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Colin Meloy Challenges His Twitter Followers to Compose Songs About Linda Ronstadt
It's not quite tweeting while engaged in tantric sex, but it'll do.
For those of you out there who think that Twitter is nothing more than a fad, well, we'd be hard-pressed to come up with a strong argument that would win you over. Still, those who follow the microblogging phenomenon closely enough are occasionally rewarded with flashes of tweeted brilliance that can make you smile, no matter how hung over from green beer you are (trust us on this one). Like, for example, just about everything that Diddy composes or, more recently, the songwriting contest that Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy began. For the uninitiated, back on Friday, Meloy issued this challenge to his Twitter followers: "ok: experiment. Write a song and youtube yourself playing it and I'll post the best one here. Topic: Linda Ronstadt." While it's tough to quantify exactly how many people played along, Idolator tipped us off to the fact that Meloy announced the winners yesterday and, well, they're FAMOUS (at least in indie-rock circles). Follow along to see the winning entries; one was composed by Rebecca Gates of Spinanes fame, the other by Steven Page (formerly of the Barenaked Ladies).
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And here's Steven Page, whose "Linda Ronstadt In The Seventies" tied for first place:
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This Joint Honours degree explores different ways of understanding crucial issues within public and social life. It combines the focus of social policy on wellbeing with sociology's insight into how contemporary societies operate.
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Notes: Buster
Keaton, Wallace Beery, Margaret Leahy, Oliver Hardy. Directed
by Keaton and Eddie Cline. Produced by Joseph M. Schenk. Story
by Clyde Bruckman, Joseph Mitchell, and Jean Havez. Keaton's
first feature film, a parody of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance.
We see Father Time with his sickle. He opens the "Book of
the Three Ages" whose Preface reads: "If you let your
mind wander back through History you will find that the only thing
that has not changed since the World began is -- Love. Love is
the unchanging axis on which the World revolves. There is no
better way to prove this than by comparing the love stories of
three widely separate periods of Time. As appropriate examples
we have selected the Stone Age, the Roman Age, and the Modern
In five rounds, we see the three ages paralleled
in terms of Keaton's pursuit of Margaret Leahy despite his rival
Wallace Beery (who will play Challenger in The Lost World).
In the Stone Age segments, Beery is first seen riding a mastodon.
Keaton enters the film riding a dinosaur (evocative of his later
relationship with The General). A claymation Keaton looks about
from the top of the dinosaur's head. This is the only dinosaur
moment in the film, but other enjoyable Stone Age moments include
Keaton presenting what he calls "My card!"--an enormous
stone tablet--and the use of a turtle as a "Wee Gee"
[Ouija] (paralleled with a soothsayer from Roman times and the
"Modern" flower: "she loves me; she loves me not").
Keaton is also dragged off by a mastodon as punishment for cheating
at the caveman version of golf (with "clubs"). After
a rock fight, Keaton drags his woman off by her hair and we see
her rapturous face.
The Roman Age offers a chariot race in which
Keaton uses sled dogs (which he changes like spare tires, and
motivates with a cat suspended on a pole). The Modern Age features
football and, more enjoyably, a cop chase and wedding rescue.
Finally, we see the cave couple emerge with an enormous brood, the Roman couple emerge with a few children, and the Modern couple walking a dog. [What is this supposed to mean? The twentieth century doesn't breed tons of brats obsessively?]
Commentary: Rosa Rio's organ score includes clever echoes of "Stouthearted Men," "The Baby Elephant Walk," "In My Merry Oldsmobile," "Ain't She Sweet," "Let It Snow," "Buckle Down Winsockie," etc. Buster Keaton is terrific; I wish I could track down that Samuel Beckett film he did, called, I think, Film.


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Noida: Union Minister EMS Natchiappan on Tuesday said that laws should be made stricter to ensure safe and secure environment for visitors in the country.
"For ages, India has been attracting tourists with its ancient monuments, knowledge treasury scenic beauty and other attractions," Natchiappan, the minister of state for Commerce and Industry, said while inaugurating a seminar on tourism in Amity University.
"Framing of strict and new laws alone cannot ensure everything. Their implementation has to be made better and stricter," he said.
Shivendra Tomar, the director, IFCI, who was also present on the occasion, said ,"Out of 65 lakh foreign tourists that visited India last year, 15-16% were from USA, 12-13% were from UK.
Tomar said that archaic laws in India such as Sarai Act, 1962 governing the hotel industry need to be revised.
He asked the citizens of the country to follow "Athithi Devo Bhava" in letter and spirit and suggested that concerted efforts by government - Central and state, tourism sector and society need to make India a preferred tourist destination.


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Publication Date: June 7, 2013
Order Links: Amazon / Barnes & Noble
Synopsis: Jane O`Donnel, is a girl from a rich family who tries to prove to herself that she can make it on her own without her family`s help. An unexpected event turns her world upside down and brings the attractive Dr. Smith in her life. She is being kidnapped. Like it wouldn`t be enough, the terrible event brings with it something she could never be prepared for.
Can Jane find out who is behind all this? Could her father have something to do with it? Will she encounter people who don`t want her to know?
Filled with hard decisions, love and hard times, THE PLAN shows how one's life can suddenly change and never be the same.
Interview: Q. Please tell us about the inspiration for your current release.
A.I believe it`s all about the right moment when writing a book fits perfectly in your life. I just knew I had to write something, because, last year I made some new friends while the time I was reading a trilogy, and one of them (a girl) inspired me . She was a little different from the other people, and probably that is what gave me the idea of a possible plot for a novel. Next thing I know: I was writing ten hours a day.
Q. How did writing this book affect you?
A. It simply opened new horizons. I can see a book with different eyes now, and I must say I'm pickier when it comes to reading a new book.
Q. What is the hardest part of writing for you?
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Q. What would you say is your most interesting writing quirk?
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Insurance investigator. Good-looking and still sharp, despite the layers of insomnia and hangover damage he's accumulating as fast as he can. Nate was an expert at recovering stolen items… until the insurance company he worked for (I.Y.S.) refused to pay for his 8-year-old son Sam's "experimental" treatment. When his son died a couple of years ago, Nate went on the skids. In the pilot, Dubenich hires him as the one honest man to keep a group of thieves in check. Now, Nate leads the team to right injustices, funded by their unique take on "alternate revenue stream". He has a long catch-and- release history with Sophie, who is the only team member he selected himself.
After winning an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe® and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for his performance in Robert Redford's Ordinary People, Timothy Hutton went on to star in numerous films, including Taps, Daniel, The Falcon & the Snowman, Made in Heaven, Q&A, The General's Daughter, French Kiss, Beautiful Girls, Sunshine State, Kinsey, Secret Window, The Good Shepherd and Lymelife. He received a second Golden Globe nomination for his work in Taps.
As a member of New York's Circle Repertory Co., Hutton originated the lead role in the Broadway Production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss and starred in Babylon Gardens. He also appeared in the Los Angeles stage production of The Oldest Living Graduate, a role he later reprised for a live broadcast on NBC. Hutton directed Nicole Burdette's Busted for the New York-based theater company Naked Angels.
On television, Hutton starred in A Long Way Home, for which he received another Golden Globe nomination; produced and starred in Showtime's Mr. & Mrs. Loving; played the title role in the acclaimed Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within; co-starred in the docudrama WW3; and was the executive producer, director, music supervisor and star of A&Es critically acclaimed series of movies based on Rex Stout's famed detective novels, Nero Wolfe.
Working behind the camera, Hutton has directed a number of music videos, including "Drive" by the Cars, "Not Enough Love" by Don Henley and the Neil Young Concert Film "Freedom." He also directed an episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories titled "Grandpa's Ghost," which was adapted from a story he wrote. His feature film directorial debut, Digging to China, starring Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson and Evan Rachel Wood, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to standing ovations.


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The annual fall UGA Choral Day is a day of choral music-making designed to offer a high level honor-choir experience for high school singers from all around Georgia. The event is hosted by the UGA Men's Glee Club, Women's Glee Club, and UGA Hodgson Singers, and the select high school singers who take part will join the ranks of these ensembles for a day of rehearsals and a festival performance of pre-determined repertoire. The day also includes the opportunity for our guest high school singers to hear a recital of UGA voice students as well as short performances from many of the UGA choral ensembles.
UGA Choral Faculty Dr. Daniel Bara and Dr. J.D. Burnett serve as clinicians and members of the UGA Voice and Choral Music Education Faculty also are present to greet student singers and their teachers in a day designed to invigorate and inspire Georgia's best and enthusiastic high school singers!
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Looking for things for the kids to do? Holiday ideas for the kids in 2011 – updated
- Lego in the library – 20 December 2010 – 28 January 2011
- Year of the Rabbit – Children's Day in the Macleay Museum 30 January 2011
- Chinese Cultural Dance Workshop – 30 January 2011
- Children's Program – Cabinets of Curiosity, S. H Ervin Gallery
Lego in the library 20 December 2010 – 28 January 2011
Come along to the Double Bay and Paddington Libraries to play with lego this summer! A popular activity for children, lego is a great way for children to learn how to interact and share with others.
Children must be supervised by a parent or guardian. No bookings are required and no cost is involved.
Double Bay Library, 548 New South Head Road, Double Bay AND Paddington Library, Paddington Town Hall, 247 Oxford Street, Paddington.
More information: Woollahra Library & Information Service, 9391 7100.
Chinese Year of the Rabbit – Children's Day in the Macleay Museum
30 January, 12pm – 4pm at Macleay Museum, The University of Sydney – FREE
Bring the kids for an afternoon of activities celebrating the Year of the Rabbit – discover rabbits and hares in the scientific collections, hear rabbit stories in Mandarin and English, take part in craft activities and follow the bunny trail through the museum's collections.
For more information, visit: www.sydney.edu.au/museums
Chinese Cultural Dance Workshop
30 January, 10am – 11am (kids) or 11am – 12pm (teens) at CYL Club House – $5/person
Children aged five to thirteen can learn the beautiful art of Chinese dancing in this one hour workshop. There's also a workshop for teenagers and adults, focusing on the Han style of dance.
For more information and bookings, call: (02) 9267 3166 or email email@example.com
Kids at the S.H. Ervin Gallery
Thursday 27th January at 11:15am – 12:30pm
Cost: $33/ $30 national trust Members/ Groups of 10 or more $15 per child
S. H Ervin Gallery, Watson Road, Observatory Hill, The Rocks, Sydney
After close examination of the Newcastle Chest in the gallery, budding young curators can create their very own Cabinet of Curiosities. Using collaged images of weird and wonderful oddities from the natural world, our young curators will collect some strange specimens and hone their talent for display.
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Few minor details of workmanship, front wheel dis alignment not possible to be corrected since new... defect in both sides, one side caster and in the other other side bad camber value... toe corrected, but car still go to the right...A/C work fine, but... chevrolet may rethink A/C compressor start temperature value, too hot for my country, maybe good for economy, but its uncomfortable.. once it started, cabin cooling cycle its quick.
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The its small, but feels solid, good balance, very cheap car, but impressive performance for this small engine...
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
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Sept. 22, 2010 — The FDA today approved Novartis' Gilenya, the first oral drug for multiple sclerosis (MS). Gilenya (formerly spelled Gilenia, generic name fingolimod) last June received the overwhelming approval of an FDA expert advisory panel.
Gilenya treats the relapsing form of MS. The drug significantly reduces MS attacks. However, it has serious side effects, with possible heart, lung, and eye toxicity and increased risk of infection. Patients must be closely monitored, and regular eye exams are advised.
In MS, white blood cells attack the myelin sheaths that protect nerve cells. Gilenya, the first drug in its class, keeps white blood cells penned up in lymph nodes by taking away the chemical key they need to unlock the lymph node door.
Fewer white blood cells mean fewer MS attacks. But it also means less protection against infections. Novartis will set up a careful program for educating and monitoring patients taking the drug. Moreover, the company will continue long-term studies to look for side effects that may occur with longer-term use.
Gilenya was invented as a new way to prevent rejection in kidney transplant patients. But at the necessary dosage, the drug was far too toxic. The dose that would be used to treat MS is five times lower than the lowest dose tested in the transplant studies.
Even at this dosage, Gilenya can have severe toxicity. In clinical trials, side effects linked to Gilenya included:
- Elevated liver enzymes
- Macular edema (swelling of the central portion of the retina, causing distorted vision)
- Elevated blood pressure
- Shortness of breath
- Bronchitis
- Diarrhea
- Bradycardia (slowing of the heartbeat, seen only upon first treatment. The FDA panel recommended that patients be required to receive their first dose under medical supervision).
Two fatal herpes infections occurred in MS patients treated with Gilenya at 2.5 times the FDA-approved 0.5 mg dose. Novartis is not seeking approval for higher dosages.
Overall, the drug's benefits outweighed its risks among the more than 2,600 MS patients who took the drug in clinical trials.
April 25, 2012
New Prescribing Information for Gilenya
On April 20, 2012, Novartis announced changes to the prescribing information for Gilenya™ (fingolimod) in the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). This new prescribing information is applicable only to individuals who have not been given a first dose of Gilenya or for those who have stopped and will be restarting the drug. These changes do not affect any guidelines for individuals who are currently taking Gilenya.
The new parameters will appear on the labeling for Gilenya and were put in place by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), following a review of the drug and its potential effects on the heart. These effects – such as a slowed heart rate (bradycardia) and changes in the conduction of electricity in the heart (atrioventricular [AV] block) – are temporary and usually occur during the first six hours after taking the first dose of Glienya. Rarely, a patient's heart function may not return to normal until after the first six hours (and for up to 24 hours).
The FDA was reviewing this drug following the death of a patient within 24 hours after taking a first dose of Gilenya in November 2011. Investigators have not yet determined if Gilenya was involved in this tragic event.
This week (beginning April 23, 2012) the results of a two-year, Phase III extension trial with 1,080 participants (FREEDOMS II) were presented at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting. In terms of safety, no new or unexpected adverse events were reported.
The new prescribing information increases the parameters for selecting individuals who may be prescribed Gilenya, and also increases the monitoring of patients when taking their first dose. As mentioned earlier, the labeling changes do not affect any guidelines for individuals who are already taking the drug.
The following is a summary of the new prescribing information:
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) was also re-evaluating the risks and benefits of Gilenya. They determined that the benefits outweigh the risks for individuals with relapsing forms of MS. Their recommendations are very similar to the changes in prescribing information from the FDA.
In their press release dated April 20, 2012, the EMA states:
"Following a review of the latest evidence of the safety of the medicine, the Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommends that doctors should not prescribe Gilenya to patients with a history of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease or who take heart-rate lowering medication. However, when treatment with Gilenya is considered necessary in these patients, their heart activity should be monitored at least overnight following the first dose of Gilenya and doctors should seek advice from a cardiologist on appropriate monitoring.
"The CHMP also recommends that all patients starting treatment with Gilenya should have their heart activity monitored before receiving the first dose of the medicine and continuously for at least six hours after. Monitoring should be extended for at least two hours in patients whose heart rate is lowest six hours after receiving the first dose of Gilenya. In patients who develop clinically significant heart problems such as bradycardia (a slow heart rate) or atrioventricular (AV) block (a problem with the conduction of electricity in the heart) monitoring should continue at least overnight and until the problems have been resolved."
For more information, individuals may contact Novartis at (888) NOW-NOVA (888-669-6682) or call MSAA's Helpline at (800) 532-7667. Information on this new prescribing information is also available by visiting www.gilenya.com.
Written by Susan Wells Courtney, MSAA Senior Writer and Creative Director


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Teen star Miranda Cosgrove is hopeful she will soon walk again after undergoing weeks of physical therapy for her broken ankle.
The iCarly singer/actress was forced to cancel her Dancing Crazy Tour after she was severely injured when her bus collided with a tractor in August (11).
Cosgrove underwent an operation on her leg and has had regular sessions with a physiotherapist to help her get back on her feet again.
In a post on her Twitter.com page, she writes, "Been going to physical therapy a lot for my ankle. Might be able to walk again in a little less than a month! Can't wait."
Since breaking her ankle, Cosgrove has been in the studio writing new music and preparing to start her first year of college.


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From the editor:
Convicted paedophile, David Kramer, could be free in three months. Do you think the sentence is appropriate? Do you think Yeshiva has handled the sexual abuse issue well? If not, what do you think it could have done better?
Meanwhile, a number of key Jewish organisations have come together to offer community groups a free seminar on dealing with allegations of child abuse. Do you think this is a positive move on their part? Do you think there is a duplication of resources, considering the work Tzedek is doing?
Israel's new Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, David Lau says, "I am everyone's rabbi – I do not belong to one sector or another, but to all of Israel." Do you believe this to be the case? Haaretz certainly doesn't. Do you feel that non-Orthodox streams of Judaism will fare well under his rabbinate? Can one Orthodox rabbi effectively represent every Ashkenazi Jew?
The Jewish Daily Forward examines the problematic nature of Pope John Paul II's friendship with the Jews. Do you believe there is space in Catholicism for an unambivalent acceptance of Jews? Can we ever be truly reconciled with Rome?
Two young Chicago Jews write about the importance of Jews' combating anti-Muslim bigotry. What do you think our responsibility is in this arena? Do Australian Jews do enough in fighting racism beyond anti-Semitism?
Pick of Seek and You Shall Find: Michael Ess discusses the inauthenticity of Haredi Judaism and asks – among other things – whether Modern Orthodoxy should distance itself from more extreme forms of our religion. What do you think?
Hat tip to commenter, Letters in The Age: Jewish ethicist, Leslie Cannold, may become a Senator if Julian Assange is elected but unable to return to Australia. See the comments section for more details.


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In October of last year, a man named Leon H Wolf published a post on the front page of influential conservative blogging community RedState titled, "Attention, Ron Paul Supporters (Life is REALLY Not Fair)." One of a handful of bloggers who run the site, Wolf and his blogging colleagues decided to virtually ban all promotion for then-presidential candidate Ron Paul "in any way shape, form or fashion. Not in comments, not in diaries, nada." The only exceptions to this, he wrote, were for people who had accounts that were more than six months old.
"Now, I could offer a long-winded explanation for why this new policy is being instituted, but I'm guessing that most of you can probably guess," he wrote. "Unless you lack the self-awareness to understand just how annoying, time-consuming, and bandwidth-wasting responding to the same idiotic arguments from a bunch of liberals pretending to be Republicans can be."
RedState is one of the earliest examples of so-called "diarist" blogs, where virtually anyone can sign up for a free account and write for a blog hosted on the site. Some have labeled such sites "mullet blogs," in that they each have a small number of administrators who are able to post entries to the front page and a much larger number of back-end diarists who have to struggle much harder to get any wide recognition.
The open community function of such sites begs the question of whether they should allow the community to decide what material is ideologically appropriate (similar to the philosophy of social news site Digg), and what role the diarists play in relation to the front-page posters. Recently I spoke to several diarists at the more popular sites to gain an understanding of what motivates them to spend hours of their time writing for them (after all, they don't get paid) and what effects they have on influencing public discussion compared to the powerful front-page posters.
This medium is dominated by the left-of-center Daily Kos, which has thousands of active diarists and during this election year has received millions of page views every day. But in recent years the diarist format has spread to state level blogs, creating a string of microcosm communities that have become immensely close-knit and influential.
Back-end diarists rarely receive anywhere near the same amount of attention that the front-page administrators do. To counter-balance this, many of these blogs mine the back-end diaries to promote interesting posts to the front page. And each diary also has a "recommend" function, where readers can vote for the entries that they feel should get the coveted front page exposure. In theory, "recommended" stories should reflect the voice of the wider community, but in the case of RedState's ban of Ron Paul supporters, a minority of vocal enthusiasts infiltrated the community to push a message contrary to the ideologies of the site's founders.
Filtering and Motivating Diarists
Soren Dayton is a relative latecomer to blogging — he entered the blogosphere in 2006 — but it wasn't long before he was invited to become a regular front-page contributor to RedState and the popular media watchdog site Newsbusters. (From what I understand, this is a relatively rare occurrence). Dayton had worked on Senator John McCain's presidential campaign for about three months before joining the public affairs department of New Media Strategies — the company where I currently work — in May.
Last week, I sat down with Dayton to talk about the nature of RedState and the diarists that populate its back end. During our discussions, we segued into his thoughts about why or how a community member should be banned, and this is when he mentioned the Ron Paul incident as an example of when users crossed the line. Dayton had been involved in the email discussions with other front-page posters prior to the universal ban, and he denied that the "Paulites" were booted because of their political ideology. Rather, he said, many pro-Paul diarists were also pushing other, wildly offensive material.
"There were posts saying things like 'I smell Hebrews, I smell Jews,'" he told me. "Clearly racist, clearly anti-Semitic material. We made a decision that you couldn't do things like that, and it happened to be that this kind of stuff was almost exclusively from Ron Paul supporters…We were getting so many people who would get shut down and so they would get a new IP and a new email and do the same thing again. So we made explicit Ron Paul advocacy — unless you were a long-standing community member — banned for a short period of time. It might have been overly harsh, certainly we got criticized in a number of places. I'm not sure if it was the right solution, but the problem that was being solved was real."
In addition to his work on RedState and Newsbusters, Dayton also co-founded a diarist site called The Next Right. In its relatively short existence, The Next Right has gained a readership in the thousands, becoming incredibly well known within the conservative blogging community. I asked Dayton how one goes about building up such a site. What is it that attracts that initial influx of people signing up for diaries?
"For one, it's the same level of access to write a comment as it is to write a diary," he replied. "If you sign up for an account, you can do either one. Because people will usually sign up to comment on one of our posts, it doesn't take much effort to start writing diaries if they've got something to say."
There's also a constant flow due to recruitment by the administrators; if a reader writes in to suggest a blogging topic, the administrator will encourage that person to create an account and blog about it, essentially trying to pull the person into becoming more actively engaged in the community.
"How often do you promote stuff to the front page?" I asked.
"On The Next Right, it's whenever we find good stuff," he said. "Sometimes people have to bring it to our attention, sometimes we notice. Sometimes we are working with the writers or soliciting."
The Trajectory of Diarists
Many of the diarists I spoke to followed similar trajectories in writing for the sites: They started out as mostly casual readers, eventually signing up for accounts to comment, and then later transitioned into writing full-fledged posts.
A person who posts under the user name "Dansac" (he asked me not to use his real name) began "sporadically" publishing at Daily Kos as far back as 2003. Like most others, he became a more active user once his personal hot-button issue became a popular topic in the site's public discussion. In addition to his postings to the community, he and several Kos diarists splintered off and created their own group political blog, Strategy 08; many diarists have used the mullet blogs as a launchpad for their own efforts.
Dansac told me that like most social media destinations, a hierarchy has emerged within the Kos diary community, resulting in a small number of more powerful users that are able to consistently make it to the "recommended diaries" list.
"I wouldn't say I'm one of the more obsessive members of the community," he said. "I'm not on there 24 hours a day, but yeah, if you spend enough time on Daily Kos there are a few diarists whose stuff follows a more patterned tone, and generally you start to trust them as a source. You'll see among recommended diaries that the same names pop up almost every day. I mean there are thousands and thousands of diarists, but there are really about 20 to 30 who post and resonate more than others…There are so many bad diaries, there's so much garbage, and when you find the people who make good stuff, it's pretty clear."
Like Dansac, Dennis Stathis was a lurker within his community — in this case, the liberal MyDD — before being hooked in as a diarist largely because of the presidential primaries this year.
"I felt the need to get engaged because I was a former Hillary [Clinton] supporter on the Democrat side," he explained. "And I just felt that some of the treatment I saw toward her was unfair, so I decided to express my voice, and MyDD was a platform to do so."
Stathis doesn't feel that it is particularly hard for a new writer to get noticed despite the multitude of new entries constantly being posted. And in some cases, he argued, the diarists can generate more of a response than those who have front page access.
"I think the subject matter will determine the quantity as well as the quality of the response," Stathis told me. "And it appears that the more emotionally charged a diary is, the more of a response it will generate. I can't really say that the front pagers can be contrasted to the diarists, because I've seen front page postings have little traction and participant blogs have significant traction."
Success of a Convert
Mike DeVine is one of those who has made his way up through the hierarchical ranks to become one of the more influential diarists at RedState. He posts under the handle Gamecock. DeVine was a trial lawyer for over 14 years and has written columns for several major newspapers. He told me last week that one of the reasons his writing — both within the blogosphere and elsewhere — has been embraced by the conservative community is because he writes from the point of view of someone who experienced a recent ideological shift to conservatism.
"I have the story of a convert from Democrat to Republican, so it gives me some credibility," he explained.
DeVine said he began reading and commenting on RedState in 2003 or 2004, but didn't begin posting diaries until around 2005. As his blog at RedState became more popular, he was invited to contribute to other blogs. He now lists his experience writing for these sites when pitching freelance columns to newspapers. But this was only a very small part of the incentive for publishing his thoughts each day.
"Bloggers tend to be a lot more passionate, informed and obsessed with politics than the average voter," he told me. "They're also a lot younger, I find. One of the reasons I blog is to teach. I feel like I have a lot of real world experience I can bring."
At a few points during our conversation, DeVine expressed his desire to become one of the few to permanently cross over and become a front-page poster at RedState. Many mullet blog administrators constantly mine the sometimes unruly back end, searching for provocative and engaging voices for possible front-page recruitment.
"I'm in maybe the next group of people who may be given front-page privileges there," he said. "But then again, maybe not, because I might be a little bit too provocative to them. And they understand that I'm going to be who I am, and I'm not going to conform to anything. I'm going to do my thing, and I've gotten where I am today doing that, and sometimes it ruffles some feathers."
Given the previous actions of RedState's administrators, as long as DeVine doesn't begin stumping for Ron Paul anytime soon, he just might have a chance.
Simon Owens is a former newspaper journalist and an associate blogger for MediaShift. He currently works as an online analyst for New Media Strategies. You can read more of his writing at his blog or contact him at simon[.]bloggasm [at] gmail.com.


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This chapter summarizes how major Asian powers see the Iranian nuclear crisis and outlines options for the U.S. to reverse or contain the Iranian nuclear threat.
The U.S. alone cannot stop Tehran from continuing to expand Iran's capacity to enrich uranium and, ultimately perhaps, to produce nuclear weapons. The cooperation of the major Asian powers is necessary to cause Iranian leaders to reconsider the costs and benefits of continuing not to comply with IAEA and UN Security Council demands.
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TAIPEI (TheStreet) -- The International Monetary Fund is estimating China grew 7.8% last year, within range of predictions that it would cool from more than an annual 9% over the past decade. The fever has passed.Unless it hasn't. Although the IMF also predicts 8.2% growth for China in 2013, the longer-term trend points toward quite a bit less. That's not just fallout from a turbulent global economy, though dulled export demand would have a lot to do with the 2012 figure. It's because newly appointed central leaders want to rebalance the world's second-largest economy, to make it sustainable for China itself, by easing it away from growth steroids such as investment and commodity-intensive industry. Services and retail would wean China off these substances, which would meanwhile be throttled by stronger rules on getting capital and running an honest business. Drops of this new formula have already started to show. Domestic consumption, a core policy mission enshrined in the 2011-2015 Five-Year Plan, jumped from 37.3% to 51.6% of the GDP in 2011, a strong omen for services and retail. If the medicine really takes hold in the longer term, it would push China's annual economic growth into the 5%-6% range, predicts George Magnus, senior economic adviser with UBS Investment Bank in London. The Rx would get China over a BRIC wall, away from a looming middle-income trap and on the way to a more modern nation, he argues. The shift would fuel business for the foreign fast-food chains such as the ever-popular McDonald's ( MCD) and Yoshinoya's (9891.T) Japanese noodle bowls and maybe someday, when the rules are more relaxed, for financial services such as those offered by Goldman Sachs ( GS), known for its ability to make private equity deals in China despite a not-so-level playing field. Without a rebalancing -- also in the Five-Year Plan -- the old economic growth prescription will lead to overcapacity, poorer investment returns and more unpaid bank loans, Magnus says. Existing business rules and low interest rates will also make it too easy for developers or factories to grab money that should otherwise be injected into the country's under-medicated health-care system for the masses.
"Whether they make headway or meet resistance remains to be seen," says Magnus. "That's a 64 trillion-yuan question." Why so uncertain? In China, reformists don't always get their way. They sit at the top of the central government, but no matter what phase of Chinese history you look at, central leaders seldom have the support of every old-school mayor, provincial governor and People's Liberation Army general. The country is too big for Beijing to monitor every pupil in the massive reform school. Local officials have been told over the past 20 years to find ways to make money for their enterprises without handouts from Beijing. As China remains a state-run, planned economy, government agencies often own not just infrastructure or factories but also hotels, hotpot restaurants and even racy nightclubs. Those compete ever more with the private sector as the economy liberalizes. So local governments and even the army, with its non-military enterprises, hope they can keep turning to the ever-reliable money-making machine of new projects. Factories that spit out high-value stuff make money on output, while Chinese citizens widely suspect that new construction such as high-rise housing and freeway flyovers puts money in officials' own pockets as they usually take cuts from contractors who are happy to have the jobs. (Yes, this would be graft, and no, you usually won't get caught for it.) Naturally these satellite governments would oppose any new rules to push China toward a rebalanced economy. Rebalancing may call for higher interest rates, stronger rule of law (a customer could sue a state enterprise and win) and tougher corporate governance. Business would cost more but be cleaner. But if the local fiefdoms get their way over the kingdom, that's good for a different sort of China investor. Regions of China, the western city of Chongqing for example, that prioritize factories and infrastructure tend to welcome foreign investment in priority industries. This old-school, still-prevalent growth formula would continue to benefit the types of foreign firms that have gained now for easily a decade. They're the automakers from Detroit to Germany, computer makers from Taipei to Silicon Valley and food packagers whose names might appear in your own kitchen cupboard.
Apple ( AAPL) may squelch factory suppliers in China over child labor issues, but IBM ( IBM), for example, opened one last year and Taiwan's touch-panel maker TPK Holdings (3673.TW) said it would build one there for $487.1 million. That said, foreign firms are taking a harder look at China's once-fertile manufacturing bases as labor and material prices rise and Asian frontier markets become more attractive. I won't predict whether the assembly lines eventually slow down for good, but in history Chinese reformists don't usually get their way without a long struggle, a palace coup or a disaster such as the 2003 SARS coverup that enrages the kingdom enough to shake down all its fiefdoms. Most edicts go nowhere without punitive surgery. I couldn't help noticing that HSBC's purchasing managers' index for China reached a two-year high in January of 51.9, above the magic 50-point level that means manufacturing is going places. At the time of publication the author had no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Ralph Jennings is on LinkedIn. This article was written by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.


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For Immediate Release
July 21, 2009
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Celebrates Citizen Science at California's Major Raptor Migration Site
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."—Margaret Mead
San Francisco, CA—More than 30,000 birds of prey—hawks, eagles, falcons, and vultures—pass over the Marin Headlands each fall in California's greatest raptor migration. And for over 25 years, hundreds of Bay Area volunteers have tracked the numbers and movements of these magnificent birds, often considered indicators of healthy ecosystems, and set up the first and only bird of prey monitoring system in California at the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO). The GGRO, in cooperation with the National Park Service, is a program of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
Over 300 volunteers participate each year in the GGRO's migration studies as hawk counters, banders, and radiotrackers, and collectively contribute over 40,000 hours annually. Hawk counters keep a consistent daily tally of the raptors appearing over the Marin Headlands from August through November. This effort is now the longest-kept record of raptor migration numbers in the state.
On peak flight days, occurring from mid-September to mid-October, counters may record more than 1,000 raptor sightings a day, seen at a rate of 150 hawks per hour. Quieter days may garner as few as 10 or 20 hawks per hour. Over the long-term, these daily counts help volunteers gather important information about raptor population and travel trends.
Trained volunteer banders spend their days in a wooden blind with nets nearby, with which they catch hawks. Once caught, a hawk is fitted with a numbered aluminum bracelet, measured, weighed, and released within 20 minutes. Studying a hawk in hand allows banders to note the bird's condition or state of health. Volunteers also report the banding experience to be a deeply moving experience. "The best paintings and all the pixels in the world can't capture the beauty of these marvelous creatures seen up close," said long-time volunteer, Bill Barnaby.
Overall, more than 1,500 volunteers have participated in the GGRO's fall raptor migration monitoring since the organization's inception in the early 1980s. In addition to counting and banding raptors, volunteers have radiotracked hawks all over California, invented new research techniques, delivered interpretive talks, discovered new migration sites, and monitored hundreds of Bay Area raptor nests.
"GGRO volunteers bring an unbelievable range of talent and experience to the process of studying birds of prey," said GGRO Research Director Buzz Hull. "There are other hawk migration studies in the United States, but the passion and commitment of this pioneer volunteer group at the GGRO has been truly remarkable."
While some GGRO volunteers have gone on to careers in bird conservation, others, like hawk counter Keith Gress have continued to contribute one day every other week for 13 years. "Being part of the GGRO, and therefore the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy model, is really cool when you think about the scale of the work being accomplished. I think everyone should volunteer to do something for their community," said Gress.
Below are details from the planned 25th Anniversary Celebration of GGRO. For more information, call GGRO 415-331-0730, or email email@example.com, or visit our website www.parksconservancy.org
Celebrate Raptors—A Series of Raptor Biology Talks
- Thursday, Sept 10, 7 to 9 pm
Bud Anderson, Director, Falcon Research Group
"Satellite-Tracking Peregrines throughout the Americas"
Location: San Francisco Zoo
- Thursday, Oct 15, 7 to 9 pm
David Mindell, Curator of Ornithology, California Academy of Sciences
"Falconiformes Discovery: Field, Lab, and Conservation"
Location: California Academy of Sciences, a NIGHTLIFE event
- Wednesday, Nov 18, 7 to 9 pm
William Clark, author, Peterson Field Guide to Hawks
"Eagle Quest: Seeking the World's Eagles"
Location: Chapel, Cavallo Point
GGRO Open House and Raptor Fest
Oct 24-25 10 am to 4 pm, Ft Cronkhite at Rodeo Beach
Oct 24, Saturday: Scientific Displays, Radiotelemetry Demonstrations
Live Non-releasable Raptors, Kid Crafts, GGRO Product Sales
Visits to Hawk Hill, Banding Demonstrations, Raptor Art
Oct 25, Sunday: All the above and the GGRO Symposium
Talks on GGRO science and conservation about what we've learned over 25 years. Speakers from UC Davis, SF State University, UC Berkeley, presenting results of their research with GGRO.
Media Contact:
David Shaw
Director of Communications & Marketing
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
About the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
The Parks Conservancy is the nonprofit membership organization created to preserve the Golden Gate National Parks, enhance the experiences of park visitors, and build a community dedicated to conserving the parks for the future. The Conservancy is an authorized "cooperating association" of the National Park Service, and is one of more than 70 such nonprofit organizations working with national parks around the country. To learn more, please visit www.parksconservancy.org or call (415) 561-3000.
About the National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior charged with managing the preservation and public use of America's most significant natural, scenic, historic, and cultural treasures. The NPS manages the Golden Gate National Parks, as well as 394 other park sites across the U.S. For more information, visit www.nps.gov/goga or call (415) 561-4700.


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|Poor Mr. Spock , He was just about to let a fart go . Then this idiots show'd up !!!
|Kirk : Mr. Spock , I'm going to ask you again . Did you wash your hands after you went to the bathroom ???
Mr. Spock : I find that highly illogical that I wouldn't have performed that task , Captain .
McCoy : I can quickly check with one of my Medical scanners.
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "What do you mean, we have run out of redshirts!?"
|Kirk: Spock, I think your taking the saying "skeletons in your closet" a little to seriously...
|Kirk: Spock, I have a bone to pick with you.
Spock: How convenient. The good doctor is already here to assist you.
Bones: I'm a doctor, not a... SONNOVA BI-
|Kirk: Political comment?
Spock: Political comment.
Bones: I concur.
|In my own defence Captain, I do not believe singing in the shower should be a beheading offence no matter if I am off-key or not.
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "Bones analyzed the skulls on this shelf and found out they are all fake! That archeologist who joined our crew is a total fraud!"
Spock: "What a skullduggery."
|Frankie Chestnuts
|Kirk: "So what do you have to say for yourself, young man?
Spock: "There was no collusion... But even if there was, it's not illegal..."
Kirk: "That's gotta be the biggest pile of horse hooey I've ever heard..."
|Frankie Chestnuts
|Spock" "Witch hunt! Sad! Disgraceful! Not Good! Fake News! NO Collusion! Collusion is not a crime... but NO Collusion. I ran out of gas! I got a flat tire. I locked my keys in the car! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!!
Gentlemen, does that sound as stupid to you as it does to me?"
|Continued assertions of "No collusion" are illogical.
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "I don't care how 'logical' a keen interest in comparative anatomy is Spock! Your skull collection is creepy!"
|Silent Bob
|Kirk: "You bonehead!"
Spock: "It is illogical to be insulting captain"
Kirk: "I was talking to the skull behind you"
|McCoy: It still amazes me how Spock can stand there like that for hours on end.
Kirk: Whatever he's thinking about must be deep and profound.
Spock: (thinking) What *is* the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
|Harry Kim
|"Bones, you sure you put his brain back in right?"
|Lt Hey
|Kirk: Bones, that statue of Spock is so life long it is amazing.
Spock: Captain it is really me
Kirk: Oh sh_t
|Miss Marple
|Captain: Spock, wipe that superior look off your face!
Spock: I will, Captain, as soon as you wipe that tribble OFF YOUR HEAD.
|Miss Marple
|Kirk: Spock, wipe that superior look off your face!
Spock: I will, Captain, as soon as you wipe that tribble OFF YOUR HEAD.
Bones: Spock, you are out of your Vulcan mind.
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "Whom are you calling 'tribble brain'!?"
|N'tran DS 12
|These are the Star Trek Three, but Spock is right there.
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "Alright then. I'll cosplay as Captain Janeway, and Spock as Seven of Nine."
McCoy: "Well, you both got their respective standard poses down to a T."
|Cyrus Ramsay
|Kirk: "Well, Spock? Care to explain why you stuck a 'Kick Me' notice on McCoy's back?"
Spock: "Actually, Captain, the fault lies with the doctor himself. When he restored my brain he attempted to install a sense of humour in there."
McCoy: "Well, I don't mind admitting to having botched THAT operation."
Spock: "On the contrary, Doctor; it was your own sense of humour which you installed."
|Kirk: SEVEN YEARS?!?
|Dr McCoy says you've been using his skull collection to drink Vulcan brandy. What do you have to say for yourself Spock?
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "You are putting out the Halloween decoration a few months too early."
Spock: "I apologize, Captain. Maintaining the calendar is a bit tricky in outer space."
|"...he is the very model of a modern Vulcan officer!"
|"Hmmm... I think you're right, Bones - the left one IS pointier."
|Kirk: Must...you always stand at attention?!
|Kirk, "So that was the Vulcan Death Fart?" McCoy, "Neither silent nor deadly. We need to get more cabbage in his plumeek soup".
|Kirk: "So let me get this straight. You've insured the Enterprise online just to get 2-for-1 cinema tickets?"
Spock: "Yes, Captain. The meerkat was most convincing."
Bones: "See, Jim. I told you he was delusional."
Kirk: "You're right, I'd have gone for the free meals offer!"
|"Yes, Captain. I do think it is morbid for the doctor to keep the skulls of red shirts, I mean crewmen, who have died in service."
|The monthly Enterprise Fun Committee meeting to discuss ways or improving crew morale.
|Bones: "See, green blood, green bogeys, 'nuff said."
|Kirk insists on inspecting Spock's nasal hair.
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "Bones, is it just me, or did his ears become even pointier lately?"
|Frankie Chestnuts
|Kirk: "Bones, I just need to know... WHY do you have a life-size wax model of Spock in your quarters?"
Bones: "Well... you know... Study of Vulcan anatomy?"
Kirk: "Hmmm... OK. I can buy that."
|Frankie Chestnuts
|Bones (Mouthing to Spock): *Poser*
Kirk (turning): "What was that?"
Spock (Mouthing to Bones): *Poser*
Kirk (turning): "What?"
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "No, I'll tell you both exactly what happens now: YOU apologize for calling Spock a pointy-eared hobgoblin, and YOU apologize for calling Bones an over-emotional quack."
|Kirk: He who smell't it, Spock.
|N'tran DS 12
|Seconds before a horrible transporter accident generates SpirKoy.
|N'tran DS 12
|Some one knows how to get a head.
|Miss Marple
|Little known fact:
Prior to becoming a vegetarian, Spock had been quite the trophy hunter.
|Bird of Prey
|Spock: "I didn't know that Dr. McCoy has so many bones in his office."
Kirk: "Well, what did YOU think how he got that nickname?"
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "Did you seriously try to mind-melt with the skulls in Bones' skull collection!?"
|Kirk: "I just don't know what to think, Spock! A degree in phrenology? That's more like something I'd expect from Bones."
McCoy: "Yeah, that's tr...HEY!... Yeah, that's true...."
|Hey look, McCoy's collection of Red Shirt memorabilia is almost complete!
|Spock struggled to mask his disappointment after yet another failed Enterprise Talent Show performance. The reviews of his puppet show included terms like, "strange", "morbid", and - in Doctor McCoy's distinctive handwriting - "My God man! What the hell is wrong with you?!"
|Well, Spock? He's in your division, what do YOU suggest we do with Ensign Lecter?
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "Spock, please start assembling a skeleton crew for our next mission. Everything you'll need for this is behind you."
|(all together now!)
You put your hands on your hips
And pull your knees in tight
And do the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
... put your hands on your hips,
and pull your knees in tight,
and do the pelvic thrust,
that really drives you insane,
|They spent ages trying to teach Spock how to play "Captain Says"
|"I don't know what's wrong with him, Jim. I'm a doctor, not a vulcanologist!"
|"Spock, have you just farted?"
"I'm sorry, Captain. I had burrito at lunchtime."
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "I KNEW it! Spock has a lot of skeletons in his closet!"
McCoy: "Well technically, they are all just the skulls..."
|Kirk: Ok, once again from the top. Spock, I want you to stand completely still.
Spock: ...
Kirk: No, No, NO! You're supposed to do the opposite!
|"Spock, analysis!"
"That is not a good pose, Captain."
|Attempt #1,540 on the Enterprise's Improv Comedy night to make Spock crack a smile.
|here on Candid Camera, we put a heated, clothed plasticine model of Spock and see how the crew reacts.
|Time to confess Mr SPock, we have the remains of your victims all around us.
|Rob Cardassian
|Kirk:"okay, which one of you made Ensign Chekov cry?"
|Frankie Chestnuts
|From the "Male Guide to Posing", from right to left, we see:
Different Pompous
|Frankie Chestnuts
|From the "Male Guide to Posing", from right to left, we see:
REALLY Pompous
|Silent Bob
|Kirk: "I guess the decoration in here explains McCoy's nickname"
|Silent Bob
|Kirk: "Are you freaked out about all the skulls around here?
Spock: "That would be illogical, Captain"
|Miss Marple
|Pointy Sideburns Contest... IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
|Miss Marple
|Scissors, Rock, Spock, Lizard.
|Bird of Prey
|Kirk: "You kept it a secret that your father is non other than Ambassador Sarek..."
McCoy: "...and that you have a brother who is the leader of a group of religious fanatics..."
Kirk: "Are there any other close family members you never told us about?"
Spock: "Well... uh..."
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Ulster Club Senior Football Championship quarter-finals
St. Gall's (Antrim) 2-05 3-09 Crossmaglen Rangers (Armagh), Casement Park FT
A place in the Ulster Senior Football championship semi-final awaits either reigning Ulster and AIB All-Ireland champions Crossmaglen Rangers or perpetual understudy's St Galls, at Casement Park on Sunday (2.30pm)
Both sides have won the last seven Ulster titles between them and both St. Galls and 'Cross won the All-Ireland club titles of 2010 and 2011 respectively.
This is a repeat of last year's ill-tempered Ulster quarter-final that 'Cross won 1-12 to 0-9, veteran Oisin McConville turned back the years and bagged 1-06.
Galls challenge all but evaporated after Rangers Paul Hearty saved Kevin Niblock's second-half penalty to effectively seal the deal in champions favour. Galls cause wasn't helped after Karl Stewart saw red thus weakening their side considerably and 'Cross took full advantage.
Rangers convincingly claimed their 38th Armagh title obliterating Ballymacnab 2-22 to 0-03 – their 15th title in 16 years – and now attempt to go after Ulster crown number nine. St Galls, winners of the Ulster title in 2009 defeating Derry side Loup, beat Lamh Dearg in the Antrim final by three points to claim their 10th title in 11 year.
Ranger's biggest problem is deciding who to start with, with an array of talent, young and old to choose from, not to mention McConville who is expected to be deployed as an impact sub, manager Tony McEntee has quashed any speculation that any player is guaranteed a starting berth. That said the inform Aaron Cunningham and Jamie Clark are certain to start up front.
As with every game involving Crossmaglen it's hard to see past the Armagh men suffering defeat, even at the hands of such an experienced outfit as St. Galls. The players on Rangers bench would walk onto most county teams and this strength in depth is what, St Galls, and most other clubs just can't contend with.


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Soli Deo Gloria, a Latin phrase meaning "For the Glory of God Alone," was at the very foundation and heart of St. Angela Merici's life and ministry. Anything she said or did was for God's glory, not her own.
The Ursuline Sisters have a long history and tradition of keeping this motto before those who embrace St. Angela's spirit. "Soli Deo Gloria" is embedded throughtout the writings of St. Angela who says, "You will see marvelous things, if you direct everything to the praise and glory of his Majesty and the good of souls."
God was Angela's one and only desire and all she did, she did for God's honor and glory alone.
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Telling stories about the "good old days" is a popular pastime for coaches, former players and sportswriters. It is, if nothing else, a great way to fill the void between one high school football season and the next.
Most of the stories shared are about teams, players and games played in the past 25 to 40 years. There was high school football before that, but our link to those eras is fading.
Former football coach Barrett Murphy is helping to fill the void with a new book about Louisiana's six-man football era — "Barefoot, Bloodied and Bruised: The Story of Louisiana Six-Man Football."
Six-man football? Yes, there was six-man football and also eight-man football played by small schools in Louisiana primarily in the 1940s and 1950s.
The book was a labor of love for Murphy, who was a head coach at Catholic High, Belaire and East Ascension. He also coached on the college level at Nicholls State and McNeese State.
A longtime advocate of high school sports, Murphy hosts a local postgame Friday radio show. He got interested in the six-man and eight-man football eras a few years ago and started compiling notes, video interviews and old photos.
The 180-page book features chapters on a number of six-man football schools. Dutchtown, Denham Springs, Brusly, St. Gabriel, Livonia, Rayne and Port Barre are among the schools featured in individual chapters.
How many of you knew there was a Dutchtown long before Eddie Lacy, Eric Reid or Landon Collins played there? Not many I suspect.
The current Dutchtown High opened about 15 years ago. The Dutchtown Murphy writes about won two state titles in six-man football in the 1940s. Former coaches, players and officials recall their memories.
These guys wore leather helmets. They rode on a bus that had a long bench for players to sit on, and they traveled for hours on country roads long before there were interstate highways.
There was no GPS and no cell phones. One team got lost while traveling in a storm and arrived late only to find that the game had been canceled.
In the book's forward, Murphy explains the rules of six-man football and offers some other interesting facts. For example, you had four plays to gain 15 yards for a first down. A field goal was worth four points. All players were eligible receivers.
Murphy cited another source, Ray Duncan's "Six Man Football," to detail the costs to field a team. Uniforms for a 20-player team ran about $365, a cost that could barely outfit one player these days.
The Denham Springs High gymnasium is named for legendary basketball coach and administrator Grady Hornsby, who also coached the school's six-man football coach in the 1940s.
Just as they are now, football games were social events. Former players recounted a 1946 Dutchtown-Denham Springs game that ended with a brawl among spectators. Players watched the fights unfold from the safety of the gymnasium.
One of Murphy's sources was Baton Rouge Community College baseball coach L.J. Dupuy, a quarterback for Brusly in the late 1950s.
A book like this may not appeal to everyone. But it offers some insight into an era and a kind of football many of us never got the chance to see.
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I love my "Start Being Awesome" sign so much that I decided to make another huge piece of art!
This time I stained the letters with a dark stain and made the background white. I love how it turned out!
It's so simple yet has such impact in the room.
Do you want to know how to make one of your very own?
First I made the wooden barn-door style board using the tutorial here. {I'm actually out of fence posts, so I just buy 1x4s and cut them down to 40″ long each.}
I started by staining my board. Once it was dry, I added the vinyl:
The vinyl is actually bigger than my Silhouette machine can cut, so I had to cut it into two sections and piece them together.
I used an image from the Silhouette Studio software and store called "Vintage You & Me". I enlarged it the size I wanted it, then I cut two pieces like this:
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It wasn't the easiest thing to get the two huge peices of vinyl attached to the board so they overlap in just the right places, but with some patience I had them lined up.
From there I added Mod Podge to all the edges of the vinyl. Then I painted the entire top of the board using a can of eggshell paint in SW Alabaster.
After the 2nd coat of paint, while the paint was still wet I removed all the vinyl to reveal my new sign!
A little bit of distressing & a clear top coat and the sign is finished!
The sign is 40″ wide by 20″ tall…
…and is every so slightly distressed.
So, are you going to make one too? I'd love to see any of your artwork if you do!
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Welcome to the 2014 Market Season!
Looks like we're finally "gearing up" for our season! This crazy weather of ours affects everyone…especially our farmers!
We've become a vendor-managed market. While there are a few basic tenants we need to abide by (contact our coordinator RC Schroeder for more info at 870-746-4263), participating as a vendor is a straightforward proposition.
We've got an official day and time of operation – Saturday, 8 am to Noon – which means that any vendor who has paid their annual fee of $20 can sell at the market site on those days and times throughout the season. Once a vendor pays their fee, they're ready to begin selling at the Market site. And, since we're vendor-managed, it's up to each vendor to comply with State laws governing farmers markets. We've posted State Health Department Guidelines on our board at the market site. Whenever a vendor is selling at the Site, the cover over the Guidelines will be lowered for all to observe.
First and foremost, we're a growers-only market. This means anything that is sold at our Market will be raised, grown and/or made by the person selling it.
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A Solo Exhibit by Dean C. Williams
Artist Reception: Sunday, October 4th 2-4pm, Uniondale Public Library, 400 Uniondale Ave.
Uniondale, NY. 11530, 516 489-2220
The exhibit is on display for the month of October during normal library hours. Hope to see you there.