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The Top 10 best K-dramas of Summer 2015
Summer is sadly over, but instead of mourning our loss, let's take a moment to remember the good times! This summer, the K-drama gods gifted us with hours of laughter, tears, romance, and intrigue. Some of my now all-time favorite K-dramas came out this summer, so if you're looking for something to brighten your fall, here are some recommendations from the best K-dramas of Summer 2015.
Starring Park Yoo Chun and Shin Se Kyung
Three years ago, Choi Moo Gak (Park Yoo Chun) was mysteriously entangled in the "Barcode" murder case, resulting in not only the death of his sister, but also in the loss of most of his senses. While unearthing the cold case, Moo Gak crosses paths with Oh Cho Rim (Shin Se Kyung), a fellow victim who gained the synesthetic ability to see smells, but lost all of her memories prior to the incident. Moo Gak and Cho Rim combine their strange powers to track down the culprit, but are they ready to confront the truth?
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Starring Park Bo Young and Jo Jung Suk
Na Bong Sun (Park Bo Young) may be a skilled chef, but she lacks the self-esteem to shine professionally and socially. Beyond her cooking talents, however, is an uncanny ability to communicate with ghosts. One day, her mystic senses go out of control when the seductive ghost of Shin Soon Ae (Kim Seul Gi) possesses her. Imbued with a fiery new "personality," Bong Sun starts turning heads, including that of Kang Sun Woo (Jo Jung Suk), the hottest chef in town and Bong Sun's secret crush!
Starring Yoo Yun Suk and Kang So Ra
Brought to the idyllic Jeju Island in the hopes to make a fresh start, Lee Jung Joo (Kang So Ra) runs into her first love Baek Geon Woo (Yoo Yeon Seok), who runs his own restaurant named Warm and Cozy. Will they be able to move past their differing priorities and personalities, or will a dark secret threaten to keep them apart?
4. Twenty Again
Starring Choi Ji Woo and Kim Min Jae
Due to an unplanned pregnancy, Ha No Ra (Choi Ji Woo) married young and dropped out of school. But after two decades as a housewife, she finally gets the chance to experience college, alongside her 20-year-old son Kim Min Soo (Kim Min Jae) and his girlfriend Oh Hye Mi (Son Na Eun). Further complicating things, No Ra already has a strained student-teacher relationship, as her husband Kim Woo Chul (Choi Won Young) and her first love Cha Hyun Suk (Lee Sang Yoon) wind up being her professors.
5. Yong Pal
Starring Joo Won and Kim Tae Hee
Kim Tae Hyun (Joo Won) is a promising young surgeon, but his finances take a dive when his sister's health condition requires costly dialysis treatments. When Tae Hyun subsequently falls into a vicious cycle of debt, he assumes the alias of "Yong Pal" and begins making house calls for criminals who are willing to pay top dollar. Complicating things further, Tae Hyun gets involved with Han Yeo Jin (Kim Tae Hee), a comatose patient at the hospital.
6. Mask
Starring Park Soo Ae and Joo Ji Hoon
Desperate to distance herself from her father's crippling debt, Byun Ji Sook (Soo Ae) begins to pose as Seo Eun Ha (Soo Ae), a wealthy socialite with an eerie resemblance to Ji Sook. While playing her new role, she has a chance meeting with Min Woo (Joo Ji Hoon), a cynical CEO desperate to escape his privileged world. Invigorated by her atypical "rich girl" personality, Min Woo quickly falls for "Eun Ha," but how long can Ji Sook keep up the charades before Min Woo discovers she's an impostor?
7. Scholar Who Walks the Night
Starring Lee Joon Ki and Lee Yoo Bi
When Jo Yang Sun (Lee Yoo Bi) is driven out of house and home after her father is framed for a crime, she is forced to crossdress in order to make ends meet as a bookseller, where she meets Kim Sung Yeol (Lee Joon Ki), a handsome, but mysterious scholar who is actually a vampire. Meanwhile, an evil presence at the royal palace stops at nothing to keep the Crown Prince from claiming his rightful throne.
8. Producer
Starring Kim Soo Hyun and Gong Hyo Jin
A group of young television producers — Ra Joon Mo (Cha Tae Hyun), Baek Seung Chan (Kim Soo Hyun), Tak Ye Jin (Gong Hyo Jin) –– and K-pop star Cindy (IU) work tirelessly around the clock within the entertainment division of a major broadcasting network. Amidst their dynamic and challenging workloads, serious drama reaches new heights in this backstage glimpse of the people who make television magic happen.
9. School 2015
Starring Kim So Hyun and Nam Joo Hyuk
Lee Eun Bi (Kim So Hyun), a student at Gangnam's top high school, suddenly and mysteriously wakes up with total amnesia. However, when she discovers she was once cruelly bullied, Eun Bi becomes determined to right the wrongs of her past by transforming herself into a popular and glamorous girl. But along the way, she begins to recover fragments of her memories that slowly reveal the insidious truths of Segang High School.
10. EXO Next Door
Starring Moon Ga Young and Park Chan Yeol
Ji Yeon Hee (Moon Ga Young) is an offbeat girl living an unremarkable life, but when the K-pop group EXO — (played by EXO members Park Chan Yeol, Do Kyung Soo, Byun Baek Hyun, and Oh Se Hun) — moves in next door, her life suddenly becomes the ultimate "boy next door" fantasy. And to top it off, both Chan Yeol and Kyung Soo develop feelings for their unwitting neighbor. Can Yeon Hee handle a love triangle with two of the hottest boys in the block (and in the world)?
While all the dramas on the list were amazing, my top three favorites of the summer were Mask, Sensory Couple, and Oh My Ghostess. I was surprised that I loved Mask so much because I don't usually like melodramas, but the acting was superb, the chemistry between the cast was amazing, and the plot kept me on the edge of my seat. A lot of people doubted Sensory Couple would be good because they didn't like the female lead in previous roles and the plot seemed absurd, but it ended up being funny, endearing, suspenseful, and touching all at the same time. Not to mention the hot serial killer chef! And Oh My Ghostess was the perfect romantic comedy with a twist that had me laughing one moment and crying the next! I'll be adding it alongside the ranks of my ultimate favorite K-drama, Coffee Prince!
What were your favorite K-dramas of Summer 2015? Comment below!


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Baltimore's winter ''shotgun robberies,'' a series of hold-upsdirected at white-owned restaurants, convenience stores and supermarkets, already are fading into history. The arrest of two suspects accused of masterminding the robberies seems to have dismantled the shotgun gang, but as the shock wears off, we are overlooking a critical opportunity to examine the workings of a society whose policies and assumptions are all too often out of sync with its realities.
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This question - what would you like to know about your customers? - is the simple challenge from Andrew Warren-Payne as he takes to the stage and bemoans previous hype around the tweeting fridge.
By the way, that header image is Colin Farrell in the 2012 reboot of Total Recall, reading a lovely message on his 'screen fridge'.
Andrew's point is that the internet of things is not about smart fridges (you would still run out of toilet roll, unless you kept it in the fridge) or a kettle you can turn on with your smartphone. The IoT is more a forthcoming reality for expanding data collection and communication, allowing brands to find out more about customers and how they interact with products and services.
A bad example of the connected device
I have to get internet-enabled fridges out of my system. I'm not trying to be cool, but one of my favourite websites is fuckyeahinternetfridge.
Just take a look at some of the posts, including the wonderful press release from Electrolux in 1999 that declared:
there's no doubt that when the Sceenfridge hits the market, it will revolutionize daily life
It's easy to scoff at predictions that haven't come true but it's clear that early thoughts on connected devices were directed towards a utopia that people don't want. Switches, physical proximity and cognisance of 'what you've got in' are pretty much optimal solutions for turning on a kettle and writing a shopping list. It's not a drag being at work, unsure if you have a jar of artichokes in the fridge.
The IoT can be more powerful than making the physical virtual. It can improve the physical, solve big problems such as the stress of commuting by bicycle. Which is where the good example of a connected thing comes in...
A good example of a connected thing
MindRider (praise the Lord that the start-up trend for dropping e's from er's has left us) is a smart bicycle helmet.
The helmet measures stress with sensors of brain activity and head movement. The platform can then visualise how stressed you've been on your journey at various times. Pooled routes allow the rider to look for or be recommended new and safer routes to get to work (or wherever else).
In the words of the company Kickstarter:
MindRider is a new helmet that shows, in real time, how your rides, movement, and location engage your mind. The MindRider app maps and tracks your engagement, and allows you to share your maps with others. These maps provide quantified insight that empower you to maximize your riding experience, and they are a great resource for riding communities and street advocacy.
Think of the power of this kind of application for product development, customer experience and the customer/product lifecycle.
So, take Andrew's polemic back to your marketing team and ask them 'what do we want to know about our customers?'
For more on this subject, check out the Future of Digital Marketing 2014 presentation slides.
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Great article Ben. Thanks.
Another useful wearable tech innovation I've seen recently is a heart monitor for kids with heart defects. It was profiled at Cannes last week. It's the fourth down on this page - "Heart Me".


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NASHVILLE — There's a black-and-white photograph that singer-songwriter Kelsey Waldon treasures. It's of her great-grandmother Maurice Rollins, then a teenager, strumming her guitar and gazing at the camera.
The photo evokes a time when Hank Williams Sr. and Bill Monroe were voices for the lonesome.
It's an era Waldon knows well.
Waldon's music lives in smoky honky-tonks, the kind that are filled with star-crossed lovers busy spending the bills on beer, where rusted pickup trucks litter the gravel lot out back.
On Tuesday, the 26-year-old Western Kentucky native released her first full-length album, The Gold Mine, an independent record fully financed from a Kickstarter.com campaign.
Waldon's piercing 11-track release draws from her rural childhood and the journey to find her voice in country music's capital, Nashville, where she lives now. (Stream three of her songs here on her website.)
"It's about the ebbs and flows of being here in Nashville and playing in the honky-tonks," Waldon said, "the nights where I just get drunk and sad and depressed."
"The other nights where you're having that day where you're blasting off and the next you might just be sitting on your tail not going anywhere. The whole record is centered around that."
Her sound is rooted in old country, and throughout the 32-minute record Waldon dispenses ugly truths and wisdom, the result of a Bible Belt upbringing.
Waldon grew up in Ballard County, west of Paducah, living in communities including Bandana and Monkeys Eyebrow, before moving to Barlow. When she was 12, her parents divorced, and she picked up a guitar.
Waldon's mother, Kelly Harris, said she noticed her daughter's talent shortly after she started taking guitar lessons from Herb Chapman, the father of Grammy-winning Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman.
"He told me, 'She has it,'" Harris said. "You just know it or you don't, and she does."
Waldon spent her youth in Western Kentucky life, fishing on the banks of Colvin Lake and hanging around her dad's hunting lodge in Monkeys Eyebrow.
"I grew up around a lot of men that were away from home at the hunting lodge," Waldon said. "There were a lot of good times, a lot of bad times. It was a slow life, but a good life, too. We had it tough, but sometimes I think we had it better than a lot of people."
Waldon's passion for songwriting flourished in her teen years, and she began channeling her experiences and observations in a sleepy town into song. She played at county fairs, at Wickliffe's Harvest Festival, at church and in any space with willing listeners.
"There might not be 10 people there, but she would go on the weekends and play," Harris said. "That's all she wanted to do on the weekends, is play and sing her songs. Usually she only sang the ones that she wrote. Sometimes she does cover songs, but mostly it was only the ones that she wrote herself, her words."
Nashville on a whim
At 18, Waldon landed her first real gig, across the Ohio River in Metropolis, Ill.
"I can't even remember the name of the club right now; it's not there anymore," she said. "It was kind of the first thing I did with my original tunes. I remember I was so scared, and I just made myself. I was like if you wanna do this you gotta do it. I'm really glad no one has documentation of that."
After high school, Waldon ventured to Nashville on a whim, pursuing her dream. Waldon worked a 40-hour, minimum-wage job and performed at bars that would take in the aspiring underage songwriter.
"My songs were probably OK for an 18-year-old, but I don't think they were good," Waldon said. "I got my ass kicked, for lack of better words."
'She's so talented'
After an unsuccessful stint in Nashville, Waldon moved back home. But it wasn't the last the city would see of her.
In her two years back in Ballard County, Waldon graduated with honors from Western Kentucky Community and Technical College with an associate's degree, and she was accepted into the songwriting program at Belmont University in Nashville.
Waldon caught the eye of Grammy-winning producer and music publicist Tamara Saviano while completing an internship during her senior year.
"She shared her music with me then, and I was like, 'Oh, my God, she's an updated Jessie Colter and Sammi Smith,' an outlaw country artist which I love," Saviano said. "She's so talented."
The Kentuckian conjures a golden era of country, when Tammy Wynette's power ballads and Loretta Lynn's blue-collar revelations ruled the airwaves.
Waldon said the country music queens were large influences on her album.
"I got really into a lot of Tammy and Loretta, especially their late-'60s and '70s stuff," Waldon said. "I'm talking about the deep cuts, really realizing how good it really is. Especially sonically; it was really hip for that time."
But she's hardly a tribute artist.
"She's not just trying to re-create Tammy Wynette," said Michael Rinne, who produced and bass guitar on The Gold Mine. "She's taking real subject matters and looking forward, and by doing that, I think, anybody who hears her music will be forced to look forward.
"How can we make this better? How do I make myself better? How does this relationship get better? It's only through honesty that those sort of things in your life happen. Kelsey is sitting at the honky-tonk, offering you a drink and saying, 'What about tomorrow?'"
Going for honesty
Waldon's gritty and revealing portraits of small-town life put her in a class of Kentucky songwriters largely unmatched in country music's current landscape.
On the feisty High in Heels, Waldon croons about popping pills and being skeptical about the "church people" offering salvation at her front door:
Now early one morning someone came to our door
They held a tiny book that said heaven was in store
And if we believed there could be a way out
It seemed like quite a bit to think about.
It recalls John Prine's Vietnam War-era classic Sam Stone.
The characters on Waldon's record are small-town folk, but their meandering experiences are universal. Whether lamenting the toils of a miner digging for coal in Harlan on Quicksand, or documenting the ups and downs of quarreling lovers on the pedal-steel-drenched One Time Again, Waldon uses an often-forgotten rural demographic and makes their experiences relatable, doing so with a driving wit and a heavy heart.
"I think country music can be for everybody and it can still be country," she said. "I wanted everyone to see the beauty that I see in it, but also small-town rural life, and I think everyone can relate to it in a way, feel the honesty in it. If it's authentic, I think, they can appreciate it."
Not mainstream, but 'real'
Waldon's most accurate barometer of success might not be airplay on mainstream country radio. Female voices have become increasingly scarce in an era dominated by so-called "bro country" — dirt-road affirmations and rap-country hybrids.
"I hate when people say there is no more real country music anymore," Waldon said, "because there is. Just because it's not on mainstream radio, who cares?
"I'm gonna do what I want to do no matter what. I feel really inspired to make the kind of music that I do, and I don't feel scared about it. I don't think I'm doing the wrong thing. I don't think it's wrong at all. I think though that there are lot of listeners that want to hear that, and I think they will find it."
Saviano said Waldon's career isn't contingent on country radio exposure.
"The way Kelsey is going to have a long career is to go out and play her songs in front of the people and put out her own albums and remain an independent artist," she said. "She will always have creative freedom. Artists can make a really good living now without radio. She may never be rich and famous, but she can always make a living with her music."
Meanwhile, in Ballard County, Waldon's pursuits are being watched with pride.
Harris said, "I think people are very proud of her, and proud of her for chasing her dream."


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Last week's column dealt with the difference in intelligence between blacks and whites and showed that scientific research established beyond any reasonable doubt that this difference was innate. This alone proves that our egalitarian culture is radically wrong about the nature of the races. However, once we have recognized the innate racial difference in intelligence, we have only begun to scratch the surface. Blacks and whites differ not only in intelligence, but across a whole suite of personality attributes. The fact that these differences are found the world over is strong evidence that they stem from the differing genetic makeup of the races rather than from any accident of history or culture.
First, the races differ in sexual behavior: blacks are more sexually promiscuous than whites and are less inclined to form long-term sexual partnerships. The sexual mores prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa differ radically from Western norms. African sexuality is characterized by the early onset of sexual activity, loose emotional ties between sexual partners, and matings with many different partners. For example, among the Herero tribe of southwest Africa, men typically sire many children by different women before they marry at the late age of 35 to 40. The tribe considers this behavior normal and does not stigmatize the children of out-of-wedlock unions1. In 1987, 64 percent of African adolescents reported being sexually experienced vs. only 40 percent of European adolescents2. Africans also have sex with greater frequency than whites.3
The same difference is evident in the US. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in 2005 sixty-seven percent of black high school students reported having had sex, whereas only 43 percent of white high school students did. Twenty-eight percent of black high-schoolers said they had had four or more sexual partners in their lifetimes, compared to only 11 percent of white high-schoolers4. Also, in 2002, black men aged 15-44 reported having had 8.3 sexual partners in their lifetimes on average, whereas white men reported 5.3.5
These differences in sexual promiscuity create enormous differences in susceptibility to sexual diseases. In 2005, over six percent of Africans aged 15-44 were HIV positive, compared to 0.5 percent of North Americans and Europeans, making the HIV incidence rate in Africa a full 12 times higher than in the West6. Blacks in the US show the same pattern. According to the CDC, US blacks are 10 times more likely than whites to have AIDS. There are similar differences in other sexually-transmitted diseases. In 2005, 9.8 out of every 100,000 American blacks had syphilis vs. 1.8 whites, making the black syphilis rate more than five times higher. American statistics on parenting also reveal blacks' lack of inclination to form long-term sexual bonds. The CDC reports that a no less than 70 percent of all black births were to unmarried women in 2005, which is about three times higher than the percentage of births to unmarried women among whites. Black children are three times more likely to live with a single mother than white children7.
A second domain in which there are substantial differences between whites and blacks is the ability to defer present gratification for greater future rewards. It is essential to success in modern societies that we be willing to accept privations and hardships in the present for the sake of greater good down the road. Buying a house in the future often requires that you save and invest your money rather than spending it immediately. Getting a good job in the future often requires that you endure difficult and costly training in the present. Scientific studies and statistics on behavior show blacks have a lower ability to defer gratification than whites. Blacks' inability to focus on the long-term makes them more prone than whites to socially irresponsible behaviors such as crime, unemployment, and drug addiction.
The psychologist Walter Mischel showed this racial difference clearly in a 1961 study. He offered black and white children the choice between a small candy bar immediately or a larger candy bar a week hence. The black children were so much more likely than whites to ask for the smaller candy bar that Mischel deemed significance tests superfluous. He concluded, in the blunt language that his day still allowed, "Negroes are impulsive, indulge themselves, settle for next to nothing if they can get it right away, do not work or wait for bigger things in the future."8
A particularly good example of the consequences of blacks' inability to defer gratification is their higher crime rates. Criminals are the best examples of people who favor present gratification at the expense of long-term rewards: a mugger is willing to sacrifice his whole future for the chance of stealing someone's wallet. In "The Color of Crime," New Century Foundation, which publishes American Renaissance, has shown blacks in America are seven times more likely than whites to be in prison. Nor is this an artifact of racial discrimination by the legal system: the report also proves that the available evidence leaves no doubt that police are equally likely to arrest white criminals as black criminals and judges equally likely to convict them. Blacks are more likely to commit every category of crime than whites, but the gap is particularly wide in the categories of robbery, which blacks are 15 times more likely to commit than whites, and drug offenses, which blacks are 12 times more likely to commit9.
"The Color of Crime" also demonstrates that this difference in criminality is not caused by black social disadvantage. Examining violent crime rates by state, the report finds the percentage of the state's population that is black or Hispanic is a far better predictor of crime levels than poverty, unemployment, or high-school dropout rates. Furthermore, even when you control for these factors, the relationship between percentage black and Hispanic and crime rates is still almost as strong as before. This indicates that even if whites were just as socially disadvantaged as blacks, the racial difference in criminality would still be almost as great as it currently is10. The racial difference in crime rates plainly stems from different natures.
This difference in criminality prevails internationally as well. Using data from international surveys of crime, J. Phillippe Rushton found that violent crime was twice as common in Africa and the Caribbean as in predominantly white countries11.
Many other differences between white and black behavior are consequences of the difference in ability to defer gratification. Blacks are twice as likely to be unemployed as whites, indicating they prefer the present pleasure of sleeping in and "hanging out" to the long-term rewards afforded by holding a steady job. Blacks also spend three times as much of their income on movies as whites, who are more prone to save their money for major purchases in the future12.
The past two columns have shown that blacks and whites differ in fundamental ways across a wide array of traits. These differences make it difficult for blacks to conform to the norms of Western societies. No matter how much taxpayer money is devoted to improving black education, employment, and so forth, blacks continue to lag. Year after year, they do worse in school than whites, commit crime at higher rates, and are more likely to be unemployed and impoverished. Trying to get blacks to integrate into white societies is like trying to stick a square peg into a round hole.
So pervasive and profound are the differences between the white and black minds that we must conclude that evolution designed them to create radically different types of society. Next week, we will examine how the environments in which whites and blacks evolved gave rise to racial differences in personality and abilities.
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- J. Philippe Rushton. Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective, 3rd ed. (Port Huron, MI: Charles Darwin Research Institute), 156. ↑
- Ibid., p. 172. ↑
- Ibid., p. 172. ↑
- Center for Disease Control, "Trends in HIV-Related Risk Behaviors Among High School Students, United States, 1991-2005," CDC website, 11 August 2006 (accessed 2 January 2007). Link ↑
- William D. Mosher and others, "Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures: Men and Women 15–44 Years of Age, United States, 2002," CDC website, 15 September 2005, p. 28 (accessed 2 January 2007). Link ↑
- UNAIDS. 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic (Geneva: UNAIDS, 2006), 13. Link ↑
- US Census Bureau, "Children's Living Arrangements and Characteristics: March 2002," US Census Bureau website, June 2003, p. 5. Link ↑
- Walter Mischel, "Preference for Delayed Reinforcement and Social Responsibility," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 62, no. 1 (1961), p. 6. Quoted in Michael Levin. Why Race Matters (Oakton, Va.: New Century Books, 2005), 77. ↑
- New Century Foundation. The Color of Crime 2nd ed. (Oakton, Va., New Century Foundation, 2005), pp. 7-11. Link ↑
- Ibid., pp. 11-12. ↑
- Rushton, pp. 158-60. ↑
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Buffalo has, in the past, been known to top a few national surveys for having the fattest, drunkest and worst-dressed residents.
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According to the "Hot or Not" app, which rates the attractiveness of people uploaded to its site, Buffalo ranked seventh of all the cities in the country for having the hottest guys.
Buffalo men still pale in comparison to the smokin' hot dudes of such beauty meccas as: Boise, Idaho; Lincoln, Neb., or Fort Wayne, Ind. But they outrank the apparently less hunky guys of Tulsa, Okla., and Scottsdale, Ariz.
The new list was compiled after a relaunch of the app this month, according to Tricia Tumlinson, a spokeswoman for Hot or Not. Tumlinson admitted being surprised that none of the larger U.S. cities, such as New York, Los Angeles or Chicago, topped the list. Though, since Hot or Not's app users tend to be between the ages of 18 to 22, it may explain why more college towns are represented among the highest ranking cities.
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City of Tonawanda resident Gary Astridge's appreciation for the Beatles and their music prompted him years ago to begin collecting the same drum kits that drummer Ringo Starr used in his performances with the legendary rock band.
The unusual drum collection is now getting Astridge, who also is a fine drummer with the BBC Band, to places he never dreamed of – including the house trailer where Ringo and his All-Starr Band were holed up earlier this week while waiting for a rain shower to pass at their show at Artpark.
Astridge had a backstage pass to the show thanks to his efforts earlier this year assisting the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles with its "Ringo: Peace & Love" exhibit, which led to his first face-to-face meeting with the rock legend.
Walking through the downpour at Artpark, Astridge heard a voice from the trailer: It was Scott Ritchie, Ringo's assistant, asking Astridge for his umbrella. Ritchie needed to fetch something and didn't want to get soaked. Astridge wasn't exactly sure where he was supposed to go without getting soaked himself, until Ritchie told him to get in the trailer, where, to Astridge's surprise, he found himself chatting with Ringo once again.
"Ringo looks at me and goes, 'Well, Gary, you know any dirty jokes?' " said Astridge, who spent about 20 minutes shooting the breeze with the band before Ritchie returned. Astridge recalled: "I walked out of there saying, 'What just happened?' "
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The Rev. James F. Campbell, rector of St. Joseph's Cathedral, humbly declined any fuss over his pending retirement after 50 years in the priesthood.
His flock of mostly downtown lawyers and government workers who regularly attend the 12:05 p.m. weekday Mass, had other ideas, however. At the end of Thursday's Mass, they followed him into the sacristy, heaped him with applause and insisted on a speech.
"Most of you know I was a firefighter before I became a priest and found my place in life," the monsignor said. "I've always considered my vocation a gift. That's why I didn't want a celebration. I was given this gift."
No matter, many thanked the monsignor for his mini-homilies that helped to foster a spiritual community right in the middle of the workday.
"What's your email?" one of the well-wishers asked, hoping to stay in touch.
"What's email?" the wry man of the cloth asked.
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Without missing a beat, Campbell said, "And I'm the chaplain for the FBI and have ways of finding out how you found out."
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''Tranmere is a team without a lot of money, and by making these cup runs it has gotten them a lot of attention from TV and newspapers,'' Joy said from Florida, where he is training with the under-20 team. ''The hard-core fans have been there from the start, but now they are attracting attention from soccer fans in Liverpool, the glory hunters.''
Joy, a skillful defender who signed with Tranmere when he was 15, now hopes to hook up with a Major League Soccer team or a European club.Continue reading the main story
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That will change on June 11, when the United States plays Mexico and Ireland faces South Africa in a doubleheader at Giants Stadium in the final round-robin matches of the Nike U.S. Cup 2000. (The United States did play a match at Giants Stadium in August 1995, but that was in the four-team Parmalat Cup and was against a club team, Benfica of Portugal.)
''There's a specific reason why it has been difficult to play in Giants Stadium -- grass has been the No. 1 issue,'' said the federation spokesman, Jim Moorhouse. ''The stadium was out of the running even for the World Cup in '94 before grass went down.''
With natural turf now installed using the much publicized tray system at Giants Stadium, Moorhouse said that it is more likely that the Meadowlands will have an opportunity to play host to 2002 World Cup qualifiers, which begin in the autumn, and other international matches against top European nations.
''We only had eight World Cup qualifiers in the 90's,'' Moorhouse said ''And we have taken some flak for playing Mexico in Los Angeles.''
And that has been the proverbial Catch-22 for American soccer officials. Do they play Mexico or other Hispanic nations in cities where a big crowd, albeit a partisan, anti-American crowd will attend or should the federation place games against warm-weather nations in cold-weather sites?
''The reality is that in America there are pockets of ethnicity,'' Moorhouse said. ''If the U.S. is playing 15 times a year, Americans have 15 opportunities to see the team. But if a country like Iran comes here once, people from an Iranian background want to see their team.''
''New York/New Jersey falls into the category because whomever you're playing is going to get strong support.''
The MetroStars are scheduled to leave today for Portugal and a week of preseason training. They are scheduled to play the Portuguese Olympic team. The team's newly acquired forward, Alex Comas, scored the lone goal for Colombia in its 2-1 defeat by the United States in the 1994 World Cup. A former MetroStars player, the South African Shaun Bartlett, was the leading scorer with five goals in the recently completed African Nations Cup. With his goal against Peru in the Gold Cup last week, striker Cobi Jones became the first American to score in three straight international matches since Willy Roy did so in 1972. JACK BELLContinue reading the main story


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Center Theater Group presented its Richard E. Sherwood Award to "green" designer-producer Ian Garrett.
Kudo, created in memory of the late former CTG chairman of the board, lauds emerging theater artists in Los Angeles and is awarded in the spring and fall of each year. Garrett was selected for his ecologically conscious approach to theater.
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Thursday, 2 July 2009
Think THOSE were cool? Lifelike Pt. I
At the same time that Roule and Crydamoure were leading the French House movement, a strange artist by the name of Lifelike timidly stepped forward with a bold redefinition of house music. It was like nothing ever heard before. It was house, but it wasn't acid house, it certainly wasn't disco or funk... it... sampled synthpop? Wtf, right? People may not have known what to think of the weirdo, until Thomas bangalter and DJ falcon used the second B side of his first EP as the opening track of their Together tour. Lifelike took off, and today has popular remixes like La Roux under his belt.
Lifelike - Black Chess
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After his bold statement, Lifelike came back with another release in 2003, My Precious Diamond, which had a much more traditional French House sound, yet still that awkward primarily-synth sampling style.
Lifelike - L-O-V-E Is What You Need
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2005 was a big year for Lifelike. Running Out EP, Soul Of My Love, Discopolis, not to mention Adventure. Back and better than ever, with more synthpop samples, and a major French House anthem to rock the ages.
Lifelike/Kris Menace - Discopolis
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Lifelike - The Soul Of My Love (Club Remix)
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Lifelike - Adventure
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And he's still at it.
Tune in for more later.
EDIT: Fixed "Black Chess" Mp3. Should be all good now.
Article written by Boba Fettuccini on 00:56
See more: adventure, black chess, discopolis, kris menace, lifelike, soul of my love, together
7 comments:
- Ed Banger Kids said...
Lifelike is THE sh*t. You should post the La Roux remix. It's a great improvement.
- 2 July 2009 at 02:34
- Alex said...
I've posted Discopolis before.
- 2 July 2009 at 04:56
- Number Two said...
I love all this stuff!!
The first posted track skips though.
But thank you!
- 2 July 2009 at 11:43
- Boba Fettuccini said...
I know, Alex, I just used your mp3. I felt the post would be sad without it.
Working on fixing the second track, btw. I'm re-downloading it. If that doesn't work, I'l try fixing it in Acid by cutting it up a little.
- 2 July 2009 at 13:42
- Tyler said...
Lifelike is one of my favs! I already have all these tracks though :)Looking forward to more!
- 2 July 2009 at 15:11
- prez jordan said...
Damn Discopolis is a rare track, thanks for posting this
- 2 July 2009 at 18:25
- Joe said...
Lifelike's remix of "Epic Last Song" bY Does It Offend You Yeah? is absolutely brilliant, you gotta post that!
- 6 July 2009 at 08:33
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Although the Permian Basin has been producing oil since the 1920s, Canada's Encana didn't enter it until 2014. Today, it's the second best operator based on current/projected recovery results, accomplishing in 18 months what it normally took 5 years to do.
"We set out to map the 'best rocks' plays in North America, and we really liked what we saw in the Permian," said Rich Newhart, VP, Exploration-Emerging Plays. "We had enough data to see both what others were exploiting as well as additional zones that weren't so well known."
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Combining the rock, fluid, and seismic data with interference effects, pressure data, and other readings from test drilling (activities called logging) let Encana make quicker calls on well spacing, or moves to other areas.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Even Gabrielle Giffords' doctors are starting to call her recovery a miracle.
Few people who take a bullet to the brain — just 10 percent — survive such a devastating wound.
Yet doctors say the critically injured congresswoman has been making steady progress each day since an attempted assassination Saturday.
Giffords is moving both legs and both arms, has opened both eyes and is responding to friends and family, doctors said Thursday. They've helped her sit up and dangle her legs from the bed, and she is able to lift her legs on command.
With her closest friends from Congress holding her hand Wednesday evening, Giffords opened her left eye and tried to focus on loved ones for the first time.
"It was raw courage. It was raw strength. It was so beautiful and so moving," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. "She wanted us to know that she was with us a hundred percent and understood everything we were saying."
Giffords' neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Lemole, called it "a major milestone," and said the congresswoman was clearly responding to the gathering of friends and family.
After five days of pushing for caution, Lemole acknowledged: "We're wise to acknowledge miracles."
The next milestone will be removing her breathing tube, and perhaps have her sit in a chair on Friday, said Dr. Peter Rhee, trauma chief at University Medical Center, who has treated soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's a far cry from Saturday when a shocked nation braced for the worst for the 40-year-old Arizona congresswoman. Several news outlets erroneously declared her dead soon after the shooting rampage that killed six. Stunned by the day's events, crowds held candlelight vigils outside the hospital and Giffords' Tucson office.
After her surgery, Dr. Richard Carmona, the former surgeon general and family friend who looked at Giffords' brain scans, gave a bleak outlook.
"With guarded optimism, I hope she will survive, but this is a very devastating wound," he said.
But as the days ticked by, doctors shared signs of improvement even as they cautioned about a long and uncertain path to recovery. There was a glimmer of hope early on: Giffords was able to squeeze a doctor's hand in the emergency room.
By Sunday, her neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Lemole said he was "cautiously optimistic" about her survival. She could follow basic commands when they briefly eased up on her sedation.
Giffords' condition was unchanged Monday, which doctors took as a good sign. There was no further brain swelling. She could raise two fingers of her left hand and even flashed a thumbs-up, doctors reported.
The following day, doctors said Giffords was breathing on her own, but still connected to a respirator as a precaution. She was also moving both arms. Doctors gave their most confident prognosis yet: She will survive. Rhee said he was "101 percent" sure she'd pull through.
"She has no right to look this good and she does," Lemole said.
As her sedation was scaled back, Giffords became more alert and moved on her own — touching her wounds and fixing her hospital gown. She even scratched her nose, Lemole said.
The encouraging news continued when Gillibrand and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., stood in the hospital room Wednesday, talking, joking and touching their friend.
"She was rubbing our hands and gripping our hands so … we knew she could hear and understand what we were saying and she moved her leg, and so we knew she was responding," Gillibrand said. "And the more we joked about what we were going to do, she started to open her eyes."
Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, realized the significance of the moment. "Gabby, open your eyes, open your eyes," he said, according to Gillibrand.
Said Schultz: "It felt like we were watching a miracle."
So how did Giffords survive the gunshot wound? The path of the bullet, quick and quality medical care, and a stroke of luck meant the difference between life and death, say her doctors and brain experts.
Doctors think the bullet pierced the front of Giffords' head and exited the back, slicing the left side of the brain, which controls speech abilities and muscles on the right side of the body.
Had the bullet damaged both sides of the brain or struck the brain stem, which connects to the spinal cord, the outcome would likely be worse — extensive permanent damage, vegetative state or death.
"So far, she's passed with flying colors of each stage" of her recovery, said neurologist Dr. Marc Nuwer of the University of California, Los Angeles, who is not involved in the congresswoman's treatment.
Most gunshot victims are not that fortunate. Several years ago, a Tucson police officer was shot in the head during a chase. His heart was beating when he was rushed to University Medical Center, but doctors couldn't control the bleeding in the brain and he died, Rhee said.
When Giffords arrived at the hospital, doctors first checked to make sure she didn't have any other injuries. They took a brain scan and wheeled her to the operating room in a swift 38 minutes.
The same attack in the desert many miles away from a trauma center may have led to a different ending.
"She's just lucky in so many ways," said UCLA's Nuwer. "The breaks have been in her favor. That's not to say they'll continue to be in her favor."
It's too early to tell the extent of damage Giffords suffered, but experts say it's rare for people with gunshot wounds to the head to regain all of their abilities. Damage to the left side of the brain can result in memory loss, difficult reading and hand-eye coordination problems. Giffords' doctors have not been able to determine how well she can speak since she still has a breathing tube.
"Her full-time job now for the next year is working on her recovery and rebuilding her life around her disability whatever it may be," said Dr. Stephan Mayer, professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, who has no role in Giffords' care.


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Hey friends.
I hope you all had a great, and slightly abbreviated, week! I don't know about you but I would SO be on board for a four-day work week. My peeps over the pond in places like France, England and Italy really had pretty darn good idea and if it was up to me, we would adapt that same mentality here. Maybe someday…but for now, we all have the privilege of checking off the days on our Milwaukee Brewer desk calendars, counting down the hours until the clock hits 5 o'clock on that glorious Friday afternoon.
Speaking of Friday…
It's here folks! All of our check marks of the week have finally reached TGIF. Do you have any fun stuff on the agenda?
I don't have any particular plans as of yet, maybe hit up the beach, get a little messy in the kitchen trying out some new recipes like this and finish up a few books I've been dying/avoiding to put an end to. You know that feeling of wanting to complete a book but not wanting to at the same time because it was so good that you don't want it to end so you start another book in order to avoid finishing the other one but this second book is also really, really good and you don't want to see the ending of that one either so you keep starting new book after new book and then all of a sudden you have about six unfinished but almost finished page-turners just waiting to be finished just sitting on your nightstand looking back at you begging and pleading to be finished once and for all? Yeah. I hate that feeling.
But before I do (I am not avoiding. I am not avoiding.), I wanted to share my favorite finds this week from around the web and beyond 🙂
Favorite pooch: Been there, done that buddy. Look at his cute little eyes all closed in absolute delight 😉
Favorite guilty pleasure: The Bachelorette. Okay. I swore I would not get sucked in. But boy did I ever get sucked in. Emily Maynard is down to the final three guys and the suspense is killing me on which of these cutie-pa-tuties she is going to choose. My vote is for one 'F' Jef although Sean is a close second. And if either of these dream boats don't end up with the final rose in the end, hit a girl up 🙂
Favorite DIY: Button bracelets! SO cute and SO easy to make. A great way to use up that box of all your Grandma's old buttons and end up looking pretty stylish at the same time!
Favorite mmm minies: Baby burgers!! I mean. How cute are these?! The perfect excuse to have three. Or four. Or seven of these delicious little bites and a great idea for a party or even a wedding reception.
Favorite must see: The Montmarte Wall in Paris, France. Le mur des je t'aime, Le square Jehan Rictus, Montmartre, Paris. This wall has "I love you" written in 311 languages ♥ AWWWW!!!!!
Favorite ooey-gooey: Campfire cones. Why didn't I think of that?! I seriously am thinking of going camping this weekend just to make these!
Favorite life lesson: Charlie Brown and Snoopy really get it.
Favorite photo: Seven hours. How neat is this picture?!
Favorite funky find: Take a lick at this…Flavored envelopes?! Nuh uh!! Genius.
Favorite sugar-inducing coma fix: NO, YOU AREN'T SEEING THINGS; this IS a giant Girl Scout Samoa/Caramel Delights cake. Your dreams have OFFICIALLY COME TRUE!!! Or at least mine have. 🙂
Favorite check-list: Deal? Deal.
Favorite dream home piece: Readable bookcase. HOW COOL IS THIS?! Click the link to see it all filled it up.
Favorite funny: I'll never let go Jack. I'll never let go 😉
I hope you guys have a great weekend, whatever you've got 'rolled' up your sleeve 🙂


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With more than eight months to go before Election Day, California bundlers already might have rounded up more money for President Barack Obama's re-election bid than they did during the entire 2008 campaign, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Voluntary disclosures by the Obama campaign show that as of late January, Obama's California bundlers had raised at least $17.8 million, compared with just more than $15 million during the 2008 campaign. Seventeen of them have given at least $500,000 this cycle, compared with 12 in 2008.
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Among the high-profile names on this year's bundling list are DreamWorks executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and Salesforce.com executive Marc Benioff, both of whom bundled at least $500,000 in 2008 before doing the same during this cycle.
Energy executive Steve Spinner also has bundled $500,000 for a second time. After serving as a top fundraiser during Obama's 2008 campaign, he was appointed to a position in the U.S. Department of Energy, where he played a key role in the controversial loan guarantee to solar panel manufacturing company Solyndra, which has since declared bankruptcy.
Other big-name Californians who have bundled for Obama this year include actress Eva Longoria, who has bundled between $250,000 and $500,000; Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, brother of former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who bundled between $100,000 and $200,000; and former State Controller and gubernatorial candidate Steve Westly, who bundled between $250,00 and $500,000.
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