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Habit: An erect subshrub, upto 1m.
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Sub-shrubs, viscid tomentose. Leaves to 5 x 5 cm, orbicular, 3-5-angled, cordate at base, 3-7-nerved from base, densely hairy beneath; petiole 1-3 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, long-pedicelled; involucral bracts 10-12, 7-8 mm long, linear, ciliate; calyx 5-lobed, 2 mm long, ovate; corolla to 25 mm across, yellow; staminal tube short, oblique, anthers with long filaments; ovary 5-celled, ovule 1 in each cell, style 10-fid above; stigma capitate. Mericarps 5, 3 x 2 mm, trigonous, smooth.
Flowering and fruiting: August-February
In axillary, solitary; pink or white. Flowering throughout the year.
A globose schizocarp, pubescent; seed 1 per mericarp, reniform. Fruiting throughout the year.
Branchlets viscid, stellate-pubescent. Leaves 5-nerved from base. Epicalyx segments 8-12. Sap very sticky.
Simple or Plamately lobed
Notes: Scrub jungles
Scrub jungles and dry deciduous forests
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram
Found in scrub jungles, arable or fallow fields and roadsides from plains to 500m. Common. India and Africa.
Karnataka: Belgaum, Hassan, Mysore
Kerala: Idukki, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram
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text: The Cost of Obamacare State Exchanges by John Sexton Mar 25, 2013 12:28 PM PT Share This: Print Reason magazine highlights a recent analysis of the cost of setting up and maintaining the Obamacare insurance exchange in California by health consultant Robert Laszewski: The California exchange, "Covered California," has so far awarded a $183 million contract to Accenture to build the website, enrollment, and eligibility system and another $174 million to operate the exchange for four years. There's also a $250 million ad budget (over two years) which includes lots of targeted ethnic appeals and celebrity outreach efforts. Adding all of this together, federal grants to California to create, maintain and market Obamacare now total $910 billion. So how does this compare to similar private industry efforts? For some additional perspective I took a look at what it cost to launch the private insurance marketing site, Esurance. That company sells not only health insurance but also things like homeowners and auto insurance across the country. When I put my zip code into their system along with my age, they offered me 87 different health plans from all the big players in my area. Now granted, the new health insurance exchanges are more complex because they have to interface with Medicaid and the IRS as well as calculate subsidies. But the order of magnitude difference in what it cost to launch esurance compared to the California exchange is pretty big. Privately funded Esurance began its multi-product national web business in 1998 with an initial $5.5 million round of venture fund investment in 1999 and a second round of $34 million a few months later. So $40 million for private industry to set up a nationwide car insurance exchange that now also offers home, life, renters and health insurance vs. $910 million for the Obamacare exchange in California alone. Advertising and the Efficiency of Competition by John Hayward Mar 25, 2013 3:25 PM PT Share This: Print In response to The Cost of Obamacare State Exchanges: That's a fascinating contrast, John. I was talking about the ObamaCare exchanges during an interview a while back, and the host interrupted to ask exactly what the exchanges are. They're much discussed, and their costs are blasting into orbit along with the rest of this boondoggle, but people don't entirely get the point of their existence. I made the comparison to advertising, and only wish I could have cited the hard numbers from the contrast with Esurance you wrote about, because it perfectly illustrates one of ObamaCare's core flaws. (And to be fair, it was a serious problem with the previous health insurance regime, which is one reason the Left was able to harness enough public discontent to drop ObamaCare on us.) Competition is an order of magnitude more efficient than government control. On the one hand, you've got lean and hungry organizations aggressively seeking out the least expensive way to market their products to a wide audience; on the other, you have government agencies finding ways to "raise awareness," with a general attitude that money is really no object. Advertising itself is a highly competitive industry, selling its services to other industries. Free-market corporations looking to attract customers will always run rings around bloated bureaucracies looking to calculate eligibility and stuff citizens into yet another flabby program with hardened arteries. There are three big problems which prevent the full power of free-market competition from illuminating health insurance: First, even before ObamaCare, it was so heavily regulated that no one could describe it as a "free" market with a straight face, and the public is generally inclined to feel nervous about the idea of de-regulating anything pertaining to health care. 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Situated in the prime tourist area just west of the city of Funchal, in the popular Forum area, this is a spacious well equipped 1 bedroom apartment on the 7th floor. The apartment has twin beds which can be joined to make a large double, a full modern bathroom, spacious lounge with cable TV and DVD player and well equipped kitchen. There is a large south facing balcony with table and chairs, looking out to the ocean where you can sit and soak up the sun. The apartment complex has a large pool which is normally very quiet. Shops, bars and restaurants are all within an easy walk, so too is the promenade where you can walk through gardens to the Lido area or turn west to the well-known rocky inlets and pools at Doco de Cavacas (with a long floodlit tunnel giving access to one of the best local beaches at Praia Formosa). The city centre is a 30 minute walk or very short trip by bus or taxi. Secure parking is available if you wish to hire a car. All towels & linen inc beach towels. Super-fast 30Mbps Wi-Fi broadband was added in April 2013 and the cable TV upgraded to a HD box with a choice of 114 channels.
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- wheelchair accessible
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Thank you so much for letting me enjoy Madeira from your beautiful apartment - so light and modern with every facility, including a gorgeous pool. Lot and lots of swimming and relaxing. The island is a delight and we did lots of walking and exploring. A lovely holiday in all respects. Sylvia (UK).
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Hazel Cottage
Cottage | 1 bedrooms | sleeps 2
|Key Info
Located in the hamlet of Gawthrop, only 0.8 of a mile from Dent is the 4* rates Hazel Cottage which has been tastefully restored to create a stunning cottage for up to two people.
To the front, the porch has been rebuilt with oak timbers and a stable door, leading through to the open plan living area with log burning stove, flat screen television with free sat, and soft furnishings by Laura Ashley. The kitchen area is equipped with a breakfast bar, built in appliances including a fridge freezer, dishwasher, washer/dryer, microwave, electric oven and hob with extractor.
Upstairs leads to a double bedroom (4' 6") with a wall mounted flat screen television, oak furnishings, built in wardrobe and views over the low level stone out-houses towards Dent Village. On the same landing is a bespoke bathroom with roll top bath, bath robes, wc hand basin and separate shower cubicle with power shower.
There are stunning photographs of local views by Emma Amsden upstairs and down.
A high efficiency central heating system and lashings of hot water for that roll top bath.
Outside to the front is a small paved area with table and chairs, and across the quiet road is a triangular lawn area running parallel to Oliver Gill.
Linen and towels are provided with heat, light and a generous fuel allowance for the wood burning stove. Free parking. Bicycle or motorcycle storage.
1 pet permitted (ground floor only).
No Smoking.
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The Cumbria/Lake District
Dentdale offers a tranquil base to tour both The Yorkshire Dales & Lake District National Parks. Just 10 miles from Junction 37 of the M6, although you would never know as you cruise over Barth Bridge with Comb Scar above.
The cobbled centre of Dent village, with it's whitewashed cottages real ale pubs & tea shops/cafes is less than 25 miles from Windermere & The Lakes.
Dent has England's highest railway station at over 1000ft up on the famous Settle to Carlisle railway, offering a daily scheduled service to Carlisle & Leeds. There are also regular steam hauled trains that power up the steep gradients, through the nearby Blea Moor tunnel & over Dent Head & Arten Gill viaducts.
Located in The Western Dales area of The Yorkshire Dales National Park, Dentdale is a very special place to come & stay.
A tranquil haven, Dentdale is 10 miles long, with the high fells including Whernside, Aye Gill Pike & Great Combe dominating the skyline, with The Howgill fells & Lakeland peaks to the west.
2 real ale pubs in Dent , both serve food until 8.30pm, 2 tea shops/cafes & a village store that is also the post office on Tuesday & Thursday morning. The Heritage Centre, (museum of local history) artist's studio & village store.
Great walks & cycle routes, low & high level, sea views out in to Morecambe Bay from the top of Crag Hill. Lazy walks along the banks of the River Dee & The Dales Way.
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Will you dance for me tonight
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I am gentle, loving and kind by a fault.
I play guitar. I'm extroverted and friendly. I love tea, sushi, Pink Floyd, 1000 thread count sheets, thunderstorms and making people feel good about themselves. I practice Buddhist principles and do not partake in any mind-altering substances. I love spirituality and religion, but not necessarily the people involved. I have depression and an eating disorder but it does not define me. I constantly strive to live a healthy fulfilling life.
• You don't care about your weight
• Your weight is irrelevant
• You deserve to eat
• Actually, you have to eat
• You're allowed to eat "too much" but you're definitely not allowed to eat too little
• People don't look at you and wonder why you've gained weight or gotten bigger
• Because in fact they haven't noticed at all
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If there are two wishes I have had recently it is to
1. Be thin
2. Have a sizable amount of money.
then I think I'd be done with all this shit. i know, bad thinking but i think it all the time. I have to walk through the clothes department and it's sad that I can't fit into all the cute stuff I see. The "Macy Women" department aka the fat girls clothes, are sometimes nice, but very expensive. I'm glad there are a few stores that carry cute stuff, but still…I would love to have a wider range of what I can look at. I know I could do something about it. I just ned to turn my sulking into something more productive.
People starving when tons of unsold food is thrown away globally because people couldn't afford to purchase the food, that's violence.
People dying and going bankrupt to pay for their healthcare, that's violence.
People being evicted from their homes when there are more houses than there are houseless people, that's violence.
This is so important.
that's capitalism
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Had a moment this week that was not good. The night before I was up binging of course, and then I didn't eat anything the next day. I have an hiatial hernia, for various reasons, and I have bad acid reflux if I don't watch it. It is like pure acid burning in your esophagus and into your throat. It is incredibly painful. It usually happens when I'm sleeping, and I wake up choking it on it. I do take some medication for it and it seems to help for a little while.
I'm at work, adjusting a few things on a shelf and all of a sudden it was like Mt. Vesuvius in my throat and I had no idea. I drank the rest of the water and went to the breakroom to get more water. I chewed two pieces of trident but that didn't work. I went into the bathroom and tried vomit all it up but that was just worse. I finally called my boss and asked him if I could leave, and then asked a sweet lady at Chanel to close my register. She has a hernia there and understands.
Now here's where things get weird. I had such bad a night once that I read online you're supposed to take 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar. I thought it was crazy but it WORKS. It's insane how well it works. So now I have to figure out how to carry vinegar to work! But I'm wondering what it's doing to my teeth.
The worst thing is tasting what your digestive juices taste like. It's like soap. It reminds me some crap I had to drink before some x-ray or CT scan I had. It's disgusting.
No binging for a while, although, I did have 4-5 times the potion I should have had. :\
"You look good, like you've lost a bit of weight"
Now the person that said this to me today is a very nice, genuine lady I work with and she's very sweet. I am sure she was just trying to say something positive to me. BUT…I was wearing a shirt that fit me different and I didn't have binge bloat. So I will say, with this exception, that it just makes me feel so weird when someone says that to me. Like, "hey I know you're fat but you've lost some of that weight and that's great!" I don't know. It's just a weird thing to say to someone. Why can't you just say, "hey, you look beautiful today!"
I am binging tonight. I don't have to work tomorrow, I have some yummies in the freezer and I'm staying up late. I know it's bad. Right now I don't care.
I think I posted about it yesterday, but what is with the sub for my psych nurse doing when he changed my meds from 1mg Klonopin at night, 15 prn for 30 days, and he changes it to 1mg twice a day. What??? Not that I'm arguing about it because I could use it during my panic attacks at night, but I'm wondering if he looked at my chart and thought okay, this bitch be crazy, lets up the dose?


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Let's hope this massive Christian movement realizes that the administration it elected pursues some very un-Christian values, such as worsening the lives of the poorest among us while deepening the pockets of America's wealthiest. We should always make charitable giving a priority, but it's never been more important than during this Republican regime.
In the aftermath of the election, many people pointed to the political pendulum that has swung back and forth throughout U.S. history. If you don't care for where it is now, it'll swing back sooner or later.
That may be true, but it doesn't keep people from tugging on it one way or another in the meantime. When one side becomes complacent, it loses ground to the other.
Our goals on many key issues--national security, crime, education--aren't that different. What seems to divide us is how we live our private lives.
A nation founded on diversity and religious freedom should keep those principles in place. We pursue our own happiness, but we shouldn't try to prescribe happiness, or morality, for anyone else. The majority rules in elections, but it must not usurp a minority's rights. The majority rules the government, but not the bedroom.
The reason we don't have organized prayer in public schools is because of the minority who might not subscribe, but whose rights must be honored and protected. If one side wasn't attempting to impose its religious beliefs on others, such as by erecting a Ten Commandments monument in a county courthouse, then maybe the other side wouldn't push to have the words "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.
It is far too simplistic to expect that we could all just get along, as Rodney King pleaded. Reason, however, is a necessity.
To lead successfully, America's ruling majority, many of whom are probably reasonable people, need to recognize the danger of absolutes. For example, outlawing abortion doesn't stop abortion, just like outlawing guns doesn't eradicate guns. But you can strive to reduce abortion.
We should focus on sex education, on preventing unplanned pregnancies, and on encouraging the adoption of unwanted children. Preach abstinence if you want to, but if you really want to reduce the number of abortions, don't deny access to contraceptives. Abortion is on the decline, and everyone agrees that's the right direction. No one is pro-abortion.


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Technology changes fast, while the federal government struggles—and usually fails—to update its procurement policies to match. It's not a new problem, and it continues to be an ever-present challenge.
If the way feds procure IT – spending some $80 billion each year, 80 percent of it to maintain legacy technology and old investments – does not change, industry and government acquisition experts fear a decline in the development of new IT solutions and innovations that could otherwise improve government.
"Procurement is the silent killer of innovation," said Michael Byrne, geographic information officer at the Federal Communications Commission, in what was certainly the line of the day at the Aug. 22 Lowering the Cost of Government with IT Summit in Washington, D.C.
Byrne's line summed up in one sentence the arguments made by several speakers, including the day's keynote given by the White House's top contracting policy executive Joseph Jordan, to promote strategic sourcing initiatives and push for agile development over "waterfall" approaches to IT projects when applicable.
Agile development – breaking up larger projects into modular or incremental pieces – has been used successfully in a number of federal agencies already, including the United States Postal Service. The goal, Jordan said, should be for agencies to get away from large contracts locked in over several years in favor of a modular approach in which an agency works closely with its vendor partners on a series of shorter projects with closely defined goals and metrics to measure progress by.
Jordan said this approach can help agencies avoid expensive projects that go nowhere, and there is plenty of room for the government's 36,000 contracting officers and total acquisition workforce of 200,000 people to improve. Over the past decade, the federal government has blown at least $9.2 billion on failed IT investments, according to the Government Accountability Office.
"Too frequently, we try to throw the Hail Mary pass in every IT development," Jordan said, using a football analogy. "But we've only got a few Tom Bradys running these things, so let's make the process work."
Yet the savings are there to be had.
The Department of Homeland Security, for example, used strategic sourcing to save $200 million on office supplies and shipping in fiscal 2010 alone, according to Dr. Michael Valivullah, chief technology officer at the Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Jordan called on feds to take more risks in IT acquisition, part of a "cultural mindset shift" he hopes feds will adopt. Fearful of retribution from oversight bodies like GAO or inspectors general, Jordan said, procurement officials take the "lowest risk" solution instead of the one that has the biggest benefit to the agency's mission and taxpayers.
If federal acquisition regulations do not expressly forbid a decision and if it "comports with sound business judgment, you can do it," Jordan said.
Projects will still bottom out sometimes, and some failures might even merit a dreaded explanatory hearing before Congress or an unsightly audit, Jordan said, but if the project was based properly on analytics and a thought-out path, "we'll learn and do better the next time." He argued that failing fast and small is better than one huge, drawn-out failure.
"I get the oversight culture, but we've got to get past that, and got to get a focus on what is the best outcome for the agency mission and taxpayers," Jordan said.
Acquisition officials stressed the government is at a crossroads in dealing with how it purchases IT.
Big jumps in mission performance come from innovation, but innovation often requires investment dollars that most agencies do not have.
Keith Trippie, executive director for the Enterprise System Development Office at DHS, said if agencies want faster projects, they may have to accept a tradeoff in terms of a project's completeness. Looking toward the future at DHS, Trippie said nobody wants to spend 18 months procuring technology that might be obsolete by completion, but is rolling out an incomplete project faster actually a better option?
"Are we willing to do tradeoffs, where an 80-percent solution quickly is better than a 100-percent solution that takes 2-3 years? Are we willing to?" Trippie said. "That's a fundamental question. We [feds] need help on the business side."
Mark Day, acting deputy assistant commissioner of Integrated Technology Services at GSA, which oversees a large portion of federal IT investment, said his department is forecasting possible IT procurement shifts years in advance to stay ahead of the curve in acquisition.
"We're looking at where the puck is going to be in 2-3 years, not where it is today," Day said. "We all know acquisition lead times are less than desirable, they are not what we'd like in in order to be real-time."
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Agile will only succeed once the core components and reusable capabilities to be assembled through agile methods are documented and matured. Think of it this way, its like constructing solutions with play-doh versus assembly using Lego.
Another killer of innovation has been sequestration. We are technologically loosing ground to adversaries. The reason is the way sequestration was executed was first to protect all employees, then recap budgets and if anything was left it funded technology development. Guess what - in most agency cases there are no technology innovation dollars left. In a commercial environment a budget cut would have involved 10% layoffs, 20% reduction in recap (servers will last another year), and left money for innovation, otherwise you loose competitiveness. Why can't government be run like this?
Don't miss the basic problem. Programs need performance engineering to first test operations true tech needs; otherwise, wish-list requirements drive scope and set up these big, expensive IT projects, which we try to parse by "agile" thinking (not the fix). We then point the finger at contracting officers - wrong again. FCW should have the author work on the root of the problem and discover some workable solutions. See Computerworld June 6 for some ideas. Good luck all!
I really wish I had not been around so long as to see another example of how the Federal Governement cannot learn from history. This article, the subject of the article and the quotes from those within the article could easily be a reprint of an article from 1995. We (the Federal Government) never adopted Clinger-Cohen and those in decision-making positions that "don't agree" with the Agile Development approach will not implement it and 20 years from now nothing will have changed except I won't have to live through it again.
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The Word "Competition" is Not in the Bible
- Thursday, August 22, 2013
The minute you start worrying about other people, other ministries or other churches, you begin to fall to the temptation of trying to control outcomes. That is sin. That is a failure to trust God and it is pride and an affront to God. Satan's strategy is to destroy the effectiveness of Christianity by creating disunity and competition among His body.
The psalmist wrote, "Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity" (Psalm 133:1).
Have you contributed to an independent spirit within His Body? God calls Christians to a higher Kingdom economy that has no competition. He instructs us to serve others. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others" (Philippians 2:3).
Are you seeking to help break down walls of competition among Christians, churches, para-church groups, denominations, and ethnic groups? Do you want to break the competitive spirit in you or your organization? Do something for someone else in which you get no direct benefit. That will begin to break that competitive independent spirit.
Until we walk in the spirit of unity, we will hinder those in whom God has reserved a place in Heaven. Pray for His Church to be unified.
Os Hillman is president of Marketplace Leaders and author of Change Agent and TGIF: Today God Is First, a free email daily devotional.
Publication date: August 22, 2013
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For my twitter follower assignment I chose to follow John A Byrne. Byrne is an Editor In Chief at a national magazine website. On his twitter account, he regularly posts headlines to articles he is covering for his website. Topics such as Indian and Chinese MBA applicants being rejected or debunking myths about Harvard University. Many of his updates announce which of his site's articles were the most viewed for that day. Byrne appears to be a very good listener and responds to questions commentors post on his Twitter page. As an Editor in Chief, Byrne appears to be running his site very efficiently and always seems willing to answer any questions about how to get into journalism.
Adieu, Facebook
I am happy to say that as soon as I finish logging my blog posts, all I have to do is share them (along with the final paper) on SpiderOak and I am done for the module! More importantly, however, I am done with Facebook!
I never wanted to get a Facebook and was properly angry when I learned that my group was doing Facebook for the research project. I only had my closest friends and my group members as friends on the site but it still frustrated me. It was nice to see pictures of my friends who are going to school all around the country but other than that I felt like such a creep every time I was on there. I like my privacy, I love it, in fact, and I'm proud to say I emerged from Module 2 without an addiction to such an infamously-addicting website.
Oh the Places You'll Go!
I have spent my entire life practically chained to south jersey. I was born here, I grew up here, and when college gave me the opportunity to escape, I ended up staying here. At 20 years old, I haven't visited even half of the 50 states and I left the country once for just about 2 hours. While Laredo, Mexico was a dirty, humid town were street vendors almost threatened us into buying worthless products, those two hours gave me a taste of life outside of the US. I get restless here in South Jersey. I often evaluate my funds and ponder the consequences of disappearing down the coast for a few days. Don't get me wrong, South Jersey is a pretty great place (at least for the natives) but I can't stay here. I need to "get the hell outta dodge". For that reason, I have entertained the idea of becoming a Travel Writer. I have started following a travel writer named Carl Parkes on Twitter. Parkes also has a blog that I skimmed through to see what life as a travel writer might entail. I was a little disappointed by his blog but I have not been dissuaded from the idea of this profession.
My disappointment is derived from the fact that Parkes doesn't have much of his own work on his blog. I was expecting to find link after link to all of these grand places and stories about the wild adventures he's had throughout the years. But most of his posts are pictures from other people and humorous anecdotes that other people have written. It was entertaining to look through, certainly but not exactly what I was expecting for someone who claims in their bio to have 15 years of travel writing experience.
Parkes' interests are obvious after reviewing who he follows on twitter. The man is obsessed with Traveling. Of the 236 accounts that he follows, approximately 41 are accounts just for travel sites such as the twitter for American Airlines and AirTreks. He's also crazy about San Francisco and the news which is evident from the 62 accounts regarding the news and SF that he follows (the majority of which are accounts for News in San Francisco) From his blog bio, I learned that he is from San Fran and did all of his travel writing throughout Asia. So of course, many of the accounts he follows are Asia related. And for almost every account that was for a person (unlike "CBSNews" or "msnbc_travel") the person's bio claimed that he or she was some sort of writer be it a columnist, journalist, travel writer, editorial supervisor, etc. (And most of them worked in or around the SF area with many of them working for The San Francisco Chronicle)There were a few wild card accounts mostly for comedians (we both follow Conan O'Brien) but other than that, I did not find much variety in who he follows and it is very clear that he is a travel writer from San Francisco who loves Asia.
i brief explanation of Twitter in the New York Times
This article is really interesting because it is the ISAF, International Security Assistance Force, and someone who tweets Taliban messages. Twitter takes on a completely different roll then it does in our daily lives.
Twitter Follower Assignment
For my twitter assignment, I chose to follow Kathy Cassidy, a first grade teacher in Canada. Kathy seems to follow other elementary school teachers and educational professionals, as well as mothers and coaches. In analyzing the people that Kathy follows, I would say that she utilizes twitter as a resource for her classroom and for networking with other educators. She is constantly micro blogging about her classroom and teaching strategies, and asking for imput and suggestions to make her teaching process more effective. I was very impressed when I saw that Kathy has never blogged about any of her students. I have also noticed that she follows many popular education departments and organizations, which I would guess she uses to keep up with current trends within the field of education. I would say that Kathy is an efficient teacher that cares about her classroom and her students, and is always looking for ways to improve and excite her teaching.
LinkedIn is better than just a Resume
Most people assume that LinkedIn is just a place to store a resume/a bulletin board to post it, but that is not true. The website offers so much more than that. It allows you to plan out your career in many different fields, giving suggestions for jobs, durration, when to expect promotion, and what type of job-steps to plan on to reach the position of your dreams. I did this with my wish to be a top editor in publishing. I would start out as an intern to a lower editor and slowly gain enough experience to be hired. Over the course of maybe six different jobs/positions (and if lady luck is on my side) I would make it to general editor of whatever publishing/editing agency I was shooting for. For me, a person who has a firm goal in mind but not the true information on how to get there, this feature was a god-send. It made a tiny weight lift from my shoulders as I realized, Oh my God I could actually do this! There was a way, not some half-visible path through thorny thickets I would have to navigate on my own.
Shift Into Interent
With new developments in web browsing it's almost ironic that a program that arguably made several information sources obsolete, is now becoming old news itself thanks to the Internet. Reading an article that lists applications that I use almost everyday has me me believe that the traditional web is heading to the scrap heap. In all fairness, the web probably isn't going to disappear anytime soon, we still use the web for writing and emails. The structure of the web isn't based on Web 2.0 alone but it still works as a spine for the backbone of web applications.
Web 2.0 will still have a place in the world as the modern era of the Internet continues to make it's presence known. I know that I will continue to use email and other forms of the web as long as it remains relevant.
Video Games CAN Be Useful… Maybe
In the article, "Are Video Games A Waste of Time?" the author, J.P. Gee, in a section titled An Alternative Perspective on Learning and Knowing, makes a really important point. He says that we should not ask the question is this a waste of time? We should ask whether or not we are learning valuable, if we learning to understand or participate, and what kind of domain this information refers to. I agree with this view point on learning entirely, as I feel that no matter what, each moment of everyday brings a new lesson for us. I have looked back on a day and realized that I had learned something, though more often than not it was not an academic type of learning. Simply taking a new path to class reveals more to us than we can imagine and that knowledge can stay with us and be useful to us in the future even though it seems useless in the moment. He also makes the point that it is hard to determine just what domain each bit of information falls into. The problem with this is that most domains overlap one another. He makes an educational reference to physics, but I prefer to think of the kind of learning we get just going through life. Lets bring back the new path to class example. Say you drive to class and one day, on a whim or because there's road construction, you take a different route to school than you have taken before. Days, weeks, even months later a friend needs directions and you know the area they are talking about because you've driven through there on your way to school. Everything is connected, everything falls together in strange and sometimes coincidental ways, which is what makes classifying each bit of information so difficult. This is also why the attempts at placing video games in the "waste of time" category is hard to say because there is learnings gained from the activity. Not all the learning is useful, true, but some bit of it is because it provides a new link to other knowledge or information you have or will one day have.


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MENDON A 45-year-old Rutland County woman died after she was struck by two cars while crossing Route 4 in front of the Cortina Inn in Mendon on Friday night, according to police.
Vermont State Police Sgt. Thomas Mozzer said Drury Morgan was crossing the highway from the Mendon Mountain View Lodge after picking up a paycheck where she was employed.
Emergency services were called to the scene around 5:15 p.m.
Just after 8 p.m. Mozzer said they were unsure if Morgan had a Killington or Mendon address.
She appears to be wearing dark clothing, said Mozzer at the scene. Initial reports say she had consumed alcohol and could have been intoxicated.
He later said they received two independent reports saying Morgan had consumed alcohol Friday night.
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The second driver, Joseph Ferrero, of Huntington Station, N.Y., stopped and called 911, the police sergeant said. The vehicle had some minor damage to the mirror and windshield on the passenger side.
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He said the crash is still under investigation.
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|Tue, 05-11-2010 - 11:40pm
I've been seeing someone for a little over a year.
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Chelsel, I'm a little confused. Your post mentions being together for a year. But you also mention 8 months in the present tense.
How many months have you actually been together. It's just that 8 months is far closer to 6 months than 12.
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Crab, it's this bit which confuses me:
>>We've gone very slowly through all this, and I think that we are probably a bit surprised that we are still together after eight months<<
The way it's worded makes it sound like they are at the 8 month point now.
Anyway, just to clarify why I'm being picky. At 8 months, I think it's still a little too soon to be *expecting* declarations of love and long term commitment. However, 12 months is probably into the zone of thinking that a partner should know what they want.
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Thanks for clearing that up! I think there's a big difference between 8 and 13 months in a relationship.
I'm a bit surprised that you've been dating this long and you don't have the amount of comfort with him to either say "I love you" yourself, or to understand why he hasn't said it. Do you feel like you know him really well? Is there security and trust and love (even if unspoken) between you? Would you feel comfortable asking him if he loves you?
|Wed, 05-12-2010 - 1:53pm
I like this book because it tells how we all have different ways of expressing our love and how we like to receive it.
For me the expression to receive is physical touch and to show love is acts of service.
You bf may have a different way of expressing how he cares for you.
|Wed, 05-12-2010 - 3:13pm
I agree, everyone has their own way of expressing their love. Not everyone has to say I love you 20 times a day either.
But what irks me is that he didn't make any contact for 5 days and at the 8 day mark said he wasn't ready to respond. So if he did love her, I think something else would have proven it. Not this silence for over a week or saying he was "too busy and not ready." If you don't need a whole lot of affirmation, then I guess this would be fine, but it sounds like you're really pulling teeth to get something out of him, and he replied with a text "I think we have something good between us." And i do think after a year there'd be a bit more connection going on.
Do you feel good in this relationship? It is easy to get close, do you feel respected and do you respect him, is there passion? Are most of your needs being met?


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Finally a sports post. I thought I'd have a couple of these by now, but I guess I got into music more than I thought.
A couple weeks ago I read an article by LZ Granderson on ESPN.com that asked if this years rookie class is the worst in a decade. It pointed out that outside of Blake Griffin, who wasn't even in last years draft, and John Wall, there hasn't been an impact rookie this year.
Reading this made me wonder: if this class is the worst in a decade, what about next years?
Looking at the college basketball landscape, not only is there not a dominate team, there also isn't a stand out player. There isn't a guy that you could point out and say, "That guy will be the number one pick and will be a building block for a teams turn around", like you could with Wall, Griffin, Rose, Durant, etc. There are some guys who have potential, or the professional term "upside".
There's one problem with that: the NBA isn't really built for development of players. Each team gets 15 roster spots, and only 12 players dress. Of those players, about a max of 10 actually play with about 8 getting substantial minutes. So when is a young player that isn't quite ready for the league supposed to get valuable playing time? Sure there's the D-League, but that is kind of considered the start of the death of a pro career. And how much better is a struggling pro going to get when he's playing against other struggling pros?
So where does the problem start and how does it get fixed? In my opinion, it starts with the rule that players can't go straight to the pros from high school. You get kids who want to go pro right away, but have to go to college for a year. During this time, they have full intentions of leaving at the end of the year. But maybe they aren't ready and need to spend more time in college, where their skills can be developed. But since they made up their minds to be one and done, they leave anyways and struggle in the league.
To be honest, I don't think there is anyway to fix this. But here's my opinion. I think they should change the rule to make kids stay all four years of college. That at least makes it more likely that guys will be NBA ready. But the fact of the matter is a lot of kids either don't want to be at school for four years or just aren't academically able to stay in school for four years. This is an opportunity for the NBA to embrace the impact the game has on the rest of the world. Foreign leagues are getting better and better. So if a kid doesn't want to stay in school for 4 years, he could be free to sign with a foreign team. I don't think any foreign league is a threat to steal talent from the NBA, so there isn't a worry that NBA potential will stay overseas. So a kid can hone his skills playing overseas, then come back a few years later with a better chance to succeed than before. We've already seen this work with Brandon Jennings. While he is definitely not an elite player, he at least is able to compete in the NBA and is likely to be around awhile.
As I said, there likely isn't a "right way" to fix this problem. Luckily for the NBA, it is experiencing a popularity growth. This can be attributed to the large amount of exciting young players now in the league. So the league will be in good shape for awhile. But if the talent pool coming into the league does not improve, we will see the talent level start to thin out.
Because of Snowpocalypse 2011, I'm staying at my parents house so I don't get snowed in at a house with no cable, no internet, and a VERY limited food supply. But a benefit of that is internet access, so its time for what will be the final installment of this series (probably). I call this the bonus tracks because I had intended to end the series with the last post, but listened to a couple albums toward the end of the year/ early this year that I really liked. So without further ado….
B.O.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray- B.O.B
This was an artist I was a little skeptical about. B.O.B hit it big on the radio with "Nothin' On You", "Airplanes", and "Magic". While I for the most part enjoyed all of those songs (wasn't a HUGE fan of "Airplanes" and "Nothin' On You" got played out), I didn't know if I would like an entire album like those songs. But after good reviews from friends and websites, I decided to check it out. It turns out those songs are more of the exception than the rule when it comes to this album. The rest of the album is a pretty solid hip-hop album. When he actually raps, B.O.B has a very good, very rhythmic flow. "Bet I" is a faster song featuring T.I., and B.O.B keeps up with him. "Kids" has a slower beat, and B.O.B matches the pace without sounding like he's just speaking. He even does a little singing on "Lovelier Than You", and it isn't terrible.
Favorite Track- "Fame"
This is a very cool track that samples George Gershwin's "Summertime" (I'd like to say I didn't have to look that up, but that be a lie). It's another track that has a very rhythmic flow to it that you can just nod your head to.
Grade- B
An eclectic album that has a couple different feels to it. Enjoyable overall, but it doesn't have a track that really stands out to make it great. B.O.B is a very talented artist, however, and hopefully this album is a taste of good things to come from him.
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty- Big Boi
A solo effort from one half of Outkast, Big Boi shows why he's considered one of the best rappers in the game with this album. This was another album I wasn't sure about getting into. But after seeing it listed as one of the top albums of the year on several sites, and finding out "Shutterbug" (a song used in Girl Talk's All Day and on NBA 2K11) was on this album, I decided to check it out. And I'm glad I did. I really liked this album from the first listen and it only got better after that. Not as pop radio friendly as B.O.B's album, but similar in that it has several different feels to it. No matter what style, Big Boi kills every track. One thing you notice about his raps is that everything flows and makes sense. Metaphors don't come out of no where like other rappers tend to do. "General Patton" is that hard, dirty south, rap you expect from Big Boi. "Hustle Blood", featuring Jamie Foxx, is a baby makin song if I've ever heard one. The following track, "Be Still", is a dramatic change; much lighter and happier.
Favorite Track(s)- "Shine Blockas" and "Shine Blockas (Remix)"
As of this post, this is my favorite song of the moment. A really fun song to listen to, dance to, whatever. The original version features Gucci Mane, and the remix adds Bun B (one of my favorites) and Project Pat. The song samples "I Miss You" by Harold Melvin and Blue Notes (again, had to look it up), and listening to that and "Shine Blockas", the difference is pretty incredible.
Grade- A-
Probably not an album for everyone. But if you're a fan of hip-hop, this is a must. Every track is high quality, which differs from a lot of hip-hop albums where a few track could be done without. I'd say it's especially surprising from an established rapper like Big Boi, who could probably get away with "taking a few tracks off".
Brothers- The Black Keys
There's no way I could finish this series without talking about this album. Like the other two, I'd seen this album on all kinds of top albums of 2010 lists, and nearly all of them had it near the top. So one day I decided to download the album and was immediately blown away. It's a very unique album that just got better and better the more I listened to it. Like The Crash Kings, they are a refreshing change from what gets played on the radio. They create a gritty, electronic blues sound that is hard not to like. The album starts off great with "Everlasting Light" and "Next Girl", followed by their two singles, "Tighten Up" and "Howlin' For You".
Favorite Track- Never Gonna Give You Up
I absolutely LOVE this song. It is one of my tops for the year and really stands out on the album. When you're listening to this album, it's track after track of that electronic blues sound. But then this song comes on, and it has a very old school soul feel to it. Like something The Temptations would sing. But its still maintains the unique sound the Black Keys establish throughout the album.
Grade- A
I really can't say enough about this album. It quickly put itself into one of my favorite albums of 2010, and made The Black Keys one of my favorite groups. The album loses a little steam in the middle, but that's mostly attributed to the great start. If you're looking for a fresh, unique group to get into, I highly recommend you check out this album
Today's blog post features two artists I feel you should be listening to. Neither are all that mainstream, but both are extremely enjoyable.
All Day- Girl Talk
This is an artist I was introduced to back in college and became an immediate fan of. Girl Talk is one of the most unique acts in music. Girl Talk is the stage name of Greg Gillis, and his songs are made for the music lover. His albums are one continuous mash-up, broken into tracks. Each track flows into the next. Gillis samples from all genres of music and some how makes it work perfectly. Gillis is a different kind of musical genius. While he does not create any of the samples he uses, it a highly developed musical appreciation to be able to take completely different genres of music and meld them together to produce a functional track. (Like when he put the lyrics of Lil' Mama's "Lip Gloss" over the guitar riff of Metallica's "One" in his last album Feed The Animals.) Gillis' mixes are generally heavily influenced by the latest pop, hip-hop, and rap songs. He then mixes in older classic rock and alternative songs to provide a background melody. I think a fun trivia activity would to give each team a Girl Talk album and see how many samples they could name.
Favorite Track- N/A
It's nearly impossible to pick out a favorite track, since each one flows into the next, so I will describe some of my favorite mash ups (as best I can. Saying what songs are used doesn't do the mixes justice. For a visual breakdown of each track, go to http://www.fastcompany.com/1707948/girl-talk-all-day-infographic#self)
Opening mix (Track name- "Oh No"): "War Pigs"- Black Sabbath, "Move"- Ludacris, "Empire State of Mind" -Jay-z into "Teach Me How To Dougie"- Cali Swag District, "Jane Says"- Jane's Addiction
On "Let It Out"- "Pop Champagne"- Jim Jones into "Pretty Girls"- Wale, "Loser"- Beck with "Drop It Like It's Hot"- Snoop Dogg behind the whole thing.
On "That's Right"- "Lean Back"- Fat Joe, "In The Meantime"- Spacehog
On "This Is The Remix"- "Nothin' On You" -B.O.B, "Tear It Off"- Method Man with "Possum Kingdom"- Toadies underneath into "Get Low"- Lil' Jon, "Cecilia"- Simon and Garfunkel (seriously!? Lil' Jon and Simon and Garfunkel?!?) into "Need You Tonight"- INXS, "Young'n"- Fabolous into (and onto the next track, "On and On") "Sunshine of Your Love"- Cream, "Nasty Girl"- Notorious B.I.G.
On "Down For The Count"- "20th Century Boy", "Bounce"- MSTRKRFT into "Can't Get You Out Of My Head"- Kylie Minogue, "Bust A Move"- Young MC
On "Triple Double"- A quick taste of "Whip My Hair"- Willow Smith, into "Black and Yellow"- Wiz Khalifa, "Paint it Black"- Rolling Stone
Grade- A
As I said, this is perfect for a music lover (as long as you can get past the techno/ club music influence). One of the best parts of this, or any, Girl Talk album is that you can listen to it over and over and hear something new anytime you listen to it. It also makes music in general more fun. You may hear a song you haven't heard before, or a new part of a song you have heard, and say "Oh, THAT'S where Girl Talk got that from". If you like this album, I highly recommend getting his last two, Feed The Animals and Night Ripper.
Crash Kings- Crash Kings
(another album that was release in 2009, but I feel you need to hear about them)
The Crash Kings were a rare find for me. Because of the absolute shit that is on many radio stations, I very rarely listen to the radio anymore. However, we do listen to the radio at work and one of the stations we listen to is like a college station, but not quite as underground. So you will hear quality bands like Mumford and Sons, Black Keys, and Fistful of Mercy. It was on this station I first heard The Crash Kings "Mountain Man". I really liked their sound and decided to download the album. I would describe their sound as similar to Gavin DeGraw, but a little harder. It's mostly piano based, like DeGraw, but not quite as poppy.
Favorite Track- "It's Only Wednesday"
This is a great track. Very catchy, very upbeat without being overly poppy and similar to the rest of the cookie cutter songs on the radio.
Grade- A+
Again, I know what you're saying. "Kanye and Kid Cudi get lower grades than this?!?" And, again, I'm grading at face value. And when it comes to a debut album, this one is pretty much perfect. Every track is high quality and extremely listenable. They establish a unique sound with this album. It's a shame shit like Kesha, Katy Perry, and Justin Beiber gets rammed down our throats, because bands like this don't get the exposure needed to thrive. So if you've liked other artists in this series, check out the Crash Kings. I don't think you'll regret it.
This post features what were my two most anticipated albums of the year. Both were hip-hop albums. One from a main stay, one from a relative newcomer.
My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy- Kanye West
Kanye West provides a window back to college for me. My freshmen year you could often find me, @apotter19, and @derekharshner hanging out in my dorm room, playing video games and listening to College Dropout (kind of ironic now that I think about it). And when I think of that album and his follow up, Late Registration, I think of albums that had hit after hit on it. They were albums that were easy to listen to start to finish. Then, Kanye started to experiment with his next two albums, Graduation and especially 808's and Heartbreaks. While both were quality albums, they just didn't have that listen-ability the first two had. So I was very anxious to hear this album. And, thanks to Twitter, fans were able to hear what Kanye was working on. In the weeks leading up to the albums release, he came up with "Good Friday", were he posted links to his new songs. Listening to the new songs, it seemed this album was going to be more like Kanye's first two, which pleased me greatly. Once I heard the album, it seemed to a mix of all four albums. Not quite as "artistic" as 808's but still with that influence. This is evident in a few of my favorite tracks. "Runaway" and "Lost in The World" both use auto-tune. "Blame Game" is almost entirely piano based. But other tracks go back to Kanye's old ways. "Power" is the "2010 Kurtis Klay Hype Song of The Year". "All of The Lights" is like a hip-hop epic. It's big and driving, and features just about everyone in hip-hop right now.
Favorite Track- "Monster"
Another track that is more like his old stuff. With Rick Ross, Kanye, Jay-Z, and Nikki Minaj all with verses, this track reminds me of the old school slam dunk contests. No props or gimmicks, just "can you top this?". Each verse seems to go harder than the last. I would even say that Nikki wins that battle.
Grade- A-
Now I know what you're saying: "This was Kanye's best albums and one of the best of the year! Just an A-?!?" And if this album had an actual report card, it would say "Fails to live up to potential". In my opinion, some of the potential best tracks introduced during "Good Friday" were left off this albums. I would have loved to see "See Me Now", "Good Friday", and "Christian Dior Denim Flow" put on this album.
Man On The Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager
Kid Cudi has quickly become one of my favorite artists, and I'm not really sure how it happened. I think after hearing "Day N Nite" and "Make Her Say", I decided to download the album and was hooked from there. I downloaded the A Kid Named Cudi mixtape (highly recommended if you haven't heard it) and eagerly awaited the follow up to Man On The Moon: The End Of Day. And when it finally got here, I of course got it on the day it was released. At first listen, I was pretty disappointed. But as I continued to listen, it got better and better. EXTENDED SPORTS ANALOGY ALERT! How I look at this album is like two brothers that played high school basketball. The older brother was a tall post player and dominated inside. A few years later his younger brother comes along. He's still tall, but not quite as tall. So the coach figures he must be as good inside as his brother. But the younger brother struggles in the post. The coach writes him off as a disappointment. But as time passes the coach notices the younger brother is a really good passer and has excellent court vision. So he tries him out at point guard, where he thrives. Make sense? Allow me to explain. Man On The Moon: The End of Day is an incredible album. It is very listenable from start to finish. It is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. So when you listen to Man On The Moon II, you're listening looking for tracks like "Pursuit Of Happiness" or "CuDi Zone". And it just never comes (besides "Erase Me"). That can leave you a little disappointed. So the next couple times you listen to it, you can appreciate it for what it is. So in short, the two albums are different, but equally good in my mind. This album is much darker.
Favorite Track- ???
I really can't pick a favorite track. It's an very balanced album. No track is better than the next. But some notables: "Scott Mescudi vs. the World", "Erase Me", "All Along", "Ghost", and "Trapped in My Mind"
Grade- A
Again, just a very balanced album you can listen to from start to finish. While darker than the last, it is equally enjoyable. The back cover of the album says this is the second installment of a trilogy. So I have another Kid Cudi album to look forward to.
Happy New Year everyone. I was hoping to get as many reviews in before the new year, but then my laptop got a virus. So that was neat. But we press onward….
The Lady Killer- Cee-Lo Green
I will admit, this was a bit of an impulse buy for me. I haven't really listened to Cee-Lo at all, except for a little Gnarls Barkely. But after endorsements from @kinnermode and @dumesday, combined with my pick for song of the year "F**k You", I gave it a shot. Based on this album, @kinnermode has been smart for riding this bandwagon for years. I've really enjoyed this album. It took a couple listens to fully appreciate it, but it is very good. It has a very old school feel, kind of Jackson 5-ish at some points. Nearly all of the tracks are great but a few stand out to me. I really like "Love Gun" and its James Bond theme feel. "No One's Gonna Love You" is a great end to the album. And then of course, there's "F**k You". One of the joys of Twitter is that it keeps you up to date on what's new. When this song hit the internet, it seemed everyone was tweeting about it. Rightfully so, in my mind. It may be my favorite song since "Hey Ya!". Really, the two songs are very similar in that they have an appeal to a large audience. Their hip-hop lyrics and back beat appeals to a younger crowd while their old school harmonies and instrument use appeals to older listeners. Once edited and made radio friendly, "F**k You" took the mainstream by storm. It was a quick entry into my Hall of Fame, comprised of songs I could listen to again and again and never get sick of.
Favorite track not named "F**k You"- "Bright Lights, Bigger City".
This song starts the album off right. It has a big, open feel implied by its name. The songs about having a good time on the weekend and listening to it makes you feel like what ever you're doing that night is going to be amazing.
Grade- B+
A very enjoyable album if you're looking for a change of pace. It may not get a hold of you right away, but after a few listens you start to get a feel for the album. This was my first Cee-Lo album and if others are as good as this, I could see myself getting more.
Nothing- N.E.R.D
This is another artist I've been listening to for awhile. Their last album, Seeing Sounds, was one of my favorite albums of 2008. So I was very excited when I heard N.E.R.D was putting out a new album. I went out and bought it the day it was released. To be honest, I was pretty disappointed by it. I mean, since it's an N.E.R.D album, you expect it to be a little odd. But this one seems a little too odd for my taste, especially the middle of the album. Despite that, there are still some good tracks. "Hot-n-Fun" is the first single from the album. It is what you expect from the group, an upbeat dance track comparable to "She Wants To Move" from their Fly or Die album. "Party People" ,featuring T.I., is the opening track and lives up to its name. It puts you in the mood to party. "Sacred Temple" has a funk inspired bass line that makes the song very catchy. The album also features "Hypnotize U", a track that was produced by Daft Punk. The song is not bad, but its not great either.
Favorite Track- "Victory"
Not sure how to describe this track. Its another open sounding one. Just inspiring. Makes you want to get out and achieve something.
Grade- B-
I do like some of the tracks, but overall this album doesn't do that much for me. Not the N.E.R.D album I would recommend if you're looking to get into them.
Now the continuation of the multi-part series.
Because of the rush of new albums near the end of the year from some artists I have just started getting into, I forgot about 2 albums released by artists I have been listening to for awhile.
To The Sea- Jack Johnson
I have been listening to Jack since like my junior year of high school when Brushfire Fairytales came out. His laid back, relaxed musical style fit my personality and musical tastes perfectly. All of his albums are perfect for studying, de-stressing, or just hanging out. This album is no different. When you get a Jack Johnson album, you aren't necessarily going to get a powerful group of songs that speak to you. You are sure to get an all around enjoyable album. To The Sea has many quality tracks on it. It starts off very strong with what I feel are four of the best songs from the album; "You and Your Heart", "To The Sea", "No Good With Faces", and "At or With Me". Each one is fairly up beat and catchy, with the exception of "No Good…", which is a nice, smooth, change of pace from the first two. One song that stands out is "Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology", which has a bluesy feel unique to a Jack Johnson album.
Favorite Track- "Only the Ocean"
Maybe the most relaxing song on the album. The music and the words put you at ease. You can just sit back and picture sitting on a beach, watching waves come in as the sun sets.
Grade- B-
Again, an excellent album for just hanging out and relaxing. But overall, nothing really jumps out to make this album special.
Battle Studies- John Mayer
(Note: This album was actually released in 2009. Get over it.)
John Mayer is another artist I've been listening to since high school. Not to sound like a hipster, but I like to think I was on the John Mayer bandwagon before he became huge. This is another good album from him. His albums have gotten much better after Heavier Things, which I think was his "poppy, make the label happy and sell records" album. The two albums following that, this one and Continuum, seem to be a little more blusey, which is the type of music he prefers to make. This album had some big shoes to fill following up Continuum, which is his best album in my opinion. While this one doesn't quite get to that level, it comes close. This album seems to have a real message to it, which differes from previous albums. Nearly all of the tracks deal with relationships and most people could find one or two tracks to identify with. There are several enjoyable tracks, including the singles "Heartbreak Warfare, "Half of My Heart" (I overlook the fact this song features Taylor Swift), and "Who Says". "Perfectly Lonely" and "Friends, Lovers, or Nothing" are also very good. One track I was a little disappointed in was his cover of Eric Clapton and Cream's "Crossroads". While I understand a cover gives the artist the opportunity to put their own touch on a song, Mayer's style is very close to Clapton's. I just don't feel Mayer's version did justice to the Clapton version, which is incredible. This is also after Mayer did an amazing job on his last cover, Jimi Hendrix's "Bold as Love". If you're going to cover Jimi Hendrix, you better nail it and Mayer did just that. All of this is what disappoints me about "Crossroads". But it's up for a Grammy, so what do I know I guess.
Favorite Song- "Who Says"
A very laid back song. Musically, it reminds me of one of my favorite John Mayer songs, "Stop This Train". Very simple, mostly featuring just a guitar, string bass, piano and brushes on a snare. Gives you the feeling of coming home from a long day at work or a long trip and just sitting to clear your head.
Grade- B
Many quality songs, but nothing that REALLY jumps out to take it to the next level. Another very good album in what I'm hoping is a long line for Mayer.
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So one of the main reasons I started this blog was to give reviews/grades to some of the albums I've listened to this year. I thought this year was great in terms of music (at least when it comes to the artists I listen to). A lot of people dropped new albums, including an influx of new music in the closing months of the year. So I had this idea to grade several of these albums and blog format is much easier than in 140 characters. So in my next few posts, I plan on giving my insight on some of the albums I've spent this year listening to. I will review the album, name my favorite track, and give an overall grade.
Two things to keep in mind during these posts: 1. I'm going to grade these albums at face value. In other words, just because I give one album a B and another an A, doesn't necessarily mean I think that artist is better than the other, or that album is better than the other. And 2. this is strictly opinion. Obviously I don't get paid for this, so really what I say doesn't mean anything.
So without further ado, our first contestant is…….
This was probably the first album I was really excited for this year. Following @questlove on Twitter probably aided to that. He talked it up a lot, saying they put more work into this album than others. I will admit that I'm not real familiar with their past stuff (other than this album, I only own The Tipping Point), but I do like when artist seem genuinely enthusiastic about their music. Also, I really like when hip-hop artists/ groups use real instruments to provide the beats and music for their songs, which is what the Roots are all about. But overall, I just wasn't really into it. It's almost like the Pac-10 in football: top heavy. The good tracks are really good, but after that they are just so-so. The album starts off really well. "Walk Alone" is one of my favorite and "Dear God 2.0" has a very relateable message. The title track, "How I Got Over", is also very good. My initial reaction to the album was "frustrating". I say that because two of the tracks I really got into ("A Piece of Light" and "Tunnel Vision") are less than 2 minutes long and end before they can become really enjoyable.
Favorite Track- "Doin' It Again"
It's really not even close. In my opinion, this track is by far the best on the album. It essentially remixes John Legend's "Again" from his Once Again album (a little foreshadowing). The mix between the original track and the band's additions is perfect. It's a track I listened to over and over again when I first got the album (and still do, really).
Grade- B-.
As I said, its good, just not great. I would definitely recommend it to anyone. But to be honest, until I re-listened to it a couple of times for this post, I hadn't listened to the full album since I got it.
Wake Up!- John Legend and The Roots
See what I did there when I talked about foreshadowing? I was very excited for this album as well. Again, this probably is attributed to following @questlove and @johnlegend on Twitter. But also because John is one of my favorite artists. I bought this album the day it came out and one thing really jumped out at me from the first listen. The whole album has a very intimate, "live" feel to it. Like I could see John and The Roots going to Marley's (for you Springfield people) or Blue Note/ Music Cafe (for you familiar with CoMo) and just playing this album. That'd be awesome by the way. I like to think this album was recorded when The Roots and John Legend met up at a studio apartment and just started playing songs. Anyways, this is a very good album. A lot of quality tracks on it. The opening track, "Hard Times", is produced by Curtis Mayfield, which never hurts to open up an album. It also has a very good cover of Bill Withers' "I Can't Write Left Handed". It takes a little while to get into, but picks up toward the end. Overall the album is very bluesy/ jazzy, which is to be expected. It also has a little reggae thrown in the with "Humanity".
Favorite Track- Compared To What
Of all the songs, this has the most intimate feel to it. It starts off with just a drum beat and a bass line and builds in to the rest of the song. It makes it seem like it was just a jam session and they came up with this song.
Grade- B+
A very, very good album. Not many tracks I would skip over if I listened to the album start to finish. The only negative I would say is that it doesn't have that big, powerful song that Legend has featured on previous albums. "Ordinary People" from Get Lifted and "Coming Home" from Once Again are examples of this. "Shine" is as close as it gets on this album, but just doesn't quite reach the level of previous songs. I would definitely recommend this album to anyone, but especially a blues/ jazz lover.
That's all for this post. More to come in the next one.
I'm gonna give this blog thing a try. This is technically is my second foray into the blogging world, I did have a Xanga site. I hope to update often, but that may be difficult considering I don't have internet access at my house. That'll happen when you live out in the country and your only internet provider is HughesNet. So basically my only opportunities to update will be on my days off of work when I go to my parents house to use their internet. I'm not sure there will be a definite direction for this blog. I imagine I will mostly touch on my 3 areas of expertise: sports, music, and randomness. Quick plug here: Even though I'm sure most of the people reading this already know, but my Twitter name is @RunMizzou11. Feel free to follow.
The Grammy Nominations came out yesterday, so I figure that to be a great place to start for my first post. I have no idea what to think about the Grammys anymore. A couple years ago I remember thinking that they were out of touch with what should be nominated. But I'm sure that thinking had a lot to do with me being younger and not experiencing the variety of music I have now. But now, yikes. My friend Kim said it best: "When did the Grammys become the Billboard Awards?"
You don't have to look any further than the headline category, Album of the Year, to see what she means. Two names jump out: Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. (A third, Lady Antebellum, jumps out at me. But that may be another post for another time) Album sales definitely doesn't translate to album quality. I'm sorry but the 14-16 year old girls who drive the album sales of these awful artist up don't have the greatest taste in music. There's no way either of these albums are better than some I've heard (Again, another post for another time). The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga is only 8 tracks, and was pretty much piggy backed onto her last album, The Fame. That says to me that there were too many tracks for the first album and just threw the second together. And I would think that anyone who has heard Katy Perry's songs on the radio would agree that she's not Grammy worthy.
It's not all bad though. I did like Eminem getting the an Album of the Year nod. I'd say he's my favorite in that category, but I've seen a lot of people saying the Arcade Fire album is good. Song of the Year has 3 quality songs in it: Fuck You, Beg Steal or Borrow, and Love The Way You Lie. Muse, one of my favorite bands, is up for most of the rock categories. Vampire Weekend's Contra is up for Alternative Album of Year, I really liked that album. John Mayer is up for a couple awards. Also really like to see John Legend and the Roots get nominations. Both put out quality albums. In my opinion, the two's collaboration album, Wake Up! should be up for Album of the Year.
In the end, it's likely I won't even watch the award show. But a bright spot is that Kesha isn't up for any awards. The sooner we get rid of her annoying ass, the better.


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Created: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:18:00 EST
Updated: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:14:33 EST
Voters in Bibb County were asked to cast their ballots for a third time Tuesday in the race for Macon-Bibb County Commissioner for District 2 between Larry Schlesinger and Henry Ficklin.
After the votes were counted, Schlesinger came out victorious over Ficklin with a 60% to 40% margin.
Schlesinger won the most recent runoff for the District 2 seat by just 26 votes, but after the discovery of a voting error that put some voters in the wrong district, Ficklin successfully challenged the results and a judge ordered Tuesday's election.
But WGXA's Chace Ambrose reports that as Tuesday's nights results began to come in to the Board of Elections, Ficklin became concerned about the number of votes reported versus the number of votes the polls claimed to have taken.
"We're concerned that the numbers we are seeing here and the numbers that were posted at the doors of the polling places are not matching up and we don't know what's going on as to whether they are adding something in, either the early vote, or the absentee into the various precincts we are not-we have not been advised as to why those numbers are greater than those posted on the door," Henry Ficklin told WGXA.
At the end of the night with all 6 precincts reporting, along with early voting and absentee ballots counted, Larry Schlesinger wins the race by a 60% to 40% margin.


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Anonymous asked:
New York? When? Why?
at the end of the summer my friend is moving up there, and offered for me to move with him to focus on music! He could help support me while I get my feet on the ground. I'm looking for internship opportunities, in case i don't want to just all out leave school, but even if I don't find any, I'm probably going to make the move anyway, and just find a job and bust my ass while trying to do what i love. I just kind of feel like I'm wasting time in college tbh
as a Christmas present Adele should cover Work Bitch
Im moving to nyc next year :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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Their love isn't grand or grandiose and it doesn't drown in endless AMVs set to Florence + the Machine's "Cosmic Love." Their love isn't commanding or thundering or full of electric shocks cloud-to-ground, cloud-to-ground.
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Because it's madness and they can make each other laugh, for real, out loud, to no one. They get each other and they get each other's sense of humor, and really, what more could you ask for in a heart next to yours?
They're friends and that is the most perfect thing two people in a relationship could be.
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a bit. practice makes better. never perfect though.
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Dict in Java ?
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Hi !
here http://cycling74.com/docs/max6/dynamic/c74_docs.html#dictionaries is written that :
Support for using Dict objects in mxj mirrors that of the implementation for JavaScript.
well , hummmmm …. has someone luck with it ? I cant find the class object . does this description tells something different ?
Despite the documentation dict is not implemented into Java. I had some correspondence about that with cycling74 about a year ago. Back then there wasn't a date set when it will be ready.
Thank you for the clarification Jan .
Just stumbled upon this. Either it should be implemented or the documentation should be updated.
Current situation is frustrating :-/
I've just started poking around with both JavaScript and Java for extending my Max applications, so sorry if it seems I'm asking the obvious.
The documentation states that [dict] functionality exists equally within [mxj] as it does in [js], but it in fact does not?
Then am I right in understanding that it is not at all possible to access a [dict] from within an [mxj] object?
Correct: at the moment, dictionaries aren't accessible to
Damn. Thanks for the clarification.
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