year's Aish Pesach video.
And lastly, just for fun. Pesach Funk. "Freedom! Oh man! Gonna live my life the best way I can!" Boy can they dance!