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Joined: 23 Oct 2008
Posts: 3270
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:10 pm
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CanadianBolt wrote:
hey mgoblue good to see another canadian chargers fan, what part of toronto are you from? I'm livin in ottawa now but I'm originally from Aurora, just north of T.
I live in Vaughan
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Joined: 20 Sep 2009
Posts: 206
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:55 pm
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mgoblue44 wrote:
CanadianBolt wrote:
hey mgoblue good to see another canadian chargers fan, what part of toronto are you from? I'm livin in ottawa now but I'm originally from Aurora, just north of T.
I live in Vaughan
Oh yeah eh? Just around the corner from Aurora. Well dude I hope your having a good thanksgiivng, watching football and eatng turkey.
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El ramster
Joined: 13 May 2008
Posts: 63960
Location: Jared Goffs Bed
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:41 am
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use to post here a long time ago.
I like the chargers but i bleed that Gold and Blue.
Wondering if any of you guys go to SD games? i live a few miles away and have always been wanting to go see a chargers game.
Anyhow good luck this week, Rivers is going to have a field day and
i don't mind since i love that dude.
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Joined: 30 Dec 2007
Posts: 79
Location: Long Island NY
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:36 pm
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Name: Kyle Miller
Location: New York
Occupation: Student
Favorite Team (besides chargers): Tampa Bay Bucs
Favorite MLB Team: New York Mets
Favorite NBA Team: Houston Rockets
Favorite College Teams: San Diego State, Texas
Favorite Tailgate Food: Love me a good burger
How Many Charger Games You Plan on Attending? I get down to SD usually once a year during the season to see a game.
Favorite Charger: Shaun Phillips
Hobbies: Sports, Writing, Music
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Pepere Gustave
Joined: 15 Feb 2011
Posts: 145
Location: HK
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:13 am
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Happy to join the forum. Don't know much about football, I ll be more a reader than a writer here.
Discovered this sport via Madden09, and thanks to Tomlinson I became a charger fan.
Name: Alex
Location: Hong Kong
Occupation: Bank
Favorite Team (besides chargers):
Favorite MLB Team: Not sure, Is that the baseball league?
Favorite NBA Team: Spurs
Favorite College Teams:
Favorite Tailgate Food: Freedom Fries...
How Many Charger Games You Plan on Attending? 0
Favorite Charger: Gates
Hobbies: Love sports. All sports. If I had to rank them it would be 1. soccer ; 2.rugby ; 3.tennis ; 4. American football ... 318. Cricket ; 319. Baseball (is that a sport btw...
And Finally...How Much do You hate Eli Manning? I prefer his sister
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Joined: 24 Mar 2011
Posts: 15
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:09 am
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Hello everyone!
Name: TC
Location: So.Cal.
Occupation: Own a produce co.
Favorite team other then Chargers: Vikings
Fav. baseball team: Padres & Red Socks
Fav. NBA team: Celtics
Fav. college: SDSU, Ohio State, Auburn
Fav. tailgate food: Carne Asada ( Is beer a food?)
How many games will I attend: Had season tickets since 1987 until this year, will still make 3 or 4 games.
Fav. Charger: Honestly can not pick one.
Hobbies: Outdoors events, camping, 4x4ing, tailgating
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Joined: 17 Nov 2007
Posts: 5611
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:13 pm
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Hows it goin guys? I'm a diehard Bears fan, but have found myself with no 2nd favorite team at all... As I just moved to San Diego this month it seems only fitting to star rooting for the Chargers each week(except week 10 of course
Name: Lorenzo Baca
Location: San Diego(mission bay)
Occupation: Student
Favorite team other the Chargers: Da Bears
Favorite baseball team: San Diego Padres
Favorite NBA team: Chicago Bulls
Favorite college: SDSU, University of New Mexico
Favorite tailgate food: Cheeseburger and Beer!
How many games I will attend this year: Hopefully more then one!
Favorite Charger: Ryan Mattews/ Eric Weddle
Hobbies: Drag Racing, Mountain Biking, tennis, snowboarding
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Joined: 15 Feb 2006
Posts: 7219
Location: LA MIRADA, CA
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:21 pm
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We'll take a bears fan, hopefully we can play you guys twice this season. Welcome to the Charger faithful.
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Joined: 20 Jan 2009
Posts: 9472
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 5:43 am
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Hahah living at U Oregon gives me a completely different perspective on bqseball. I like hate all my friends now cuz its too hard to not root for the Griants, or Oriels (one of my friends is nick adenhearts brother, henrey gigous) who, im gonna be honest here, is a [inappropriate/removed] STUD, as a pitcher. B7t its hard bein a pads fan around all the giants and As fans bein [inappropriate/removed]...lol
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Everything about Rivers is Awkward, reminiscent of a Giraffe with Down's Syndrome
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The LBC
Joined: 12 Jan 2008
Posts: 35144
Location: Where We Can't Have Nice Things
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:14 pm
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The LBC wrote:
Favorite Team (besides chargers): New York Jets (yeah.. I know!
But I have family from New York. I
a Rams fan back in the early 90's before the Wicked Witch of the Mid-East stole the team to St. Louis)
What a difference 3 years (and Rex and Sanchez...) make? I deserve to be taken to task for ever writing this (and I'll be editing this immediately following!).
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I think I'm obfuscating all over the place!
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The LBC
Joined: 12 Jan 2008
Posts: 35144
Location: Where We Can't Have Nice Things
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:29 pm
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Boltstrikes wrote:
Which RPG's do you write for? A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I used to write for MUDS including the simutronics games and a few others that failed to launch.
On another note how nice is it that even though the Dodgers will win the pennant it won't be in San Diego. Our team showed some pride down the stretch to make sure Yankees West didn't celebrate in our stadium.
I was one of the storytellers at XPG for about two years before myself and two others had a fallout with the "owner" and designer of the site and left.
I've bounced around recently between a couple different games, Graymalkin RPG, Marvel Unlimited, and what not before settling in at An Option for Peace and its sister site (Peace was Never an Option) which are both X-Men based games. Also been intermittently playing at Expecto! (a Harry Potter... yeah, I know...) game. I'm actively seeking out a GoT based game and if I don't find it might try to rally together a team to create one.
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I think I'm obfuscating all over the place!
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Posts: 1667
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:07 pm
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Hmm, thought I had posted in here... guess not!
Wake Forest, North Carolina
Machine Operator at a sheet metal fabrication plant in Creedmoor, NC. We mainly make large metal enclosures for a variety of products. Currently we are making the enclosures for the RedBox dvd rental machines, some server racks for a company called EMC, all the metal fabrication of the self checkout registers at places like Walmart for a company called NCR, and we've started doing the casings of large generators for Caterpillar.
Favorite Team (besides chargers):
Dont really have another team I actively follow besides San Diego.
Favorite MLB Team
: People watch baseball?
Favorite NBA Team:
Was a huge NBA fan in the 90s, followed the Hornets mainly. Favorite player was Alonzo Mourning with Dan Majerle a close second. As I grew up though I fell out of the whole NBA thing and dont bother watching or paying attention to it most of the time. I do have a large dislike of LeBron James though.
Favorite College Teams:
NC State
Favorite Tailgate Food:
Never had a chance to tailgate!
How Many Charger Games You Plan on Attending?
Wish I could go to each and every one of them, sadly I'll be attending ZERO
Favorite Charger:
Rivers, with Natrone Means a close second!
I enjoy sim racing online, play guitar though not as much as I used to, riding my new motorcycle, and playing games either on my 3 monitor eyefinity computer setup or Xbox 360
And Finally...How Much do You hate Eli Manning?
Dont really hate him actually, things worked out great when my favorite college player got traded to my favorite NFL team! So I guess I actually like the guy for doing what he did lol.
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Joined: 20 Jan 2009
Posts: 9472
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:32 pm
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I think these got deleted, so i'll go for it. I got nothin better to do.
Chris Duffy (Hense the Duffman name)
San Diego (PQ)/Eugene Oregon
College Student
Favorite Team (besides chargers):
Baltimore Ravens (they might have my 3 favorite players in all of football, Suggs, Ngata, Lewis)
Favorite MLB Team:
THE San Diego Padres, or if i want to root for a good team, i go with the Angels
Favorite NBA Team:
Dont really have one, i guess Whoever's playing the Celts, Lakers, Spurs or Mavs. I guess if i had to name my favorites it'd be the Clipps (i liked um pre CP3), Warriors and Blazers
Favorite College Teams:
Football: Oregon (I go here), Basketball: SDSU
Favorite Tailgate Food:
I have no idea, Is Beer a food?
How Many Charger Games You Plan on Attending?
Probably none
Favorite Charger:
Nick Hardwick/Gaither, love me som OL
Playing/Watching any sport (other than Tennis, that doesn't count), some solid video game play, Raging (
And Finally...How Much do You hate Eli Manning?
I really hate Sheli....To say it simply, if i had a chance....i would END him.
MrDrew wrote:
Everything about Rivers is Awkward, reminiscent of a Giraffe with Down's Syndrome
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Joined: 10 Apr 2008
Posts: 19988
Location: Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:46 pm
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Wow, it worked. Here we go again.
Andrew to most, Drew to my closest friends.
Colorado Springs, CO by way of Rancho Cucmunga, Ontario (Not the one in the Northern Axis of Evil), and finally the Central Coast.
Telecommunications Tech
Favorite Team (besides chargers):
There's a few teams that I like, but not really enough to have a favorite. Maybe the Lions?
Favorite MLB Team:
Start the hate now... Angels/Dodgers. Grew up equal distance to both stadiums.
Favorite NBA Team:
The Suns. Haven't paid any attention in years though.
Favorite College Teams:
Florida St
Favorite Tailgate Food:
Tri-tip + Beer
How Many Charger Games You Plan on Attending?
Hope to get the game in Denver this time.
Favorite Charger:
Probably Rivers
Punk shows, PS3, beer, BBQ
And Finally...How Much do You hate Eli Manning?
It didn't even have to be the Chargers. I hate anybody that thinks they're too good for almost anything.
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Joined: 23 Oct 2008
Posts: 3270
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:46 pm
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Not a bad idea for everyone to update...
Name: Dan
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (or the Northern Axis of Evil according to Drew
Occupation: Produce Clerk at a Grocery Store, aspiring Agent.
Favorite Team (besides chargers): Dont really have one.
Favorite MLB Team: Blue Jays
Favorite NBA Team: Raptors
Favorite College Teams: Michigan for Football, Ball and Hockey
Favorite Tailgate Food: Beer and Pulled Pork
How Many Charger Games You Plan on Attending? Still waiting for them to come to Buffalo...
Favorite Charger: Current: Rivers, All Time: LT
Hobbies: Sports, Politics, Music, Movies
And Finally...How Much do You hate Eli Manning? No hate
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Waikkal is a scenic coastal town situated on the west coast of Sri Lanka. Located just north of Negombo and Colombo and being quiet and less touristy that some other Sri Lankan beach destinations, it is the perfect place for a relaxing beach break. Waikkal is famed for its pristine untouched beaches and its exotic flora and fauna. Waikkal is home to the famous Nypa Fruiticans, the only type of palm tree to grow along riverbanks. Birds and butterflies also thrive here with over 90 types of bird and over 50 types of butterfly to spot.Read More
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Former Hinder frontman Austin Winkler is opening up about his recent departure from the band.
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He says it hasn't always been easy, but the support he's received on Twitter and Instagram has really helped. And Winkler urges fans to keep watching his social media pages, where he plans to make announcements about the next step in his career very soon.
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Abstract art can raise eyebrows, conjure questions and declare truths leaving the viewer excited while possibly questioning what the artist is communicating. Abstract art also provides that statement piece or the subtle accent to complete the perfect space.
Three artists will be showcasing their abstract works during "Interrobang: A show of abstract art" opening Thursday, December 5, in a Scottsdale art gallery. Their works ranging from traditional encaustics to modeling paste with acrylics and oil washes on canvas and panel are sure to cause an emotional reaction.
Joseph Maruska's unique style of abstraction is based on a lingering intimacy with two major concerns – light & shadow and positive & negative. To tell his stories of life in this abstract manner, he uses colors from his heritage and is even known to use punctuation marks for expression and emotion.
"There is life, death, sex, despair and poetry in my work," explains Maruska. "This ups the ante on pure abstraction. These psychological landscapes host mysteries of their own, hinting at romance and fantasy."
Jeff Juhlin uses the temperamental and ancient medium of wax to create his works. Having practiced his art around the world, his encaustic paintings are inspired by the arid lands he calls home.
"I live in the high desert of the great basin in the west," Juhlin said. "The contrast between the deep space of the western sky and the large open expanse of the terrain seems to always make its way into the work."
By using the land as his muse, Juhlin is able to strike a balance between his organized style and the natural textures and sheen inherent in the encaustic process.
At the same time, Debra Corbett's works are emotional responses to nature and travel. Using plaster, paint and glaze mediums she layers, subtracts and manipulates what's on her canvas until the finished result gives the viewer a unique surface that has a rich, almost sculptural feel.
"My work is all about surface," said Corbett. "I want there to be some sense of mystery to the painting. I hope the viewer has a true emotional response, lingers awhile and discovers new imagery, meaning and joy when looking at my work."
In every way the best punctuation to describe abstract art is the interrobang – the mark made by combining a question mark with an exclamation point. It is used to express an attitude of disbelief, a rhetorical question, or an excited query. Through bright colors, mottled textures and non-specific subjects, these three artists convey emotion that will evoke the desire to excitedly ask if there's more.
Featuring works from Massachusetts-artist Debra Corbett, California-artist Joseph Maruska and Utah-artist Jeff Juhlin, The Marshall | LeKAE Gallery of Fine Art will host "Interrobang: a show of abstract art," opening Thursday, December 5, during Scottsdale's annual Holiday ArtWalk and running through January 4. All three artists will be at the opening.
These artists' new works will be viewable beginning December 2, on the gallery's website and Facebook page.
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To those of you who think this road trip is just bouncing from shoppe to shoppe and playing all day….. not so! I've had to also stop and paint pieces on the days in between. I'm not complaining…..
Anyway, I posted this piece as one of the new additions to the Wilmington, NC location and it's gotten quite a bit of attention….. I might be bringing it back. I've also gone from bringing a trailer load back to renting a huge truck and trailering my truck back! Not looking forward to that but it's all for the cause! lol
I'll be leaving and heading back tomorrow…. so check out all the photos that have been posted so far on facebook and let me know if I need to add yet another item! Also…. I have plenty of surprises up my sleeve! I haven't revealed all my found objects….. See ya soon and thanks! Don't forget to check out my other NEW BLOG…. COASTAL CHIC INTERIORS! http://coastalchicinteriors.com/ It's where I'm dividing my time now!


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WATCH: Inside Kim Kardashian & Kanye West's Wedding!
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are on their honeymoon.The Leonardo DiCaprio-like man on the far right is Rich Wilkerson Jr., a Christian pastor from Miami who officiated the ceremony!
They left the day after their wedding Saturday. E! says they'll be gone four days.
#KimyeWedding http://t.co/IQk1pOoLWE pic.twitter.com/GatPNLl4nK
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They have another wedding to go to. E! says they're expected to be guests when the stylist for West gets married in Prague next weekend.
Kimye spent a bundle on their wedding.
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People.com says they spent $136,000 on flowers alone. One of the plants used in the arrangements was a tuberose, which you usually can't get this time of year. It also cost more than $409,000 to rent the fort in Florence, Italy where the ceremony took place.


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Alopecia is the loss of hair. Hair loss can be caused by different reasons, including damage to the hair shaft or follicles. Fungal infections can also cause hair loss.
There are two main types of alopecia. When the body's immune system mistakenly attacks hair follicles and causes hair to fall out, it's called alopecia areata. Hair can fall out in patches all over the body. Androgenetic alopecia, on the other hand, is a kind of hair loss that's inherited. Hair on the head thins and falls out. In men, this is called male pattern hair loss; in women, it is called female diffuse hair loss.
About 60% of people with androgenetic alopecia are men. Hair loss caused by androgenetic alopecia is permanent.
Symptoms of alopecia may include:
Causes may include:
Usually your doctor can diagnose androgenetic alopecia by examining you and taking a medical history. If your health care provider suspects alopecia areata, the health care provider may order a fluorescent antinuclear antibody (FNA) test, which can help determine if there is a problem with your immune system.
Treatment depends on the type of alopecia you have. With many temporary forms of alopecia, hair will grow back without treatment. For people with alopecia areata, medications may help reduce hair loss. Some men with male pattern hair loss may consider surgery, such as hair transplants, scalp reduction, and strip or flap grafts.
For male pattern hair loss:
In the case of both medications, if you stop using the drug hair will fall out again. If you use these medications, your health care provider should monitor you for side effects.
For female diffuse hair loss:
For alopecia areata:
Surgical options include hair transplants, scalp reduction, and strip or flap grafts.
These therapies have only slight success in treating male pattern baldness.
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The use of herbs is a time-honored approach to strengthening the body and treating disease. Herbs, however, can trigger side effects and can interact with other herbs, supplements, or medications. For these reasons, you should take herbs should only under the supervision of a health care provider.
Therapeutic massage increases circulation (helping bring more blood to the scalp) and reduces stress. Scalp massage using essential oils of rosemary, lavender, thyme, and cedarwood may help increase circulation (see Herbs).
Some men using finasteride (Propecia) may have a decreased sex drive or trouble getting an erection.
If you are pregnant, wait to treat alopecia until after your baby is born.
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Then, there are the "too big to fail" banks whose CEOs know that, by virtue of their size, the government won't let them fail for fear they will, just like the garment factory in Bangladesh, come crashing down taking the innocent with them.
Last month's accident, which killed more than 1,000, isn't the first one involving garment factory workers. Still, the Bangladesh government has done little to protect those who are just squeaking out a living in what's estimated to be a $20 billion industry that accounts for more than 75 percent of the country's exports.
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Syria: the powder keg next doorSally Williams
Published: December 5 2012 - 3:00AM
Thousands of ordinary Syrians fleeing Assad's brutality have been welcomed in Jordan. But these good Samaritans are fast running out of patience - and room.
AT 6AM on a bright day in early autumn, Dr Ali Shdeifat, a senior Jordanian aid official, father of seven and owner of a business selling furniture and homewares, was woken by a phone call from the police.
''They told me there were Syrian families in the street,'' he later explains. ''I get many such calls from the police. There are Syrian families in the street all the time.''
Ali is a distinguished man of 65. Today he is wearing a rumpled suit and is grey-faced with sagging cheeks and soft round sacks under his eyes. He is slumped at his desk smoking a Gitane, his face absorbing steam from a cup of the caffeine and sugar solution that is Jordanian coffee.
For 25 years Ali has been president of the Red Crescent Society in Mafraq, a district of more than 20 villages in northern Jordan that borders the Syrian desert. (Damascus is an hour's drive from the city of Mafraq and if you stand on the outskirts at night you can hear the shelling.)
It is a role that gives him some standing in the community (''Doctor'' is a title of respect in Jordan). And it is a job with many challenges. ''We have Iraqi refugees, Palestinian [fled from previous wars] all in our country. It is a huge pressure.'' But these past few weeks have been the busiest of his life.
''Look into my eyes,'' he continues. ''I am very tired. I am sick from this situation, really. I need hospital.'' Breakfast was a snatched cigarette and coffee. He rushed to a meeting with the minister for education which stretched out far too long. He didn't have time for lunch. ''Sometimes we are working 24 hours. Twenty-four hours!'' he says.
For the past 20 months, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has fought a campaign against rebels that has killed as many as 30,000 of his citizens. In July, the violence escalated after rebels launched major offences, taking neighbourhoods in Damascus for the first time. In August, 100,000 Syrians joined an exodus to neighbouring countries.
''Every day and night they are are coming,'' says Ali. ''Some days hundreds. In my office and out in the street, wherever you go in Mafraq there are Syrians.''
Many had jobs and comfortable lives back home. But their money is running out. Ali sits in his office listening to their tales of hardship. They desperately need money, houses, medical attention, tents, food, schools, he says. Ali shuts his eyes and seems to count silently to 10.
This is the ''hidden crisis'', according to the Red Cross. Thirty thousand refugees live in Jordan's Zaatari camp, which opened in July. Considerably more, about 200,000, live in Jordan's villages, towns and cities, barely registered, in need of urgent help.
Waiting in the queue outside Ali's office today are two mothers who fled Aleppo with their children after their husbands were killed in the fighting. They came to Mafraq because they have friends here, and managed to rent a flat. But they ran out of money and have spent the last three months in a tent.
Here, too, is Sameh, whose older brother was a soldier with the Free Syrian Army in Homs. ''That is him,'' says Sameh, showing me a video on his mobile phone. Revved-up men with guns stand around the body of a young man.
Sameh is filled with a sense of filial duty and is looking after his late brother's wife and child. He earns just enough working in a restaurant in Mafraq but is fearful because his sister-in-law needs an operation and he cannot afford it. Sameh is learning how to be attentive to a woman with ailments, but he is only 18 and needs help.
''They come but I don't have any help for them,'' says Ali. He explains how he handed out 3000 food packages in July (with the Saudi Red Crescent), and has personally paid the maternity bills for a group of families camped just outside the city. He says, with some self-importance, that there are many Syrian babies now named Ali after him.
But the last aid distribution was more than a month ago. ''Now there is nothing,'' he says. He has nothing to give and this frustrates him. He feels a solidarity with the Syrians, having spent several holidays there (''It is beautiful. Also the ladies are very beautiful.'')
Ali was born in Mafraq, the son of a farmer. When he was 19 he joined the Jordanian army, rising to become an officer. He was based near San Antonio, Texas, and one day visited the city and saw something that baffled him.
It was the wife of a US air base commander he knew, sitting on the ground selling biscuits for the poor. Shocked that a woman of such high standing could do something so ''low'', Ali had an epiphany. He returned home and resolved to do good. He set up the Red Crescent branch in Mafraq. ''Before me there was no Red Crescent in this area. Nothing.'' He is unpaid, as is his staff of 70.
Jordan and Syria share a 600-kilometre border, language and are fused through marriages.
''We have many intermarriages,'' says Dr Mohammed al-Hadid, president of the Jordanian Red Crescent (JRC), and holder of a PhD in clinical chemistry.
''On any day before the crisis you could count around 200,000 Jordanians in Syria and vice versa, because you don't need a visa to cross the border.''
Jordan's relative safety, compared with Iraq or Lebanon, is another attraction. Jordan already hosts 600,000 Iraqi and 2.5 million Palestinian refugees, putting huge strain on a nation of 6.5 million. ''Which other country in the world has so many refugees in relation to its population?'' says Hadid. ''None.''
Not that Jordan is in an especially strong position. It is one of the most water-poor countries in the world. The water supply is so limited that many households receive water only once or twice a week. (''And yet 1 million litres is being tanked into Zaatari camp every day,'' says Hadid.)
The political situation is unstable, with three different prime ministers in six months. And its economy struggles with a trade deficit of $2.9 billion.
''And we are trying to be humanitarian,'' says Hadid. In this, King Hussein's genealogy sets a distinct tone. ''As the direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad, he cannot shut the door to someone who is coming to his country.'' The task of Jordanians is to be altruistic. ''When Jordanians say we can't take any more, they are lying. If somebody needs you, you cannot say no.''
The JRC has provided food and relief to more than 50,000 Syrian exiles since the beginning of the year. The problem is that this humanitarian crisis is complex. ''For people in a refugee camp there is one gate and everything can be controlled within it,'' Ali says. ''How can you reach all those people who are spread around 26,000 square kilometres of Mafraq?'' To say nothing of those in Amman, Irbid and Ajlun.
Clearly the effort directed at the crisis needs considerable sophistication. Yet Ali's office indicates the lack of it. There are ancient computers under plastic sheeting that may or may not work. It is equipped with a desk, sofa, fan, a vase of plastic flowers and Ali's full ashtray.
The crowded conditions in Alwal, an apartment block on the outskirts of Mafraq, are immediately apparent by the swarm of children playing on the stairs inside.
Before May, this four-storey block of 30 one and two-room apartments was home to Malaysian students studying at Al al-Bayt University in Mafraq. Now it houses more than 200 Syrian exiles.
Fadia's one room is filled with her family of six: husband, parents-in-law, two sons. The television is blaring and the family watch news reports of the latest carnage back home.
They left rural Homs in May because of ''killing and bombing, taking people to prison and those people not coming back'', Fadia says.
But any semblance of normal life had disappeared the year before, when her children's school was taken over by soldiers.
''They took the children out and put the soldiers in,'' she says. Khalil, 9, and Rimas, 5, have not been to school since. I first met Fadia in Ali's office, where she was asking him to help her find places in Mafraq's overcrowded schools.
''The ministry of education is thinking of introducing two shifts,'' Ali explains. ''One in the morning for Jordanian students, one in the afternoon for Syrian.'' Only 10 of the 100 or so children of school age in the block go to school.
So far Fadia's family have managed to pay the rent - 120 Jordanian dinar (about $A162) a month - thanks to friends or charities or by selling food parcels. Food is needed; cash even more.
Her husband had to give up his job as a perfume and cosmetics salesman more than a year ago. Roads were being hit by mortar fire - as were perfume departments. Homs is now a ghost town, he says. He is scared of giving his name because by leaving he will be seen as supporting the rebels and fears the consequences for family back home. He slashes his index finger across his throat in a grim mime.
The fabulousness of his merchandise (Chanel, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent) coupled with the above average money he earned made for a happy life. The contrast since has been hard to take.
The family left in a hurry (''soldiers were in our house'') and friends drove them to the Jabbar border checkpoint where they stayed for 10 days before guards let them through - at a cost of 50,000 Syrian pounds ($A660).
They arrived through an official crossing point, but others are smuggled over. Some go by car to Daraa where they are met in groups by rebels who escort them on the five-kilometre trek through mountains, hiding from army patrols. The rebels provide protection - at a price.
The locals I meet in Mafraq seem glad that the Syrians have found refuge, but they invariably go on to list the negatives: more rubbish on the streets, higher prices (the cost of lemons, for example, has doubled) and raised rents.
Ali says business has dropped off because you don't need homewares if you haven't got a home.
''Even if a young man is looking to marry there is no house free in Mafraq now,'' he says. And tensions are growing.
''I had a meeting today with the governor of Mafraq because poor Jordanians complain there is nothing for them since the Syrians are coming. Fights can break out. When you are angry you will fight for your stomach.''
''I sometimes think,'' says one man I speak to, ''the Syrians have escaped one nightmare and arrived in another.''
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/world/syria-the-powder-keg-next-door-20121204-2asyh.html


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Feb. 18, 2013
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Trailing by four runs entering the eighth inning, No. 8 Kentucky rallied to tie the game and pinch hitter Thomas Bernal smacked a go-ahead, two-out RBI single up the middle in the ninth inning, leading the Wildcats to a dramatic comeback win at USC Upstate, 11-10, on a sunny Monday afternoon at Harley Park.
Kentucky (3-0) owned an early 6-2 lead entering the bottom of the fourth inning before the Spartans plated eight unanswered runs over the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to take a 10-6 lead.
The Wildcats entered the top of the eighth inning with blistering-hot second baseman J.T. Riddle due second in the order. Riddle smoked a no-doubt solo homer over the rightfield fence to cut the lead to 10-7 - his ninth consecutive hit. The 6-foot-3, 185-pound junior belted the solo homer to start the rally, with Max Kuhn, Lucas Witt and Matt Reida scrapping their way on to load the bags for catcher Micheal Thomas. The redshirt junior watched a wild pitch sail to the backstop to score Kuhn, then drilled a hard-hit grounder up the middle that slide into leftfield for an error, with Witt and Reida motoring home to even the game.
UK had closer Trevor Gott ready in the bullpen to start the bottom of the eighth and the junior righty retired the Spartans to set up the decisive ninth inning. Three-hole hitter A.J. Reed drew a one-out walk and was lifted for speedy freshman pinch runner Kyle Barrett at first base. Barrett took advantage of a wild pitch to take second base and after a Kuhn intentional walk, UK turned to Bernal as a pinch hitter against lefty Paul Jeanot.
"I thought the matchup was really good," UK head coach Gary Henderson said about going to Bernal for the pinch-hit at bat. "I think Thomas is a really good competitor. Get a right-handed hitter against a left-handed curveball, pretty much the basics."
The right-handed hitting sophomore drilled a single up the middle to score Barrett from second with two outs, giving UK an 11-10 lead. Gott (1-0) then closed out the game with a scoreless ninth inning.
"A lot of things to like today," Henderson said. "Being down four on the road and coming back and getting four in the fifth and one in the ninth is a really positive thing for the kids. Really pleased with Trevor Gott, obviously. I thought Ryne Combs and Chandler Shepherd out of the bullpen showed some good things. Clearly they are both going to get better. I thought the at bats in the eighth and the ninth, when it got a little tight was really good for us."
Riddle's stellar weekend included a 2-for-3 game with two RBI and a walk on Monday in the win and through his first three games of 2013 is hitting .786 (11-for-14) with three doubles, one triple, one homer, six RBI and a walk, slugging 1.357 and reaching base at a .824 clip (2.181 OPS).
UK also got two-hit games from Thomas, Witt and All-America centerfielder Austin Cousino, who added his fourth steal. Bernal, Zac Zellers, Max Kuhn and Paul McConkey each contributed a hit, with McConkey and Kuhn each charting a double. Shortstop Matt Reida drew a walk and scored a run.
Kentucky starter Corey Littrell worked 3.1 innings, allowing nine hits and seven runs - five earned - walking two and striking out three. It marked just the third game in the last two years where Littrell had allowed five or more runs and his first five-run allowed game since a start at Mississippi State to end the regular-season. He was replaced in the fourth inning by freshman southpaw Ryne Combs, who went one inning, allowing three hits and one run, striking out one in his collegiate debut. Sophomore righty Chandler Shepherd took over for Combs working 2.2 innings, allowing two hits and two runs, striking out two. Lexington, Ky., product Gott worked two shutout innings, allowing one hit and one walk, striking out one.
"He pretty much dominated the strike zone," Henderson said about Gott. "It wasn't super clean, he had the one walk. He didn't shy away. He was a little amped up, obviously with the first outing of the year for him he was a little excited. He had a baserunner in both innings and kept his poise and did a good job."
"I was just trying to get three outs, because I knew that our team would come up and get a run for me to go out and close out the win," Gott said about coming in for the eighth inning. "(I) Just wanted to come out and get three outs to help the team win."
USC Upstate (1-1) starter David Roseboom worked 3.2 innings, allowing six hits and six runs - five earned - walking two and striking out three. Ben Augenstein replaced him in a bases-loaded jam in the fourth, getting out of the inning and working 1.1 innings, allowing one hit and one walk, striking out two. Six-foot-six closer Chad Sobotka, the school-record holder for saves, started the sixth inning for the Spartans, working three impressive innings with four hits and two walks allowed, striking out six, with the four runs scoring in the eighth. Jeanot (0-1) took the loss with the decisive run scoring in the top of the ninth.
UK will return to action with the Carravelle Resort Invitational, hosted by Coastal Carolina, on Friday vs. Elon at 12 p.m. ET at Pelicans Park.
"It only goes a weekend at a time," Henderson said on the toughness of the team. "Your self-esteem and who you think you are, how you approach things, you never take that for granted. It is not like that is in stone for the next 53. You have to constantly work at it. And it has to be a part of who you think you are and how you go about your business. We have some older kids and to me in the dugout it felt like we were going to win, we just had to keep chipping away at that. Clearly we felt like we got punched in the nose and didn't do much offensively over the next three innings. We have to get off the umpire, if we have a guy who isn't doing what we thought he should do, which is not going to change. Really happy with how we approached it today."
"It kind of carries over from last year," Gott said on the toughness of the club. "We had lot of games like that. When we are down 6-10 we know we are going to win. That is just the mentality of the dugout, the feel of the dugout. Our offense does a great job. No one ever gets down, we are pretty mentally tough."
USC Upstate took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning. Luke Weber led off with a back-foot hit by pitch but was erased on Littrell's pickoff. Daniel Seeba then then tripled over Zellers head, scoring on Brandon Patterson's RBI single through the left side.
UK answered with a four-run rally in the top of the third to take a 4-1 lead. Cousino led off with a single up the middle, stealing second as Roseboom tried to pick him off at first. After a pair of strikeouts, Riddle drew a walk to bring Kuhn to the plate. Kuhn smashed a double down the leftfield line to score Cousino and even the game. McConkey then got plunked with a pitch to load the bases for Witt. The Lexington, Ky., product singled down the leftfield line to score Riddle and Kuhn. Reida then hit a hard-hit grounder that crawled up the arm of the second baseman for an error, allowing McConkey to score.
The Spartans got a run back in the third as Jordan Stampler drew a leadoff walk and Tyler Lesch singled through the left side. After a strikeout, Weber singled up the middle to score Stampler.
In the top of the fourth, UK got a leadoff single from Micheal Thomas, with Cousino following with a single and Zellers was hit by a pitch to load the bases. After a pop up, Riddle forced in a run with his first hit by pitch and Kuhn forced in a run with a bases-loaded walk.
USC Upstate took the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning, as Trey Richardson led off with a bounding single up the middle. Tyler Miller then homered over the leftfield wall to cut the UK lead to 6-4. Stampler then singled through the left side and Lesch singled up the middle. After Gaither Bumgardner singled down the left line it ended Littrell's day. Combs got a strikeout and then forced a groundout to third which was booted for an error by McConkey to load the bases. Pattesron then singled through the left side to score two and give Upstate a 7-6 lead.
In the bottom of the fifth inning, USC Upstate got a one-out double from Brody Greer and a single from Stampler to chase Combs from the mound. Lesch then greeted Shepherd with a sacrifice fly to leftfield to score Greer.
Richardson gave Upstate a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, launching a two-run homer that scored Pattesron who singled with two outs.
"It was just battle. Just grind," Riddle said on what Henderson said to the team after getting down in the late innings. "Our team is old, we have done it before. Just chip away at them. We knew we were in the bullpen already, that was one of the big guys out of the bullpen that we faced, that big righty. It was just grind, scratch away two here, two there and get right back in it. We just did that and stayed confident."
Riddle responded in the top of the eighth inning with a scrumptious blast over the rightfield fence, his first homer of the year and his ninth consecutive at bat with a hit.
"My mentality was just to stay with the things that I had been doing right," Riddle said about going into his solo homer at bat. "I have been seeing the ball well, staying middle, staying with the approach. I knew the guy was coming fastball. He got down 1-0 and I was sitting on it and got a good swing on it and got it up in the air."
UK then got a walk from Kuhn, a single from Witt and a walk from Reida to load the bases for Thomas. After a wild pitch scored Kuhn, Thomas hit a hard grounder up the middle that sailed into leftfield for an error, allowing the tying runs to score in the form of Witt and Reida.
"Definitely a big win, especially early in the season to get a win like that under our belt," Riddle said. "Down four there late, just getting that confidence that we can win late is a big confidence booster for us, knowing that we can come back from a 10-6 deficit on the road. The bullpen came in and did great work for us. Trevor came in to get six outs. It was big. It is a big momentum swing there. We were kind of down there after they get that five spot and we get down four runs. And then to come back and win like that we will be eager to get back on the field Friday."
GAME NOTES: J.T. Riddle started his team-high 69th consecutive game ... Paul McConkey recorded his second career extra-base hit as a double in the second ... Corey Littrell picked off a runner in the second inning, his eighth pickoff in the last two years ... Austin Cousino extended his hitting streak to a team-high seven games with a single in the top of the third ... Cousino stole his fourth base in the third ... Zac Zellers was hit by his third pitch of the year and his 24th career ... Riddle was hit by his first pitch of the year ... Ryne Combs made his collegiate debut ... Riddle recorded his seventh straight hit in the sixth ... Riddle extended his hitting streak to six games ... Micheal Thomas stole his first career base ... Riddle hit his first homer of the year and extended his stretch of nine consecutive at bats with a hit ... Riddle has opened the year 11-for-14 with three doubles, a homer and a triple, adding eight RBI ... UK improved to 2-0 all-time against USC Upstate.


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Mötley Crüe is returning to Vegas. The group has announced plans for their second Sin City residency, taking place this fall. The band previously played an extended engagement in Las Vegas last year, staging 12 shows at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in February 2012.
Bassist Nikki Sixx says the group is "proud to have pioneered the Las Vegas rock residency last year," and "can't wait to come back this year." He adds that once again Mötley Crüe will "take it over the top" and stage "a brand new show that will be unlike anything" the band has done before.
The group has once again signed on for a 12-show run over a two-and-a-half-week span, starting on September 18th and ending on October 6th. Tickets go on sale Friday at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time via Ticketmaster, Ticketmaster.com and the Hard Rock Hotel Box Office.
Dates for Mötley Crüe's fall residency at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas:
Wednesday, September 18
Friday, September 20
Saturday, September 21
Sunday, September 22
Wednesday, September 25
Friday, September 27
Saturday, September 28
Sunday, September 29
Wednesday, October 2
Friday, October 4
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This is great for the price. Its sound reminds me of Stax headphones or electrostatic speakers, both of which I don't own, but have heard on a few occasions. It needs extensive(100+ hours?) breaking in to help tame the highs and bring out the bass. If you want a slightly warmer sound or are treble sensitive, then choose the Panasonic RP-HJE355 instead, although some may want to buy both.


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That's right! College Preview starts tomorrow (February 4th-5th, 2010) and it looks like there are lot's of previewers coming this year! If you'd like to "try before you buy" the college experience, then this is a great opportunity for you! (or someone you know!)
Check out our fancy new Preview Website
By the way, if you are thinking of starting the Bible College this coming Fall 2010, then go hang out with your future classmates at the MU 2010 Facebook Group.


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In My Wild Irish Rose, a family history narrative I published in 2001 about the lives of my grandmother and great-grandmother, I stated that Delia (Gordon) Norris' Irish origins were unknown. That book had been out about six months when, with help from friends, I finally broke through the brick wall and identified her place of origin. Did I publish that book too soon? Shouldn't I have done more research until I found the place in Ireland? No. I had been searching for years to find Delia's Irish origins, and nothing on the horizon indicated that an answer could be found in the near future; otherwise, I'd have put off publishing until I found it. When the book went to press, I was certain I'd have to search for several more years — if not the rest of my life — to uncover her origins. Sure, I could have waited to publish, hoping I'd find another lead, make another breakthrough; but then the book might never have been published. In some respects, writing and publishing your family history is a way to guarantee that you'll break through any brick walls you may have — for it's a cruel, ironic, Murphy's law of genealogy that as soon as you publish, new information becomes available to you. But it won't reveal itself until you publish.
Most family historians agree that research is the fun part. For some, just entering data into a computer software program is a sufficient and effective way to leave their genealogy for their descendants. But to sit down and actually write a family history is — OK, I admit it — scary. Besides, you're sure your family will be enthralled with all those names, dates and places you've gathered, right? Unfortunately, I doubt it. If you don't believe me, show your charts to a nongenealogist. Then time how long it takes before she politely smiles and hands the charts back to you. Now put a narrative account of a family history in her hands, and I'm certain you'll get a different reaction.


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Peter Frampton launched his all-star "Guitar Circus Tour" this week at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. The tour includes an array of big name axemen with varying lineups from show to show.
Among those joining the tour are former Eagles guitarist Don Felder, smooth bluesman Robert Cray, Steve Cropper of Booker T. and The MGs and Blues Brothers, hotshot Kenny Wayne Shepherd, country picker Vince Gill, Los Lobos frontman Dave Hidalgo, former Byrds leader Roger McGuinn, former Fairport Convention guitarist Richard Thompson, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielson, Davey Knowles, former Living Colour leader Vernon Reid and Vinnie Moore of UFO.
The tour wraps Aug. 31 in Paso Robles at the Vina Robles Amphitheatre and includes stops on Aug. 24 at the Greek Theatre in L.A., and on Aug. 25 at the San Diego Civic Theatre.
Kathy Valentine played bass in L.A. girl group The Go-Gos for more than three decades, from 1980 until she abruptly quit the band in March over "creative differences." The possibility of a reconciliation dimmed this week when the 54-year-old Valentine, who was in Girlschool and Carla Olson's band, The Textones before becoming a Go-Go, sued the other members of the group, singer Belinda Carlisle, guitarist Jane Wiedlin, drummer Gina Schock and lead guitarist and keyboardist Charlotte Caffey, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Valentine, co-writer of The Go-Gos' hits "Vacation" and "Head Over Heels," is claiming in a lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles Superior Court that the other four are trying to lower her 20 percent share in the group. Valentine claims that she is one-fifth owner of the group's companies, Ladyhead LLC and Smith-Pocket Industries, Inc. The suit claims that the others are attempting to lower Valentine's cut from 20 percent to two percent.
For the second time in a year, former Creedence Clearwater Revival mastermind John Fogerty says he'd consider a reunion with his former bandmates, bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford. Fogerty's rhythm guitarist brother Tom died in 1990 at 48 from AIDS from tainted blood transfusions. Since 1995, Cook and Clifford have toured successfully as Creedence Clearwater Revisited, despite legal action taken against them by Fogerty.
In an interview with Charlie Rose on "CBS This Morning," the 68-year-old Fogerty said of a CCR reunion, "I think it's a possibility in the future. I'm not totally against the idea, either. It just seems like I always hear that's not going to happen." That's because one of the few times Cook and Clifford ever decided to perform with Fogerty was at CCR's 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when Fogerty banned them from performing their hits onstage with him, leaving them to sit ashen-faced, humiliated and embarrassed at their stage-side table and watch as he played their hits with Robbie Robertson and other big names.
Fogerty is promoting his new album, "Wrote a Song for Everyone," in which he re-recorded a bunch of his CCR songs with other big name artists (see New Releases).
George Michael has been released from a trauma center hospital in England where he was airlifted after being thrown from his chauffer-driven Land Rover in which he was a passenger as it was going approximately 70 mph, according to the BBC News. A statement on his website reads, "We can confirm that George Michael has been discharged from the hospital and continues to rest and recuperate." Initial reports were that he was treated for "superficial cuts and bruises," however those don't usually require hospital stays lasting 11 days.
Britain's Daily Mail is now speculating that the 48-year-old superstar may have knowingly thrown himself from the Land Rover on the M1 freeway, citing a general clamp-down of information from the Michael's camp.
The Daily Mail reporter writes, "It is highly unlikely the accident could have taken place the way it was reported." The story continues, "The company told me this week that all its modern Range Rovers, like the one George Michael was in, have a sophisticated warning system to tell the driver - and passengers - if any of the car doors are not fully closed. As well as a warning light on the dashboard, a loud and high-pitched bleeping noise sounds continuously until the door is shut properly." Stay tuned.
At a concert in Copenhagen, Beyonce was singing her 2006 hit, "Irreplaceable," when she ventured into the crowd. As she returned to the stage a fan reached out and slapped the 31-year-old star on the backside, according to NBC's "Today Show." The former Destiny's Child leader stopped and addressed him, telling him, "I will have you escorted out of here now, all right." The fan that got a little too familiar was booted from the concert, and Beyonce then continued with the rest of the song.
Judith Durham, singer for Australian British Invasion folk group The Seekers, best known in the U.S. for their smash hit of the title song to the 1966 film, "Georgy Girl," is showing continued signs of improvement after suffering a stroke after her group's Melbourne concert last week, reports Australia's Courier Mail. Since the incident, The Seekers' 50 th Anniversary Tour has been put on hold.
Another Aussie publication, The Age, said that the 69-year-old Durham was "clearly unwell" during the concert, and it was then revealed that she had suffered a brain hemorrhage.
Durham's manager, Graham Simpson, said, "I can report that while Judith's everyday conversational speech is fluent, her processing of higher function speech and complex questions is impaired. On a positive note, during one of their meetings, Judith's neurologist asked her to sing him something and, without prompting, she was able to correctly sing the first verse of 'Morningtown Ride,' completely in tune."
"Later in the afternoon, pleased with her progress, she asked me to test her on other songs, and she was able to sing to me - without a problem - the first verses of 'I'll Never Find Another You' (that hit No. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart and No. 2 on its easy listening chart in 1965), 'Come The Day' and 'I Celebrate Your Life My Baby.'"
"Judith is looking forward to the challenges of rehabilitation and is determined to continue improving. She remains buoyed by the incredible messages of support she receives on a daily basis from all around the world."
McCARTNEY VISITS ELVIS
Paul McCartney was in Memphis for his first concert there in 20 years. While he was there, he visited Elvis Presley's home, Graceland, for the first time. He received a tour of the mansion.
While there, he paused for a bit of reflection at Elvis' gravesite, leaving a personalized guitar pick for the King as a memento, according to the Associated Press. McCartney dropped the pick on the grave, "so Elvis can play in heaven," he reportedly said.
In other McCartney news, various deluxe packages of Wing's 1976 triple live album of his post-Beatles band's only U.S. tour, Wings Over America" was re-released this week. The standard edition is a 2-CD set, while the 4-disc deluxe edition contains eight previously unreleased cuts from the tour recorded at San Fransicso's Cow Palace and a bonus DVD with the 75-minute TV special, "Wings Over The World," a 112-page book written by Rolling Stone veteran writer David Fricke, a 136-page tour booklet replica and more. In addition, "Rockshow," the 1980 theatrical release tour film also got a re-release this week on DVD and Blu-ray.
Van Halen's flamboyant frontman David Lee Roth moved to Japan last year. While there, the 58-year-old has apparently not been simply pining away for more Van Halen gigs. He just posted on YouTube, "DLRmovietrailer," a five-minute short film that he stars in and wrote that he's promoting as a trailer for a longer motion picture. In the trailer, Roth appears as an assassin who crashed a card game, where he says in Japanese (that sounds overdubbed), "In the name of the moon, I shall right all wrongs and defeat all evil." Believe it!
Carole King became the first woman to win the prestigious Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. In a ceremony at the White House (look for it on PBS), President Obama presented the 71-year-old legend with the award. She then sat at a piano and sang "Beautiful" from her mega-selling 1971 LP, "Tapestry." The event then included performances of King's songs, including Gloria Estefan, Trisha Yearwood and Emili Sande ("Will You Love Me Tomorrow"), James Taylor (Up on the Roof"), Billy Joel (The Loco-Motion").
King then performed four more of her songs, including "I Feel the Earth Move" and "You've Got a Friend."
In other King news, she just released a new song on iTunes, "I Believe in Loving You." She originally wrote the song in 1999 with Burt Bacharach's late former songwriting partner Hal David. However, she misplaced the cassette tape that it was recorded on. Eventually, after considerable searching, her staff found it. A new version was recorded, produced by her daughter Louise Goffin.
On her website, she writes, "After listening to the rough draft demo of 'I Believe In Loving You,' I knew I had to record it properly, if only for his family. But then (Grammy-nominated producer) Louise Goffin recorded such a wonderful track that I thought a lot more people beyond Hal's family might want to hear it. To no one's surprise but my own, I asked my team, 'Can we release "I Believe In Loving You" as a single?' We could."
Trevor Bolder, who played bass in "The Spiders from Mars," the band that backed space rocker David Bowie from 1970-1973 when he first zoomed to international stardom, died in a hospital in Cottingham, England, at age 62 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Bolder backed Bowie on his essential smash LPs, "Hunky Dory" (1971), "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" (1972), "Aladdin Sane" (1973) and Bowie's cover album of songs that inspired him, "Pin Ups," also from 1973 that was the band's final effort with Bowie.
Bolder, who was in The Rats with Spiders from Mars guitarist Mick Ronson before becoming a Spider, then played on Ronson's critically acclaimed 1974 solo album, "Slaughter on 10 th Avenue."
In 1976, the journeyman bassist joined Uriah Heep and in 1982 he became a member of Wishbone Ash. The following year, he returned to Uriah Heep, where he remained until shortly before his death.
Marshall Lytle, the standup bassist for Bill Haley's Comets, died at his home in Port Richie, Fla., at 79, after losing his battle with lung cancer. Last year, Lytle and The Comets were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joining their bandleader Haley, who went in as a member of the second class of inductees in 1987.
In 1951, Lytle was a guitarist in Haley's group The Saddlemen. The next year, the band name was changed to Bill Haley and His Comets and Haley taught Lytle how to play standup bass using a "slap bass" style of playing.
Lytle played on all of Haley's recordings in the early and mid-'50 s, including ""Crazy Man, Crazy" that was co-written by Haley and Lytle and was the first rock and roll song to make the Billboard and Cashbox charts (No. 15 and 11, respectively), "Shake, Rattle and Roll," "See You Later, Alligator" and the record that electrified America's youth and ushered in the era of rock and roll, "Rock Around the Clock" that Haley and His Comets recorded on April 12, 1954.
Lytle quit The Comets in September 1955 in a salary dispute. He played Vegas lounges for the next three years as co-leader of The Jodimars before pretty much quitting music and getting into real estate and owning an interior design business.
In 1987, six years after Haley's death from a brain tumor when he was 55, The Comets reunited in Philadelphia at an event honoring Dick Clark. Even though the surviving group members hadn't played together in decades, they all hit it off personally and musically and their one-shot reunion lasted two decades. In 2006, they got a regular gig playing at the Dick Clark American Bandstand Theatre in Branson, Mo. Lytle finally retired from the group in December 2009. That year, his memoir, "Still Rocking Around the Clock," was published.
Ed Shaunnessey, the noted drummer for Doc Severinson's "Tonight Show" band for almost 30 years, suffered a fatal heart attack at his home in Calabasas. He was 84.
He began his career as a jazz and Big Band drummer playing for Billie Holliday, George Shearing, Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman and Count Basie.
He replaced Buddy Rich in The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. From 1963-1992, he was a nightly presence on a riser atop Severinson's "Tonight Show" house band during Johnny Carson's tenure as the show's host.
Among the recently released albums, digital reissues, MP3 downloads and deluxe box sets are "Bennett & Brubeck: The White House Sessions, Live 1962" from Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck that sees the two giants perform separately and together before President Kennedy and his college interns, among others, as they revive such trademark tunes as The Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five" and Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco;" "All Hell Breaks Loose" the first album in 30 years by The Black Star Riders, aka Thin Lizzy; "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here" from Seattle grunge guys Alice In Chains; the Broadway soundtrack "Kinky Boots: The New Musical Based on a True Story" with music by Cyndi Lauper; "Somewhere," a 2009 concert in Lucerne, Switzerland, by the improvisational Keith Jarrett Trio that also included double bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette that includes Harold Arlen early '30 s standard, "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" that was first recorded by Cab Calloway in 1931 and around 2000-2001 by George Harrison.
Also "Live Bootleg Series 9" from Texas wild man blues rocker Johnny Winter features his covers of Freddie King's "Hideaway" and Jimi Hendrix's "Manic Depression;" "Wrote a Song For Everyone," that sees former Credence Clearwater Revival leader John Fogerty re-recording a dozen CCR classics with the likes of Bob Seger ("Who'll Stop the Rain"), Keith Urban ("Almost Saturday Night"), Jennifer Hudson and Allen Toussaint ("Proud Mary"), The Foo Fighters ("Fortunate Son"), Brad Paisley ("Hot Rod Heart"), The Zac Brown Band ("Bad Moon Rising"), Kid Rock ("Born on the Bayou"), My Morning Jacket ("Long as I Can See the Light"), Dawes "Someday Never Comes"), and the title cut with Miranda Lambert and former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello; and a 2-CD, "Finding the Sacred Heart: Live in Philly 1986," from heavy metal band Dio; "Hope in Hell" the 15 th studio album in 32 years from journeyman Toronto metal outfit, Anvil.
A 2-CD, "Anyone Who Had a Heart: The Art of the Songwriter (The Best of Burt Bacharach)" includes hit versions of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" (B.J. Thomas), "I Say A Little Prayer" (Aretha Franklin), "The Look of Love" (Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66), "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" by Christopher Cross, "What the World Needs Now" (Jackie DeShannon), "Alfie" (Barbra Streisand), "This Guy's In Love With You" (Herb Alpert), "My Little Red Book" (Manfred Mann) "One Less Bell to Answer" (The Fifth Dimension) "What's New, Pussycat?" (Tom Jones) and "Wives and Lovers" (Jack Jones) and others; a 2-CD, "Justus: The Deluxe Edition" by The Monkees; and "All in the Same Boat" from veteran country chart-toppers Joe Diffie, Sammy Kershaw and Aaron Tippin includes their run-through on Neil Young's "Heart of Gold," Stephen Bishop's "On and On," and Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern's "The Way You Look Tonight," that was first sung by Fred Astaire in "Swing Time" in 1936 and popularized further by The Lettermen in 1961 and in 1964 by Frank Sinatra.
A 2-CD, "Rocks Europe," from recently defunct early metal influences, Blue Cheer, led by original bassist-lead singer Dickie Peterson, recorded in 2008 in Bonn, Germany; "Live at Columbia Studios, Hollywood 9/30/71" by country rock pioneers Poco; "Live in Spartenburg South Carolina" from The Marshall Tucker Band with old friend Charlie Daniels; "We Partyin' Traditional Style" from New Orleans jazz trumpeter Kermit Ruffins includes "Jeepers Creepers;" a 31-song, 2-CD, "Giants," the first new music to hit our shores in 20 years from England's Stranglers; and a 3-CD set, "Oak Mountain 2001 - Night 1" from Widespread Panic, who formed in Athens, Ga., in 1986.
Re-releases include "Goddess of Love" from tragic jazz and soul singer Phyllis Hyman; "Time & Tide" the 1987 debut from Polish singer-songwriter Basia; a 2-CD, "First Issue," from John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten and his post-Sex Pistols Band, Public Image, Ltd, from 1978. Also, "The Dutch Woodstock 1970," in reality, the Holland Pop Festival is out as a CD/DVD and features concert performances from Pink Floyd ("Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" and "A Saucerful Of Secrets"), The Jefferson Airplane ("Saturday Afternoon," "White Rabbit," "The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil"), and Santana ("Jingo"), as well as The Byrds, Canned Heat, T.Rex, Soft Machine, It's a Beautiful Day, Family, Country Joe McDonald, Al Stewart and Dr. John.
Classic acts from the '50 s, '60 s and '70 s continue to perform. Here's what one of them is doing.
The Moody Blues were a British Invasion band. They first hit the Top 40 here in 1964 when the band's second single, "Go Now," sung by guitarist Denny Laine, hit No. 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 pop singles chart (it went No. 1 in their native Britain and No. 2 in Canada). The next year, "From the Bottom of My Heart (I Love you)" made it here to No. 23, but by 1966, there wasn't a lot of joy in Moodies-ville.
The R&B-based Moody Blues were stagnating and some members weren't happy.
Exit Laine and bassist Clint Warwick. Enter bassist John Lodge and a man who was recommended to them by Eric Burdon, singer-guitarist Justin Hayward.
By late 1966 the group had re-formed and were devising an entirely new sound, a trippy psychedelic sound that mixed a more mature rock music than Laine was capable of with classical music - and Hayward was leading all the rest, keyboardist Mike Pinder, drummer Graeme Edge, singer-flutist Ray Thomas and Lodge, who all eagerly embraced the new sound and to which they actively contributed.
The new Moodies' re-emerged in November 1967 with their second LP, a symphonic rock revelation, especially when compared to their debut album from only two years earlier. That LP, "Days of Future Past," which also featured The London Festival Orchestra, opened the door to the progressive rock that followed in the late '60 s by Yes, ELP, The Nice, Jethro Tull, Genesis and the rest.
One critic, Bill Holdship, wrote that the band, "created an entire genre here." Robert Christgau in Esquire called it one of the essential albums of 1967, while Will Hermes cites the album as an essential progressive rock record and views that its use of the Mellotron made it a signature element of the genre.
Allmusic editor Bruce Eder calls the album "one of the defining documents of the blossoming psychedelic era, and one of the most enduringly popular albums of its era."
The LP was a hit here and across the pond. The album contained two classic singles, "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon" that still receive tons of radio play. Such was its staying power that "Days of Future Past" was actually re-released in 1972 and that time it hit No. 3 here.
After that, more hits, more classics. "Ride My See-Saw," "Question," "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" and others that are almost as beloved now as when they came out more than 40 years ago.
The group was also a favorite of DJs in the early days of so-called "underground" FM radio of the late '60 s and early '70 s and those stations played what is now referred to as deep album cuts. So, hippie, trippy Moodies' cuts like Thomas' "Dr. Livingston, I Presume" "Legend of a Mind" (aka, "Timothy Leary") and "Dear Diary," Pinder's hallucinogenic ode, "The Best Way to Travel," Edge's "Higher and Higher," and Hayward's "Voices in the Sky," "Never Comes the Day," "Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)," and Lodge's "Isn't Life Strange" and many more album songs all received oodles of FM airplay, even though they were never released as singles.
In 1986, five years after their last major hit, "The Voice," the band experienced a great renaissance when Hayward's wistful remembrance of a great earlier love, "Your Wildest Dreams," hit No. 9 on Billboard's Hot 100, No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart and No. 2 on the mainstream rock chart.
Over the decades, The Moody Blues have sold more than 70 million albums and recorded 14 platinum and gold albums and singles. Many consider the fact that the band not being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a shameful oversight, but the insult is made all the worse when it's noted that the group hasn't ever been nominated for induction, although they've been eligible for almost a quarter-century.
These days, The Moody Blues, with longtime members Edge, Lodge and Hayward still on board, continue to tour, selling out 5,000- to 20,000-seat venues.
In March, the sold-out Moody Blues Cruise sailed the Caribbean with supporting acts The Zombies, Greg Lake, Stephen Bishop and The Little River Band.
The Moodies will spend June touring the U.K. and Europe, and they just announced a new 28-date fall American tour that kicks off Sept. 26 at the Palace Theatre in Louisville, Ky. and wraps on Nov. 2 in Rancho Mirage, near San Diego, at the Agua Caliente Casino. The band will also appear at Humphrey's on Mission Bay in San Diego on Oct. 30 and then at the 7,100-seat Nokia Theatre on Nov. 1.
On June 25, "Timeless Flight," a 17-disc box set that also comes with a 120-page full color hardback book, will be released. The box has 11 CDs containing digitally remastered album tracks, 3 audio DVDs and 3 other film/video DVDs. Unreleased mixes and outtakes, and complete concert recordings are also included. Songs from non-band projects such as tracks from Hayward and Lodge's 1975 "Blue Jays" album and Hayward's recording of "Forever Autumn" from Jeff Wayne's 1978 "War Of The Worlds" album will also be there.
Steve Smith writes a new Classic Pop, Rock and Country Music News column every week. Like, recommend or share the column on Facebook. Contact him by email at email@example.com.


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About the Museum
Architectural Chronology of the Museum Building
The National Historic Landmark building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is one of the oldest public buildings constructed in early Washington, D.C., and is considered one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the United States. Several important early American architects were involved in the original design of the building, including Robert Mills (1781–1855), Ithiel Town (1784–1844), Alexander Jackson Davis (1803–1892), Thomas U. Walter (1804–1887) and William Parker Elliot (1807–1854).
On July 4, President Andrew Jackson authorizes the construction of a fireproof patent office. The site at Eighth and F streets N.W. had been reserved on Pierre L'Enfant's capital city plan for a nondenominational national church or a pantheon for the country's heroes.
The south wing was completed under the direction of Robert Mills, then Architect of Public Buildings. The Patent Office moved into the building in 1840. The government's historical, scientific and art collections, including the Declaration of Independence and George Washington's Revolutionary War camp tent, were housed on the third floor, then called the National Gallery.
The east wing was constructed to house the Department of the Interior, including the Indian Office and the Agricultural Bureau, and was initially built under the supervision of Robert Mills, who was replaced in 1851 by Thomas U. Walter, Architect of the Capitol. This wing is the only portion of the building that remains today as originally constructed.
The west wing was constructed under the supervision of Thomas U. Walter and Edward Clark, his assistant. Its lower floors held the General Land Office.
The north wing was begun under the supervision of Edward Clark and was eventually completed by Thomas U. Walter. The Civil War and lack of funding interrupted its construction. The total cost of the building was $2.3 million.
The building was used as temporary barracks in the early days of the Civil War and served as a hospital and morgue after the battles of Manassas (Bull Run), Antietam and Fredricksburg. Walt Whitman tended to wounded Union soldiers here.
On March 6, President Abraham Lincoln held his inaugural ball on the third floor of the building.
The exterior portico steps on the south wing were modified when the surrounding streets were lowered.
The upper floors of the west and north wings were ravaged by fire. Nearly 87,000 patent models were destroyed.
Adolf Cluss and his partner Paul Schulze reconstructed the damaged west and north wings.
The south wing of the third floor, known today as the Great Hall, was redecorated in the popular Victorian Renaissance style of the day by Cluss.
The various Department of the Interior bureaus vacated the building.
After 92 years, the Patent Office moved out of the building.
The Civil Service Commission occupied the building.
The monumental exterior steps on the south wing were removed to accommodate the widening of F Street and a new entrance was constructed at the first floor.
The building was slated for demolition to make way for a parking lot. The nascent historic preservation movement championed its cause and successfully campaigned to save it.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation that saved the building, which then became a symbol for the historic preservation movement. Congress transferred the building to the Smithsonian in 1958.
The architectural firm Faulkner, Kingsbury & Stenhouse oversaw the building's transformation into museum galleries.
The building was designated a National Historic Landmark.
In January, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery opened to the public with President Lyndon B. Johnson presiding.
The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum closed the building in January for extensive renovations.
On Oct. 12, the Smithsonian announces that the two museums and their activities are to be known collectively as the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.
On July 1, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery opened in their gloriously restored historic home in the heart of a revitalized downtown Washington, D.C.
On Nov. 18, the museums' Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard opened to the public. The enclosed courtyard with its elegant glass canopy was designed by world-renowned architects Foster + Partners who were assisted in the creation of the courtyard's interior design by internationally acclaimed landscape designer Kathryn Gustafson of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd.


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Fruit growers worried about this winter
(Mansfield) — Ohio fruit growers are holding onto hope that this snowy, often brutally cold winter hasn't ruined all of their crops.
The president of the Ohio Fruit Growers Marketing Association, Bill Dodd, tells the Mansfield News Journal that growers are sure there's been damage and can only wait for spring to determine the extent of it.
Growers used microscopes to analyze sample cuttings from their crops at a meeting last week, and very few of the plants appeared to still be alive.
Dave Riedel of Galion says farmers must wait to see whether the deep freezes have zapped just the crops or the plants themselves.
The effects may vary by fruit. Dodd says apple trees, for example, tend to be more resilient in the cold, while peaches are more sensitive.
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Tornados picked eighth in SAC Coaches PollJuly 22, 2010
Brevard is picked to finish eighth in the Coaches preseason poll
Rock Hill, S.C. – The Brevard College Tornados football team was picked eighth in the 2010 Preseason SAC Coaches Poll, as announced by the South Atlantic Conference office Thursday afternoon.
Brevard finished the 2009 season with a 7-4 record in their second season as full members of the NCAA Division II and the South Atlantic Conference, receiving votes in the AFCA Division II poll for the first time as a program. The Tornados were also recognized by Somis Sports as the 11th most improved Division II Football team in 2009 and the 40th most improved program across all levels of NCAA Collegiate Football.
Carson-Newman College, which went undefeated in conference play in 2009 and advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA playoffs, is the favorite to capture another South Atlantic Conference football championship, in a vote of the league's head coaches.
Carson-Newman received five first-place votes and 58 total points. The Eagles have won 21 conference titles under the direction of coach Ken Sparks, the all-time winningest coach in Division II.
The favorite Eagles return just eight starters from last year's championship team, but six of those earned All-Conference honors last season.
Wingate University, which finished second last year, is predicted to finish second again. The Bulldogs received two first-place votes and 51 total points.
Mars Hill College and Newberry College tied for third last season with 4-3 records, and the two schools are predicted to finish close again. Mars Hill was picked to finish third, with a two-point advantage over Newberry. The Lions return the SAC's leading rusher from last year in Jonas Randolph. Newberry returns the 2009 SAC Defensive Player of the Year in safety Ron Parker.
Tusculum College is picked to finish fifth with 33 points.
Lenoir-Rhyne University received the other first-place vote and are sixth in the poll. The Bears received 28 points.
Catawba College is the pick to finish seventh with 17 points. The Catawba Indians are looking to improve on last season's last-place finish in the conference.
Brevard College is picked to finish eighth with 15 points.
2010 Preseason Coaches Poll
1. Carson-Newman (5) 58
2. Wingate (2) 51
3. Mars Hill 44
4. Newberry 42
5. Tusculum 33
6. Lenoir-Rhyne (1) 28
7. Catawba 17
8. Brevard 15
(First-place votes in parenthesis)