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August 21, 2014 12:00 AMTo create a strong independent music scene, a city the size of Pittsburgh requires venues, of course, but also bands, record labels, radio stations and record stores.
Friendship resident Karl Hendricks has been involved in all these aspects for three decades -- from his early Peas Kor label and WPTS-FM radio show, to the long recorded history of his legendary rock trio (including several releases on Merge, the label of Arcade Fire and Spoon) to saving Bloomfield indie bastion Paul's CDs from closing by reopening it in 2012 as Sound Cat Records.
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With: Dama/Libra, Tim Midyett & Andy Cohen, Carousel, The Gotobeds, Line Forms.
Where: Brillobox, Bloomfield.
When: 9 p.m. Friday.
Admission: $10. 412-621-4900.
Also: Sept. 27 at 8 p.m., Modern Formations, Garfield; 412-362-0274 ($7). Readings by Jason Baldinger, Kris Collins, Jerome Crooks, Lori Jakiela, Jeff Martin, Dave Newman, Bobby Pajich and Scott Silsbe; hosted by Red Bob.
As such, Mr. Hendricks has a legion of loyal friends and fans willing to come to his aid. Prominent among them is Dan Allen, who assembled a benefit show for him this Friday at the Brillobox in Bloomfield. To sum it up, Mr. Allen explains, "Karl has oral cancer. He's working hard to get better, although it's going to be a long healing process."
The benefit helps cover the substantial portion of Mr. Hendricks' bills not covered by insurance, as does a Give Forward site (similar to Kickstarter but for nonprofits) set up by Jon Solomon, head of Mr. Hendricks' current label Comedy Minus One, which raised $34,000 to date.
"Within a day, we exceeded our initial $10,000 goal, and there's been 420 individual contributors so far," beams Mr. Solomon. "We completely 'George Baileyed' Karl to show how much everyone appreciates him."
Mr. Allen's efforts also gelled quickly, spurred by his friendship with Mr. Hendricks since 1989. "I moved to Pittsburgh from Erie that year, and found Karl's solo cassette at Dave Martin's mobile store in [defunct Wilkinsburg venue] the Sonic Temple. My band Thumper practiced at the [South Oakland] Juliet Street house where Karl lived. [Thumper's] Tom Hoffman and Tim Parker joined Karl's early Trio, while Brian Welcker was in Sludgehammer [which also included Ian Williams, later of Don Caballero and Battles] with Karl. He's been a good friend and I've always been a fan of his music."
After Mr. Allen's initial legwork, the benefit went "from zero to done" in one week as artist Mike Budai agreed to do a poster, local signed bands Carousel and The Gotobeds jumped on, and the remaining ex-members of Seattle indie icons Silkworm came on board: Tim Midyett and Andy Cohen [more recently of Bottomless Pit] and Joel R.L. Phelps [now of Northern Spy band Dama/Libra with Stuart Dahlquist of post-metallers Asva].
Following on that event's heels is a literary reading next month at Garfield gallery Modern Formations, organized by poet Jason Baldinger, who is running Sound Cat Records while Mr. Hendricks recuperates. The reading will feature a re-release of Mr. Hendricks' book "Stan Getz Isn't Coming Back" [in addition to his music, he has a master's in English and was an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh] and an anthology called "Good Noise: Poetry, Music and Pittsburgh" compiled by Kris Collins, fellow record store proprietor at Desolation Row (inside Oakland's Caliban Books).
The movement then spreads regionally with a Saturday night benefit at Columbus' Little Rock Bar starring members of Silkworm, Scrawl and Great Plains, and two weeks later on Oct. 3, the action moves to Easthampton, Mass., where Major Stars and Landing gather funds for Mr. Hendricks at the Flywheel space.
Mr. Solomon, who first discovered the Hendricks debut LP "Buick Electra" as a college radio DJ at Princeton's WPRB, isn't surprised by the outpouring, considering that Mr. Hendricks is also a "cool dad" who married his sweetheart Megan Balog and raised two daughters, Maeve and Nell. "I booked tours for the Trio in the '90s and we became friends. It's wild that Maeve's in college and I've known her since she was born."
Mr. Allen's own admiration for Mr. Hendricks' contribution to Pittsburgh's rich music history is boundless. "Being on Merge is no small feat, but keeping the doors open for Sound Cat as a huge resource of independent music of all types, bringing in records that don't show up anywhere else? Running a record store is an intense labor of love and that's a big reason to support him.
"But the older I get," he adds, "the more I understand that quality songwriting is what transcends the ages, and Karl is putting great songs out into the world, touching a lot of people's hearts in the process."


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If you were to invent a restaurant whose specialties include a cauliflower T-bone, you probably couldn't do any better than Superba Snack Bar. It occupies what looks like a corrugated shoe box sliced open at one end, a giant version of the dioramas you may have constructed for social studies in fourth grade. Superba is at the heart of its Rose Avenue neighborhood in a stretch of Venice Beach where the fixed-gear bicycles outnumber cars some afternoons and even the elderly seem acquainted with kombucha and Lululemon.
As at nearby Tasting Kitchen and Gjelina, you probably will be drinking Chignin and Frappato instead of Chardonnay and Merlot. Substitutions are politely declined, the menu says, although there is gluten-free pasta if that's the way you roll, and you will wait for a table unless you are a party of six committing to a tasting menu. The vegetable section of the menu is labeled "From Our Backyards." The restaurant's concession to chilly nights on its patio involves communal blankets rather than space heaters. It seems like a great place to dine out with your dog.
That cauliflower T-bone is a massive slice of the vegetable, seared and spackled with a puree of basil, citrus and olives, a Sicilian-esque preparation that is probably as close to hedonistic as a vegan dish can get. In cross-section, the vegetable, as thick-cut as a porterhouse, even resembles a steak, florets branching off the core in two dimensions like fleshy striations off a bone. The mildly sulfurous stink of the vegetable marries with the flecks of char at the extremities to create a fairly persuasive sensation of meat, especially as inflected by the acerbic pungency of the purée. It is as satisfying as the meat would be, and in many of the same ways.
Superba is the creation of Paul Hibler, who owns the Pitfire chain of pizza restaurants, and Jason Neroni, an Orange County-born chef whose wanderings apparently have taken him through Spago, Le Cirque, Blue Hill, the better modernist kitchens of Spain, a grand tour of Alain Ducasse's restaurants, the well-regarded 10 Downing in New York and Club 33 at Disneyland. He most recently passed through Osteria la Buca in Hollywood. He seems pretty fond of the beach.
Neroni's style is what you might call abstracted Italian, which is to say that it incorporates tastes and textures associated with Italian cooking without actually duplicating an Italian dish. His "porchetta di testa" might incorporate some traditional Italian pork-roast techniques into making the head cheese, but he cures the meat to taste more like pastrami than like fennel-intensive porchetta, and he serves it on slivers of rye bread with mustard seeds and bits of dill pickle — testa alla Langer's. His salad of charred figs with burrata, walnuts and mint reads like something that might appear on a Pugliese plate but tastes like a dish that came from Provence through Berkeley. His meatballs in salsa verde taste like Bologna run through northern Mexico.
Neroni's cooking here might sound pretty complicated, but the results are sunny and straightforward: charcuterie plates of sweetly smoked bacon with a smear of the Spanish quince paste membrillo, or a salad of zucchini cut into spaghetti strands and tossed with herby garlic sauce and tomatoes, or a kale salad with pine nuts and raisins — not minimal, exactly, but not overdone. He crisps Brussels sprouts and serves them under a poached duck egg in a version of dashi made with bacon instead of the traditional dried, smoked bonito. (Bacon dashi is an invention of David Chang, of New York's Momofuku.) Everybody loves his crisply fried chicken thighs, brushed with a slightly spicy red-wine syrup — the earliest plating of the dish was on a beveled plank so that the syrup ran down onto the table in sticky rivulets, a phenomenon that delighted me perhaps more than it should have.
If the restaurant has a specialty, it is probably the pastas. They are handmade, slightly stiff and leaning toward excess — twisted casarecce with chanterelles, Parmesan and a dusting of the dried fish roe bottarga; the floppy hand-folded penne called garganelli with shell beans and shreds of pheasant; and agnolotti, like oblong ravioli, with crab and the last of the season's corn. The doughy gnocchi would probably not pass muster at a trattoria, but the sweetish toss with hazelnuts and broccoli stems is likable, what a gifted young cook might make for staff dinner. His whole-wheat rigatoni is more or less in the style of cacio e pepe, cooked extremely al dente and tossed with cheese and a punishing handful of black pepper — it doesn't quite taste like anything you'd get in Rome. It tastes like Venice Beach.
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Electric Bicycle Sales to Reach Nearly 38 Million Units per Year by 2020, Forecasts Navigant Research
BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Driven by intensifying urbanization, the increasing use of bicycles and other two-wheeled vehicles for everyday commuting, and the rise of new market entrants and more mature products, the market for electric bicycles has become well-established in some regions, particularly in Asia Pacific and Europe. According to a new report from Navigant Research, worldwide sales of e-bikes will grow slowly but steadily through the remainder of this decade, growing from 30.6 million units annually in 2013 to 37.9 million units in 2020.
"In many cities, the streets are so clogged with traffic that they are virtually unnavigable by car, and e-bikes are seen as an increasingly viable option for urban mobility," says Dave Hurst, principal research analyst with Navigant Research. "The utilization of high-quality, affordable lithium ion batteries, among other factors, is helping open this market to people outside the normal e-bicycle demographic. Younger riders are more frequently turning to e-bicycles in countries in North America and Western Europe."
China accounts for the vast majority of e-bicycle sales: 90 percent of the e-bicycles sold worldwide from 2013 to 2020 will be sold in China. Many cities in China, however, either already have or are considering bans on e-bicycles because of increasing accidents and bicycle congestion. The report's forecasts assume that bans will either remain in place or be enacted in parts of several major cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.
The report, "Electric Bicycles", provides a detailed analysis of the market forces, key drivers of growth, technology, and government influence on the worldwide market for electric bicycles. Forecasts are included, both base and aggressive scenarios, for annual e-bicycle sales through 2020, broken down by region and by battery technology. The report also includes profiles of key e-bicycle manufacturers, suppliers, and other market players. An Executive Summary of the report is available for free download on the Navigant Research website.
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This one seems to be another example of a new online deal pricing game some retailers like Amazon are playing hoping you pay a higher price. Ben seems oblivious to this tactic and doesn't seem to mind being the chump posting these one minute deals. These types of phony deals should be deleted or at least updated after the price shoots up. The retailers are getting traffic routed to their sites that was there goal in the first place and pulling the rug out on the teaser price once the deals sites bit and faithfully posts the ad on their web sites... All at the detriment of the deal site's reputation. This site maybe needs to be renamed "Ben's, The Chump, Bargains" because he is being used like a chump, big time...
^ Uhh, it's the same situation when any site posts to Amazon deals, and Amazon seems to have some sort of popularity based pricing engine where if a product gets enough hits the price changes, plus recently it seems like things going on sale on Amazon have stayed on sale for a much shorter period than in years past.
In other words, the early bird gets the worm.
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Two of the Navy's remaining three inshore patrol craft will enter Auckland Harbour for the final time this morning, flying their decommissioning pennants.
HMNZS Wakakura and HMNZS Kiwi are being decommissioned, with four new ships being built to replace them.
The ships will enter the harbour at 7.30am, where they will carry out ceremonial manoeuvres in the Stanley Bay Basin before berthing alongside the Devonport Naval Base at 8.05am.
Navy public relations manager Lieutenant Commander Barbara Cassin said it would be the final task for the crews of the two vessels.
Both ships will formally be decommissioned from operational service on December 11. Sister ships Hinau and Moa were decommissioned in January.
A fifth in-shore patrol craft, HMNZS Kahu, will remain in service as the navigational and seamanship training ship.
Named after World War II minesweepers of the Royal New Zealand Navy, Kiwi and Wakakura were attached to the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve Divisions in Christchurch and Wellington respectively until April 2005.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- One is a 34-year-old winger, undrafted but winner of two Stanley Cups and mildly maligned in some corners for perhaps benefiting greatly from his association with the biggest name in hockey.
The other is a 19-year-old rookie with a pedigree but not an overstuffed resume and who surprised many by grabbing a full-time NHL job in his first pro season.
Those two -- veteran left winger Chris Kunitz and teen defenseman Olli Maatta -- have different backgrounds but something special in common.
They will make their first Olympic appearances next month at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, and are among the seven Penguins selected for the Games.
Kunitz and center Sidney Crosby will play for Team Canada. Maatta and winger Jussi Jokinen (second Olympics) were picked to represent Finland. Center Evgeni Malkin will play for host Russia, his third time at the Games and one of his country's cornerstones. Those five were named Tuesday, the deadline for countries to submit their 25-man rosters.
Defensemen Brooks Orpik and Paul Martin were named to Team USA last week.
Speculation about whether Canada would offer Kunitz his first chance to play in the Olympics heightened recently, and he wasn't immune to pondering the possibility.
"I think more than I originally thought I would," Kunitz said. "I tried to keep it on the back burner ... but the closer it got to the deadline, and, after the U.S. team announced their [roster], you definitely spent hours thinking about it."
Kunitz went into the game Tuesday night against the Vancouver Canucks ranked sixth in NHL scoring with 47 points in 44 games and was tied with Crosby for the team lead with 23 goals. His 11 power-play goals ranked second in the league.
Still, there was mumbling -- more than mumbling, really -- that Kunitz's path to the Olympic roster was made possible by the fact that he is a linemate of Crosby, who was a lock for the Olympic team and considered in most quarters the world's best hockey player.
Crosby -- who led the league in scoring before games Tuesday with 63 points in 44 games and scored the gold-medal-clinching overtime goal for Canada in 2010 -- disputes the popular Kunitz-on-the-coattails theory.
"He's done a lot of things to earn the right to play on the team," Crosby said.
Team Canada general manager Steve Yzerman made it clear that playing well alongside Crosby was an asset and just one of many for Kunitz.
"He's a hard-nosed player. He's a skilled player," Yzerman said. "Yes, he plays with Sidney Crosby, and he's been a great contributor not only to that line, but to his team, whether it be five-on-five or on the power play.
"The question that I think a lot of people have asked is, is Chris Kunitz being helped by Sidney Crosby? They help each other. He's a tremendous player on his own."
Maatta, a 2012 first-round draft pick who has three goals, 13 points and averages 17 minutes, 38 seconds of ice time, hasn't been accused of getting a free ride based on playing with anyone, but he is quick to admit that the Penguins' faith in him contributed to his Olympic inclusion.
"I have to really thank the Penguins organization for giving me a shot to play here," said Maatta, who grew up admiring Olympic hockey even more than the NHL version.
"It's probably because we didn't get as much NHL on TV, so the Olympics were the biggest thing," he said.
They are a big deal in Canada, too, as evidenced by the throngs of reporters at Rogers Arena Tuesday morning chasing the Olympics angle -- particularly wanting to speak to Crosby, who scored that golden goal in 2010 at the same Vancouver arena where the Penguins played Tuesday night.
Two Penguins, though, were left on the outside looking in.
The team had been making a strong vocal push for Team Canada to invite right winger James Neal, who since the start of 2011-12 is averaging more than a goal every other game, 77 in 144 games.
"It's nice to hear good things, especially from your teammates," Neal said.
"You've got to keep your head up and keep a smile on your face. It's tough.
"They're all tough decisions. It's an unbelievable team with a lot of unbelievable players, a lot of well-deserving guys that made the club. I couldn't be happier for Sid and [Kunitz]. Two well-deserving guys."
Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury was left off of the Team Canada roster despite leading the NHL with 24 wins before facing Vancouver. He was Canada's No. 3 goalie in 2010, but did not appear in a game.
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Values Voters: America's Last Prudes
"Does God really care what I wear?" That's the headline on a flyer on an exhibit table at this year's Values Voter Summit, the annual evangelical political confab sponsored by the Family Research Council. The exhibit hall is an especially good reminder that the evangelical community may be among the last bastions of American prudery.
Modesty Matters, the group behind the flyer, is a new addition to the event this year. It was founded by a modestly dressed retired pharmacist from Roanoke, Virginia named J.H. Woolwine. He gave me a leaflet showcasing some models of modest dress for young people. They look like Mitt Romney's high school yearbook photos: Buttoned up college students from 1965 wearing knee-length dresses and neckties.
A "back porch thing" run by Woolwine and his wife, Modesty Matters is a somewhat quixotic effort to "move the media back to modesty," which Woolwine believes could be a compelling nonpolitical issue that people on all sides could agree on. He could be right about that. Anyone who has struggled to find clothes for young girls that don't make them look like hookers might agree.
Of course, the information Woolwine is handing out might put off a few potential supporters, especially the women he's seeking to persuade. On the flyer asking whether God "cares what I wear," the writer explains that women need to dress more modestly in church because "men are particularly visual. Immodesty in church can trigger lustful thoughts." It's an interesting sentiment among a crowd obsessed with the possibility that Islamic militants could impose Sharia law on America. Woolwine is also distributing a "Resolution for Women," which asks women to make a number of pledges, including "I will champion God's model for womanhood in the face of a post-feminist culture."
But Woolwine insists that his activism isn't just aimed at women. "It's for guys, too," he says. So far though, his group hasn't really picked up steam. He's got flyers out asking for someone to make him a website, and the table in the exhibit hall features a little box for donations. But he says he's gotten quite a few signatures for his petition to ask Congress to make the day after Labor Day national "Modesty Day," to remind kids going back to school to put some clothes on.
I ask Woolwine how some political women stacked up in the modesty department. He said he thinks that Michelle Obama has served as a good role model in that department, as has former First Lady Laura Bush. Not only that but 'each has advocated good things," like reading and eating right, he adds. How about, say, Sarah Palin? Woolwine declines to express an opinion on the former vice presidential candidate. When I mention that her kids might not be the models of modesty he's looking to champion, he says, "You may have a point there." But the real winners in the political modest department, in Woolwine's opinion, seem to be the Romneys, who look a lot like the people in his flyers (although this was before Romney disclosed to Kelly Rippa that he likes to sleep in "as little as possible" and expressed his admiration for Snooki, who's hardly a paragon of feminine propriety). "I think the Romneys dress and behave modestly, as do their families," he says.


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Saturday is International Women's Day, a holiday honoring women that's celebrated around the world. The United States, where women don't get a day unless they're moms, has never been firmly on the bandwagon.
International Women's Day kicked off in Europe on March 19, 1911, to drum up support for the suffrage movement and moved to March 8 in 1913. A 1909 attempt to launch a similar holiday in the United States flopped, probably because the Socialist Party of America was behind it.
In 1917, Russian women chose March 8 to protest the deaths of more than 2 million Russian soldiers in World War I. Days later, the czar stepped down and the provisional government granted Russian women the right to vote.
Adopted by the United Nations in 1975, International Women's Day is still a popular day for women's rights protests and marches.
It also has a softer side: gifts, pampering and a day off work in many countries. Here is a brief rundown on what happens on the holiday in some countries:
Russian women insist on red roses, and Italians and Albanians prefer yellow mimosas.
In Russia, International Women's Day is a public holiday. This year, Russians will get Monday, March 10, off. In China, many women (but not men) get a free half-day.
In Romania, single ladies gather for homemade meals. In Russia, progressive husbands do the cooking.
Romanian children use March 8 to honor their moms with trinkets and homemade crafts. In China, women's bosses provide the gifts; movie tickets are common.
India, Uganda, Bangladesh, Fiji, Cambodia and Rwanda are just a few of the nations that use International Women's Day to promote women's rights. Uganda, for instance, has the "Run for Safe Motherhood" marathon, the proceeds of which are donated to hospital maternity wards.


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Sergio Ramos sees red but the ten men of Real Madrid hang on to a two goal lead to claim victory over Rayo Vallecano at the Bernabeu.
The home side started in ominous fashion when Mesut Ozil played in Alvaro Morata to calmly slide home on three minutes.
Ozil bagged another assist nine minutes later when his near post free-kick was met by Ramos who powered home with his head.
Ramos' red card was an innocuous one. Seconds after a soft first booking, the Spaniard handled innocuously outside his own area and was harshly dismissed.
Rayo had plenty of chances to get back into the game. Roberto Trashorras fired over on the stroke of haltime and Lass and Piti both went close either side of the hour mark.
Sami Khedira almost put the game to bed on seventy-four minutes, but his curling effort flew narrowly wide of the mark.
Chori Dominguez rattled the woodwork thirteen minutes from time with a fine half-volley and Leo Baptistao failed to make meaningful contact when un-marked at the back post two minutes later.
Jose Mourinho will be pleased with the way his side stayed compact with ten men, hanging on to move within four points of city rivals Atletico. Defeat for Rayo leaves them in seventh place in La Liga.


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Definitions of body
n. - The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
n. - The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.
n. - The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.
n. - A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.
n. - A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.
n. - A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.
n. - Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.
n. - Amount; quantity; extent.
n. - That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
n. - The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
n. - The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.
n. - A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
n. - Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
v. t. - To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
n. - The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or aerocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc.
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Do you still remember this post of ours from ten days ago? I know, in the teaser trailer frenzy things get forgotten and overlooked. What should not be let to pass unnoticed, is the recent confirmation of the information we had: Brian Kirk was added to the team as the director of two episodes. According to this tweet, courtesy of The_Rabbit's inquisitive efforts, he started working (on the preproduction) already last week. Read more about Kirk's experience and Winter's opinion of him in the original post.
Hear Me Roar: So now this is official. Speculation corner: who is taking the helm for the reshoots? If Kirk, does this count as the first of the two episodes, or is he doing episodes 2 and 3, regardless? The fact that he started working on the project early suggests close co-operation with Tom McCarthy, the director of the pilot, who is passing the torch to his successor. Either way, it seems that this dinamic duo is going to be responsible for establishing the tone of the series from the director's perspective.


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Christian Rapper Thi'sl Births Music Ministry From the Womb of an American Inner City
Christian rapper Thi'sl faced some dark days living in the inner city or the "belly of the beast," as some urban dwellers like to call it. But Since God called him from the gritty streets of St. Louis, Mo., several years ago, he has been blazing a trail of inspiration through a language its residents already know – hardcore rap.
Make no mistake though. The only things Thi'sl, 36, born Travis Tyler, glorifies in his music are Jesus and deliverance.
His fearless delivery of compelling lyrics in songs like "Motivation" from his latest album, Free From the Trap, renounces the stereotypical gangster life of greed, sex and materialism touted by many others in his field. It has also distinguished him as a rapper that is both true to his roots and spiritual calling.
In verse three of "Motivation," he yells with conviction:
A lot of us don't make it, but look at your boy, I made it OUT
And it's by grace that I changed
That grace stopped your boy in my tracks when it came
Like a red light, now I'm focused and I got my head right
Now I'm on they brains all day just like some head lice
I used to tear down my block
Now I'm focused and my plan is to rebuild my block
Got my dawgs thinking on a whole 'nother situation
My hood love me, they say that I'm they motivation
Like new wine poured from a brand new vessel, Thi'sl's music is bold, aggressive, unapologetic, transformational and undeniably authentic. And the ease with which he navigates the at times dreadful and complex narratives of urban life, accompanied by redemptive hooks and plugs, has been hitting audiences in urban communities across America like water in a parched field.
"I just appreciate his matter of fact speech. I never hit the streets but I had friends and family that did and I can see them as I hear this music. I know that the lane for this music is there and I'm glad God chose you go it Bro," wrote Will Perdue in the comments section of the official music video for "Motivation" on YouTube.
Every year, according to the description portion of the video, Thi'sl and Rebuild STL – the nonprofit wing of his music label Full Ride Music – hosts a cookout in the neighborhood where he grew up on St. Louis' west side. The event formed the backdrop for the music video for "Motivation" in 2012 and his music has been changing lives.
"This song go so HARD! Jesus Christ is my MOTIVATION! Thank God I've found music like this with substance, I use to proudly bump crap Young Jeezy, T.I. Gucci Mane anything from the south," noted another commenter on the YouTube video under the username The11six.
"The sad part was, I [was] brought up in a Christian household just wanted to fit in and be accepted. Music like this has really motivated me to share the gospel with others and rededicate my life to Christ. Now my identity is found in CHRIST! Jesus was the first lyricist, just read the book of Matthew!" the commenter added.
On a hot Sunday night in June, The Christian Post sat down with the rapper shortly before he took the stage at the "New Artist Showcase" of the International Christian Retail Show held at the America's Convention Complex in downtown St. Louis.
Unlike most mainstream rappers, there was nothing flashy about his appearance. He was simply dressed in jeans and a dark blue polo shirt complete with a New York Yankees baseball cap.
He is unassumingly unreserved, however, with the street-honed wit and intelligence he doles out so bountifully in his music.
Life in the inner city
"Most people see inner city life and they see the outskirts of it," he began. "They see the crack head and they see a dirty person and drugs and they just watching him walking down the street and they see him on the corner or in the fancy car driving out."
"They don't never see the behind the scenes. They don't see the crack head in a house with four or five kids," he said.
"For me, I've seen the stuff behind the scenes, I've seen life 'behind that veil.' That's what motivates me to do music and to do ministry and to do it the way that I do and I feel God has called me to do because that's the group of people that people don't reach," he explained.
Before Thi'sl saw the light of salvation through Jesus he was just a young hustler on the streets of St. Louis, selling marijuana and living the life that came with it. By the time he was 18, he started getting high after a dust-up with a girl he was dating which left him emotionally confused.
"I didn't even know how to roll or nothing I never got high before. Once I started getting high, I started going to extremes," he said.
He began smoking weed all day, then he started doing "dips" (pcp) and ecstasy pills. His life continued on this trajectory for about three years until one fateful day in 1999.
"One of my friends that I grew up with, he killed my cousin," he recalled like it was yesterday. "When that happened it kinda knocked the whole foundation from under me. A person that I grew up with, from the same neighborhood, kills a person that I love with all my heart."
That murder eventually led a group of Christians from a local church to his community and their presence inspired him to direct questions about the confusion that ensued after his cousin's death to God.
"When my cousin first got killed the first thing it did was make me go to the Lord, literally like 'God why? Why did you let that happen?'" he said.
The Christian group continued to evangelize in his community and one guy from the group, another Christian rapper that goes by the stage name Flame, made a connection and began mentoring him.
"He gave me a person of reference," said Thi'sl who was about 21 at the time.
The murder charge
A week after his cousin's death, however, Thi'sl explained that he was accused of a murder he had nothing to do with and local police were seeking to arrest him.
Once that happened, he said, God began working on his behalf.
He went to the pastor of the local church that was evangelizing in his community and spoke with him about his predicament. It turned out that the pastor was a former police officer and one of the detectives who was working the case was the pastor's partner.
The pastor spoke with the detective who allowed him time to find a lawyer.
When he went to find a particular lawyer who was well-known for winning courts cases, however, the lawyer had moved and there was a different name on the office door – "Travis" – his namesake he learnt was "a 30-something year old white dude."
"When I walked into his office to meet him, I didn't even say a word to him, dude looks up at me and he says 'I don't know who you are, I don't know what your case is, I don't know if you have money, I don't even care. When you walked in here something told me don't let you leave here without helping you,'" said Thi'sl about his shock meeting with the lawyer.
"I'm sitting there blown away because now I'm knowing God is working in this situation," he said.
The lawyer advised him to wait a few days and he would take him in to the police. He told him if he went in by himself he would be locked up.
Worried that his grandmother's house might be searched repeatedly by police looking for him, however, Thi'sl chose to turn himself in, thinking if he just told them he was innocent, they would let him walk.
Police locked him up instead and told him that if they didn't issue a warrant within 24 hours they would have to let him go. The warrant was eventually issued, however, and Thi'sl was slapped with six felony charges which included one for the murder.
After four days in jail and a court appearance, his situation didn't seem as if it was about to improve. That's when Thi'sl began talking to God in jail.
God speaks
"I was like, 'man God, you finally got me but for something I didn't do.' I was like 'I deserve to be here. I have done enough stuff in my life where I knew like if I was here the rest of my life, it was justified,'" said Thi'sl.
Pacing back and forth in a holding dorm, Thi'sl said he heard the Lord say to him, "You pray and I'll come get you out."
After a brief struggle with the experience, he said he fell to his knees and prayed. He promised God that if He got him out of the situation he would do His will.
He said he went to sleep after that but about 15 to 20 minutes later, he heard a knock on the door of the holding dorm and he was told he was free to go.
"I couldn't believe it. It was like I was dreaming," he said. Even his lawyer was surprised.
Thi'sl completely gave his life to God and left everything including his rapping ambitions behind him after months of struggle following that incident.
"Me and my friend were thousands of dollars into doing a record. I went to him and I told him I don't care about none of this stuff no more. I just want to follow the Lord. I just said 'I don't care what I do. I'm going to church,'" he said.
A brand new message
But instead of allowing him to give up his talent for rapping, the Lord restructured Thi'sl's life and outlook and gave him a brand new message for the inner city.
"I remember when I became a Christian, one of the easiest things for me to do was stop selling drugs," he said. "I came outside one day sober, I didn't get high at all, and I looked around and I saw how messed up the community was and I felt the Lord speak to me and say 'you are supposed to help with this but you are actually part of the problem,'" explained Thi'sl.
"From that day, I was convicted and I didn't want to sell drugs no more," he said.
So now, every time Thi'sl creates music, he pours wisdom from the crucible of his life to uplift communities like the one he grew up in.
"When I make music, I make music with the thought in mind, 'Lord, let this be the song that at 2 o'clock in the morning when nobody is there and they cut it on and they play it this is the song that they gon' hear and say 'man I'm gonna give my life to the Lord' or this is the song right before the dude is about to go kill somebody and he listens to it and says 'hey I shouldn't do that,'" he said.
And Thi'sl's efforts have not gone unnoticed. This year, he was the recipient for a Grammy award for engineering work he did on Lecrae's Gravity record.
In the meantime, he laments that few Christian ministries seem to be geared at uplifting people from the inner cities.
"I do ministry the way I do because I see the need. I've lived amongst them. I know there is more to surface hurt. I know the stuff that goes on behind the scenes and I know that for me or the church or anybody to have an impact on the inner-city culture, we're gonna have to give them something that can go behind the walls," he said.


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Are government economic statistics accurate? John Williams at Shadow Statistics says they are not, because the government has changed its measurement criteria over the years. Mr. William's shows us what the government's statistics would have been had the criteria not changed. Does this mean the "shadow stats" are correct, and the government's current measurements are wrong?
I'm skeptical. . . of the government's stats, of the shadow stats, and of the entire concept of measuring something so complex as a national economy. Indeed, I'm even skeptical of the idea that it makes sense to speak of a national economy. We are so interwoven with the rest of world that it's no longer accurate to speak of an American product, or a Japanese product, or a Chinese product. And yet, the attempt is made to measure things in these terms.
Ted Koppel, during his current Discovery Channel series about China, gives us the example of a couch that has some parts made in the U.S., and some in China. The couch is assembled in the U.S. and exported to China. Is the couch a U.S. product, or a Chinese product? I believe this question makes no sense. It's a null question. It's like asking whether 2+2=5 or 6. Neither answer is correct, because the question itself is invalid.
We have similar problems when we speak of price inflation. If the price of oil goes up is it because of supply and demand, an expanding money supply, currency exchange rates, or some combination of these factors? The answer is almost certainly that it's a combination of these factors, but there's absolutely no way to measure the relative weight of each factor. Given this, can inflation measurements based on prices have any real validity, using either the government's current criteria, the shadow stats criteria, or any other criteria? I think not.
We constantly think of prices in terms of supply and demand, but the size of the money supply is also a factor. It may be possible to have some rough idea of how much the money supply has expanded, but this still tells us nothing about the contribution of monetary inflation to price inflation, except in combination with really strong knowledge of supply and demand. The supply of a product can probably be measured to a certain extent, but demand can only be measured in terms of a broad range of prices which cannot be known to any great degree. Prices change constantly, from moment to moment and place.
Then we have the concept of adjusting current prices to account for inflation in order to compare them with past prices. Is this even possible? I think not. My house was built in 1968. As of today it has single paned aluminum windows that were installed when it was built. As of next week it will have double paned, coated, argon filled windows framed in virgin vinyl (so that the windows will expand and contract at a uniform rate). Both the old windows and the new are called windows, but they are as similar to each other as a horse and buggy is to a Formula 1 race car. How could we possibly compare the price of the old windows to the new? They are not the same product. Indeed, the old windows don't even exist as a product anymore.
Does my skepticism lead to impotence? How are we to direct our personal finances in a world of unmeasurable complexity? I suggest that we must rely on first principles. As citizens we must oppose the Federal Reserve's power to expand the money supply for the same reason that we oppose counterfeiting. As savers and investors we must diversify our portfolios, because no one can predict the future performance of any sector of our unmeasurable economy.


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Dept. of Labor census shows fatal work injuries are down
Preliminary results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries show a reduction in the number of fatal work injuries in 2012 compared with 2011.
Last year 4,383 workers died from work-related injuries, down from 4,693 fatal work injuries in 2011. Based on preliminary counts, the rate of fatal workplace injuries in 2012 was 3.2 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers, down from a rate of 3.5 per 100,000 in 2011.
"Workers in this country have the right to return home safe and healthy at the end of a workday. Despite that right, poor safety conditions cause thousands of people each year to lose their lives at work," said Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez.
"I am greatly encouraged by the reduction in workplace fatalities, even in a growing economy," he continued. "Through collaborative education and outreach efforts, and effective law enforcement, these numbers indicate that we are absolutely moving in the right direction.
"Employers must take job hazards seriously and live up to their legal and moral obligation to send their workers home safe every single day. The Labor Department is committed to preventing these needless deaths, and we will continue to engage with employers to make sure that these fatality numbers go down further."


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An Imperial colony on our West Coast was their aim; Fort Ross was their military outpost; and the stakes—higher than they realized
April 1960 | Volume 11, Issue 3
A Yankee vessel provided the answer. The Juno, a fast, copper-bottomed schooner out of Bristol, Rhode Island, lay in Sitka's harbor. Her captain, John de Wolf, sold the vessel with her cargo and provisions to the Russians, Rezanov paying him in a bill of exchange on St. Petersburg. Sitka was momentarily saved by Rezanov's bold stroke. Substantial foodstuffs from the Juno allayed the famine, and her cargo of excellent New England cloth and other goods could be bartered for additional food elsewhere. Hawaii might have proved more suitable than California for this purpose, Dr. Langsdorff wrote later, "but political reasons led to the choice of San Francisco."
Grand strategy, magnificent in both its aims and audacity, was developing in Rezanov's mind. The Juno set sail early in March. Storms wracked the ship. Half the crew were ill and unfit for duty. One man died. "With pallid, deathlike faces," about a month out of Sitka, they headed into San Francisco Bay.
Twenty horsemen galloped down from the presidio to confront the Russians. They made a gallant sight. Their black and scarlet uniforms, sombreros trimmed with silver, embroidered deerskin boots, and unusually large silver spurs, revealed the dash and charm that Spanish California could display whenever it was roused from provincial torpor. By calls and signs they requested that a boat be sent ashore.
Langsdorff and Lieutenant Gavriil Davydov were rowed to the beach. To their relief they found that orders had been received from Madrid "to render all necessary assistance" to Rezanov if he visited California. Unfortunately the commandant, Don José Dario Argüello, was temporarily at Monterey, but the handsome officer in charge during his absence was his twenty-one-year-old son, Luis Antonio, who warmly invited Rezanov and his staff to dine at the presidio.
The Chamberlain was moved by the graciousness of the welcome. He came ashore promptly; and since he knew a little Spanish, he was able to exchange friendly words with the Californians. Although he was ill and had lost considerable weight, Rezanov made a powerful impression in his uniform of green and gold. Never before had a foreigner, or for that matter even a Spanish official, of such high rank appeared in California.
The next ten days passed pleasantly. Don Luis reported the arrival of the Juno to Governor Arrillaga and to his father at Monterey. With the same messenger Rezanov sent word that, since repair of storm damage would keep the Juno in port for some time, he was prepared to travel overland to the capital in order to confer with the governor. Arrillaga replied, politely but firmly, that he himself would come to San Francisco. Rezanov correctly interpreted this as a sign of weakness, rather than of Latin courtesy. Arrillaga obviously did not wish him to see the undeveloped and defenseless interior of the country.
The governor and Commandant Argüello finally arrived, to nine-gun salutes from Fort San Joaquin and from another small fortress, hidden behind a point, which the Russians had not previously noticed. The white-haired Arrillaga was exhausted by the journey, but he nevertheless received Rezanov the next day. Arrillaga spoke French, so that for the first time Rezanov was able to converse easily with a CaIifornian. Both Arrillaga and Argüello were gracious, but their orders from Mexico were clear: no trade whatever was to be permitted.
Nevertheless the atmosphere remained friendly. The visitors were enchanted by the warmth and charm of the Argüellos. "Mutual esteem and harmony," wrote Langsdortf, "glowed in … this kindly family, who knew scarcely any other diversions or pleasures than those resulting from family joys and domestic happiness."
The naturalist himself was short and homely: as Bancroft remarked, he had "a singularly unprepossessing face." But he loved to dance, and taught the smiling señoritas the latest English steps. And he was utterly smitten by the loveliest of the Arguello daughters, Dona Concepcion. Concha, as she was called, was the favorita of the province. She was two months past her fifteenth birthday.
Rezanov was also taken by her vitality and loveliness. As time passed, and his negotiations with the governor and her father remained unsuccessful, he formed "a plan"—to use Langsdorff's words—"very different … from the original scheme for the establishment of commercial relations … He conceived the idea that through a marriage with the daughter of the Comandante … a close bond would be formed for future business intercourse between the Russian-American Company and the province of Nueva California."


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How To Plant Carrots
Author: mety Nagm Labels:: How To Plant Carrots
Growing Fruit & Vegetables: How To Plant Carrots
Prepare the site
Carrots should be planted in sunny or partially shaded sites that are sheltered from the wind. Loosen the soil with a fork and remove any weeds or large stones. Use a rake to create a level surface. If you have poor soil you may want to add well-rotted organic matter before you start sowing. Use the head of the rake to lightly press down the soil and lightly rake the surface once more
Carrots should be planted in shallow rows called 'drills'. Lay a piece of string on the soil as a guide to make sure you dig the row in a straight line. Lay a plank of wood next to your line. Then, use a cane or hoe to dig a narrow drill about 1 centimetre deep. Drop the seeds into the drills at the spacing recommended on the packet. If you are planting more than one drill, leave a 15-20 centimetre gap between each one. Using a hoe, gently cover the seeds with soil. Then using the head of the metal rake, lightly firm the soil.
If the soil is dry, water the seeds in. The soil should be kept moist and free of weeds throughout the growing season. It is also useful to label your carrots so you know where and when they were planted.
To protect your plants from late frosts in Spring, build a frame to cover the drills. Push the sides of the fabric into the soil, or fix it in place with canes. Remove the fleece when the seeds germinate and the plants are visible through the soil.