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Kenny Dalglish could ring the changes following Liverpool's disappointing 3-1 Barclays Premier League defeat at the hands of Bolton Wanderers on Saturday.
Luis Suarez is still suspended and Reds midfielder Jay Spearing remains sidelined through injury, but Steven Gerrard is expected to start.
Meanwhile, Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini will be without club captain Vincent Kompany as he serves the last of his four-game ban, so Stefan Savic is expected to deputise again in central defence.
Mario Balotelli will also be absent if the club decides against appealing his four-game ban for an alleged stamp on Scott Parker in Sunday's Barclays Premier League clash with Tottenham.
Johnson: It's not mission impossible
Adam Johnson says the euphoria of Manchester City's FA Cup final victory at Wembley last May has left his teammates with an insatiable appetite for silverware.
As the Citizens travel to Anfield for tonight's Carling Cup semi-final second leg clash, the England international winger insists that turning round the 1-0 deficit from the previous encounter is far from 'mission impossible'.
Johnson feels that Liverpool's first leg advantage could in fact work in City's favour, as Kenny Dalglish's men may ponder how to approach the game - an uncertainty that the visitors can take advantage of.
"It's a tricky one for them," Johnson is quoted by Sky Sports News. "Do they try to attack us or try to defend against our quality players for 90 minutes?
"The thing is no matter who we play, we will create chances at some point. We beat them 3-0 at home, so we can score against them.
"No-one is expecting us to go through so the pressure is off for once and we can go there with freedom, play our football and have a go. It won't be easy but we are quietly confident."
The winning mentality instilled at the Etihad Stadium has breeded a positive feeling throughout the squad, and Johnson hopes the players can utilise that in tonight's clash.
"When you have won something you shouldn't just be content with that. It should drive you on even more," he added. "That's why you see the top players walk away with so many medals at the end of their careers.
"I don't want to be happy just because I have an FA Cup medal. Even if we win the Premier League, I will strive for more. With the players we have, we want to do it again and again. That is the mentality we are developing."News Now - Sport News


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On 13-14 February, the European Economic and Social Committee organized a conference on "A new global partnership – European civil society positions on the post -2015 framework" in Brussels, Belgium. A wide range of civil society representatives, EU Officials and UN delegates debated to address key themes and areas for possible goals, as well as the underlying principles of universality and integration for a new development model.
At Rio+20, consensus was reached that the sustainable development goals (SDGs) have to balance the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development. That the environment is the basis for the other two pillars was also stressed by Commissioner Potočnik: "There is a large group that does not yet fully accept the fact that economic development lifting people out of poverty will in the long run only work if we fully respect the planetary boundaries. For instance, maintaining forests and healthy soil - especially grassland - will ensure they continue to provide essential services such as protection of water resources, mitigating climate change, help maintaining resilience to disasters and hosting many species. Since 2 billion of the poorest people depend on forests and grassland for their livelihoods, this is essential to achieve poverty eradication and sustainable development."
This was reiterated by Brenda King, member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) who said that eradication of hunger not only requires an emergency food reserve system but also that nature-based solutions are essential in assuring that healthy ecosystems can provide for the livelihoods of the poor.
Nature can play a strong role in tackling global challenges. Nature's solutions are at our fingertips, they are cost-effective and we know how to implement them. IUCN pioneered nature-based solutions at the UN climate negotiations. We continue to promote them to mitigate and adapt to climate change, secure water, food and energy supplies, reduce poverty and drive economic development.
Cyrie Sendashonga, Global Director of IUCN Policy and Programme Group, commented during the conference: "The international community puts a lot of focus on ensuring and strengthening peace and security. This often refers to peace between nations and within nations, but in this context of sustainable development, it has to include a third dimension: mankind has to be at peace also with nature, living in harmony with it as our society and economy cannot be seen in isolation from the services that ecosystems provide."
With many voices advocating for the universality of the SDGs, it is clear that the new framework will also have implications and require transformations within our societies. "The EU has an incredible responsibility, and we have the resources to realize this within the EU. We have to face the 'uncomfortable truth' that this requires a different pattern of consumption and a redistribution of resources", said Luc Bas, Director of IUCN Brussels during his intervention at the high level closing session of the two day conference.
The key messages and recommendations of the EESC conference on the Post-2015 framework, work in progress, will provide timely input into the expected Communication of the European Commission, laying the ground for a more detailed EU position.


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Author: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Title of work: Thousand Pieces of Gold
Sandra Childs uses critical pedagogy to help students understand Ruthanne Lum McCunn's Thousand Pieces of Gold. The class discusses the Chinese practice of footbinding and then explores how contemporary American women suffer to make themselves conform to society's standards of beauty. Divided into groups, the students read first-person accounts by women addressing the pressure to conform. In a simulated tea party, each student takes on the persona of the article's author/narrator. The activity prompts students to contemplate and write about the political effects of cultural practices. The author Ruthanne Lum McCunn visits the classroom, discusses the historical basis of the novel, and answers students' questions.
To prepare for the lesson, view The Expanding Canon video program 7, Part II. Online, review the Session 7 theory overview, strategies, information about the authors and literature, resources, and the downloadable print guide. Read Thousand Pieces of Gold and related articles -- some texts available in the print guide.
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In advance of the lesson, Sandra Childs asks students to read Thousand Pieces of Gold.
1. Childs begins the lesson by asking students to summarize the novel, asking questions such as:
3. After students share the thoughts they've written down, Childs asks them to place their sticky notes on the floor. She points out that each note is about the size of a bound foot. She then prompts students to discuss:
6. Childs divides the class into groups and gives each group a piece of writing to analyze: "Tar Baby," "A Woman's Silent Journey," "My Body Sucks," "Finding My Eye-dentity," "Bubbe Got Back," and "My Jewish Nose." Each group writes a paragraph in the voice of the narrator.
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Actively engaged in the abortion battle
Abortion | A pastor's plea to not sit on the sidelines and hope this horrific genocide of the unborn works itself out
by Matt Chandler
Posted 1/04/14, 01:14 pm
Jan. 22 will be the 41st anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. Our Saturday Series this month will have sermons and articles related to abortion. To start the month off, here is an excerpt from a sermon preached by Matt Chandler last year on the day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Chandler is the lead pastor of teaching at The Village Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and president of the Acts 29 Network of churches. —Marvin Olasky
If you're a young woman in here, or maybe an older woman—I didn't say old; I said older woman—and you were pregnant in your first or second trimester, and you were driving toward the abortion clinic to have an abortion, and on the way to the abortion clinic you were hit by a drunk driver, that person is charged with involuntary manslaughter of your baby. But if you make it to the clinic, the doctor in the clinic is legally allowed to take a vacuum pump and rip that baby to shreds in your womb.
This is a seared conscience. This is madness, and this is the air we breathe as a society and a culture. So what are we to do? I think looking back on history there are these moments in time that I'm so baffled by why more people weren't in the fight. Several years ago I was preaching out of the book of Colossians. We got to that part near the end of Colossians—Chapter 3, I believe—where he begins to say, "Slaves, be obedient to your masters."
That's a problem text for me, so I just began to research slavery as much as I could in the first century, and then throughout the centuries, and then began to look at what really occurred in the African slave trade and what drove that. It was honestly sugar for tea and biscuits in England that drove it. Then what the English learned in the Caribbean, the guys in the 13 colonies took advantage of to do tobacco and cotton in our industry on the East Coast during those days.
As I began to look around at how Africans were dehumanized. … They were not brought here as slaves. … We went and stole people and dragged them here, dehumanized them, which led to hundreds of years of oppression that in some places is still going on.
So studying that and then that leading me up to the civil rights movement, one of the things I wonder as I read about the dehumanization that was occurring all over the South and then even into the North just 30 and 40 years ago is where in the world was the church? … Where were my grandparents? What were they thinking? What were they doing?
When I begin to have conversations with some of my aunts and uncles and how they wish they would have marched with King but they were just indifferent, they just thought it would work itself out. How they wish they could get back into time and fight the noble fight. Instead, they were quiet. …
I think [abortion] is going to be one of those issues for us. Science is already pushing the ball forward rapidly. In 1973, when Roe v. Wade occurred, there was no sonogram. We can see our babies in the womb now. There are studies now showing the baby is dreaming in the womb. Science will eventually, I believe, turn over Roe v. Wade. It will only be a matter of time.
I think really the opportunity you and I have is to "march with King," if you're tracking with me, rather than sit on the sideline and hope this works out. "Oh, Chandler says science will eventually turn it over. Whew! Good." Instead of being those on the sideline, we might actually actively engage really what is the most horrific oppression, horrific injustice, horrific genocide the world has ever seen. So how do we do that? That becomes the question I want to answer in just the next few minutes.
Ephesians 5:11 says, "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them." What I want to try to do is just lay before you true things today. I'm trying to expose darkness. Then you find in Matthew 25, verse 40, this story of God speaking to his people at Judgment Day. Matthew 25:40 says, "And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'"
Who is more vulnerable, who is more the least of these than the unborn? Who is more fragile, who is in need of more protection, who is in need of more help than the unborn? So what are we to do as the people of God? The first thing we need to do is repent. Some of us need to repent for actively being involved in this. There's grace and mercy for you. I started the way I started on purpose. There's forgiveness and mercy for all.
In fact, God has been drawn biblically and historically through those who have been involved in some of the most heinous things ever. … [John Newton] was a slave trader who Christ radically transformed who spent the rest of his life opposing the slave trade … in the UK. So it's oftentimes God draws out of heinous sin those who will be used powerfully by God to overcome that heinous sin.
So please do not walk in shame, but rather seek the forgiveness of God who readily makes it available to you. Not all of us have been involved actively. Most of us have been involved by simply being laissez-faire about this issue of just thinking it will work itself out, of thinking it doesn't have much to do with us, of—God help us—wanting to be seen as cool and hip Christians.
You understand that's never going to happen, right? You do understand there's a growing hostility toward the things of God, and that's not going to change anytime soon. In fact, I think you're already beginning to see a rapid progression of how we're viewed in the public sphere. It's not overly positive. Some of us need to just repent about being unconcerned about this issue.
The second thing we can do is we can pray, guys. This is a spiritual issue. You don't have the science in front of us that we have in front of us and not be moved to do anything about it unless your eyes are blinded, your conscience is seared. So we can pray. We can pray for judges. We can pray for those working with women. We can pray for advocacy and pregnancy centers. We can pray. In fact, we're going to gather on Wednesday night across our campuses, and this is what we're going to pray around.
Third thing. You can vote for those who are pro-life and not vote for those who are pro-choice. Now let's chat, because some of you are like, "Oh, you're a one-issue voter?" A couple of things. I think you can be pro-life and be a miserable political leader. I think you can be a pro-life moron. I just absolutely believe it, but here's the thing. We're all one-issue voters. There are hundreds of "one issues" that could disqualify a guy from political office. Would this not be one of them?
So if a man were to stand up and say, "I do not believe black men and black women should be able to hold political office," would that not be a singular issue that in almost everybody's mind—outside of some buffoons in the sticks—would disqualify him from public office? Would it not? Are you telling me in general our culture would tolerate that ridiculousness? Oh man, that dude would get torched.
Why would this issue not be an issue that really matters if what we're saying is the people of God, that both the Word of God and even secular science, support that what's growing in a woman is a human being, and they're advocating the murder of that human being?
The next thing we could do is we can support with money, time, and energy those who are in this fight, whether that's giving time, energy, effort, money to advocacy and pregnancy centers, or, if you're able—this is a huge one—looking into and considering adoption. So here's the thing I know about The Village Church. There are hundreds and hundreds of couples struggling with infertility who get all bogged down in the bureaucracy of adopting children.
The church can do some things here that are beautiful for women. My favorite story coming out of The Village is there was a 17-year-old girl who became pregnant here. One of our couples actually had that young woman move in with them, and they helped her through all that. She had a bit of a train wreck in regard to home life, so she moved in with them. Then when her little daughter was born, another covenant member of the church actually adopted that little girl. This is how we engage the brokenness around us, not with judgment, not with drive-by "guiltings," not with hostility, but with love and mercy and solutions.
Let us help. Let us walk with you. How can we serve you? How can we encourage you? Oh that we wouldn't be unmoved around this issue. Oh that we'd feel the weight of the fight we've been called to. If not us, who? Even in the amount of time I've spent with you today, there have been dozens and dozens and dozens, if not hundreds, of baby girls and baby boys murdered for the sake of convenience. We walk with enough people here at The Village Church to know if a pregnancy even becomes endangered, they're encouraged that way.
In fact, I was just talking to a young man in our church. They gave birth prematurely to twins. The water broke at 24 weeks. It looked like the first baby was in a lot of distress. The doctor said, "Hey, the best thing for you guys, the best thing for your wife, the best thing for this baby is to abort the first one so the second one might live." They scoffed at that.
Little Titus was born. He didn't make it long before he died, but we held in our hands in that hospital room a fully shaped, fully formed little boy with a little nose and a little mouth and little ears. He only lived about 25-30 minutes, but he lived. His little brother made it full on and is alive and well and growing. This is the fight we're caught up in. To be indifferent is to make us complicit with this travesty. So across all of our campuses, we have set up tables in the foyer with either advocacy and pregnancy centers or adoption agencies or ways you can connect, ways you can get involved, ways you can begin to engage.
I pray you'd be moved to write your governors, to write your senators and your congressmen and congresswomen, that we might put up a good fight in our day so 20 years from now, we can go, "I marched with King. I marched with King. I didn't just sit at home and hope. I marched with King." That would be my hope for us as the people of God. Roe v. Wade started here in Dallas. It would be awesome to see it crushed here in Dallas. Let's pray.
© 2013 The Village Church, Flower Mound, Texas. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Originally published at http://www.thevillagechurch.net/resources/sermons/detail/life/
Matt Chandler
Matt is the lead pastor of teaching at The Village Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and president of the Acts 29 Network.


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The Like Or Love a Song Thread will go as follows, you will answer why you think "_______" is an above average song or below average song, and what makes this so. After you answer why you will propose another song which someone will state the above. (Above average songs are in the top 50% of AnCo songs and vice versa for below ave. songs. The below average songs are ones you like and above ave. songs are ones you love) Example- P1: What do you think of Bees P2 (Me): I think of it as below average for AnCo, I do not like the way that it moves, the song seems to be moving nowhere, and maybe that could be a good thing. It also seems thin because the struming is not as dynamic as the stuff on Sung Tongs, however it is still a decent song in my opinion because of Avey's vocals and the unique structure and layers within. I like it. What are your opinions on Good Lovin' Outside?
All I wanna say is that Bees rocks. That corrective is all about perspective, my subjective Collective detective.
[quote]What are your opinions on Good Lovin' Outside?[/quote] WAYYYYYY below average for me i'd say this is my least fave sung tong song even! it just glosses past my mind and doesn't stick for me for some reason i guess i can't really explain it that well! sorry! i like this idear though... talking about specific songs... so many that don't get enough attention! what would you say for... ANOTHER WHITE SINGER! yr justa!
I think Another White Singer is catchy as hell. Ah, uh, ah, uh, ah, uh, ah, uh, ah, uh. I had this in my head for about ten days end over end. Its length actually helps its cause, and compared to the other short songs on Danse it trumps all but A Manatee Dance for me. I still think it is good in its own unique and strange way, and I love it and do not know exactly why, It sounds like Freak-Pop to me. What do ya think about Mr. Fingers as a song?
I like Mr.Fingers a lot. It is one of my favorites on ODDSAC and has good rythym and like a creepy but enjoyable kind of feel. What do you think about Daffy Duck?
I LOVE Daffy Duck. I think the 2nd half of feels is so underrated. What do you guys think of Untitled off of Spirit?
really bothers me that he didn't bother giving it a title just give it a damn name! __<" title="mad" /> but yes... it has a great mix of pretty and harsh strange sound what about the LEMMING TRACK of spirit? every one whistlin!
I think it's quite pretty and the way it transitions into La Rapet is incredible!!!!! Ice Cream Factory?
Ice Cream Factory I would have liked a lot more, but I hate the quality of Crack Box, also seems a little more special compared to the other songs of that era. It sounds like Feels to me. It is on that middle area where I'am not loving it but definitely liking it. . Wudabout Avey's Ghost of Books (my favorite off Down There)
Hmmm, i like ghost of books but Oliver Twist is my favorite song off of Down There A Musician and a Filmmaker?
Panda being Panda, very bassy and ambient in all the right ways, it is a precursor to something like Search For Delicious. I Remember Learning How to Dive!!!
It's not a favorite of mine, but I do like it, and listen to it often.. I think Vashti sings it very well, although I would've loved to hear it sung by Avey or Panda. Throwin' the Round Ball?
Better than Runnin' the Ball, you can pick up some major yardage. ...and the song sounds good too, brings up some childhood memories of playin' in the back yard, and someone breaking their nose. (upside down ?)Te Gusta De Soto De Son?
By the way peacefish, this is a really cool thread. i think campfire songs is best enjoyed when listened as a whole piece, from queen in my pictures to de soto de son. i don't think i've ever really listened to it by itself. the lyrics of the song are very cryptic, i can never decide what is going on with the marshmallow people. for me this is one AC song i don't really care for How about Pride and Fight? oh oh oh oh....
Pride and Fight, very interesting. Hollinndagain is my least favorite of Animal Collective albums but the first half is not the half where it goes wrong, in my eyes at least. I has a unique structure and interesting dynamics, and I like the vocals on this more than other stuff on Hollgain, but I would prefer something like Meet the Light Child, it just sounds better in my mind. Are you In the Singing Box? Because I am!
I have no idea what that is  but te gusta graze?
Yeah, I really like that one. Although I think the first part is a bit under appreciated. What about I Think I Can?
I Think I Can is possibly my favorite song off of Fall Be kind.. Panda's voice is so incredible~ (: What do you think of My Favorite Colors? ^^
haha! that one is such a lemming! but in a very FUN way! sometimes lemmings can be really not much of anything but when they have a sense of humor to it or just something a bit different i can diggit! i'm very into the idear of strange choices in lemming tracks and intro / outro / interludes / segues / etc! what about the biggie feels lemon: MUST BE TREEMAN (i just like the muffins, man!) oh god?
Something in my mind wants to say Must Be Treeman should have been longer because I really like its transition half way through, but after that I wish it would have went into something that sounded like a 7+ minute Danse jam like Meet the Light Child or Ahhh Good Country. Radiohead like? Maybe? Two Sails on a Sound? Because it is the only track off HCTI that I love and not like.
It's a little bit much for me.. I honestly prefer Hey Light, Native Belle, and of course, Slippi! Speaking of which, how do you feel about Native Belle? c:
The really energetic tribal tunes are my favorite songs in HCTI. I prefer Hey Light though. Ahhh Good Country?
what is a lemming?
Ahhh Good Country is one of my favorite Danse tracks. It's a little bit more accessible. Pretty awesome Slippi?
my fave AC song of all time!!!! if you can believe it! the song that got me into them! way back in 2003! just so out of control and jovial and the jubilation! raw energy! manik dreams! and that lovely celebration and mellow coda! SWEET ROAD?
Sweet Road is their best Lemming. One of my favorites off Sung Tongs despite it's length. Reminds me of selling Sno Kones when I was a kid. Much better than Lem-On-Aid. Infectious guitar in this song also makes it one of my favs. Mouth Wooed Her? (Wadder) (Water)
I love Mouth Wooed Her it's really catchy and probably one of my favs on ST. I played it in the car with my mom once and she said to turn it off because it was making her brain feel weird hahahahaha. But seriously, no one answered my lemming question. And.. [color=#0000BF]Bluish??[/color]
Love Bluish. One of my favorite transitions in AC, from Daily Routine to Bluish The first half of that album's track order and transitions are amazing #1?
One of my favies on Jam, originally it wasn't but it's definitely has grown on me and now I think it holds up even better than most of the songs on that album. Also love how they daringly played it on Conan's show. I See You Pan?
THAT SONG IS SO AWESOME. Forest Gospel?
Incredible. The drumming is so energetic and gives it a tribal feel. Visiting Friends?
blinky, a lemming is just one of their shorter songs that doesn't have much structure, i could be wrong tho that is just how i interpret it. Visiting Friends was the first song i heard off of Sung Tongs and i have always enjoyed it. the acoustic guitar strumming makes for a nice rhythm and the abstract sounds are a nice touch. the effect on Avey's voice is great and i've always thought the lyrics to be pretty deep. i always wondered what panda did on this song tho... how about Fried Camp? if you haven't seen oddsac than In The Singing Box. (i think we skipped over that)
Fried Camp: There is so much going on, and so many wierd and abstract noises I find it hard to follow but find it one of the most interesting songs I have ever listened to. No way to describe it besides FUCKING MAD!!! __<" title="mad" /> In The Singing Box: I like Danse over HCTI and Hollinndagain and ITSB is a great reason why. To me it sounded more like Spirit and what not, but I love the way they use the bassy vibes with fun and perky beats. Tikwid?
Oh, I love Tikwid.  It's a great song, easily one of my favorites- the whole People EP is amazing! People is the only song from that EP that hasn't been talked about yet on this thread! What do you think of it?
i have such a tie to that song... after Feels came about i kept yelling about PEOPLE __<" title="mad" /> (always with the angry face!) and was damn worried about what happened to that song... so when it finally came about it was strange to hear it all FEELS-izized or whatever... still a fantastic track but i had built it up so much in my head... no way could it have lived up to the beast that i imagined! but i still love the simple-ness to the singing and the RAGE of just yelling about PEOPLE and what that could even mean! though having a live / 2nd version... on a 4 track EP where one song is a lemming... was pretty dang weird of a choice... what happened to SPONGE FLUKE? and what about that song! or TUVIN (THROAT SONG!)
i love the throat, it is so different from the majority of the sung tongs tracks and i really wish it would've made the final cut definitely would've added to the freak folk tag that sung tongs carries. panda and avey must have practiced that song a lot to nail all the different parts.it sounds like something people sang around the campfire hundreds of years ago. to go along with the missed song tungs Don't Believe The Pilot
oh lord! that was such an amazingly fun deranged song when it just popped up... covered in frogs too! ... and then you think of tuvin and it feels just utterly wrong that these songs were LOST! and never got the studio shiny sheen and put on an album or at least an EP or b-side! in pilot when they make the noises it cracked me up so much one more lost song (if you know it)... PLAYPEN!
playpen is another awesome song that has been left out. im not too sure which era it belongs too but it would've fit nicely on spirit danse or indian. its got an ambient texture to it and the main loop is hypnotizing, i really want a studio version where avey could be more understood or maybe just a thick vocal effect. sleeper factory
This song should have been on Prospect or Tongs it is AnCo's easiest listen and for some reason it sounds like Brit Pop or something, I love it and wish songs like this get their own album in the future. Safer, BUT PLEASE STATE IF IT SHOUD HAVE BEEN ON STRAWBERRY JAM!!!
Safer should have been on Strawberry Jam. It fits with the rest of the songs and would've been a great track maybe on like 5 or something where Jam gets a bit darker. I love Safer. It's easily their best b-side and it's incredible live. No question there. One of the best AC tracks
Tabelz didn't list another song, so I'll just use Safer as well! (I'm totally using that as an excuse, I love the song so much, I might've critiqued it anyways c:) Safer is quite possibly on my recently updated list of my favorite songs of all times. Its so diverse, and it progresses so nicely. The length of the song makes it seem almost like two songs in one, which I love, and I definitely agree that it should've been on Strawberry Jam! I think it would go well around the same place in the album as For Reverend Green/Fireworks/#1. The song as well has even helped me manage a really tough time in my life.. It's always been a comforting song to me, even though it may not seem that way.. Kindle Song?
Kindle Song has such an awesome creepy vibe to it. Seriously try playing it in the dark . Definitely one of their darker songs. ODDSAC has such a great soundtrack... The whole movie resembled a bad acid trip in the best way. Since we're on ODDSAC... Screens?
I think Screens is what made ODDSAC not a sound track and it makes the Album more of an audio only album. Panda Bear has great vocals on here and we here the acoustic side of AC once more and we have not had such a chill song since Feels or Sung Tongs in my opinion. Just brilliant how both the electronics and acoustics come together, I love it. Queen In My Pictures?
It's pleasant. Atmospheric, as most of Campfire Songs is. Evocative, good music for thinking or daydreaming to. I like it, but not as much as I like Covered in frogs, covered in frogs, covered in frogs, covered in frogs?
imagine being quite literally covered in frogs! slimy! well as i said before both pilot and covered in frogs i tie together as just being super amazing fun songs! that infamous video of them performing it some record store and REALLY going for it cracks me up... esp. the idear of someone thinking "this is AWFUL! what is this!" and where it's going! COB WEBS!
I like it better than Water Curses at this point. It's cool, but nothing compares to Street Flash. Banshee Beat? (my all-time favorite)
Banshee Beat is one of their most incredible songs. No doubt about it. Avey's vocal range is so incredible, especially in the second half of the song. Honestly, I have to say Grass is the #1 track off of Feels for me, but Banshee Beat is a close second. In The Flowers?
In The Flowers... Love the flow of it. It's really dreamlike and pulls you into a different world. If I could just leave my body for a night - BOOM! Though I always thought the noise in the beginning muttered "I'm a bitch I'm a bitch" over and over in a robotic voice haha. Flesh Canoe? (I love the acoustic version of this especially)
[quote="Banshee"]"I'm a bitch I'm a bitch" over and over in a robotic voice haha. [/quote]
Hahaha do you hear it!?
Haven't heard it, but I'll listen for it next time. Just struck me funny.


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This is one of our favorite desserts. In fact, Brian and I think this could be the best dessert we've ever had. And that's not surprising because it's Lindsey Shere's Almond Tart from Chez Panisse and it was the most popular dessert on that menu for thirty years. I have to provide dessert for a progressive dinner this weekend and I knew this was what I was going to fix. I fixed a couple of them. We love it. Serve this with a glass of Amaretto and it's just about the perfect thing.
I am using the recipe given in the Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook by Alice Waters. Lindsey Shere, the original pastry chef who developed the recipe, gives a slightly different version in the biography that Thomas McNamee wrote last year about Alice Waters*. She also talks at length about how to bake the tart.
Lindsey's Almond Tart
for the tart pastry:
for the filling:
for the tart crust:
Put the flour and sugar in a food processor. Process til blended. Add the butter in slices and process. Add the extracts and water and process til it gathers up in a ball. Wrap in plastic and chill until you are ready to use it. Then take it out and bring it to room temperature.
Press the tart pastry into a 9-inch tart form with a removable ring. You can't really roll out this dough - it's easier just to press it in. Press the dough evenly over the bottom and sides about 1/8 inch thick. Refrigerate for about an hour. Bake the tart in a preheated 400 degree oven for about 10 minutes, until it begins to set and brown. Remove the tart to a rack and cool to room temperature.
for the filling:
In a heavy saucepan, mix all the of the filling ingredients and cook mixture over low heat until sugar dissolves and the texture is silky, about 10 to 15 minutes. Cool the mixture slightly and pour it into the tart shell.
Place a second oven rack under your baking rack and line with a piece of foil. This tart will bubble over and the foil will catch the mess. Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 30 minutes. The filling will bubble up a lot most of the cooking time and then at the end it will begin to caramelize. When the filling is golden, remove tart to a cake rack and let cook to room temperature before cutting.


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The midsize sedan, the bread-and-butter car for millions of Americans, is the one that dominates – it commands 22 percent of the new-car market and there are good reasons for that. The car carries five people comfortably; it holds a fair amount of luggage; it rides better than a sport utility vehicle or a sports car; and it is not a monster when it comes to refueling. Most auto makers will rise or fall on the strength of their midsize sedan and it's just one of the many reasons the names of some of those cars are so familiar – Ford Fusion, Chevy Malibu, Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, Nissan Altima, Kia something. Wait. Kia?
Kia is the Korean manufacturer that until a few years ago was barely known in this country. A few year ago, Kia's relentlessly boring design was typified by the Amanti, a four-door sedan seemingly designed to be an homage to the 1952 Chevrolet. The Optima, introduced in 2000, was a bland, stodgy-looking little car, the kind a P.I. might want for surveillance duty because nobody would notice it. There was a generation change for Optima in 2005 and things got incrementally better, but somewhere along the line, Kia got a lot smarter – two years ago, they introduced the current look, a sleek four-door with the kind of crisp edgy lines you would think Kia incapable of even dreaming of. Kudos, in this case, go to Peter Schreyer, Kia's chief design officer, a post he had previously held at VW and Audi. What we have in the 2013 Kia Optima, then, is a car that rivals its hot competition – first in overall looks, but also in technology, balance and, most important in this age of never-ending austerity, value.
Fast enough
The car we tested was a 2013 Kia Optima hybrid, which has a list price of $25,700. That midsize segment we're talking about is one that can encompass a wide range – from just above $20,000 to more than $30,000. But most of the midsize cars people buy are in the $27,000 to $30,000 ballpark. The hybrid is powered by a 2.4-liter four-cylinder gasoline-fueled engine mated to an electric motor, for a combined output of 206 horsepower. All of this is funneled through a six-speed automatic transmission. It's not the fastest car in the world, but it is certainly not the slowest. Like the rest of its running mates in the Midsize Mob, it gets the job done without making a big fuss. Its fuel economy figures are a bit higher than its non-hybrid competitors, but even those are not extraordinary. The window sticker gives the Optima hybrid 34 mpg city and 39 mpg highway. In a 230-mile run of about half-and-half freeway and city driving, I managed 31 mpg. (Four months ago, both Hyundai and Kia, faced with the results of an investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency, conceded their published fuel estimates were high and agreed to lower them. The Optima hybrid's estimate fell by one mile per gallon, bringing it to the 34/39 figure mentioned above.)
Where the Optima hybrid differs from the rest of the midsize pack, however, is in its features. New cars these days are rolling electronics laboratories. For most manufacturers back in the 1960s and 1970s, the horsepower race was the be-all to end all – the mantra was racing and "win on Sunday, sell on Monday" became the watchword for any dealer who wanted to sell a lot of cars. Remember all those wonderful pony cars – Mustang, Firebird, Camaro – and the hotted-up hemi-engine Chryslers and Dodges from the 1950s? It didn't matter that they sucked down gasoline in big, thirsty gulps – in 1965, a gallon of gas was 31 cents. Those days are gone. And while you can still get high-powered cars, the cultural emphasis in Carworld has shifted more toward gadgets, gizmos, options that, by the way, can add thousands to the cost of a car. Which brings us back to the Optima hybrid.
More options than most cars
Most cars come standard with power windows, power brakes, cruise control, power door locks and, in some cases, power seats. The Optima hybrid goes several clicks better, providing some options that you can only get on luxury cars, like power-tilt outside mirrors. The Optima has heated front seats –you might say so what, so do a lot of cars. But not a lot of cars have heated and chilled front seats and heated rear seats. This is the kind of thing that gadget-minded buyers drool over. The hybrid we tested had two key option groups – the $700 "Hybrid convenience package" and the $5,350 "premium technology package." These brought the car's total price to $31,750. Combined with what Kia already installs as standard equipment, here's what you get with those options: eight-way adjustable power driver's seat, with two-position memory; a simpler power-adjustable front passenger seat (hey, Kia, fix that seat so it goes up and down – right now, small passengers feel as if they've sunk into the car); dual zone climate controls; rear view camera, Bluetooth, satellite radio, USB port and 12-volt jacks, navigation, heated steering wheel, keyless ignition, Infinity sound system, and a big glass moonroof that slides back over another portion of glass roof. It adds up.
On the road, the car handles well, but can get noisy when you tromp on the accelerator. At cruising speed, it's not nearly as quiet as a Lexus or, for that matter, as a Hyundai Equus, Hyundai's luxo barge that does battle with Lexus, BMW, et al. (N.B. Kia is one-third owned by Hyundai and many Kia and Hyundai cars are quite similar. Compare the Optima with Hyundai's Sonata.) I think the Optima's leather seat cushions could be a bit more substantial; and taller passengers, especially those in the back seats, may graze the roof with their hair.
But the main thing about this car is that you do get an awful lot for the money. This is what we said 30 years ago about Honda and Toyota.
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Wendy Lecker: Testing the learning right out of schools
I asked some middle schoolers about their experiences with computer-graded writing assessments, which are becoming more prevalent in schools. They explained that once you get the formula down, not much thought is necessary. It is essentially the same essay over and over.
The computer requires an essay with three supporting points. As long as the computer sees three points, the students can get the highest score. Knowing that, students choose any three points -- weak, dull, it doesn't matter -- and finish the essay. The goal is not to write well, but rather to attain a high score. These 13-year-olds know the game.
These students are practicing rote memorization. They are not developing analytical skills for a career or college. Unless they are destined to become professional test-takers, there is little chance this robo-writing will serve them anywhere else.
Computerized testing is standardized testing on steroids. Human scorers spend 30 seconds on each open-ended essay question in a standardized test. Computers grade essays in a fraction of a second. Either way, it is doubtful that these tests reveal much about a student's intellectual development.
According to Connecticut's governor; education commissioner; Legislature; superintendents and principals associations; boards of education association; and business groups, high-stakes standardized tests should be the focal point of school.
They want to base every teacher's evaluation in large part on test scores, calling for every grade and subject to have some form of standardized test. The key features of the new early literacy law are standardized reading tests in kindergarten through third grade, despite expert conclusions that standardized tests of children younger than 9 are unreliable. Connecticut rushed to adopt the Common Core State Standards, whose main tool is standardized tests.
If these plans are implemented in Connecticut, children's time in school will be consumed by formulaic tests. Because so much will depend on scores, when students are not taking the tests, they will be preparing for them.
Attaching high stakes to tests heightens the temptation to focus only on increasing scores. Hence, we see teaching to the test, cheating scandals, and teenagers abusing prescription stimulants like Adderall to excel on SATs.
Social scientists call this phenomenon Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."
Connecticut's leaders base education policy on these faulty tests.
However, across this nation, people are beginning to reject this model of schooling. In January, Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott declared that the state's overemphasis on testing has become a "perversion" of a quality education.
Soon after, Texas school districts began passing a resolution calling on the Texas legislature to "re-examine the public school accountability system" and develop measures that more accurately reflect what students know and nurture a "sense of inquiry and love of learning."
To date, more than 530 Texas districts have endorsed the resolution, including Houston and Austin. They represent more than half of the state's children. A national resolution, based on Texas', has been endorsed by hundreds of organizations. So far in Florida, 12 of its 67 school districts have signed, including the nation's sixth-largest district, Broward.
(I belong to Parents Across America, an author of the national resolution. I did not participate in writing it.)
Parents in Snohomish, Wash., kept 550 students out of recent state testing. Last week, hundreds of New York City parents and students protested outside the offices of Pearson, the testing company embroiled in scandals about faulty test questions.
More than 1,500 New York state principals signed a petition opposing the overemphasis on standardized tests and basing teacher evaluations on these tests.
The National School Boards Association's president wrote a letter to President Obama stating that the overreliance on high-stakes testing has put public education on the wrong track.
United Opt Out, a movement to opt out of high-stakes tests, is gaining traction.
On Monday in Westport, 100 Staples High School students protested basing teacher evaluations on test scores. Some wore labels bearing scores and percentages instead of their names.
Again, these teens know the game, and they do not want to play. I urge parents to read the national testing resolution and join these students in spreading that message to those making the rules (www.timeoutfromtesting.org/nationalresolution).
Wendy Lecker is a former president of the Stamford Parent Teacher Council and was staff attorney at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, plaintiffs in a school funding lawsuit in New York.


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Quote from: weihen on July 20, 2011, 10:09:22 PMPremiere:August 7th 20:00 (Chinese time) on ICS!!!Previous season was broadcasted also on CCTV News.
Premiere:August 7th 20:00 (Chinese time) on ICS!!!
Are Mary and Cecilia cousins or sisters? I hear them addressing each other as Elder Sister and Younger sister (in Chinese). And Weihen, I think you should join China Rush!
Would there be a child board just for China Rush 2?
CR new official website:www.chinarush.cnYou can watch all video about teams interview on this site and vote your favourite team.
The difference between Dragon TV and ICS's CR will be:1.Dragon TV will be 6 hrs ahead of ICS.(air at 2:10 pm Chinese tme)2.Allan Wu speak Chinese on Dragon TV(I'm not sure if there will be subtitle of Allan Wu,and if you want to watch Allan Wu speak Chinese,then watch it,may give you different feeling )3.All info will be shown in Chinese,like"Detour"(Chinese:绕道),"Roadblock"(Chinese:路障),and some shots will be different...ICS will be same like last season(Except Chinese racers will speak Chinese and do a English subtitle),so I will suggest you watch ICS if you can't understand Chinese well.But you need to be careful about wiki and other spolier threads because Dragon TV got 6 hrs lead
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Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green With Baby Noah | Pictures
Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green Step Out With Baby Noah
Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green ran errands with their son Noah in LA today. Brian toted the baby's carrier and Megan followed closely behind as they headed to their car. Brian and Megan welcomed their new arrival in September, but news that Noah had been born didn't make the rounds until Megan announced it via Facebook in mid-October. Brian recently chalked up the slow-breaking news to the fact that Reese Witherspoon gave birth to her son Tennessee right around the same time, garnering most of the media attention.
Megan has been enjoying some time away from the limelight during her pregnancy, but she'll be back on the big screen next month when This Is 40 hits theaters. Megan joins a comedic cast including Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd in what's being billed as the "sort-of sequel" to Knocked Up. It will be her first film since she appeared in Friends With Kids last year.


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Materials and Cut Fabrics
Designer: Roseann Meehan Kermes
Materials and Cut Fabrics
It's summer—time to travel! And if you're like us, you're always looking for quilt shops along the route, no matter what the destination. We found a scrapbook album with pages that are actually long, sturdy envelopes; it's perfect for carrying notes, swatches, and materials lists when you're fabric shopping. Designer Roseann Meehan Kermes decorated this one with paper-pieced blocks and fun rickrack.
(To order a long Wire-Bound Envelope Album, send $12 ppd. to Rosebud's Cabin, 2580 7th Ave., North St. Paul, MN 55109, 651/426-1885, www.rosebuds-cottage.com.)
Scraps of assorted yellow, pink, blue, and green prints (blocks)
1/4 yard green print (cover)
1/8 yard dark pink print (border)
7/8 yard 1/2"-wide yellow rickrack
7x10" thin cotton batting
4-1/2x9-1/2" wire-bound envelope album from 7Gypsies (See above for a mail-order source.)
Assorted embellishments: Scraps of assorted ribbon, chipboard initial, buttons, floss, sepia ink pad
Heavyweight fusible web or "Peel N Stick" double-sided adhesive sheets from ThermOWeb
Scraps of chipboard
Assorted 12x12" patterned scrapbooking papers
Brown cardstock
¾"-diameter circle punch
Coordinating brads
Quantities are for 44/45" wide, 100% cotton fabrics. Measurements include 1/4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together, unless otherwise stated.
Cut Fabrics
To make the best use of your fabrics, cut the pieces in the order that follows. For the Log Cabin Scrapbook, you will need two blocks of your choice that are 3" square finished. If you'd like to replicate the Log Cabin blocks, follow the instructions below. To download foundations for paper-piecing Log Cabin blocks, click "Download this pattern" at left. If you'd like to replicate the Fabric-Covered Scrapbook, follow the instructions below.
From assorted scraps, cut:
Pieces needed to make blocks of your choice; to make the featured Log Cabin blocks, cut assorted strips 1" wide to use for paper-piecing
From dark pink print, cut:
2—2x9-1/2" border strips
2—2x3-1/2" border strips
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Fresenius Medical Care Urges Dialysis Patients to Stay Active and Offers Fitness Tips During Nationa
Fresenius Medical Care Urges DialysisPatients to Stay Active and Offers Fitness Tips During National Kidney Month
Increased Physical Activity Can Build Strength and Flexibility, Improve Circulation, Digestion and Sleep, and Contribute to Better Quality of Life
WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects millions of Americans and requires about 400,000 of those whose kidneys have failed to rely on life-sustaining dialysis treatments to clean waste products and remove extra fluids from their blood. Kidney failure is also often associated with heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and other ailments - but despite these conditions, incorporating a healthy lifestyle can help dialysis patients feel better.
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), the nation's leading network of dialysis facilities, wants people on dialysis to know that increased physical activity - whether it's walking, biking, dancing, gardening, swimming or something else - can strengthen their heart and other muscles, increase joint flexibility, improve circulation, digestion and sleep, and help to control their blood pressure and body weight. Increased physical activity has also been shown to reduce inflammation and depression, and to decrease the risk of hospitalization.
This March, during National Kidney Month, FMCNA is reaching out to dialysis patients, as well as their families and caregivers, with the message that regular physical activity is one of the best ways for patients to improve their overall health and quality of life. For more information about FMCNA's National Kidney Month events, recipes and information, please visit www.ultracare-dialysis.com/kidneymonth.
"Patients who focus on fitness and good nutrition may feel better and be more functional," says Dr. Dugan W. Maddux, vice president of chronic kidney disease initiativesat FMCNA. "Many patients also find that their energy levels are higher if they make time for regular physical activities."
Dialysis patients should talk with their physician before starting a new fitness program. At FMCNA facilities, nurses, social workers and dietitians are available to help patients of all fitness levels create customized programs for increasing their physical activity when cleared to do so by the patient's physician. And, as the following tips from FMCNA illustrate, better fitness often starts with simple changes in patients' daily routines:
Fitness Tips for Dialysis Patients
- Talk to your physician before starting an exercise program. Heart problems or difficulty walking, for example, may influence which activities are most appropriate.
- Choose an activity you enjoy, such as walking, biking, dancing, gardening, swimming or yoga.
- Start slow, beginning with 10 or 15 minutes of daily activity. Add more time after one or two weeks.
- Build exercise into your daily routine, by:
- Taking stairs instead of the elevator
- Walking or biking, rather than driving
- Taking your pet for a walk
- Parking farther away from the store or clinic entrance
- Pedaling or walking while watching TV
- Moving to music while you clean
- Stay loose, by stretching or doing yoga before starting aerobic exercise.
- Get plenty of rest, by aiming for at least eight hours of sleep every night. The good news is, exercise can help you sleep better!
Patients can find additional fitness tips, exercise videos and other information about staying active and maintaining a healthy diet at www.ultracare-dialysis.com/HealthyLifestyles.
About Fresenius Medical Care North America
Through our leading network of more than 2,100 dialysis facilities in North America and our vascular access centers, laboratory, pharmacy and affiliated hospitals and nephrology practices, Fresenius Medical Care provides renal services to hundreds of thousands of people throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada. We are also the continent's top producer of dialysis equipment, dialyzers and related disposable products and a major supplier of renal pharmaceuticals.
For more information about the company, visit www.fmcna.com; for information about patient services, visit www.ultracare-dialysis.com.
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Loyola staff members recognized by New Orleans magazine as "People to Watch"
October 24, 2008
|From left to right: Polly Thomas (standing in for husband, Bob Thomas), Kellie Kennedy, Tommy Screen
New Orleans Magazine recently recognized Kellie R. Kennedy, Loyola University New Orleans women's basketball head coach; Tommy Screen, director of the Institute of Politics and assistant to the president for government relations; and Bob Thomas, Ph.D., director for the Center for Environmental Communication and interim director of the School of Mass Communication as "People to Watch" in its September issue.
The magazine salutes "people to watch, mostly new faces who are doing something interesting with their lives that's worthy of our awareness; or, in some cases, familiar faces moving in a different direction." All three were honored in an Oct. 15 awards ceremony at the New Orleans Fairgrounds.
Kellie Kennedy joined Loyola as coach in August after 10 years with Tulane University, where she served as the recruiting coordinator, oversaw scheduling and supervised Tulane's annual basketball tournament. Before Tulane, Kennedy was an assistant coach at the University of Richmond, head coach at Hollins College in Roanoke, Va., and assistant coach at University of North Carolina Wilmington.
A 1990 graduate of the UNC, Kennedy was a four-year letter winner for the Tar Heels. She earned Most Improved Player honors in 1988 and was the recipient of the 1990 UNC Scholar-Athlete and UNC Women's Basketball Senior Awards.
Tommy Screen was appointed assistant to the president for government relations in 2005 by University President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D. Prior to joining Loyola, Screen served as legislative correspondent and later as legislative assistant on the staff of former U.S. Senator John Breaux, working closely with the Department of Interior and the Department of Education. He also helped organize campaign rallies for Governor Kathleen Blanco during the 2003 campaign runoff. In June, Screen took over as director of the Institute of Politics.
Bob Thomas, Ph.D., was chosen for his work, especially post-Katrina, to "galvanize growing support for environmental issues." Since 2005, Thomas has brought visitors on tours of the devastated areas of the city and discussed the impact the storm had on the area.
In 2007, Gov. Bobby Jindal appointed Thomas chair of the Environment Group of the Economic Growth Transition Advisory Council. Thomas is also the founding director of the Louisiana Nature Center, where he served as the liaison for the community in information pertaining to science education, environmental issues and natural history.
He is the past president of the Association of Nature Center Administrators and has served on the Accreditation Commission of the American Association of Museums, and as chair of the Environmental Advisory Committee for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Thomas holds a bachelor of science degree in zoology from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and a master of science degree and doctorate of science in vertebrate zoology from Texas A&M University.
Thomas is a recipient of the Outstanding Citizen Diplomat Award from the New Orleans Citizen Diplomacy Council, with which he has been involved for the past 20 years, hosting visitors from around the world and sharing with them stories of New Orleans, its climate and its people.
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Colorado athletic director Mike Bohn spoke publicly today for the first time about the university's plans for the largest athletics facilities upgrade in history in and around Folsom Field.
Bohn said he plans a formal announcement of the "transformational" project in September.
The project has no start or completion dates at this time because it is contingent on working out several avenues of funding, including gathering an unprecedented level of private donations. A portion of the project will be financed against future Pac-12 Conference revenue.
Bohn said if the school cannot gather enough private funding, the project would have to be scaled down and only some of the options being discussed could actually be built.
"It's not a dream, it's not a vision," Bohn said. "It's a project we're working hard on. It's our No. 1 priority."
Bohn said the project will include a permanent indoor practice facility that would be used primarily by the football team, but would also benefit many of the other 16 athletics programs in the department.
"Clearly an indoor facility is a need of all our sports programs," Bohn said. "I think it's fair to say that is a core piece of the vision, but has not been determined where it is, how it fits, how big it is."
There are numerous steps Bohn and his staff must go through before an announcement can be made. Gathering the funding is at the top of the list.
The CU Foundation is in the midst of conducting a feasibility study related to the project. The study will be completed this summer. Approval also must be given from the Board of Regents, the campus planning commission and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.
Bohn said he can't provide more specific details of the plan at this time because he doesn't want to "get out in front" of those groups whose approval is required.
Bohn said he is not relying on only one major gift for the project. Colorado has received a total of seven gifts totaling $1 million or more to its athletic department in its history. Two of them have come during Bohn's tenure.
Despite that fact, Bohn said he is optimistic the private funding needed for the project can be raised.
"This isn't an athletic initiative by ourselves in our own little silo," Bohn said. "I think that's why it's important for us to allow this to be developed and come together rather than speculating about what is in and what's not."


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Now that the buzz for Sony's Xbox Live Killer/MMORPG Home is at a fever pitch, they have given us the ability to look at a page where they will sometime in the future allow us to sign up to express our interest in learning of the time when we can sign up for the beta of the software. In other words, wait to sign up to be told when you can sign up. Excited yet?
Even with nothing but this page up in the space, I'm sure Sony is seeing a ton of page views as gamers eagerly anticipate the ability to express their interest. I wish I could be more cynical about this, but in fact the second this goes live, I'm signing up. It's not that I don't want to play Home, it's just that I would much rather have a working friends list in more of my PS3 games before I worry about what virtual painting to hang on my virtual wall.
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The ACA bunker mentality
President Barack Obama likes to say his team is the most transparent administration in history — but on the Obamacare website debacle, it's been more like they've been holed up in the bunker.
That's why there's growing pressure for the administration to come out from underneath the covers, and start releasing more details on what, exactly, is wrong with the Healthcare.gov site and how soon it might be fixed.
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Obama's Rose Garden speech Monday was clearly intended to start that process. He owned up to the fact that the federal enrollment website, which handles 36 states, "hasn't worked as smoothly as it was supposed to work" — probably the understatement of the year.
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But even on Monday, administration officials still couldn't give any sense of how extensive the problems are. They wouldn't say who's being drafted for the "tech surge," other than the White House innovation fellows. And they didn't give even a ballpark prediction of when the site might be working smoothly for most Americans.
That's not good enough for some supporters of the health care law, who say the administration should be more open about the repair efforts — even if that means getting into details that Republican critics could throw back in their faces.
Ezekiel Emanuel, a former administration health care adviser and brother of former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, says the administration should hold daily briefings about how the fixes are going. And some Democratic strategists say that, even if the information becomes fodder for Republican attacks, the administration is going to get attacked anyway — so it's better to just face the music.
( Understanding Obamacare: POLITICO's full guide to the ACA)
"I think they'd be better off if they went way beyond where they are now," said Democratic strategist Joe Trippi. Obama's speech on Monday, Trippi said, was "a step, but a very small step" toward greater transparency.
"I think everyone's figured out that the GOP is against Obamacare," said Trippi. Even if the actual enrollment numbers are low, he said, "the one thing you know about politics is, the bad stuff is always going to come out."
Transparency isn't the only issue that's dismaying the law's supporters. Some Democrats are privately irked that Obama, in their eyes, had to bail out HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who's likely to be grilled mercilessly about the website breakdowns — and the lack of pre-launch testing — the moment House Republicans get her into a hearing room, which is expected next week.
( WATCH: 7 quotes on Obamacare glitches)
"Given Sebelius' ineptitude, bringing POTUS center-stage was necessary," said one prominent Democrat. "And POTUS did an admirable job of explaining, reframing but not defending the mistakes. Still, an army in which a general is bailing out a failed colonel is a losing army.
Many of the concerns, however, keep coming back to the Obama team's inability to give more precise answers - an odd and ironic predicament for an administration that prides itself on openness. And some health care consultants who are working on the law say the administration's secrecy during the website's development may have contributed to the problems.
Before the Oct. 1 launch of open enrollment, the administration wasn't sharing much information about the website, with Congress or anyone else — other than assuring Congress that it would be ready, and predicting that people wouldn't remember the early glitches in the long run. That was largely because the administration was in a defensive crouch, allies say, knowing that Republicans would jump on any bit of potentially damaging information they disclosed.
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But if the administration had shared more of the technical information with more health insurers and their IT departments, they could have been warned - or warned more loudly - of some of the operation problems, said Robert Laszewski, a consultant who works with insurers.
"Every one of their IT people have been through this before. They would have said, 'This isn't going to work,'" said Laszewski. "Why is it a secret? That's what's killing them."
That's going to have to change, and fast. On Oct. 30, Sebelius is expected to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where she's going to be pressed for exactly those kinds of details. And this Thursday, officials from contractors that worked on the project — including CGI, the lead contractor that developed the website — are set to testify at a separate hearing.
The catch, though, is that releasing the kind of information Americans need right now — when's the website going to be fixed — isn't as easy as it sounds.
Obama insists it's going to happen, sometime. "Nobody is madder than me about the fact that the website isn't working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed," he said at the White House event.


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It's an annual Beltway ritual. The group Citizens Against Government Waste releases the "Pig Book," detailing all the so-called "pork" coming out of Congress. Outrage is ginned up over all the wacky things congresspeople are funding: Fruit fly research! Bear DNA! Opera houses! Green spaces!
But how exactly does CAGW decide what goes in the "Pig Book?" In their own words, any project that meets as little as one of the following criteria:
- Requested by only one chamber of Congress;
- Not specifically authorized;
- Not competitively awarded;
- Not requested by the President;
- Greatly exceeds the President's budget request or the previous year's funding;
- Not the subject of congressional hearings; or
- Serves only a local or special interest.
What's missing that from list?
Does the project have a worthy objective? Will it contribute to our economy, our health, our safety or our environment? Is the approach a proven success?
The quality of the project is simply not a factor.
That's an indication that rooting out actual waste is not the actual objective of the "Pig Book." It would appear that furthering the conservative movement objective of stoking distrust in our government is really what CAGW is after. (The conservative TownHall.com is listed as a "partner" on the CAGW homepage.)
That's why CAGW plays up silly sounding things like fruit fly research, even though such research helps with sustainable agriculture, controlling pests without the use of chemical pesticides.
I can't vouch for the quality of any specific program mentioned in the Pig Book, but neither it seems, can the Pig Book authors.
Surely there's some actual pork in the Pig Book, but also good works unfairly tarred. And surely there's wasteful spending not mentioned in the Pig Book (subsidies to oil, drug and insurance companies; tax incentives to outsource jobs; a little disaster called Iraq) because it doesn't meet CAGW's process-oriented criteria.
CAGW's credibility is further demeaned by it's history lobbying for tobacco companies and agribusiness. (See the great reports from the St. Petersburg Times, via Daily Kos' tojojo.) It's not interested in a government that works for everyone, but a government that works for it clients.
Progressives should certainly stand against real wasteful spending, be it a "bridge to nowhere" or a destabilizing occupation. It's critical for voters to know that the progressive vision for our government invests our money wisely, not spends it recklessly.
But the "Pig Book" is not a serious attempt to root out waste. It's merely a front for undermining trust in our government as an agent for change.


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What an opening weekend in the NFL. Holy cow.
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Detroit looked great. Buffalo won by 34 points against a 2010 playoff team, on the road no less. Pittsburgh looked old and slow on defense, but at least made up for it by turning the ball over.
Seven days ago, I whined that the Week 1 Power Rankings were the most difficult. May I change my tune, and say this second go around was a bit more challenging? What are we to do with the Redskins, who played well and beat a division opponent? They were 29th in my last rankings. The Bills played like a top 10 team, but isn't it an overreaction to place them that high?
Yes. There are some movers and shakers this week, like Chicago, who earned a giant jump due to Jay Cutler, Matt Forte, and the biggest reason they were good last season (see below.) Otherwise, women have always told me I need to be more vulnerable, so I tried to accomplish that here, especially with teams like the Lions.
Onward and upward ...
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Green Bay looked awfully good -- offensively -- Thursday night. The defense is a mild concern, considering that Dom Capers' unit (second in points allowed in 2010) is the reason this club made the playoffs last season. That group didn't look as hot opening night. By the way, all those who thought Donald Driver was washed up were a little off. The vet was targeted seven times, just one shy of Greg Jennings and Jordy Nelson. Aaron Rodgers is going to spread it around.
Monday night's win looked more like a seminar on interchangeable parts than pro football. BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Deion Branch, Aaron Hernandez in ... Chad Ochocinco, Rob Gronkowski, Danny Woodhead out, and so on and so forth. Every down a different grouping was running in and out, and the Dolphins responded with brain and leg cramps. I checked Jon Gruden's Wikipedia page after the game to see if he was married. The man cannot hide his love for Tom Brady.
Who looked the best opening weekend? With apologies to Green Bay, Buffalo and Chicago, Baltimore dominated Pittsburgh by beating the Steelers at their own game with good old-fashioned defense. Here's the Ravens' line from Sunday: Seven points allowed, four sacks, three interceptions, and four forced fumbles ... all recovered by somebody in purple.
There are only two stats you need to know from the Eagles- Rams game: Philly put up a 239-spot on the ground and went eight of 11 on third downs. Here is hardcore, serious NFL analysis: You'll win a lot of games with over two bills on the ground and converting 72.7 percent of the time on third down.
Despite a small fourth-quarter letdown, and one good camera shot of the Wade face, the Houston defense looked pretty lockout-proof. Players didn't appear to be out of place due to a new scheme or lack of minicamps. Big win for this franchise, especially without its ace in the hole, Arian Foster. That's why the Texans get the high ranking.
Everyone owes an apology to the Bears. Except for me. Despite ranking them 16th last week, I've maintained as long as the defense can play like last season -- Cutler or no Cutler -- this team will be right there. The aforementioned Chicago defense allowed only 17.9 points per game in 2010. Sunday, it gave Atlanta nothing downfield. So impressive, and that's why the Bears are a big mover this week.
I wonder if the Saints give Pierre Thomas more opportunities in goal-line situations as the season progresses, although I'm not sure Marcus Allen could have scored on Thursday night's final play. Meanwhile, losing the NFL's kickoff game could be a bad omen for Sean Payton.
For much of Sunday night, the most effective player on offense for the Jets was LaDainian Tomlinson. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? The 11-year vet had 89 yards from scrimmage on only 11 touches. While New York rang up 360 yards of offense, much of that came with Dallas' top three corners out of the game. The Jets retain a high ranking due to their uncanny ability to win so many games in the manner they did Sunday night, but dropped a few notches because of sloppy play.
San Diego withstood losing Luis Castillo, Mike Tolbert and Nate Kaeding to win its home opener in a nice comeback. That said, the Chargers dropped slightly in this week's ranking because the long-term loss of Kaeding and Castillo really hurts. At least they finally fixed the special teams. Not. (Great googly-moogly, Norv Turner has to get that fixed!)
The Detroit offense posted 431 yards on what is supposed to be a very good defense. One thing you might not have seen in the highlights: Jahvid Best's 114 yards from scrimmage. He has to stay healthy and productive, otherwise Matthew Stafford will be dropping back 50 times per game, which will put the QB's health in jeopardy. Is the 10-hole too high for this team?
Pittsburgh got destroyed, and looked much worse than some of the clubs ranked below. But until the Steelers put together two or three onions in a row, I trust Mike Tomlin and Dick LeBeau way too much to completely dump on the black and gold.
Dallas controlled Sunday night's game in New York -- a tough road opener considering what this weekend represented -- in every way but the win column. As long as this group falters in the clutch, they won't hit the top 10 no matter who they outplay. Defensively, Terence Newman was out. His replacement, nickel Orlando Scandrick, left in the first half. The other starter, Mike Jenkins, got hurt in the third quarter. After watching Mark Sanchez play Nerf football with the Cowboys' fourth, fifth, and sixth corners, the coaching staff could be seen talking to Jenkins on the sideline. "Can you breathe? If you can, please go replace Alan Ball."
Some cracks are starting to appear in Matt Ryan's game. This is no overreaction. The Atlanta offense continues to struggle getting the ball downfield when it counts. Overall, Ryan averages 6.9 yards per attempt in his career, 17th among active passers. That's just not going to get it done for a team with Super Bowl aspirations. On the other side of the ball, the secondary struggled Sunday. Then there were the penalties. Like Pittsburgh, Atlanta remains in the top 15 because of potential.
Darren McFadden looks great. The offense is improved. But the strength of this club lies in its formidable front four. If the Raiders get better play from the linebackers, this defense will be special. Oakland is San Diego's competition in the AFC West, especially with the Chiefs suffering from injuries and Matt Cassel generally sucking.
Yes, the loss hurt. Yes, the Bucs' all-whites don't look good. But don't panic. The latter can be fixed, and the former can be remedied by a very manageable schedule over the next month: at Minnesota, vs. Atlanta, vs. Indianapolis, at San Francisco. Who can't see the Bucs winning three of those four?
Man, Joe Ferguson played damn good Sunday. At least that's what it felt like. The Bills looked awesome in their early '80s uniforms. Those Ground Chuck teams, named after former coach Chuck Knox, surprised everyone with a division title 31 years ago. Could the current edition shock us all with a playoff run in 2011? Yes, if Ryan Fitzpatrick continues to play like he did at Arrowhead Sunday. By the way, don't laugh ... winning 41-7 on the road merits being ranked this high, although my personal sounding board, colleague Steve Wyche, wouldn't let me place them any higher.
Sexy Rexy's 110.5 passer rating was his highest since 2006. As a whole, Mike Shanahan's offense must do a better job running the ball. The 'Skins averaged only 2.8 yards per rush behind Tim Hightower, who carried the ball 25 out of 26 team attempts. Keep in mind, that was against a front seven without three of its starters.
Arizona won, yes, but did so allowing Tecmo Super Bowl numbers to everyone's favorite fantasy waiver-wire pickup (this week), Cam Newton. A 28-21 home victory over Carolina works in the win column, but only gets the Cards so far in the rankings.
The defense is depleted, and the G-Men's ranking will be low until they get healthy. Eli Manning had his struggles, and the Tom Coughlin constipated glare was back in full effect Sunday. One elixir for all three would be a more productive running game. The ground game wasn't awful, but only gained 75 yards on 20 carries. Better numbers would provide a defense that's ailing at all three levels some rest, while keeping Manning's turnovers down.
Nice win, Luke McCown. Can you pull if off two weeks in a row? MJD had a good day running the ball (97 yards), despite facing a defense geared to stop him. The Jags go to New York to face the Jets, and we'll find out just how good Jack Del Rio's team is. Then again, they beat NY up there in 2009, and finished 7-9 that season. Nevermind. Who knows where to rank these guys?
Thank you, Ted Ginn. Now that he won the game for you 49ers fans, what do you think of Alex Smith and the offense? While Smith went 15 of 20, he and rookie coach Jim Harbaugh aren't going to win many more games generating just over the Mendoza line in total offense (209 yards).
A victory. Now, the bad news. Andy Dalton is your future, Bengals fans, and his status is up in the air. Cedric Benson still doesn't know to go down inbounds when leading by three points with 3 minutes to go (before his late touchdown). Bruce Gradkowski wasn't overly impressive in relief. That said, this team could put together a string of wins. Check out this creampuff schedule: at Broncos, vs. 49ers, vs. Bills, at Jaguars, vs. Colts, at Seahawks.
If you're a Rams fan right now, you are soooo holding your breath. How serious is Sam Bradford's injury, and how effective will he be? How long is Steven Jackson hobbled? Danny Amendola is out with a dislocated elbow. The Rams suffered a Packersesque bout of injuries, which should propel them to a Super Bowl berth. Except it won't.
Disappointing loss, no doubt. Joe Haden was making an All-Pro case for himself, until A.J. Green caught him snoozing prior to catching a deep ball. Still, if Sheldon Brown ups his game, and Haden shuts it down on the left side, Dick Jauron's defense might be able to get off the field on third down, a huge problem for this club in 2010.
Twenty-fifth? Seems harsh, considering Minnesota almost stole one on the road in deep SoCal. But issue numero uno is the awful performance of Donovan McNabb and the passing game. Yes, the Vikes only attempted 15 passes. But the fact that they averaged 2.6 yards per attempt looms larger than the interception or two sacks McNabb took. Getting 2.6 yards per throw offers less bang-for-the-buck than the director's cut of "The Notebook." Vikings fans can't sit through McNabb playing less than mediocre all season long.
Miami fandom desperately wanted to take one from the best team in the division -- and conference -- Monday night. Unfortunately, Tony Sparano just doesn't have the horses. Still, the Dolphins' defense should be a top 10 or 12 unit by year's end. In the meantime, expect more opponents to go no-huddle or hurry-up until defensive coordinator Mike Nolan proves his unit can stop it.
Was Sunday awful? Yes. Does that mean the Colts are going 1-15? No. Sunday's debacle in Houston represented a failure in all three phases of the game, including the all-important special teams. Laying this egg at Kerry Collins' feet is ridiculously irresponsible.
How do you let the Jags put up 163 yards rushing on you? With Luke McCown at quarterback, there's no excuse for that performance ... not to mention allowing him to go 17 of 24. Tennessee had a big opportunity to steal a division game on the road against a team in transition, and let it slip away.
Where the hell did that come from? Anyone who expected Cam Newton to throw for 280, much less 422 yards, raise your hand. I must be getting sentimental in my old age, because it was nice to see Steve Smith expose single coverage in HIS old age. Still, the Panthers are ranked low because, a) they lost, and b) linebacker Jon Beason -- one of the better players in the NFL -- is out for the season.
Matt Cassel's last three games (Week 17, 2010 vs. Raiders: 11 of 33, 115 yards, no touchdowns and two picks; wild-card game vs. Ravens: 9 of 18, 70 yards, no touchdowns and three picks; Sunday: 22 of 36, 119 yards, one touchdown and another interception) were all at home. Enjoy, season ticket holders.
It's difficult to place any team at the bottom of the rankings, if only because parity is so rampant that any team can seemingly win on any day. Denver had its opportunities with No. 14 Oakland Monday night, but couldn't capitalize. Brandon Lloyd's big 2010 will be no fluke. While his 89 yards might have been unspectacular, he drew some PIs, and Kyle Orton is looking to go vertical to him often. Forget John Fox's "conservative" approach, Denver will still throw the ball.
Be honest. Was there a moment Sunday when you wondered if the Seahawks would score on offense ... all season? Maybe Tarvaris Jackson needs to pose in an ice tub like that fantasy machine Mark Sanchez. Or not.


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Oklahoma City –2017 marks the 10th season of ferry service on the Oklahoma River. Starting with just two landings and now serving four, Oklahoma River Cruises services have expanded and so have the destinations along the river.
Ridership is growing and at a faster rate recently; in 2016, there was a 27 percent increase in ferry ridership and a 19 percent increase in chartered cruises over the previous year. All of the specialty cruises, from the Mother's Day Cruise to the Haunt the River Cruise, sold out last season.
"We expect to see continued growth in the 2017 season as the river adds attractions," said Jeanne Smith, River Transit Manager. "The Oklahoma River is constantly changing. We've seen the development of iconic boathouses and the new $45m Riversport Rapids whitewater rafting and kayaking center. Our riders will see Wheeler District, the urban neighborhood that will surround the Ferris wheel, being developed from the ground up."
One source of ridership comes from the hotels in the Meridian Corridor, an area that has seen more than $43 million in private development over the past 10 years.
"Our guests are very interested in the river," says Jayne Wagner, regional director of sales Fairfield Inn and TownPlace Suites by Marriott, located adjacent to Meridian Landing. "They want to see Oklahoma City and experience some of our unique events and attractions. We recommend Oklahoma River Cruises to our groups and they come back with rave reviews – it's a fun experience that allows them to see a seven-mile stretch of some of Oklahoma City's newest and fastest growing destinations."
Regular ferry service is ramping up and specialty cruises are scheduled throughout the spring and summer season. They include:
The Oklahoma River is one of OKC's most exciting destinations, with its Olympic kayaking, the new Riversport Rapids, Historic Stockyards City, the busy Meridian Corridor, the lushly-landscaped Regatta Park and nearby Bricktown. The Oklahoma River Trails feature three and seven-mile route options. All landings have parking, are ADA accessible, and easy access to public transit and the river cruisers are bicycle-friendly. For a complete schedule of ferry river service, various themed cruises or information about private charters, visit okrivercruises.com or call (405) 702-7755.
About Oklahoma River Cruises
Oklahoma River Cruises is a member of EMBARK's family of transit services. EMBARK is the business unit of the Central Oklahoma Transportation & Parking Authority (COTPA) – a public trust administered by the City of Oklahoma City. EMBARK is responsible for providing safe, efficient and convenient public transportation and downtown parking solutions to the greater Oklahoma City area.
EMBARK is the 2016 North America Outstanding Public Transit System of the Year.
COTPA is celebrating 50 years of leadership in providing public transit and downtown parking services to Oklahoma's capital city. To learn more about EMBARK or Oklahoma River Cruises visit www.embarkok.com or www.okrivercruises.com.
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