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All Things Considered's Found Recipes series isn't just about food. It's about drinks, too — including those that require a valid form of ID.
And the best cocktail is one that's well-balanced, according to bartender Chad Phillips. It will "leave you feeling completely satisfied and better about your life than the second you sat down at my bar," he says.
Phillips tends bar at the Social Club at the Surfcomber Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. On the Miami bar scene, he's known for his culinary and creative approach to bartending.
One of his favorite inventions is a unique beet-infused gin cocktail he calls the "Beet Me in St. Louis." He created it for his fiance on her first Mother's Day and says he drew inspiration from their relationship. Early on, the two had bonded over a shared love of Beefeater martinis and beets.
"I really wanted to encompass our relationship in a glass," he says.
To make the infused gin, Phillips skinned and chopped fresh red beets and put them in a jar with the gin for three days. "Then I had this beautiful beet gin and no idea really what to do with it," he says. So he turned to The Flavor Bible.
"[It's] essentially a cookbook that lists all of the flavor pairings of different ingredients and how they go together," he says.
While paging through the book, Phillips discovered that beets go well with honey, ginger, lemon juice and tarragon, so he set to work on a cocktail that used those flavors. He says he perfected it on the first try.
"I went home that night and I made it for my fiance," he says. "She loved it. ... It just kind of coats your entire mouth with happiness and all the way down. It's just beautiful."
Recipe: Beet Me In St. Louis
Beet-Infused Gin
2 large uncooked beets, peeled and chopped into 1/4-1/2 inch chunks
1 liter Beefeater Gin
Combine the beets with gin in a glass container and place in a cool, dark place, shaking once or twice a day. After three days, remove the beets from the gin. Store the infused gin in the refrigerator.
Honey-Tarragon Syrup
Hot water
Fresh tarragon
Combine equal parts honey and hot water in a container and stir until the two have mixed together. Fill the container with as much fresh tarragon as you can and let sit 8 to 10 hours at room temperature. Strain to remove tarragon.
1 1/2 ounce Beet-Infused Gin
1/2 ounce Domaine De Canton ginger liqueur
1/2 ounce Honey-Tarragon Syrup
1/2 ounce lemon juice
Tarragon leaves
Combine all ingredients in shaker. Shake and strain into a coupe cocktail glass. Garnish with two tarragon leaves.
For today's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Found Recipe, we went to a hot place for a cool cocktail.
CHAD PHILLIPS: A great cocktail should be well balanced and leave you feeling completely satisfied and better about your life from the second you sat down at my bar.
BLOCK: And that bar would be The Social Club at the Surfcomber Hotel in Miami Beach. Chad Phillips is considered by many to be one of the best bartenders there, thanks to his culinary and creative approach to mixing drinks.
PHILLIPS: Today, I'm going to make the Beet Me in St. Louis cocktails, one of my favorite cocktails.
BLOCK: Beat Me in St. Louis? Beat as in...
MICHAEL JACKSON: (Singing) Beat it. Beat it. No one...
PHILLIPS: Just to clarify that it's B-E-E-T, as in the red vegetable. not beat as in Michael Jackson's "Beat it."
BLOCK: That's right, beets. They're not just for soup and salads anymore.
PHILLIPS: So this drink has a beet infused Beefeater Gin, little bit of Domain De Canto ginger liquor, some fresh squeezed lemon juice and a honey tarragon syrup.
PHILLIPS: This cocktail created for my fiancee on her first Mother's Day. It's kind of born from the start of our relationship when we bounded over our love of Beefeater martinis, and cooking beets in our kitchen. And so, for her first Mother's Day, I really wanted to encompass our relationship in a glass.
And so, I took some fresh red beets, skinned them, peeled them, put them in a jar with Beefeater Gin. And I let that sit for about three days, and then I had this beautiful beet gin and no idea really what to do with it. So I went to kind of my bible, "The Flavor Bible," which lists - it's essentially a cookbook that lists all of the flavor pairings of different ingredients and how they go together.
I started looking through that, what goes well with beets. Turns out ginger goes really well, honey goes really well, lemon juice, tarragon. And it turns out all of these flavors really worked well together. And so, I took the gin to my bar and - believe or not - my first try, I nailed it. It was a perfect drink. And so I went home that night and I made it for my fiancee and she loved it. And because of that it's one of my favorite drinks I've ever created.
PHILLIPS: And as we strained it in, we're going to finish it off with a garnish, which is two tarragon leaves. And it's to really bring out aroma. We're going to place them in our palm. We're going to give them a nice, hard smack.
PHILLIPS: And then we're going to lay those on top of the drink, just to really put those aromas in your nose as you take your first sip. It just kind of coats your entire mouth with happiness. And just all the way down, it's just beautiful.
BLOCK: And if you can't get to Miami, or just want to try this at home, you can find Chad Phillip's recipe for his Beet Me in St. Louis Cocktail on the Found Recipes page at NPR.org.
You'll also find details about our Taste of Summer Contest there. We're looking for recipes for the summer food and drinks you just can't do without. Those recipes don't have to be original, but the stories behind them should be true and interesting - even laugh out loud funny.
BLOCK: We don't ask for a whole lot. Do we, Robert?
SIEGEL: No.
BLOCK: Type it all out. at NPR.org, click on Contact Us, and please make sure Taste of Summer is in your subject line. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Z Y Restaurant is a well-known Chinese restaurant in San Francisco and we serve very famous guests from Presidents to Vice Presidents, and more! San Francisco residents continue to enjoy our hot and fresh Szechuan Chinese food every today. If you are in a hurry, just give us a call to order take out or delivery . We also have seating for private parties, banquets, and large parties for up to a hundred people.
Z Y Restaurant is proud to have executive Chef Han, an internationally renowned chef in the world of authentic Asian cuisine. He has gained his reputation by preparing food for some of the most distinguished men and women in the world. These include presidents, vice presidents, and foreign ministers of the People's Republic of China.
Chef Han prepares food in an exceptional way, with a traditional approach while incorporating new world flare. His national acclaim for fusing spicy Schezuan flavors and Northern Chinese food dishes has allowed us to receive outstanding recognition.
Z Y Restaurant is the 1st restaurant having Kung Fu Tea performance in the Bay Area. Chef Han continues to introduce Chinese culture to the eater. We wish the eaters having unique and fun dining experience in San Francisco. This is why local people and tourists love coming to Z Y Restaurant. Chef Han will keep surprising the eaters with good food and fun entertainment.
All of our customers agree, Z Y Restaurant is an exceptional restaurant for authentic Chinese food and is one of the best Asian cuisine in San Francisco. Our staff is friendly, courteous, and has extensive knowledge of all the items on our menu. We invite you to experience our authentic Chinese cuisine and to enjoy the amazing fresh taste of authentic Chinese food right here in San Francisco. Contact us with any questions. Come dine with us!
As a tenant representative, it is our goal to be our client's biggest advocate and help them make the best and most educated decision possible. In order to do this, educating them on terms associated with square feet is important. Every commercial real estate transaction is priced on a PSF (Per Square Foot) basis and defined in total square feet…versus residential transaction that look at number of rooms and other defining characteristics. Although this may seem pretty cut and dry there are actually two types of square feet that are reference in common commercial real estate transactions: RSF (Rentable Square Feet) and USF (Usable Square Feet).
Understanding the difference between RSF and USF can mean a monumental cost savings in the long run-as the two numbers can vary anywhere from 3% to 20%. USF refers to the square footage the tenant actually can "use" in their office space. This space can be looked at as the private space a tenant uses to host its business, equipment, furniture, and personnel. On the other hand, RSF refers to everything the USF does, plus common areas of the building such as restrooms, hallways, elevator shafts, stairwells, etc… Therefore this number will be higher than USF which thus begs the question: Are offices usually quoted on a RSF basis or a USF basis?
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There are a number of different services that you can get from a window installer. Whether they are done for your home or your business, you have a large number of options. A qualified installation tech will be able to ensure that you are satisfied and benefit greatly from their professional services.
Installation of Energy Efficient Windows
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Another great service is the placement of coverings or awnings to keep the weather off of glass and to provide better heat regulation. During the summer an awning will keep out heat through the provision of shade. During the winter, it will keep snow off of the glass, allowing you to keep more heat inside of your home. These can also be put on your sliding door, allowing you to create a place to sit and enjoy time with your family.
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Man killed at hospital was fugitive convict
PORTLAND — A 50-year-old convict left unguarded to fly to Denver and report to a halfway house for eventual release instead skipped out and robbed a bank before Portland police shot him to death, authorities said Tuesday.
The man was identified Tuesday as 50-year-old Merle Mikal Hatch. His mother and law enforcement officials said he had a record of violent and drug-related crimes. He had been serving a 10-year bank robbery sentence.
A U.S. Bureau of Prisons vehicle delivered him from the medium-security facility at Sheridan in Yamhill County to the airport in Portland for a Feb. 12 flight to Denver.
He was unguarded after that and didn't show up later in the day at the halfway house, also known as a re-entry center, said Paul Thompson, an official at the Sheridan prison.
Three days later, the Clackamas County sheriff's office said, he held up a Wells Fargo bank office in Clackamas.
Two days after that, on Sunday night, he checked into the emergency room of Portland Adventist Medical Center and had a black handgun, Portland police said.
He threatened a hospital employee, left the building and pointed the gun at a security car in an employee parking lot before three police officers fired at him.
An autopsy Tuesday determined he died of multiple wounds.
The Portland Police Bureau hasn't provided much detail about the officers' confrontation with Hatch, except to say that they "began giving him commands" and then they fired.
A police statement said it expected to provide an account Wednesday, after the officers have been interviewed.
Hatch was convicted in 2005 of a bank robbery in Colorado the year before, said Chris Burke, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons. Burke said the sentence was 125 months. Details about the robbery were not immediately available.
By law, Hatch would have been at the Denver halfway house no more than a year before release, Burke said.
Thompson said it's typical for an inmate to go unguarded through the airport for such a trip.
"That's their transition from incarceration to the community," he said.
Details about how much good time Hatch had earned toward early release and his exact release date were not available Tuesday, Burke and Thompson said.
Hatch's mother, Mary Hatch, told The Oregonian newspaper she and her husband last saw their son 15 to 20 years ago, and he appeared to have fallen on hard times. She said he hadn't married, had children or had a job.
"He was troubled," said Hatch, who lives in Iowa. "He was in and out of prison most of his adult life. He got into drugs early. There wasn't much left of the person we knew as a kid growing up."


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The battle for free verse was over by the time I became a critic: Unmetered poetry was, if not dominant, well on its way to it. So I missed many of the early great essays that argued for or against the verse of Walt Whitman and others.
But I caught up with one of them after the recent publication of Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism (Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 288 pp., $18.95, paperback), edited by Garrick Davis with a foreword by William Logan. Davis notes that in the essay, "The Problem of Form," the American poet and scholar J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) makes the case against free verse with unusual skill: "The indispensability of meter has never been argued for more succinctly."
Cunningham holds that the popularity of free verse springs from American ideals: We live in a democratic society and "give a positive value to informality." Formal language is an anathema because we associate it with a hierarchical and authoritarian world with rules set by a privileged class. We see the measured or formal as insincere or a perversion of "the central value of our life, genuineness of feeling."
If we value informality, we believe we must get rid of formality or form, which is by nature repetitive, Cunningham goes on: "But to get rid of it we must keep it; we must have something to get rid of." And formal poetry involves a convergence of forms that — metrical, grammatical, rhetorical, conceptual and more. "Indeed, it is the inherent coincidence of forms in poetry, in metrical writing, that gives it its power." So when we abandon meter in poetry, we abandon more:
"And here in naked reduction is the problem of form in the poetry of our day. It is before all a problem of meter. We have lost the repetitive harmony of the old tradition, and we have not established a new. We have written to vary or violate the old line, for regularity we feel is meaningless and irregularity meaningful. But a generation of poets, acting on the principles and practice of significant variation, have last nothing to vary from. The last variation is regularity."
Cunningham wrote this decades ago, and a lot has changed. Many contemporary poets work at least partly with forms that include not just meter but rhyme. Those poets include Mary Jo Salter, editor of the Norton Anthology of Poetry, whose recent A Phone Call to the Future will be reviewed soon on this site.
So I'm quoting this not because I agree with all of what Cunningham says but because he makes an argument rarely heard these days. What do you think? Should more people be making it?
Read more about Praising It New at www.ohioswallow.com/book/Praising+It+New and about J. V. Cunningham at www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80763.
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ADRIAN — The Adrian Dominican Sisters have announced that they will host an open forum to discuss the proposal to put an oil-processing plant in Heritage Park.
The forum will take place at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, at the Weber Center, 1257 E. Siena Heights Drive, on the Adrian Dominican Sisters Motherhouse campus, according to a news release from the Adrian Dominican Sisters.
The forum will feature a panel of area residents with expertise in biology, health care, volatile gases, the region's geography and the impact of oil drilling on the Irish Hills, according to the release.
The forum will provide an opportunity for citizens of the Adrian community "to learn about the potential effects of siting an oil-processing plant in the city and to ask questions of concern," the news release said.
Heritage Park is owned by the city but is in Raisin Township.
On Jan. 22, the Adrian City Commission tabled a resolution to authorize the city administrator to enter into an agreement with Savoy Energy Limited Partnership of Traverse City to allow Savoy to locate an oil "central production and processing facility" in Heritage Park and also to install an underground pipeline to bring oil to the facility from nearby properties.
Savoy has leased approximately 1,184 acres of city-owned land, including Heritage Park, for oil and gas exploration. Savoy drilled a well in Heritage Park last year. The oil derrick had been removed from that well by early December of last year, but a check Friday revealed that it has been reinstalled.
Savoy also drilled an oil well on city-owned land along M-52 a short distance southwest of the intersection of M-52 and Howell Highway.
The city commission is expected to consider the oil facility agreement again at the commission's Feb. 18 meeting.
Forum planned to address proposal for oil-processing plant in Heritage Park
ADRIAN — The Adrian Dominican Sisters have announced that they will host an open forum to discuss the proposal to put an oil-processing plant in Heritage Park.


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Sales Training Helps Maine Contractors Close the Deal
Contractors are the most important point of contact for a homeowner during the energy efficiency upgrade process. In most markets, they not only need building science skills, but also an ability to sell program options to homeowners. To equip its contractors with the skills necessary to close the sale, Better Buildings Neighborhood Program partner Efficiency Maine offered a sales training to its contractor base with significant results.
In summer 2010, Efficiency Maine program managers began shadowing contractors on home visits and observed that they focused on demonstrating their building science expertise by using technical language. The complex terminology, however, often alienated homeowners unintentionally and derailed the sales process. The assessment-to-upgrade conversion ratio hovered around 10%.
Efficiency Maine worked with a local outpost of a national training company to customize a two-day training course that blended selling techniques with building science. More than 30 partner contractors took Efficiency Maine's voluntary training by fall 2010. Contractors who were initially skeptical reported changing the way they approached and interacted with customers as a result of the training (see Figure 1). Due in part to these changes, by the end of December, 60% of homeowners who underwent an energy assessment were also taking the next step to upgrade their homes. (Efficiency Maine also increased incentive amounts during this time period.)
The contractor training program's sales model focused on homeowners' needs by addressing the contractor-homeowner relationship stages, including:
- Prospecting for and conducting home energy assessments
- Selling whole-home upgrades
- Ensuring customer satisfaction upon completion
- Getting referrals for new customers
To facilitate positive contractor-homeowner interactions, Efficiency Maine offered contractors a template proposal emphasizing homeowner needs and an assessment checklist to qualify interested customers. Contractors asked homeowners to rate their upgrade motivations (e.g., saving money) on a scale of 1 to 10. The checklist also reminded contractors to establish rapport by smiling, complimenting the home, and removing their shoes. Efficiency Maine contractors were also asked to sign the program's code of conduct form to further solidify their customer service commitment.
President and CEO of Evergreen Home Performance, Richard Burbank, was so impressed training that he subsequently paid for all of his auditors to learn about sales and marketing. This was especially important since Efficiency Maine transitioned from energy efficiency rebates to a second loan program in 2011.
"A year after [Efficiency Maine's] rebates ended, we were selling more with no rebates," Burbank said. "The bottom line is our company is thriving because of this program."
Efficiency Maine has since leveraged its relationships with other state groups to make the training available to more Maine clean energy professionals. For example, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., a nonprofit community development organization, has adopted the training as part of its workforce development efforts with solar energy and other green contractor firms.
To learn more about Efficiency Maine's contractor sales training initiative, read the full case study.
Danielle Sass Byrnett is the manager of the Better Buildings Neighborhood Program.
This story originally appeared as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Better Buildings Neighborhood Progam collection of case studies analyzing effective strategies used by its state and local energy efficiency program partners across the country. Better Buildings Neighborhood Program partners are helping consumers reduce energy use, save money, and support the development of local jobs.
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McMinnville second in Main Street contest
Parade magazine announced Collierville, Tennessee, online on Friday, Aug. 15, as its first place winner in its voting for America's Best Main Street contest which took place in late June and early July, putting finalist McMinnville in the second place spot.
Collierville and McMinnville started out battling 14 other cities in the 16-team sports style bracket with all voting conducted online.
In addition to Collierville being featured online, McMinnville received a nice story and a gallery of photos, as well.
Visit Parade's online announcement at this link: Parade's Main Street contest.
For more information, see Tuesday's print edition.


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New WORLD Theater was founded at UMass Amherst in 1979 by Roberta Uno with the mission of presenting innovative works of theater by contemporary artists of color, with the goal of fostering creative communities, promoting cultural equity, and embracing diverse cultural backgrounds, social engagement, and a commitment to justice. For more than thirty years New WORLD Theater produced many dozens of plays and other dramatic works representing new voices in the theater, as well as plays from the traditional multicultural repertory, and they have supported the arts through performance residencies, conferences and colloquia, and a variety of initiatives aimed at the diverse communities they serve, youth, and theater professionals. New WORLD Theater has contributed significantly to national conversations on cultural equity. After more than three decades of acclaim and recognition, New WORLD Theater was closed by UMass Amherst in summer 2010.
The bulk of the New WORLD Theater collection consists of administrative records documenting the day-to-day activities of the theater, however, it also contains an extensive and exceptionally rich archive of taped interviews, conferences, and theatrical productions. Taken together, the audiovisual material traces the history of New WORLD through the words and performances of artists who both contributed to and benefited from the theater.
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Year 7 Experience Day
On Friday 24 August, you're invited to a shared Year 7 class, a tour of the school and afternoon tea. All interested parents and children welcome.
Affordable, quality schooling can be difficult to find. At St James Lutheran College, we pride ourselves on providing a supportive community atmosphere in which your child/children can grow. Students receive the best possible start in life because they are taught to respect each other and to respect themselves. They are also encouraged and shown how to succeed in today's technological society.
Each child deserves a school that prepares them effectively for their future through offering guidance, support and encouragement. At St James Lutheran College, we work in partnership with parents/carers to provide this environment. Each student is valued as an individual and is encouraged to develop to the best of their potential: academically; spiritually; and in the sporting and cultural arenas. We are in partnership with you and your children; your involvement in your child's education is vital.
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In the early '90s, Ben Folds Five achieved underground success by playing the college circuit, selling out small clubs all across the country.
That all changed with the success of its 1997 album Whatever and Ever Amen. Its hit single "Brick" went to No. 6 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks list, only the second single in the band's history to chart.
But after the success of "Brick," the band's next album — The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner — was considered a failure. Lead singer Ben Folds says that while promoting that record, he and his bandmates found themselves rundown, tired after a year of nonstop touring and disappointing record sales.
"The people who came for the hit go away on your next record," Folds says.
Ben Folds Five broke up amicably in 2000. Each of the band's members — Folds, drummer Darren Jessee and bassist Robert Sledge — pursued his own solo projects.
"If we weren't enjoying it, I don't really know how we expected to make great music," Folds says. "And if it doesn't seem inspired for any reason, it's time to move on. There was no real discussion."
The band didn't play together again until 2008, when it reunited to play the entire Reinhold Messner album before a hometown audience in Chapel Hill, N.C.
"Within 30 minutes of rehearsing for that concert, I personally felt like we had never broken up," Sledge says. "The band played so well together. ... It really formed in my mind like, 'Oh, we could probably do another record. We could probably go out on tour, we could probably do a lot of things, because musically, we're in the right head space.' "
That new album is now a reality. Here, Sledge and Folds join weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz to talk about The Sound of the Life of the Mind and the band's future together.
And if you're just tuning in, you're listening to WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. And it's time now for music.
RAZ: Back in the late 1990s, the band Ben Folds Five started getting a lot of national attention for their quirky lyrics and piano-driven power pop. Until that point, they'd been a local favorite in their hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. But their 1997 record, "Whatever and Ever Amen," made them and front man Ben Folds stars.
RAZ: After the success of that album, their follow-up, called "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner," fell flat. Critics loved it, but the fans, well, they wanted more of the same. And the new album was somewhat complicated.
BEN FOLDS: The people who came for the hit go away on your next record.
RAZ: That's front man Ben Folds. The band went on tour for a year to promote that record. And when it was all done, the members of Ben Folds Five were done as well - exhausted.
FOLDS: We weren't enjoying it. I don't really know how we expected to make great music. And if it doesn't seem inspired for any reason, it's time to move on. There was no real discussion.
RAZ: And so in 2000, Ben Folds Five split up. Now, Ben Folds Five is actually not five but three. There's singer Ben Folds, drummer Darren Jesse and bassist Robert Sledge. They spent most of the past dozen years doing their own things. But now, they reunited with a new record called "The Sound of the Life of the Mind." And bassist Robert Sledge says that process began back in 2008, when for just one night in Chapel Hill, they got back together again on stage.
ROBERT SLEDGE: Within 30 minutes of rehearsing, I personally felt like we had never broken up. The band played so well together. And I thought it was going to be much harder. I thought it was going to be maybe a little bit more uncomfortable between the members. I thought it would be a little bit more of a struggle musically. And it was just super easy. And so it really formed in my mind, like, oh, we could probably do another record. We could probably go out and tour. We could probably do a lot of things because musically, we're in the right headspace.
RAZ: You guys have this style on your records - and, Ben, on your solo records - where you tell these stories these kind of narratives, and they seem to refer to true things. You had a song on one of your records called "Steven's Last Night in Town." It was very sort of visual. You were thinking about this party, and there was this sort of irritating guy at the party singing about, you know, telling Linda McCartney stories, just weird stories. And there's a song on this record about somebody named Michael Praytor five years later.
FOLDS: Yeah.
RAZ: Who's Michael Praytor?
FOLDS: Well, literally, Michael Praytor is our monitor man.
RAZ: He runs the monitor for shows?
FOLDS: Yeah. And I make up a song on stage nearly every night.
RAZ: I've seen you in concert, by the way, and you do this. You just - it's like improv.
FOLDS: Yeah, yeah.
RAZ: Like improv comedy. Someone throws something out, and you'll write a song.
FOLDS: I'm a really slow and fearful writer. Like, I really have a hard time finishing songs. But what I do love is that the other side of my brain can complete a song, three-minute song, with a chorus and verses and everything. You know, they're not classics, but a lot of times, they're very classic melodies or very classic ideas.
What the song ended up being about, rather than my monitor man, was just - ends up being his name in it - is just about the kind of person that you run into over and over again in your life, and you just don't know why. And at some point in your life, I think you start to realize that you walk life's path with random people, and you have to sort of embrace that to some extent.
BEN FOLDS FIVE: (Singing) I never thought I'd see this guy again. But I was wrong. Oh, every five years since 1972, when we said he recruited me to try to kick the church ground. Michael Praytor...
RAZ: I'm speaking with Ben Folds and Robert Sledge, two members of the trio better known as Ben Folds Five. Their new record is called "The Sound of the Life of the Mind." How would you sort of describe what this record's about?
FOLDS: Well, at some point, I felt this record was about the losing of the ego. That was the most obvious thing to me. And, I guess, it was something that I'd been thinking about. So a lot of the characters and moments all lead to that. "On Being Frank" is one example. There's a tour manager who's been working for Frank Sinatra for 30 years. And Frank Sinatra died, then suddenly his life has been, I am Frank Sinatra's tour manager. His identity is completely tied up with Sinatra. So the song is about being lost in that kind of way. And there's a lot of that in the album.
FIVE: (Singing) I had a dream, but dreams had other plans for me. For 30 years, I set the thermostat where Frank Sinatra liked it for his girlfriend at his house. I never knew which ones were mine. Now he's gone. I'm alone.
FOLDS: My tour manager said a lot of these things, and I thought about it. And I kind of liked using Sinatra instead.
RAZ: Oh, he was saying that his whole life was sort of tied up - his identity was tied up with you, with being...
FOLDS: Not really me so much as - because he hadn't worked - I mean, he's worked in the business a long time and not for me for as long. But his point was, you know, at my age - and he's 60-something - and he's like, at my age, I don't even know where to set this thermostat. I always do these things for other people. And I thought, wow, that's interesting. I thought it was compelling for a song. I don't know if Frank Sinatra had a tour manager for 30 years straight. I think he probably did.
RAZ: The title of this record, "The Sound of the Life of the Mind," is inspired, I believe, by a collaboration, Ben, that you did a few years ago with the writer Nick Hornby.
FOLDS: Yes.
RAZ: And you have a song on the record with that title.
FOLDS: Yeah.
RAZ: And I really - I wanted to ask you about this song, because it is full of all kinds of references to Copernicus, to fortune's wheel, to Plato, the New Deal. What's this about?
FOLDS: Yeah. Those are Nick's lyrics. It's about a friend of his Sarah Vowell and just about growing up, you know, inside books, inside history and literature. And that's how she survived and triumphed.
FIVE: (Singing) Sarah Vowell, she just can't bear, the stupidity, the boredom, the grind. She stays at school so that she can hear the sound of the life of the mind. And it's noisy up there she rocks like a mother. Rosa Parks and DNA, Joan of Arc and JFK. But it's noisy up there...
RAZ: How are you guys going to figure out what's next for Ben Folds Five? Are you not even thinking about that? You're just going to focus on this record and this tour, and maybe you'll do something else, maybe you won't?
SLEDGE: Yeah, that's right. We're going to get through the year and a half touring that we got going on and see what happens next. There's so many ideas and so many other things that people - relationships that people in this band have going on outside of the band that, you know, it'd be a shame to sort of limit that. So I think Ben's going to do some more symphony work in 14, and I'm going to watch my son go from 8 to 9 years old, probably.
RAZ: That sounds like a pretty good plan. That's Robert Sledge and Ben Folds of Ben Folds Five. The band's new record is called "The Sound of the Life of the Mind." Ben Folds, Robert Sledge, thank you so much for being with us.
SLEDGE: Thanks for having us.
FOLDS: Thank you.
FIVE: (Singing) Tell me what I said I'd never do. Tell me what I said I'd never say. Read me off a list of the things I used to not like but now I think are okay.
RAZ: And for Saturday, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. Be sure to check out our podcast. You can find it on the NPR smartphone app. Click on programs and look for WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. We post a new episode every Sunday night. Tomorrow on the program, the future of higher education. Until then, thanks for listening and have a great night. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Or is it just me that sees... These complex draperies... Repeated in these paintings of Jan Gossart?
Did you know that Lanvin and H&M are going to collaborate this year? The collections debuts in November and I am sure you will like it.
Greetings from Paris!
It opens on the 20th
I have my alarm clock set
I'm ready to rise up and join the line!!
I'm counting the days :)
Let's see:
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as always, with delicious dollops
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By golly; you're the Good Humor Girl.
Thanks for the Lavin post, I loved it. I was thinking before I saw today's post if you could do something about Parisian women shoes, they wear a lot of flats and still manage to look stylish and glamorous
I would like to be able to pull that off, as I can only walk in flats ;o)
Fantastic pairings, Carols,
your eyes and memory, chapeau! :-)
Love that Met preview observer,
draped in noir!
Sandal and socks wearing ancient Romans were the subject of a more than tongue in cheek article this past August, by Richard Alleyne in the U.K. Telegraph Science Section:
Romans wore socks with sandals, new British dig suggests
"Britons may be famous for their lack of fashion sense and Italians for their style. But it appears we may have inherited one of our biggest sartorial crimes from the Romans.
Cheers! :-)
You have the most fantastic eye!
As for the modern stiletto sandals - Note the TWO band aids!! I doubt that the ladies in drapes suffered for their art!
ALBER ELBAZ est bien joufflu
very chubby cheeks
very Neatherlandish!
Brilliant post! Love it and you are soooo right!ReplyDelete
Gosh, that red and that blue are so rich!ReplyDelete
What a connection.....xvReplyDelete
Thank you Joanny!
Drapery is the first thing you do at Parsons Sch of Design fashion classes and I struck out.
Give me pencil and paper SVP.
I was never a draper-designer...
Strictly a sketcher-designer.
2-D always :)
This was such a well done post!!!
I love how you matched up the past and the present.
Great job!!!
Great post, as usual, Carol. I'm crazy about the red especially. But that poor model's feet in those ridiculous shoes made me wince. She has bandages on her big toes and the skin in the crease of the shoes is red and not in a good way. Very painful looking. She is certainly 'suffering for her art'.
The plump male designer reminds me of the late, great Geoffrey Beene.
Oo la la I love love love that red dress!ReplyDelete
gorgeous post!ReplyDelete
Loved this post. I love how you showed live models with the paintings. I love how the material was painted. Kim said it best.ReplyDelete
I love the way you give each post it's own quirky slant - letting us share wonderful fashions and fabulous shops, not to mention the delicious food!ReplyDelete
I think this post is a favorite, Carol - genius!!ReplyDelete
wonderful post and can easily see the similarities...very neat! I have taken photos of that building by the Met with those gorgeous marble statues...do you know what that building is or just a wonderful apartment building? Would be so magic to live there and a few steps away from the wonderful Met !ReplyDelete
Does the observer in black think he is Aristide Bruant? I hope he has a sense of humour.
I'm off to Paris tomorrow. Whoopee. So long in planning I can hardly believe it's me that it's happening to.
Pardon Carol, this is the image I was referring to. Now I must walk the dog and pack.


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Man of Steel
Somewhere along the timeline of his formative years, Kansas-raised Clark Kent comes to the realization that he can take a punch like nobody's business. He determines on one fateful afternoon that he has the ability and as his internal makeup commands, the duty to save a sinking school bus filled with his horrified classmates after it careens off a delicate bridge into one of the Sunflower State's many proud bodies of water. It is this journey, told exclusively through flashbacks, that comprises the very best of Man of Steel.
A young Clark has no understanding of himself, his origins, his powers, or his place in the world. And the boy's soft-spoken, earnest adoptive father Jonathan has nothing but compassion to offer his struggling son. He muddles pieces of conflicting advice, telling Clark simultaneously that he needs to hide his abilities in order to safeguard himself from the intolerant planet Earth, all the while prophesying the day when the Krypton-born navel gazer will have to decide, once and for all, what sort of man he wants to be. But no amount of the senior Kent's empathy and wisdom can foster our young hero through his turmoil. "Man," we think during the movie's earliest childhood scenes. "All this groundwork is going to pay off big time when he finally gets that suit."
But like the preteen Clark, Zack Snyder's Man of Steel has an identity crisis. While an early adulthood Superman should still be struggling with the issues presented in his extensive maudlin memories, the second half of the movie seems to suppress these ideas. Instead of the probing "Who am I?" and "Who am I supposed to be?" questions that make Superman (despite scathing criticisms) a genuinely interesting character, the film opts for a warfare between Clark and Zod that represents the war between Earth and Krypton both for claim to the planet and for claim to Clark's psyche.
Of course, the themes interweave. Zod invades Earth in hopes of retrieving the grown Kal-El (who holds the genetic code for a populace of unborn Kryptonians) and using the planet as a new breeding ground for his people. As such, the decision is posed to Clark: live among the Earthlings, a race from which you've been forced to hide your true identity, or among your own kind. It seems like it should translate effectively to the sort of gripping questions introduced vaguely by the powerful boyhood material. But the whole ordeal which plays out with an hour long mêlée between Superman (that's what they're calling him, so says a humble military man) and Zod through the war-torn streets of Metropolis feels far less personal than what was promised.
Man of Steel sets itself up as close to the heart of the Kryptonian immigrant as possible. While the legacy undertaken from birth father Jor-El is vast and imbued with intergalactic consequence, what separates Man of Steel (or what is meant to) is the earthbound backstory. But the conflict planted by a sobbing Jonathan Kent, played tear-inspiringly by Kevin Costner, calls for more than it eventually pays off to be.
The Clark Kent we see in the vivid, hard-to-choke-down flashback scenes deserves more than the us-or-them breathless battle that the film's third act takes. This chapter isn't without its appeals: the action is unprecedented. The acting that of Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe's Prometheus-like ghost is nothing to sneeze at. In fact, the conclusive arc's biggest enemy is how good the early parts of the movie are. With so much to live up to, so much to deliver, Superman's face-off with General Zod seems to fall in the territory of the DC character's older, less substantial material. Thus, the film on the whole even its near perfect days in somber small town Kansas suffers. While Man of Steel does tinker with the idea that Superman's greatest enemy is himself, I don't think this is how they meant that.
As far as an effort to reconstruct Superman might go, Man of Steel is a noble one. If anything, Zack Snyder tried to inject too much into his project: the vast array of identity issues that Clark might face, a melding of DC past with the sophistication of the present pop culture psyche, and of course the sort of action that you can't avoid in a superhero flick like this. Each, individually, is a success. But together, the components start stepping all over one another, leaving little room for the sort of expansion that the most valuable facets deserve. As a result, Man of Steel isn't fun enough or deep enough to satisfy either end of the superhero movie spectrum. It's got a little of both, but not enough of either. Some might call it the nature of the beast. But sweeping accusations aside, Superman can be an interesting character. We just have to decide what it is that is interesting about him.


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When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it's up to shapeshifting car mechanic Mercy Thompson to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. And she'll have to choose between the two werewolves in her life-whether she wants to or not.
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Kitty's radio show is as popular as ever, and she has a boyfriend who actually seems to understand her. Can she finally settle down to a normal life? Not if this is just the calm before the storm. When her mother falls ill, Kitty rushes back to Denver - and right back to the abusive pack of werewolves she escaped a year ago. To make matters worse, a war is brewing between the city's two oldest vampires, threatening the whole supernatural community.
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The year is 1934. With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with an efficiency that ensures her life will be kept in balance. Between chores of cooking and cleaning for her residents, she cares for her 10-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose misunderstood behavior finds Ella on the receiving end of pity, derision, and suspicion.
"A MUST read (or listen!)"
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away.
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In this novel from number-one
New York Times-best-selling author J. D. Robb, the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious 16-year-old daughter, who stayed behind. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaits them inside.
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A Good Day to Die Hard
A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth entry in Bruce Willis' John McClane franchise, is 90 minutes of wall-to-wall action. To fans of the genre, that might sound like bliss. Yet even with Willis back in the saddle, director John Moore and writer Skip Woods have found a way to suck every ounce of soul out of McClane's everyman escapades. Willis is 57 years old, but Moore's car chases, shootouts, and explosion-dodging sequences are slow and stagnant enough to be fit for a McClane in his 90s. Adding to the misery is a incomprehensible narrative where nothing happens. Even when menacing Russians are prepping nuclear bombs, nothing is happening. It may have been a Good Day to Die Hard, but the latest sequel is the definition of a soft ball.
This time around, John McClane is on the hunt for his son Jack (Jai Courtney), who is in deep doo doo after connecting himself to the murder of a crony working for corrupt government official Chagarin. Turns out, Jack is actually a CIA agent, with a mission to protect the incarcerated whistleblower Komarov, who currently sits at the top of Chagarin's hit list. Hoping to lift his son out of trouble, McClane shows up at the exact wrong time, witnessing a gang of henchmen blowing up a courthouse to kidnap Komarov and Jack. Everyone escapes and from there on; it's set piece after set piece until McClane shoots his way to the grand finale.
The one thing A Good Day to Die Hard gets right is the casting of Courtney as the son of McClane. He's just gruff enough, just charming enough, and just adept enough at rolling around with a shotgun blowing away enemies. He can spar with Willis, who has really become the quipping, overworked cop he plays in the movies. The two could make a watchable pair, if they were actually given action to perform.
Many complained 2007's Live Free or Die Hard lost the spirit of Die Hard when it opened up the world and turned McClane into a superhero capable of battling a fighter jet. A Good Day to Die Hard has you begging for anything geographically coherent. The film attempts to contain the action once again, but not by finding a single location or pushing its leading man to his limits. Instead, Moore takes his camera straight up the noses of actors, shaky cam and aggressive editing making up for the complete lack of energy or ingenuity in the set pieces.
A highway truck chase which comprises nearly a third of the movie's run time is lifeless and lost in its barrage of crashing cars. Willis feels distant from it all, even when he's in the driver's seat. When McClane's unleashing hell to the faceless baddie and really, if there's anything a Die Hard movie needs, it's a solid, maniacally laughing villain he barely moves an inch. Thanks to the magic of cutting, Willis never exerts energy while decimating large crowds of people. Attempts to inject Die Hard with thrills flop no exploding helicopter barreling down the side of a building, composed with flashy slow-motion and noticeable green screen, can top the sight of Willis going mano a mano with a killer twice his size. A Good Day to Die Hard even teases a good ol' fashioned fight, but never pays it off.
By the eighth time John McClane reminds us that he's on vacation (this movie's version of "I'm too old for this s**t!"), the brain will have bid A Good Day to Die Hard a good day. The film is insipid in the worst way, throwing stunts at the screen when Willis and Courtney seem ripe with action hero potential. Willis has hinted that a sixth Die Hard movie is already in the works the good news is, the series can only go up from here. Right?


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Dimitri Darras graduated from ITP in 2006 where he learned to think critically about technology and aesthetics. He hopes to apply his many learnings from ITP as his career progresses.
Prior to ITP, he built web sites for language learning, consumer electronics, small businesses, and asset management , including the first ever digital photography web site for Panasonic in 1997.
He is currently a Drupal Developer for George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and previously contracted on a Federal account. Prior to that engagement, he was the Assistant Director, Digital Services at AAPA (American Academy of Physician Assistants). In 2012, he was a Front-end Web Developer working on the smokefree.gov sites for MMG, a healthcare communications firm, and the National Institutes of Health.
Dimitri holds a BA from Oberlin College in Comparative French and German Literature with a foundation in micro and macro economics and international relations. He is a member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), and former CUNY-LGCC and SUNY-WCC Adjunct Professor (Game Design, Multimedia Development, Web Design). As an aspiring writer, he is passionate about creative writing and the intersection of language, semantics, and technology.
ITP Projects:
Dynamic Web Development
Multimodal Web Page Navigation with VoiceXML and AJAX
Code & Me
Painting Tool - Processing
Painting with Voice - Processing/MySQL/PHP/VoiceXML
Physical Computing
Electric Weather vane (w. C. Chen)
Interactive Punching Bag (w. W. Koss)
Interactive Storytelling
The Snoopy Doll
Ubiquitous Computing
VintageFinder - a Wine Ratings & Location Tool
Interactive 3D
Virtools/Maya Cityscape Fly-through
Multimodal Navigation of 3D spaces with DHTML/VoiceXML
Linear CG Animation - MAYA Caustics
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Mark Hayward's City Matters: Southside Middle School, where nary a gripe will be heardBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 05. 2014 12:14AM
Southside Middle School, it seems, has an attitude problem.
According to the YouTube video posted on southsidemiddleiscomplaintfree.com, the school is overcome by negativity. It just barely escaped redistricting, which would have made it the only kindergarten-grade 8 school in Manchester. Teachers are working without a contract. And there's no telling what the city budget will mean.
Everyone, including parents and students, are in a funk.
The solution? School Principal Kimberly Organek has used $10,700 in federal grant money to hire a consultant — Will Bowen — who promises to make the school a complaint-free zone.
First up, Bowen had teachers write their gripes on a teachers lounge wall. He and some teachers then painted them over in purple.
The school has distributed 850 copies of Bowen's book — "A Complaint Free World" — to staff and parents.
The school has also distributed purple "a complaint free world.org" wristbands to teachers and kids.
The goal: the Southside Spartans are to stop griping for 21 days, consecutive no less.
"It's going very well, actually," Organek said Tuesday.
Some teachers wear the purple bands, others appreciate the effort, and the school plans to renew the push in September.
Bowen's well-produced video — it has a soundtrack and he smiles a lot at the camera — was made in April. He promises to return in the fall to film part two.
So in the spirit of positivity, I present:
A Southside Purple
To paint, to paint you naysayers,
Abate your words of gloom;
We're happy here at Southside.
We've purple in our room.
Our teachers have no contract.
The school invites despair.
They almost brought in little kids
To fill our empty chairs.
Each year we lose more teachers,
And lessons get dumbed down.
Oh stop, am I complaining?
No, no. Turn it around.
Complaints no more at Southside;
No nos in Spartan land.
We donned our walls with purple,
Our wrists with purple bands.
We hired this Will Bowen —
Big biceps, jeans and all —
He's here to change our attitude.
He's here to catch our fall.
No longer will we air a gripe,
Or fuss, or moan, or bitch.
To paint, to paint you naysayers,
Our school we will enrich.
Our walls are brilliant lavender,
Our lips a lilac smile.
I feel happier already;
I'll walk that extra mile.
I don't fault the mayor,
His heart was just redone.
I won't slam the union,
They'll fight until they've won.
I can't blame my alderman,
He seems so darn sincere.
He got my kid a city job,
So I'll vote for him next year.
The school board seems so earnest,
They do the best they can.
Sure they fight and squabble;
Can't they get purple bands?
I don't fault the children,
We do it for the kids.
Nor do I blame the parents
(It's with their brats they live.)
So now my world is purple.
I'm happy as can be.
My shirt is stained with paint,
But I still clock out at 3.
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The problem of a nonuniform distribution of muscovite-poor rocks (e.g., pure marble) would only exacerbate the mismatch between t * and z *. This may not be a problem for the samples from small basins, but the samples discussed here with large basins that include substantial proportions of the LHS may be not well sampled by the coarse muscovites used in most detrital studies. As discussed here, the technical necessity of restricting single-crystal analysis to coarse-grained muscovites (which are less common in the LHS in our observation) will bias the population toward the GHS and away from the LHS.
Although the statistical analysis of Table 3 suggests that only a few of the basins discussed here come close to a rigorous definition of a good fit between the distribution of elevation and muscovite ages, an inspection of Figure 6 shows that some fits are clearly better than others. Figure 6 offers a bootstrap confidence assessment by qualitatively checking how well the t * overlaps with the cloud produced by the 300 random samplings of the topography. The samples with the best statistics in Table 3 have a relatively good fit using this measure (samples Nar, Nyadi, S5, S12, and S37). The basins corresponding to these samples have areas that range from 180 to 1627 km 2 . One might expect this relationship to get worse with increasing basin area, but this is not the case, particularly for the six new samples reported here. The two samples from very small catchments (MO-50 and MO-81) fail the bootstrap measure of overlap over most of the range of t * and z *, but the two largest basins (corresponding to NAG-12 and MO-217) have t * that overlaps with the z * cloud about ¾ of the distribution for the CDF but do not overlap nearly as well for the PDP ( Figs. 6A, 6B ). The two medium-sized basins (Guy-2 and MO-139) have the worst correspondence ( Figs. 6C, 6D ). Rather than suggesting that the assumptions of Ruhl and Hodges (2005) are met better for big basins than for small, the better fit of z * and t * for the largest basins suggests an averaging over space (in particular over a range of elevations) and time not possible in small basins (see Gabet et al., 2008 ).
The overall poor correspondence between t * based on muscovite ages and z * in central Nepal suggests that the cooling from ∼400 °C to surface temperatures requires so much time (even at Himalayan erosion rates) that post–muscovite closure deformation of the region (even relatively small regions) will be a much stronger factor in the geographic distribution of muscovite ages than a simple age-elevation relationship. However, t * distributions based on other thermochronometers with lower closure temperatures such as zircon or apatite dated by either the fission track (FT) or (U-Th)/He method may give better and more-common correspondence to z *. In such cases, valuable and nuanced tectonic interpretations may be forthcoming. We do not mean to suggest that dating of modern detrital muscovites is without utility; far from it (see following). However, due to the high T c of Ar in muscovite, the instances in which one can do things such as calculate basin-wide erosion rates from the range of ages and the range of elevations seem to be the exception rather than the rule (see Braun, 2005 ).
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ERIE � The Hillsdale High School boys basketball team couldn't have asked for a better start. It would prefer to forget the finish.
The Hornets were unable to hang on to a second half lead and saw their seven-game winning streak come to an end Friday with a 51-46 loss to the Erie Mason Eagles in a Lenawee County Athletic Association game Friday evening.
Hillsdale (9-2, 5-2 LCAA) also fell out of a first-place tie in the conference standings. The Hornets will host LCAA-leading Dundee next Friday.
"That becomes a must-win for us now, or we could be down two games without a chance to play them again," Hillsdale coach Brad Felix said. "We need to shake things up a bit, because Monday I thought we looked a bit complacent at practice, and we didn't play that good Tuesday. We need to get back and fix some things and take the mindset of being more aggressive."
The Hornets came out of the blocks fast, scoring the game's first 11 points and building a 15-3 lead. Just like Tuesday's game against Ida, the Hornets began to go cold from the floor in the second quarter. However, strong defense kept Hillsdale in front 22-9 entering halftime.
Hillsdale stretched its lead to 16 early in the third quarter, but Erie Mason (8-3, 4-2 LCAA) began to make its comeback, hitting several key shots and forcing the Hornets into misses and turnovers.
The Eagles took the lead midway through the fourth quarter and held off the Hornets down the stretch.
"They got more aggressive at both ends of the floor and made plays," Felix said. "Just the opposite happened to us, and we went into a shell. We got on our heels defensively and started to play not to lose instead of to win."
Jimmy Chase finished with 21 points and three assists to lead Hillsdale. Brandon Bisher added 11 points, while Patrick Drews and Zach VanOrman each pulled down 12 rebounds.
Tyler Maxwell and Jacob Skaggs both scored 14 points to lead Erie Mason.
The Hornets will look to avenge their loss to Dundee next Friday. The Vikings defeated Hillsdale 54-46 on Dec. 14.
Reading 50, Springport 32
A surge in the middle two quarters lifted the Reading High School boys basketball team to a big road victory over the Springport Spartans in a Big Eight Conference game Friday.
Reading (4-6, 1-4 Big Eight) took care of the ball more effectively, committing a season-low eight turnovers. The Rangers broke a 10-10 tie in the second quarter and built up a 25-18 lead at halftime. Reading put the game out of reach with a 17-6 run in the third quarter.
"We've been trying to get better with each game, and cutting down on turnovers was the big thing for us," Reading coach Brett Kerspilo said. "Our defense has been good all year, and tonight we finally got some balls to start dropping. I'm happy with the team effort."
Dylan Ash scored 16 points to lead the Rangers, while Alex Simmons added 15 points and five rebounds. Cody Kafer grabbed five rebounds and forced four steals and Matt Poublon had four steals. Devin Higley finished with six points and seven assists.
Reading will host Concord for another Big Eight game Jan. 25
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The Jonesville High School boys basketball team led for all but the final 1:20 of the fourth quarter, but it was the host Concord Yellow Jackets rallying for a Big Eight Conference victory Friday.
Jonesville (3-7, 1-3 Big Eight) held a three-point lead after the first quarter, but matched baskets with the Yellow Jackets in a high-scoring second quarter to take a 29-26 lead into halftime.
The teams combined for 38 points in the third quarter as the Comets continued to hold the lead, but Concord used a 13-7 spurt in the fourth quarter to make the comeback.
"We missed a few shots and Concord had more of an inside presence in the fourth quarter," Jonesville coach Larry Sheerer said. "We had some good looks but didn't finish."
Kyle Jones scored 11 points to lead the Comets. Ben Ackerson had 10 points, five rebounds and three steals, while Brandon Jenkins added nine points. Kyler Gimenez scored eight points and Caleb Taylor had seven points and three rebounds. Wesley Racker finished with six points and Aaron Cleveland forced three steals.
Jonesville travels to Athens on Tuesday.
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A fast start and a strong defensive effort lifted the Will Carleton Academy boys basketball team to a big home victory over the Coldwater Pansophia Academy Pumas on Friday.
Will Carleton (6-5) opened the game on an 18-4 run in the opening quarter, then extended its lead to 29-11 by halftime. The Cougars began the second half with a 16-2 run and coasted the rest of the way.
Ben Baxter recorded a double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Cougars.
"Ben had an excellent night and that's an encouraging sign," Will Carleton coach Brian Clark said. "We were focused on our execution and playing solid defense."
Dane Williams scored eight points, while Chase Harrington added six points. Joel Wheeler finished with six points, five assists and four steals.
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Grocery Santa… Slash gun owners' rights? They did nothing wrong
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On Dec. 24, my wife sent me to Country Market on West Maumee with a list of last-minute grocery items to purchase. While checking out and getting ready to pay the $26, the cashier (Stacy) said the man behind me had paid for my items.
I turned to thank him and he said "You don't know who I am, do you?" I replied, "No, you don't have to do this." The gentleman wished me a Merry Christmas.
As I walked to my car, I felt the spirit of giving in Adrian, just like in Newtown and New Jersey.
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The mass shooting at Sandy Hook School was a tragedy. There are not words adequate to express the emotions thrust upon us by that event.
Immediately, tens of millions of law-abiding gun owners are being blamed for something they did not do. The problem in situations such as Sandy Hook is the total failure of looking at and understanding what happened.
I personally blame the government. They refused to protect those precious children and teachers. They made it impossible for them to be defended. Government is more guilty than whomever pulled the trigger.
Both sides of the discussion disagree with the other. It is an asymmetric conflict. Anti-gunners want to punish law-abiding gun owners. They do not care and ignore that tens of millions of law-abiding citizens were not involved. Gun owners want to reduce violence and punish the people responsible. Which makes more sense?
A major problem is both sides of the argument want to use statistics to prove their point. There are many statistics. Often statistics about the same things disagree. Underlying that, many keepers of statistics have an agenda that requires results that support their agenda. Truth or accuracy may not be the goal. Often statistics are intentionally misleading. People "cherry pick" facts to support their view and dispute the other. It goes nowhere. People who do not have a side ignore both.
That leaves us to use our brains. We can wish that people would not appear and start harming anyone. "Gun-free zones" have repeatedly demonstrated that is not the case. Bad people exist. Pretending they do not always ends horribly.
My opinion is folks should be discussing the problem, which is NOT gun owners. To me, the problem is violence, not guns. Gun owners are not trying to force anyone to buy a gun. Gun owners wish the people who are the loudest in the discussion knew something about guns. They do not. I personally wish everyone received firearm instruction to know some facts. It would be a good place to evaluate those who should be allowed to have guns, or not.
I think folks need understanding with respect to firearms. Understanding is a better solution than ignorance. Folks should be allowed to decide about gun ownership. It is our constitutional right.
Violence is the problem. It is perpetrated by criminals, kooks and druggies. Address violence, and gun and any other violence decreases.
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