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Angel Martinez's first goal for Blackpool handed Ian Holloway's side a significant victory in their pursuit of an Championship play-off place.
The former Espanyol midfielder pounced on a loose ball 10 minutes from time to sink a spirited Leeds side that finished a man down after Darren O'Dea earned a second yellow card.
Wing duo Matt Phillips and Tom Ince had Blackpool on the front foot during the first-half, but Leeds were a threat from set plays and on the counter attack.
Robert Snodgrass and Luciano Becchio went close as Neil Warnock's side grew into the game after the interval, but Martinez sent the majority of a sell-out crowd home happy.
Middlesbrough's 0-0 draw with relegated Doncaster means Blackpool are four points ahead of the seventh-place side going into the final two games of the season.
Lomana LuaLua - who bagged a brace in a 5-0 victory over Leeds at Elland Road in November - came into the Blackpool line-up in place of the ill Stephen Dobbie, while left-back Bob Harris dropped to the bench to accommodate Stephen Crainey.
Leeds boss Neil Warnock went with the line-up that finished Saturday's 4-1 win over Peterborough, meaning Paul Robinson and Danny Webber started in place of full-back Charlie Taylor and injured winger Robbie Rogers.
Darren O'Dea headed over from Robinson's cross when unmarked after Blackpool failed to clear a Leeds corner, but the hosts made most of the early running.
In the 10th minute, Bloomfield Road burst into song and applause to commemorate the 10th anniversary of former manager Billy Ayre's death, and Phillips almost provided a fitting tribute by darting in from the left and clipping a shot into the side netting.
Ince then effortlessly spun Robinson on halfway before surging towards the area and planting a shot over, and then visiting goalkeeper Andy Lonergan rushed from his goal to thwart Gary Taylor-Fletcher.
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Shortly before the half hour, Ince collected a return pass from LuaLua and bundled through a clutch of challenge on the edge of the Leeds area to draw a fine save from Lonergan.
The game flowed engagingly from end to end as half-time approached and after Phillips nodded beyond the bar from Taylor-Fletcher's header across goal, Leeds top scorer Ross McCormack had a penalty claim waved away after he appeared to get the better of Crainey.
In the 44th minute Lonergan saved from LuaLua's free-kick after a meaty challenge from O'Dea on Taylor-Fletcher earned the Leeds defender a booking.
A counter-attack was launched moments later and Webber cut in from the left to draw a sharp near-post stop from Matt Gilks.
Some controlled possession from Leeds at the start of the second period failed to yield any clear cut chances and Lonergan was back in action after the hour, palming a LuaLua effort behind following some clever footwork from Ince.
It was a relatively isolated moment of encouragement for the Seasiders, who were becoming increasingly ragged, and Snodgrass had Gilks at full-stretch from a 67th minute free kick before Becchio - on for the injured Billy Paynter - headed over from Adam Clayton's searching cross.
Blackpool substitute Nouha Dicko had Lonergan at full stretch in the 78th minute and he was soon involved in the winning goal.
The on-loan Wigan forward engineered space on the right to cross towards Ince and, when his team-mate failed to get the ball under control, Martinez was on hand to stab home.
Webber headed off target as Leeds sought an immediate response, but their quest for a point was compromised when O'Dea sent Dicko sprawling.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
T is for Truth
Truth plays a big part in my WIP. It's the main motivation of my villain, and the more I develop her throughout the story, the more I realize how much knowing, or not knowing, the truth can really affect someone.
Remember The X Files? "The truth is out there."
I love that. You can apply it to anything. The truth IS out there, but how bad do you want it? Sometimes we have to dig for it.
"Not being known, doesn't stop the truth from being true."
Another one of my fave quotes. We can pull the wool over eyes all we want, but the truth remains.
"And the truth shall set you free..."
This one's from the Bible. And couldn't be more necessary in any healing process. I've held onto lies before because I wanted to believe them. But that's all it is, lies. The weight that's lifted from your shoulders when you accept the truth, is astounding.
"To thine own self be true." William Shakespeare
Could there be any more profound quote? Seriously, if we can't be true to ourselves, we're doomed to a life of trying to make others happy. I think this applies in writing so so much. Why? Because it's so easy to get preoccupied with writing for the trends. Somehow we get these ideas in our heads that we can make lots of money with a trendy idea, or at the very least, get published.
But is that what we write for? Or is it because inside us, we have a story to tell? And because we adore the written word, and piecing words together in sentences that just flow and evoke feeling.
That's the bottom line of my post today: staying true. If vampires are your passion, but the market is fully saturated and no one wants them, who cares? Stay true to yourself. The market will come back around. Just like those bad 70s bell bottoms came back around. (Yep, I had some. Loved them.) The important thing is that we stay true to ourselves.
Okay, sorry if this post came off preachy. I didn't mean it that way. :) Thanks so much for stopping by and I'm way behind in blog visits since the kids are out of school for Spring Break, but I'll be catching up with you over the next few days. If you celebrate Easter, Happy Easter weekend! My kids have a big hunt today, so I'll be away from my computer, yet again.
On a very positive note, I'm celebrating! I just finished the first draft of my MG fantasy story. I wrote the whole thing in a month (my own personal NaNo) by pounding out chapters for 2-3 hours every morning. Of course, now the real work comes with revising the mess I've made. ;)
Do you have any favorite quotes in truth? What lessons have you learned from staying true? Please share....
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- welcome to my world of poetry said...
A good subject for the letter T.
Being true comes easy to me I was brought up that honesty is the best policy,
Whilst married I was true to my husband for the 35 yrs we were together, being truen means you have nothing to hide from anyone,
Happy Easter.
- April 23, 2011 at 3:30 AM
- mooderino said...
Tru dat.
Does that count?
- April 23, 2011 at 3:45 AM
- Dawn Kurtagich said...
True, true, true. A friend of mine likes to say: Liars - when they speak the truth are not believed. He says it a lot. And it's true. :)
- April 23, 2011 at 4:25 AM
- Jessica Bell said...
The biggest lesson I learned was to be true to myself when writing. I tried for too long to write what I thought people wanted to read in a specific genre, but it wasn't me. And as soon as I decided to write for me, I got a publishing contract. So many authors say that you need to write for an audience in this business, but I beg to differ. If honesty shines through in your writing, your audience will come to you.
- April 23, 2011 at 4:39 AM
- Mary said...
Great post, and excellent reminder to stay true to ourselves.
Congrats on finishing your first draft! I'm sure it's better than you think and your revisions will go well.
Happy Easter, and happy hunting!
- April 23, 2011 at 4:50 AM
- Old Kitty said...
Congratulations on finishing your first draft of your fantasy story!!!! Yay for you!!! What a brilliant way to start your Easter!! Fantastic!
Great post too! Having integrity and keeping it is so important! Take care
- April 23, 2011 at 5:32 AM
- Michael Di Gesu said...
Congrats on finishing your first draft... YAY!
- April 23, 2011 at 6:10 AM
- Carole Anne Carr said...
Well done with your fantasy story. Great to reach that moment.
- April 23, 2011 at 6:27 AM
- Sophia Richardson said...
Congrats on finishing your first draft, PK, and good luck with the revision process!
- Sophia.
- April 23, 2011 at 8:02 AM
- Barbara Kloss said...
I loved this post! And your quote by William Shakespeare is something I need to keep telling myself right now. With everything floating out there about this agent wanting this or that agent wanting that, it's easy to alter your course to try to fit "their" desires. It's like chasing rainbows.
Awesome job on finished your ms in a month! *wipes brow* And...Happy Easter!
- April 23, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- Lisa Gail Green said...
I <33 this post! I fully agree that we should be true to our passion. That doesn't mean we can't grow and expand, but rather that we should examine what we love about, say vampires, and try to use that in other ways.
Truth is a great theme for a book! :D Good luck with your revisions.
- April 23, 2011 at 9:22 AM
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
Excellent topic for today. (And I really dig the X-Files quote.)
Science fiction was supposedly 'dead' when I was first writing my book. And then the more tech science fiction took off. I stuck to my guns and stayed true to me, though. And it still worked out in the end.
- April 23, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- James Garcia Jr said...
Great post, PK. It was the kind of writing that gave one many things to think about. I have little to add to the great quotes that you used. And I don't think you were being preachy at all.
Happy Easter to you and yours,
- April 23, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- N4M3L3SS said...
very cool [post, its good to be true to each other i like this (:
- April 23, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- LTM said...
Awesome quotes, and awesome post! You're so right about being true in our writing and not chasing trends. For me staying true also involves not getting caught up on how the message will be received. Too long to explain, but I think it's also important to stay true to where the characters are going and what they face.
Favorite quote? You got mine w/"you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free"~ :D <3
- April 23, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- Catherine Stine said...
Yes, stay true, honest , raw.
Congrats on finishing the draft. I am so close to finishing one myself, and my excitement is building.
BTW, I still love bellbottoms. My fave pair had brown and black pinstripes.
- April 23, 2011 at 11:34 AM
- McKenzie McCann said...
Hmm, wise words today. "Who cares? Stay true to yourself. The market will come back around." I love that. It's very true.
- April 23, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Nelson Souzza said...
Cool! It´s a nice website. Congratulations!
- April 23, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- Jennifer Jackson said...
I'm glad you got your first draft done! I like writing first drafts than finishing second ones, let me tell you. LOL
Some people would rather not know the truth about things, though. It all depends who you are and what you want to know the truth about.
- April 23, 2011 at 2:38 PM
- mgudlewski said...
This is a really good topic. It never hurts to be reminded of what's important. Congratulations on your first draft!
- April 23, 2011 at 2:50 PM
- fOIS In The City said...
Great news about finishing your draft. Love this post. Love this whole series.
Okay, from a movie and from Jack ... "You can't handle the truth!"
- April 23, 2011 at 2:55 PM
- erica and christy said...
Wow, I can't believe you're done with it!! YAY!! Wishing you super loads of luck and I'll definitely help if you need some!
- April 23, 2011 at 5:23 PM
- Trisha said...
I totally agree that just because WE don't know the truth, doesn't mean it's not out there, just sitting around being true. :D
- April 23, 2011 at 7:14 PM
- Carla said...
Hey...I (still) love those 70s bell bottoms! ;) Have fun editing!
- April 23, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- A. S. Andrews said...
Stopping by for the first time - great post on T! Congratulations on finishing your manuscript!
- April 23, 2011 at 10:14 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
visit to my BLOG too pls...
- April 24, 2011 at 4:33 AM
- Raquel Byrnes said...
Staying true...sage advice. Especially to writers. =) Happy Easter!
- April 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM
- Rachel Morgan said...
Wow, a whole novel in a month! Go you! What's the word count of the first draft?
And staying true to yourself and what you want to write is good advice.
- April 24, 2011 at 9:09 AM
- Robyn Campbell said...
Congrads on finishing that draft. Wicked!
The Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it. . :-)
- April 24, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Melissa Bradley said...
Congrats on finishing your draft. Now I'm inspired to work harder on the WIP that's been troubling me. Thanks! And those truth quotes are very powerful. I've got the Shakespeare one above my computer.
- April 24, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- Connie Arnold said...
Thanks for sharing the "truths." Those were some good ones!
- April 24, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- Monti said...
Truth! Some great quotes.
Thank you for sharing. Nice to meet you on A to Z.
- April 24, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- Josh Hoyt said...
I love this post especially the quote "be true to yourself." This is so important to remember who we are and why we are doing what we do. Great post.
- April 24, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- Kathryn said...
Wow - congrats on the first draft! W00T!
- April 25, 2011 at 1:32 PM

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The National Botanic Garden of Wales Antiques Fair, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Two delightful days of botanical exploration with some quality antique and vintage shopping
Set against the backdrop of flora, fauna and rolling Welsh countryside this fabulous two day Derwen Fairs and Antiques event pulled in large numbers of H&A readers keen to explore The Botanical Gardens of Wales and root out some great vintage and antique finds.
To wander around was a delight, with traders selling in every corner of the site, from The Great Glasshouse to an outside brocante area. The perfect start to another year on the road!
Homes & Antiques reader Cathy Griffin from Carmarthen was drawn to the fair for the stunning setting and was very pleased to find this botanical print on the H&A stand. 'It will look lovely in my bedroom,' she commented.
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Bengals get QB John Skelton off waivers from Arizona to compete for job backing up Andy Dalton
CINCINNATI – The Bengals have acquired quarterback John Skelton off waivers from Arizona to compete for the job backing up Andy Dalton.
Cincinnati has signed only one free agent from another club — quarterback Josh Johnson from Tampa Bay, who also will compete for the job.
Skelton was a fifth-round pick from Fordham in 2010 who started 17 games in three seasons, including six last year. He has completed 53 percent of his passes for 3,707 yards with 15 touchdowns and 25 interceptions.
The Bengals also signed linebacker Vincent Rey to a new deal on Wednesday. Rey was third in special teams tackles last season and had one sack.
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Nocturne: 1.(noun) nocturne, notturno, a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) 2.(noun) nocturne, a night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.
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An agreement to update 24-year-old United Nations telecommunications rules was approved against the opposition of countries including the U. S. and the U. K., whose officials walked out on the talks on concerns about Internet regulation and censorship.
The new pact includes measures that would give countries a right to access international telecommunications services and the ability to block spam, which delegations declining to sign the amended text argued would pave the way for government censorship and control over the Web.
Canada , Denmark , Australia , Norway , Costa Rica, Serbia , Greece , Finland and others followed the U. S. in refusing to sign on these grounds. The countries who won't sign the new treaty will continue to be bound by the 1988 version, said Sarah Parkes, a spokeswoman for the International Telecommunication Union.
"What is clear from the ITU meeting in Dubai is that many governments want to increase regulation and censorship of the Internet," Google Inc. (GOOG) , the world's biggest search engine, said in a statement. "We stand with the countries who refuse to sign this treaty and also with the millions of voices who have joined us to support a free and open web."
Talks at the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai this week were marked by disagreements between anti-regulation countries, including the U. S. and many European states, and a group that argued for some Internet measures to protect and advance networks, including Russia , China and several Middle Eastern nations.
Google Opposition
The conference has attracted criticism because of its one- country-one-vote model that ignores population size. Internet companies including Google have complained that they don't get a voice in the negotiations. While technology groups are allowed to participate in the discussions and have joined as parts of delegations, they don't get a vote in the proceedings.
"It's with a heavy heart and a sense of missed opportunity that the U. S. must communicate that it's not able to sign the agreement in its current form," the U. S. delegation said in a statement at the plenary after the final changes were adopted last night. "We candidly cannot support an ITU treaty that is inconsistent with the multi-stakeholder model."
The International Telecommunication Union , a UN agency, earlier had agreed that no measures would be adopted that gave the body increased control over the Web or the member states the ability to censor content.
Defection Support
Technology industry advocates also came out in support of the defectors today after many, including the Internet Society, a group backed by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) , Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) and Google, had been critical of the amendments' language.
"While progress was made in some areas such as transparency in international roaming fees, fundamental divides were exposed leaving a significant number of countries unable to sign the ITRs," Internet Society President Lynn St. Amour said. "Statements made by a host of delegations today made it very clear that Internet issues did not belong in the ITRs and that they would not support a treaty that is inconsistent with the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance."
Off Limits
Still, Hamadoun Toure, the UN secretary general to the ITU, said that he was disappointed in the results and disagreed with many countries' assessments that the new treaty would increase government control of the Internet.
"The U. S. has weighed in very strongly in the debate. I couldn't imagine that at the end they wouldn't sign it," he said today. "We wanted to show that we want to build bridges because the Internet and telecommunications societies need to work together."
The ITU had said that Internet and content regulation were off limits throughout the conference and Toure argued that there were no provisions on Web regulation in the text.
He said the resolution, which was disputed by the U. S. and others, that mentions fostering the development and growth of the Internet was non-binding.
"The word 'Internet' was repeated throughout this conference and I believe this is simply a recognition of the current reality -– the two worlds of telecommunications and Internet are inextricably linked," Toure said. "History will show that this conference has achieved something extremely important. It has succeeded in bringing unprecedented public attention to the different and important perspectives that govern global communications."
Tax Changes
Other articles that were passed address changes in the way telecommunications companies should be taxed and compensated in a system that has moved from phone companies that were largely government-owned monopolies to one with private mobile-phone companies. They also address access to communications for people with disabilities and in less developed markets.
Web addresses are currently controlled by two non- governmental organizations, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
"A majority of the ITU member states, including many countries that purportedly support Internet freedom, chose to discard long-standing international consensus to keep the Internet insulated from inter-governmental regulation," Robert McDowell, Commissioner at the U. S. Federal Communications Commission, said in a statement. "By agreeing to broaden the scope of the ITU's rules to include the Internet, encompassing its operations and content, these nations have radically undermined the highly successful, private sector, non- governmental, multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance."
Emergency Calls
The U. S. needs to prepare for an "even more treacherous ITU treaty negotiation" that is scheduled to take place in 2014 in South Korea, he said.
The last time the ITU drafted a treaty on world regulation in communications was only a few years after the debut of the first mobile phone and long before Google was founded. The original treaty set principles on topics such as international telecommunications services, emergency calls and trans-border charges.
In the final discussion, a proposal was put to a vote that would have given governments the right to access international communications networks and it divided the member states along similar lines. The U. K. said the measure, which was approved by 77 votes to 33, opened the door to "Internet and content issues."
'Hijacked Conference'
The sessions have been running since Dec. 3 and are scheduled to end today. Terry Kramer, an ambassador and one of the heads of the U. S. delegation, said in an interview this week that the key issue for the delegation was ensuring that the amendments didn't include language around Internet regulation.
"The conference was really supposed to be focused on the telecom sector," Kramer said. "We feel there have been a bunch of proposals which have come in from the outside to hijack the conference."
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Google to help Tunisian journalists pick up new skills
Google is to sponsor six Tunisian journalists to spend three months at a leading French newspaper, picking up digital news-gathering skills.
The internet giant has teamed up with liberal daily Le Monde, which will offer a newsroom placement to each of the journalists, covering daily news and the French presidential elections taking place in May.
Google's William Echikson wrote on the company's European public policy blog:
Our hope is that they then will return home with new skills that will serve to construct a new, free but responsible professional press in Tunisia.
At Google, we are aware of the need to work with publishers to smooth the transition not only from oppression to freedom, but from analogue to digital distribution. We are sponsoring a series of digital journalism prizes with Institut de Sciences Politiques, the International Press Institute in Vienna and the Global Editors Network in Paris.
Meanwhile, journalism academics at City University in London are heading to Tunisia next week to lead a series of workshops for Tunisian journalists on "reporting a democracy".
The project is the first of its kind being organised by the Journalism Foundation, which was founded last December and is led by former Independent editor Simon Kelner.
City lecturer Roy Greenslade writes on his Guardian blog:
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The courses are the first to be held in Tunisia since last January's overthrow of Ben Ali's authoritarian regime.
They will provide practical advice to journalists on coping with the realities of reporting in a free society. But the classes will be held amid an ongoing battle for media freedom.
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The New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails are a collaboration between New Mexico Arts — the state arts agency and a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs — and a grassroots network of fiber artists, to engage visitors and support rural fiber arts enterprises and communities statewide. The Trails bring visitors to the source point, generating creative sector entrepreneurship and incomes, while creating an informed consumer base and cultivating a sustainable place-based economy.
Together, we invite you to discover the people, creative processes, landscapes, and enterprises that form the fabric of rural New Mexico.
North Central Loop Trail
To the north, back roads beckon, weaving along river valleys, winding through velvet mountains and red rock canyons sculpted
by time, crossing plains that stretch as far as the eye can see. The land speaks in textures. Sage, golden chamisa, violet asters, and
grasses cover the earth in a blanket of natural hues.
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Northwest Loop Trail
Some of New Mexico's earliest history is written in fiber.
Across centuries, our dry climate has been kind, leaving yucca sandals, cotton blankets, and baskets to behold and ponder. All speak of deft fingers that gathered materials from the land and crafted things of beauty, for practical use, for ceremonial practice, for the joy of creation.
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Southern Loop Trail
Thread your way south along the Río Grande, accompanied on
its route by majestic cottonwood bosques and villages settled like
pearls on a string. The land opens into the Chihuahuan desert,
with sage giving way to creosote, mesquite, towering yucca sentinels,
stands of prickly pear, graceful ocotillo, and carpets of
wildflowers in the spring, a vibrant tapestry of random colors.
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As Governor of New Mexico, I invite you to travel our New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails. Our Arts Trails are designed to put our artists on the map and bring the market to them, and are part of our arts-based economic development and cultural tourism initiatives. You can learn about fiber arts from "sheep to shawl" as you visit artists' studios, galleries and cooperatives.
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Tracy Darrell Adkins, also known as Trace Adkins is the country singer-songwriter from Sarepta, northern Webster Parish, Louisiana. The American singer began his music career in the early 90s and by the 2000s had established himself as one of the most powerful and engaging singers in the country music industry.
Trace Adkins, born January 13, 1962, showed his inclination towards music when he was young and his father taught him how to play guitar. He continued to pursue his interest in music throughout high school, where he became a part of New Commitments, a gospel music group. Adkins later studied at the "Louisiana Tech University" and after graduation he started working at an oil rig. In an accident, unfortunately he lost his left hand's finger and wanted the doctors to re-attach the finger such that it didn't hinder in his guitar playing. In the nineties he started to play at the honky tonk bars in Nashville and was spotted by a Capitol Records executive who soon signed a contract with him.
In 1996, Trace Adkins released his first single called "There's a Girl in Texas", which reached Top 20 position on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Later that year, he released the debut album titled Dreamin' Out Loud'. The album had many hit singles, including the No. 1 hit "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing". Adkins released a second album titled 'Big Time', which included the Top 5 hit song "The Rest of Mine" but his subsequent singles were not so successful. After his second album, release of Adkins' next album was delayed due to the management changes. The third album titled as 'More' was released towards the end of 1999 and its title track became the Top 10 hot in the charts.
July of 2005 marked a downturn in Adkins' personal life when he was charged for drunk driving in the city of Nolensville, Tennessee. The singer pleaded guilty and he was sent to the jail for 11 months. The sentence however, was suspended only in 48 hours and Trace Adkins got away with paying a $350 fine and having his license leverage for a year. Shortly after this incident, Adkins was injured in an accident and was forced to cancel his touring plans. In the meantime, Trace managed to release his fourth album 'Chrome' which was the first of his albums to hit the Top 5 on the Country Album charts. He then entered a 28-day rehabilitation program in Nashville to treat his alcohol addiction.
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By the end of 2003 Trace Adkins had established himself as one of country music's most versatile and powerful artists. His position was further strengthened by the fact that he was working in collaboration with talented professionals including the producers 'Dann Huff' and 'Frank Rogers', the songwriters like, 'Rivers Rutherford', 'Craig Wiseman' 'Racal Flatts' Jay Demarcus' and 'Tony Lane'; and a stellar team of Nashville's top people in the industry.
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In 2005, another album titled as 'Songs About Me' came into picture. This album included a controversial track "Arlington" that narrated the point of view of a soldier who had to be buried in "Arlington National Cemetery". Due to its sensitive lyrics, the song was withdrawn from radio. Another track on the album called "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" was the first to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2006 Trace Adkins released his 7th studio album titled 'Dangerous Man'. The album's first single "Swing", became a minor hit, but the following track "Ladies Love Country Boys" was Adkins' first No. 1 single was seen on country charts after "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing". The album's third single, "I Wanna Feel Something", couldn't gross any position on the charts and was eventually dropped by Adkins. In the mid of 2007 Adkins lead single "I Got My Game On," was released from his latest album.
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Texas man, 65, dies in bee attack
Authorities say a 65-year-old South Texas man has died after being attacked by bees while mowing his lawn.
A funeral has been scheduled Monday in San Antonio for Juan Urrutia.
Family members say Urrutia last Thursday and his brother were mowing the yard in southern Bexar County when both men were stung.
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Should the pace of college football be regulated?
Nick Saban made some comments yesterday suggesting that the trend of increasing pace in college football is unhealthy:
I think that the way people are going no-huddle right now, that at some point in time, we should look at how fast we allow the game to go in terms of player safety," Saban said on today's SEC teleconference. "The team gets in the same formation group, you can't substitute defensive players, you go on a 14-, 16-, 18-play drive and they're snapping the ball as fast as you can go and you look out there and all your players are walking around and can't even get lined up. That's when guys have a much greater chance of getting hurt when they're not ready to play. "I think that's something that can be looked at. It's obviously created a tremendous advantage for the offense when teams are scoring 70 points and we're averaging 49.5 points a game. With people that do those kinds of things. More and more people are going to do it. "I just think there's got to be some sense of fairness in terms of asking is this what we want football to be?"
The purity of Saban's intentions aside, is this something that should be considered? Mathlete's analysis this week showed that offense is steadily increasing in recent years. I enjoy watching offense as much as anyone, but is there a point where the balance between offense and defense tips too far in one direction and is no longer good for the game?


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On Sunday at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Final 16 event in Tokyo, Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic learned the hard way that not everyone in the fight business is as sweet as Pat Barry. During the third round of his match against American kickboxer Randy Blake, Cro Cop threw a questionable uppercut at Blake, who was getting to his feet after slipping to the mat. This did not make Randy Blake very happy. The action was called back in, and when Cro Cop moved in to apologize, Blake fired a straight right that put the 38-year-old Croatian on his ass. For the last time: Protect yourself at all times, especially when you've just pissed off a former star of the World Combat League.
The moment was reminiscent of Floyd Mayweather's controversial stoppage of Victor Ortiz last September, but unlike Ortiz, Cro Cop was able to dust himself off and fight until the last bell, earning a majority decision victory. With the win, Cro Cop qualifies for a spot in the eight-man 2012 Grand Prix Finals bracket, December 26th at Madison Square Garden in New York City, where he hopefully won't be trying any more of this nice-guy crap.


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Saturday, May 25
Biophilia Center
Experience a hands-on marine touch tank and learn all about these slimy, sticky, and prickly creatures of the gulf from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 25 at the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center. Children of all ages will enjoy learning while meeting these marine organisms up-close. Standard admission rates apply. Call 835-1824.
Topsail tour
Learn about the habitat and behavior characteristics of the Choctawhatchee Beach Mouse at 1 p.m. at Topsail Hill Preserve State Park in Santa Rosa Beach. Admission $6. Call 267-8330.
Adventure Club
Bike ride in the Sandestin Resort/Subdivision. Meet at 10 a.m. at the Bayside Tennis courts near the Baytown Wharf area. Lunch after ride. Call 301-9452.
Music at Vue on 30a
Vue on 30a, 4801 West County Highway 30A in Santa Rosa Beach, presents Geoffrey McBride from 8-11 p.m. Call 267-1240 or visit www.vueon30a.com. Music continues May 26 with Ben Friedman from 6:30-9:30 p.m. and May 30 with Kyle Lamonica from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Pandora�s Spring Music
Pandora�s Steakhouse of Grayton Beach presents the Forrest Williams Band at 9 p.m. May 25. Free and open to all guests at least 21 years of age. Music continues May 26 with the Blue Ribbon Healers, May 28 with Saluda, May 29 with the Forrest Williams Band and May 31 with Call the Law
Paint, Skim & Skate Workshop
Meyer Boarding Company and Ono Surf Shop present a Paint, Skim & Skate Workshop beginning at 10 a.m. May 25 at Ono Surf Shop, 2239 East County Highway 30A. Kids can express their creativity with locally-crafted skims and skateboards. Pricing for boards begins at $50 for skimboards and $140 for skateboards with all paint and supplies provided. Call 830-1893 or email email@example.com.
Seaside Farmers Market
Get your pick of fresh produce, baked goods, dairy products, native plants and other unique offerings from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Amphitheatre behind Raw & Juicy. Enjoy special cooking demos and activities.
Gigi�s Lemonade Stand
Children volunteer at Gigi�s Lemonade Stand from 3-5 p.m. to raise money for the Alaqua Animal Refuge at Gigi's Fabulous Kids' Fashions & Toys, 62 Main Street in Rosemary Street.
National Egg Month
May is National Egg Month and to celebrate, Another Broken Egg Caf�s will offer guests the chance to win a $50 gift card by guessing the number of eggs used at your favorite neighborhood location during the month of May. To enter visit the Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/AnotherBrokenEgg, and enter the location you are guessing for.
Sunday, May 26
Sunday Brunch
Enjoy a Sunday brunch plus the music of Matt Hall from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Marie�s Bistro, 2260 W. Hwy. 30A in Blue Mountain Beach.
Brunch with The Steenos
Enjoy brunch and the music of The Steenos from 12-3 p.m. at Stinky�s Fish Camp, 5994 County Road 30A in Santa Rosa Beach.
Hibiscus brunch
Jon Roniger brings his music to Sunday Brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Hibiscus Coffee & Guesthouse, 85 Defuniak St. in Grayton Beach. Rescued Rescuers, saving Dachshunds lives, pours Mimosas for donations.
30A Farmers Market
The 30A Farmers Market takes place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Thursday and Sunday in Barrett Square at Rosemary Beach. Community event features fresh vegetables, fruits, eggs, honey, cheese, preserves, sauces, bread, sweets, prepared foods to go and more.
Monday, May 27
Rudy Applewhite
Tommy Bahama�s Restaurant & Bar, 525 Grand Blvd. in Sandestin, presents Rudy Applewhite from 4-9 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Call 654-1743,
Pajama Time Story Time
Join storyteller Ms. Cheryl at 6 p.m. in the children�s room of the Coastal Library for some bedtime stories in your pajamas. This will be a quiet time for little readers to relax to a bedtime story in the comfort of their caretaker�s arms. Call 267-2809.
Zumba classes
Zumba With Marcia classes will be held at 6:30 p.m. Mondays, 6 p.m. Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. Fridays and 9 a.m. Saturdays at Premiere Performers Academy in Santa Rosa Beach; 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays at The Studio in Seaside; and 8:30 a.m. Wednesdays at Rosemary Beach Fitness Center.
Tuesday, May 28
Topsail tour
Ranger Fred hosts a campfire chat at 6 p.m. in the amphitheater at Topsail Hill Preserve State Park in Santa Rosa Beach. Admission $6. Call 267-8330.
Baby Boot Camp
Boot Camp in Santa Rosa Beach offers a 55-minute workout designed specifically to help new and seasoned moms with stroller-age children get back into shape after having a baby at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday mornings and at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesdays.
Dannica Lowery
Dannica Lowery performs live from 6-9 p.m. at Shorty�s Surfside Bar, 63 Hotz Ave. in Grayton Beach. Call 468-0417.
Jazz class
Jasmine Dance Studio in Santa Rosa Beach will hold a ladies adult jazz class from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursday. Call 217-6620 for more information.
Cinema Under the Stars
Grab blankets and low back chairs to enjoy a free movie, �Brave,� under the stars from 8-9:30 p.m. in the Alys Beach Amphitheatre. Piper's will offer food and drink.
Wednesday, May 29
Wednesday Night Concert Series
The Village of Baytowne Wharf presents Soul Track Mind from 7-9 p.m. in the Events Plaza. Call 267-8186.
Summer Concert Series
Bring blankets and chair to enjoy live music from 7-9 p.m. with Bill Garrett & Friends in the Amphitheatre at Alys Beach. Piper's will offer food and beverages.
Arbor Wealth Management, LLC, a �fee-only� registered investment advisory firm, will host an Income Generation Seminar, �Making Your Portfolio Pay Monthly� at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the Arbor Wealth Conference Room. Call 608-6121 to reserve seating. Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, May 30
Public meeting
A public meeting will be held at 3 p.m. at the South Walton Courthouse Annex, 31 Coastal Centre Blvd. in Santa Rosa Beach, in the Commission Boardroom to discuss a regional approach to Road/Watershed Projects for potential Natural Resources Damage Assessment and RESTORE Funding.
Americana Under the Stars
Bob Patterson performs at 6 p.m. at Topsail Hill Preserve State Park for the concert series, Americana Under the Stars.
Moonlight & Movies
Bring a blanket and enjoy a family movie under the stars at 8:15 p.m. on the Western Green in Rosemary Beach (Town Hall if raining).
Girls' Night Out
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast has been selected as the benefiting charity of Proffitt PR�s Girls� Night Out from 6:30-9 p.m. at Pandora�s of Grayton Beach. Tickets are limited to 300 for only a $30 donation and include live music by Hotel Oscar, entertainment by DJ EXQ, heavy hors d�oeuvres, drink specials, a champagne toast, photo booth, large silent auction, Proffitt PR client gift basket raffles, a takeaway bag with gifts for every woman, and tons of surprises and giveaways.
Concerts in the Village
The Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation�s 18th Annual Concerts in the Village presents D�j� Vu at 7 p.m. at the Mattie Kelly Cultural Arts Village Dugas Pavilion in Destin. Admission is $8/adult and children under 12 and MKAF members are free. Call 650-2226.
Art exhibition
Last day to see the Cultural Arts Alliance "Top of the Class" exhibition on display at Northwest Florida State College-South Walton Campus with 35 new, original works by local artists. Open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 622-5970.
Funky Blues Shack
Soul Track Mind will perform May 30 and 31 at Funky Blues Shack in Baytowne Village.
Rotary Club of South Walton
The Rotary Club of South Walton meets for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. at the Embassy Suites, Scenic Hwy. 98 in Miramar Beach. Visiting Rotarians and their guests are welcome. Call 267-2929.
Fusion fitness class
Hope Lutheran Church, 3834 U.S. 98 W, Suite 9, in Santa Rosa Beach, offers a fusion fitness classes at 9 a.m. Attendees may bring a mat, towel, water and light hand weights. Suggested donation is $5. Call 267-0322.
Friday, May 31
Backyard Boogie
Williams Backyard Boogie featuring Hubba Hubba will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at 1921 Chat Holly Road in Santa Rosa Beach. Tickets available for $20 at any Forrest Williams show, Central Square Records or call 502-6448.
Rosalina plays classic standards and show tunes on keyboard from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays at Christiano's Ristorante in Santa Rosa Beach. Call 267-2185.
Art exhibit
Last day for the Arts and Design Society�s 21st regional juried exhibition in the McIlroy Gallery at the Mattie Kelly Fine & Performing Arts Center at Northwest Florida State College in Niceville.
Saturday, June 1
Art opening
An opening reception for �Playing with Uncertainty,� a collection of paintings and sculptures by Mercedes Rodgers, will be held from 6-8 p.m. at Amavida Coffee & Tea, 104 North Barrett Square in Rosemary Beach.
Biophilia Center
See Nonie and her ark of animals. from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center. Understand the important roles animals play in the environment. Standard admission rates apply. Call 835-1824.
Blue Ribbon Healers
Enjoy the music of the Blue Ribbon Healers from 10 a.m. to noon at the Seaside Farmers Market in the Seaside Amphitheater.
Nature walk
Take a walk in nature with wildlife expert and ecologist Joe Wyatt at 9 a.m. at Hammock Bay, west of Freeport. Suited for all ages. The trail system includes a bat house, purple martin houses, many bluebird houses, a wood duck house, a butterfly house and more. Call 496-1864.
History walk
Learn about the early history of the park and local area at Camp Helen State Park�s history walk from 10-10:45 a.m. The tour is free with paid park admission fee of $4 per vehicle. Call 233-5059.
Grayt Music Project
Enjoy a buffet dinner and music from More Than Rubies at 6:30 p.m. June 1 at Grayt Grounds of Monet Monet, 100 E. Scenic Hwy. 30A in Grayton Beach. Call 231-1090.


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Taking a New Look at the Lamented Personal Health Record: Flow Health's Debut
Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected book publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in open source, software engineering, and health IT, but his editorial output has ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic novel about teenage hackers. His articles have appeared often on EMR & EHR and other blogs in the health IT space. Andy also writes often for O'Reilly's Radar site (http://oreilly.com/) and other publications on policy issues related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vanguardia Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. Conferences where he has presented talks include O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, FISL (Brazil), FOSDEM, and DebConf.
After the disappointing lack of adoption suffered by Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, many observers declared personal health records (PHRs) a non-starter, while others predicted that any progress toward personal control over health data would require a radically new approach.
Several new stabs at a PHR are emerging, of which Flow Health shows several promising traits. The company tries to take advantage of–and boost the benefits of–advances in IT standards and payment models. This article is based on a conversation I had with their general counsel, David Harlow, who is widely recognized as the leading legal expert in health IT and health privacy and who consults with companies in those spaces through the Harlow Group.
Because records are collected by doctors, not patients, the chief hurdle any PHR has to overcome is to persuade the health care providers to relinquish sole control over the records they squirrel away in their local EHR silos. Harlow believes the shift to shared risk and coordinated care is creating the incentive for doctors to share. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services is promising to greatly increase the role of pay-for-value, and a number of private insurers have promised to do so as well. In short, Flow Health can make headway if the tangible benefit of learning about a patient's recent hospital discharge or treating chronic conditions while the patient remains at home start to override the doctor's perception that she can benefit by keeping the patient's data away from competitors.
The next challenge is technically obtaining the records. This is facilitated first by the widespread move to electronic records (a legacy of Meaningful Use Stage 1) and the partial standardization of these records in the C-CDA. Flow Health recognizes both the C-CDA and Blue Button, as well as using the Direct protocol to obtain records. Harlow says that FHIR will be supported when the standard settles down.
But none of that is enough to offer Flow Health what the doctors and patients really want, which is a unified health record containing all the information given by different providers. Therefore, like other companies trying to broaden access to patient data, Flow Health must deal with the problem that Dr. Eric Topol recently termed the Tower of EMR Babel. They study each format produced by different popular EHRs (each one using the C-CDA in slightly incompatible ways) and convert the data into a harmonized format. This allows Flow Health to then reconcile records when a diagnosis, a medication list, or some other aspect of the patient's health is represented differently in different records.
What's next for Flow Health? Harlow said they are preparing an API to let third parties add powerful functionality, such as care coordination and patient access from any app of their choice. Flow Health is already working closely with payers and providers to address workflow challenges, thus accelerating the aggregation of patient health record data for access and use by clinicians and patients.
A relative of mine could have used something like Flow Health recently when her eye doctor referred her to the prestigious Lahey Clinic in the Boston area. First of all, the test that led to the referral had to be repeated at the Lahey Clinic, because the eye doctor did not forward test results. Nor did anyone provide a medication list, so the Lahey Clinic printed out a five-year old medication list that happened to hang around from a visit long ago and asked her to manually update it. There was also confusion about what her insurer would cover, but that's a different matter. All this took place in 2015, in the country's leading region for medical care.
It seems inevitable that–as Flow Health hopes–patients will come to demand access to their medical records. A slew of interesting experiments will proliferate, like Flow Health and the rather different vision of Medyear to treat health information like a social network feed. Patient-generated data, such as the output from fitness devices and home sensors, will put yet more pressure on health care providers to take the patient seriously as a source of information. And I'll continue to follow developments.


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ECS A85F2-A Golden Review
ECS A85F2-A Golden Introduction:
In September AMD released the Trinity platform consisting of the A-Series APU and the Hudson D4 FCH or Fusion Control Hub. In doing so it reset the bar for price/performance and platform versatility. The Trinity platform is seemingly making inroads with the enthusiast crowd. What impressed me so much about the Trinity platform was that it combines some evolutionary components such as the second generation Vishera quad-core computing power with the revolutionary on-die graphics capabilities that have no peer in the industry. AMD has taken this base of capability and capacity to afford options that have all areas of computing covered, and let the user decide how and when to exploit them. Today I have one company's flavor of the A85X (D4 Hudson) chipset. I have taken an in-depth look at two spins of the chipset so far and they have been fantastic. Let's see if ECS Elite Group can keep the streak going as we bring the heat down on the ECS A85F2-A Golden - emphasis on the Golden.
ECS EliteGroup is located in Taipei Neihu Technology Park and was established in 1987. It's a manufacturer of not only motherboards but notebooks, graphic cards, and a host of mobile devices. ECS over the years has been first to market with many products including the first dual processor Pentium motherboard in 1996 and the first 64-bit motherboard in 1992. In 2002, ECS surpassed the two million unit-per-month milestone in motherboard sales. So grab your sunglasses and curb feelers and have a look with me at the ECS A85F2-A Golden.
ECS A85F2-A Golden Closer Look:
If you like a big box you're in luck. The A85F2-A Golden is a $130 motherboard, however it is packaged like a $350 motherboard.The name of the game is gold and it is everywhere. The retail box is completely covered in reflective gold foil. Both the front and back are covered with Velcro flaps that reveal a window on the front and extensive product information on the back. Much of the information spells out the virtues of gold around the board. The packaging tells us that internally there is gold on the CPU socket pins, memory sockets, and PCIe slots. Externally, to create the bling factor, there are 'gold' plated capacitors, chokes, and heat sinks.
Inside the front flap is a pictorial of the ECS 'Gold 4 Ever' philosophy. Fifteen micron gold plating for connectivity and conductivity on the inside, and gold color plating on the exterior for showing off in the side window.
Under the front flap we get the first look at the motherboard and get an idea of how all this gold is laid down. Underneath the board the items in the bundle reveal themselves. While the accessory bundle is rather basic like I have seen so far with other X85 motherboards, the ECS Golden does come with seven SATA cables, which is great to see. Other items include a rear I/O panel (gold plated, of course), a full manual, a driver and programs disc, and an illustrated startup chart.
Time to take a trip around the board and ferret out the features of the Golden and see if it's worth its weight.


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We're sensing a huge trend in tech just on the horizon. People are still buying sleek aluminum and glass devices (by the 4 millions!), but they're wrapping them up in a veneer of warm wood. Surprisingly Moo, famous for printing promo cards, is ahead of the trend on this one. They just announced a line of affordable flat-pack wood-veneer desk accessories.
We were previously digging on Deskology's matte aluminum DESKSET accessories for the way they perfectly mimic the architecture of an Apple computer. We still love it, for anyone who prefers their tech bare, slim and pure, but at $189, it's a tough sell.
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A creation made from hundreds of aborted fetuses and outfitted with experimental weapons to become a government soldier.
Birth of The Creech
Dr.Battu was a gentle pacifist whose only simple goal was to help the world better itself through genetic research. In honor of his wife who died during childbirth, Dr. Battu decided to literally make life from death and in the process creating the Creech from hundreds of aborted fetuses.Engineered in the idyllic isolation of Battu's laboratory, the creature is born an innocent being with no conception of good or evil. Unfortunately, the group that funded his project had different plans for the creature. Named simply The Agency, they wanted to create the ultimate weapon of war and found it in the Creech, outfitting him with strange experimental weapons.
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State officials reported a non-farm jobs gain of 10,800 during May for a total gain of more than 767,000 since the economy began to rebound in February 2010.
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You've had glasses for years, but now you're just dyin' to get contacts. Luckily for you, contacts rule for several reasons. First, they're more convenient because once you put them in in the morning, you don't have to worry about misplacing them. They're also safer for driving and sports because they give you better peripheral vision. Plus, they don't need constant cleaning, and they won't get blurry if it's rainy, snowy or misty. 'Rents still aren't convinced? See if they'll let you try out some disposable contacts for a few days. If you can prove that you're responsible enough to handle 'em, Mom and Dad just might change their minds.
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Seems like all your buds have Facebook pages, and you feel like you're missin' out on the fun. To persuade your parents to let you get one, lay out the facts for them. First, having a Facebook page would help you stay connected to your friends. That means when you have homework questions, you can ask a bunch of your pals at the same time, instead of hogging the phone and calling several houses 'til you find a study buddy who's home. Also, you can keep in touch with your BFFs if they move away or change schools. Mom and Dad still worryin' that the Internet isn't safe? Show them the privacy settings that Facebook has. Maybe you can make a deal about how much info you'll share on your page and who you'll accept as your friends to reassure your 'rents.
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You would love to start wearing makeup, but Mom is totally against it. Ask her if you can start slow, with just some concealer and mascara. Explain to her that you're self-conscious about your zits, and this'll help you hold your head high when you step out of the house. You might have to pay for the products yourself, but as long as you've gotten the OK, it's better than nothing, right?
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It's summer, and it is just so hard to keep up with your buds! Between the pool and vacation, you're never at home, so there's only one solution: a cell phone. To convince your parents that you need to be connected, throw 'em a safety line. Tell them that if you have a cell, they can check up on you anytime and anywhere. Mention that they also won't have to worry about you tying up the home phone line in the evenings when you're desperately trying to keep in touch with your BFFs.
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To the editor:
On April 18, 2015, my three grandsons and I had the opportunity to visit the Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum. The boys enjoyed hearing and learning about the history of many items displayed. Our visit was topped off with Kenny Simpson's tour and history presentation of the old Harrison County Jail.
The museum is truly a real treasure in the community. We look forward to visiting again in the future.
After reading that Harrison Memorial Hospital was ranked fifth as one of best places to work in Kentucky.
I had to respond.
I just wish my late son, Jackie, had been working at a place like this.
He came back home to Kentucky to work at a hospital, and buy his first home.
He was hired in 2008, and fired in November of 2012.
What a shame! This hospital could not have been like HMH.
He took his life in December of 2012. Enough said.
Nancy Taylor
Cynthiana, Ky.
To the editor:
Take a symphony without the various instruments, there would not be a flow of music as each has a specific note to follow or there would be chaos.
An artist uses many colors to produce a masterpiece. Individually, the colors are beautiful. Individually they are bland, but when put together there is harmony.
How about a car? It doesn't function without a motor, a frame, wheels, etc. But, all together it runs smooth like it was made to do.
Birds sing in early morning and without their music it would not be enjoyable.
To the editor:
I was a social worker for a year, a probation and parole officer for about four years and a cop for 21 years.
The poor woman that wrote the letter about her children, the school system and law enforcement has hit a rock wall that was built in 1973.
The wall is the Juvenile Justice Law. The only object of this law is to benefit the juvenile offender. It is based on an obsolete federal model that was scrapped years ago.
This law removed all power from the schools, the cops, and the parents!
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On Tuesday, April 14, thousands of women from across the United States will join in a national day of action against unfair pay called Equal Pay Day.
April is symbolic of the point into the Next Year that a woman must work in order to earn the wages paid to a man in the previous year. On a national level, women are paid only 78 cents for every dollar a man is paid, according to the U.S. Consus Bureau. So, because women earn less, we must work longer for the same pay.
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Our athletic teams often get a lot of well-deserved press, but we wanted to take an opportunity to publicly congratulate the Harrison County High School Academic team, and our son, Evan Sullivan, for their showing in the Kentucky Governor's Cup Academic Competition.
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Omg I just know this topic is going to stir controversy @[email protected] But someone's gotta say it!
Just to clarify, this post only covers Jpop, Kpop and some Tpop. (...Taiwan pop? Did I even write that right?) The "some" is due to the credit of Jay Chou, who actually composes and writes his own music and is damn good at it too.
Yes, I get it. Asian music is just so fun to listen to-- who doesn't love fun techno and beaty tunes that anyone can just groove on the dance floor to?
But what Im frustrated about is-- WHERE'S THE ORIGINALITY? What happened to the "soul" of the music? Seriously... these days ever popular bands such as NewS, SNSD, Super Junior, and so forth., all seem to sing about the same things (romance, love, being flirty, blah blah blah... and only rarely do they sing about some thing else and the song reaches popularity (ex. Mr.Simple))...they don't even write their own music! They don't even come up with their own dance moves! And perhaps worst of all, they don't get to choose their own performance outfits! By this point Im not surprised at the rumors that most of their income goes to their entertainment company, cause it just seems like their company plans everything for them!
The other day I was watching a video called "Kids react to: Kpop"
When told of how the Korean bands Girls Generation, Super Junior and 2ne1 were put together (via entertainment companies) one girl replied: "If I even liked one of them (the band members) I would pretty much be liking the person that trained them".
So my question to you guys are: why are these "puppet bands" so popular in Asia? Do you care whether or not the pop group you like wrote their own song and/ or choreographed their own dance sequences? Or do you disagree with this post and think that they are totes original?
ps. you can check out the kids react video here (I'm not paid for this advertisement! Lol):
See those old folks in shojo mangas? thats how the heroine will look in 40 years
How come you only cover asian pop/mainstream acts? It's not like the western acts are any different...
Eta Carinae - Probably the most interesting prog-metal band in Gothenburg
I'm a little disturbed by the fact that you seem to think not being able to choose one's own performance outfit is worse than not writing the music themselves.
And like the above poster said: why only Asian groups? It's not like we're do much better here in the west...
Because it's so easy to be in a musical act nowadays. 50, 60, 70 years ago you had to be actually be talented and extremely hard working to get anywhere near the music business.
Well I think it's just as hard to get into the music business now as it was then. These days you have the power to make it and even compete with the record-labels, all you have to do is to work. After all, with facebook, youtube and the evolving distribution of music, you have access to the same channels as the labels.
But about the mainstream music: I think the reason why people like it (asian or western) is because it's not targeted to any specific group of people, making it easy to take in, and since the whole meaning of life is to find a group to belong, it's simple to chose the music everybody else's listening to: mainstream.
Or it could be that you simply don't care about music that much and just enjoy it for what it ism not giving it much thought.
Something worth mentioning is that mainstream music, played on radio and TV, give you little room for actually developing you own taste in music. The labels pay the stations to play their songs and artists into infinity, forcing the listener to take it in. See it as a form of brainwash if you want.
I think developing your own taste in music is important as it can help you develop a more critical thinking.
In Sweden, they actually proved in a big study that kids are likely to leave mainstream music behind to form their own taste in music and opinions.
Iin my book you are free to enjoy whatever music you like, if it's jpop, kpop, punk, metal, rave or whatever. As long it YOUR choice, not someone else's.
Eta Carinae - Probably the most interesting prog-metal band in Gothenburg
It's not easy to prove but I think mainstream artists or bands don't really care about the music they make.
i agree with you ( Kufirst ) AFI is a good example.
i also agree with ( Pergamaster ) and ( Syndicaidramon )
why asian??
a lot of Asian groups are BAD!!!! VERY BAD i am Asian and i don't like it. not even half the j-pop groups so again WHY ASIAN!!! again pergamaster said western is no different .. so what is the different from the 2??
To answer your question: Money makes the world go around.
This is why I only listen to rock , metal and classics...they play their own music and write their own songs(most of them) for example, Silverchair wrote a wonderful song about anorexia...the lead singer who was only 15 years old at that time suffered from that illness and made that song called "Ana's Song". Marylin Manson sings about his frustration with hypocrite Christians and what he really feels (or the lack of it) inside...he doesn't follow the norm and that's why many people dislike him. Michael Jackson used music to unite people and break stereotypes. The Beatles created their own style of music at a time when it was almost non-existence.
A true musician is inspired by things happening in his/her life but when these 'artists' sing only silly love songs and care more about the looks , that's when I think they don't even like what they're doing - it's all about the money- they will have their moment of fame but will be forgotten in a few years.
I'm not very familiar with Asian groups but here in US the mainstream music sucks(lady gaga, justin beiber and the overrated 1direction etc). There are still very good pop groups but you just have to look hard and ...turn off MTV.
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I think developing your own taste in music is important as it can help you develop a more critical thinking.
In Sweden, they actually proved in a big study that kids are likely to leave mainstream music behind to form their own taste in music and opinions.
Iin my book you are free to enjoy whatever music you like, if it's jpop, kpop, punk, metal, rave or whatever. As long it YOUR choice, not someone else's.
Cannot agree more. This approach should be applied to everything: music, food, movies, anime, books, anything.
To fully experience everything this world has to offer don't just be content with what is popular or what everyone else is listening to. Try out different things and see what you like. All I listened too when I was younger was classical, jazz and rock music. Then after a long while I started listening to so much more music. Music from different parts of the world and especially enjoyed music from Africa and Asia. Music is something that can connect people across continents or people sitting in the same room. That's what I love about it.
As Pergamaster touched upon, it doesn't matter what you listen to as long as you're willing to give other things a try and keep your mind open to different artists, genres, styles and languages. Plus, even though people say they always like different genres, you're never going to listen to everything all the time. I go through phases and get as much out of it as I can. I never forget a certain band or genre I just keep it in my mind and heart.
I've already seen enough of discussions like this within forums regarding Upfront Hardcore genre. Though, what they do is actually called oldfagging.
No, you can't judge only Asian mainstream. It's like that with any damn mainstream. Best popularity music, nowadays, is commercial which means it was inspired and composed+produced in a way to earn as much cash possible. Though, you can't really say it's bad without considering it's just your opinion. You can only judge production skills, but music itself is a subjective matter.
In any genre or music scene, too many tracks have been produced, less originality is available.
kufirst wrote:
Because it's so easy to be in a musical act nowadays. 50, 60, 70 years ago you had to be actually be talented and extremely hard working to get anywhere near the music business.
In the old days integrity of music artists was much lower; there was a plenty of talent but you actually needed MONEY to get into the scene, while nowadays you can pirate.
Nowadays, however, there are plenty more wannabe artists and you need to be much more active in order to get to a serious label which could make you prosperous. Even more importantly, you need better skills than in the old days, and you need to follow the trend at least a little.
Life is hard, and so am I.