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New Orleans and the History of Jazz
New Orleans is a city built in a location that was by any measure a mistake.
North American settlers needed a way to import and export goods via the Mississippi River, so a city was created atop swamps. By virtue of its location and its role in the international economy, New Orleans became home to a population that was as heterogeneous as any. Besides the French and, for a time, Spanish colonial powers, other groups included African Americans (both free and slave), people from the Caribbean and Latin America, and Scandinavians and other Europeans. The United States purchased Louisiana from France in 1803 (for $15M), and this more than doubled the size of the young country. The Louisiana Territory included parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as almost a quarter of the modern-day United States. Naturally, New Orleans became one of the country's major cities. Its variegated racial realities played a major role in the spiritual and moral lives of Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman, both of whom first witnessed the true cruelties of slavery there. In his series of essays that eventually comprised the classic The Cotton Kingdom, Frederick Law Olmsted stated the following about New Orleans in the mid-1850s:
I doubt if there is a city in the world, where the resident population has been so divided in its origin, or where there is such a variety in the tastes, habits, manners, and moral codes of the citizens. Although this injures civic enterprise—which the peculiar situation of the city greatly demands to be directed to means of cleanliness, convenience, comfort, and health—it also gives a greater scope to the working of individual enterprise, taste, genius, and conscience; so that nowhere are the higher qualities of man—as displayed in generosity, hospitality, benevolence, and courage—better developed, or the lower qualities, likening him to a beast, less interfered with, by law or the action of public opinion.[1]
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Crescent City, as it was known (due to the curvature of the Mississippi River as it surrounds the city), was alive with music. Music served as a psychological shield against the floods, fires, epidemics, and riots that marked New Orleans history, for it provided an excuse to forget, or a spur to overcome, the problems brought on by both nature and society. The most original form of that music, jazz, has come to be synonymous with New Orleans.
In the nineteenth century, balls or public dances were held in many American cities, and those in New Orleans were legendary—both for their popularity and their interracial audiences. To attract the maximum number of people to the dance floor, the bands of nineteenth-century New Orleans gradually mixed and matched musical styles, sowing the seeds of jazz. No musical genre was more popular than opera, and the arias that could be heard throughout the city day in and day out had a profound impact on the melodic styles of the musicians who created the jazz idiom, most notably the pianist/composer Jelly Roll Morton, reedman Sidney Bechet, and trumpeter/vocalist Louis Armstrong. Their precursors included the Creole composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk who, as far back as the mid-nineteenth century, wrote such works as "The Banjo" and "Bamboula," which combined African and European idioms in a fresh and daring manner.
But if there is one specific place where the roots of jazz can be traced, it would be in Congo Square, where slaves were allowed to dance and generally express themselves. This is where the cultural mix that remains at the root of American (and subsequently, much of the world's) popular music began. The slaves' various forms of expression, rooted in Africa, intermingled with the New World. This outlet for the myriad emotions engendered by racism and slavery (as well as the hard-to-find and hard-won joys of life in such situations) started a stream of music that led to Buddy Bolden.
By all accounts, this barber/cornetist was the first musician whose music could be called jazz. It was the early twentieth century, and Bolden took ragtime, the music of day, and played it in a rough-and-ready style with the vocal and improvisatory feeling of the blues. Ragtime was conceived as a delicate, non-improvisatory style of piano music. Bolden's transmogrification of it into a harder-edged improvisatory, horn-based form laid the groundwork for jazz bands of the future. His pioneering efforts inspired the next generation of musicians, including cornetist Joe "King" Oliver, who refined the approach into something far more sophisticated. At the root of the mature New Orleans style that Oliver and his band championed was a polyphonic approach to ensemble playing. This means that the horn players (two trumpets, clarinet, and trombone) all played concurrently. To do this without sounding jumbled called for each musician to listen intently to the others while simultaneously creating their own responses. One way to listen to classic New Orleans jazz at its best is to imagine the complexity of the melodies as a representation of its polyglot communities. It's worth noting that at the very time that Bolden's band was at its peak, the injustices of Plessy v. Ferguson were making themselves manifest in the Crescent City and across the country.
Much has been made of the synergy between New Orleans's fabled red-light district, Storyville, and the evolution of jazz. And while it's true that the tremendous amount of vice that flourished there created around-the-clock work for musicians, the fact is that the majority of them worked elsewhere, and certainly not in the houses of ill-repute, which were mostly the exclusive province of pianists. Where Storyville does enter significantly into the picture is when it was closed in 1917 (purportedly too many servicemen on their way to fight World War I never returned after finding their way there on leave) and its population of entertainment-related workers had to look to other cities for employment. This coincided with the general migration northward of southern blacks, and within a few years many of the major players were relocating in Chicago (and more than few in California). This left the gap that the young Louis Armstrong filled (he was born in 1901, just a year too early to be drafted) and within a few years he rose to the top, eventually joining his mentor Oliver in Chicago in late 1922.
Armstrong's travels took him to Chicago and then to New York. Jazz continued to survive in varying degrees in New Orleans as the music spread around the world, and by the 1940s the Crescent City became a Mecca for jazz lovers. There also continued to be a steady stream of first-rate jazz musicians who came from New Orleans and participated in all the current streams of music that were developing in Kansas City, Los Angeles, and New York. A short list would include tenor saxophonist Lester Young, who came to fame with Count Basie's band, Ornette Coleman's drummer Ed Blackwell, and in more recent years, the trumpeter/composer Wynton Marsalis. Of course, in terms of R&B and its offshoots, we only have to mention the names Fats Domino, Harry Connick, Dr. John, Professor Longhair, and Aaron Neville to be reminded of how New Orleans has stayed close to the core of popular music to this day.
It was a tragedy that brought New Orleans back to the world's attention in the summer of 2005 when Hurricane Katrina not only ripped the city and its environs apart, but also exposed the racial and cultural dysfunctions that still exist in the United States. The city that never should have been there gave the world a tremendous cultural gift, jazz, whose progeny, popular music, was ultimately employed in fundraisers around the world to try to save New Orleans. Students and teachers alike will gain a new understanding of our nation's past by looking into the untold strands of world history that are inextricably bound to the Crescent City.
[1] Frederick Law Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 2nd ed. (New York: Mason Brothers and London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1862), 1: 302.
Loren Schoenberg is the executive director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and on the jazz faculty at The Juilliard School. A saxophonist who has worked with Benny Goodman, Bobby Short, and other jazz greats, he is the author of The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz (2002) and myriad articles and essays as well as album notes, for which he has received two Grammys.
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Good conditions and a new toy to play with has resulted in a lack of time to write about them. Since my last post I have spent a lot of time getting to know the Elecraft KX3. For those of you on the waiting list all I can say is: it's worth the wait. If you aren't, then what are you waiting for?
If you are a K3 owner then the KX3's similarity to its parent means you will know what to expect. But there are also things where familiarity to the K3 is not an advantage, where functions are not in the same place. The KX3's front panel is a little bit shorter and quite a lot less wide, but the same number of functions have been crammed into it. All the buttons have dual functions depending on whether they are pressed or long-pressed. The radio is powered on and off by pressing two buttons at once. Some of the knobs have three functions depending on whether you press them first or long-press the button below.
If it sounds complicated then it really isn't and you'll quickly get the hang of it. The only thing I can't understand is the decision to make AGC Slow/Fast/Off an option on the configuration menu. The AGC button on my K3 gets a fair bit of use, mainly to turn AGC off when operating PSK with a wide bandwidth. But I don't plan on using the KX3 for data modes much so this isn't an issue I'm particularly bothered with.
The KX3 designers have made a few unusual choices of interface sockets, notably a 4-pole 3.5mm jack for the microphone. These jacks are a bit hard to obtain but don't worry: you probably won't need to. Four poles are only needed to support the up/down buttons of the Elecraft MH3 mic. You can actually plug a computer headset with its two 3-pole 3.5mm jacks into the phones and mic sockets (RF immunity not guaranteed.) You won't have a PTT but you can use VOX instead or the XMIT button on the front panel. Ideal for windy hilltops (is there any other sort?
Some SOTA operators may be put off by the lack of 2m coverage. Elecraft has promised 2m will be available as an option, as it is for the K3. Hopefully it will perform better than the ubiquitous hand-helds and even the FT-817 when subjected to the large out of band signals experienced on British hilltops.
What many people will want to know is: what is the receiver performance like? "Better than an FT-817" But that would surprise no-one and in any case is only an educated guess. I don't have the antennas or QTH to subject the KX3 to challenging input levels. All I can say is that the KX3 receiver is quiet and delivers clear and open-sounding audio. Just like a K3, in fact.

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Borcich had the best offensive season by any Gaucho in recent years...She was selected the Big West Conference's Offensive Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year...Also named First Team All-Big West as a forward...Borcich led the Big West Conference in goals with 11, assists with seven and points with 29...Recorded UCSB's first hat trick in 12 years when she notched three goals in a 3-1 win over Weber State...Her three-goal performance came in the sixth match of the year and those were her first three goals of the season...Scored all 11 goals in her final 12 matches of the season...In the Gauchos' penultimate match last season, against Cal State Fullerton, she broke her left forearm in the first half and missed the remainder of that match and the finale against Cal Poly...In addition to her performance against Weber State, Borcich had two-goal matches against Long Beach State and UC Riverside...Also scored goals against Fresno State, Pacific, Idaho and UC Irvine...Her 11 goals on the season were the most scored by a Gaucho player in 12 years...Borcich's 11 goals came on just 43 official shots...She produced four game-winning goals...Never had more than one assist in a match...Overall, Borcich scored at least one point in 11 of her 18 matches, including nine of her last 12...In addition to her postseason honors, she was also selected Big West Player of the Week on October 29 after scoring three goals and assisting on two others in Big West road victories at Long Beach State and UC Irvine.
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Borcich played for Sacramento United Magic for seven years...Scored 53 goals and 20 assists over her last two season...Led the Magic to the 2000 Huntington Beach Tournament championship...She was a Northern California State Team member in 2000...Led her team to the championship of the Nike Friendship Tournament in Oregon in 2000...Borcich prepped at McClatchy High School in Sacramento...She was a four-time All-Metro League selection, earning first team honors three times...Also named All-City on three occasions, including two first team selections...Following her senior season, she was slected the Metro League Offensive Player of the Year...Helped guide McClatchy to a Metro League title as a junior...Borcich finished her career as McClatchy's second all-time leading scorer...Coached by Ted Spitaleri.
Born January 18, 1983 in Sacramento... She was a member of the Northern California State Team in 2000....Borcich was a member of the Principal's Honor Roll at McClatchy from 1998 through 2001...Will major in Psychology...Daughter of Cynthia and Jeffrey Borcich.


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In 1906, the Priester Match Company held an open contest for the design of a poster. Art Nouveau was in full flower, so surely the judges expected to receive decadent renderings of languid smokers, things perhaps in the style of Toulouse-Lautrec or Alphonse Mucha. What none of them expected was a shockingly bold drawing of two matchsticks, almost antagonistically free of nuance: this winning entry, by a twenty-three year old designer named Lucian Bernhard, would come to be recognized as the world's first Sachplakat, or "object poster." It was arguably one of the most important design artifacts of the twentieth century, and came to define an entire approach to design that lives on in everything from corporate logos to desktop icons.
104 years later, Austrian designer Albert Exergian has explored this ever-modern idea in the creation of a marvelous set of posters offering witty reductions of television shows. Some of them have Bernhard's brash disregard for subtlety (Twin Peaks is a pair of mountains), most are considerably more sophisticated and wry (I hadn't considered how essential the red and blue stripes are when representing a Ziploc bag: see Weeds, above.) Each matches the cleverness of the show it portrays: Exergian's X-Files is a not merely an X, but the secret signal masking-taped to Special Agent Mulder's window. Is it possible not to love an interpretation of Charlie's Angels that features not the girls, not the guns, but the speaker on Bosley's desk? Is there any better symbol for MacGyver than a bent paperclip? Some of my favorites are above, but the entire collection is worth a look: if nothing else, you'll be delighted by Exergian's interpretations of Boston Legal, Miami Vice and Lost. —JH


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WASHINGTON — Americans blame Republicans for the partial government shutdown, two new polls find as the budget standoff veers closer to the deadline for raising the nation's $16.7 trillion debt limit.
Seven in 10 adults disapprove of the way Republicans are handling themselves in the wrangling over funding the government, according to the ABC News/Washington Post poll released Monday. That's a 7-point jump since last week and includes 59% of Americans who identify themselves as conservatives.
President Obama and Democrats don't escape unscathed in the ABC News/Washington Post survey. More than half, or 51%, say they don't approve of the way Obama is handling the budget standoff, and 61% say the same thing about his party's allies in Congress.
The findings of a Pew Research Center poll, also released Monday, are more closely divided. Nearly four in 10, or 38%, of Americans blame Republicans for the shutdown, which entered its second week Monday without any real progress in sight. That compares with 30% who put blame on Obama, 19% who say both the White House and congressional Republicans share responsibility and 13% who say they don't know.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Sunday that Congress is "playing with fire" as the federal government approaches the Oct. 17 deadline for increasing the nation's borrowing authority.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, wants to pass a budget to reopen the government and raise the debt limit in the same piece of legislation. He seeks support from Democrats on ways to reduce the deficit and affect Obama's health care law.
Obama's economic adviser Gene Sperling said Monday Obama will not negotiate on the debt ceiling because the president believes it would set a precedent that threatening default could be used as leverage in long-term budget negotiations.
Both polls surveyed at least 1,000 Americans through Sunday. The margin of error in both polls was +/- 3.5 percentage points.
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More than positions on the line during Saturday's spring game
Football will play its annual spring game Saturday, and there is more on the line than winning position battles.
"They have pride and bragging rights, as well as allowing the team to switch things up from the monotony of spring practices and play together and gel," said head coach Dan Enos.
Additionally, Enos says the game is a way for the coaches to evaluate players in a game situation and will help to determine starters later in the season, but Enos stressed that the game is not a make-or-break situation for any of the players.
"Really, this is just one practice of 15; we'll evaluate it, and it'll have some stock," Enos said. "But if a guy has played well all spring but has a bad game on Saturday, it's not going to ruin his chances of starting. Many of these (position) battles will stretch into the summer and up to the start of the season."
Teams were chosen for the game on Wednesday, in a way that Enos has done since his arrival to CMU. The team's seniors were split evenly to start the draft and then drafted their teammates onto the gold and maroon teams. A few minor switches were made after the draft, but the teams are now set for the game.
Senior defensive back Avery Cunningham was one of the seniors who was heavily involved in the picking of teams.
"I felt pretty good about the draft," Cunningham said. "I think the teams were pretty equal, both have their strengths; I think it'll be a fun game."
Shamari Benton, another senior, reinforced Cunningham's comments.
"It was enthusiastic, we got to choose different players, and it really lets you know how some of these guys match up in their teammates minds" he said. "This is my last spring game, so I'm really excited to be ending it in this way; it really gets the guys pumped."
Saturday will not be the first time that the team has played an inter-squad game, according to Enos.
"We had an overtime scrimmage earlier in the spring, and, again, we did that, we split the team up so they weren't always playing the same old offense-defense match-ups."
When the Chippewas take the field, they will all be playing for the same reasons. Individual improvement, team unity and getting the feel of the game plan in a game situation are all key concepts that Enos hopes the team will demonstrate and take away from the field.


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French police stepped up the search on Tuesday for a gunman who filmed his carnage as he shot dead three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school, fearing the killer could strike again.
Officials believe the scooter-riding gunman is a trained marksman with "extremist" views who may also be responsible for last week's shootings of three soldiers of North African origin.
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy has said racism appeared to be the motivation for Monday's school attack, which came just five weeks before the first round of the presidential election.
Racist and anti-Semitic attacks are not uncommon in France.
Immigrants and Islam have been major themes of the campaign as Sarkozy tries to win over the voters of far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Analysts say the shootings could transform the election debate and possibly tone down populist rhetoric.
"We will track down this monster," Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said of the killer on France 2 television. "We will find him, bring him to justice and punish him."
France is home to the largest Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe and has a history of attacks on both groups, but Monday's shooting was the most deadly anti-Semitic attack on French soil in nearly 30 years.
The police tightened security at religious sites, raised the terror alert in the southern town to the highest possible level and talked to gun clubs in an effort to track down the killer.
"It would be surprising if he stops now," one police officer involved in the investigation told Reuters.
Surveillance tapes at the school showed the gunman recorded his shooting spree with a small video camera around his neck.
He is also the prime suspect in the killing of three paratroopers in two separate shootings last week in Toulouseand the nearby town of Montauban.
"This shows a profile of the murderer as someone who is very cold, very determined, with precise gestures, and therefore very cruel," Interior Minister Claude Gueant said.
In each attack, the gunman arrived on a stolen Yamaha scooter and used a Colt 45 handgun. His face was hidden by a motorcycle helmet during the attacks.
The three dead soldiers included two members of the 17th parachute regiment. Police have interviewed three former soldiers expelled from the regiment for neo-Nazi activity in 2008, but a police source told Reuters on Tuesday they had been ruled out of the investigation.
'Getting ready for prayers'
At the entrance of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, a five-floor brick building in a leafy residential neighbourhood, residents and parents left floral tributes and candles in memory of the victims.
A child who survived the attack spoke of his sheer terror as the shots rang out through the school.
"We were getting ready for prayers when the principal stormed in and screamed that there was a shooting. I panicked and fled to the old canteen and heard the shots, but saw nothing," an 11-year old boy told France Info radio.
"I thought he was going to come in any minute and finish us all. Then I waited and waited and then my daddy came to get me."
Schools all over France observed a minute of silence.
"This has happened in Toulouse, in a religious school with children from Jewish families, but it could have happened here. The same killer could have come here, these children are exactly like you," Sarkozy said, attending the silent vigil in a Paris secondary school.
The bodies of the four victims, who hold dual French-Israeli nationality, will be repatriated to Israel on Tuesday night, Joel Mergui,the head of a Jewish religious organisation, said.
The Israeli embassy identified the victims as Jonathan Sandler, 30, his children Gabriel and Arieh, aged four and five, and Myriam Monsonego, seven.
Racial tension
France's Jewish umbrella group Crif welcomed the decision by political parties to suspend their election campaigning until Wednesday out of respect for the victims. Analysts said the killings would change the election debate.
"The tone of the campaign cannot go back to what it was," said Dominique Reynie, head of Fondapol politics institute.
"The campaign was dominated by an aggressive tone and a strong degree of populist rhetoric. This rhetoric will cease because there will be voter demand for healing."
France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen is running third in the race for the presidency and this has helped to draw issues of race and immigration into the election campaign.
The centre-right Sarkozy has tried to attract her voters with a pledge to halve immigration and criticism of halal slaughter as he lags Socialist Francois Hollande in voting intentions polls.
Some analysts said there would be a discussion about whether Sarkozy has stirred feelings that led to the attack.
"There will be more debate, notably on whether the tension created in society by Nicolas Sarkozy and the UMP (ruling party) has not somehow provoked or facilitated this type of violence," said L'Express magazine editor-in-chief Christophe Barbier.
Juppe said the campaign could not have triggered the shooting.
"Anti-Semitism exists in France, we have fought it for years," he said.
"Nobody should try to benefit in any way from this drama, which is in no way linked to the electoral campaign." (Additional reporting by Geert De Clercq, Emmanuel Jarry and Marine Pennetier; writing by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Anna Willard)


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A girl's name of Irish and West Australian Aboriginal origin. Kye has never been a common name in the United States. Meaning: West_australian_aboriginal: curled stick; boomerang. Irish: a familiar form of Kyle.
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CLARENVILLE, NL –Rev. Bob Mercer of Memorial United Church in Clarenville says it was a lyric that he never forgot.
I had my hands in the river
My feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the Lord above
And said "hey man thanks"
The line was from the Tragically Hip's 1989 track "New Orleans is Sinking," a song that soon became a staple in the Hip's repertoire.
"That just stuck with me," explained Mercer. "I hadn't even thought of ministry at that point… but I just loved that line. Here he was saying, 'Thank you God for everything,' and he did it in a way that so was natural and beautiful."
When Mercer heard of the death of Tragically Hip front man Gord Downie on Wednesday, his mind went back to, among other things, that lyric.
The next day, he took down the old message from the church sign (a humorous quip about the church now offering pumpkin spice sermons) and put up a new message:
I looked up to the Lord above
And said "Hey man thanks."
Gord Downie
He says he felt it was a fitting tribute to the late artist, who captured the heart of Canada over his 30-year career.
"Gord Downie was an artist. And not only that, he was a Canadian artist. The man personified Canadiana," said Mercer.
Mercer saw The Hip live when they performed at Memorial Stadium in St. John's in 1988. He was also chosen to be part of the local "roadie group" for the band (music jargon for a group that helps prepare the stage for the concert and disassembly afterwards.)
Though he didn't get to meet the band, he does say their payment for roadie-ing was above and beyond what was expected.
"I have to say, The Hip paid their local crew really well. We got laminates, as much Coke or Pepsi as we wanted to drink, we got paid, we got a free T-shirt out of it.
"I've done, call it roadie-ing work, for other bands, and I didn't get none of that. The best I got paid from doing some local roadie-ing work was through the Tragically Hip."
Mercer says the reaction to the sign's new message has been overwhelmingly positive. He shared a photo of the sign to Facebook, which as of Friday morning – less than 24 hours since the sign went up – has been shared just under 300 times.
Mercer says there is a lesson all Canadians can learn from Downie's example.
"We have been blessed by God with an amazing country, and amazing people, an amazing way of life, and we can share that with so many others. To be able to share in love, because we care."
He says he will keep the message up for a week or two.


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Knewt Video from 2006 Robot Rally
Richard Bodor has posted some videos of the Robot Rally that include Knewt's presentation.
See the other competitors at this wonderful competition on the AHRC site.
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A short walk
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Leather motorcycle suit Dainese LAGUNA SECA D1 PROFESSIONAL. Further evolution of the Laguna Seca Evo to take to the track at the highest levels.
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The co-injected with metal insert shoulder is one of the most revolutionary solutions that equip Dainese garments. The usual removable composite protection is replaced by an injection of plastic material on a lattice externally coated with polyurethane, on which is fixed to the metal plate.This solution allows the protection, certified according to EN 1621.1, to maintain in each situation the correct position on the shoulder, and at the same time a smaller footprint to the advantage of comfort for the rider.
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The composite protectors on shoulders, elbows and knees, certified according to EN 1621.1, offer a high standard of protection due to their particular construction.A rigid outer shell in plastic material, on the entire protector distributes the energy generated by the impact zone, by means of a patented lattice structure, able to distribute and absorb the impact of a large surface area, with a thickness and a lower weight. The inside of the protection, with very high density polyethylene foam, has high deformability and a high memory, which molds to the shape of the body, allows a better comfort, also favored by the perforated external structure, which facilitates the transpiration.
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The song is for everyone who has experienced persecution, hardship or rough times. A message that you can take control of your own life, turn things round, and get back up on your feet during times of adversity!
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The Departed began in 2006, amid a stale and stagnant scene and have since grown to establish themselves as a driving force within the UK hardcore circuit, completing numerous UK and European headlining tours. They have worked tirelessly over the last few years to put together honest, from-the-heart music about the thing they feel most passionate about; the appalling state of the world today!
The Departed have been unchanged by sweeping genre trends and stuck to doing what they love the most... Delivering their own brand of blisteringly energetic melodic hardcore! 2012 was a challenging year for the band but they are now feeling settled and stronger than they have ever been as a band, and are eagerly awaiting to release their new album 'Steal the Crown', coming 2013.
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Gaza - Christians
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Dozens of Christians in Gaza have staged a rare public protest, claiming that two congregants were forcibly converted to Islam and held against their will.
The small but noisy demonstration showed the increasingly desperate situation facing the tiny Christian minority.
Protesters banged on a church bell and chanted, "With our spirit, with our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Jesus."
Gaza police say the two congregants are staying with a Muslim religious official at their request, because they fear retribution from their families over converting to Islam. Two mediators said the two — a 25-year-old man and a woman with three children — appeared to have embraced Islam of their free will. Forced conversions have been unheard of in Gaza before.
Since the Islamic militant Hamas seized power five years ago, Christians have felt increasingly embattled, but have mostly kept silent.
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Robbie Jo Stark died December 19, 2012
Robbie Jo Stark, widow of Richard G. Stark, Sr., passed away at South Ridge Assisted Living on Wednesday, December 19, 2012. She was retired from the U. S. Postal Service and also a retired businesswoman.
She was born on March 5, 1936, in Lindsay, OK to John Lester Sanders and Beatrice Goodman Sanders. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband. She is survived by her son, James Paul Lynn, three step-children: Deborah Stark Weeks (Gary), Richard G. Stark, (Christine), and Julia Stark Ledbetter (Brent), brothers: Cecil Sanders of Lindsay, OK, and John R. Sanders, Keene, TX. She is also survived by her sister-in-law, Merrellyn Stark of Heber Springs, and her son Sean James of Fayetteville, AR., and cousin, Mary Jane Johnson and husband Ricky of Searcy. Other family members who survive are 24 grandchildren, step-grandchildren, and step-great-grandchildren and many other nieces and nephews.
Special friends who survive Robbie are those women whom she fondly called the "Quilting Sisters Group," and long-time friend, Brenda Seymore Dillion, and her family. Robbie wanted them to know that she didn't know what she would have done without all of them.
Also, very special to Robbie was her family at Covenant Church; those who were there to support her after the loss of her husband and who remained by her side during her illness. She said," God has blessed me over and over with all my friends."
In lieu of flowers, the family has suggested memorials be made to the following: Meals on Wheels, Cleburne County Hospice, Stark Family Educational Scholarship Fund at ASU-Heber Springs, Covenant Church, or the charity of your choice.
Visitation will be held Friday, Dec. 21, from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at Olmstead Funeral Home. Services will be held at Olmstead Funeral Home on Saturday, Dec. 22, at 10:00 a.m. with the Rev. Brad Sneed and the Rev. T. J. Gentry officiating. Burial will be at Heber Springs Cemetery. www.olmstead.cc


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Heart disease remains the top killer of Americans, but fewer lives than ever are ending with a heart attack or stroke.
"The good news is that death rates continue to fall; however, the risk factors and the financial and societal burdens of the disease still remain high," said Dr. William Abraham, director of cardiovascular medicine at Ohio State University Medical Center.
Heart disease remains the top killer of Americans, but fewer lives than ever are ending with a heart attack or stroke.
In recent years, the rate of heart-attack deaths has been about a quarter of what it was three decades ago, and the rate of stroke deaths has dropped by more than half.
No, we Americans haven't become a model for fitness and healthy lifestyles.
"The good news is that death rates continue to fall; however, the risk factors and the financial and societal burdens of the disease still remain high," said Dr. William Abraham, director of cardiovascular medicine at Ohio State University Medical Center.
The American Heart Association estimates that about 935,000 heart attacks and 795,000 strokes occur each year.
"Patients are living longer, they're surviving their heart attacks, they're surviving their strokes. But that results in other consequences - for example, increasing prevalence of congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation," Abraham said.
Decreasing death rates are attributed in large part to medical advances that range from daily aspirin to stents that prop open ailing blood vessels.
"There are many more treatments now than when I first started," said Dr. Peter Amsterdam, a cardiologist with Heart Care at Grant Medical Center who has practiced for about 14 years.
Clot-dissolving treatments were just coming on the scene then, he said, and the manual clearing of clogged vessels and placement of stents have come a long way.
In terms of prevention, ACE inhibitors, beta blockers and statins have revolutionized the care of those with known problems, Amsterdam said.
In addition to lower death rates for heart attack and stroke, far fewer people are dying of congestive heart failure, in large part because many people are treated with implantable defibrillators, Amsterdam said.
"We used to see people frequently die of heart failure. That has become a much-less-frequent thing," he said.
Most people who have a cardiovascular crisis survive and go on to have a good quality of life. They might even end up better off, said Dr. David Sabgir, medical director of cardiac rehab for the Mount Carmel Health System.
"This is kind of a major-league wake-up call, and they start getting more active. A lot of times, we will see people being happier and more fulfilled after an event like this," he said.
People who make it into a catheterization lab within 90 minutes have especially good outcomes. Heart-attack patients are more aware of the signs of trouble and are more likely to seek quick help these days, Sabgir said. "If they stay home with what felt like indigestion for a few days, those are the more difficult cases."
Despite the declining death toll from heart disease, doctors remain worried about obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Both are linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular problems, and both are partly responsible for keeping the incidence of - if not the death rate from - heart attacks and strokes high, cardiologists say.
"I'm afraid we'll start to see these trends go in the wrong direction again if these epidemics of obesity and diabetes continue to grow. We need to encourage people to exercise more and eat the right type of diet," Abraham said.
Tobacco use has decreased over the years, but not as much as heart experts would like, Sabgir said.
"I think we see a little bit of a defeatist attitude, but people can really play a significant role in decreasing the odds of recurrence."
On the positive side, Americans have lowered their blood pressure and cholesterol, much of that from the use of medications including statins, which have improved heart health, Abraham said.
And although people are taking in more calories, they're eating less saturated fat and cholesterol than two or three decades ago, he said.
Still, one-third of adults have high blood pressure; 15percent have total cholesterol levels in the danger zone above 240; and almost one in 10 has diabetes, a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke, Abraham said.


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History And Old Stuff...
I have a new old book. It is an 8th-grade reading textbook from 1931, The Roundup, published by The John C. Winston Co. of Chicago. The following passage is excerpted from an article by Maria Leach, titled "Slang and Slang". Here, Maria tells us what she really thinks.
Is your mind, too, such a single-track mind that everything you see is either "cute or "darling"? Do you say a poem is great, your breakfast was great, or your teacher is great? Do you say the weather is fierce, your lessons are fierce, and your teacher is fierce?
If you talk like this, everybody will know that your mind is a shabby thing. If you have only one or two words to describe the world and all the vastly different things and people in it, your speech will betray not only poverty of vocabulary, but poverty of mind...
Words like fine and fierce, in fact all blanket words which are used to cover a multitute of things, belong to one of the most objectionable types of slang. Such silly remarks as jazz baby, sweet papa, and you know me, Al, are labels of a shallow and second-hand wit. And a too free use of slang prevents the mind from acquiring a command over legitimate English.
The "slang habit" is a vicious thing. Not only does it keep a shallow mind shallow, but almost all slang grows cheap by constant use and eventually belittles the things it aims to enhance.
-Maria Leach
Well, then. Let us avoid silly, repetitive slang so Maria Leach can rest peacefully in her grave. Really, I'm surprised she didn't say that such slang would rot your teeth and stunt your growth!
To give the lady credit, she did write in the first part of the article about picturesque, vigorous slang, which she liked because it enriches the language. Some of her examples of acceptable slang are listed below. I've added definitions for a few that may be unfamiliar.
|to cross swords
to parry a thrust
to wrestle with a problem
to be in high feather (in good spirits)
to show the white feather (betray your low breeding by being cowardly or slothful)
to have a yellow streak
to give one's self away
by hook or crook
to show one's hand
to be aboveboard
car-whacker (mechanic)
flivver (old car)
tin Lizzie
step on it
hard-boiled (emotionally callous)


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Gigabyte Radeon HD2400 XT Review
When someone mentions a video card, the first thing that we think is how fast will it play that new game? Never does anyone say 'Wow, that card would push my HTPCs video capabilities to the max'. On the other hand, say you are building a computer for use in an office environment, or for your school work. Do you really need to spend hundreds of dollars if you are not going to use it for gaming or graphic design? Of course not, but then what would be the best, to suit your needs? You don't want the bottom of the barrel either, especially if you are running Windows Vista's Aero Interface. So where does that leave you?
Enter Gigabyte's Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. The HD 2400 XT is a mid-range graphics accelerator card, that gives you the options you need without draining your wallet to get them. The HD 2400 XT supports DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.0, as well as Shader Model 4.0. This will allow you to run the goodies of Windows Vista and while you probably will not be gaming on extreme settings, it should allow you some casual gaming at discrete resolutions and graphics settings. The HD 2400 XT also supports HDCP and ATI's AVIVO for high definition playback of videos, without taxing the CPU to run them. So now let's take a look at what makes it handle all of this technology.
Closer Look:
The Gigabyte HD 2400 XT comes in nice packaging, with a lot of the features right on the front of the box. This is an excellent marketing strategy, because when I look to buy a piece of hardware, I do not want to search all over the box to see what the features it offers. The back of the box lists some more of the features in several different languages, as well as highlighting some of the more unique features of the card, which we will go over later in this review.
When you open the packaging, you can see the care taken to secure the HD 2400 XT while being transported. The card is wrapped in an anti-static bag and sandwiched in a cardboard cutout, to keep from moving around to much. Under the card are the accessories that are included with the Gigabyte HD 2400 XT. Included is the card itself, a quick install guide in several languages, a manual, the driver/software CD, a DVI to VGA adapter and an S-Video to Composite Video Adapter.
So do you want to see the card yet? I know I do so let's move on.


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Volunteering for patients could be a part of your #26Acts of Kindness
Volunteering for patients could be a part of your #26Acts of Kindness
Wake Forest Baptist Health needs volunteers in patient and non-patient care service areas. Volunteer opportunities are available in Brenner Children's Hospital, Coronary Care, Gift Shop, Transportation/Wayfinders, Cancer Center and many other areas of the Medical Center.
Training/Orientation dates will be:
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For more information please visit our Web site or call Susan Craddock Washabaugh at 336-713-3516 between 8am and 5pm. (Monday-Friday)
Click here to join Ann Curry's #26Acts of Kindness. All your acts could be completed while volunteering to help those in need.


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WASHINGTON — Two giant global banks helped at least a dozen hedge funds skirt full tax payment on more than $100 billion worth of stock trades, according to a congressional investigation made public Monday.
The findings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will be the subject of a daylong hearing Tuesday.
It also means more trouble for the embattled Internal Revenue Service.
At issue is whether complex financial deals arranged by London-based Barclays Bank PLC and Germany's Deutsche Bank AG deliberately helped hedge funds exploit U.S. tax laws for financial advantage and bend rules designed to protect the financial system from excessive borrowing to finance speculative bets.
The IRS in 2010 warned against the financial instruments at question in the Senate investigation, but roughly four years later, no additional tax money has been collected from the hedge funds involved, Senate investigators said.
Hedge funds are private investment vehicles for very wealthy investors, and their steep costs to join effectively lock out ordinary Americans. They are often partnerships, whose investors are partners who reap the tax savings afforded by the scheme.
The Senate report alleges that Deutsche Bank and Barclays conspired with the hedge funds to create a complex investment vehicle that gave the appearance of being a brokerage account like those used by ordinary Americans who play the stock market.
The difference, however, is that these accounts, called "basket options," involved billions of dollars in rapid and constant computerized trading.
The hedge funds, the report said, were taking short-term profits but being taxed as if they were ordinary investors holding stocks for a year or longer. They were taxed at a rate of 15 percent to 20 percent instead of the rate of ordinary income, which is as high as 39 percent.
In a news conference detailing the complex scheme, committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the banks and a number of hedge funds established "sort of an alternative universe" in which there were large volumes of trading taking place in minutes, days and months. Most transactions happened in six months or less, but the profits were treated as if the hedge funds were holding the securities for periods of a year or more — long enough to claim the lower tax rate for capital gains.
The scheme ran from 1998 to 2013, according to congressional investigators, even as the two banks were being investigated for other wrongdoing.
Deutsche Bank was already under a non-prosecution agreement with the Justice Department on other matters, and Barclays was under investigation by U.S. and British regulators for what later was shown to be manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate. LIBOR is a key global lending rate that sets the lending rate for many U.S. mortgages and car loans.
Although more than a dozen hedge funds were known to have used at least 199 "basket options," the Senate panel narrowly looked at two of the largest funds — Renaissance Technology Corp. LLC and George Weiss Associates.
Other hedge funds that purchased "basket options" from the two banks are Ballentine Capital Management, Deephaven Capital Management, SAC Capital Advisors, Talon Capital LLC, Provident Advisors LLC, MFT Limited, Analytic Investors Inc., Riverside Asset Management LLC, 646 Advisors LLC and Northern Asset Management.
The scheme worked like this: The two banks opened a proprietary trading account, which had constantly changing assets within these accounts.
It had the appearance of being an account controlled and operated by the banks, when in fact the hedge funds selected the assets in the accounts, executed the trades and reaped the profits. In return, banks were paid a flat fee.
The "option" portion refers to the fact that the hedge funds had the right to purchase the "option" on the performance of a basket of assets. This is similar to how investors can take out options to buy, at a predetermined price, contracts for future delivery of oil or a company's stock. It is a right but not an obligation to buy an asset at a predetermined price.
But "basket options" involve a troubling question: Why would a hedge fund buy an option on its own trading activity?
"It would be absurd," Levin said, noting that the only reason would be for the tax benefits it provided.
Banks and hedge funds worked together to create a "series of fictions," Levin said. One was that banks owned the accounts. Barclays actually stopped listing "basket options" activity in its financial statements as of 2009, arguing that profits belonged to the hedge funds.
The instruments also skirted rules against excessive debt used to take risks. Most hedge funds invest seven or eight times the cash they actually have, a process called leveraged investing. Under the basket options afforded by Barclays and Deutsche Bank, the hedge funds could leverage at a ratio as high as $20 for every dollar they had. This sort of excessive debt used for speculative bets is what brought down investment banks Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and led to the 2008 financial crisis.
The IRS had no comment on criticism by Levin, who complained that after issuing its warning in 2010, there has been little enforcement action or collection of taxes owed.
"As far as we know, that's about it," he said.


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Swirly Pot
- Material: Fiber stone
- Mixture of stone cast directly into the surface, then reinforced with a fiberglass backing
- Carefully stained to give the appearance of age
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- Water Resistant: Yes
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- Overall: 13" H x 13" W x 13" D
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Orlandi Statuary's repertoire encompasses many collections including: Fiber Stone for the garden, Religious Statuary, Fountains, Columns and Pedestals. Four generations of experience and knowledge means they can meet your most challenging demands. They look forward to showing you why, after 100 years, they remain an industry icon.
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text: St. Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes Early Life Bernadette Soubirous was born January 7, 1844, the eldest of six children belonging to Francois Soubirous and Louise Casterot. She was born Marie Bernarde, but was called Bernadette because she was so small. Bernadette was sickly her entire life, suffering from asthma even as a very young child. Her family was always poor, and for a time had to live in the cell of what used to be a prison, where they lived when the apparitions began. At the age of ten, Bernadette was sent for seven months to live with her aunt, both for the sake of her health – negatively affected by the cold winter that year – and because her father was having trouble finding enough work to feed his entire family. She returned once the weather and her health had improved, and her father was finding more work again. In the summer of 1857, she left her home in Lourdes again to spend a few months with a woman, Marie Aravant, in a neighboring town with whom she had lived for a short time as a baby. She worked there as a shepherdess, and Marie Aravant also tried to teach her about the Catholic faith. Never having been properly schooled due to her poor health and her family's financial situation, Bernadette was not the best student. She returned to Lourdes where she began a day school run by the Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction, beginning her first formal secular education as well as preparing for her First Holy Communion. Apparitions Shortly after returning to Lourdes, Bernadette's life changed forever when Mary chose to appear to her. On February 11, 1858, she was collecting firewood with her sister and a friend, when they left her behind to cross an icy stream. Bernadette did not go initially because of her poor health, but was about to take off her stockings to follow when she heard a rustling noise and saw a beautiful young woman in a small opening above the large grotto in the Massabielle rock. This was the first of eighteen apparitions Bernadette would see. Upon hearing what had happened, her parents initially did not want her to go back, thinking that she was hallucinating. Bernadette insisted, however, and the following Sunday she went again, taking holy water to sprinkle on the vision in case it was a demon. Friends who accompanied her began spreading the story when Bernadette saw the vision again, and more and more people became interested in what was going on. Many were still skeptical, including the local church authorities who tended to ignore such visions since most who claimed to see visions like these tended to be unbalanced or suffering from delusions. Civil authorities also tried to discourage Bernadette, trying to get her to admit that she was making up the story, or that she and her parents, who had eventually come to believe their daughter, were simply trying to profit from the frenzy that was continuing to grow as the apparitions became more widely known. In fact the opposite was true – even when people would come to visit Bernadette or her family, trying to give gifts of money or food, both she and her family refused all such offers. The Hidden Spring Over the course of the eighteen apparitions, Mary revealed to Bernadette a previously undiscovered spring in the ground under the grotto, instructed her to tell the priest to build a church at the site, and when he told Bernadette to make the vision give her a name, eventually told Bernadette that she was the Immaculate Conception – a dogma that had been promulgated by Rome only four years earlier. Bernadette also said that Mary disclosed three secrets, but that she was not to tell anyone what they were. After the sightings ended on July 16, 1858, many people continued to seek out Bernadette to hear the story from her own lips, to pray with her, or just to be in the presence of this amazing young woman who was blessed to have seen and talked with the Mother of God. For Bernadette, the swarms of visitors were a burden she felt she had no choice but to carry – she did not like or want the attention she received, but she never wanted to appear ungrateful or distant. Eventually she went to live at the convent where she had been taught so she could have some amount of privacy, but even here people went to see her. When she was twenty she decided to become a nun, and she moved away at age 22 to Nevers, France where the motherhouse of the convent was located. Even her life here was full of trials, partially because the novice-mistress believed Bernadette must have become vain with all the publicity and attention she received and thus gave her many menial tasks to do. Bernadette did them happily, even when it was difficult for her because of her weak body. Throughout her years there, she became loved and regarded as a humble and willing servant who never sought acknowledgment for herself. Sainthood Even as a nun people went to visit her, to see the woman who some already regarded as saintly. Bernadette did not want to deny people the opportunity to see her if it might help to inspire them, but she did cherish her privacy. She also experienced much physical pain in her last years, developing a tumor on her knee, tuberculosis, and still suffering from asthma and other ailments. She died on April 16, 1879 at the age of 35, and was buried in the convent grounds. In 1908, her casket was exhumed and her body found to be incorrupt and amazingly looking as it was when it was buried thirty years earlier. In 1916 she was given the title of Venerable by Pope Pius X, and in 1925 was beatified. On the feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 1933, Bernadette was canonized to the joy of many people. Today, her body is on display in the convent chapel in Nevers, and her feast day is celebrated on April 16. Learn more about Our Lady of Lourdes: The Apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes This article is adapted from Butler's Lives of the Saints.


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'American Idol' Season 12, Episode 10 Recap: Top 40 Finalists Are Revealed
It was the last fight to get into the Top 20 for both the men and the ladies during last night's episode of 'American Idol.'
Unlike Wednesday's episode full of group performances, everyone had to stand on their own and showcase what they're made of here. Some fell flat, many performed melancholic songs and others shined.
Fresh off the bat, Angela Miller gave a killer and inspiring performance to kick off the episode. The judges were impressed with her powerful ballad --she definitely left a lasting impact.
Zoanette Johnson continued to make her own path in 'American Idol' history as she decided at last minute to change her song choice completely. She created her own, and even freestyled the lyrics. And she performed while rocking out on the drums! Nicki Minaj declared the show as the "Zoanette era" while Mariah Carey called it a "performance to remember."
The judges quickly sent home Kiara Lanier while Candice Glover, Janelle Arthur, Jet Hermano, Angela and Zoanette continued their road to compete for the next 'Idol'.
The unique Kez Ban performed an original tune but left little room to impress and was sent home on the spot.
After numerous ladies performed gloomy, heartbreaking tunes, Randy Jackson asked for something upbeat and Melinda Ademi delivered just that with Jessie J's 'Price Tag,' lifting up the entire atmosphere. Keith Urban told Melinda she had a "good light" about her while Nicki MInaj said, "You've become a star today."
Unfortunately, Ashley Smith, Sarina-Joi Crowe, Briana Oakley, Lauren Bettes, Holly Miller and Ariel Sprague were all sent home.
Before the judges decided which ladies would make it to the top 20, they asked Stephanie Schmiel and Rachel Hale to get a shot at redemption. Both dazzled the judges but Rachel was the only one to secure a place in the top 20, sending Stephanie home.
They then ask a few more men to perform one last time to help them narrow down which contestants will be make up the other 20 competing for the 'American Idol' victory.
Adam Sanders and Josh Holidaywere up first. Adam wowed the judges since his first audition but after going solo, he's given nothing but shaky performances and this second chance continued with the bad streak. However, Josh amazed Mariah, Nicki, Randy and Keith with a gospel-esque rendition of 'Georgia On My Mind.'
So Josh stayed, while Adam, Peter Garrett, Marvin Caldaron, Devin Jones, Kenny Harrison, Will White, Tony Foster and David Leathers were sent packing.
Here's the official list of the Top 20 Season 12 'American Idol' finalists below.
Melinda Ademi 19 Yonkers, NY
Janelle Arthur 23 Oliver Springs, TN
Juliana Chahayed 15 Woodland Hills, CA
Cristabel Clack 29 San Antonio, TX
Aubrey Cleland 19 West Linn, OR
Candice Glover 23 St. Helena Island, SC
Rachel Hale 21 Prescott, AR
Kree Harrison 22 Nashville, TN
Jett Hermano 25 Seattle, WA
Amber Holcomb 18 Houston, TX
Brandy Hotard 26 Port Allen, LA
Isabelle 22 Duluth, GA
Zoanette Johnson 20 Tulsa, OK
Adriana Latonio 17 Anchorage, AK
Angela Miller 18 Beverly, MA
Kamaria Ousley 29 Oakland, CA
Breanna Steer 18 Laplace, LA
Tenna Torres 28 Queens, NY
Shubha Vedula 17 Mt. Pleasant, MI
Jenny Beth Willis 17 Owensboro, KY
Lazaro Arbos 21 Naples, FL
Charlie Askew 17 Little Rock, AR
Nick Boddington 27 Memphis, TN
Curtis Finch Jr. 24 St. Louis, MO
Kevin Harris 28 Montgomery, AL
Josh Holiday 24 Celeste, TX
J'DA 27 Chicago, IL
Paul Jolley 22 Palmersville, TN
Johnny Keyser 24 Pompano Beach, FL
Elijah Liu 18 Rowland Heights, CA
Vincent Powell 29 Austin, TX
Cortez Shaw 21 Dallas, TX
Gurpreet Singh Sarin 22 North Potomac, MD
Jimmy Smith 25 Waynesboro, TN
Bryant Tadeo 23 Hilo, HI
Burnell Taylor 19 New Orleans, LA
Mathenee Treco 26 Aurora, CO
Devin Velez 18 Chicago, IL
Chris Watson 25 Fords, NJ
David Willis 21 Mount Dora, FL
Watch 'American Idol' Season 12, Episode 10 Recap


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|2012-12-05, 14:27
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Well you could look at it from this point. If she really has the potential to leave a mark on history with the level of her art, then wasting her talents is practically insult to all the people who wish they could be that good at something. Yes, it's ultimately her decision and no one has a right to force her, but shirking it off is definitely a waste. People would die to have that sort of opportunity in life, but she instead uses her ability to be a mangaka, and not necessarily a great one.
If you have the chance to really make a mark of the world you live in, but you end up doing something that's not really special and a lot of other people can do, then I think as a person that is incredibly disappointing.
She's free of course to make whatever decision she wants of course, however, there is no doubt that people around her could rightfully feel indignant.
As for the episode itself... I am always quite boggled by how much of a struggle this series puts itself in. There's a good show with interesting themes and characters underneath a thick veil of cheap stock annoying harem tropes that is just struggling to get air. This truly could be a good series if they just toned down certain aspects.
|2012-12-05, 16:14
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|2012-12-05, 16:31
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Let's take some examples of what people think...
All of which if ignored might at least achieve something; and when applied achieve nothing.
There is no such thing as a representation of a majority (this sock puppet everyone waves in their arguments), it's all just a collective thought, a collective idea. Have enough people make enough random noise and you can hear mumbling. It can be positive, as well as negative, and most often it's just very stupid, much like a generalization. Idol worship is among the top on the "none of us, is as stupid as all of us" category.
In the case of the series, should Mashiro care for all these strangers who she likely never met and which from the perspective of the series have only contacted her though Rita? (going by Rita's words) I say Nay. She has plenty of people around her already that need her, people that she cares about, people that care about her. Like everyone she has the right to live, to live her own damn life, not be someone's foot stool just because some invisible majority of crybabies has aspiration of being part of some elitist circle of fools.
Of all things it has to be mass produced masterpiece art on demand; do you think people that would want something as contrived and convenient as that even think of Mashiro as anything more then another tool? How convenient isn't it, the all-needy majority doesn't have to abide by this little one-sided rule of slave-by-popular-opinion. What might happen if they had to consider Mashiro's feelings too... but they can't speak, because the entire "majority" Mashiro is suppose to defend is nothing but hot air.
"Make a mark on history [and betray everyone close to you in the process.]"
You would be fulfilling what? other people's "selfish" desired? How is that so much better...
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|2012-12-05, 16:46
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And you keep missing out an important factor- This is more than just about what a bunch of faceless art fans want; Mashiro's work has the potential to go down in history as one of the great names of art. Even if not for her own sake of fame, but for generations to come to study and be inspired by like all the great masters that came before her- You may not care about fine arts but apparently there are more than enough people in this world that does so yes this is a big deal to throw it away to become an average to decent mangaka.
|2012-12-05, 17:04
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Now it's an extreme example of course since Shiina's art is never going to actually change the world in such a way, but the heart of the matter here is that someone has a gift to do something. People would die to have that gift. People around her will rightfully feel indignant. They would feel cheated by life here, and it's a very natural reaction.
Would Shiina be doing anyone around her any favors by choosing to do art instead? Not particularly. So while no one has the right to force her, it definitely is a loss for humanity for such talent to go unused.
|2012-12-05, 17:06
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Lets put Shiina in a cage and force her to throw away her life and make her do somthing that she doesn't want. What she wants to do with her life and that it is her own doesn't matter at all because she is just a tool that exist to inspire people.
How incredible as it sounds, there are some people that really believe in this.
I am happy that I live in the part of the world where human rights are respected and something like that would never be accepted and not tolerated.
|2012-12-05, 17:17
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I can agree that many will think it's a "waste of talent", but I don't see how the historical signifance of her paintings will suddenly wane if she doesn't paint until the very end. If the paintings Shiina has already created are as great as they should be, then they should be recognized whether she makes new paintings or not.
For example:
After his ... what, second retirement?... he came back to play on the Washington Wizards and was... not all that great. I don't think anyone think anyone considers Michael Jordan's performance with the Wizards as part of his legacy.
Suppose a girl had the body and talent to be the best in a less intellectually praised occupation, like a model. The woman has a voluptuous body with curves in all the right places and a face that looks attractive without makeup. Many agencies have tried scouting her, but she turns them down in the end because she doesn't want to be recognized that way and wants to go study physics at at a university, even if she was never at the top of her class or anything near that.
If everyone she knew, from her friends to her professors kept telling her she should quit being a university scholar to become a model despite her choice to decline it, couldn't that be seen as offensive, even if it's not exactly wrong?
or let's go even darker: a person has the natural talent to kill. The person is extremely nimble, aware of the human anatomy, and can defeat all his/her opponents with a few precise blows, almost like the person can literally see the end lined into other people's bodies (*ahem*). People around this person urge him to be an assassin, or an official secret like the CIA, and eliminate all the corrupt and evil tyrants and terrorists in the world. Can this person be upset if he does not want to use his natural ability to kill?
The mere principle of being urged to pursue a career that they may be skilled but are not interested in at the moment can be just as upsetting as the an untalented person seeing a talented person not pursue what they are best at. The only reason why Sorata and Rita's suggestion doesn't (and rightly should not) offend many is because they are human with thought processes that can be followed.
If another creature or thing made such a suggestion, like say... a certain magic hat telling Harry about his initial affinity for the Slytherin House, or a supercomputer system in a certain anime this season outright scaling every citizen's affinity, high or low, for every profession, people would be less inclined to agree.
|2012-12-05, 17:31
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Since when was she in a cage? The very fact that she could go to Japan in the first place is proof enough of her freedom.
And if you think inspiring a younger generation of potential artists is not an admirable work, well- that just goes to show how short sighted and narrow your thinking is.
Because A) Nobody likes a one-hit wonder, and B) This is definitely not the pinnacle of her skills- she would continue to improve and improve...
|2012-12-05, 17:41
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If anything, all the great masters worked against the system, against the "things other people thought as the only `masterpiece` that matter" or as the only "goal in life, that matters". If Mashiro stays (in peace) with those around her she cherishes she may just invent her own new form of art, or rather continue to develop her art form, since if there's anything all artists strive for is to have a little something they can call their own; not to hold the record as the best human-printingpress in history.
You know all those world record holders? How many do you know their name? Can you even count them on your fingers? Greatness is not measured in what you do, but how you live your life. Ask an average person on the street what they know about the great masters and you'll here more trivia about them then things like what painting they painted, what music they made, or how many concerts they held.
|2012-12-05, 17:47
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As I've just said above, how is she in a bird cage when she could go to not just another street, not just another city, not just another state, but another freaking COUNTRY on another freaking CONTINENT all by herself?
Heck she certainly didn't seem like she was living in a shipping container for two weeks, nor was she a little light on luggage. And someone certainly had made preparations to pick her up.
Were you the type of child that screamed "Oppression!" when people stopped you from going out with your friends?
|2012-12-05, 17:54
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This may all be a "very natural reaction", but it's fundamentally unhealthy because it prevents people from doing the things they can do in the place where they are to make their world and The World a better place.
Rather than focus on what's good for Mashiro, perhaps we should really be talking about what's good for Rita. Perhaps she should pull the plank out of her own eye first.
|2012-12-05, 17:55
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B) This is a circular assumption based on her talent.
|2012-12-05, 17:56
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Mashiro didn't go from one world to another, she expanded her own limits. Did she ever say she hated painting, she hated England? The episode itself even made it a point to show she's still an artist by having her paint the room. Yet all of you preach how her living in a confined world is for the best, how she needs to be in "England" for her to be the pretty white birdy, because she can't possibly be that outside.
Why did she leave? Because eventually the lie becomes truth and like a domesticated animal, (eventually) she would indeed not be able to live outside of her cage.
|2012-12-05, 17:56
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Yeah people are acting as if Shiina ran away from home or something and Rita is here to kidnap her
The girl needs a caretaker, so she couldn't have organized this whole trip to Japan by herself, so it's not like the people around her in england denied her the opportunity.
|2012-12-05, 18:04
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B) This is a circular assumption based on her talent.
Third, even assuming everything is true: that Mashiro should return to painting, and that no one would recognize her until she continues painting, why does it have to be now? Shiina never blatantly claimed she would never paint again, did she?
Do what her parents do and respect her break. Even if you don't approve of it, at least let her continue for a bit so that there's a higher possibility that she'll come back on her own terms, instead of coming back to painting grudgingly, then burning out later. It's one thing if Shiina was a deadbeat child and didn't want to do anything like a real child. She has her own separate goals and is taking steps to realize them.
|2012-12-05, 18:10
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True, but she never said that she would either.
Had she said that to Rita we might be talking about different things right now.
She left because she wanted to learn about drawing manga, even when she got to Japan did you see her going "Ahhh freedoommmm! Independence!!!" ? No, she didn't care about those things, her world wasn't narrowed because of other people, she simply didn't care about anything that doesn't capture her interest. Even now this has barely changed.
And why have you suddenly make this about going back to England ? I don't think anybody on my side of the argument have said about going back to England, all we said was going back to painting.
|2012-12-05, 18:20
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Speaking of Rita,Shiina gave her a nice big welcome hug, so it's not like they were on bad terms over her decision when she left England,.
|2012-12-05, 18:28
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|2012-12-05, 18:47
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Let's assume that she has no wish to do what people demand from her. And if those people who believe she is just tool to insipire others and she has no right to live her own life, than the only option for those people would be to put her in a cage and force her to do what they want, because there is chance that she will not accept their nonses and will escape.
The freedom is at the moment lost when people like you force others to drop their dreams and their lifes and make them do what you want them to do.
I wonder who is short sighted and norrow thinking in this whole debate.
After all, it's you who is going against fundamental human rights, against something that people have fighted for centuries and died for, and you have no problem with that, because you justify this with inspiring other people.
Simple question.
Is Shiina just a tool or a human being with rights, such as freedom to chose for herself what she does with her life? What do you believe. And talking around the bush is not allowed. Just a straight answer. Option A or option B.
|2012-12-05, 18:49
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That being said however, why are you acting like there is a Sugou somewhere behind the scenes adjusting his glasses smugly? There isn't a villainous mastermind behind the scenes in this story. All this comes down to is which of her work is better suited in honing her talent.
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TOPEKA - A proposal to start a new 401(k)-style pension plan for new Kansas teachers and government workers and a competing plan to boost the benefits of public retirees failed Monday to clear a committee in the state House.
The House Pensions and Benefits Committee's voice votes on the measure suggested that many lawmakers aren't enthusiastic about major changes to policies they've enacted in recent years to improve the long-term financial health of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System.
The pension system is projecting a gap of nearly $10.3 billion between anticipated revenues and its commitments to retirees through June 2033, but it also expects the shortfall to melt away because of laws enacted in 2011 and 2012.
Changes in recent years boosted state contributions to public pensions and even committed profits from state-owned casinos. The state revised benefit plans for existing employees and created a new one for workers hired starting next year that moves away from traditional plans that guarantee benefits up front, based on an employee's salary and years of service. But the alterations stop short of creating a 401(k)-style plan, in which benefits are tied to investment earnings.
"We need to stay the course," said Rep. John Barker, an Abilene Republican.
The House last week approved a bill, 94-26, to revise parts of the pension plan for workers hired starting next year, and the Senate established a special committee to look at the changes. But legislators in both parties have said they see little appetite to go further.
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The Adams Gallery presents its annual juried show of work from the Fine Arts program of the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University.
The sixth annual Springboard exhibition, at the Adams Gallery through July 6, 2014, features a wide variety of media and ideas and reflects the rich creative practices the recent graduates developed for their senior thesis work as they completed the bachelor of fine arts degree.
Works by the following artists, all of whom earned BFAs in Fine Arts this year, are featured in the Springboard exhibit:
- Sharon Eblacker, Left Room, recipient of the 2014 Fine Arts Juror's Award, presented by Lexi Lee Sullivan, the associate curator of contemporary art at the Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts
- Karl Benner, Shadows, felt, wood, pipe cleaners; Dunes, video projection
- Emily Dumala, Evanescent, mixed media
- Mallory Salvaggio, Untitled, photography installation
The Adams Gallery is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. daily, except for major holidays.
Artists from top to bottom of page:
Mallory Salvaggio
Sharon Eblacker
Emily Dumala
Karl Benner


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