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Welcome to your seat at the table.
We extend our home to you as an invitation to break bread together.
May you be met with belonging, marked with inspiration
and found in community.
"The Table's 5th Birthday Celebration two weeks ago was more than I could've asked or imagined. My nephew, Cadence, captured my heart in forty-five seconds in the video above. As I watched these short little clips over and over, the feeling of unity overwhelmed me.
From all those that cheered on their fellow baristas in the Latte Art Throwdown, the beautiful melodies and sounds coming through Mill 133, to those sharing a meal and birthday cake together, taking the time to stop and celebrate this little building that sat unnoticed five years ago that has now become a place that is filled with life...I want to thank you all.
I am filled to the brim with gratitude toward my team; these are an extraordinary group of people who have given of themselves to create a special place in Asheboro. And to our incredible community, thank you for embracing us."
-Dustie Gregson, Founder & Owner
to the Winner of the
Latte Art Throwdown!
LaChrista McArther of Press Coffee + Crepes (Graham, NC) was the Champion of the The Table's Latte Art Throwdown during The Table's Birthday Celebration. She beat out twenty-two other competitors and came out on top! Thank you to everyone who participated, contributed, watched and cheered on!
MARKET: Table Logo Baseball Tees
We have brand new tees available in the Market in a classic baseball style. Our beautiful vision statement is printed on the back. All sizes available while supplies last!
Also, have you seen our new packaging for our Small Batch Retail in our Market? We have Shortbread and other yummy goodies in cute white bags. They make perfect little gifts to tell someone thank you.
EATERY: Farro Breakfast Bowl
Our Farro Breakfast Bowl is a hearty, satisfying meal using Big Spoon Roasters Peanut Butter (from Durham, NC). This dish is quickly becoming a staff favorite.
Ingredients include: farro, coconut milk, Big Spoon Roasters peanut butter with sorghum, sliced banana, fresh blueberries.
Have a staff meeting this summer and need some delicious food? If you're interested in our boxed lunches and catering, please click here for more info and to download our Catering Menu!
BAKERY in Asheboro
Items Available for Pre-Order:
9" Chocolate Pie -$22
Blueberry Pound Cake -$35
9" Chocolate or Vanilla Cake with choice of Buttercream:
Vanilla, Chocolate, Lemon, Blueberry, Cream Cheese, Coconut, Lavender, Raspberry or Strawberry -$?
12" Rustic Apple Tart -$28
Gluten Free Whoopie Pies (6 per order) -$21
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cake with Cream Cheese Icing (13" by 9") -$35
Retail Items (available in rotation):
Special orders -- minimum 10 bags
Lavender Tea Cookies -$4.95
Shortbread -$4.95
Coconut Macaroons -$4.95
Pound Cake -$8.95
*Call 2 business days in advance for any PRE-ORDER items.
*Please note that each Table location has differing baked goods and retail available.
BAKER'S PICK: Olive Oil Sea Salt
Our Olive Oil Sea Salt bread is one of our most popular. It is paired perfectly with summer pasta dishes.
Greensboro & Asheboro's
Specialty Bread Schedule
for June
Tuesday: Rosemary and Garlic
Wednesday: Four Saints Wort
Thursday: Sunflower Rye
Friday: Challah
Saturday: Tuscan Onion
BARISTA'S PICK: Mocha Milk
The Mocha Milk's beauty lies in its simplicity. Intentionally pulled espresso with single origin coffee roasted by our friends at Counter Culture Coffee (Durham, NC) and the richest, most indulgent chocolate milk we've ever had from Homeland Creamery (Liberty, NC). Impossible not to love! Try this great, refreshing summer drink iced or blended.
Bakery in Greensboro
Available in Greensboro this month are our Petite Strawberry Poundcake Loaves ($4.95). These make a nice teacher or hostess gift or they are great for Father's Day (available most days during June).
*Please call 2 days in advance for any pre-order items.
First Friday in Downtown Greensboro!
Come visit us every First Friday in Greensboro from 6-9pm! Try our new featured latte, Mocha Milk, and we'll also have other sweet treats. See you then!
"Passport to Summer": Passport to Summer is a program that was piloted last summer by Downtown Greensboro Inc. Pick up your passport at any participating downtown business (only costs $1!) and start earning stamps as you shop in local businesses. The more stamps you collect this summer, the greater your chances are to win fun prizes at the end of the program. The Table on Elm offers a stamp with any purchase. The Passport to Summer Program runs June 1st-August 31st.
DATES to REMEMBER:
Father's Day is Sunday, June 17th. Bring your dad on a special date to The Table on Saturday, June 16th for treats. Gift cards are available, too!
Both Table locations will be closed July 3-4 (Tuesday and Wednesday) in honor of Independence Day. We will re-open with regular hours on Thursday, July 5.
Copyright © The Table Farmhouse Bakery 2018, All rights reserved.
Photography by: Samantha Maske, Chris Miller, Montana Lee
Film by: Cadence Helser


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If you follow me on Instagram, you KNOW my obsession with BP Ice Cream. And my husbands obsession of not following my recipe and making his own version (follow the recipe, it's better that way).
Oh, you don't follow me? That's ok, you can start now because I'm heaps of fun!
So why Bulletproof? Hugh and I were introduced to the Bulletproof Diet only 2 years ago and it's changed his health and our relationship with food.
I was at a stage where I was all about fruit, banana ice cream, big green smoothies and raw treats made with dates when I realised that when I ate these foods, I felt sluggish, full and sometimes would even experience bloating for hours afterwards. The fructose and large amounts of natural sugars I was eating simply weren't agreeing with me. So while I can handle one piece of raw slice or a green smoothie every now and then, it's not something I can eat too much of or too often.
Enter, a nutrient dense diet where fat was praised... I was skeptical about coffee with butter (who wouldn't be!) but I did what I do best, researched. Somehow, it makes sense. And if you want to know more and you're the type who doesn't dismiss something before knowing everything about it, you can read about it in the book The Bulletproof Diet by the founder - Dave Asprey.
So once I decided to try my hand at a Bulletproof lifestyle, I stumbled across this recipe, which I've adjusted slightly over the last year to suit my tastes more. It's AMAZING! I use a churner like this one but you can just blend and freeze without churning.
- 4 whole eggs
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 10 drops of lime juice or apple cider vinegar
- 50 grams of coconut oil
- 50 grams of Brain Octane (or MCT oil)
- 100 grams of grass-fed butter (we use KerryGold or WestGold)
- 70 grams of xylitol
- 1/2 cup raw cacao powder
Blend everything until completely lump free in a high powered blender or Thermomix. If churning, pour into churner and let process for around 20 minutes or until thick and creamy! If not, simply pour into a dish and store in the freezer.
Enjoy, beautiful!

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Excluding the Black and White SDCC Arkham Asylum Batman, Arkham City Batman and the TDKR Metallic Baleman which didn't get any votes, here's how the Play Arts Kai Batman versions fared according to the local PAK fans.
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Play Arts Kai Batman - Guide to the BEST Batman figures
As another boredom deterrent, i conducted a survey @ Play Arts Kai Philippines Trading Group regarding the BEST Play Arts Kai Batman and...errr...what was that? Why Batman? Well, to date, Batman is the most "Represented" figure in Play Arts Kai, he's got a lot of versions to rival or even surpass Play Arts Kai Raiden or the old Play Arts Sora figures. What's more impressive about that is that Recolors are strictly optional novelties in the Play Arts Kai Batman's gallery. Every new releases are, mostly, unique versions of the fabled Dark Knight. And of course, HE'S THE GODDAMN BATMAN! That's why...
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EDMM stands for Een Draght Mackt Maght which means "pulling together makes us strong".
When my wife and I first moved to Brooklyn, we discovered this, the borough motto. It felt emblematic of our shared outlook and our new life together. It speaks to making each other better, to making our future better. In the same way, my mission is to create things that will make your life better.
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Ground Floor
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Les Américains Visit Normandy
Adventuresome travelers disparage organized bus tours, and often for good reason—getting lost and then finding your way are happy accidents that reveal a place to you in ways that no organized tour can. However, when you're travelling with an elderly person and you want to cover lots of ground in a little time, these tours do make sense.
In fact, one of my most memorable trips was such a tour, made with my mom, an aunt, and a cousin, that in 10 days took us from Paris to Normandy and then to the Loire Valley. One day's journey took us through the battlefields of Normandy—a site that I'm lucky to have visited with my mother and a few other travelers on the tour bus who were old enough to remember World War II.
After touring the vast and heartbreakingly quiet American cemetery, we went into a little museum. Near the door was a guest book where visitors shared their thoughts. I remember not being quite sure what to write, but my mother—80 at the time—knew exactly what to say. She stepped right up to the book and wrote, in her country school-perfect penmanship, "Way to go,fellas. I'm so proud of you."
That night, we motored to Brittany; we were staying at a simple Logis de France (a network of charming French inns), where we dined with a far-off view of the Mont Saint-Michel, glowing warmly in the dark, drizzly night through rain-speckled windows. The menu began with one of those famous soufflé-like Mère Poulard omelets—a specialty of the region. The main course was a rich chicken Calvados—breasts of chicken served with tender apples in a cream sauce spiked with Calvados, the famous apple brandy of Normandy—a dish I've re-created here.
Outside, it was a cold autumn night, but inside, we were merry and warm—just another rather ordinary group of American tourists drinking good wine and enjoying a hearty, gratifying meal together. Even so, there was no other night quite like this one on the trip; I'm sure that the evening's mirth had been made all the more precious by the cold outside, the warmth inside, and, of course, by all that we had seen that day.


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Airbrushed TNT block cake with exploding cake block on top and airbrushed board. Hand painted Steve and pig characters.
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Michael Schlomer comes to the Mount in 2014-2015 as the men's volleyball team's assistant coach. Schlomer, a two-time high school coach of the year with 15 years of coaching experience, was hired in October, 2014.
Schlomer, a Cincinnati native and Mount alumnus, was the Miami Valley Conference Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2004 as head coach at Summit Country Day High School. He was also named the Southwest Ohio District 16 Coach of the Year in 2003.
Coach Schlomer began his coaching career as an assistant for the Elder High School boys' volleyball team from 1998-2002, where he helped lead the 1999 and 2000 teams to state championships. He then took over as head coach at Summit where he notched 131 wins in eight seasons. He served one year as the junior varsity girls' coach at Seton High School and is currently the varsity girls' assistant coach.
A high school math teacher for 18 years, he currently teaches at Elder High School.
Schlomer earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts in 1993, a bachelor's in mathematics in 1997 and master's degree in education in 1998, all from the Mount.
In addition to teaching and coaching, Schlomer is a professional disc jockey. He lives in Western Hills with his wife, Lisa, and three children, Gus (12), Zoe (8) and Drew (7).


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One of my favourite types of food to eat when the warmer weather hits is Mexican food. With all the spices and zesty flavours, it just sings summer to me and I love how casual and unpretentious the food can be. The cuisine is all about good honest friendly food that tastes delicious.
Loading all of my favourite foods into a wrap and then diving right in head first is fantastic! I get to experience the foods that I love in one mouthful and Mexican food is just bursting with flavour so it's great to eat this way.
- 400 g black beans
- 400 g red kidney beans
- 400 g chopped tomatoes
- 1 onion sliced
- Tortilla wraps
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- salt and black pepper
- alternatively use 1 sachet of ready-made taco seasoning
- Avocado
- Cherry tomatoes
- Cucumber
- Grated cheese
- Salsa
- Greek yoghurt
- Jalapenos
- Mixed salad leaves
To make the black bean taco sauce, first fry off a sliced onion in pan until tender. Add the kidney beans and black beans as well as the chopped tomatoes and taco spices or a sachet of taco seasoning. Simmer on a low heat for 20-30 minutes.
Warm the tortilla wraps in the oven for a few seconds and start making your delicious wraps. Pile up the beans with some of your favourite add-ins to create a wonderful wrap full of the taste of Mexico.
Even if you're, not a confident cook, these wraps really suit the entire spectrum of cooking skills. They also make a great dinner party option as it looks like you have gone to an enormous amount of effort when really there is very little cooking involved. You can just lay everything out in bowls on the table and everyone can help and please themselves.
These wraps are purely vegetarian and of course you could add a meat-based chilli, however, the black beans are a great source of protein are really filling, especially after everything else is loaded into the wrap.
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When the Cell Broadband Engine was designed, Sony and the other corporations in the STI coalition always had one eye on the Cell's ability to support a GPU in its processing activities [Shippy09]. The Cell has been with us for three years now, and like any new piece of hardware, it has taken time for developers to understand the best ways of pushing the hardware to its limits. The likes of Mike Acton and the Insomniac Games Technology Team have been instrumental in pushing general development and coding strategies for the Cell forward, but there has been little discussion about ways that the SPUs can ...
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A photograph of my favorite blossomy tree in the neighborhood. This picture helped inspire the Sakura Season collection.
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I will showing some photos in theis charity event. the event runs from the 1st to the 15th of july. come down for drinks, music, art and spare some money for charity... also work by eine, blam, mysterious al, eelus, probs, motorboy, ronzo, david walker and stika...
'Trekstock is proud to announce its' limited edition, pop-up shop launching July 1st-15th just off London'sworld famous Carnaby Street. To mark this occasion, Trekstock have collaborated with ten international bands/artists with a UK presence over the upcoming festival season to design a limited edition charity t-shirt kindly supplied by fashion brand Gio Goi.
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Health Benefits Of Bitter Leaf
Bitter leaf (Vernonia) is a vegetable that is very common in Africa. It is also known as Onugbu, Shiwaka and Ewuro by the Igbos, Hausas and Yorubas respectively in Nigeria.
All parts of bitter leaf are very useful for medicinal purposes.
Bitter leaf is very rich in proteins, vitamins and minerals and can be consumed directly by using it to prepare various types of soup such as vegetable, melon, okra and other draw soups.
The juice of bitter leaf is also useful in treating many ailments and disorders.
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- Bitter leaf increases appetite and it is used in treating skin infections such as Ringworm.
- The wood ash of Bitter leaf can be used to treat fungal infections.
- Bitter leaf can increase the milk production in Lactating mothers and also cures cough.
- Bitter leaf is used in treating itching and rashes and detoxifies the whole body.
- Bitter leaf is helpful in treating Hepatitis B and tones up the liver and the kidney.
- Bitter leaf provides relief from fatigue, cures toothache and intestinal parasitic infections.
- Bitter leaf is a good herbal treatment for combating Cancer as it does not allow cancer to spread to the different organs of the body.
- Bitter leaf can be used for the contraction of the uterus during labour and it is a potent herb for sexually transmitted diseases.
- Bitter leaf is used in pharmaceutical medicines as anti-helminthic and laxative and helps to build up the immune system.
- Bitter leaf is a good herb for treating the problem of Memory Loss and it is useful for curbing Insomnia.
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Africa missed out on the Green Revolution, which underpinned the rapid economic growth in Asia, and as demand for rice increased in West Africa imports of Asian rice were necessary to satisfy consumer demand. Since the 1960s, imports have increased eight-fold, costing the region almost US$1 billion a year. But, due to the dedication and perseverance of a team of African scientists over a period of almost twenty years, it is possible that Africa may once again become self-sufficient in rice varieties bred for Africa.
Oryza glaberrima has been grown in West Africa for thousand of years. This single African rice species was domesticated by farmers in the northern Niger valley by Africa's first farmers and has proved itself against the harsh environment of a number of ecosystems, including rainfed upland and lowland areas and even mangrove swamps. For thousands of years, rice sustained the economies of many West African kingdoms and civilizations and rice remains the main staple crop in many parts of the region. For almost all West Africa farmers it is valued, even if grown only as a secondary crop, as a source of income and for consumption during special occasions.
The advantage of growing O. glaberrima is that it resists weeds and local pests, but yields are low. Faced with the challenge to improve production, African researchers endeavoured to combine the ruggedness of traditional types of African rice with the high-yielding potential of the Asian species O. sativa. Initial attempts were not successful, due to genetic incompatibility between the two species, but scientific advances in the late 1980s allowed a team led by Dr Monty Jones to use a technique known as 'embryo rescue' to ensure that crosses between the two species would survive and grow to maturity. The process took another five years to perfect but in the mid-1990s, Nerica (New Rice for Africa) was born and the first lines were tested in the research fields of the Africa Rice Center (WARDA) in Côte d'Ivoire.
A bundle of benefits
Nerica is not just one variety; more than 3,000 family lines have been developed, although farmers have currently taken up only about ten upland varieties. These share some common features, which include significantly higher yields compared with both parent varieties: Nerica lines yield around 1.5 to 2.5 tonnes of rice per hectare, compared with an average of only one tonne or less for traditional African varieties. And, with good land preparation and application of fertilisers, yields may be doubled. Tolerance to weeds, pests and diseases has also been retained in the Nerica varieties, and they mature in only half the time (90 days) of traditional varieties so that farmers can grow a second crop, such as beans, which increases soil fertility and provide valuable food during the 'hunger' season. In addition, the nutritional value of Nericas is higher than parent varieties; most rice varieties have a protein content of about 8-10 per cent, whilst Nerica is significantly higher at 10-12 per cent.
After the successful introduction of Nericas into Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea, farmer testing of the varieties has spread throughout much of the upland rice-growing regions of West Africa, and noticeable benefits have already been observed. Guinea, for instance, saved over US$13 million in rice imports in 2003. And, with assistance from the African Rice Initiative established in 2002 under the Nerica consortium, donor efforts have been co-ordinated to allow testing in Central as well as East Africa.
Political support
In Uganda, over 6,000 hectares are now planted to Nericas and 'NARIC 3', is a recent varietal release specifically developed by the Ugandan National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO). The potential for Nericas in Uganda has led Vice-President Professor Gilbert Bukenya to promote growing upland rice as part of a national campaign, launched in January 2004, to fight poverty through farming. Rice is currently Uganda's second or third largest import, which costs the country US$90-110 each year.
Use of novel participatory approaches in the testing and dissemination of Nericas, combined with recent political commitment including endorsement from the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) has contributed to the rapid spread of Nericas across sub-Saharan Africa. By 2007, the African Rice Initiative hopes that US$90 million per year will be saved as a result of increased upland Nerica production and the resulting reduction in imports. Nerica varieties for irrigated and lowland systems should be shortly available also.
By the end of the decade, Africa will largely still not be self-sufficient in rice but it should be making significant progress. And, without the vision and efforts of one West African scientist, Dr Monty Jones and his team of colleagues, Africa would not have been recognised in the 2004 World Food Prize for its contributions towards improved food security.
Date published: July 2004
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The Green New Deal raises the political stakes for businesses
New York congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (widely known as AOC), has once again captured headlines with a resolution in the House of Representatives calling on the US government to undertake a "10 year mobilization" to create a 'Green New Deal' (known by its own initials GND). Two weeks on and the resolution is now scheduled to go to the floor of the Senate where it was proposed by Democrat Senator Ed Markey. It will fail, but it has reinvigorated the debate on climate action within the Democratic Party. And in its alignment of climate action with a radical agenda of economic transformation it is raising the political stakes for business climate activism.
The GND calls for the US to become net-zero emissions by 2050, targeting 100% electricity from renewable and zero-emission sources in ten years' time, as well as the overhaul of the transport system and upgrading of all existing buildings. Its surplus of ambition is matched by its deficit of detail and attempts to cost the programme have run to annual figures of trillions of dollars. But that is barely the point. The GND is a political statement, not a programme for government, with Ocasio-Cortez referring to it as "the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil rights movement of our generation."
On the surface, the GND should be a positive for climate-conscious companies. But many are in fact likely to see it as something of a dilemma, posing as it does a two-part challenge. First, it raises the bar for what ambitious climate activism looks like. For companies where this is aligned with their corporate values and public brand this may prove an opportunity. But many will understand that the ambition and scope of the GND threatens to make whatever climate efforts they undertake seem very insignificant – which is of course the point.
But secondly, the GND is re-politicising climate change in a way that is going to be problematic for much of corporate America. Alongside its climate ambition, it calls for the provision of universal healthcare, and calls out wealth inequality, the racial wealth divide, the gender earnings gap and erosion of bargaining power of US workers. AOC has been clear that she sees tackling climate change and tackling the dominant economic system as two sides of the same late capitalist coin. By placing the GND at the heart of their political ideology and aspirations for "economic transformation", the Democratic Party's left wing, the self-labelled democratic socialists, have saddled the programme with political baggage that will worry many business leaders, either in its substance or in its capacity to cause backlash among customers, employees or shareholders.
The result is a dilemma for climate conscious corporates. Back the GND and join the revolution, or stay silent and be part of the problem, not the solution. The salience of racial and identity politics in the US mean that US businesses are increasingly either being forced or choosing to take stances on controversial issues according to their brand. For example, Nike embraced controversy by featuring NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick in its advertising after he kneeled during the national anthem in protest of the treatment of racial minorities. But the GND has been embraced with enthusiasm elsewhere by parties of the left, notably by the German Greens - who demanded their own Green New Deal in 2008 - and the British Labour Party that plans to step up rhetoric on its own "green jobs revolution" in 2019. With the American political cycle beginning to gear up, the pressure on US businesses is only likely to increase as these issues are debated regularly through the primaries. European businesses should be watching developments closely.
For AOC and the Democrats, the politicisation of climate change in this form has clear risks. Both the 'Green' and the 'New Deal' labels of AOC's plan will have immediately turned off significant parts of the electorate and may play into the hands of a White House that has already sought to paint the Democrats as captured by 'socialists'. The Green New Dealers will argue that a Trump re-election makes 2020 an all-or-nothing election for federal climate policy anyway. They have a point and look ready to gamble. Businesses will need to take care placing their bets.
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While phone-based NFC payments aren't something we're likely to get too soon over here in Blighty, even RIM is getting in on the touchless bandwagon with its newly announced NFC-sharing platform, Tag.
Tag will be rolled into the next BlackBerry 7 update with contact, photo, document and link sharing along with BBM integration, which should make swapping PINs face-to-face a thing of the past. Only recent upgraders will be able to take advantage of the fancy features, with only the Bold 9900 and 9930, as well as the Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370, getting the Tag-love. [CrackBerry via TNW]


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Shakeaway Trowbridge held a grand re-opening party on Saturday 9th February at midday in celebration of their brand new refurbished store, complete with our amazing new menu! The response from our customers was phenomenal with the first 50 people in the queue receiving a free milkshake! You'll find our new and improved Shakeaway Trowbridge store located at 25 The Shires Shopping Centre, Trowbridge, BA14 8AT.
Customers in Trowbridge – a town in Wiltshire – are now spoilt with even more choice, with over 180 flavours and millions of possible milkshake combinations to try, our fantastic fit & healthy shake range made with 100% fat free frozen yoghurt and refreshing real fruit smoothies made with special crunchy ice.
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An intelligent colum about hockey's ratings? really?
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It wasn't the slash-and-burn job we're used to, but it also doesn't get to the real problem with the NHL's ratings, which is that EVEN HOCKEY FANS AREN'T WATCHING. That speaks to a problem with coverage more than anything else. Watch a NASCAR race and tell me there aren't technological advancements in audio and video the NHL isn't using, ones that can bring the game to life better than one giant camera swinging back and forth like it's filming a ping-pong match.ReplyDelete
Hey when you get the treatment that Hockey does, and actual honest look at the sport seems downright refreshing.ReplyDelete
True it doesn't get to the real problems, but there is little out there that gets down to the real problems. If the NFL can use those hanging camera's on the field why can't the NHL have something similar?
NBC used their little pop-up icons to identify players on the ice during the few playoff games they aired. That was a cool feature that I think a lot of casual sports fans can appreciate.ReplyDelete
But yeah, the quality of TV coverage is way too old-school to appeal to modern American sports fans and their 2.6-second attention spans.
Hockey is a complicated game. It relies on traditional values, but tries to make technological advancements to improve the game. As bad as the Fox Puck was, the game has moved forward considerably from 10 years ago: reporters and color commentators between the benches, cameras inside the net, helmet cameras on goalies, and mic'ed up players to hear what they are saying on the ice.ReplyDelete
The problem is that if no one is watching and no major network is carrying the game, no one is willing to test out new technology within the game. It's a process of evolution: people watch, networks notice, more technology is introduced.
That's what happened to NASCAR, and that's what has to happen here.
That actually wasn't too bad. Wasn't great, for the reasons mentioned above, but it wasn't the same mad-libbs story about how th eNHL isn't a real league and nobody cares. He at least took the time to show both opinions and talk to somebody that has acute understanding of the game. Unlike some of the Canadian media leading up to the Stanley Cup that went out of thier way to find Californians who couldn't pick Pronger out of a line-up.ReplyDelete
Balanced? Sure. Fair? Pretty close. Particularly insightful? Not really.
Pronger in a line-up. Heh, good hypothetical. :)ReplyDelete
That was my feeling exactly Mike. I was just happy he attempted to actually say something new about it.ReplyDelete
Also keep in mingd it's not particularly insightful to us, hockey fans. A non-hockey fan whose used to the "MAD-LIBS" type of hockey article (a great description of it BTW) might actually find something new in there,. That's good because that's who the audience of the article is supposed to be


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Sometimes you just have to power through the week to get to the weekend and hope you come out alive on the other side. What a stressful week at the office. Deadline upon deadline upon deadline piled up all at the same time with the biggest challenge being that my ability to meet those deadlines was entirely contingent upon other people getting me information. Sometimes you feel like the job is spiraling out of control with no way to grab hold and keep the whole thing in check. Throw on top of that a terrible cold that Cece decided to pass on to me and you have a all the ingredients of falling off the weight loss bandwagon.
I remember reading a long time ago an article (I don't know from what publication) regarding exercise when you are sick. The gist of the article was that is is healthy and helpful to continue to work out if you have a head cold, even if it is a bad head cold, but to rest and discontinue working out if you have an illness more along the lines of the flu. The idea being that if you do some light exercise when you are sick your body will generate more white blood cells to help fight off the cold. I don't know if this is true but since I read it in a magazine instead of online I assume it is fact.
Monday was bowling night, so no working out there, but I was proud that I didn't overeat at the bowling alley because I got home from work so late I didn't have a chance to eat dinner at home. One victory in the books. Tuesday was the typical running night but the combination of getting home late from work and pouring rain I decided to postpone my workout until Wednesday.
That was a good decision and a bad decision. I certainly needed a good run by the end of the day Wednesday. Stress from work was piling up and working out is a good stress reliever. However, I had started to feel the symptoms of a cold coming on so I considered not running to rest up. As I talked about not going Rizzo reminded me how many times I had discussed the article mentioned above and she thought I should go out running to help kill the cold. So that is exactly what I did. I didn't run as fast or as far as I normally do but I did run as long (40 minutes) as is my typical run during the week so I felt good about that.
I don't know if it was a result of running when I was getting sick, the fact that Cece had a cold and was spreading her germs to me, the stress from work, or all of the above but I woke up Thursday morning with the feeling of death looming over my head. I didn't sleep well at all Wednesday night as the illness progressed and gnawed at my throat. There is no better feeling than waking up in the morning to a runny nose, pounding head, and a throat that only a fire eater can appreciate. I still had to fight onward so I took the hottest shower I could muster, downed some tea and DayQuill, and went about my day. What I didn't do is go on about my night. I would typically be out running on a Thursday evening but on this Thursday evening I decided to fall asleep on the couch at 8:30 instead.
Friday I felt better but not to terribly much better. I still wanted to get in some activity for the week with the hopes of not packing on too much weight because of this illness. How does the saying go, feed a cold and starve a fever? So I went out for a short jog on Friday evening and it felt great.
Saturday morning consisted of a normal routine. I was still fighting the cold but Cece and I still headed out for breakfast and the farmer's market. Our usual coffee house is closed for renovations by the new owners so we had to go to another one of our local favorites, The Bagel Cafe. It was a delicious treat and really helped in the "feeding the cold" side. After our morning errands I headed out for my long weekend run. Even with feeling under the weather I was able to get in 5.25 miles and about 10,000 steps on the FitBit, so it turned out to be a good morning.
Saturday night one of our good friends, Brenda, was back in town visiting from her home on the west coast. Rizzo and I are lucky enough to have family close by that loves spending time with Cece so my sister came over for an Aunt/Niece night while Rizzo and I went out to spend some time with our friend. We headed out for some drinks and some dinner. This is always a challenge when it comes to watching your weight because you want to enjoy your time and not restrict yourself too much but you also don't want to go overboard. I had some grilled chicken topped with cheese and a side of rice and beans at a Mexican place in Crystal City which I think was just the right balance of splurging and keeping it in check.
After dinner we headed over to a Crystal City bar for some drinks where I grabbed a Black & Goldings beer, which is an English Bitters beer that is a collaboration brew by Three Notch'd Brewing and Oskar Blues. It was a delicious bitter beer and the perfect way to finish off the evening out.
As is the typical routine, I got up Sunday morning for a short run before the inevitable weigh in at Weight Watchers. What I didn't expect to happen was for me to twing my knee again but it happened. Perhaps it is the cold temperatures or perhaps my physical age is finally catching up with my emotional age but either way my knee hurt so I had to settle for a good long walk. I like to think that is what put me over the top because it was another good week on the scale with a loss of 1.2 pounds to bring total weight loss to 57.6 pounds and a current weight of 209.8. It may only be .2 pounds under the 210 mark but it is still very exciting for me because I cannot remember when I had a weight that began with a 2-0. This is also another milestone. As of now I have lost 20% of my total body weight. Seems pretty crazy that I am literally 20% less of a person but there it is.
Coming up next week blogs will include wrapping up the three part series of yard work and I will disclose my biggest fear. I'm sure it will be a hoot for all.
P.S. On an unrelated note, I wanted to share how Cece eats on a regular weekday morning. I fear she may get spoiled. Below is a picture of a typical weekday morning breakfast. Yes, that is a cheese omelet with sliced grapes. She may be spoiled but at least its all fresh food which I think is very important.


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The basic factor about a resume is that the writer himself has to make sure to know the contents in its intrinsic detail .In other words one has to be scrupulously honest while presenting him in two or three pages of paper. To be more precise, the owner of the resume has to introspect himself about the assignment and his professional involvements. To sum up, he should know what he was doing.
A resume should not be for the purpose of resume with only imaginations and aspirations. In a straight forward understanding we can say that a good resume will originate from a committed professional irrespective of the fact that it is from marketing/sales, HRD or any other professionals. So be honest is the first and only principle. A statement can not carry legitimacy or a reasonable publicity of success is unlikely to lead to a satisfactory moral outcome.
A resume for a career in sales/marketing has to be divided into three ways of presentation i.e. for a fresher it has to be in an eye catching manner, for an averaged experienced person in a futuristic way and lastly for a thoroughbred professional with sufficient period of hard work behind it has to be in a professional way with a no nonsense approach.
In all these three approaches basically contains the same subject matters i.e. the name, objective, experience, education, extracurricular activities and of course with a clear mention of an achievement separately or with each assignment.
A fresher has to come up with academic excellence in his project and with whom he was associated to complete the task and the likely impact his recommendations to that particular organisation. This will be the treasured experience for a fresher.
A medium level of experienced professional has to come out his limited exposure and his commitment to the organisation he has worked for. If he can quantify his statements it is all the more appropriate. After all it has to be kept in mind that the prospective employer is looking for a long term commitment from a medium level experienced person. They will be looking for a person with whom they can trust.
Thirdly for a well experienced person his resume has to be most professional both in appearance and expression. An employer is looking from such person to fulfil the short term and long term objectives of the organisation. Such resumes has to contain the quantified past results and how it has helped to grow the organisation.


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Did you know that Sheldon and I don't have internet? At the beginning of our marriage we decided to see how long we could survive without it. Our main thought behind the decision was to save money, but I also wanted to cut down on the time I spend on the internet. It can be tricky to manage, but I really like having no internet. Here are some reasons why...
More focus, less random frittering about on the webs
I didn't do a ton of this before, but now I have virtually no time to spend wandering around the internet, following wikipedia rabbit trails or getting lost in virtual shopping (in which I almost never buy anything, but somehow still spend scads of time doing). When I do have internet I have to use the time effectively. I have a list of goals in my head like checking email, posting on my blog or looking something up for school. I am more focused, something I tend to struggle with when it comes to schoolwork.
Being on the internet is more fun
Value is a function of scarcity. So saith my Media Studies professor, Dr. Schuchardt. It therefore follows that being on the internet and indulging in the odd random jaunt through cool blogs and fun sites is a special treat. Before it was kind of ubiquitous.
Time at home is maximised
One of the things that convinced us to stay internet-less was a friend who told us that without it "When I get home I am really at home. Part of me is not still at work, because I am doing emails or browsing the web feeling guilty for not doing emails." Sheldon and I wanted this for our first year married. We love that when we walk through the door after work or school we can just fully focus on each other.
I read more
Not having the option of watching YouTube videos means that reading is easier. I don't constantly check things on my computer anymore while doing it. We have recently filled our new bookshelves with our book collection, and I feel like no internet has reinvigorated my thirst to read, which has been sadly waning over the past few years.
I do all my internet work on campus during the morning and afternoon. I try to finish with the internet by the time I come home at night. I am writing this post from the Coin Laundry on our street. This place fulfils two needs: washer and internet. We are sitting side by side with our computers on our laps.
If you are interested in reading more about life without internet I recommend this blog post. This author does a good job of advocating the no internet lifestyle.


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Almost 500 children across Midlothian have benefited from learning about the country's endangered species and how to protect them, following visits from the 'Wild about Scotland' bus which recently marked its 450th school visit.
The specially designed double-decker bus brings a mobile classroom to schools, allowing students to learn about how to protect local habitat's species, and the environment.
The award-winning campaign is part of a partnership between the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) and Clydesdale Bank to help engage the next generation of conservationists, while also bringing the expertise available at RZSS to communities that might not otherwise be able to experience it.
The bus has travelled the length and breadth of Scotland while visiting more than 30,000 pupils in all 32 local authorities, including including pupils in Rosewell Primary School, Paradykes Primary School, and St Matthew's Primary School.
Teaching up to 26 children at a time, the on-board specialist education team gave interactive lessons inside the bus on native Scottish species, their habitats and environments. Children also took part in a fun assembly, 'The Bonnie Beasts of Scotland', to learn about Scotland's biodiversity. Including drop-in sessions, more than 55,000 have engaged with the Wild about Scotland programme.
As part of the legacy of the campaign, almost 1,000 tree saplings have been planted in school grounds across Scotland to help offset carbon emissions from the Wild about Scotland bus.
Additionally, the programme involves online Wild about Scotland resources. These can be accessed by any school for use in classrooms or school grounds. It also provides resources for before and after the bus visit to extend the children's learning, allowing teachers and pupils to continue teaching and learning about Scottish conservation, even after the bus has left the school.
Barbara Smith, chief executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said: "We are very excited that the Wild about Scotland project has achieved the great milestone of reaching 450 schools. The project has helped engage children in every corner of Scotland, bringing them closer to nature and teaching them about the incredible local biodiversity that's available on their door steps. We hope the project continues to create a lifelong appreciation of wildlife within all the schools we visited."
Helen Page, group innovation and marketing director at Clydesdale Bank, said: "RZSS plays an important role in educating children about the conservation needs of their immediate environment and the wildlife it hosts. Their sessions across the country are engaging, entertaining and have made a great contribution to raising awareness of Scottish wildlife. We're delighted the programme provides a great opportunity for children to connect with nature."
To see when the Wild about Scotland bus is visiting your local primary school, or to access the Virtual Learning World, please visit: www.rzss.org.uk/rzss-education/wild-about-scotland.


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By Jon Jon Moore
Cover art by Codi Fant
The day after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, White liberal online magazine Slate concluded its "Trump Apocalypse Watch." Curated by chief news blogger Ben Mathias-Lilley, the watch was, as he described in his initial March 2016 post, a "daily estimate of how likely Trump is to be elected president on a scale of zero to four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Referencing the New Testament's harbingers of the Last Judgment, he wrote that zero would indicate Trump's failure to secure the GOP nomination or a Clinton defeat. Four horsemen would mean he's sworn in as President. "Although it's unlikely we'll actually get that post up," Mathias-Lilley wrote, "considering that the United States' communications system will be knocked out instantly when every other country in the world collaborates to pre-emptively nuclear-bomb us into oblivion." The watch was updated regularly throughout the Republican primaries until the general election and, on November 9th, was updated to four horsemen. Faced with a Trump presidency and (I presume) reflecting upon Trump's uniquely brash embrace of White supremacy and its attendant politics of economic deregulation, sexual violence, and xenophobia to name a few, Slate wrote: "Let's hope it was all just hyperbole." The us implied here, of course, is the majority of college-educated, poor, rich, and middle-class White people that had, a day before, elected Trump. By the time January 20th arrived, the United States was, shockingly, not entombed in a mushroom cloud. Trump was inaugurated with little fanfare. He wore a very long, red tie and suit that poorly fit him. Melania wore Herve Pierre to the ball.
The horsemen never arrived.
The word apocalypse is a modern derivative of the Ancient Greek apokalyptein, meaning to uncover or reveal. Donald Trump's presidency has not ended the world, but according to those who followed Slate's blog and continue to insist that Trump's rise to power is anomalous, it has brought into relief or revealed a slew of mundane catastrophes they had previously chosen to ignore. Among these newly discovered tragedies of modernity that have become self-serving talking points: the continued war against Muslim life worldwide, genocide on the southern border and in the Mediterranean, and the expansion of the carceral regime under which Black people continue to live—from Oakland to Israel—that ensures the futurity of the global bourgeoisie and their blue-collared deputies. While this moment is certainly dire and unparalleled in certain respects, considering the violence now being waged against people that live under the boot of capitalist domination in the U.S. and abroad as unparalleled neglects the centuries-long histories of anti-blackness, colonialism, and imperial terror that have sustained the world as we know it.
That an exceptionally American president such as Trump would inaugurate the end of the United States is the paradoxical proposition that Trumpocalypticism rests upon. Franco Barchiesi writes that following Trump's election, "Progressives held firm to the imago of American civil society as universally human and essentially ethical… despite falling short of such norms in this specific instance." Let me be clear: pussy hat progressives are not reckoning with the fundamental violence that secures their "freedom" and predates Trump by hundreds of years. They are wracked by their lack of discipline to bear witness to this violence, in real time, in press briefings, in tweets, on t-shirts, on chyron after chyron.
As a Black person committed to the demolition of the anti-Black world at all costs, their failings mustn't be my concern.
Any Black person that challenges the coherence of our anti-Black world in their art and daily life is familiar with the sensation of stagnancy that threatens to petrify us: the world has been fucked for a long time, and will remain fucked for a long time. As Jamila Woods reminds us in "Blk Girl Soldier":
Look at what they did to my sister
Last century last week
They put her body in a jar and forget her
They love how it repeats
Last week and last century are one in the same. It's (been) the end.
The end of this world—now an ongoing collaboration between our captors and our subjugated imagination—is, however, not imminent, nor is it likely anytime soon.
And still, life.
Still, those of us whose suffering structures the "rights" and pleasures of White folks must find a way to live.
Welcoming the end of the world (that has yet to arrive) while avoiding contamination by the feigned shock of this current moment is not easy. The timelessness of living while Black is taxing on the body: objective vertigo kills. I try to return to art and scholarship created by Black people—and especially Black people who are not men—for clarity and focus, instead of looking to Black women for comfort and resilient reaffirmation that the world is not on fire. Tellingly, after both the election of Donald Trump and Doug Jones, Black women were summoned to burp the proverbial baby after its gorging and showered with thanks for "saving America" (or earnestly trying to) by the same people who gawk at minimum wage increases and universal healthcare. Kamala Harris and Maxine Waters are just two recent victims of mammy-awe, memed into oblivion to save face for millions, their likeness abstracted from the anti-Black past and present in which they live.
The positioning of Black women as the figurative and literal way out of the (unbearably-transparent and worsening) world is a trademark of this moment's Trumpocalypticism and illuminates how violence against Black women is integral to Americans' envisioning of futurity. This performative praise obscures the reality of Black women dying: on the border, on the block, during delivery, during transport, in the classroom, in the home, in the prison, on and on and on. Mistaking this routinized worship as a redistribution or inversion of power is a grave error and one we ought to avoid, lest we repeat the past. We cannot afford to plot an escape using our captors' compass. Said another way: listening to Black women die cannot stand in for listening to Black women. As Tina Campt writes in Listening to Images, "The grammar of black feminist futurity is a performance of a future that hasn't yet happened but must." How to prepare for what must come, but as of yet remains unknown?
Afro-pessimism is a theoretical lens forged through centuries of Black peoples' evolving consideration of the relationship between anti-Blackness and world-making. Afro-pessimists build on the work of Orlando Patterson's rigorous studies of slavery and argue that it must be defined not as a relation of forced labor, but one of property. Black people are not practically eligible for subjecthood in the way that non-Black people are, but instead are treated as objects of accumulation and fungibility: kidnapped, killed, sold, terrorized. In 1718 and 1818 and 1918 and 2018. A raid at 7-Eleven, a killer cop in San Francisco, a slave auction in Sabratha, a juvenile prison in Seattle. Last century, last week.
While I cannot, in this brief reflection, adequately illuminate the many ways that this theory cares for Black people by refusing to mistake superficial integration for the political annihilation that something akin to Black freedom requires, I name it to introduce the words of Saidiya Hartman, one of the theory's preeminent interlocutors. In The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women's Labors, Hartman notes that imagining a future produced by the violently extracted labors of Black women is the insidious enterprise into which the modern world enlists those lusting for the safety of subjecthood.
But, Hartman suggests, other forms of envisioning and feeling another after in the present are possible. Of the self-sustaining, abolitionist care of Black women that remains "exploited by racial capitalism," she writes, "[it is] most importantly… not reducible to or exhausted by it." Indeed, this care "enable[s] those "who were never meant to survive" to sometimes do just that." This caring is not concerned with cohering the World that prohibits Black women from being, but surviving long enough to end the world altogether, and beyond. It is care for one another, against the world. As The Daily Show with Trevor Noah correspondent Dulce Sloan decreed during a segment about Black women's turnout to elect Doug Jones, "We didn't do it for you. We did it for ourselves. No Black woman casts her vote going, "This one's for Scott!" Fuck Scott."
"Fuck. Scott."
Before the breakdown, a breakdown:
I feel
I have
Survived already living
In someone else's
After. Time works against me and I leave it behind.
The state works against me and I leave
Him behind. I work against me and stay
Here: building inside of a Black hole I split and split and
Split this world apart
Jonathan Jacob Moore, or Jon Jon, is a poet and scholar from Detroit interested in the Black Apocalyptic. He lives in Washington D.C. and is the Book Reviewer for the Shade Journal. Learn more about his work at jonjonmoore.com and follow him on Twitter @hoodqueer.


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There was a time when "going green" seemed like a big hassle. Only the most dedicated bothered to jump through the hoops necessary to make theirs a greener, more environmentally-friendly lifestyle.
But those days are over. Not only is "green" no longer a dirty word, it's also a philosophy that is so easy to incorporate into your life you'll find yourself wondering why you hadn't done it sooner.
Even better? You don't need to be the sort of person who would strap yourself to a tree to see a benefit from it. These days, going green also means adding a lot more green to something very important to you: Your WALLET.
Here are some easy ways you can make the switch (and save yourself money on the process):
Get Rid of All That Paper – It's the 21st Century. Guess what? You don't need to keeps stacks of paper filed away anymore. With the aid of a document scanning service, you can ensure your household records are still easily accessible while also recycling all that clutter. Digital documents are easier to back up and store, too. You don't have to worry about moving them when they're in the Cloud!
Cancel Your Newspaper And Magazine Subscriptions – Print media is a relic. It's also a waste of resources. Cancel your subscriptions and read the same material online! If you like having something in your hands, get an inexpensive tablet made for reading. This is what businesses that operate with a "paperless office" philosophy do; all their business subscriptions are now digital. So why not do the same at home?
Do Some Carpooling – Or even better, work from home whenever you can. The combination of a paperless office with working remotely is very friendly to Mother Nature! There is also the added bonus of saving you money on gas, tolls, and wear and tear on your car.
Bring Your Mug To The Coffee Shop – Any respectable coffee shop will be happy to fill your mug instead of their in-house paper or plastic cups. Some might even offer you a discount. This is a delicious way to go green!
Do All Your Errands In One Trip – Don't make separate trips to the grocery store and the post office and the hardware store and the comic book shop. Carve out a short afternoon and do them in one trip to save money on gas, and wear and tear on your car.
Stuff Your Freezer Tight! – A full freezer runs more efficiently than an empty freezer, so when you go grocery shopping get lots of frozen goods. They'll keep for ages and it will save you money on your energy bill.
Don't Make Photocopies – Make digital document scans instead. Document scanning is one of today's top money-saving office tips – it's far cheaper to store thousands of digital files than it is reams of paperwork – so why not learn from the professionals and use the same techniques at home to not only save you money, but also to make your household a little friendlier to Mother Nature?
The one thing tying all these tips together? None of them are difficult to incorporate into your life. Couple that with the fact that they'll save you money AND allow you to feel morally superior to your neighbors – hey, you have to take small victories where you can – and there is no reason to be putting these life changes off.


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Throwback Tracks -- August 17, 2017
David R. Smith
Somehow Wednesday snuck up on me again. It's remarkable how quickly it gets here. I know I say that on a somewhat regular basis, but if I didn't think it, it wouldn't bear repeating. I guess. Anyway, here are 5 more songs for you this week!
The Guys From do not hold the rights to any of these songs, it is more our hope to expose our readers to new (*cough*) and different retro music, or re-expose them to things they may have forgotten about.
At the top of each section, will be the song name, followed by the artists' name linked to their website (if possible...which is totally hit and miss with oldies), so you can fall down the rabbit hole, finding and supporting what you dig.
I Got A Name - Jim Croce
Oh man. This song. It makes me sad that Jim Croce died when he did. The guy had a really cool folk sound about him. It's remarkable how many musicians have died in plane crashes, particularly when they're just starting to achieve stardom. It's hard to say what could have happened, but Jim Croce had the sort of voice and style that you feel could have spanned for many more decades to come.
He had some pretty great hits: Bad Bad Leroy Brown, and You Don't Mess Around With Jim but this is easily my favourite song of his. (Though, I Have To Say I Love You In A Song is also spectacular.) What makes this song even more sadly beautiful is that apparently it was scheduled to be released as a single the day after he died. How ominously fitting is that? Ugh. My heart hurts just thinking about it.
If you aren't familiar with Jim Croce, but somehow have heard this song and you're not sure how, there's a good chance you might have heard it while watching Django Unchained. I also definitely went down the rabbit hole of Django clips after that... so, to more music!
Rain King - Counting Crows
Remember two weeks ago when I said I called an audible and swapped a song out for Spacehog? Yeah, this was the song I swapped it out with. And this song is REALLY good! I just wanted to get Spacehog up there. So now that we've had that track play, I'm ready to get this one on TBT.
We all know the success of The Counting Crows and Mr. Jones. It's an okay song but it propelled them into stardom. I don't mind that track, but it gets overplayed, in my opinion. The Counting Crows have so many other great songs to play, including this one. It's one of those songs that you can't help but feel happy when this song is on. It's got a great beat, the verses are solid and that chorus. It just grips you in the right places and makes you feel like your day is going to be good. Music has an incredible power to change your mood, and I feel like this song is definitely one of those songs!
Good Lovin' - The Rascals
Another one on that list of tunes that instantly puts you in a good mood. No word of a lie: I am so close to standing up and dancing to this song. Instead, my legs are just twitching back and forth.
The tempo is so fast, that you can't help but move to it. And that organ solo right in the middle? How often is an organ considered a cool instrument? (Unless it's played by Boom Gaspar) But trust me when I say, if this song was played at a social gathering and I was on a dance floor of sorts, I'd be busting out some air organ there. Because I'm just that uncool.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
My original plan wasn't to have this version of the song on here. I am a massive fan of The Band and their version of this song is wonderful. It will, at one point. get put on one of these lists. But in the meantime, I wanted to put Joan's rendition of it because she has such a solid talent and I felt like maybe we needed some females to balance out the previous three singers. Plus hers is a very different, folksy tune.
A song about the last days of the civil war from the point of view of a southerner, it was written by Robbie Robertson (with help from Levon Helm) and achieved much success as a song by the Band. Joan covered it in 1971 and apparently it did well for her too.
Given what has happened over the past week in Virginia, I'm not sure how this song fits in the political climate today. It definitely makes a person feel empathy for the soldiers of the south, but it also isn't condoning anything awful. It's just the story of one person who has had to deal with something that was not necessarily in their control. It could have been sung from the point of view of a soldier in the north and it would likely be just as impactful. I just think it's interesting that the reference to Stoneman's cavalry attacking in Virginia:
Call Me - Blondie
Another song by a female voice but a far cry from the last one. What's the opposite of singing about a southern civil war soldier? How about a song from the male point of view as a gigolo?
Whatever this song is about, it's great. I have a huge crush on Debbie Harry, so I'll listen to her sing anything. But this song is both fun and sexy. The bridge with all the ooo-oo-ooos makes my soul melt. I'm not sure how anybody can listen to this song and not feel a bit fluttery at the thought of calling Debbie Harry.
Oh. This song was legit a song on the American Gigolo soundtrack, so it's definitely about prostitution. So that's fun. I guess. Anyway; great song, right??
In the immortal words of Porky the Pig, (minus the stutter) that's all folks. I hope you enjoyed this rather eclectic week of music. I'm looking forward to having this month's weird combination of music land itself on a finalized playlist. But if you can't wait for this one, here are all the other ones. I also tried to clean this section up a bit because it was getting a bit out of hand...
July 2017 TBT Playlist (and the July Spotify List), June 2017 TBT Playlist (and the June Spotify List), May 2017 TBT Playlist, April 2017 TBT Playlist, March 2017 TBT Playlist , February 2017 TBT Playlist
Throwback Playlist for Dec 16/Jan 17, October 2016 Throwback Playlist, September 2016 Throwback Playlist, August 2016 Throwback Playlist, July 2016 Throwback Playlist, June 2016 Throwback Playlist, May 2016 Throwback Playlist, April 2016 Throwback Playlist
-D (@davidronn)


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ROCK HILL — Republican Ralph Norman won a special congressional election Tuesday in a sign that Republican support in the Palmetto State is unwavering in the era of President Donald Trump.
The former state lawmaker and real estate developer from Rock Hill defeated Democrat Archie Parnell, a former tax attorney and business manager for Goldman Sachs from Sumter, in a race that decided who would replace Republican Mick Mulvaney, Trump's new budget director.
Norman, who was just elected to his sixth legislative term in the most populated part of the South Carolina's 5th District last year, received nearly 45,000 votes, while Parnell collected a little more than 42,000 votes in his first ever political contest.
Norman's home county of York provided the final push he needed to carry the election, handing him around 54 percent of the more than 37,000 votes cast in the county, according to unofficial returns.
Ralph Norman ran a fantastic race to win in the Great State of South Carolina's 5th District. We are all honored by your success tonight!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2017
But Parnell still came within about 3 percentage points of beating Norman in a district that Mulvaney won by 20 percentage points in November over Democrat Fran Person, a former aide to Vice President Joe Biden.
Democrats worked to get turnout for their underdog. Parnell received more than twice the number of votes Tuesday than all of the ballots cast in the three-candidate Democratic primary in May. Norman received 15 percent more votes Tuesday than the entire seven-candidate GOP primary field last month.
Norman delivered his victory speech at the Magnolia Room in Rock Hill, which was built by the company he inherited from his father. A large crowd packed the event center for most of the night as they waited for Norman to arrive, drinking wine and snacking on a buffet of food under the glass chandeliers that adorned the hall.
Norman arrived after the race had been called for him, shortly after 9 p.m. He made his way down a gauntlet of people with his wife and family by him before taking the stage.
"It's time to govern. It's time to get things done. It's time to go to work," Norman told the crowd.
"Folks, tomorrow and together we're going to start anew," he said. "What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our god given right to the pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
The results in the 11-county district maintains the state Republican Party's dominance in recent congressional elections, and dashes any Democratic hopes of flipping one of South Carolina's seven congressional seats before the 2018 mid-term elections.
Comparing tonight's #SC05 results to past 7 races in this district pic.twitter.com/Ku4bnjizPV— Jason Emory Parker (@jaspar) June 21, 2017
"What we did here is remarkable," Parnell told a room full of supporters at Serendipity Catering and Cafe in Sumter. "We stood together against the rising tide of division."
Parnell told reporters he wasn't ready to think about another run in next year's congressional race for a full two-year term, but didn't rule it out.
"I hope that the strength of our showing will resonate and so that people will hear that something is going on that cannot be ignored," he said.
Another special election decided in neighboring Georgia on Tuesday drew far more national attention, with political observers viewing that race as a litmus test for how a Trump administration will affect congressional races next year. The outsized attention on the race also contributed to the contest becoming the most expensive U.S. House race in the country's history. Republican Karen Handel won the seat in suburban Atlanta over Democrat Jon Ossoff.
The election in South Carolina, where Trump's overall approval rating remains above 40 percent — according to the latest Winthrop University poll, was far less expensive.
South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Trav Robertson said that had the 5th District race gotten a "scintilla" of the national money and attention as the race in Georgia, things would have gone differently for Parnell.
"Our hope is that what Archie's campaign was capable of doing in such a short time with limited resources can be a light from which people see a path to victory," he said.
Some GOP political operatives took to social media Tuesday to say more Republicans would have come out for Norman if the Democrats nationalized the South Carolina race.
The seat was already known to favor Republicans, especially after the state Legislature redrew the state's congressional boundaries in 2011 and reduced the percentage of black voters in the district, said Winthrop University political scientist Scott Huffmon.
Parnell, who also worked as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in the 1970s, ran as a moderate Democrat who focused on fixing the Affordable Care Act and changing the country's tax code to stop corporations from sheltering profits in other countries.
Norman, however, pitched his candidacy as a continuation of the fiscally-conservative policies advanced by Mulvaney during his six years in office and never shied away from Trump's legislative agenda — much of which has yet to advance in Congress.
The Rock Hill resident supports the U.S. House bill that would repeal President Barack Obama's signature health care law and, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, cause an estimated 23 million more people to lose health insurance coverage by 2026.
He says he would consider shutting down the government to stop a vote on raising the federal debt ceiling, and he supports Trump's proposed budget that would increase funding for the U.S. military while slashing $1.4 trillion in non-defense spending over the next 10 years.
"I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives. We have conservatives in the House, the Senate and the executive branch," Norman said, adding that he may have disagreements with the president from time to time.
The race for the vacated seat had been hotly contested throughout the more than four months of campaigning, especially within the Republican Party.
Norman was attacked during the Republican primary for voting to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol after the racially-motivated murder of nine black worshipers in Charleston in 2015.
During a Republican runoff election in May, Norman defeated Tommy Pope, another state lawmaker and former solicitor, by 221 votes.
In the lead-up to that contest, there were political attack ads aired that pictured Norman speaking against a legislative bill that extended workers compensation benefits to police officers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Once he is sworn into his new office, Norman has said he'll join the House Freedom Caucus, a group of Republicans that have clashed with their congressional party leadership on issues including the initial health care repeal effort that never received enough support to go to a vote.
During his time in the state Legislature, Norman has been known to oppose bills that were supported by large bipartisan majorities, including highway financing efforts, $40 million in flood relief for South Carolina farmers and extending state bonds for the development of the Boeing aerospace factory in North Charleston.
"I think now is the time to get government off the backs of business. Now is the time to enforce the 10th Amendment, to give state's rights back. Now is the time to get our fiscal house in order, folks," Norman said. "Now is the time to put faith back in the political arena."
Maya T. Prabhu contributed.