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Thanks to Chris Brown (no relation) for guiding me to this article from the Shreveport Sun, a newspaper which still publishes. One thing it shows is the presence of Elizabeth Barnicle, in Shreveport. It's her car. Also, they've mixed up Mary and Martha, the twins. It was Martha who married Huddie. I wonder if this happened often.
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- To Ross Russell, a jazz writer who owned a record store in Hollywood in the 1940's, Huddie Ledbetter "dropped out of sight" for ten years after leaving John Lomax (Russell 12). Then he turned up in Hollywood. This was very much a West Coast perspective, however. In fact, during those ten years Huddie did a tremendous amount of recording, appeared on many radio programs, and worked clubs and concerts, primarily in the New York area.
During the winter of 1936-37, Alan Lomax expanded his folk song collecting to Haiti; he would eventually collect folksongs around the world. From 1936 to 1942 Lomax was "Assistant in Charge" of the Archive of Folk Song of the Library of Congress to which he and his father and numerous collaborators contributed more than ten thousand field recordings. During his lifetime, he collected folk music from the United States, Haiti, the Caribbean, Ireland, Great Britain, Spain, and Italy, assembling a treasure trove of American and international culture.
The elder Lomax (as we have seen) had had enough of his protege, but on 12 June 1937, young Alan brought Huddie to Washington where he supervised some recordings at the Library of Congress. During their visit to the capital, Martha and Huddie encountered an instance of racial discrimination similar to that they had experienced in New York two years earlier, and Huddie wrote about it in one of his most enduring songs, "The Bourgeois Blues." Credit for co-authoring this song is unstintingly given to Alan Lomax.
Me and Martha was standing upstairs,
I heard a white man say, "Don't want no colored up there,
Lord, it's a bourgeois town
Ooh, it's a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues,
I'm gonna spread the news all around.
Home of the brave, land of the free,
I don't want to be mistreated by no bourgeoisie,
Lord, it's a bourgeois town. . .
The tune for "Bourgeois Blues" is similar to Memphis Minnie's "Dirty Mother For You" of January 1935. It's not difficult to figure out what Minnie means when she sings "He's a dirty mother for you, he don't mean me no good." Huddie was probably delighted with the unstated reference to Minnie's song himself, but he tended not to be openly raunchy or offensive in his lyrics. About this same time, he was explaining to Alan that "tight like that" was a description of the way people held each other when they danced, while Alan was pretty sure it had something to do with the female anatomy.
There are fourteen titles in these D.C. sessions; these include the blues standard "Hello, Central" and two takes of a topical song, "The Hindenburg Disaster." The explosion of the zeppelin Hindenburg at its mooring, which caused the deaths of thirty-six people, took place on 6th May, 1937, at Lakehurst, New Jersey. "New York City" was also recorded. It's a re-working of a song Huddie had recorded for the American Recording Company two years earlier, a song which was never released during the his lifetime. "Kansas City Papa" is the original, and the refrain,
Kansas City - ain't it a pity?is changed to
New York City - ain't that a city?
The Kansas City song exudes a completely different attitude to the New York song. Kansas City is viewed from the perspective of a country bumpkin who comes away shaking his head at the strange goings on in the big city. It's an archetypal song; it could've been about Dallas or Shreveport, but it happened to be about Kansas City, which was a mecca for Negro jazz and blues players in the 1920's and 30's. Huddie may never have visited Kansas City at the time he sang the song, though there is hearsay evidence that he visited his ex-wife Elethe there at some point. The verses are folk couplets which may have been used in any number of similar dance tunes. It has all the earmarks of a number played at a country supper.
Funniest thing that I ever did see
Polecat climbing up a 'simmon tree
In Kansas City. . .
The New York song, on the other hand, is specific to that city and
bespeaks a real attraction to, a fascination for, the place.
It's one thing folks I ask you to do
Catch a bus and ride up Fifth Avenue
In New York City. . .
Although the melody and rhythm has not changed, it has become a song for a New York audience.
Pineville, in the coal-veined hills of Kentucky, 1938, is the setting for the recording of three religious songs ("Old Time Religion," "Get on Board," and "Rock of Ages"), which were deposited in the Library of Congress. Huddie is accompanied by his own guitar, by the singing of Martha, and by Jim and Sarah Garland (Dixon & Godrich 384). Pineville is in the Appalachian Mountains near the point where Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky meet. The Garlands sang songs and took activist stands on behalf of the coal miners who were attempting to get a better deal from the mine owners at the time. The local law enforcement officers were in the employ of the mine owners, (a common theme in alternative American history), and there were violent clashes between the sides. Jim Garland's mother was Aunt Molly Jackson, also a folksinger and union activist.
On October 10th 1938, in New York City, Felix Greene of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) had the foresight to record twelve tracks of Leadbelly: Boll Weevil, I'm Goin' Mother, Go Down Ol' Hannah, Prison Holler, (Baby) Take a Whiff on Me, Irene, Jail-House Blues, Old Reilly, Ox Driver's Song (1), Ox Driver's Song (2), Julie Ann Johnson, Governor O.K. Allen. Because of the alternate take of the Ox Driver's Song, we can assume these were the total recorded. Even the biography "Legend of Leadbelly" by Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell doesn't have this session listed and we do not know if they were ever broadcast on BBC's "American Jam Sessions" of 1938. It would have counted as Leadbelly's first radio broadcast, if it had taken place. And on the BBC at that!
Felix Greene in 1968
The idea of documentary recordings was just getting underway — some of the late-1938 Library of Congress recordings begin with a dialogue between the "informant" (sounds a bit like a law enforcement term) and the "collector" and end with a song; others continued the informal dialogue throughout the record. As many as seventy-five recordings were made of Aunt Molly Jackson, for instance, and funds for making some of these records available at cost to musicologists and others interested in grassroots music were supplied by the Carnegie Corporation. Leadbelly recorded about 200 sides for the Lomax's Library of Congress collection.
Aunt Molly Jackson
The folk music also reached some 15,000,000 young listeners via [Alan] Lomax's "Well-Springs of America" Series broadcast on Columbia's School of the Air. Begun in 1939, as the series continued it became more and more a survey of a state or an area, and radio listeners began paying tribute to this documentary approach by writing: "I like to listen to the songs about the unknown heroes of labor and the farms," or, regarding programs of Negro songs: "In them one sees courage and a rhythmic dignity." Folk singers are guests and contribute to material used in the script, but Lomax frequently sings too. Though he's mostly known as a collector, he felt he was accomplished enough a performer to entertain the King and Queen of England at the White House in 1939.
A potential Last Straw to the Leadbetter story was added in the late spring of 1939, and a lesser man may have bowed under the burden. On March 5, during a party at a West 52nd Street address, he was arrested, accused by one Henry Burgess of stabbing and slashing him a dozen times. Huddie countered that he did indeed stab Burgess, but only in self-defense, and pled Not Guilty in magistrate's Court. He was freed on bail of $1000 which was posted by Alan Lomax through the National Surety Corporation. On March 13th, the New York City court cabled the Caddo courthouse in Shreveport for Leadbelly's criminal record.
A week later Huddie appeared before a Grand Jury, describing himself as a "musician, song composer, and dancer." The deputy District Attorney, now familiar with the accused's past, asks that he "not be allowed to sing his way out of this one."
That same evening, March 20th, 1939, he played at the Savoy Ballroom on Lenox Avenue in Harlem.
Three days later the Grand Jury indicted him for "assault, second degree, carrying a dangerous weapon after prior conviction." Again, he pled Not Guilty and remained free on bail, pending trial.
On March 26th he performed at the Labor Stage of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Theater on West 39th Street.
Then, on 1 April, 1939, Alan Lomax supervised an important recording session for Musicraft in New York, (Russell 14). Important to Huddie, certainly, because it resulted in the commercial release of a now rare 78 r.p.m. album which included "Frankie and Albert," called by John Lomax, Lead Belly's "Ninth Symphony, [his] small opera with stage directions" (Negro 192). "Fannin Street" and "Bourgeois Blues" were also recorded and released; the public at last had an opportunity to listen to Leadbelly on home phonographs. Important, also, because it took place in the midst of his legal troubles and resulted in what many believe to be the best recordings of his career. He recorded fifteen sides for Musicraft, accompanying himself on guitar and tap dancing. Oh for a filmed version!
The trial took place at the beginning of May, and though the big news in New York concerned the opening of the World's Fair, the Herald Tribune found space for an article on the entertainment page. It included a capsule biography which was the usual mixture of fact and fiction:
In 1930 Lead Belly "stabbed six Negroes in a fight over a can of whiskey" and was sentenced to a ten-year term at Angola . . . . It was there that Dr. John A. Lomax, curator of folk songs for the Library of Congress, "discovered" him. . . ."Once again a song addressed to the state Executive Mansion won a pardon for Lead Belly". . . . Dr. Lomax arranged a singing tour which lined Leadbelly's pockets and enabled the Negro to marry his lady-love, Martha Promise. ("Lead Belly Adds")
"But last week it was the same old story. Standing in Manhattan General Sessions, greying, 54-year-old Lead Belly once again heard a jury pronounce him guilty. Offense: stabbing and slashing Henry Burgess, another Negro, at a party in a Westside rooming house." ("Lead Belly" p77)
On May 4th he was convicted of assault, third degree; the jury recommended clemency. On May 15th, Judge George L. Donnellan sentenced him to one year, with a recommendation of mercy. His prison sentence began on May 20th and ended after six months on November 20th. Huddie had been on his best behavior at the prison on Riker's Island in New York's East River, and for the last ten years of his life, he never again went to prison.


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In today's lesson you are going to work on a writing activity that will help you to prepare for your Individual Oral (IO).
Imagine that you are presenting your IO, are you prepare to answer the following questions?
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- What would you say about it?
- How would you describe the image?
- How would you refer to the caption?
- What would you say about the target culture?
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- What extra information can you add?
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- Shaṭṭārīyah Silsilah in Aceh, Java, and the Lanao Area of Mindanao by Oman Fathurahman
Oman Fathurahman
Javanese Studies. Contributions to the Study of Javanese Literature, Culture and History 4. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2016. 139pp. index.
The Shaṭṭārīyah is the earliest known Sufi (Muslim mystic) order, which gained influence in island Southeast Asian in the mid-seventeenth century. According to the short description by the Encyclopaedia Britannica it derives its name from either a fifteenth-century Indian mystic called Shaṭṭārī or the Arabic word shāṭir ('breaker'), referring to one who has broken with the world. Oman Fathurahman is of a different opinion and makes clear that the Shaṭṭārīyah did not come from its centre in India but from Haramayn (the two holy cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina), where the Acehnese scholar 'Abd al-Ra'uf al-Singkili (d. 1693) studied for decades, before working under the protection of the Acehnese court, which was at the time ruled by a Sultana. In his Mir'at al-tullah he made a Shari'a-based argument for the legitimacy of a woman to be a Sultana or ruler, which was extraordinary at that time.
This book is a compilation of silsilah left by prominent members of the Sufi order in the most Islamized parts of island Southeast Asia. 'Silsilah represents the close spiritual relationship between a murshid (Sufi master) and murid (follower, an initiated member of an order who holds the spiritual authority to practice all the Sufi teachings and rituals' (p. 1). In this book Dr Fathurahman publishes transcriptions of these silsilah and analyses the lineages and names in them in order to reconstruct the chains of Sufi masters or lineages (in fact, spiritual genealogies) which date back to Prophet Mohammad. Keeping record of the teachers and disciples (who received special ijâza or permission to pass on the knowledge) was a special characteristic of the Sufi order at a time when there were no schools for formal education. Through this chain the Sufi networks extended over the centuries and it was a custom to keep careful track of all of the names, whether in Arabic, Malay, Javanese or Sundanese.
Oman Fathurahman has collected the digitized silsilah from a selection of Shaṭṭārīyah-related manuscripts from several libraries and private collections in Aceh, Java, and the Lanao area of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Several manuscripts were also selected from the British Library and the Leiden University Library. After going through almost 1,000 manuscripts, Dr Fathurahman ended up with 33 manuscripts with silsilah: 17 in Malay, 8 in Javanese, 7 in Arabic and 1 in Sundanese. Chapter Two (pages 9–104) is the main part of the book. Each selected manuscript is codicologically examined in this chapter. Each silsilah text is carefully [End Page 150] transcribed, published and analysed in detail. Dr Fathurahman also examines the most recent name in each silsilah, as the last mentioned person is regarded as the 'owner of the silsilah'. The result is that researchers now have a systematic overview of all silsilah available.
In Chapter Three Dr Fathurahman offers some conclusions on the lines and genealogies in the silsilah. The many details in the analyses are, however, for the real connoisseurs of Sufi history. The merit of his book is that it offers more detailed information on the silsilah than the more general works such as those by Azyumardi Azra1 and Peter Riddell2 and that it nicely complements the studies on the Sufi order in Aceh by Werner Kraus.3
It is interesting to see the names of a few local elite woman appear in the silsilah. We can identify the names of female Shaṭṭārīyah followers in the silsilah of Nyimas Ayu Alimah (dating from the first half of the nineteenth century) in the circle of Kraton Cirebon, for instance. There are the female Sufis Nyiamas Ayu Alimah and Ratu Raja Fatimah, a murid of Kyai...


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Hello my friends!
Do you like physics in games? Do you like gravity and magnets in games too? Why not combining all of them in a single boss fight?
Watch the magic happen in full HD at 60 FPS
Overhauling the Boss System
I started the boss system with my prototype "Super Stone King" and revised all the classes that had to do with it. For that I revised the "AttackSkill" class and I revised the child classes for all attack skills. Further I created the "Animation" class, which makes it possible to add new animations with ease.
Take a look at some of the new animations I made for Magneto:
Note: It is possible now to add two different idle animations to a boss. The second idle animation plays after a specific number of full "Idle_1.anim" loops. E.g. If the Idle_1.anim plays 3 times, then Idle_2.anim plays a single time, before the playback of Idle_1.anim resums. With this system I can extend the idle animation with an eyeblink for example.
Currently the animations are made of 20 single frames. They are combined into a spritesheet, which looks like this for the Death.anim of Magneto:
Upper Left: Start of Animation
Bottom Right: End of Animation
I hope you like it :D
Note: The difficulty to make this animation look great, was that the water ripple effect needs to be seamless for each frame. They are even seamless in the shatter effect! This looks very naturally in the result. It's the same for all other animations like the magnets.
As you can see, they are all seamless!
Attack Skills
The "AttackSkills" class is the heart of the boss fight system. It contains all the skills, which can be easily add to a boss or a mob.
They devide in three categories so far:
- Active Skills
- Passive Skills
- Switch Attacks
- Active skills are direct attacks like the shockwave or shots
- Passive skills could be something like the attraction of objects or flame/poison damage over time
- Switch attacks can be used to call boss events like the polarity switch of Magneto
In the update cycle of the main boss update method this is even more detailed. It distinguishes between the following phases:
- First Attack
- Second Attack
- Passive Attack
- Near Player Attack
- Switch Attack
For Magneto:
- Shot Magnets
- Quick Charge
- Attract Magnets
- Shockwave
- Polarity Switch
This is the new structure for all upcoming bosses.
To have a better imagination of how I can add boss functions / animations now, look at this picture:
The IdleBehavier set the movement behavior. In this case the boss move towards the player during the IdleUpdate phase.
Steam Greenlight Submition Soon!
As my followers know, I want to submit Caasi's Odyssey to steam greenlight at the end of februrary. Currently I work on the last boss fight for the Early Access content and the demo map, which acts like a playground for you to test all the game mechanics!
This will be a lot of fun! Are you coming with me? Follow me!
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VP, Strategy Management and Business Development
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SAIC Overview:SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC has approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the US federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. EOE AA M/F/Vet/DisabilitySAIC's National Security Customer Group (NSCG) is seeking a fully cleared, dynamic Vice President for Strategy and Business Development. 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Jeff getting a little more detail for the prototype.
Get Jeff Home is a 2.5D dodging style arcade game built for IOS and is the first game from indie developer Team Shrapnel Cake. Featuring a crafted cartoon style, Get Jeff Home places you in control of Jeff and his canoe as you hurtle down the Amazon River. Dodge and weave past crocodiles, monkeys, rocks and more as you desperately try to survive. Watch out though, one wrong move and you might find yourself swimming with the crocs! Will you make it?
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Gray snow mold appears on lawns when snow melts in spring and patches of straw colored turf a few inches to a few feet in diameter can be seen. The orange sclerotia is the key to identification. As snow accumulates throughout the winter season on the lawn, it insulates the turf. If the soil did not have a chance to freeze prior to accumulated snow, the chances of your lawn being attacked by this disease are greater.
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If the turf is not fully dormant or left long (where the blades may mat down), gray snow mold may form. This is rarely a serious disease though it can be unsightly when you expect your green lawn to greet you as spring arrives - all you see are discolored splotches throughout the lawn.
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A Minecraft creepypasta by M.K. Brown
Hello, my name is Jonathan. I am a college student who lives in a two-bedroom apartment. Now that I got that out of the way, I suppose it's time to get to the story. I was playing Minecraft last Friday on my computer. Now, this was one of my best worlds and I had two houses built. One house was a tree house and the other was a beachfront home on my private island. It was heavily modded so I was flying a P-51 Mustang fighter plane. I suppose it would be best if I told you a bit about this flight. I was flying from the tree house to the private island. The only things I had with me on the aircraft was an assault rifle I got from a mod. I had put all my other luggage on a railway that sent supplies between houses. I would have to fly to the far East of the world to find the railway, but it still went the right way. My plane was about to reach the ocean when something creepy happened. I got a message on the chat that simply said: "Beware, Jonathan!". This was stupid scary because my username did not have anything close to my name in it and the world was on single player. I flew for a few minutes. I was terrified. Right after this happened it started to rain. [In the game, not in real life] I changed the game's camera to third person view. In the distance, I saw a Messerscmidt BF 109 German fighter plane flying. I saw a man with the default Steve skin with white eyes at the wheel. Herobrine. I had a trash can right next to me that I vomited in a few seconds later. When I looked up at the screen the plane and Herobrine had disappeared. Another chat message popped up. "The birds fly up a hill soon to fall under the weight of the night," it said. I was thinking about calling Mojang about this, but I knew I had to find and kill Herobrine. I flew to the island to see a Gustave railway gun sitting in the airfield once I landed.[that was from a mod, too] I immediately departed the plane. I had one of these guns but not on the island. The gun was aimed right at my house! I was even more scared. Boom! The Gustav fired. My beautiful house blew to pieces. Herobrine then appeared right in front of my face. The computer froze up and crashed. A video then began. This video lasted for around a minute and a half. It was of a man with a beard wearing robes and had white eyes. He just stared at the camera. Once the video ended, a black screen with white writing in the middle. "Had fun, Mr. Jonathan?" the writing said. I ran into the kitchen and pulled out lots of vodka, beer, whisky, and rum and drank my self out. I was paralyzed. I couldn't even go to church that Sunday. I still play Minecraft but I never fly my planes. Just remember this story.


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The 2017 Game Awards ceremony did its thing last week, and as the name implies, there were game awards handed out. But every year more and more people tune in to watch the show, not to see proud developers hoist little winged statues above their heads, but for the new game announcements and fresh trailers which have always been a staple of the Game Awards. This year's event was no exception, and we've put together a quick summary of the highlights to come out of the Microsoft Theatre, Los Angeles.
A Way Out is coming in March, and a friend can join your game for free
We saw A Way Out at E3, but the new gameplay footage shown off at the Game Awards gives us a much better idea of exactly what to expect from this strictly co-op action escapade. Best of all, director Josef Fares says that a friend will be able to join your adventure without having to buy a second copy of the game.
The next Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC is out now, and Link's got himself some new wheels
There's a sprawling new trailer for "The Champion's Ballad", the second DLC pack for the latest Legend of Zelda, and all anyone seems to want to talk about is his new motorbike. Which looks like a naughty seahorse with wheels.
FromSoftware teased everyone hard, with a bit of bone and some bloodied rope
Dark Souls creator FromSoftware gave us precisely half a minute of, well, something. All it says is "Shadows Die Twice," which could be a new game title, or just a little bit of a hint for a sequel aimed elsewhere… Bloodborne 2, perhaps? Probably a new game. Your guess is as good as mine.
Have a look at PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds desert map, Miramar, in full gameplay action
We've all been very excited about a new map coming to PUBG, but haven't had much to go on, except for its desert setting and a few new vehicles and such. The "Survive the Desert" trailer gives us a good look at the ins and outs of this new battleground, Miramar.
Hideo Kojima put together a massive cinematic trailer for Death Stranding, and we still have no idea what's going on
The new teaser for Death Stranding may be nearing on the ten minute mark, but still doesn't bring us much closer to knowing what it's about, when it's coming out, and why Daryl Dixon off of the telly is wearing a space suit.
Soulcalibur is making a comeback in 2018
I'd actually forgotten how much I enjoyed Soulcalibur until I saw this trailer. Those trails of light arcing off each sweep of the blade, the clash of steel on steel, the flowing frocks, so much to love. Bandai Namco used the 2017 Game Awards as a platform to tell the world that the esteemed franchise will be back with Soulcalibur VI sometime in 2018.
Witchfire is a dark and gritty new shooter from The Astronauts
The Astronauts' new game isn't the follow-up project you would have expected from the creators of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. It's a brutal, grimy shooter and it looks a lot like living inside a Cradle of Filth music video. Where do I sign up?
Sabre Interactive is making a World War Z game based on Brad Pitt's zombie apocalypse film
Are we still doing zombie apocalypse stuff? I guess it's perfect fodder for game developers, huh. As source material goes, 2013's World War Z is a solid start – it was one of the better zombie flicks to come out of Hollywood in a while, so lets see if Sabre Interactive can recreate that for gaming audiences.
Bayonetta 3 is coming, and it's a Nintendo Switch exclusive
Nintendo is proving over and over again that the Switch is a legitimate option for the hardcore gamer, not just those with a penchant for moustachioed plumbers and other cuddly characters. Having Bayonetta 3 as an exclusive for the Switch is as exciting as it is surprising.
And that just about wraps it up. Did I miss anything super important? Shout at me about it in the comments below.


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In recognition of her remarkable academic and athletic performances this season, Arkansas women's track and field captain Taylor Ellis-Watson has been voted to the 2015-16 CoSIDA Academic All-District 6 First Team.
Since her arrival in Fayetteville in 2013, the Philadelphia native has distinguished herself as an elite student-athlete racking up Southeastern Conference honor roll accolades as well as 400-meter dash conference titles.
A nine-time All-American, Ellis-Watson has been racing to a breakout senior season collecting two NCAA silver medals during her indoor campaign and securing her claim as one of the best quarter-milers in program history off her 50.78 second record-breaking performance at the LSU Invitational.
The 2016 SEC Indoor Scholar Athlete of the Year, Ellis-Watson holds a 4.0 GPA as she pursues her masters in clinical and mental health counseling. She was recently selected as the University of Arkansas's H. Boyd McWhorter scholarship nominee for the 2015-16 academic year.
The No. 2 Razorback women's team return to competition May 26-28 at the NCAA West Preliminary in Lawrence, Kansas. The top 12 qualifiers in each event from the preliminary rounds advance to the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon, which will host the nation's best on June 8-11 at Hayward Field.
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In 2012 Roc Marciano is the slickest motherfucker on the planet, but it wasn't always that way. Despite over ten years perfecting his craft as a member of Flipmode Squad, The UN, (interesting situations that he thankfully never bats an eye at lyrically) and as a solo artist, when Roc dropped Marcberg in 2010, he was just getting around to telling his story to rap fans. Marcberg was an unequivocably strong testament, proving that a New York rapper with ties to 90's NYC rap could make a legitimate classic minimalistic boom-bap sample-based rap album over a decade removed from that era. Many considered Marcberg a throwback masterpiece, and there were obvious elements of a hustler's crack era nostalgia, but those who classified it as a successful 90's themed boom-bap record did miss the point a bit. There had been literally thousands of unsuccessful 90's NYC throwback albums over from '05 through '10, but with Marcberg Roc somehow managed to create a distinct artistic statement. Entirely produced and written by Roc – aside from one guest shot from Metal Clergy cohort Ka (a pattern Ka would mirror on his second album Grief Pedigree) – it was marked by a stark and dusty minimalism sonically and the words of a slick talking hustler with the unique ability to paint crystal clear imagery and illuminate his own set of Scarface dreams. Roc wasn't merely reminiscing about the 90's nor was he trying to relive them in 2010, he was narrating his own blaxploitation flick set nebulously in the crack era. The story line was one of criminality, street hustling, the pimp game, and turf wars.
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Album Review: Mr. MFN eXquire – Power & Passion EPPosted: November 8, 2012 in Album Review, Best of 4th Q 2012, Hip Hop
Tags: Blue Sky Black Death, El-P, Gucci Mane, Harry Fraud, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, SpaceGhostPurrp
The art of creating a memorable EP is a difficult task, especially in an era where music is consumed and left by the wayside at such a breakneck pace. For one, the brevity generally means that in order for it to be a truly successful product there can be absolutely no filler. If an artist attempts to make the product too cohesive it can end up sounding like one long song, but if an artist tries to showcase his versatility it often ends up sounding like a mess. Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire has dropped some high quality mixtapes over the last few years, which seemed to showcase an unprecedented potential to occupy a space somewhere between Kool Keith and Jay-Z, Gucci Mane, Ghostface, and El-P as eX has dropped allusions to Clockwork Orange, Weird Science, and Philip K. Dick novels right alongside references to Cari Zalloni frames and Maison Martin Margiela kicks over everything from pop/r&b instrumentals to spaced out Def Jux type beats and somehow manages to make his approach appealing to a fairly wide array of fans.
Coming into the game on the heels of the most substantial drought of talented New York rappers in rap history, there are many who have, or will place, high expectations on eXquire merely out of a desire to see NY return to a place of prominence in the music industry. Be that as it may, there is an ease with which eXquire navigates the rap world that is definitely unusual. Few artists can pull off collaborations with trap rappers and nerd rappers, and seem perfectly at home with both camps.


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Your air conditioner breaks down from time to time and today just seems like another one of those days. But, it turns out, today is different; your technician tells you the system is shot and needs to be replaced to the tune of $5000 or so.
There are times when a repair to an older system simply does not make financial sense. If the system is over 9 years old and requires a major repair, this can be a sign of future problems to come. Here in Tampa, most central air conditioning systems last about 12 years, so spending a small fortune on a system that may last just a few more years is not a good idea.
But before you install a new system here are a few questions to ask and red flags to look for:
1) How old is the system? If you don't know, the technician should. He or she can run the serial number and quickly determine when it was manufactured. If they don't know the age and still recommend replacement, they may being trying to reach sales goals set by the company they work for at your expense.
There are times when a senior tech can use clues as to the system age by simply looking at the cabinet design and color. If you have a round Carrier outdoor unit, for example, that design clue indicates it was made in the 80's or 90's and is at least 20 years old. Most brands undergo extensive design changes every 10-15 years or so and the older styles are immediately apparent to a trained eye.
If the technician hasn't run the serial number, chances are he or she can't tell the difference between a 5 year old system or a 12 year system, the condition of the equipment not withstanding. (Some systems just look old as the weather conditions here in Tampa take their toll).
Conclusion? The technician should know by the serial number how old the system is before they make a system replacement recommendation. If the serial number is worn off, they still should be able to explain why the style and condition of your air conditioner or heat pump system gives clues as to the age.
2) How much is the recommended repair? As a general rule, the closer the system is to 12 years of age, the less you will want to spend on any given AC repair. If the system is 9 years or older, I personally would suggest limiting the cost of a repair to $400 or less.
Of course, this number can arguably be higher or lower, but ask yourself this: What are the odds of another breakdown in the next several years? With each passing year, these odds mount against you in favor of a system replacement.
3) Is the system under warranty? It's stunning to me the number of times we receive a call from a customer who has been told they need a new system only to discover that, upon arriving at the jobsite, the existing repair is under warranty. Beginning around 2009, almost every central air conditioning system now carries a 10 year warranty and warranty status, of course, should be part of your consideration.
If you or the technician suspect the system is less than 15 years old and don't know the exact date of installation, the serial number should be checked to determine if the system is under warranty.
If you're dealing with a new A/C repair company you know little about, it just makes good sense to check them out and get a second opinion on both the repair cost and whether a new system is justified.
Check their reviews and see what other homeowners have to say. But make sure the reviews are real and are verified by an independent and trusted third party, such as Nearby Now, the company we use to gather and post our customer reviews.
If you've been told you need an expensive repair or a complete air conditioner installation anywhere in the Tampa area, give us a call. Our technicians average almost 2 decades of experience and are fully qualified to provide you with the honest facts you need to make an informed decision before you invest thousands needlessly.
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Hey Ladies. So its that time of year again. Where we all in a way groan and sigh and start thinking of things to give up to take away our happiness and its time to be in a state of sorrow where Joy isn't allowed.
No. That is not lent. That is not how we should approach lent. I know there are different opinions on lent and different spiritual understandings of lent. But none the less, lent is not a time to take away our happiness and all things "good" in life to replace it with saying that we're bad people and need to get better and we have to appreciate what we have. Some people might have this mindset and others might not.
What is lent anyway? I say the Lenten season is all about opportunity and flourishing. Can you think of a time where something was holding you back from the next big thing and you had to get rid of it this block somehow in order to get to that next big thing? Well, lent is the perfect time where we see that rock or obstacle keeping us back from living our life in a way that is true, good, and beautiful and we face it and overcome it.
What is that next big thing? I don't know. You may or may not know but God knows. He's the one that can see the whole puzzle when we only see the puzzle piece. So that "next big thing" or "opportunity" we're trying to go towards is Christ. Its Christ because once we are face to face with him, everything else falls into its place and then we know we are exactly where we are supposed to be.
What is that "obstacle" or "rock" we are trying to overcome? Well, most of the time it's ourselves and our sin. "Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted and he himself tempts no one; but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full grown brings forth death." (James 1:13-15).
I don't know about you ladies, but I don't want to die, actually, I want to live with Christ, here and in heaven. That is the goal! But it's obviously harder than just thinking it into being and it happening right away, at least for us humans. Living this life can be beautiful and full of joy and love. We CAN live a life of freedom from sin. Its possible! I promise. It also takes work. These next couple days let's ease into lent and all that comes with it. Let's get our minds prepared and focused on this journey ahead. It is a journey so remember that no journey is complete without a few bumps in the road.
God bless you sisters. You are loved!


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I know that i'm late to the party with this one. The thing is that I hate to beat a man when he's already down. I figured enough time has elapsed since that now famous interview. I'm talking about NHL hockey player Jonathan Bernier and how he answered a reporter during an evening in honour of Nelson Mandela. I'm pretty sure that I don't need to explain who the latter is, right ?
The interview in question:
Reporter1 (SportsNet mic): Alright Jonathan, how important is, uh, the legacy of Nelson Mandela to you?
JB: Well obviously he's been, uh, a tremendous, uh, athlete and you know obviously what, uh, he means to all the sports you know when you know the worl- the world can uh be changed by the sports it's pretty amazing. And I think he's definitely uh got a lot of respect in every sports and uh he's definitely one of the athletes I watched growing up as well.
Reporter1's mic disappears from frame
Reporter2: Why is it important for you to come show support tonight?
JB: Well I think any good cause is, uh, sorry (he's apologizing to someone to the left of the screen, not sure who/why), it's always, uh, you know I love supporting, uh, any kind of cause obviously it's for the Afri-, in Africa it's obviously it's, uh, a great cause, and enjoying, I guess, the basketball game.
Reporter2: Thanks.
The interview is too painful to watch so I spared you all the video clip.
This brings me to my point of this sad story. How can a 26 year old educated man not know who Nelson Mandela is ? I'm willing to bet that even some red neck hillbilly from the deep south of America would know who Nelson Mandela is. I have a theory that the school he attended in Laval most likely preferred to add other subjects to the curriculum. It most likely consisted of Quebec history and how we stole the land from the Indians or how René Lévesque got screwed on the "night of long knives" and how Les Canadiens repatriated the constitution without Quebec's approval.
Never mind the man that spent 27 years of his life in prison because he stuck to his convictions. Never mind the man that ended apartheid in South Africa. Never mind the man that can teach every single child on this planet a lesson of humility, resilience and compassion.
I sincerely hope that this was an isolated occurrence because if not, it speaks to volumes on how backward thinking our education system is in Quebec.


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The economic crisis might leave growth-oriented companies like Twitter with little choice but to start focusing on the bottom line.
Blurring the lines between what is a floor and what is a ceiling, the Jenga-like structure of Final Wooden House allows its occupiers to decide how to use the space according to their position.
The use of the typically green/red colored treemaps to depict the stock market exchange is not particularly new, especially for those who know the now famous SmartMoney Map of the Market. However, FinViz.com takes the more traditional flat treemap version one step further by introducing a 2.5-dimensional perspective [finviz.com] as well as a geographical overview [finviz.com] version.
Yet another competitor of Many Eyes, Swivel, Track-n-Graph, WidGenie and the just-posted iCharts: Trendrr [trendrr.com] has the capability to track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of inputs, ranging from search engine results, news stories, social networks, to blog buzz and video views downloads.
I'm not sure how many of you are catching up with BBC TV via iPlayer on your Wii but apparently it's been a less than satisfactory experience. The Beeb has now tweaked it all though to make sure that all you arm-wavers will have a much easier time with iPlayer from now on.
Google Earth. On the iPhone. That is, I would imagine, all you need to know to send you careening off to the App Store, from where you can grab the free download of Google's Aerial Opus.
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Stay Sharp: How to Sharpen Your Fish Hooks
Here's how to sharpen your fish hooks the right way.
When was the last time you sharpened your fish hooks?
For most anglers, the answer to that question is either "I can't remember" or the probably more honest "never." It simply is not something that many of us think to do. At least not until we lose a big fish. Then we tell ourselves that we will sharpen all our hooks as soon as we get home and well... we forget. Other things come up and before you know it you are back out on the water with the same dull hooks. Let's change that and sharpen your fish hooks.
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The first thing that you want to do is test the sharpness of your hooks to determine whether or not they require sharpening. You will probably come to find that the hooks from older lures are very dull while newer hooks tend to maintain their sharpness for longer periods of time. Modern chemical sharpening processes have greatly improved the life of hook points. However, they will still need to be sharpened eventually.
To test your hooks, use caution and apply the point of the hook to the surface of your thumbnail. A sharp hook will stick to your nail with very little pressure whereas a dull hook will slide right off and offer very little resistance. There is no need to try and get the hook to leave a mark on your nail as some might suggest. With enough pressure, any hook is capable of that. The hook point testing method is much safer and is an overall better indicator of superior hook sharpness.
Once you have determined which hooks you are going to sharpen, it is time to gather your supplies. Although there are plenty of commercial hook sharpeners on the market, there is no reason to make an extra purchase if you don't already own one. A metal file or your knife sharpening stone are both perfectly capable of honing your hooks back to needle-point sharpness.
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Once you have your tools and lures in one place, you are ready to start working on your hook points. Work the file up towards the point of the hook from the bottom near the barb and repeat that process around the entire circumference of the hook. Continue to repeat the thumbnail test periodically as you sharpen. Once that hook sticks into your nail without a lot of pressure, it's done. If you are using a knife sharpening stone, it will be easier to move the hook in the correct direction instead of the stone. Just make sure to work the hook in the correct direction. You want to be working from shank to point. This will ensure a sharp hook without a ton of effort.
This process can be a little trickier on treble hooks. However, it will just take some extra patience. If you need some extra motivation to get you through the process, just think of all the fish you have lost in the past. It is also great practice to improve your patience for the next time you are waiting for a bite on your next fishing trip.
One important thing to remember about the sharpening process is that you will be removing some of the protective finish that was originally on the hook. This can lead to rust developing faster than usual; especially if you are a saltwater angler. Just make it a habit to check your hooks a little more often and maintenance will be easy. A little protective oil never hurt a hook, and is a great idea especially for the lures that might hold a place of honor in your tackle box.
So now that you know the process behind sharpening hooks, and just how easy it really is, I encourage you to go get your tackle box and get started. I mean right now. Don't put it off a moment longer! It will only take an hour or two of your time and you will not regret it the next time a huge fish slams your lure and you are posing for a picture with another great catch.
How often do you sharpen your fish hooks? Let us know in the comments section below and be honest!
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Total Nerd The Best Hawkeye Villains, Foes and Enemies
List Rules Vote up the best villains Hawkeye has gone up against.
Hawkeye has been with the Avengers a very long time. That, plus the fact the he was initially a bad guy trying to rob the Avengers, means this guy has a whole slew of bad guys. But thankfully for everyone, he is now on the side of good and has plenty of evil villains and enemies to fight.
His having been around for quite a while has yielded him quite the array of villains from Marvel's big bads (from Magneto to Mephisto) to the more obscure villains (Albino to the Stone Perfs). There's also an odd amount of similarly named villains in his roster, besides the obvious bow and arrow themed rogues, there are two guys named Trick Shot, two sets of Death-Throws, and Batroc and Batrocs Brigade. And let's not forget the Tracksuit Bros.!It's quite the roster Hawkeye has amassed over the years, vote up your favorite Hawkeye enemies below!
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California is one of those places that everyone has seen, thanks to the wonders of the silver screen, but most people have never experienced. It's famed for sunshine and starlets and silicone (and I got to see sunshine at least), but it was the only point in three months of travelling where I felt cold, incessant sunshine or no. Ontario hot, California cold, who'd a-thunk it?
We left San Diego and its perennially cheerful sky (apparently it only changes there when the Santa Ana sweeps in and puts everything on edge) and headed up the unnaturally wide Californian highway to San Francisco where we finally caught up with the heat - in fact a freak heatwave which topped a hundred degrees. I experienced over a hundred a couple of times on the tour, as far north even as Toronto, but England has never recorded temperatures over a hundred, giving me something else new to experience.
Our stop overnight was in Pismo Beach, midway-ish, which was where I found I could stand underneath the light in the bathroom every now and again to stop shivering. It wasn't quite what I expected from sundrenched California... the tv movie about Bill Gates seemed a bit more like it though.
First, however, was the sprawling mass that is Los Angeles. We didn't stop, just skirted it on the highway, but every road sign pointing inwards brought home to me just how much LA has become part of modern culture. Chicago had much that seemed familiar from film, but here it seemed that I recognised the name of every street, road or boulevard. To all you Cosmonauts who make it your home - do you really have to look both ways before crossing the road, just in case someone's shooting a car chase down it?
After LA was a long drive up the San Andreas Fault - you can look right across from the highway to see where the ground has torn itself apart at some point or other. Somehow I felt safe, but I'm not sure why - this is land in flux and there's nothing to suggest that it's done churning yet. Before the start of the tour, Teri had sent me this site which constantly updates with every new quake that hits California. I knew all about land in flux, or so I thought, but this site lists forty to fifty quakes every single day in California. That's a bit more in flux than I'd have liked to know about...
I'm not sure where we forgot to turn off the main highway to drive the highly recommended Route 1 up the coast past Carmel and yet more towns I've seen in the movies, but forget we did, leaving us a trip less interesting visually but that we made up for in conversation. Treacle tended to drop off in the back seat, maybe because Teri and I were well stuck into hitech shop talk.
Not only are we in the same business but we were due to stay in Los Gatos, south of San Francisco, as guests of Teri's brother who is a much more major name in the industry than either of us. He proved to be an interesting character - I really wasn't expecting a British new wave fan in northern California - and he and his wife were charming hosts. Check out Dan's latest online venture, NameZero, and sign yourself up.
We spent a little time wandering around Los Gatos - it's a strange place. The houses are nice houses, but half the neighbourhood is a building site where people were rebuilding and renovating as best they could under strict construction laws. The houses also seemed relatively crammed together, at least by the American standards that I was starting to become used to - by English standards they were well spread out. The surrounding hillside was gorgeous too, but I'm not sure how people can justify the almost seven-figure prices. It seems that any buyer would just be paying to put Los Gatos in their address. Maybe this is the California that the movies tell us about.
Los Gatos is only one of a number of smaller towns south of San Francisco, and they are the home to many a Cosmonaut. I managed to avoid all of them on our drive into San Fran proper, knowing that I was going to try to organise something, at the last minute as always. I spent a while phoning round players and a meetup of sorts came together for the day after the day after.
But first it was the Golden Gate which is golden only in symbolism. You can curve up a road behind the Golden Gate and wander ever closer watching it appear over the lip of the hill. And while it doesn't seem that big while you're driving over it, moving up the hill it felt like I was almost on top of the thing. I'm not surprised that the people who paint it never stop, as the bridge is big and the wind off the ocean was strong.
And of course the non-existent fog won't help much either. Maybe it was my presence screwing up local weather patterns, as it did in Texas and was to do in Seattle, but there was no fog creeping up the bay like a thousand and one blues songs had warned me about. I could picture Jorma Kaukonen waking up and gazing in puzzlement. "Looked outside my window, fog came up the bay... nah doesn't work. Let's try something else."
The Golden Gate is a toll bridge, but for some bizarre reason that only works one way - maybe the round trip just takes far too long to be a valid alternative. But we got through for free anyway by having three people in the car. I like these Californian traffic laws - we cross toll bridges for free and whizz down the highway in empty car pooling lanes. Of course if you try to cross the road on foot, you'll probably be arrested for jaywalking. Yeah, seriously. I guess America really is the land of the car.
And the next day seems a convenient point to pause, for here's where we split our schedules. Teri and Treacle went off to see Fisherman's Wharf and catch parts of the Extreme Games, and I headed in different directions to catch up with Bilt who has seen San Francisco evolve and mutate through many years. So, in the next enthralling episode of...
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East London Humanists article Newham Recorder May 2017.
In an extraordinary intervention the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have attempted to make faith an election issue. At the same time they have insulted the countless decent people who have no religious belief and who play an important part in the life of this country.
In their pre-election letter to the Parishes and Chaplaincies of the Church of England the Archbishops denounce the growth of secularism and call for faith to play a central role in politics. The letter makes the bold assertion that: 'Religious belief is the well-spring for the virtues and practices that make for good individuals, strong relationships and flourishing communities…' Really?
Where does their claim leave all the excellent non-faith schools? Or the non-faith based youth groups? These include the Scouts and Guides who recently abandoned any religious qualification for membership. Are they not equally capable of creating good individuals, strong relationships and flourishing communities? Are non-religious parents somehow less able to raise good children than religious parents? Are the sacrifices and dedication of nurses and police who don't believe in God of less value than that of believers?
The letter is from a Church that enjoys a position of power and privilege completely out of place in a modern diverse Britain. Their Bishops have an automatic right to sit in the House of Lords and decide on our laws without the inconvenience of having to stand for election. Church of England schools, often state-funded, continue to turn away pupils who are of the 'wrong' faith or belief, and often from poorer families. While the letter celebrates this country's Christian heritage it is silent on the Church's less than perfect record on women's rights, gay rights and child abuse.
The letter correctly recognises the importance of this election and the many challenges we face. However, elevating the role of faith in our political life is not the answer. On the contrary, the best recipe for peace, social cohesion and progress is a secular nation where all are treated and valued equally regardless of their religion or belief.
Paul Kaufman
Chair East London Humanists.'


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