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VAN HALEN CANCELS TOUR - ARE THEY DONE? Van Halen canceled all its concerts after June 26; more than 30 shows that had long been planned and for which hundreds of thousands of tickets had been sold.
The band that originated in Pasadena in 1972 and has notched eight multi-platinum (one million sold) and two diamond (sales of more than 10 million) albums kept its four southern California shows on their schedule:
June 1 and 9 at the Staples Center, June 12 at Anaheim's Honda Center and June 14 at the Viejas Arena in San Diego.
Former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar, who replaced original frontman David Lee Roth from 1985 to 1996 and again from 2003 to 2005, both times after prolonged battles with guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his drummer, brother Alex, says he's not surprised to hear of the abrupt and unplanned end to the tour.
Of the brothers and Eddie's decades-long on and off feud with Roth, Hagar told The Associated Press, "They're hard people to get along with, those brothers. Otherwise, I'd still be in the band. I'm surprised it took this long. I predicted this was going to happen a lot sooner." Rolling Stone magazine quotes an unnamed source, who said, "The band is arguing like mad. They are fighting."
Roth, who rejoined the band for a tour in 2007 and a comeback album, "A Different Kind of Truth" that hit No. 2 earlier this year, disputes what Hagar theorized and Rolling Stone's source said. Roth says everyone's getting along great, but when the band planned this tour they simply got too ambitious and the guys were burning out from such a lengthy and arduous jaunt. "The band is getting along famously, better than we have in a long time." He added that had the band continued with the tour without taking time off for a much-needed rest, Roth said they would end up performing shows in "robot-zombie" mode and they didn't want to do that. He also said that the plan is for this current Van Halen tour to eventually last two years.
Hagar, who is on tour with his Chickenfoot supergroup, made his comments in Atlantic City on the Boardwalk at a watering hole he owns, Sammy's Beach Bar, where he donated $10,000 to St. Nicholas Catholic Church's food pantry store that feeds the needy. He said he tries to donate to food banks in every city he visits. Of the food banks, he said, "They make the money go far. They can get two-and-a-half meals out of a dollar."
BEE GEES' ROBIN GIBB DIES Robin Gibb, whose heavy vibrato was the leading voice when he and his older brother, Barry, and his late twin brother, Maurice, collectively known as The Bee Gees, first conquered America and the world in 1967, died in London after a prolonged and very public battle against liver and colon cancer. He was 62.
Prior to becoming the leading voices of the disco generation of the '70 s when Barry's falsetto had fans buying singles "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever," and albums such as the soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever" in record numbers, it was Robin's voice fans knew best when the trio broke through.
The brothers were born on Britain's Isle of Man, but they emigrated to Australia in 1958. Within two years, they were performing on TV shows there.
Their first records were released in 1963 and they scored their first hit in 1965, a minor one called "Wine and Women." Their first major Aussie hit, Spicks and Specks," came the following year, reaching No. 5 there and No. 1 in New Zealand. Late in 1966, the family moved back to England in search of greater fame. They'd only been in England a short time when they learned that Australia's most popular music publication, Go-Set, named "Spicks and Specks" Best Single of the Year.
Before leaving Australia, the brothers' father, Hugh, sent tapes of his boys to Beatles producer Brian Epstein, who then passed them on to a member of his staff, Robert Stigwood. Stigwood left Epstein and signed two groups, Eric Clapton and his new power trio, Cream, and The Bee Gees.
The Bee Gees' first move in conquering America and the world came via their highly Beatlesque single "New York Mining Disaster 1941" with Robin singing lead. It made it into the Top 15 here and around the world, but that was nothing compared to what was coming. Six months later, in September 1967, "Massachusetts," penned by all three of the teenage brothers and again featuring Robin as lead singer, hit No. 1 worldwide. There was no looking back until Maurice's death in 2003, at which time Barry and Robin retired the name The Bee Gees.
The Bee Gees went on to sell more than 220 million records, more than only a small handful of recording artists, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
Robin Gibb's family is planning a massive tribute to the singer featuring a large number of pop artists at London's St. Paul's Cathedral, reports The Times of London.
In 2004, all three Gibbs were awarded CBE's (Commander of the British Empire, one step below knighthood) from Queen Elizabeth (Maurice's was posthumous). Robin's family is calling for him to be knighted posthumously for the music he brought to the world and for his charitable contributions.
Members of Parliament have voiced support for his knighthood.
"I wish Mo was here. I can't believe he's gone." Britain's Daily Mail reports that these words about his twin, Maurice, were his last, uttered shortly before he passed. Family sources revealed that during his final weeks, the singer spoke often of Maurice and also of recording and touring again with Barry. He also requested that The Bee Gees' No. 1 hit from 1977, "How Deep Is Your Love" be the first song played at his funeral.
OZZY AND BLACK SABBATH PERFORM FIRST REUNION CONCERT A reunited Black Sabbath released a statement on its website saying they've made a final decision to continue with its reunion gigs and album without original drummer Bill Ward, who left the project in a contract dispute. The group then backed up their intentions by playing a long-planned benefit concert in their hometown, Birmingham, England.
On his own website, Ward said he wasn't going to play the group's three scheduled reunion shows because the band wouldn't guarantee that he would be allowed to perform with the band at all three shows and that it wasn't set that he'd be paid for the first concert in Birmingham. Bassist Geezer Butler disputed Ward's posting. Of the Birmingham benefit, he posted, "it's how you raise money from gigs for charity - you play them for free."
Ward then posted his response to Butler saying that he would have played that show for free. Tommy Clufetos, the drummer in singer Ozzy Osbourne's band, is taking Ward's place.
The Birmingham concert was held in the 3,000-seat
O2 Arena, an intimate venue for a band that's going to play for a couple of hundred thousand fans on June 10 at the huge Download Festival in Derby, 200 miles north of London.
The final scheduled concert will be at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Aug. 3.
The recording of their first album with Osbourne and a full reunion tour has been hampered by guitarist Tony Iommi's ongoing cancer treatments. In fact, on the group's Facebook page, Iommi wrote that before the show he was, "extremely nervous beforehand about playing a long set, not knowing whether I'd be able to last." Fortunately, he continued, "it turned out to be no problem whatsoever. I'm really pleased with how it turned out."
That show saw the band that formed in 1968 run through 18 songs that included "Sweet Leaf" and "Children of the Grave," plus a "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath," that segued into a concert-ending "Paranoid."
MICHAEL JACKSON'S 'BAD' 25 th ANNIVERSARY Michael Jackson's seventh studio album, "Bad" will get the deluxe treatment when it is reissued on Sept. 18, marking its 25 th anniversary.
"Bad" was Jackson's 1987 follow-up to what became the greatest selling album of all time, 1982's "Thriller," that sold an estimated 110 million copies worldwide. "Bad" itself was no slouch, selling worldwide more than 45 million copies, making it one of the best-selling albums ever.
The deluxe reissue, titled "Bad 25," will come as a 3-CD/1-DVD set that also comes with two booklets. The DVD includes Jackson's own personal videotaping of his show at London's Wembley Arena on July 16, 1988. The original album will make up the first CD, while a live professionally recorded audio of the concert will comprise the second of the three CDs. The third CD will feature previously unreleased demos of songs that did not make "Bad's" final cut, as well as new remixes of songs that did. A standard single CD version of the album will also be available that day.
THE STONES - WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY? Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood told the British daily The Sun that reps for his band told him to keep the last part of the year free. While attending the Sony Radio Awards in London, Wood said, "I'm keeping October and November free. That's what I've been told. I'm just awaiting more information."
The band has been reported to be jamming and rehearsing in a recording studio in New Jersey. He was asked about any new songs the group might be working on or that they might perform in concert. "New ones? Are you joking? We are familiarizing ourselves with our back catalog and have only scratched the surface."
CHRIS HILLMAN JOSHUA TREE BENEFIT Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, singer-bassist Chris Hillman, a founding member of The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers and The Desert Rose Band, and his former Desert Rose Band cohort, country-bluegrass folkie Hank Pederson, are headlining the 2 nd Annual Evening at Indian Cove at the Joshua Tree National Park campground amphitheatre
in Twenty-nine Palms on June 1, according to that area's weekly, the Desert Trail. Proceeds will benefit the non-profit Joshua Tree National Park Association's natural and cultural resource preservation and educational activities.
GEORGE JONES HOSPITALIZED AGAIN Eighty-year-old Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member George Jones, who has battled an upper respiratory infection for almost two months and was recently hospitalized in Nashville for the nagging condition, is back in the hospital undergoing tests and evaluation because the infection hasn't gone away, reports that city's Tennessean.
All Jones concerts during this time have been postponed. A statement from the Jones camp said that all his concerts through June "will be rescheduled where possible. No more details are available at this time." Jones, who was married to another country legend, Tammy Wynette, from 1969-1975, recorded
14 No. 1 country singles between 1959-1983, and is often referred to as "America's greatest living country singer."
P-FUNK'S GEORGE CLINTON AGREES TO SETTLEMENT Parliament-Funkadelic leader George Clinton has agreed to a settlement from his suit against The Black Eyed Peas that claimed The Peas used portions of his 1979 song, "(Not Just) Knee Deep" in remixes of their 2003 international smash, "Shut Up" without his permission. Clinton's suit also claimed the group used the tune in yet another remix of "Shut Up" that was included in a deluxe CD release of "The E.N.D." in 2009.
WAYNE NEWTON SUED Wayne Newton, known as "Mr. Las Vegas," has been sued in that town by a construction company that purchased the rights to convert the singer's sprawling 40-acre hacienda into "Graceland West," a celebrity museum, zoo, theater, exhibition space and visitor's center, according to the Las Vegas Sun. Newton's wife and her 76-year-old mother were also named in the suit.
The suit from CSD, LLC, claims Newton et al, have unreasonably delayed the large project hoping that it won't begin.
The suit also claims that Newton sexually harassed a young female who was hired to train his 55 horses. The suit claims the 70-year-old, whose signature song is his 1963 hit, "Danke Schoen," repeatedly kissed the employee on the mouth. That employee quit and has threatened to sue both Newton and CSD. Newton's lawyer says the woman was fired and her accusations are an attempt "to obtain financial gain."
The suit also seeks to have Newton and everyone residing at his Casa de Shenandoah estate vacate the main house and move, as reportedly planned, into a newly constructed $2 million home on the property, in order to allow the $50 million renovation to proceed.
Newton claims the suit is a preemptive strike because he was going to sue them for breach of contract because of numerous delays in beginning construction. The Newton family plans on going through with that suit.
LORETTA LYNN OLDER THAN WE THOUGHT In Loretta Lynn's best-selling 1976 autobiography, "Coal Miner's Daughter," the legendary country songstress claimed that she was married when she was 13 and was a mother of four by the time she was 18. However, records procured by The Associated Press tell a different story. The results show that she is three years older than the claims she made.
She's actually 80 years old, not 77, and she was 16 when she married and had four kids by the time she was 21.
Lynn's representative declined to comment. Lynn reportedly told her, "If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business."
The Grammy-winning Lynn announced recently that she is at the beginning stages of preparing a theatrical Broadway-bound musical based on "Coal Miner's Daughter," that she wants to star actress-singer Zooey Deschanel.
BONO & QUINCY JONES JAZZ UP THE APOLLO Bono and host Quincy Jones headed the all-star lineup at the Jazz Foundation of America's "A Great Night at the Apollo" benefit to raise funds for musical artists who have fallen on hard times, reports Rolling Stone.
Among the highlights were Bono's appropriate take on his band, U2's "Angel of Harlem," Macy Gray's tribute to Etta James with her sultry take on James' signature song, "At Last," and Dr. John's performance of the old negro spiritual, "Motherless Child."
New York Dolls singer David Johansen appeared dapper in a three-piece suit with top hat in his Buster Poindexter guise, croaking out Apollo regular Cab Calloway's "Kicking the Gong Around." Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Darrell Hammond did a funny spot-on impersonation of the Rev. Al Sharpton.
NEW RELEASES Among the new albums, digital reissues and deluxe box sets are the 2-CD "Special Edition" and the 4-CD/1-DVD "Deluxe Book Edition" of "Ram" from Paul and Linda McCartney; "Apocalyptic Love" from former Guns 'n Roses guitarist Slash; "Elation," the 12 th studio album from hard rocker Great White; "Ya Know?," the second posthumous album from The Ramones frontman Joey Ramone and guests Joan Jett, Little Steven Van Zandt, Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos and The Smithereens drummer Dennis Diken; a gospel collection, "Back Home Again" from The Oak Ridge Boys; "Heavy Metal Thunder - Live - Eagles Over Wacken," a 2-CD/1-DVD set from English metal vets Saxon; "Blues at the Fillmore: 1968-1969" from guitarist Michael Bloomfield, with Nick Gravenites and Al Kooper; "Havin' A Rave Up: Live in Los Angeles 1978" from The Knack; "Choice of Weapon," the ninth studio album from English rockers The Cult; an expanded and remastered 1972 LP, "I'll Play the Blues for You" from Albert King; "Chrysalis
Years 2 1980-1986" from UFO.
A 10-CD box set, "The Ravi Shankar Collection;" a 2-CD import, "Two Sides of a Rainbow: Live at the Rainbow London 1978" from Spirit; "Gloria En Vivo (Deluxe Edition)" from Mexican pop diva Gloria Trevi; a 2-CD import, "Get Your Sting: Live 2011," from retiring German hard rockers The Scorpions; "The Complete Collection," a CD/DVD package from '80 s Brit folk rockers Hi-Fi; "1961 Newport Set" from legendary jazz sax legend John Coltrane; the 1968 self-titled debut album and "Volume Two" from Canterbury, England progressive rockers The Soft Machine; the 24-track "Remember: The Ultimate Collection" from Yusuf/Cat Stevens; an import, "Release Me: The Very Best of Engelbert Humperdinck;" "Alive," from former Guns 'n Roses drummer Steven Adler and his group Adler's Appetite; a limited edition of "Don't Take It Personal (Expanded Edition)" from Jermaine Jackson; "Live in Vienna 1972" from tenor sax jazzman Ben "The Brute" Webster; "Live in Amsterdam 1960" from Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.
An import, "T 'n A," the 26 th studio album since 1965 from veteran Dutch rockers Golden Earring; "Gold Watch: 20 Golden Greats" from Aussie alt rockers Hoodoo Gurus; a 2-CD, "Weird Tapes Vol. 7 & 8: The Demos Plus Live 1966-'73," from English space rockers Hawkwind Starring Dave Brock;" "Monk Quartet - 1961 Berlin" from jazz pianist Thelonious Monk; an expanded reissue of R & B/jazz singer-pianist Patrice Rushen's 1987 LP, "Watch Out" and a series of concert albums, "Live on Air" from The Carpenters, Bob Marley, English prog rockers Caravan, Uriah Heep, UFO and the rock supergroup Asia.
Also budget-conscious two-LPs on one CD offerings from Chubby Checker, early '60 s Philly-based R&B vocal group The Orlons, George Jones and Jack Scott, Neil Sedaka, folkie Dan Fogelberg, country singer-banjo player Grandpa Jones and jazz guitarist Earl Klugh.
ARETHA & RICKY SKAGGS IN GOSPEL HALL Aretha Franklin and bluegrass practitioner Ricky Skaggs will be inducted into the Gospel Hall of Fame in Hendersonville, Tennessee, on Aug. 14. The Gospel Hall was created in 1971. Earlier inductees include Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton.
GOSPEL ICON WINANS CARJACKED Three men were arrested in Detroit and charged with unarmed robbery, conspiracy and carjacking gospel icon Rev. Marvin Winans, a member of the singing Winans Family and a cast member of the TV series, "Tyler Perry's House of Pain," reports The Associated Press. Each was being held on $200,000 bond. If convicted, the charges carry up to life in prison. The 54-year-old minister was assaulted while refilling his tank at a gas station.The attackers took his SUV, his Rolex watch, cash and his credit cards.
Winans, who delivered Whitney Houston's eulogy in February, was beaten up, sustaining cuts and bruises. He was treated at a local hospital and released. Afterward, he said, "I'm just saddened that it has come to this. This kind of nonsense just has to stop. It's just the savageness of what's happening in the street." He told reporters that he believes that Detroit, which has suffered terribly during the Recession, can and will be turned around.
The Winans, who were discovered by another gospel legend, Andre Crouch, released their debut LP, "Introducing The Winans" in 1981.
DOUG DILLARD DIES Legendary bluegrass banjo player Doug Dillard died in Nashville at 75, according to The Boot. Dillard was taken to the emergency room at a local hospital and died a short time later. He had been in poor health in recent years and his condition forced his retirement from music.
Doug and his brother, Rod, were The Dillards, who were the on-camera house band of locals on "The Andy Griffith Show." In the '60 s, they became one of the first bluegrass groups to go electric.
The Dillards were major influences on southern California's country rock movement in the late '60 s that became known as the "California Sound" and included Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band, The Byrds, The Eagles, Dan Fogelberg, Linda Ronstadt, The Flying Burrito Brothers and a bunch of others.
The Dillards also influenced John McEuen and his Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Steve Martin and Elton John. In fact, Doug joined Elton's band for his "Honky Chateau" tour.
After The Dillards broke up in 1968, Doug joined The Byrds for their first European tour. He and The Byrds' singer and main songwriter Gene Clark then formed the country-rock band Dillard & Clark that at various times included future Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon, The Byrds rhythm section of bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke, legendary steel pedal guitarist Sneaky Pete Kleinow and the equally legendary bluegrass fiddler Byron Berline.
ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION DRUMMER NIX DIES Drummer Robert Nix, who was a member of Roy Orbison's backing outfit, The Candymen, before co-founding The Atlanta Rhythm Section with members of The Classics IV, died in Memphis at 67, according to the Florida Times-Union.
While no cause of death was given, his brother said he was battling diabetes and had been in a Memphis hospital for more than a month since undergoing an unnamed surgery. Nix provided the beat behind such late '70 s Atlanta Rhythm Section hits as "So Into You" and "Imaginary Lover."
CROWDED HOUSE DRUMMER JONES DIES Liverpool-born Peter Jones, drummer since 1994 for Australia's pop rock band Crowded House, led by Neil Finn, died of brain cancer in Melbourne at 45.
Crowded House, whose first two albums in 1986 and 1988 sold platinum and gold respectively in the U.S., hit the Top 10 Singles chart during those years with "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Something So Strong."
NOW PLAYING Classic acts from the '50 s, '60 s and '70 s continue to perform. Here's what some of them are doing.
The original Brothers Four were frat brothers together at the University of Washington in 1956, hence their name.
In 1960, the four folkies hit
No. 2 on the Billboard
Top 40 Singles chart with "Greenfields." It was their debut single and their biggest record. The following year, their third album, "B.M.O.C," made it to No. 4.
The mellow folk group with the close harmonies that is still led by founding singer-bassist Bob Flick that formed in 1956 and that released its first record in 1960, is, for whatever reason, calling 2012 its golden anniversary.
The quartet is still very active and is celebrating this 50 th anniversary with an extensive tour of Japan, where they remain very popular. They're in the midst of a 22-date tour there.
The Brothers Four will return home to Seattle, to the suburb of Kirkland, actually, for two shows, Sept. 15-16.
At age 84, Doc Severinsen still performs. The trumpeter with the golden lip, who could hit stratospheric high notes, was conductor and music director for "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" from 1967 through the end of the Carson era in 1992, and played first chair trumpet in Skitch Henderson's "Tonight Show" band beginning in 1952 when Steve Allen was the show's host and it was called simply, "Tonight." The man who was then the flashiest dresser in Hollywood will be in San Diego on July 8 at the Embarcadero Marina Park South when he headlines a concert that will see him backed by The San Miguel 5 and The San Diego Symphony.
Fun dance funksters Morris Day & The Time were assembled by Prince in Minneapolis in 1981. Stylish, dancing band leader Morris Day and Prince were in a high school band together that was managed by Day's mom.
Throughout the '80 s, the group scored big hits on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, as well as on its R&B and Dance charts, including "Jungle Love," "Get It Up" and "Jerk Out."
The group that sometimes performs these days as Morris Day and The Time and at other times as The Original 7 ven, have broken up and reunited over the decades. The band, led by Day, has been together since 2008 and again features original keyboardist Jimmy Jam and bassist Terry Lewis, who found incredible success as the songwriting and co-production team behind Janet Jackson's 5 x platinum-selling album, "Control" in 1986 and its follow-up, the 6 x platinum "Rhythm Nation 1814." The duo has produced 16 No. 1 smashes on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.
The group has two engagements set this year, on June 29 at the annual "Summerfest" in Milwaukee, and on July 13 at B.B. King's Blues Club in New York City.
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Editor's note: At the beginning of primary campaign season, we offered candidates a chance to write one letter to the editor before the June 14 vote explaining why they should be elected. In the race for Lancaster County auditor, we ran a letter from Allen Blackmon June 1. Below are letters from the other two candidates in the race. This will be the last opinion page items on the local election before Tuesday's voting.
The 2016 Before You Vote Candidates Forum on May 26 at Inspiration Ministries/Cross Ridge was a great success.
We want to thank all the Indian Land residents who took this opportunity to meet and listen to the candidates. I am sure they went home with new information to help them vote on June 14.
Rick Jiran, vice president of communications with Duke Power, was a fantastic moderator. Thank you and we want you back.
The Rev. David Bender of Faith Presbyterian Church, thank you for a moving invocation.
I have just come from the candidates forum in Indian Land. While it was very informative, all of the candidates with one exception were civil.
The man running against Congressman Mick Mulvaney decided his time was best suited to make personal attacks.
I do not appreciate this type of campaign.
Lynne Carroll
Indian Land
My wife and I attended the "Before You Vote Candidate Forum" on May 26 to hear from all the primary candidates before we go to the polls on June 14.
What I took away from that forum is there are some excellent candidates running for the county council District 1 and the county auditor positions. Any one of those candidates could do a fine job for the citizens of Indian Land and Van Wyck areas.
Lancaster County is fortunate to have Allen Blackmon as a candidate for county auditor.
I had the privilege to work directly and indirectly for him for over 20 years. During that time, I observed Allen treat his employees and taxpayers fairly and compassionately.
He always tried to help anyone in need. He would come in early or stay late to make sure all tasks were handled.
Editor's note: The writer is a candidate for Lancaster County Council District 1.
The county wants to send you another tax bill.
SMS4 is a federal program to protect the nation's drinking water being run by the Environmental Protection Agency. In South Carolina the program is administered by the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC).
This letter is about amusement park rides.
A lot of people are being killed or maimed across this country. I would like to tell you about an experience a friend and I had at the Lancaster fairgrounds.
We were 16 or 17 years old and got on a ride called the Rocket. As we were going round and around, the man stopped the ride. The bolt in the middle was coming loose. I asked what would have happened if it had come all the way loose. He replied, "Y'all would have been uptown. It would have flown apart."
I totally agree with Dr. Steve Stewart's May 18 column concerning President Obama's disregard of the Constitution.
His threat to withhold federal funds to public schools under Title IX is absolutely ludicrous. There is no discrimination based on sex when someone is born male or female and wants to be identified as the opposite sex only based on how they feel in their own mind.
The human race is composed of only two sexes: male or female. Hopefully this executive action will be overturned by the judicial system.
I would like to take this opportunity to extend to Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile and his officers my sincere appreciation for their assistance in resolving a serious traffic-safety problem on Highway 97.
I recently observed and reported the problem to his office, and his officers acted in a timely manner to relay the information to appropriate personnel within the S.C. Highway Department, who promptly corrected the hazardous conditions.
With almost every piece of media flooded with exasperating stories of political warfare and local crime, surprisingly, I came across a delightful story in last week's Lancaster News. This story covered a fun-filled evening for moms and their sons at Clinton Elementary School.
Too often, the headlines of most news stories focus on the criminal acts, perceived injustices and other social problems in our communities. However, the story regarding the mother-son dance brought a blissful flash of some of the good times and things shared in our small community.
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Check the release thread first post to download version 2.1 - let me know what you think but personally I love the new media flags!
As usual I've made more changes to recently added and I thing I'm finally getting close to something I'm happy with
My apologies to Malexx and Butchabay - I haven't included any of your mods yet as I've been just polishing a few things up. My next move is to start adding in some of your mods (I have the skin settings extras section ready to get started). I may need advice from you two when I start incorporating your mods as most of them I don't personally use (app launchers and the like). I also intend to address a few other issues that have popped up in this forum such as the hard to see page count.
Another exciting development is I that have finally got my sh!t together and have a github repo up and running so you guys can keep updated with the latest changes/bugfixes etc and for the modders out there you finally have access to all textures/images etc. More details in the release thread and I'll create a new sticky for github related stuff.
Heres a couple screenshots, more available in the screenshot thread:
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Great ! The home menu looks awesome with black gradient bar in recently added and
the media flags are fitting perfectly.
If you want to implement some of our MOD's just pm (malexx or me) ... we're about to launch version cirrus.extended 1.1 this weekend with a lot of new little features, so watch out ...
Again compliments for this ultimative skin, you did really a grandious job
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hi,will test this thing out now.
For some Mods,i can add them too if you want.
For sure i will mod the skin anyway
Edit:Ok tested and i really like the new stuff.
For my part i would make Cirrus Extended Mod 1.1 based on Cirrus 2.1 if this is ok for you and Buctchabay wants it too.
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Pulling from Git as we speak. Looks good. I'm still looking forward to the Extended mod since it has extra features that I use (Advanced Launcher support).
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2011-01-22 05:09 Post: #5
Hey Crookas, congrats on the new release.
Please don't feel compelled to start bringing in *all* of those mods. Cirrus is clean, fast and stable. It's also quite "easy to use". I love that one doesn't have to delve through dozens of menus and sub-options to set it up.
Thanks again for your work.
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Love the skin! Most clean and balanced skin since mediastream i.m.o.
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I like more "recently added" previous version.
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"We got a call from some group called the Tournament of Roses and they said we were in the Rose Parade," said Allison Reinhardt, Roots of Music spokeswoman. "I dropped the phone."
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He's big. He's strong. He's foul-tempered. And he owes his fame to dubious performance-enhancing substances.
No, no, I'm not talking about a certain major league baseballer. I'm referring to the Hulk—the 9-foot-tall green behemoth who growls "Hulk smash!" and regards it as a promise. Sorta Superman eternally trapped in his "terrible twos," Hulk tosses forklifts like Frisbees and smashes buildings into talcum powder like nobody's business. Needless to say, it's problematic for anyone unfortunate enough to be close by.
Especially Bruce Banner, the Hulk's mild-mannered alter ego. Bruce inadvertently became the Hulk's human incubator when he volunteered to be bombarded with radioactive gamma particles for the sake of science. Now the big juggernaut lurking inside just won't leave him alone. Whenever Bruce gets really stressed, i.e., when his heart rate eclipses 200 beats per minute, he transmogrifies into the Hulk. That's made lasting relationships impossible (and forget about keeping expensive glassware nearby), because Bruce is afraid to get close to anyone for fear that he might hurt them. So he's forever on the run. From Brazil to Guatemala, Virginia to British Columbia.
Bruce's unique blood (greenoglobin?) has also made him an object of intense interest to the United States Army—the very agency whose undisclosed role in Banner's experiment helped spawn the big green meanie in the first place. "Something went very wrong," Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross says. "Or it went very right."
Cue egomaniacal laughter.
Ross is so enamored with Bruce's bad side that he keeps dabbling in "super soldier" biotechnology, never mind the collateral damage. He performs similar experiments on a willing, albeit unhinged soldier named Emil Blonsky—who's, um, green with envy over the Hulk's abilities—then turns his genetically altered equalizer loose on Bruce.
Bruce, for his part, isn't interested in donating his body to the United States' military-industrial complex. He just wants the Hulk gone so he can live a normal life. "I don't want to control it," he says. "I want to get rid of it." To that end, he reunites with his former main squeeze, Betty Ross. Together, they seek out a mysterious scientist known only as "Mr. Blue," a man Bruce believes may be able to cure him.
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In most comic book tales, the character's superhuman abilities make the hero. Spiderman slings webs. Superman flies. And so forth. But the Hulk is as much Hyde as hero—a harried beast who, in his primal rage and confusion, sometimes stomps on innocent bystanders. In contrast, the real do-gooder here is Bruce Banner, who struggles every day to master the raging forces within him. He monitors his heart rate and he warns folks—even as they're beating him up—that they'd better stop. He knows everyone will be safer if he can just keep the green guy under wraps.
But when Blonsky transforms into a bony über-monster one person dubs the Abomination, Bruce knows that the Hulk is the only thing that can stop him. Even though Bruce underwent a "cure" that may have banished greenus gigantus forever, he throws himself out of a helicopter hoping to trigger another transformation. (It works). Thus he's willing to sacrifice himself and his own desires for the greater good.
Likewise, Betty Ross also offers her own form of sacrifice. She clearly loves Bruce and does whatever she can—including going on the lam with him—to help find a cure. She also sees humanity in the Hulk. When the two find themselves in a cave during a frenzied rain storm, she turns surrogate mother, telling the big fellow to watch his head and comforting him as the storm thunders around them.
Hulk in turn protects Betty from explosions and gunfire, saves her from a heinous monster and wipes away a wayward tear. [Spoiler Warning] He even stops short of killing an enemy at Betty's pleading—an act of mercy that suggests, even in the midst of the Hulk's tornado-like rages, that a whiff of Bruce's humanity is still present somewhere beneath his tough green hide.
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Meditation is an important part of Bruce's anger management regimen, and we sometimes see him sitting on the floor in the lotus position. That said, the film doesn't overtly refer to any underlying spirituality. When Bruce bribes a security guard with a pizza, the guard waves him through and says, "God bless you, Father." Elsewhere, a scientist who witnesses Bruce's transformation describes it as "godlike."
Sexual Content
Bruce and Betty still really like each other, but when they first reconnect after months apart, they keep one another at a distance. Their past romantic link is expressed only in lingering glances and hesitant dialogue. When Betty offers to have Bruce stay at her house for a night, she sets him up on the couch while she's in her bed. Such laudable restraint ebbs, however, when the pair ends up on the run and in a hotel room. Kissing leads to a passionate embrace (Bruce lies on top of Betty; he grabs her exposed outer thigh and a bit of her backside as her dress hikes up). But he brings the proceedings to a halt before the Hulk shows up. "I can't get too excited," he explains, while Betty complains, "But I want to."
Elsewhere, the pair kisses a couple of times. We also see Betty in bed (alone), wearing a relatively modest white nightie; several other outfits reveal some cleavage. Bruce spends the first part of the film in Brazil, where female extras loiter in skimpy tops and short shorts. Audiences get a brief glimpse of girlie photos pasted inside a locker door. Trying to evade capture, Bruce barges in on a woman coming out of the bathroom after a shower. (She's holding a blue bathrobe against her body.)
We also see Bruce naked in a bathtub, but with critical parts strategically obscured by a leg and steam. A men's locker room scene includes exposed torsos, and we repeatedly glimpse Blonsky sans shirt. A cabbie suggestively tells Betty, "You don't like a good ride?"
Violent Content
The body count in The Incredible Hulk is higher than we're used to seeing in superhero movies these days, as unnamed soldiers, civilians and scientists regularly meet untimely and violent ends. Here's a sampling of the carnage:
Hulk transformation No. 1 is a flashback from the Hulk's perspective to when he was first created. We see a destroyed laboratory strewn with the blood-covered bodies of scientists; later, we see Betty, whose face is bruised and swollen, in a hospital room.
Hulkout No. 2 happens at a Brazilian bottling factory, where Bruce has been pursued by three local toughs as well as Blonsky's special ops team. The Hulk is in the shadows most of the time, but we watch several thrashing people disappear into the darkness as he grabs them. Hulk withstands a hail of tranquilizer darts, bullets and even a grenade or two while hurling all manner of industrial-grade projectiles at his assailants. Lots of equipment gets smashed to smithereens, too.
All of that is merely a stretching exercise for Hulkout No. 3, where the green Goliath battles an entire Army battalion armed with .50 caliber machine guns, rockets, Hummers, a helicopter gunship and two sonic cannons. Hulk summarily shreds all this equipment (and perhaps a few soldiers as well, though we don't see any bodies) in a chaotic whirl of ripped metal, thudding bullets and fiery explosions. When Blonsky taunts Hulk by asking, "Is that all you've got?" Hulk kicks his adversary into a tree—a blow that leaves most of Blonsky's bones looking like "crushed gravel" in the words of the attending doctor.
Hulkout No. 4 ends practically before it begins, with Bruce's body grotesquely twisting and bulging and greening before our eyes until Bruce is injected with an antidote that reverses the transformation.
[Spoiler Warning] A jump from an airborne helicopter triggers Hulkout No. 5 and his climactic, King Kong vs. Godzilla-like battle with Blonsky's Abomination. Together, they destroy a good chunk of New York City. (It's always NYC, isn't it?) Buildings are smashed; cars are thrown, torn apart and used as boxing gloves. Blonsky, in particular, relishes hurling unfortunate civilians this way and that (though we rarely see their impact). He also picks up a car and uses it to crush two soldiers. Audiences see hails of bullets, torrents of explosions, flying monsters and a helicopter careening out of control across a rooftop. Blonsky shoves a sharp bone spur into Hulk's chest, and Hulk tries to strangle Blonsky with a heavy chain.
Also worth noting: Special ops forces shoot Bruce's dog with a tranquilizer. Several folks are injected with big needles, including one particularly graphic injection into Blonsky's spine.
Crude or Profane Language
Bruce uses the s-word as he plunges from the helicopter (though we don't hear its completion). Characters misuse God's name nearly a dozen times (twice pairing it with "d--n") and utter about 10 other vulgarities ("d--n," "a--," "b--ch," "h---" and "p---").
Drug and Alcohol Content
Gen. Ross smokes cigars frequently. He also drinks heavily in a bar scene, slugging down shots, then ordering the bartender to "reload." When Betty asks Bruce what happens in his mind during his Hulk episodes, he compares it to an induced hallucination experiment they both experienced in college. Then he says it's like having "a liter of acid" poured on his brain.
Other Negative Elements
Gen. Ross cares more about the apprehension of the Hulk than the safety or wellbeing of his soldiers and civilians caught in the cross fire (especially Betty Ross). Bruce swallows a flash drive loaded with data. We later hear him vomit it up.
Spider-Man teaches, "With great power comes great responsibility." But Bruce Banner's story illustrates the dark side of the super-power equation: With great power comes great danger.
The Hulk might best be seen as a symbol for that danger, something akin to a nuclear warhead perched atop a ballistic missile. While some would argue such deterrents are necessary, they are frightening nonetheless—weapons few of us would call "good" apart from their ability to combat evil. In a summer chock-full of superhero tales, where fantastic powers are flaunted like the latest shirt or shoe, it's refreshing to watch a film that seriously grapples with the concept of an unwanted power that's barely controllable. The maelstrom of savage carnage that whirls around the Hulk reminds us that peace, when possible, is preferable.
But like many films, The Incredible Hulk is a paradox: Even as it preaches pacifism and prudence, it glories in violence. The Hulk's CGI wizards took pains to showcase his humanity. But they knew the real payoff would come once the great green beast was unleashed—neck muscles bulging, eyes creased in anger, his mouth open in a roar. This is the Hulk fans of his comic book exploits have come to see, rendered with intense realism on the big screen. Hulk smash. Hulk smash.
And so he does. Cars. Buildings. And, on at least one occasion, people. His final abominable foe raises the body-count ante even higher—a lot higher. Thus is the heroic commingled with the brutal. Like Bruce Banner himself, The Incredible Hulk comes with a dangerous and violent split personality.
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Ilann Girard of Paris-based Arsam International has boarded Pan Nalin's Film Bazaar project, Beyond The Known World, as co-producer alongside New Zealand's Reservoir Films.
Reservoir's Matthew Horrocks and Kristian Eek are planning to structure the film as a New Zealand-India-France co-production. India has co-production treaties with both New Zealand and France, while France and New Zealand also have a treaty.
Girard previously produced Oscar-winning documentary March Of The Penguins (2005) and award-winning drama Lebanon, directed by Samuel Moaz. Horrocks and Eek are former executives at the New Zealand Film Commission.
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it's a matter of personal preference when it's judged by one person
it's a matter of personal preference when it's judged by one person
Yall are just being sore losers. Yeah, we all wish that we could have won, but its ridiculous to call the first and second place "toy". Their on some next level type shit, those pieces are inspiring to me.
You kids wouldnt know style if it kicked you in the dick.
this one was mine.
^ i was going through all the sketch pretty fast, when i went past yours i had to do a double take.
great job cher!
Guest, Bware, Then, Sorie420, Tom, Kayz, Roten, Sevazajeza .... is vey vey greatstyle
Nananas so fun ^ ^
Aww Good Battle I was happy with my entry I think Im going to stick to more simple fills or something that pops.
like i went the full sha bang trying to impress. but if i did more of a simple clean one.
but truth let it be who knows aye its how you feel on the day when you look at these.
Props to many lads who entered great many styles see you next round.
Whos up for just muck a round battle. im keen.
All we are is just dust in the wind.
mouhahahahahahahahahahaha ! "toy ?" sérieux quand je vois les croutes de certains qui ouvrent leurs gueules, ouah !
félicitation aux deux autres ! yo
Rodes votre entrée a été grande.
the other two were dope to.
here's my entry.
i thought the winner was exceptional and then i looked at rodes ms page. wow. i was blown away. and his name is so dope. excuse my gushing. i was just psyched out when i saw all those great pieces. sperm, your entry was dope, i just didnt like the top exposure of brick in the piece. it draws your attention away from your piece for some reason. it must have something to do with the fill colors being near neutral. great stuff guys.
beware the beast man for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
MDC familia.
"-and the handstlyes look solid!"
"Again, nice hand."
"And again!... good hand."
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This game is rigged, man. We like the little bitches on a chessboard.
I submitted an entry via email and it didn't even show up on the page with the pics of all the other entries? What gives? Did I mess up? Heres mine...
Give the winners props. I like Number 1. Sick flow and nice colors. (Next time remeber to spell the word right lol. )
MDC Familia
Gaining Knowledge
eh. i read it as ways with the extension of the bottom part in the S creating the first bar in the top of the Y. what do i know.
although i can see why its more an X than a Y
i seriously have no idea what i'm talkin aboiut with this sh!t so someone check my folder out and let me know what u think just lookin 4 any criticism good , bad , toy whatever just want someone who knows somethin to recognize it
RIP jacko
Can any moderator answer my questions? Why my artwork didn't make it on the entries page? THankS.


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janek - make your K bar that flops out as skinny as the A and N, it's a bit over weight.
keem- do it straight and make all your letters the same size. That K's a bit handicapped too.
janek - make your K bar that flops out as skinny as the A and N, it's a bit over weight.
keem- do it straight and make all your letters the same size. That K's a bit handicapped too.
Fuck off.
Tryin to fatten up my k
haha i never realized how much it would suck to be left handed
Fuck off.
janek-i like your new throwie but your K looks a little like a N
Leaks-you can work on it but work on your G the most
reny-your progressing but work on your E a little
keem-work on your K and M and also try taking a better picture next time
kem-i like the new K but the bottom-right of the M seems out of place
got a nwe name. Clos, what do you guys think so far. Crits??
janek your shit got mad dope since the last time i saw it!
kem-keep working with it
reny-in the first one,the toomer on your n seems random and doesnt really fit in
...havent posted in a while,havent done a throwup in a while haha,anyway
back in black
get rid of thous shitty add ons
get rid of your name gees
and im mailing you your bbook ina captan crunch box
SLIPYx3 MEGEEE
Gezra- I like the style except the stupid extentions on the G.
And theres another writer named Trik in Toronto and he kills it.
Just giving you a heads up about the name. (http://iloveletters.ca/BOMBS/images/...08/trik_B7.jpg)
Not untill recently I've been sketching out all my throws before i drew them. I could do a throw clean and smooth on the wall with a can but when it came to paper I found it really hard to draw smooth and consistent proportions like without sketching the bomb out before. I think its because I'm left handed and cant see the letter I did before. Does anyother left handed writers have this problem?
all gez does is throwups
Did this in summer school obviously i didnt rly take time one it and did it shiity but in general what do you guys think?
Crits plz
Squint-Not to sound like a dick but im rly not feelinf the throw i saw some of your thows in the past that i though were better
PM if your from Shaolin!
yo ima do your s in a min, im drinking right now.
new throw im playing with.. lines are really chopy and shit but fuck it.crits?
gezra: like been said lose the add ons , PLEASE!
sneak: the only thing im really not feeling is the A change that up, other then that its pretty good


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I found the photo somewhere on the web via google.dhamma_newb wrote:Hi tilt,
Thank you for posting this. I am reading "Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master" by Amy Schmidt and am deeply inspired by Dipa Ma. May I ask where you got this photo? I am going to find a copy to put on my altar. Thank you.
Found an up to date link from the same source.Fede wrote:I was about to inform tiltbillings the "page could not be found".... then I noticed the date of the original posting.....
April 2009.....
David N. Snyder wrote:There is another thread here on Bowing to lay teachers. Dipa Ma is one lay person I would have no problem in doing a full prostration to (in person if she were still alive or to her photo).
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Franz Ferdinand frontman discusses band's almost break-up
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Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand are set to release their fourth album next week, but it turns out they almost never made it past their third. Frontman Alex Kapranos tells "The Observer" he considered breaking up the band after they finished touring behind 2009's Tonight.
At that point, Kapranos says Franz Ferdinand was starting to feel like "one of those jobs," adding that he didn't like "the routine and the obligations." But after taking some time off, Kapranos says he's excited about the band's new album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action.
He says they've embraced the "oddness" that surrounds them, realizing that "it should be at the heart of [their] existence if [they] want to continue." Franz Ferdinand's Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is scheduled to hit stores next Tuesday.
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A judge on Wednesday ordered Wayne Lingenfelter removed from the Tri-City Healthcare District board, saying he did not live in the district when voters elected him in November.
Judge Sim von Kalinowski ruled Wednesday in favor of George Coulter, the former board member who challenged Lingenfelter's residency after losing to him in the election.
"I thought the odds were against us because it is a very narrow legal issue," said Lingenfelter's attorney, Stanley Prowse. "We gave it our best shot. I think it could have gone either way."
Before last week, Lingenfelter lived in an apartment in a small section of Vista that is in the neighboring Palomar Health District. He argued that his permanent residence is a home that he and his wife purchased in Oceanside in late 2010, in the Tri-City boundaries.
As he was preparing to run for the Tri-City board, Lingenfelter registered to vote in August at the Oceanside address. Although the house was leased out — and Lingenfelter had never lived there — he signed under penalty of perjury that it was his home address.
According to Lingenfelter, he was advised by elections staff that the address would meet residency requirements.
Lingenfelter said he moved into the Oceanside address last week.
Von Kalinowski expressed doubt in Lingenfelter's argument during a Feb. 15 hearing.
"I have difficulty saying that someone is domiciled somewhere where they have never lived," the judge said.
Von Kalinowski did not grant Coulter's request to appoint him to the board as the next-highest vote-getter. Instead, he ruled the seat vacant, leaving the decision of how to fill the vacancy to the Tri-City board.
Lingenfelter, who now lives in the district, said he would seek to be appointed to the board.
"There are no questions about me being in the district now," he said.
Lingenfelter's vacancy is the second on the seven-member board, which oversees the district that provides hospital and health care services for more than 500,000 residents in Carlsbad, Oceanside and Vista. Charlene Anderson, re-elected in November, announced her resignation earlier this month.


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st: Cox Regression - flat region resulting in a missing likelihood
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st: Cox Regression - flat region resulting in a missing likelihood
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:04:44 +0800
Theresa writes:
> I set my data stset and then I tried to run a stcox and got the following
> error message " flat region resulting in a missing likelihood r(430)";
I would first try to change the settings for ties (Efron, exactp,
exactm) if you have many tied failure times.
Beyond that, it likely due to so-called 'mono-tone' likelihood;
there's a solution called the Firth method. Unfortunately, it is not
implemented in Stata for Cox models (but is in Some Alternative
Software and in R).
You could also try to randomize your times slightly (which likely
won't work); use flexible parametric models which will require some
startup (-ssc install stpm2-); or do a Poisson regression to get
(essentially) the same coefficients as Incident Rate Ratios instead of
HRs. Best source of how to do this is Dupont's 'Statistical Modeling
for Biomedical Researchers'.
Andrew Lover
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (CIDER)
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
National University of Singapore
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Hanbei is one of the two warriors who serves Hideyoshi along with Kanbei. He only appears after Nobunaga is defeated. He is a genius with astonishing brainpower and a confidence that doesn't quite fit his appearance, his dream is to spend every day sleeping.
Special Story (The Reluctant Genius)
He is put in charge by Hideyoshi and has Kanbei as his underling.
|Hanbei - A character paired with Pikachu.
- Rank 1: Added Bonus. Increases probability of inflicting status ailments on enemies (for 3 turns).
- Rank 2: Lazybones. Blocks enemy critical hits and status ailments for all allied Pokémon (for 3 turns).


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Hello friends i read that no fallow websites doesn't pass their link juice to linking website, if it so what is the use of getting links from no fallow websites and if that no fallow website has high page rank, does that back link shows any impact on linking website, please explain me.
A nofollow link provides no SEO juice, but it's still a link that people can follow and thereby find your site, so it's not useless by any means. Links in this forum are nofollow, so they won't give you any advantage in terms of search engines. However, real people who visit this forum will see your link and click on it if it looks interesting enough.
Based on its definition, no-fallow is a double-negative!
Sir, I find your humor uncultivated ... but nevertheless, hail fallow, well met!
No follow link is no use but you can get traffic from there and helpful unique visitors visit your website,
What should be ratio of using do follow and no follow for site promotion?
Google still sees no follow links it just doesn't follow them in my opinion. And puts them in her big brain. If your a spammer of said links then google knows ya?!
I think backlinks can do just as much harm as they have the possibility of helping these days. But untill google figures out a better way they are still one of googles PR ranking.
What about potential visitors who would visit your site from those links?
If you get link from no follow websites,then you can not get only back links and no link juice. If you done posting on Do- follow sites, you will get link as well as link juice,which helps to increase PR..
Sometimes no follow links matters a lot like wiki page where you don't get do follow links but it counts a lot in your SERPs. And also you can get relevant traffic to your websites if you are participating in discussions in the discussions where your audience is already gathered.
Isn't the whole point of no-follow that it doesn't count toward your search ranking?
no follow is useless links but in other search engines it counts.
Nofollow links are the most valuable kind as they don't have all the bots following them to slow down your site. The real people who do follow the nofollow links are what you are trying to actually get to your site.
Too many people get so caught up in attracting search engine bots to their site that real people will quickly leave because the site is aimed at the bots and is therefore meaningless for real people.
No follow backlinks definitely is important for SERPs. It is just that through no follow links we don't get PR juice. So it can be that we have our website's PR 0 but still we are pulling a lot of traffic from Google because those quality no follow links are helpful in SERPs.
It would be good if you could provide evidence for that, as I'm not convinced. Do you have it on any authority (say, from Google) that this is the case?
We all know that nofollow links will not pass any kind of Link Juice or Seo credit to the website.But with consideration to what Google has said that we should have links of all types.Nofollow link can also be prove fruitful if put in a website with high traffic which there by helps in increasing traffic to the website.


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Condemned killer gets clemency hearing
(Columbus) - The Ohio Parole Board will conduct a clemency hearing for death row inmate Billy Slagle this morning at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in Columbus, Ohio.
Slagle was sentenced to death out of Cuyahoga County for the 1987 death of Mari Anne Pope.
Slagle was 18 when he broke into Pope's west side house looking for money to buy alcohol. He ended up stabbing her 17 times with a pair of sewing scissors he found in the house.
Two child witnesses heard the 40-year-old Pope praying before the attack. Police also found a broken rosary near her body.
Back in 2011, the Ohio Parole Board reommended that Slagle's life not be spared.
Slagle's 2011 execution was postponed while a lawsuit over the state's death penalty procedure was pending in federal court.
"This twisted psychopath should have been executed 15 years ago," Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim Mason said at the time. "With all due respect to the governor, the biggest criticism of capital punishment in Ohio is the unnecessary delays."
Slagle's attorneys say mercy is justified for Slagle because he was a chronic alcoholic with a chaotic upbringing who was only 18 at the time of the slaying, the minimum age to receive the death penalty in Ohio.
Slagle is now scheduled for execution on August 7.
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I know this has nothing to do with pottery or pots, but I wanted to express my feelings for the Oklahoma Tornado victims. My heart goes out to the people who are suffering from this destructive winds. I hope, none of our potter friends are affected.
Prayers for Tornado victims
Started by Evelyne Schoenmann, May 21 2013 03:46 AM
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Posted 21 May 2013 - 03:46 AM
Evelyne Schoenmann
Studio: schoenmann ceramics
Advisory Board Member;
Potters Council of The
American Ceramic Society
Board Member of Swiss Ceramics Association
Posted 21 May 2013 - 08:03 AM
The storm was a violent killer. Thank you for your concerns from Switzerland. Tornado Alley is a scary place to live. Moore has been hit three times in recent memory. My thoughts go out to those who lost loved ones.
Marcia Selsor, Professor Emerita,Montana State University-Billings
Posted 21 May 2013 - 08:50 AM
My husbands nephew and his family live in Moore, they recently moved a mile away from the area that got hit so their children were attending different schools and everyone in fine. Wichita had a tornado Sunday but it was in an area with open fields and only destroyed 3 houses and then lifted, it was headed towards the airport and a heavily populated area. If you want to help donate to the Red Cross and tag the donation for Oklahoma, there will be a lot of phony charities popping up on the internet. Denice
Posted 21 May 2013 - 09:00 AM
We have friends and relatives in Oklahoma but what really scared me was seeing the two schools that were in the tornado's path. While it's awful that so many people were killed and injured, seeing the path from the air I was afraid it would be much worse. Sending a text to 90999 with the message REDCROSS will result in a $10 donation.
E pur si muove.
"But it does move," said Galileo under his breath.
"But it does move," said Galileo under his breath.
Posted 21 May 2013 - 03:20 PM
We are known worldwide for our "awful" weather in the UK, but fortunately we rarely experience anything remotely like the tornadoes and hurricanes that are a regular occurrence in at least some parts of the USA; my thoughts and commiserations go out to anyone affected.
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Statement by Ambassador Wittig, welcoming EU-HR Lady Ashton in the SC
I would like to join my colleagues in warmly welcoming Ms. Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to the Security Council today.
The briefing of the Security Council by High Representative Ashton comes at a timely moment. Recent developments in Tunisia and Egypt – both of them neighbours of the European Union - are of immediate relevance not only to the European Union and its Member States, but ultimately to the international community as a whole. Northern Africa and the Middle East are in a crucial phase of transition. Civil societies are claiming fundamental political and human rights and a new economic perspective for the future. Reforms are the only way forward. We have to adapt our policies with regard to the entire region. The European decision to grant special support to the transformation process is the right initiative responding to Egyptian requests.
Lady Ashton has also informed us about the meeting of the Middle East quartet in Munich which she chaired three days ago. Our common goal is very clear: We all want to see the State of Israel and a sovereign, independent, democratic, contiguous and viable State of Palestine living side-by-side in peace and security. Highlighting the urgency of meaningful negotiations on all final status issues, concluding by September 2011, committing to an active role of the Quartet and scheduling the next principals' meeting for March, the Munich statement is an important contribution to creating much needed momentum. The close contacts between the High Representative and the Secretary General over the last week is yet another indicator for the high level of cooperation between the EU and the UN.
Let me underline that this cooperation is built an a fundamental convergence of views: It is based on the idea that relations among states should be subject to the rule of law, founded on universal values and mutual respect. The EU believes in a multilateral, rule-based approach to world affairs. The EU itself was built by a process of negotiation and consensus among its current 27 member states, which has lead to a considerable pooling of sovereignty. Germany has been part of this unique peace-building and institution-building exercise from the beginning.
With the newly created External Action Service, implementing the Treaty of Lisbon, the EU is about to further improve its joint diplomatic capabilities and will become an even more effective international partner for the UN and for other regional organisations. When holding the EU-Presidency in 2007, Germany promoted the adoption of a joint statement on UN-EU Cooperation in Crisis Management. Exchanges between senior UN Secretariat officials and the Political and Security Committee of the EU on areas of cooperation have since become regular practice.
By definition, the European Union firmly believes in regional cooperation. The African Union and African subregional organisations are strengthening the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and working actively to settle conflicts in Africa through their peacekeeping missions and good offices. The EU supports these efforts - not only with financial means. The African Peace Facility, has helped to enhance AU peace support operations as well as institution and capacity building of the AU.
In Somalia, just to name one example, UN, AU and EU are closely cooperating and complementing each other in their efforts to help rebuilding sound state institutions, thereby creating conditions for peace and stability, and to combat piracy off the Horn of Africa and in the Indian Ocean. Through its ATALANTA mission, the EU contributes successfully to the protection of World Food Programme transports, thereby saving the lives of many ordinary Somalis. ATALANTA also plays an important role in protecting AMISOM transports and international shipping, so vital for the economies of the broader region. Following calls by the UN Security Council, the EU is, furthermore, training soldiers of the Transitional Federal Government in Uganda. This military training mission ("EUTM Somalia") aims at improving the security situation in Somalia – a precondition for tackling the problem of piracy as well as strengthening the rule of law in the country. The African Union´s AMISOM mission, which is substantially supported by the EU, has the very same objective.
In conclusion, let me reiterate that Germany remains committed to a strong partnership between the UN and the EU, building on shared values and common goals. We welcome the Security Council's recognition of the need for close cooperation with regional and subregional organisations in a PRST last year. We are confident that the cooperation between the EU and the UN will remain fruitful and look forward to a further deepening.


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Paradise Island, Bahamas (SportsNetwork.com) - Jessica Korda fired a 7-under 66 at Atlantis Resort's windy Ocean Club Golf Course on Friday to grab the halfway lead at the season-opening Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic.
Korda, who is seeking her second career LPGA Tour win, sits at 11-under-par 135 through 36 holes.
"It was a tough day out there," admitted Korda. "I mean, a little mentally draining because you really had to put everything into every shot."
Paula Creamer, who played alongside Korda in each of the first two rounds, carded a tournament-record, 8-under 65 to move into second place at 10-under 136. The nine-time LPGA Tour winner opened with a double-bogey, but she didn't drop another shot, tallying 10 birdies the rest of the way.
"When I'd hit a good shot, (Korda would) hit a good shot, or vice versa," said Creamer. "If she made a putt, I made a putt. It was fun. That's kind of what you want out there, especially when it's this difficult."
Michelle Wie also shot 65, which allowed her to jump into a tie for third with Monday qualifier Jenny Suh (66) at 9-under. Wie went bogey-free with eight birdies.
"I think I just had a good rest this offseason," Wie said. "When I came back in January and I picked up my golf clubs, I was really excited to play. I was so ready to get back into a rhythm."
First-round co-leader Lydia Ko, who is playing her first LPGA Tour event as a member, shot 70 and dropped into a share of fifth with Na Yeon Choi (68), Christel Boeljon (67) and P.K. Kongkraphan (69) at minus-8. Ko, 16, won twice on the LPGA Tour as an amateur before turning pro in October and being granted tour membership shortly thereafter.
Lizette Salas (67) is alone in ninth at 7-under, while world No. 3 Stacy Lewis (71) shares 10th with three others at minus-6.
Korda, the last player before Ko to successfully petition LPGA Tour commissioner Michael Whan for early membership, began the day one stroke off the lead and promptly made up ground with birdies at Nos. 2 and 4.
The 20-year-old went birdie-bogey-birdie from the seventh to turn in 33, then matched that number during her bogey-free back nine, notching further birdies at Nos. 12, 13, 16 and 18 to grab the lead.
"It's tough to win out here, but I'm going to try my best," said Korda.
Creamer started the round three shots back and she ran into trouble at the first, where she three-putted for double bogey. She righted herself from there, however, reeling off four straight birdies from the second and another at the eighth to turn in 33.
During her back nine, Creamer kept pace with Korda, adding five more birdies, including two straight from the 17th to hit the clubhouse at 10-under.
"I was above the hole (on No. 1), and I had about four and a half feet coming back, and I horseshoed it back right at me and walked away with a 6. After that, hit a good tee shot on No. 2 and (my caddie) Colin said, 'OK, let's go, make some birdies,' and I did," Creamer explained.
Ko made a statement in her debut as a tour member on Thursday, shooting 68 and snaring a share of the lead. By the time she teed off Friday afternoon, that 1-stroke advantage had transformed into a 5-shot deficit.
But the world No. 4 quickly went to work, notching birdies on each of her first three holes. She couldn't maintain the pace, however, playing the rest of her round at even-par with two birdies and two bogeys.
NOTES: Korda's lone LPGA Tour win came at the 2012 Women's Australian Open ... Ko won the LPGA Tour's Canadian Women's Open as an amateur in 2012 and 2013. She won her first event as a pro at the Swinging Skirts World Ladies Masters in December ... Lewis is the highest-ranked player in the first ... Defending champion Ilhee Lee missed the cut by one at 2-over-par 148 ... This marks the first time in 13 years that the LPGA Tour season kicked off in January ... Last year, this event was staged in May and was competed over three, 12-hole rounds after heavy rains soaked the course.


text: If SoCal can, so can I, so...here's my redecoration thread. Here's the "blank canvas", as it stands - the electrician's coming in tomorrow, then carpenters, painters...it will be interesting to be confined to the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen while they're doing up the living-room, dining-room/office and hall. Bathroom is finished, thankfully. (See my posts in the WAYWT thread, it's the one with black-and-white tile floor.) Living-room: Dining-room/office: Original jute wallpaper, 1929: Planned bookcas, not sure about this one: Hall: (Don't look at the furniture, most of it will be leaving.) View from kitchen or living-room, sundown: Same side, late afternoon: View from bedroom, late afternoon: