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A Perfect Thanksgiving – Starters, Soups, and Sweets
Yesterday we talked about the main stuff, the Turkey, and the sides… today I'll quickly give you some ideas for starters, holiday drinks, soups and of course sweets, because it's not the holidays if you aren't ending a colossal meal with just as grand of a dessert.
A Perfect Thanksgiving – Preparation, Sides, Cranberry Sauce and the Turkey
As the song goes.. I'm back, back in the New York groove, except for the fact that I'm not in NY but I've got my groove back for blogging. Yes it's been awhile and yes I don't have a perfectly valid reason or explanation on why I stopped writing and sharing new recipes. Partly because I didn't have any idea on what to cook anymore, I was stuck in a rinse and repeat cycle of the same recipes, the creative … Continue reading A Perfect Thanksgiving – Preparation, Sides, Cranberry Sauce and the Turkey
Fresh Orange Cranberry Sauce
Let's keep this simple and let's keep this short, put down the can of cranberry sauce and read this quick recipe. Why? Do you really want to eat that overly sweet, rigid shaped, who knows how long it's been on the shelf cranberry sauce/jelly? If you do… ok… but just read on a little longer for my sake, maybe you might change your mind. Homemade cranberry sauce comes together in one small pot, a few stirs and your own taste … Continue reading Fresh Orange Cranberry Sauce
Thai Green Curry Turkey Meatballs
Really random and really fabulous… the story behind this fantastic recipe… I went to make meatballs with the ground turkey which was in my refrigerator and didn't have tomatoes to make a sauce. I started opening all my cabinets and quickly ran to the window to see that the corner bodega was closed, granted I just got home from work and it was past 11pm, I didn't expect it to be open but knowing it was Friday I thought I … Continue reading Thai Green Curry Turkey Meatballs
Just a short time ago everyone was still in boots and heavy jackets, after all the complaining and torture, mother nature finally listened and started warming up everyone. In NYC there was a really brutal winter, in England it was just the opposite, sure we had tons of flooding rains, but it wasn't nearly as cold as I expected (and I'm always cold). For the first time in a very long time I didn't have to put on my snow … Continue reading Jambalaya
Strawberry Almond Cream Scones
Spring kicks off my addiction for local fruits, this addiction then rolls quickly into summer peaches, tons of watermelon, and of course my favorite, raspberries. The start of warm weather usually means the start of strawberry season and while picking up a package of fragrant local strawberries I noticed this clever note on enjoying them with some cream. Now in the states that usually means whipped cream, but in Europe, it means pouring cream all over them, sprinkling a tad … Continue reading Strawberry Almond Cream Scones
Watermelon Feta Arugula Salad
Can you feel the sun on your skin? Can you feel that chilly breeze getting warmer and warmer as the days get longer and longer, isn't it fabulous? Somewhere between the bbq's, beers, ice cream, smores, iced coffees, there are salads, tons of light summery fruity salads. Summer salads to me feel like a dip in the pool when it's hot out, a perfect meal for a hot sunny day. They are filling without weighing you down, there is usually … Continue reading Watermelon Feta Arugula Salad
Turkey Coconut Curry
My cravings vary in weeks, some days I'll make the same mundane food with nothing worth sharing (sorry guys), and some days I realize that I can make or attempt to make the food I miss at home. This turkey coconut curry recipe is from my Asian cravings week, it was a week of me cooking ramen soups, Thai mango chicken, curries, fried rice and several stir fries. One day, a coworker of mine, gave me an amazing packet of … Continue reading Turkey Coconut Curry
Polish Zapiekanka – Mushroom Toast
Street food is an amazing part of every culture's history, in the past it was common for people who did not have proper stoves for hot meals to purchase what was known as street food. Nowadays the convenience of street food for daily lunches or quick bites has almost become a necessity for everyday city life. To add street food has recently become so embedded in today's culture as not only grabbing something to eat but it also revolves around … Continue reading Polish Zapiekanka – Mushroom Toast
Strawberry Rhubarb Galette
I am welcoming spring with arms wide open, very wide and very open. This year was the first time I experienced a European Spring and I must say, its gorgeous. Everything is blooming slowly and beautifully. Back in NYC the weather was so bi-polar that one day it would snow and the next it was magically 70 degrees and all the flowers were pushing out quickly and trying to catch the warm weather.. little did they know.. there would be … Continue reading Strawberry Rhubarb Galette
Baked Southern Fried Chicken
Fact: Fried food is not really healthy for you, at all. Fact: The word healthy and fried are ignored when the phrase heard is, "do you want some fried chicken?" Fact: You can have pretty darn good crispy oven baked buttermilk southern style fried chicken containing juicy and moist chicken inside… and I am here to show you how easy and flawless it is to make.
Blue Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast
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Groovers & Shakers - Papa Jo Jones
Jonathan David Samuel Jones was born on the 7th of October, 1911 in Chicago and I was fortunate (and surprised) to meet him while helping out in his friend Frank Ippolitos Professional Percussion in New York sometime in 1970! He is generally held to be the most important drummer of his time, mainly because he caused the transition, or at the very least was instrumental in it, when the art of drumming moved from Ragtime music to what we now know as jazz - and drumming changed. He became known as Papa Jo Jones to avoid confusion with Philly Joe Jones who was a dozen years younger but eventually working at the same time.
Ragtime was a genre of drumming which appeared at the turn of the 20th century, and it was closely associated with a style of entertainment called Vaudeville. Vaudeville music was often played by one guy with drumsticks on a bass drum and a snare drum and this was called double drumming. There was of course a place for one guy playing the bass drum and another playing the snare but, the advent of the bass pedal in 1909 and the influence of the great depression would put paid to all of that. Just one guy now took care of all the associated percussion sounds (tuned or otherwise) in the band which in those days was frequently more grandly called an Orchestra .
Jo Jones wasnt just a drummer, he could turn his hand to piano, trumpet and saxophone. By the time he joined the Count Basie Orchestra in 1934, the centre of jazz had moved from New Orleans to Chicago, and mainly due to the influence of Jo Jones, the whole style of playing the music had changed. He shifted the drummers role from that of a strict-tempo timekeeper to that of an interactive member of an improvising group.
The Big Band era really took off in the Twenties in Chicago and Jo Jones, along with several other notable drummers, began to strip down their kits and abandon the sound-effect producing instruments of Vaudeville, leaving themselves with toms, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, and possibly the odd cowbell. Count Basies orchestra certainly had no need of traps (woodblocks, temple-blocks, rattles, coconuts for the sound of horses hooves and even klaxons and train horns) and this was because the sounds and the rhythms being produced had changed drastically.
Cymbals were getting larger thanks to Avedis Zildjian and important equipment to play them with had arrived including William Frederick Ludwigs bick a da bock mechanism. This was a framework for hand-operated cymbals but they started the ball rolling as far as the development of the hi hat was concerned. Once it gave way to the more useful foot-operated mechanism in 1927, Papa Jo Jones was on hand to make it do things which its unlikely its inventor would have suspected it was capable of. By the way, it was Jo who lifted the Low Boy up from the floor to waist high so it would be more easily playable with a stick and the hi hat, as we know it, was born.
This revolutionised drumming and Jo Jones was in the forefront of incorporating it into his swing playing. He played most of the time on his hi hat and uniquely kept his cymbals gently touching one another so their sound would sizzle. Along with this he played his bass drum lightly, acquired a smaller, less obtrusive model, and kept the basic burgeoning 10 to 2 rhythm on the hi hat.
This, ding- ding-da-ding rhythm was becoming more prevalent in jazz and was arguably first played by a chap called Vic Berton. Having seen a video of him tearing paper in time with the music and surrounded by the paraphernalia of an orchestra (timps, orchestral bells, vibes and a bass drum and snare) creates a hypothesis which is a little difficult to believe. That said, Vic (?) Papa Jo and others used this rhythm as a device to underpin the music in the thirties when it had become slightly more commonplace. It became the sound of the ride pattern and Jo Jones would accent on his hi hat post what at the time were called the weak beats - which we know better as the off-beats, two and four. In time Jo moved the pattern to the ride cymbal which Avedis had thinned down, enlarged and made more capable of speaking quickly and sustaining the beats. He made them more able to provide a wash of sound by what in hindsight now seems to be the obvious expedient of thinning them down and drastically increasing their diameters. The diameters of bass drums were going the other way and becoming smaller to provide less boom and help to pinpoint the beats. Jo would sometimes bury the beater into the bass drums head to produce a different, more muted sound. When he moved the ride rhythm from hi hat to cymbal he would strike it and immediately lift the tip of the stick away to give a cleaner, sharper sound.
He was one of the first to play with brushes in 1937 and influenced Kenny Clarke, Roy Haynes, Max Roach, Louie Bellson, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich.
However, to continue the Papa Jo life story, long before all of this came to pass, Jonathan Jones grew-up in Alabama and his musical career began at five years old when he was badly burned in a fire. His father bought him a ukulele to help him to forget the pain. His next acquisition was a snare drum, courtesy of his aunt, which he taught himself to play. On his fathers death he was enrolled into an orphanage school where he learned to play piano, sax and trumpet.
His first road gigs came at thirteen, when with a Carnival, he not only played drums, he sang, acted and tap danced. Sometime in the late twenties he played with Walter Pages Blue Devils in Oklahoma before moving to Kansas City in 1933 to join Count Basie. A year later he moved with Basies orchestra to New York, thus establishing what became famous as The Great American Rhythm Section with Freddie Green, Walter Page and of course William James Basie himself. He stayed with The Count until 1948 although like many musicians he was forced to take a sabbatical when he was drafted into the military during 1944 - 46.
In the Forties the centre of jazz moved again, this time to New York where Be bop was born and Papa Jo was on hand to play it. Swing music was an entertaining type of music which you could dance to, but bop certainly wasnt. It was an art form with more complex harmonies and melodies and the players began to solo more and the music was faster. As far as Jo Jones and the very art of drumming were concerned, the ride cymbal created a wash of sound and the smaller bass drum no longer marked all the beats in the bar. And probably most importantly, the hands and feet had become independent.
According to a chap named William Russell, Bop (or bebop) was: the music of revolt against Big Bands, vertical harmonies, soggy rhythms, non-playing orchestra leaders, Tin Pan Alley and the individuality of the jazz musician as a creative artist.
Jo Jones found himself on the road around the world with several of the Jazz at the Phil tours and at the same time recording with Ilinois Jacquet, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson and Lester Young. Its interesting to note that when he was house drummer at the 1958 Newport Festival, he played with (presumably amongst others) Count Basie, the Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge sextet, and also backed Chuck Berry. You can see him playing Sweet Little 16 and one has to assume that then, as now, Chuck didnt bother with a rehearsal. That song features in the seminal film Jazz on a Summers Day and it has to be said that Papa Jo looks a little bemused, although he still managed to wear his usual infectious grin. [The set list says that Chuck played No Money Down too and Im guessing that Papa Jo made a very good fist of the songs double-handed Kansas City shuffle]. He was always known as a brutally frank elder statesman, so Id be very interested to know what he and Chuck Berry made of one another.
Having survived his baptism of fire in rocknroll he went on to freelance with Art Tatum, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington.
Towards the end Papa Jo played regularly at a club in New York called The West End, where celebrated drummers would come to watch him play what became a master class.
As far as drum kits were concerned he was certainly a Ludwig endorser in 1960 with a traditional jazz-sized four-piece White Marine Pearl set with a 20 bass, although Ive also seen photos of him with a light-coloured Rogers set with script badge and Swiv-o-matic fittings. However 20 years earlier he had a Gretsch Gladstone set in White Oriental Pearl with 26 bass, 13 x 9 mounted tom a 6½ deep wood snare and two 16 x 16 floor toms - one on each side. He used Zildjian cymbals with 13 hi hats, a couple of 13 crashes, and a choice of 16 or 15 to ride on. [It is possibly one of these cymbals that the forthright Jo Jones famously threw at the feet of a teenaged Charlie Parker during a jam session - as mentioned in the film Whiplash. This incident took place at a club in Kansas City when Bird made a very obvious mistake.]
Not long before his death he was named a Jazz Master by The United States National Endowment for the Arts. Max Roach called him the greatest drummer that ever lived! Its impossible to watch Jo Jones play without smiling along with him.
He once said: Just remember the difference between play and beat when it comes to percussion instruments. You dont beat the drum, you play the drum.
Papa Jo Jones suffered a stroke towards the end of his life and passed away in New York on the 3rd of September, 1985. RIP.
Bob Henrit
July 2016
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Q: There is a group of people near where I work who call themselves "the Black Israelites" and do street preaching. They claim that Christ was black and at the Second Coming he will enslave the white man. They argue that Caucasians are not white but red and thus descendants of Esau. They also argue that Moses was black because he passed for an Egyptian. What do I say to this?
A: Jesus obviously is not out to enslave Caucasians because he died to save them along with the rest of the human race. In particular, he sent the apostles to make disciples of Greeks and Romans (both Caucasian groups) and in fact to "all nations" (Matthew. 28:20), irrespective of the skin colors of the people living in them.
It is true that Esau himself had a reddish complexion, but not all his descendants do. His descendants were the Edomites, not the Europeans. And having red skin color is no indicator of being a descendant of Esau. In fact, the people most famous for having reddish skin–the American Indians–aren't related to the Edomites at all.
Regarding Moses, Egyptians even today do not have a Negroid complexion, but look more Arab. Furthermore, Moses lived over 3,500 years ago, during the time of the pharaohs and the paintings on the walls in their tombs reveal that the Egyptians then had a middle-brown skin color, as they do today. This is known with special certainty since the paintings also show non-Egyptians who have a Negroid complexion.
Finally, there was no secret among the Egyptians about the fact Moses was a Hebrew. He didn't "pass for an Egyptian." Whether he looked the same as other Egyptians or not (something we really don't know), everybody at the time was aware, "Oh yeah, that's Moses–the one who (as his name says) was 'drawn out' of the Nile by Pharaoh's daughter during the slaughter of the Hebrew babies."


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I am trying to locate information on my husbands grandfather. His name is Christ Otto Fuchs born Abt 1890's died 1963 in Massillon, OH. He was married to Louise Kathryn Grieshimer, they had three children Donald, William, and Norma. Does anyone know who his parents were? or his brothers and sisters? I would apprieciate any information.


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text: Dear Lemuel, We've been trying and comparing different simple DNA-extractions of bacteria for PCR since three years, with a lot of trouble. Since three months we are using alkaline lysis and things work perfect now for any kind of PCR-based DNA-fingerprinting we do. Pick a small (1-2 mm) colony into 20 microliters of lysis buffer (0.05 M NaOH/0.25%SDS) and heat for 15 min at 95 degrees. Dilute with 200 µl of sterile water. Spin down cell debris for 5 min. Use 1-2 µl for a 25 µl PCR volume. In our hands this works for gram+ , gram- and mycobacteria. To avoid problems with NaOH precipitation during storage we use a commercially prepared 1 M NaOH solution (Merck N° 109137). The NaOH-SDS mixture is stored in plastic tubes (not glass). The SDS precipitate which forms is easily resolved by heating in a microwave for a few seconds. Let me know whether this works for you too. Success.


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2. Two is better than one and six is better than three: Attempt a two point conversion after every touchdown except in necessary circumstances where one point is all that is needed or if the offensive team is incapable of gaining two yards from the two yard line more than 50% of the time (assuming kickers make every extra point). It is more difficult to gain two yards from the two yard line than most places on the field because the defense can crowd the line of scrimmage and more easily eliminate passing lines, but most NFL teams should be able to achieve this feat more often than not.
Again, with the caveat that these numbers will be discoutned slightly for the knowledge of the defense that only two yards is needed... We just covered the length of the average play, which suggests that a run or pass could be called with the expectation of gaining two yards. Furthermore, the median yards gained on pass and run plays exceeds two yards, which means that more than 50% of those plays would suffice. And, the mode/most common yardage gained on a rush is two yards, so it should be fairly simple.
Everyone talks about a "chart" that is used to determine when to go for two. It should be the other way around. Teams should always go for two, unless a chart indicates that a guaranteed point is more important. Scoring more points leads to winning more games.
Similarly, a strong case could be made for never kicking field goals within "range" except at the end of the half where time is an issue or when absolutely necessary. At least, ending a possession in a field goal should not be the goal in most circumstances. Go for six when you can. Scoring more will yield more wins.
And for those who are thinking that I just eliminated the roster spots for kickers and punters with #4 and #2 on this list, it's actually the opposite. If kickers and punters are only used "when absolutely necessary," their value increases due to the importance of those instances. Plus, if every kick is being returned, teams will want kickers who can kick the kickoff through the endzone.
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This was my first time ordering from a vendor on here. I can bet most people won't leave a review when everything is smooth but almost everyone will leave it if they had issues. This goes for about everything. You go out to eat, food is amazing, great atmosphere...you leave happy and go on with your night. But if the food is bad or you have a serious issue, most people will go around complaining about it and making sure people hear.
With that being said, i wanna give credit where its due. And i can say i am very pleased so far with my current order from GT Motoring. I was looking to order both the Macht Schnell pulley and drop in filter. PMed couple vendors and got some responses back right away. Personally, i hate when you get a response from someone it sounds like they are trying very hard to "sell" you the product. Some vendors i got a response back and they use capital letters and explanations points as if its an amazing deal. Truth is, it isn't...and to me, it makes them look worse.
Example: something along the lines off, "we can do them for ONLY $xxx.xx!!!" To me, it looks like your trying too hard (especially when your prices aren't great). Im not naming any other vendors as i respect them all and haven't had an issue with any. This is just personal preference on the way i get a response i guess.
Also, please no body message me on prices or about any other vendors, they will be ignored.
Back to GT Motoring. Tim from GT Motoring responded in a timely matter every time and answered all my questions. He did not sound overly pushy and did not say anything which made his deal sound better then any others (even though his price was best). This is good, considering i always do my research anyway so i know whats a good deal and not. He offered a great price and the item shipped within 24 hours.
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My BF and I are planning a trip to Nepal in late march /april 2013. we would like some trekking in the himilayas and then possibly somewhere hot for R&R afterwards. i'm not so sure what the minimum time we would need to allow for trekking would involve, which would then determine the time for other activities or R&R. ideally, i think a week of trekking might be enough for us so allowing travel time there, aclimatisation, a trekking trip and then.... maybe to Goa enroute back home for a few days?? Or anywhere else that might be nice to kick back and preferably nice and hot after the cold mountains??
I spent a couple of weeks in N India before but never got to warmer pastures, then the North was very cold!
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7 TV Shows We Would Like To See
We here at Screenjunkies know a thing or two about the old television set. Here is one of our lists of shows that should immediately be made.
1. Anaconda Nanny
Tagline: "The life of a parent can be so constricting."
Plot Synopsis: Five gigantic Amazonian snakes compete to see which one can raise a 2 year old. Which child will get into the best preschool? Which one will learn to read first? Which one will be devoured before the opening credits of the pilot?
2. Supreme Court
Tagline: "Posession is 9-10ths of the game."
Plot Synopsis: Esteemed members of the United States Supreme Court compete in hard core 3-on-3 elbow-throwing streetball. All fouls are voted on and require a five-ninths majority vote to be sustained.
3. On The Rocks
Tagline: "Addiction is an uphill battle."
Plot Synopsis: Twenty alcoholic rock climbers are pitted against one another in an every-man-for-himself race to the top of K2. Caches of Coors Light and Maker's Mark are located every 300 vertical feet.
4. The One That Got Away
Tagline: "Crime pays if you are fast enough."
Plot Synopsis: Outakes from Cops and The Craziest Police Chases are compiled to show the times that the bad guy was just too fast, too smart, or just straight lucky. Emphasis will be placed on overweight cops who are unable to keep up with younger, fitter criminals.
5. The Easiest Catch
Tagline: "Like shooting fish in a barrel...literally."
Plot Synopsis: Grizzled, hardened Alaskan crabbers compete to see who can shoot the most fish at close range using a shotgun. The show is filmed in Hawaii and all contestants have 24-7 access to back rubs and moisturizer.
Tagline: "Life in the fastlane was never so slow."
Plot Synopsis: It's The National Association for Stock Car Autos And Retired Persons where drivers compete at speeds upwards of 35 miles per hour in an all out battle for the checkered flag. Frequent stops to urinate, unanticipated naps during tire changes, and subtle yet pervasive racism affect the outcome of each event.
7. Semi Colin
Tagline: "Shifting gears from the Pentagon to the open road."
Plot Synopsis: After a long and successful career as one of America's preeminent military servicemen, Colin Powell buys a big rig truck and hauls various agricultural products to the nation's neediest. Powered by amphetamines and diet soda, where will his travels take him?
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In Memory of
Bobby Earl Jones
October 10, 1927 - April 21, 2013
Bobby Earl Jones - age 86 of Goodlettsville, TN died peacefully in his sleep after a brief illness on Sunday morning April 21, 2013. Preceded in death by his parents, Marvin and Elizabeth Stephens Jones; brothers, Olin, Noel and Paul Jones.
Bobby is survived by his wife of 60 years, Betty Brown Jones; four daughters, Angela (Bruce) Bennett, Martha (Tad) Jenkins, Mary (Guy) Johns, Melisa (Bedford Combs) Jones; three grandchildren, Austin Bennett, Zach Jenkins, Madison Johns; several nieces and nephews.
Bobby was born Monday, October 10, 1927 in Goodlettsville, attended Goodlettsville High School followed by tours in both the United States Marines and the United States Army during and at the conclusion of World War II, spending significant time in Okinawa, Japan. An avid and accomplished basketball player, he was part of a military team, followed by playing for Middle Tennessee State University, where he attended college. Bobby married his beloved Betty Brown in 1953 and they raised their family in Goodlettsville.
During a career as a manufactured furniture sales representative, Bobby was elected City Commissioner in Goodlettsville in 1978. He was elected Mayor of Goodlettsville in 1976 and served as the city's second longest serving mayor until his retirement in 2006. As mayor, Bobby made sure that he was highly accessible to his constituents and he consistently maintained the value "the city comes first," resulting in tremendous support during his time in office. During his tenure as commissioner/mayor, Goodlettsville's impressive City Hall, state of the art Fire Hall and new Public Works Complex were all built and dedicated. The Interpretation/Welcome Center at Moss-Wright Park was built and dedicated and the park was significantly expanded. The city's infrastructure, boundaries, economic capabilities and opportunities and population all significantly expanded during his capable and visionary leadership. October 13, 2006 was declared as "Bobby Jones Day" in Goodlettsville.
Bobby's stewardship of his community, his love of family, fatherhood, grandfatherhood, great wit and humor will bless all who knew him as we go forth missing him greatly.
A Celebration of Life service will be held at 12:00 noon, Saturday, April 27, 2013 with Pastor Tim Stutler officiating. Burial with military honors will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Goodlettsville Fire Department Children's Program.
Family and friends will gather to remember Bobby at a visitation Friday evening from 4:00 until 7:00 and Saturday from 10:00 until 12:00 at Forest Lawn Funeral Home 1150 South Dickerson Rd. Goodlettsville, TN 37072
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Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses: Written and Video iPhone App Review
Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses, by developer iAppLab, is a new travel expenses app for the iOS. Interested in keeping track of all potenial costs and financial burdens on your next vacation or business expedition? Perhaps Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses is the right app for you. Read on for our look at this fun travel budget management app!
In a nutshell, Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses allows you to input and track your expenses for trips all across the world. Have a strict budget that you must follow? Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses allows you to customize a budget for each trip, then add different costs (hotel, flight, clothes, entertainment, and many more), and see how you are sticking to (or totally breaking) your budget. Need to simply keep track of how where the money is going so you can be reimbursed at the end? Easy! With Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses, you can add scanned photos of reciepts to each expense, then create a professional PDF with one tap of the finger. This PDF contains an awesome breakdown of the costs, all in a slick-looking layout and also the reciepts for each expense put into it! You can also customize a whole slough of options for each trip and expense in Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses, further adding to its awesome set of features. Finally, Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses includes a handy checklist feature, helping you make sure you haven't forgotten anything important for your upcoming trip. Overall, I found it very easy to create a trip and track the costs for it, all with just a few taps on my iOS device!
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Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses looks sweet on the iOS. The graphics are clear and crisp, the many different icons look incredibly professional, and the input buttons respond appropriately. Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses's overall layout is really easy to figure out, thanks to the excellent use of different logical categories for trip expenses. Finally, the helpful info graphics provided for trip finance breakdowns help add a great visual image to the actual costs of each excursion. The developers of Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses should be commended for the effort put into making this app look sleek and professional!
I really enjoyed Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses and it's array of expense reporting and tracking tools for trips. I was disappointed with the price ($1.99), as it's a few tiers higher than what I would expect in pricing. However, it is a high quality app with a very useful set of features and I can see how it would be very helpful in organizing all possible expenses, both before and after a trip, be it for business or pleasure. Fortunately, there is also a free version Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses available with more limited features, allowing interested users the chance to experience Bon Voyage for themselves before tackling the full version. Bon Voyage: Travel Budget & Expenses is certainly worth looking into, especially if you do a lot of traveling!
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EA confirms Battlefield 6 is coming in 2018; Battlefield 1 is getting Esports Mode and GOTY Edition this Fall
The Scientifically Proven Best Video Games of All Time: An Introduction and The Top 100
Capcom is splitting the games from the Mega Man X franchise across two Legacy Collections
Electronic Arts reiterates that Battlefield 6 and Anthem are coming in 2018
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Xbox Store Today: Dead Island Definitive, One Piece Burning Blood, Fragments of Him, more
Deep Silver is resurrecting the Dead Island series on new-generation consoles this week with the release of Dead Island Definitive Collection. Available to download now through the Xbox Games Store, the Xbox One re-release will include enhanced remakes of Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide, as well as a brand new side-scroller titled Dead Island: Retro Revenge. Both games are also available to download separately, but Retro Revenge is only available in the Definitive Collection package.
Also available this week is a trio of titles for Xbox One owners… One Piece: Burning Blood is a fighting game based on the popular anime and manga, TurnOn is a puzzle platformer starring an electric alien, and Fragments of Him is a melancholy and emotional narrative game.
More information on all of these titles can be found after the break. (more…)
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Dead Island Definitive Collection, Dangerous Golf, Plague Inc, more added to PS Store
Dead Island 2 might be stuck in limbo, but Deep Silver is resurrecting their zombie franchise this week with the Dead Island Definitive Collection. Available to download now for the PlayStation Store, the Definitive Collection includes both Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide, as well as the side-scrolling Dead Island: Retro Revenge. Dead Island and Riptide are also available to download separately, but Retro Revenge is exclusive to the Definitive Collection package.
Also available this week is Dangerous Golf, the first game from a group of ex-Criterion developers at Three Fields Entertainment. The PS4 game will hand players a putter and let them go nuts in a wide variety of different environments. Have you ever wanted to wreck a kitchen, castle, or palace with a 5-iron? Well, here's your chance.
Finally this week, Ndemic Creations will bring Plague Inc.: Evolved to the PS4. First released for the Xbox One in September, and available for the PC since February, Plague Inc.: Evolved will finally give PS4 owners the chance to infect the world with a horrific disease.
More information on all of these games (and a few other new releases) can be found after the break. And don't forget to check out the PlayStation Blog, which has a complete rundown of this week's new add-ons and discounts. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, PS4, Vita Tagged Dead Island, Dead Island: Riptide, Plague Inc: Evolved
New Retail Releases: Dead Island Definitive Collection, One Piece Burning Blood
A handful of very huge games have been released over the last few weeks, but the month comes to a close with just a pair of new titles.
Deep Silver will resurrect the first two games in the Dead Island series as part of the Dead Island Definitive Collection for the PS4 and Xbox One. The compilation will add shinier graphics to Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide, and include all previously-released downloadable content for both games. An exclusive third game, Dead Island: Retro Revenge, will morph the series into a 16-bit side-scroller.
Also available this week is One Piece: Burning Blood, a one-on-one fighter for the PS4 and Xbox One. An adaptation of the pirate-themed manga, One Piece: Burning Blood will offer players "an advanced battle system that replicates Devil Fruit abilities and Haki techniques."
We'll be back soon to look at the latest digital releases on the PlayStation Store, Xbox Games Store, and Nintendo eShop throughout the rest of the week.
Posted in News, PS4, Xbox One Tagged Dead Island, Dead Island: Riptide
Dead Island: Definitive Collection will be released for PS4, Xbox One on May 31
We still don't know if Dead Island 2 will be ready for its planned 2016 launch, but Deep Silver hasn't given up on their undead franchise.
The publisher announced today that Dead Island: Definitive Collection, which includes Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide, will be released for the PS4 and Xbox One on May 31. The remastered compilation will give both games a complete visual overhaul courtesy of several fancy graphical tricks that weren't possible before:
- Higher Quality Textures – Game textures have been redone in a higher resolution and the level of quality has been improved across the board.
- Photorealistic New Lighting System – The lighting system in the game has been vastly improved, providing a much more realistic look to the beautiful sunny tropical setting.
- Physically Based Shading – The introduction of new physically based shading techniques due to the latest iteration of the Chrome Engine means a higher quality look to the game models and objects as they react in a more realistic way to various lighting conditions.
- Image Quality Enhancements Via Anti-Aliasing – The addition of more sophisticated anti-aliasing means that console players can now experience Dead Island without unsightly jaggies meaning a much cleaner look throughout.
- Improved-Quality Game Models and Geometry Assets – All major geometry assets (for example, NPCs and character models) highlight a marked quality increase.
- HBAO and Motion Blur Effects – The introduction of Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion adds an extra layer of depth and realism to the world. Through a better implementation of object shadows, while the all-new motion blur effects will provide a much more cinematic feel to the game experience.
- Updated Game UI – Providing a more consistent look between both Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide. Increase to equal quality level for seamless game experience.
Both games in the Dead Island: Definitive Collection will include all of the previously released downloadable expansions, as well as new features like online four-player co-op, streaming, and recording. PlayStation 4 owners will also be able to take advantage of PS Vita Remote Play and Share Play. Players will also get the chance to test out the "Power Fists" powerup, a fan favorite mod.
Finally, the Dead Island: Definitive Collection will include Dead Island: Retro Revenge, a side-scrolling endless runner that will be exclusive to the retail package.
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Injustice: Gods Among Us scores another sales knockout in the May 2013 NPD report
Yup, you can definitely tell we're in a console transition period. Just a single new release was able to crack the list of the top ten best-selling games of May 2013.
Deep Silver's Metro: Last Light was that game and the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 shooter was able to claim the sixth spot for the mutants of post-apocalyptic Russia. A pair of sorta-new releases helped push the profile of two titles that were originally released in years past. The 3DS version of Donkey Kong Country Returns lifted the game to #3 and the Wii U re-release of Lego Batman 2 helped the Brick Knight squeeze into the #10 slot.
According to Game Informer, sales of retail games are down 31% from May 2012 and retail sales are going to continue to drop as Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony move towards an all-digital future. Althugh, to be fair, May 2012 did include the release of Diablo III, which sold a ton of copies at retail.
The NPD Group's complete report on the top ten best-selling games from May 2013 can be found after the break. (more…)
Injustice: Gods Among Us is the best-selling game of April 2013
According to The NPD Group's accounting of the best-selling games from April 2013, NetherRealm Studios' Injustice: Gods Among Us delivered a superhero-sized punch to the competition last month. The Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii U fighter zoomed into the top spot, ahead of another April release, Deep Silver's Dead Island: Riptide. Other new releases were mostly shut out of the top ten, but Defiance, an MMO shooter based on the Syfy show of the same name, managed to make it to the fifth spot.
Bioshock Infinite continues to sell strong, rounding out the top three, and a pair of 3DS-exclusive games scared up spots in the top ten: Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (#6) and Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins (#9).
The full top ten list for April 2013 can be found right here:
1. Injustice: Gods Among Us (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U)
2. Dead Island: Riptide (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
3. Bioshock Infinite (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii U)
5. Defiance (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
6. Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS)
7. NBA 2K13 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Wii U, PSP, PC)
8. Skylanders Giants (Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, 3DS, Wii U)
9. Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins (3DS)
10. MLB 13: The Show (PS3, Vita)
Thomas Was Alone, Dead Island: Riptide, Star Trek, more added to PS Store
Another big day for the PlayStation Store as indie platformer Thomas Was Alone, zombie melee-er Dead Island: Riptide, and movie tie-in Star Trek are now available to purchase with your download dollars. Like the rest of the games in Sony's Spring Fever promotion, Thomas Was Alone is a Cross-Buy title, meaning you'll be able to pick up the PSN and Vita versions in the same download.
Also available this week is Ubisoft's World War II dogfighter, Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII; the latest game in the Soul Calibur series, Soul Calibur V; Capcom's standalone Dragon's Dogma expansion, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen; and the retro shooter God Mode.
Finally this week, Sony has added a pair of Vita games, the ninja-riffic Draw Slasher and the ridiculously titled Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R… I mean, seriously now… there are four extra modifiers in that title. Even Capcom won't go that far.
Hit the jump for more details on all of these games and a few others (including a new PSP game!). And be sure to visit the PlayStation Blog for a complete list of this week's new game add-ons. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, PSP, Vita Tagged Dead Island: Riptide, Dragon's Dogma, God Mode, Soul Calibur V, Star Trek
Believe it or not, Deep Silver released the Dead Island: Riptide "torso edition" in UK, Australia
Back in January, the Internet went into complete meltdown after Deep Silver revealed the "bloody torso statue" at the center of the Zombie Bait Edition of Dead Island: Riptide. Normally, a limited edition statue wouldn't cause much of a stir beyond the hardcore special edition collectors, but the "Zombie Bait Edition" was set to include a statue that depicted a mutilated (read: armless and legless and headless) woman wearing nothing but a Union Jack bikini.
Deep Silver apologized for the statue saying, "We sincerely regret this choice." The statement also said: "[W]e are committed to making sure this will never happen again." No matter how much they said they regretted it at the time, the company has gone ahead and released the "Zombie Bait Edition" as originally planned in the UK and Australia. I guess if you promise to make sure something never happens again, it has to happen at least once.
According to CNET Australia, a Deep Silver representative told them that "an extremely limited quantity of the Zombie Bait Edition has been made available to some retailers for those customers who wish to purchase it."
[Source: CVG]
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The Genetics Bundle offers a 15% discount off the total transaction price for the following reports being purchased simultaneously: -Bioinformatics Markets -DNA Sequencing and PCR Markets -Gene Expression Reagents Markets -Genomics World Markets -Microarray Markets -Personalized Medicine -RNA Interference Markets Bioinformatics Markets The life science informatics marketplace--known as bioinformatics--is set to expand as high-tech companies infiltrate this arena and biopharmaceutical companies incorporate key informatic solutions into their business strategies. It is believed that many of the segments of bioinformatics described in this report offer an unusual opportunity for accelerated expansion within the coming years. This study is arranged to provide an overview of bioinformatics market segments and offer evidence that these segments are poised for significant future growth. Each segment is accompanied by analysis and forecasts by product type and application. This analysis surveys the bioinformatics market and the latest information regarding emerging new products and industry trends. The study will quantify and qualify the bioinformatics market segments as an area of research, product development and investment. Forecasts of the bioinformatics market and an analysis of products in the worldwide information-processing market will provide a basis for understanding the significance of past developments and future possibilities within this market category. For more information please click on:
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Types of Pollution – Background
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Pollutants enter the watershed either directly from a traceable source (point source pollution) or through channels that prevent the source from being identified (non-source point pollution). Regardless of the manner in which they enter the water, pollutants can be classified into four types: toxic, sediment, nutrient, and bacterial.
Toxic pollution includes chemicals that poison and kill organisms in and near streams, rivers, lakes, and the Bay. When a body of water has a high level of toxic pollution, fishing for the purpose of human consumption is banned. Even low levels of toxicity can be lethal when chemicals accumulate in predators that consume large amounts of slightly poisoned organisms. Examples of toxic pollution include pesticides and herbicides; gasoline, oil, and other automotive products; household cleaning products; paints and solvents; battery acid; industrial waste chemicals; and toxic substances in car exhaust and solid waste incinerator smoke.
Sediment pollution is dirt, minerals, sand, and silt eroded from the land and washed into the water. It comes from areas where there is inadequate vegetation to slow runoff. Sediment causes several problems for aquatic organisms. First, particles of sediment are suspended in the water. The resulting cloudiness decreases the amount of sunlight that can reach underwater plants that provide food and oxygen for underwater animals. Second, as sediment particles settle, they fill spaces between rocks, destroying the habitat needed by manyunderwater insects and other macroinvertebrates. Sediment also clogs the gills of fish, crabs, and other underwater organisms. Sediment can bury fish and insect eggs, preventing them from hatching, and when it covers an oyster bed, it smothers the oysters.
Nutrient pollution results from an overabundance of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Living things cannot survive without nutrients, but too much can be detrimental to watershed organisms. An overabundance of nutrients leads to escalation in plant growth, particularly of algae and vascular plants. This causes two problems. First, water clouded with too much alga growth does not allow enough sunlight to reach the plants below. Second, when those plants die, the bacteria that decompose them use inordinate amounts of dissolved oxygen. This deprives underwater animals of the oxygen they need to survive. Sources of nutrient pollution include overflow from sewage treatment plants, leakage from improperly maintained septic systems, discharge from factories, and automobile exhaust. Examples of nutrient pollutants include fertilizers, animal manure, discharge from boat toilets, and household detergents.
Bacterial pollution occurs when there is an excess of harmful bacteria. There are many beneficial bacteria in the water. Even harmful bacteria in small amounts are safe. In larger concentrations, however, certain types of bacteria can be deadly to fish and animals (including humans) that drink or accidentally ingest the water. Certain bacteria can cause illness if they come in contact with an open wound. Interestingly, most of these harmful bacteria do not affect aquatic insects. Some sources of bacterial pollution include overflow from sewage treatment plants, leakage from improperly maintained septic systems, animal manure, and discharge from boat toilets.


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Eric Clapton is set to release his first solo album in five years – with a little help from ex-girlfriend Sheryl Crow.
The guitarist hasn't worked on an individual project since 2005's "Back Home", and will release his 19th disc, Clapton, in September.
The album features guest appearances from his ex-lover Crow – he dated in 1996 – among others.
In a statement, Clapton says, "It's an eclectic collection of songs that weren't really on the map – and I like it so much because if it's a surprise to the fans, that's only because it's a surprise to me, as well."
The Brit's last project, 2006's "The Road to Escondido", was a collaboration with singer/songwriter JJ Cale.
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This is a 1951 Case DC row crop tractor. It was built April 14th 1951 in Racine Wisconsin at the J.I. Case Tractor works. It was delivered to Fitzgerald's Hardware store in Jamestown, KS shortly after. It was bought by Gene Kelly for approximately $1500. That day he also bought a model TA-7 sickle mower and a model BH 3x14" plow. All told the bill came to around $1850. Now this little gal took to plowing and mowing like there was no tomorrow. She served Gene faithfully first on a farm north of Courtland Kansas then on a farm south of Jamestown. It was at the farm near Jamestown that Gene's daughter, Carol, tells the story of her first memory of the tractor. That memory was of it pulling the family in a wagon up and down the road due to the roads being muddy and the car could not be driven down them. The family moved back to the farm 8 miles north of Courtland where this tractor plowed the fields, mowed the hay and brought in the harvest. What a faithful little tractor she was. Go around and look at the drawbar and you will see that the hitch pin hole is about twice the normal size from all the work this tractor did. Alongside her served an old Case L then a LA. Finally, came the big Case 870 Agri King that still farms the land. But that was not the end of her story. Each year she would turn the auger that put the harvest in the bin. Even though she had become semi-retired she still performed her work with all her might. She even got to run through the fields a few times holding a special made weed wiper. Then came a sad day. Her magneto finally gave out after 40 years of hard work. So she sat. Gene was determined to keep her running and took the magneto off and took it to town to be rebuilt. As the part was in the shop, the shop burned down. Taking the little heart of this once proud tractor. Without her magneto her engine would never run again. Oh how she wept and wanted to work. She was moved from one spot to the next to make room around the farm. But she was never far from Gene's mind. Oh, he wanted to make her cackle again but he could not find a magneto to put on her. As time past her radiator was taken off, the hood set aside. And finally her worst fears were realized. She was towed out to the line of unused equipment. And there she sat, forgotten. The days turned into months. The months into years and she watched as newer and bigger tractors drove by. They would look at her and shake their heads. They too knew what was next. The scrap yard. There she would be cut apart and scrapped. She rusted and her gauges became unreadable. She cried and longed to have Gene come rescue her. Then in 2006 Gene came out with his grandson, Wayne. They looked at her and her spirit leaped. Wayne sat on her and held her steering wheel. She could hear them talk about Wayne taking her and fixing her up again. She could hardly believe what she was hearing. But they left. Then in 2007 they came out again and this time the 870 was with them. They hooked up a chain and her wheels turned again. She was towed down the hill, past the forgotten combine and into the yard. Pictures were taken, and the talk was of returning her to her glory days. Towed to the front yard she was loaded on a trailer and for the second time in her life she was headed across the open prairies. Where she was going she did not know. On a farm in Osage County, Kansas she was unloaded and Wayne began at once to fix her. Her motor was stuck and would not even turn over. Wayne took apart the motor and gently worked until it was freely moving again. She was put in a building and forgotten till the spring of 2011. It was then that there seemed to be a rush to get her fixed and running again. A new magneto was installed, her carburetor was rebuilt and new wiring was installed. Then on May 10th 2011, late at night, her motor turned over, fuel was delivered and the spark from the spark plugs ignited the fuel and her engine came to life once again. Wayne hooped and hollered and danced at the sound of her cackling. New tires were installed May 15th and on that day she rolled out of that shed on her own power for the first time in over 20 years. How excited she was to drive through the fields of Wayne's farm. He told her she would be going back to the farm in Courtland and see Gene and she was happy. So as this is written she is back on the trailer and ready to travel to Courtland. She is told there will be a parade and that she will get to be in it. What fun she is going to have and how happy she is to be able to return home and feel the soil under her tires that she came to love so many years ago. What fun it will be. SHE IS HAPPY!!! The end.This has been a long project. I have spent over twice what it cost Grandpa 60 years ago to fix this old tractor and get her just running. But it has been worth it. I enjoy taking her for drives across my farm and hearing her cackle as grandpa says. I even planted buckwheat this year with her. I want to finish the job and have her repainted and take her to shows. Thank you for reading her story and I hope that you enjoyed her today.WayneP.S. Gene Died a year ago. Just 3 months after I took the tractor for him to see. Last winter I had to rebuild the motor due to a pinhole leak in a sleeve. New sleeves and rings and she is as god as new again. All the bearings were good. She now does my mowing, raking and planting. Since Grandpa died Grandma gave me the 870 and it now does the heavy work on my farm.
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Hilarious, right? I appreciate this shirt because I always try to develop a strategy when playing rock, paper, scissors. I'm a poor loser, what can I say? Now here's a picture of me wearing the shirt:
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Do you see how long this shirt is? I LOVE that. Long shirts are one of my top five favorite things of all time. Let's face it, most jeans are at least semi low-rise. Therefore if your shirt isn't a little bit long, when you sit down you're going to be exposing back/underwear/maybe even some crack if you're unlucky. Not a good look. That's why I like long shirts. They cover the space that low rise jeans abandon. This shirt does that. ::Applause::
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I wish I could say I was a born and raised Hoosier, but truth be told I was born in Illinois and moved here just before kindergarten. However, that means I've lived in Indiana, and more importantly The Region, for almost 20 years. Though more than half of that time I didn't have a car and spent most of my days in school, doing homework and working, I was able to experience some of the fun and unique things the area offers.
I thought I was a pretty well-informed community member and knew all the fun stuff to do here, but it wasn't until I started working at the South Shore CVA that I quickly realized there is so much more to do and see along the South Shore. Everyday I'm learning of a new festival, theater, or events. Plus restaurants and attractions are always popping up. For this reason, the South Shore CVA hosts an event twice a year dedicated to showcasing a lot of the great attractions and events in The Region.
Inside the Indiana Welcome Center will be a very neat event on Saturday, January 26 called Explore the South Shore: Arts & Culture. This event will feature about 14 different organizations that focus on the arts and culture in Northwest Indiana. Some of the organizations include Indiana Ballet Theatre; Books, Brushes and Bands; and Theatre at the Center.
In addition to having informational booths set up in the exhibit hall, organizations will also be offering activities, films and performances throughout the day.
Combine all of the activities and performances with a money-saving passport full of coupons and a neat Explore the South Shore bag for kids, this event will be both fun and very informative. No more worrying about winter months' boredom.
Come check out the event tomorrow, January 26, 2013 from 11am to 3pm, and be sure to watch for the next Explore the South Shore scheduled for May 11, 2013.
Contributing Editor: Stacina Stagner
Former communications coordinator with the South Shore CVA.


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What's on stage this weekend
Published 7:14 pm, Monday, October 28, 2013
"Night of the Living Dead," a stage version of the gory movie, continues its run at the Overtime Theater, on the "Little OT" stage, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tickets: $10-$14. Call: 557-7562. This is the show's last weekend.
"Young Frankenstein" is the featured live production at the Woodlawn Theater, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $15-$23. Contact: 267-8388 or woodlawntheatre.org This is the last weekend for the show.
"The Rocky Horror Show" also is at the Woodlawn Theater, featuring three of RuPaul's Drag Race stars, at 8 p.m. Thursday, and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets: $35-$75. Not for kids younger than 10. Purchase a bag of props in the lobby to take part in the fun! Don't know what to do? Visit http://woodlawntheatre.com/rockyhorror/audience-participation/ Contact: 267-8388. This is the last weekend for the show.
"Evil Dead, the Musical" also is at the Cameo, 1123 E. Commerce St., at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This is not for children younger than 10. Tickets: $20-$33. Contact: www.cameocenter.com or 212-5454.


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THE UNDEFEATED MIND: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self (HCI)
In The Undefeated Mind, physician Alex Lickerman draws on the tenets of both Nichiren Buddhism and new scientific research to argue that resilience isn't something with which only a fortunate few of us have been born, but rather something we can all take action to develop. Offering a set of guidelines not for solving problems but for establishing a life state that makes all problems solvable, The Undefeated Mind details nine principles we can all use to dramatically increase our ability to withstand adversity, exhorting us to stop hoping for easy lives and instead to focus on cultivating the inner strength we need to enjoy the difficult lives we all have.
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A few days ago at Openmotive we explored using EE's built-in IP to Nation module to detect a user's country. That module is designed to output a flag or country code, and allows you to block users from certain countries. While useful, it wasn't quite powerful enough for our needs (multiple currencies and languages). We also realized that by simply realitysandwich.com/u/paulsen_41/profile/ expanding on the current IP to Nation database table, we could build something much more useful.
The result is a nifty little plugin we originally launched as the "OM Country Detector", but quickly came to our senses and renamed simply the "Country Plugin". Check out the official blog post at Openmotive.com for more info and downloads.
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Hey Mike great work on the plug in (and your site) some very cool stuff going on!
I've got a question about the plugin if you don't mind. It's about the default parameter, I might be being really stupid but I've got everything else working but can't get the default to work.
This is my code:
{exp:country redirect="shop/us" countries="us" default="uk"}
{exp:country redirect="shop/ca" countries="ca" default="uk"}
{exp:country redirect="shop/uk" countries="uk"}
am i missing something?
Hi Mike,
Is this plugin still supported / working?
I am getting errors / no love when installed (along with IP2Nation of course).
The plugin is just what i need!
I'm getting this:
"Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_param() on a non-object in /nfs/c01/h13/mnt/11393/domains/smilingbear.com.au/html/systembear/expressionengine/third_party/om_country_detector/pi.om_country_detector.php on line 38″
Any ideas?
Aha! that would explain it – yes I'm using EE2. Shame there is not a version for EE2… hint hint
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As a reviewer of DVDs, "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!" was really a treat. I had no idea that a Colbert Christmas special was even in the works, let alone ready to be reviewed on DVD before it's TV air date of November 23 at 10:00 p.m., so imagine my pleasant surprise when a review copy was mailed and I got a chance to check out what one might call a bit of "Christmas come early" (…and one'd be right! The review copy was sent to me in early November, far before Chrstmas!).
As a big Colbert fan, (Yep, it's been blogged before! Check it here, here and here!) I was pretty excited to get my hands on this disc and started laughing from the second I saw the DVD cover where Colbert is wrapping dozens of copies, and holding, the very DVD case that holds the Christmas special (not to mention the TV screen fireplace on mute behind him).
The cover pretty much sets the tone for the delightfully ludicrous spoof of Christmas specials that features plenty of "in jokes" for members of the Colbert Nation. Including musical numbers by Colbert himself (one solo, one alongside "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart and featured parts in each of the other guests' numbers), Toby Keith, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, John Legend and Feist, the hour TV special (about 45 minutes on DVD) plays off the overly musical specials of the past while delivering a playfully satirical view of America and arguably it's biggest holiday. Elvis Costello is drop dead hilarious throughout as he dons numerous pageant costumes and delivers deadpan humor at its finest, while fans who miss Colbert in a less pundity format will enjoy getting to see a bit more of his comic acting (i.e. "Strangers with Candy") within the world he's established during his run on "The Colbert Report." Comedy-wise, it's a must-watch for the Colbert Nation and humor enthusiasts alike. Well worth the time for anyone out there with a pulse!
As far as special features go, the single disc has some real fun additions to the hilarious headlining program.
Three alternate endings are included. After watching the special, you'll almost see a few times where you think, "Huh? I thought they were going to do something else there." A few of those moments are shown in the alternate endings that are a silly little addition, but certainly an entertaining one! Another bonus feature has Colbert doing a country-western tune called "A Cold, Cold Christmas," which will definitely garner laughter, but doesn't touch the DVD's best special feature. Going by the name of "Video Yule Log of Burning Books," this 20-minute feature is a spoof of that silly channel that pops up everywhere around Christmas that just plays footage of a fireplace. The Colbert crew do the same, but toss books into the flames throughout the duration. When a copy of "Fahrenheit 451" hit the blaze, I lost my sh%t! I just can't wait to slip this in the DVD player at a holiday get-together and watch as people unaware of the joke slowly go from confusion to disgust. Just one more genius bit from this DVD that should get you out there grabbing a copy (it's on sale now!) even before you catch it on TV.
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"There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it" Minnie Aumonier
Dearest Jude
May you always have a song in the stillness of your heart as you journey through life.
With much love from your Godparents
Richard and Wren
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Music and movement
Old Songs mixes traditional tunes with participatory dance
Published 1:41 pm, Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Andy Spence is not a musician. But she cares enough about music—specifically the wide-ranging genre known as folk music—that she's dedicated her career to it. As the founder and director of the Old Songs Festival, which celebrates its 34th anniversary this weekend at the Altamont Fairgrounds, Spence wants to make sure that traditional music doesn't become a thing of the past.
"It's important to me that people play and sing this music," she said in a recent interview. "We must continue, or it'll just disappear."
In the spirit of continuing, this year's event features a tribute to five recently departed musicians who were shining stars in the festival's firmament: folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, founder of the Hudson Valley's Clearwater Festival (which took place last weekend in Croton-on-Hudson); English folk singer Louisa Jo Killen; Faith Petric, known as the godmother of the San Francisco folk music scene; fiddler Allan Block, mother of blues singer Rory Block; and Bob McQuillen, a piano player and composer of contra dance music.
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Old Songs Festival
When: 5 p.m. Friday through 9 p.m. Sunday
Where: Altamont Fairgrounds, 129 Grand, Altamont
Tickets: Ranging from $45 for evening-only passes to $145 for an all-festival ticket with camping; children 12 and under, free; discounts for seniors and students
Info: 765-2815 or http://festival.oldsongs.org
"They're known for the tunes they passed on to us, and we know those tunes will live forever," Spence said. "Our main purpose is to carry on what they've left us. Pete Seeger was the one who said, 'You must keep singing.' "
Jonny Rosen of Guilderland is a guitarist and vocalist with the Old Songs regulars Annie and the Hedonists (his wife, Annie Rosen, is the lead singer). He first saw Seeger perform when he was nine years old.
"As a kid, my father exposed me to the jazz, blues and folk greats—Duke Ellington, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger," Rosen recalled recently. "The music from all these different realms and genres is part of our history, and it's really important to keep that culture alive." That culture spans Celtic, world and Irish music; jigs and reels; nautical songs, Americana and more.
The Rosens have been performing at Old Songs since they first moved to the area in 1990; like most headliners there, they offer workshops as well as concerts. The festival's eight stages feature dozens of participatory experiences, from a piano clinic to a mountain dulcimer jam to songwriting and poetry.
"It's more fun for people when they can bring their instruments or their voices and engage in the activity," said Rosen, who will teach a finger-picking workshop.
There's also an area dedicated to participatory dances — contra, square, English country, swing, step, clogging and, this year, the Brazilian social dance form known as forro. Even the straight-up performances often have an educational angle; for example, this year Lauren Sheehan will share the history and sound of the Gibson banner guitar, made by women during World War II — a fact that the company avoided publicizing at the time.
The Dutch musicians Ankie, Nanne and Tseard will present their new work, "Old Silver Leg," which tells the story, in song, of Pieter Stuyvesant, governor of Manhattan (then known as New Netherlands) in the 17th century.
"We're not just performance-oriented," Spence says. "We like it when people learn something."
That's true not just at the festival but also year-round: Old Songs hosts an ongoing concert series, community dances, open mics, jams and instrument classes at its home base on South Main Street in Voorheesville, which the group purchased in 2003. Last year, Old Songs presented "Four Seasons, Four Years," a touring production of Civil War-era songs.
Old Songs was a successor to the Fox Hollow Festival of Traditional Music in Arts, which ran in Petersburgh from 1966 to 1980. A group of Fox Hollow volunteers, including Spence and her husband, Bill (who is a musician), formed a nonprofit a few years before the event's demise so they'd be poised to create a similar event in the Capital Region. Spence books artists from all over the world, and welcomes some 3,000 festivalgoers each year.
Kids get involved via the Great Groove Band, which rehearses throughout the festival and performs on Sunday, and the Boomwhacker Ensemble, featuring the boomwhacker, a hollow, plastic tube tuned to a particular musical pitch.
"This music crosses all generations — the old-timers who grew up with it, the people my age who were introduced to it in the '60s, and the new generation who's just now getting exposed to it," Rosen said.
Tresca Weinstein is a frequent contributor to the Times Union.