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John Wilde walks slowly between rows of waist-high cotton, stops at a stalk loaded top to bottom with large open bolls, and plucks a handful of fiber from the burrs. Pulling on the snow-white lint, he draws the fibers apart and marvels at the potential.
"Isn't that a pretty sight?" he asks, pulling and stretching the pure white fibers out between his hands, and looking across the field that's a large expanse of pure white under a cloudless, deep-blue Texas sky that seems to come only at harvest time.
It's one of his best fields, and he expects it to make a bit better than four bales per acre. "Isn't it amazing what water can do?" he says.
The field, near Miles, Texas, is watered by subsurface drip irrigation, as is 800 acres of the Wilde cotton operation, centered in San Angelo and including farms to the east near Miles and back west near St. Lawrence.
"We still water a few acres by furrow irrigation," he says. He plants some dryland cotton, too, but most of the non-irrigated crop this year will produce little — slightly better than the 2011 crop, but nothing to speak of.
"Water is the key," Wilde says. And he's doing all he knows to make every drop count. Subsurface drip irrigation helps, as do reduced tillage and rotation; and subsoiling between the drip tape helps capture moisture. He uses furrow diking to reduce runoff, and also has CRP land where he installed wildlife vegetation strips. To reduce erosion, he added waterways and diversion terraces and seeded with native grasses.
He is committed, he says, to producing the best yields possible. He has three times earned membership in the FiberMax One-Ton Club. He's also devoted to conserving soil and water so the land that has been in the family — some for as long as 100 years — will pass on to his heirs in better condition than when he took it over. In 2004 he was the San Angelo Area Conservation Farmer of the year.
Wilde is also adamant about finding something to control root rot, the most economically devastating cotton disease in his area. He has a long term commitment to helping Texas AgriLife Research and Extension discover a management option for the disease.
This devotion to the farm and to practices that make the land better and more productive earned him the Farm Press/Cotton Foundations 2013 High Cotton Award for the Southwest region. He will be presented the award at a recognition breakfast at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences at San Antonio.
John Wilde loves the land. His farm, he says, is No. 3 on his list of treasures, behind only his wife of 37 years, Betty Jo, and his family, including sons Doug and Matt and daughters Joanna and Julie Garcia.
"My life is the farm," he says. "Any land we buy, we typically never sell; it becomes part of my heart and soul — and my family's future. I'm not a wealthy man, but we've bought land, made payments, and it became ours.
"I got a start from my mother and father, and they got a start from their parents. Betty Jo and I will hand down land to our children to give them a start."
Conservation plays a critical role in making sure the land remains productive. "We work with the Natural Resources Conservation Service's Environmental Quality Incentives Program. Land and water are our most valuable resources."
About eight years ago, Wilde recognized the importance of increasing irrigation efficiency when they installed the first subsurface drip irrigation on 38 acres. Now they have 800 acres of drip-irrigated cotton. "We started small," he says. "We had some of the first drip irrigation in the area, and we saw the benefits."
Doug recalls visiting other farms and learning from their experience.
"We saw a lot of drip laid out in 80-inch spacing," the senior Wilde says. " But we found that 40-inch spacing is more efficient. And we install the tape with Global Positioning System technology — it's more accurate."
They hired someone to install the first field, but bought their own GPS equipment and installed the rest on their own, including 250 acres last year. "I had to push to get it in," Wilde says.
They plant on top of the drip tape and subsoil 10 to 12 inches deep between the rows. "That helps hold rainfall," he says. "We can look at nearby fields after a rain and see runoff, but our field absorbs all the moisture."
They've reduced tillage over the past few years as well. "We're not quite to minimum-till," he says, "but we have reduced tillage."
After harvest, they shred cotton stalks, then remove them with a stalk puller. "This helps reduce root rot infestation. We disk once, then make a small bed on top of the drip tape."
They also install furrow dikes to hold water, and plant with a GPS unit to keep rows on top of the tape. About every two years they apply manure to some fields.
"We have a dairy and a feedyard close by, so we sometimes apply as much as 20 tons of manure," Wilde says. "We help the land and at the same time help the dairy and feedyard get rid of a waste product."
They also use reclaimed wastewater to irrigate some fields. "We filter it and put it through the drip irrigation system."
For years, root rot has been a serious problem on some fields. "I told Doug and Matt several years ago that someday we would come up with something to control root rot," he says. "We've been working on it for seven years."
One field near his home has a heavy root rot infestation. He wryly says it could be considered a "root rot nursery." He turned the field over to Texas AgriLife Research and Extension to use as a trial for various fungicides and treatment methods, attempting to identify something to help manage the damaging disease.
Tom Isakeit, Extension plant pathologist at San Angelo, and Rick Minzenmayer, Extension integrated pest management specialist for the area, began screening fungicides and application methods about seven years ago.
"They started with Tilt," Wilde says. That one didn't work. "But Dr. Isakeit had a lot of fungicides. He started with drenching applications; then we cut the drip tape at the upper and lower end of the field." That allowed Isakeit and Minzenmayer to test a number of products at various rates through the irrigation system.
"The first year, we had no result," Wilde says. But in the second year they identified Topguard, a Cheminova fungicide, as a potential control material. They started with 4 pounds per acre, a high rate they thought would be too high for registration. They also tested new application methods ,and discovered a technique that included at-planting application at rates much lower than the initial trials.
"Now, the recommended rate is one-fourth pound," Wilde says. Last year, the EPA issued an emergency exemption for Topguard on cotton to control root rot. That exemption was recently extended for 2013.
Wilde, Doug and Matt made that field available for seven years to help identify a root rot control agent. Although they lost some yield, it was worth the sacrifice, he says.
"We had tried a lot of things to control root rot — sulfur, anhydrous, deep tillage, rotation. Some were not cost-effective. With drip irrigation, we can't moldboard plow. We tried to keep the plants healthy, but whatever we did was never enough."
Root rot may reduce yield by 50 percent or more, and also decreases quality and creates harvest problems. "We get a lot of barky cotton, and during harvest stalks pull up and clog the stripper. The operator has to get off and on the machine all day. Risk of stripper fire also increases with root rot infestations."
Wilde treated almost all his cotton with Topguard in 2012. "I can drive by a field and tell the difference," he says. "This material has been a blessing — it's helping. We were persistent in looking for control; we aren't quitters, and we know the value of a fungicide that controls root rot."
That field trial is not the only test plot on his farm. "Sometimes I think my whole farm is a test," he says. He's allocated significant acreage for variety trials for many years, with all major seed companies participating. Information from the trials gives him confidence in selecting varieties suited to his growing conditions.
"These trials get to the bottom line," he says. "We get yields and grades, and we get a value for each variety. That's what matters."
He plants mostly FiberMax and some Deltapine, all transgenic — Roundup Ready and Bt. "We have had no issues with resistant weeds," he says, "but I understand the need for residual herbicides, especially in fields where manure has been applied."
Conditions in the San Angelo area are usually too dry for Liberty Link varieties, he says, "But I've tried some." He also has trials for a Bt overspray test, a Pima economics evaluation, a TwinLink plot, an agronomic test, a double-row cotton trial and a root rot trial evaluating two application methods. "We also have a breeding trial with FiberMax."
Other problems pop up, he says. "With the loss of Temik, we're more concerned with reniform nematodes — they're becoming a bigger issue. Cotton monoculture is a factor, and we want to rotate more. Good grain prices will help. But for rotation, the economics have to be right."
Wilde says conditions in 2012 were slightly better than in 2011. Doug says the farm had from 4 inches to 5 inches of rain in early May and from 6 inches to 10 inches the first of September.
"Other than that, we had very little rain this year. Te heat was not as bad. Conditions were a little better, but not as good as we want them."
He gives Betty Jo credit for keeping him grounded. "I believe in honesty and fairness," he said. "Betty Jo continues to instill those in me and we try to instill them in our children. I had a wonderful mother and father, who tried to do the same; they taught me a work ethic. My dad always encouraged and backed me — you can't put a value on that. I value family."
Doug and Matt work with him as partners on the farm. "It's what they want to do," he says. "And where else but a farm can you have the opportunity for parents to work so closely with their children?"
He's proud of the whole family. Betty Jo teaches high school girls to become medical assistants. "She gives them opportunities," Wilde says.
Doug and Matt plan on farming as a career. Both have degrees, Doug a masters in agriculture from Texas A&M, and Matt a bachelor's in computer science from Angelo State University. Julie is a physician's assistant in Houston and Joanna graduated from Texas A&M last December with a degree in agricultural economics and plans for graduate school.
Wilde recalls that he had an opportunity to pursue an advanced degree at Purdue after he graduated from Texas A&M, but after his dad was injured in a car accident he went back to the farm to help out.
"I realized more school wasn't what he wanted," he says. "I knew where I needed to be.


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Muzaffarnagar riots: 27 killed, shoot-at-sight orders issued, violence spreads to villages
Unofficial sources put the figure much higher; Centre seeks report from state government and directs it to take strong action. Opposition accuses government of indulging in "politics of communalism". HT reports. Major communal violence incidents in UP this year | BSP's regime better than SP, says Digvijayaindia Updated: Sep 09, 2013 14:33 IST
Fourteen more people were killed in UP's Muzaffarnagar on Sunday, taking the toll from two days of deadly communal clashes to 27. Unofficial sources, however, put the figure much higher.
The state government gave shoot-at-sight orders as the violence, fuelled by rumours, spread to the rural areas. The army, called in on Saturday, staged a flag march and took over law and order responsibilities in the district, inspector general Brij Bhushan said.
Live updates:
• Muzaffarnagar riots: Army focus on rural areas, nearly 300 persons rescued from violence-hit villages in overnight operations
• Little traffic on NH-58, security personnel deployed at toll plaza
Army personnel were moved into riot-affected Meerut and Shamli districts too.
Late at night, the violence spread to Baghpat district where one person was killed.
An army column sent to evacuate people trapped in several affected villages also came under attack. Home secretary Kamal Saxena said the jawans managed to get the people out safely.
Reports of lynching, arson, stone-pelting and damage to property poured in through the day. As curfew continued, police arrested 30 people on charges of inciting violence.
Communal tensions — simmering in Muzaffarnagar since August 27, when a sexual harassment incident led to clashes and three deaths — resurfaced onSaturday after a mahapanchayat on the issue. Thirteen people were killed in the violence.
On Sunday, shops stayed shut and people had to make do without essentials such as milk, bread and vegetables. Additional troops of the paramilitary forces, Rapid Action Force and Provincial Armed Constabulary were deployed in affected areas.
In the face of Opposition criticism, the ruling Samajwadi Party held a meeting with party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav discussing the situation with ministers.
The Centre sought a report from the state and directed it to take strong action. Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde spoke to the CM on Saturday, sources said.
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Graphic: UP's major communal violence incidents in 2013
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KUWAIT: A joint committee of ministers from OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers has agreed to review whether a global pact to limit supplies should be extended by six months, it said in a statement on Sunday.
An earlier draft of the statement had said the committee "reports high level of conformity and recommends six-month extension".
But the final version said only that the committee had requested a technical group and for the OPEC Secretariat to "review the oil market conditions and revert ... in April, 2017 regarding the extension of the voluntary production adjustments".
Oil sector analysts said the lack of an immediate extension could drag on crude prices.
"The dropping of the recommendation to extend cuts in favor of technical review committee is likely to lead to a lot of disappointment and potential further liquidation of long positions by money managers that will put downward pressure on oil prices," said Harry Tchilinguirian, head of commodities strategy at BNP Paribas in London.
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Headline crude prices for the week beginning 13 May 2019 – Brent: US$70/b; WTI: US$61/b
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The world's largest oil & gas companies have generally reported a mixed set of results in Q1 2019. Industry turmoil over new US sanctions on Venezuela, production woes in Canada and the ebb-and-flow between OPEC+'s supply deal and rising American production have created a shaky environment at the start of the year, with more ongoing as the oil world grapples with the removal of waivers on Iranian crude and Iran's retaliation.
The results were particularly disappointing for ExxonMobil and Chevron, the two US supermajors. Both firms cited weak downstream performance as a drag on their financial performance, with ExxonMobil posting its first loss in its refining business since 2009. Chevron, too, reported a 65% drop in the refining and chemicals profit. Weak refining margins, particularly on gasoline, were blamed for the underperformance, exacerbating a set of weaker upstream numbers impaired by lower crude pricing even though production climbed. ExxonMobil was hit particularly hard, as its net profit fell below Chevron's for the first time in nine years. Both supermajors did highlight growing output in the American Permian Basin as a future highlight, with ExxonMobil saying it was on track to produce 1 million barrels per day in the Permian by 2024. The Permian is also the focus of Chevron, which agreed to a US$33 billion takeover of Anadarko Petroleum (and its Permian Basin assets), only for the deal to be derailed by a rival bid from Occidental Petroleum with the backing of billionaire investor guru Warren Buffet. Chevron has now decided to opt out of the deal – a development that would put paid to Chevron's ambitions to match or exceed ExxonMobil in shale.
Performance was better across the pond. Much better, in fact, for Royal Dutch Shell, which provided a positive end to a variable earnings season. Net profit for the Anglo-Dutch firm may have been down 2% y-o-y to US$5.3 billion, but that was still well ahead of even the highest analyst estimates of US$4.52 billion. Weaker refining margins and lower crude prices were cited as a slight drag on performance, but Shell's acquisition of BG Group is paying dividends as strong natural gas performance contributed to the strong profits. Unlike ExxonMobil and Chevron, Shell has only dipped its toes in the Permian, preferring to maintain a strong global portfolio mixed between oil, gas and shale assets.
For the other European supermajors, BP and Total largely matched earning estimates. BP's net profits of US$2.36 billion hit the target of analyst estimates. The addition of BHP Group's US shale oil assets contributed to increased performance, while BP's downstream performance was surprisingly resilient as its in-house supply and trading arm showed a strong performance – a business division that ExxonMobil lacks. France's Total also hit the mark of expectations, with US$2.8 billion in net profit as lower crude prices offset the group's record oil and gas output. Total's upstream performance has been particularly notable – with start-ups in Angola, Brazil, the UK and Norway – with growth expected at 9% for the year.
All in all, the volatile environment over the first quarter of 2019 has seen some shift among the supermajors. Shell has eclipsed ExxonMobil once again – in both revenue and earnings – while Chevron's failed bid for Anadarko won't vault it up the rankings. Almost ten years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP is now reclaiming its place after being overtaken by Total over the past few years. With Q219 looking to be quite volatile as well, brace yourselves for an interesting earnings season.
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook, January, April, and May 2019 editions
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Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had agreed at a December 2018 meeting to cut crude oil production in the first six months of 2019; compliance with these cuts has been more effective than EIA initially expected. In the January STEO, OPEC's crude oil and petroleum liquids production was expected to decline by 1.0 million b/d in 2019 compared with the 2018 level, but EIA now forecasts OPEC production to decline by 1.9 million b/d in the May STEO.
Within OPEC, EIA expects Iran's liquid fuels production and exports to also decline. On April 22, 2019, the United States issued a statement indicating that it would not reissue waivers, which previously allowed eight countries to continue importing crude oil and condensate from Iran after their waivers expired on May 2. Although EIA's previous forecasts had assumed that the United States would not reissue waivers, the increased certainty regarding waiver policy and enforcement led to lower forecasts of Iran's crude oil production.
Venezuela—another OPEC member—has experienced declines in production and exports as a result of recurring power outages, political instability, and U.S. sanctions. In addition to supply constraints that have already materialized in 2019, political instability in Libya may further affect global supply. Any further escalation in conflict may damage crude oil infrastructure or result in a security environment where oil fields are shut in. Either situation could reduce global supply by more than EIA currently forecasts.
In the May STEO, total OPEC crude oil and other liquids supply was estimated at 37.3 million b/d in 2018, and EIA forecasts that it will average 35.4 million b/d in 2019. EIA assumes that the December 2018 agreement among OPEC members to limit production will expire following the June 2019 OPEC meeting.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook, January, April, and May 2019 editions
U.S. crude oil and other liquids production is sensitive to changes in crude oil prices, taking into account a lag of several months for drilling operations to adjust. As crude oil prices have increased in recent months, so too have EIA's domestic liquid fuels production forecasts for the remaining months of 2019.
U.S. crude oil and other liquids production, which grew by 2.2 million b/d in 2018, is forecast in EIA's May STEO to grow by 2.0 million b/d in 2019, an increase of 310,000 b/d more than anticipated in the January STEO. In 2019, EIA expects overall U.S. crude oil and liquids production to average 19.9 million b/d, with crude oil production alone forecast to average 12.4 million b/d.
Relative to these changes in forecasted supply, EIA's changes in forecasted demand were relatively minor. EIA expects that global oil markets will be tightest in the second and third quarters of 2019, resulting in draws in global inventories. By the fourth quarter of 2019, EIA expects that inventories will build again, and Brent crude oil prices will fall slightly.
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Wichita Falls Police officers and Juvenile Detectives served a search warrant on a residence at 3135 9th Street this morning which resulted in the arrest of a registered sex offender.
54 year-old Albert Allen Leslie was arrested and charged with thirteen counts of possession of child pornography. According to the public Texas Sex Offender Registry, Leslie is a registered as a 'lifetime' offender from a 1989 conviction in Missouri.
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Derek Jeter's Retirement: The MLB Bids Farewell
As Derek Jeter makes a final visit to each city during the 2014 season, teams have come up with some pretty creative ways to honor the captain. Here's what teams have given to him so far.
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I began my monumental, trend-setting, ground-breaking, superhuman, death-defying, egomaniacal, much talked-about blog tour on February 28th, on a whim.
I had heard of blog tours; authors visit other blogs and guest post and/or answer questions about their current book. But I'd never attempted one. Partly because I didn't want to impose on my blogging peers. Partly because it seemed like a lot of work, with no guaranteed results.
But in February, before Afraid came out, I'd used my newsletter to solicit reviews in exchange for free copies of Afraid, asking people to blog about the book. I received well over a hundred responses from bloggers willing to review it. My publisher, who was behind me completely, wanted a way to keep track of who was getting books and reviewing them, so I suggested posting links on my blog every time a review came in.
That got me to thinking. In conjunction with the review campaign, wouldn't it be a good idea to supplement that with interviews and excerpts of the novel?
Over the years, I've managed to trade links with quite a few bloggers. I'm lucky that this blog has a decent following. It occurred to me that blogging on other sites might also benefit the sites I visit, because I'd be sending my regular visitors to new blogs. So instead of imposing, it would be more like win-win.
So, mostly to see if I could do it, I asked the blogosphere if anyone wanted to host me during. The amount of responses surprised me, and I easily had enough requests to fill every day in March.
Then it became a question of organization and time management. Who wanted what from me, and when would it be posted?
I'm awful at time management and organization. But whenever I did a guest blog, I asked for the blogger to email me the URL the morning it was posted. That way, even if I forgot what I was doing (which was often) I would get a reminder of who to link to. Google Alerts also helped, every day sending me an email of all of the places I was currently being featured on.
I've gotten over 30 reviews so far. As I'd requested, many of the reviewers posted their reviews in multiple locations--some of them in over a dozen places. The reviews are still coming in, and I'll continue to post them as I get them.
For the curious, here's a pdf of the letter I sent to reviewers:
Then it became a question of checking out the blogs that asked to host me, and asking them what they'd like me to do. Some preferred interviews. Some preferred me to blog about specific topics. It took a bit of time to write the 75 posts, and I did my best to not repeat myself and to conform to the blog owner's style.
So, did it work?
Googling "Jack Kilborn" in February resulted in 2880 hits. Googling "Jack Kilborn" today results in 12,000 hits.
In February, Afraid was ranked 1,299,341 on Amazon. Currently, it's at 9565. Keep in mind this is a paperback original from a new author with a small marketing budget, so debuting in the top 10,000 is pretty good, considering no previous track record, no ads, no tour, no radio campaign, no major reviews other than Publisher's Weekly.
Three of my Jack Daniels books hit the Amazon.com Police Procedural bestseller list, at four different times during the month. My backlist numbers have all spiked considerably compared to last month.
I'm still getting requests for interviews and reviews. Plus, even though the blog tour is over, the blogs I visited are permanent, and will continue to get visitors for weeks, months, even years to come.
During my month of blog touring, I got requests for more than 600 new Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter friends. Over a hundred new people signed up for my newsletter.
So, is blog touring a good time investment?
I say yes. Many of the blogs I visited told me they were thrilled with their increased traffic, and there seemed to be a lot of cross pollenization of fans going on. In fact, except for selling short stories and visiting bookstores, I can't think of a better return on your self-promo investment than blog touring.
If you're considering doing a blog tour, here are some things to keep in mind.
1. Have copies of your book to give away, to reviewers and to contest winners. I gave away books at several of the blogs I visited.
2. Momentum is important. Hitting as many blogs as you can in a short amount of time helps build buzz. Too long between posts and people will forget you're on a blog tour.
3. Make sure you've networked with enough people to be able to find enough blogs to host you. If possible, try to appear on a variety of blogs that have different demographics.
4. Don't repeat yourself. And don't try to sell books. Blogging is about information and entertainment, not infomercials.
5. Be willing to spend a lot of time on this. I spent well over a hundred hours in March, writing blogs, answering email, figuring out what I was doing and when.
6. Use your social networks to amplify the tour. I used Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace to point people toward my blog, and many of the hits I got came from these online billboards.
7. Partner with your publisher. Grand Central has been great, helping with reviews and logistics, and coming up with many terrific ideas, including offering Afraid as an ebook download for only $1.99. These are savvy folks who know what they're doing, and they're a pleasure to work alongside.
Blog touring isn't easy, but I expect to see more and more authors giving it a try. Your results may vary, but like all self-promotion, the more you put into it, the more you get out of it.
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I was reminded of a student of mine a few years ago who told me his marriage had fallen apart and he had lost his job and decided that it was time to try again.
"That is the American way. The opportunity to have a second chance over and over again," Big E. said to me.
The commemoration of the 1976 Soweto Riots on Wednesday made me remember that the American way offered me a second chance denied by the land of my birth.
I admire the sincere space for a second chance in the American way. That spirit of never say die, ever.
And so it must be for El Debarge and his second chance at remaking himself. He must know there are no guarantees.
South African society can learn a lot from this spirit. We make a lot about being forgiving and reconciling but it is known to just about everyone that we are stuck in judgement and too quick to assign blame and permanent degradation.
Being human means you are never right the first time or the second or the other second time.
I like the humane sincerity of allowing folks to try again. And again.
"... If you listen there's a melody in how you live your life
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Will Unbundled Cable Cost More?
Pay-TV executives-as well as its customers-are openly pondering a world where the bundle no longer reigns, Shalini Ramachandran joins digits.
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... I ... the ... will of the Bible cable TV actually cost you will ... welcome to Digits I'm Simon Constable ... and that may be coming sooner than you think based on an article in today's marketplace section of the will Street tunnel ... and ask question you attack on TV fumbles especially the ... Ramachandran some on the costly be here on the site with us thanks for being there ... so ... this story is about eight flights ... between two ... big big companies are very pretty tells about that will get to the weather on bombing will cost a small uptick that ... well so I can lose in which is a Newark based cable operator ... I'm assuming Viacom which is the owner of the anti Nickelodeon ... and saying that when Viacom sells its channels to Cablevision ... it bundles all of them to get the pot the candles and the ontop and soak innovation effectively says we'll have a choice but to take this with unpopular Stein channels ... and were being forced to pay for which we then had to pass on to consumers ... so their big day ideas ... of Viacom is violating antitrust law sets but they're they're legit and they're saying that ... of ... the the court should decide whether you are thinking it's over eighteen presuming it it does Jeff unbundled cable bills to on bottles and we have no means in on whether it will put it if it causes the chemicals ... people boys paid by cable and have to like ... it somehow look on menu ... well so that someday DVAX ... other than many media companies say yes they will cost you more because when we'll have full distribution when I guarantee that ... with higher costs for our advertising revenues were full so we need to increase let her subscriber we get ... so like I knew I paid ten bucks for HBO you might have to take ten fifteen twenty bucks for an ESPN Allah card ... but what that would mean also is that perhaps if everything were all it higher than the solution is that you all the smaller channels that people don't want to follow the links and people can just take what they want and maybe ... if my budgets twenty months of the skit that the channels I want one another and that's the key thing is the biggest ... news story say so the average cost of pay TV the month is gonna go door to the seventy three bucks a month now on this yet ... aam from sixty six bucks now if you'll only bought ... one travel ... and its twenty box ... my within like ten ... minutes or sugar I is so steep and ... let go of the media company is a mean is if you wanted a hundred channels that are to a new channels then maybe it's eighty bucks is a good value ... but if you don't want any of those and just watch three or four then maybe you want to pay last year and another one under pressure from people who are saying look I don't want to pay ... seventy sweethearts member of the ever so some people to be buying hundreds of people of the buzz of insects phone think ... the fact that the bungled on open and ... bright and that what look online video has done is allows a place where we can get cheap video eyelet current ... on demand and that has also put pressure on this industry because media companies and a few opera assume they need appetite for live TV is decreasing we don't know yet ... and those numbers are still the core killing them is the kind of flat for now ... so all we know is a lot of anecdotal evidence that people might be technical it's interesting times in which we live thank you Brian much for the new AMR Chandra ... I'm Simon Constable and that's it for now


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The scheduled appearance of four total lunar eclipses on major Jewish holidays between this Monday night (the start of Passover 2014) and September 27, 2015 (the start of Sukkot) has the attention of much of the Christian world. But the eclipses are going to go almost totally unseen in Israel.
Data published by NASA reveals that all but the last of the four eclipses will not be visible from the Middle East, and even the fourth will only be partially visible.
Total lunar eclipses - what are often referred to as "blood moons" - are not uncommon, 13 of them having occurred since 2000. And, since both Passover and Sukkot are scheduled on the full moon, both have occasionally coincided with blood moons, the last time being the start of Sukkot in 1996.
Somewhat less common are tetrads - four consecutive total lunar eclipses with no intervening partial eclipses - which has occurred 62 times since the year 0 AD.
Seven times in the past 2000 years, a tetrad has coincided perfectly with Passover and Sukkot. One of those tetrads began just prior to the outbreak of the Six Day War in 1967. Two others (in 1493 and 1949) began more than a year after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and the State of Israel's declaration of independence, respectively. The other four occurred during times of no particular significance to the Jewish people.
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Welcome! If you are reading this paragraph you have already taken the first step towards becoming a certified rugby coach. The sport of rugby has a long standing tradition of encouraging physical fitness, camaraderie, competitive spirit, and most importantly, fun! You can find people who play and enjoy the game in every part of the world!
The growth of the game in the United States is at an all-time high thanks largely to its induction into the Olympic games. Athletes of all shapes and sizes, from a diverse array of competitive backgrounds, are ready to test their abilities in a new sport. Also, the epidemic of obesity among young people has parents, teachers, and administrators eagerly anticipating new and creative options for kids to pick up a ball and run with it. In order to meet this important demand, we need knowledgeable and enthusiastic coaches to help make a difference in the lives of young athletes.


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The vinyl album of the month award must go to Welsh chanteuse'n'molto-talent Ann Matthews for her Brocken Spectre l.p. This epic solo journey features a wispy multi tracked Matthews vocalizing,shrieking like Freyja Aswynn,scatting,humming,sometimes cooing like Betty Boop on Helium,all the while providing almost the entire musical backdrop. Imagine the Agrarians' fragile domestic muse transported to the lea of Snowdonia and you're hinting at the alternative world caught within the crackinling midranges of BROCKEN SPECTRE's epic vinyl.A beautiful thing.
JULIAN COPE ( Album of the month/HEAD HERITAGE)
Something very different here,rather magical,sprinkled dust and glowing tunes that slowly uncoil in a very experimental,delightfully different way. Delicate textures, fragile layers,primitive recordings that are so rich in sound and form - genuinely avant and experimental yet so easy and inviting - you can't help but go under and bask in all this for hours and hours. A magical beautiful treat of a highly recommended album - a perfect release for the first warm day of Summer.
ORGAN (Album of the week)
Annalogue is Ann Matthews, who recorded Brocken Spectre (ATOL RECORDS 006 LP) working solo in Anglesey. There she is climbing out on the roof under a sky filed with the purple clouds that abound in that part of Wales. This is an extremely fey collection of songs whose subject matter remains all but impenetrable on early spins, mainly due to the whispery nature of her vocals and the highly idiosyncratic recording method used to layer these wispy songs. Mostly acoustic, with pianos and guitars and gentle percussion built up into nimbus clouds of sound, doing everything possible to deflect the listener from normal modes of reception, linear thinking or anything else associated with boring old common sense. Instead, Matthews follows the logic of dream, and to very good effect for the most part. Recommend spending some time with this quasi-magical oddity and letting its strangeness work its way into your systems; Matthews is (I would say) a lot more successful at achieving the things for which the so-called free folk brigades of Norway are usually given unstinting praise. Ive gotten a CDR promo, but this is a vinyl-only release which will probably vanish fast.
Welcome to ANNALOGUE's debut commercial release BROCKEN SPECTRE a defiant 'one-off' that offers the chance to enter the world of an unique musical talent ...so sit back and stay untuned... and prime your ears for 12 unique songs running at 46 minutes spread over two sides of inky black vinyl with plenty of warped and twinkling guitars, escaping organs, empty radiators, dry biros, melancholy clarinets, smiling harmonicas and rounded basses. ANNALOGUE's female voice never fails to snag the ear and drag the listener onto the rocks of some of the strangest music currently available... all composed, played, recorded and produced by one feral entity from calming welsh shores.
ANNALOGUE is a parasol that covers the solo efforts made by Ann Matthews outside her group efforts as guitarist/singer with the noise trio FFLAPS ('87 - '92) and the post tonal psychonauts ECTOGRAM ('94 onwards). Ann has spent the majority of her extended-misspentyouth playing music with theatre and dance companies and avant-garde ensembles such as FAUST as well as the more untraditional pop groups.
ANNALOGUE remarks that BROCKEN SPECTRE was made "for the sheer joy of picking up any instrument, pressing record on anything that records and seeing what happened."
It's safe to say that nothing in the universe of normal pop compares to the natural song writing style of Ann's work and the embroidered multi-layered yet simple arrangements that she weaves around her poetic songs. From the super tough guitar playing on Apron! to Corn Curl's sad, slow flickering tick tock of two rocks being gently tapped to the accompanying Biro that clicks away quietly to itself. The mostly drum-less yet complex music on the album belies the primitive recording technology used to capture these sometimes-otherworldly sounding emanations. The album has a hermetically sealed feel that defies easy categorization and fixing it as a work from 2009 yields no easy answers to it's mysterious qualities which perfectly fit the warm reproductive sound of it's vinyl only existence. You can experience the almost pop music of 'Tony Wilson alongside the strange shuffle of 'Eve's drop' as well as sampling the comforting blanket of sound that is 'Know Your Vessels' and 'Cappo Incognito'.
To experience a glimpse into planet ANNALOGUE see 'TONY WILSON' promo vid. at youtube.com/watch?v=sfjrPphAkfw
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For the first time this year, Reading Together will
feature a more age-appropriate title for younger readers.
Laura J. Burns'
The Case of the Prank That Stank, seventh-graders Agatha Wong
and Orville Wright, who has Asperger's syndrome, try to prove that the prank
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text: Thanks to British austerity measures, the Queen is facing a pay freeze through 2015 that would bring her income to about $48 million per year, down from a high of $125 million in 1991. Though ramen will not be appearing in the kitchen at Buckingham Palace, the cut backs will still have an effect on the royal family. There won't be money for repairs to royal palaces, Prince William will be forced to continue paying for his own servants, and there will be "no extra money from the taxpayer to pay for the court of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge." We too have felt the sting of being forced to get by without a jester and a royal cup bearer, so our hearts go out to William and Kate.


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I've been busy the last few weeks with projects, schoolwork, and celebrating my 22nd birthday! I'm just amazed that it's already March. We've had plenty of lovely, rainstorms this year, along with a few warm, sun-washed days that felt just like late spring. I've been starting my seedlings for a windowsill garden, admiring a bouquet of daisies and drawing flowers in my sketchbook - like this floral frame I created for a set of table numbers for Project Wedding.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Gilded Garland
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33 comments:
- My Owl Barn said...
What a lovely blog you have! How adorable are these floral frames!
- March 2, 2010 at 2:32 AM
- tiina said...
What a pretty design. The frame is sophisticated and delicate but at the same time rustic and easy going. Also love the script font you've used in the images.
- March 2, 2010 at 3:31 AM
- Cynthia L. H. said...
Happy Birthday! I'm amazed that you're just 22! You seem wise beyond your years.
- March 2, 2010 at 7:29 AM
- Rachel Dangerfield said...
Happy Belated! I turned 22 in November, and thus far, it's been a pretty good year! These are lovely. So delicate!
- March 2, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- S.L.North said...
just lovely!! I love the pinks that you used along with the gold-so pretty. And that flower is just gorgeous. :):):):)
- March 2, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- forget.me.knot.weddings said...
Love these table numbers! So beautiful!
- March 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM
- Krishana said...
Thanks for this beautiful garland artwork. It is a gift. I am currently planning a wedding and am so excited about this template. Might even use it on the cover of our programs.
Happy belated birthday felicitations. May your creativity continue to blossom all this coming year.
- March 2, 2010 at 4:40 PM
- megan-mae said...
All that pretty pink paper has my heart happy. i'm such a geek for pretty stationary and crafty things.
And i'm in the middle of a lovely rainstorm right now. Just got home from class in time, and i might draw back the curtains of my sunroom because there's nothing lovelier than drinking tea and watching raindrops on the glass windows.
Windowsill gardens are lovely. What are you growing in it?
- March 2, 2010 at 4:52 PM
- moi je joue said...
happy birthday!
i've just recently celebrated my 22nd too!
i have to admit tho, my life hasn't been half as productive as yours.
don't worry, i'm working on it.
keep the loveliness coming!
- March 2, 2010 at 6:12 PM
- alison richards said...
you take such amazing pictures. i am always admiring them!!
happy birthday too! enjoy your 22nd year of existance! :)
- March 2, 2010 at 7:54 PM
- Bree said...
just beautiful!
- March 2, 2010 at 8:57 PM
- postcards and pretties said...
beautiful work once again...happy birthday!!!
- March 2, 2010 at 9:14 PM
- Jill said...
how pretty and so springy!
- March 4, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- cindy said...
happy birthday, livy!
- March 5, 2010 at 3:52 AM
- DEBRA said...
Found your blog on "CRAFTOMANIA" ~ love it!! ~ Smiles!
- March 5, 2010 at 7:12 AM
- sanjeet said...
love the script font you've used in the images.
fashion videos
- March 5, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- Emily said...
Happy birthday!
I just thought you should know that your blog is beautiful. Just beautiful. I am jealous.
- March 5, 2010 at 1:18 PM
- Christina Song said...
sooo pretty
- March 6, 2010 at 11:34 AM
- Antico Valore said...
- March 6, 2010 at 1:56 PM
- S.L.North said...
I forgot to say:
Happiest {belated} Birthday!!
- March 6, 2010 at 10:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
very pretty designs. cheers!
- March 7, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- Jennifer said...
Happy belated Birthday!!!! :) :) :)
what lovely designs, thanks for all the info and inspiration with them!!
- March 7, 2010 at 6:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
Believe me, getting busy is better than slacking off and doing nothing but stare at the windows!
- March 9, 2010 at 12:50 AM
- oh, hello friend. said...
happy happy birthday friend! i loved being 22 :) it is my favorite number. hope you had a wonderful celebration! xo.
- March 9, 2010 at 12:57 AM
- jen jafarzadeh said...
wow, the garland design is so so pretty. feels vintage. hope you had a happy birthday!
- March 9, 2010 at 7:01 AM
- Amy T said...
so pretty and girly :)
- March 9, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Louise @ Illume Design said...
these are just delightful..
- March 11, 2010 at 9:36 PM
- Ann Marie said...
very pretty indeed! and happy birthday.
- March 12, 2010 at 6:01 PM
- melinda said...
you sketched those flowers? they are beautiful! everything you create seems perfect. your blog is immensely inspiring.
- March 14, 2010 at 8:54 PM
- Giovanna ♥ said...
This is adorable!! Your blog is very inspiring :)
- March 15, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- Taylor Sterling said...
wow your blog is so beautiful!!
- March 15, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- Miami Culinary Tours said...
These are the most beautiful images I have seen in a long time! they absolutely touched my heart in lovely ways! Thanks
- April 19, 2010 at 5:04 AM
- Alyssa said...
I love these photos AND your blog. Great job
- May 5, 2010 at 2:59 PM


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As the Calgary Flames' hockey boss, Brian Burke must be a busy man.
But he managed to find time this week to pick up a pen and — in the pages of USA Today — explain fighting's place in the National Hockey League.
To make the case, Burke required nearly 900 words.
Needing far fewer was Brian McGrattan.
"Since the day I came into the league, fighting has been (reportedly) leaving the game, yet I keep getting contracts," said the Flames enforcer. "I don't think it's going anywhere."
Burke's passionate defence of scrapping is neither surprising nor earth-shattering.
"Reduced to its simplest truth, fighting is one of the mechanisms that regulates the level of violence in our game," he wrote. "Players who break the rules are held accountable by other players. The instigator rule has reduced accountability. Eliminating fighting would render it extinct.
"Hockey is a game played on the edge. Large men with tempers explode around an enclosed surface carrying carbon-fiber instruments. They are legally permitted — in fact, encouraged — to collide with each other at high speeds. We all want this physicality, adrenaline and contact. We all treasure it."
Not everyone, however, treasures bare-knuckled boxing.
Flames coach Bob Hartley acknowledges the passion of both camps.
"I know there is division on this topic … it's an ongoing debate — who's right, who's wrong," he says. "I'm not a fan of fighting for the fun of fighting. Those tough guys, they have the dirtiest job in the business. But, at the same time, they keep everyone honest … if it's done for the right reason and done at the right time."
Which is what Shane O'Brien did Wednesday after seeing Derek Smith slammed into the boards. The culprit, Carter Ashton, was nearby, so O'Brien bloodied his nozzle for him.
Law of the Jungle in effect.
"Horrific injuries, stars being mugged, rats who run around hitting people from behind — these stand out to us because they don't happen with regularity," Burke wrote. "It's fighting that keeps these incidents to a minimum."
While Burke and Hartley are happy to have nose-benders on the payroll, it's worth noting that their employees generally keep their mittens on. Twenty teams have engaged in more scraps than the Calgarians.
They argue that having McGrattan on site reduces — not increases — mayhem. (His first taffy-pull occurred in Game 12.)
"Players look at the other team's lineup in the morning," Hartley said, "And a lot of time I'm sure they hope that certain tough-guys get the flu before game time."
Adds McGrattan: "If I can get into a guy's face and chirp him all game, he might think twice about hitting (Curtis Glencross) or (Lee Stempniak) or (Michael Cammalleri). Fighting's a part of it … intimidation is probably a bigger part. If you're not fighting, you're out there scaring the other team."
For USA Today readers, Burke explained the concept — that enforcers don't need to shuck their gloves to be effective.
"(Reporters) don't write about the times a heavyweight skates by his opponent's bench to say, 'Settle down, or I'll settle you down,' and it works," he wrote. "They don't notice a tough guy warning an opponent at a faceoff. They've never heard a star player march into their office, slam the door and demand the team get tougher because he's getting killed out there by opponents playing without fear. They've never seen a chippy game on the edge settle down after a good fight."
Said O'Brien: "If you take fighting out, you're going to see more of those big hits and guys getting hurt from guys just running around. (Fighting) keeps the game kind of calm … or it's going to be even more of a free-for-all out there."
Burke, in his piece, insists that fighting actually ensures the safety of NHLers.
Yes, the league and officials do their parts.
"But the first level, on every pond and outdoor rink in North America, is peer accountability," Burke wrote. "This was the first level of protection when we opened our doors more than 100 years ago. It still is. And that is as it should be. The first line of defence against players crossing the line is players."


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Those who've drifted to this page in search of comprehensive, band-by-band coverage of the eleventh annual Truck Festival, held at Hill Farm in Oxfordshire, would do well to click away and save themselves any disappointment. My first-ever Truck – I know, how have I not been before? – was one of glorious sunshine and plenty of cheap(er than usual) beer, and therefore more time was spent socialising on the grassy slopes, supping the sweetest nectar and letting sounds seep in an ambient manner rather than forcing myself to the front of packed tent stages for five minutes of one act before dashing to the next, notebook in hand.
A pleasant, pretty relaxing two days, then, in the company of some truly fine bands from across the spectrum of radars wholly commercial and distinctly underground, genre bases skipped like lily pads. Notes were made, of course, but you couldn't call them complete. Looking over them, they're the dots necessary to build an outline of the festival; colour to the edges of the sketch below by adding your own comments, and letting other readers know who your hits and misses of Truck 11 were.
A lift on Saturday with Okkervil River's agent and a journalist from Mojo opens my eyes and ears to some of the more shady areas of industry gossip, but my lips are sealed (insert your own smiley here). Arriving on site a little later than anticipated I miss This Town Needs Guns set, which, according to some who caught the post-punk Oxford foursome, is their last-ever. It's not - one member is leaving - but attendee comments along the lines of "amazing" and "superb" would have made for an accurate, if rather too brief, eulogy. They're followed by London oddballers Buttonhead, but I'm still trying to find the car park as they play a set of avant-pop and tonal drones.
This Town Needs Guns
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Lovvers need little introduction to regular DiS readers – a firm supporter of the grungy punk four-piece for some time, I'm obviously drawn to their mid-afternoon set in the Barn (one of five stages at Truck). Frontman Shaun isn't quite at his antagonistic best, but he still throws his all into a highly physical performance that features on MySpace now efforts 'No Romantics' and 'Wasted Youth'. At their best they're one of the finest, fieriest live bands currently on the circuit, and while all cylinders aren't quite engaged for Truck they're still a great start to my festival experience. Guitarist Henry grins throughout, spinning wildly down in the photo pit while his vocalist climbs the stacked PA. It's good, clean, dangerous fun, and my heart is pounding in appreciation.
Jonquil are running late on the Market stage, but I creep in just long enough to hear the start of their sweet alt-folk set before scrambling through the packed-tight tent to catch Rolo Tomassi attracting epic chants of "Rolo! Rolo! Rolo!" over at the Barn; the room is absolutely rammed. The Sheffield five-piece blitz through a set almost completely comprised of tracks from their forthcoming Hysterics debut, lead screamer Eva taking time out from her barking to deliver the odd line of sweet and clean vocals. The place goes nuts for the one song from the band's self-titled 2006 EP, a double-speed 'Film Noir', and the as-yet-unreleased 'I Love Turbulence' is already a crowd favourite alongside seven-inch single 'Beat Rotter'. Crowd members snarl the opening line to the latter before the band on stage combusts, brilliantly.
Rolo Tomassi
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Youthmovies take the stage while Rolo are removing their equipment, and the resulting improvised 'tween-sets jam isn't entirely successful, but ensures the Barn remains full during the traditional break (to get, among other things, some thoroughly good chips). The local heroes receive the sort of reception that should greet the return of local heroes – they've not played live for months – and there're almost tears in my eyes at the sight of head-tossed-back admirers singing every word frontman Andrew Mears utters right back at him, whatever the tangle of metaphors at play. It feels like a heavy emotional moment, the crowd's amazing appreciation fuelling the band's energetic performance, and afterwards guitarist Al English tells me it's shows like today's that make any other shit a band at their level ensures absolutely worth it. He feels vindicated, he says. I feel electric for their whole performance, especially during a mouth-agape-excellent 'Last Night Of The Proms', and leave tingling. In this state I probably shouldn't crack a beer open but, when in Rome…
On the main stage Emmy The Great charms all who've assembled to hear her sweet folk strummings – I know she's always been bubbling just under the surface of the mainstream, but if the success of Laura Marling and Noah & The Whale is anything to go by she could well find herself making good on all the promise before long. Daedelus endures a beer spillage over his laptop – chucked from the crowd, not spilt by the LA electro artist himself – but ultimately comes up trumps in the Beat Hive tent; his mixing of cuts from his recent Love To Make Music To LP beside samples of well-known numbers, particularly a Nirvana catalogue classic set to blistering beats, warms the initially reserved crowd to his wares and, come the end of the set, cries for an encore are welcomed.
Emmy The Great
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At the Market stage a big crowd has gathered for some acoustic Dodgy action – seriously – but I'm up for floating between attractions. In the Pavilion tent the evening's comedy programme peaks with a set from Ian Boldsworth, aka Ray Peacock, sees the occasional actor – he's been in Doctor Who, you know – play out a Star Wars Light Sabre battle with a stoned audience member (quite what he remembers the next morning I'm not sure I want to know) before a heckler at the rear of the tent is demolished across a 15-minute rant where Peacock lays into his shortcomings to painfully weak retorts of "Yeah, but you're fat". Yes, he is, because "eating pussy is fattening". Everyone falls about themselves, and Peacock turns to a friendly face and says, "See, I told you that'd get a laugh". It's a tour-de-force of improvised comedy, and a great start to the evening proper's entertainment. (But does mean I completely miss Noah And The Whale, by accident rather than design.)
These New Puritans promise "something different" as Barn headliners (well, before the night's rave begins, the bill-within-a-bill topped by aging boilersuit types Altern-8), and the London-based foursome deliver numbers from their Beat Pyramid LP to warm applause. It goes over the heads of some younger audience members, but deep-locked Kraut grooves carry echo-soaked vocals, and the visual focal point of Jack Barnett in his fairytale body armour remains captivating throughout. They're refreshingly original, and sweeten the slightly sour taste left by the band that precedes them, the lively but inspirationally-lacking Dead Kids.
These New Puritans
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Okkervil River
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Okkervil River's slow start builds to a euphoric climax on the main stage. I might not completely 'get' the Austin-based country-rockers yet, but the audience's reaction as they dip into their catalogue for cuts from The Stage Names and 2005's Black Sheep Boy (a sing-along take on the title track) suggests whatever I'm missing to date may soon smack me about the face. Munch Munch aren't their leap-around selves, quite, on the Market stage, but a small audience is nevertheless appreciative of their Animal Collective-goes-Monty Python efforts, which seem to peak around the bonkers-brilliant track 'Endolphins'. I'm thinking of having their 'Wedding' as the first dance at mine. My wedding, that is. No, you can't come.
Someone has proposed to Eva Tomassi. She shows off her newly acquired ring; it's not quite out of a cracker. "Are you drunk?" "A bit… want some?" She's drinking some hideous-looking comedy vodka drink that only 18 year olds seem able to stomach. "No, thanks… Have fun." Off she and assorted Tomassis roll. They look completely at home at Truck. The young crowd makes a hell of a noise – presumably many are local and this is the one place they can cut loose without their parents around. Still, despite the incessant and inane chatter from the hordes, Truck is a friendly, welcoming festival (even if I would have slept better without the wee-hours bleating). Halfway through my first this is totally apparent. And those chips are well nice. Anyway.
The Lemonheads are billed as performing on the main stage for a solid hour and a half, but when Evan Dando and company leave the stage for the final time around the 55-minute mark, after two encores, those that grew up loving the played-in-full It's A Shame About Ray trudge away disappointed. Dando could have employed a so-so impersonator of himself up there, and the vocals would have been a billion times better – you can't count the bum notes on the fingers of the assembled many, as there are simply too many. The truly hardcore sing along to 'My Drug Buddy' and an almost-set-salvaging 'Bit Part', but those that remember 1992 in full colour – i.e. they were old enough to have bought The Lemonheads' most-celebrated album at the time – can't hide their feelings. This could have been really special. But it was a sideshow attraction, car-crash entertainment amusing for all the wrong reasons. It's a shame… about Evan.
The Lemonheads
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Sunday comes too quickly – I've barely slept as the temperature dropped to what felt like minus a fucking lot overnight. I drifted off about six, and it's now nine. I'm DJing in two hours. Breakfast is a cup of tea – one pound deposit for the mug – and a jam and peanut butter roll. And then… the Beat Hive.
Weirdly kids start dancing – like, properly dancing – around midday. I can only guess that they're too young to drink and, unlike many folks strewn around on the grass outside the tent, they've no hangover to battle through. Mystery Jets, MGMT, Bloc Party, Black Kids – I keep things kid-friendly until Death From Above 1979's 'Romantic Rights' which, for the first time ever, clears the floor. That and Snoop Dogg. Weird. On the plus side, I learn that Fuck Buttons' 'Bright Tomorrow' sounds great rising up from the end of Radiohead's 'Idioteque'. Bonus.
Kyte grace the Barn with their epic shoegaze-tinged euphoria-rock, and an early-doors crowd laps up their waves of soothing sonics. The Leicester band are on a Sunday bill curated by Sonic Cathedral – yesterday local promoters Vacuous Pop controlled the Barn stage – and later in the day The Early Years prove, beyond any doubt, that they're truly one of the best bands of their ilk in the country. Steady-building post-rock shades and tones are layered upon each other, vocals slight in the mix but everything adding to an ethereal whole underpinned by solid rhythms of Germanic precision and repetition. Explosive come their climaxes, these songs sound great in a confirmed space but could fill far larger venues with ease. Could happen, could happen. Especially if MBV hit the road again and want some suitable home-grown support.
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The Early Years
Johnny Foreigner
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With the sun turning previously pale skin various degrees of red, Birmingham indie-pop trio Johnny Foreigner take to the main stage (shortly after I've made off with a couple of cold cans from their rider – I'll pay you back, promise likes!). Their set's cut short as everything is running over, but a beyond-enthusiastic crowd – check out the height they're getting when they leap along! – are given a fair run-through of highlights from the band's Waited Up 'Til It Was Light LP. "This is a song we like so much we've put it on everything we've released," says frontman Alexei Berrow of 'The End And Everything After', but it's the now-regular double-header of 'Hennings Favourite' and forthcoming single 'Salt, Peppa & Spinderella' that gets my own senses buzzing, and a big dumb grin plastered all over my face. They leave to some heartfelt _woots, and cross my path all of… well, not very long after their set at all.
Warp-signed Australians Pivot get the Beat Hive bouncing to their Battles-y mostly-instrumental dance-rock, but on this showing aren't totally convincing. In their defence they're clearly not enjoying the best sound up there, monitors not balanced to their absolute liking, but at least album-previewing single 'In The Blood' sees a few nodding heads of recognition make their move in the now-boiling-hot tent. An Australian version of Scottish electro-indie-sorts Errors? Yeah, ish, only lacking in the cool specs department. Fighting With Wire bring the main stage to life with some stadium-suitable rock that owes much to Foo Fighters and Biffy Clyro, while Ulrich Schnauss suits the Sonic Cathedral vibe perfectly.
Let's Wrestle
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With the need to leave for London again nagging away at the grey matter, I catch fleeting glimpses of a handful of other acts – Frank Turner, Maps, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – from a distance, and only call in for the long-haul at Let's Wrestle, on the Pavilion stage. They're not in the festival guide, so I'm half expecting to find some cabaret troupe by the same name or something when I see them listed on the on-site information boards. But it's the London trio I find, belting out their recent Single of the Week 'Let's Wrestle' alongside quirky sing-along numbers from their In Loving Memory Of… EP. My personal highlight? Always '…Man With Pica Syndrome', although despite my love of the song I'm yet to take a bite of rust to see if it is, indeed, "alright". The trust isn't quite there yet. Alexei JoFo comes along, telling me last time he heard them he wasn't particularly impressed. His opinion is changed over the course of a short, sharp and amusing-of-banter set, his only fear that the band's drummer keeps looking over like he wants to kill him. He's fine. Honest.
And then, as Sam Duckworth's voice drifts over the hills, my borrowed tent is forced back into its case and I make for Didcot and a train home (annoyingly missing YACHT, who headlines the Beat Hive – genuinely peeved about that). I'm a lot happy, a little dirty, slightly groggy, and completely in love with Truck. And tired. So_, so tired. _Bravo.
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Incoming 1Ls / California Western Fall 2010?« on: March 31, 2010, 02:10:50 PM »
Hi all, I am HAPPY to say I have decided to go to Cal Western! Anyone else?
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The "Sundays at 2" coordinated by the department of music at Hope College will continue on Sunday, April 11, at 2 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The program will open with Robert Schumann's "Marchenerzahlungen, Op. 138," performed by Joel Schekman, clarinet; Barbara Corbato, viola; and Adam Clark, piano. Next will be Samuel Barber's "Canzone for Flute and Piano, Op. 38a," performed by flutist Julie Sooy and pianist Adam Clark. The concert will close with Robert Schumann's "Piano Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 44," performed by Amanda Dykhouse, violin I; Tammy Clark, violin II; Barbara Corbato, viola; Richard Piippo, cello; and Andrew Le, piano.
The 2010 season recognizes the births of Robert Schumann (1810), Frédéric Chopin (1810), and Samuel Barber (1910).
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th St. between College and Columbia avenues.


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In other words another fact finding committee !!
You know it just came across my mind that neither the PM or the minister of interior spoke in the media about how both clans had arms in the first place. We are speaking about unlicensed weapons for God's sake !!
Anyhow one hoped that that visit would lead in to some sort of a truce but we were wrong because in the afternoon clashes erupted madly. According to the Nubian activists and tweeps "again they speak online more than "El Hilaliya" suddenly the security forces disappeared from the clashes area and there was some kind of attack unleashed by "El Hilaliya".
Not less than three were killed today. Tens were injured and several houses were torched. There is extreme anger on both sides.
|One of the injured in the hospital "Al Mandra Online"
Amazingly when one was asking on why the security forces would leave its position and let both sides clash once again , we found out that people from Upper Egypt got yet another shocking proof on the fakeness of the state we have. Some Nubian tweeps believed in this theory.
Allegedly the number of victims of "El Hialiya" is more than the victims from the Nubians thus in order to reach to a truce and reconciliation then the victims from Nubians should be equal to the victims of "Hilaliya". In other words the "Hilaliya" should kil more Nubians to balance the number !!!! I can not believe it.
A stupid tradition causing more people to be killed !!
Shockingly when the number of Nubian victims reached to the number of El Hialiya victims , the clashes stopped and the police began to spread again in the area !!!!!!!
What kind of state is that !!??
Strangely later today we read that Al Azhar will send a delegation in order to reach in to another truce. I hate to say that thousand sheikhs will not solve that hate implanted in the hearts and minds of both clans now.
By the way here is a map showing where the clashes are concentrated. It is mainly in El Seel El Rify area.
Of course today the clashes spread from time to time reaching to Aswan General Hospital as both tribes transferred their injured to the same hospital in some irony. The clashes continued forcing the other patients as well doctors and security "oh yes" to flee the hospital !!!
|A photo for conriche Aswan during the clashes "Al Mandra"
Here is also a photo galley by AP Photographer Mohamed Ali Eddin who went to Aswan today. Ali Eddin was among a group of journalists who were smart enough to travel to Aswan before trains movement would be suspended due to security reasons.
The mainstream media or rather the TV channels insisted on adopting the story that the Muslim Brotherhood was behind the clashes. It is worth to mention that the Pro-El Sisi and Pro-Morsi supporters both used the clashes to attack the other team as well to spread conspiracy theories. I want to go to Aswan to see what is happening.
Updated :
- Army special forces sent units to Aswan last night.
- Not less than 14 people were arrested in the past 24 hours.
- According to news reports the governor of Aswan announced that there will be a truce for three days in an attempt for a reconciliation.
- Hisham Mubarak human rights center called the civil society to form a fact finding committee.


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Staying Connected With Your Network
Feb 28 2009
Unlike my friend Thom Singer, I'm no subject matter expert on the topic of networking by any means, but I am a strong believer in the power of building and maintaining a solid network of both personal and professional friends. I'm an extrovert by nature and an ENTJ on the Meyer's Briggs personality typing test (link to Wikipedia) so networking and relationship building usually comes easy for me, and I enjoy it. According to Wikipedia, only about 2% of the population are ENTJ's (a.k.a. Fieldmarshals.) When I was getting my MBA, which was when I was last tested, I think about 30% of our class were ENTJ's. Only about 20% of our class were women, so it's probably an even rarer type for women. I've been told by more than a few people that I exhibit some typical male characteristics. Go figure!
I also believe the time to cultivate and reach out to your your network is not ONLY when times are tough. I've been amazed at the number of people who I haven't spoken to in years (not just one or two years but five or more) who have been contacting me to help them with their job search. I mean, come on! How can I put my reputation on the line and refer them when I have no idea what they've been up to?!
There have been people I've worked with who I've stayed connected with in one way or another over the years who I'm more than happy to help introduce to people I know, but when I don't hear a word from someone and the first contact I get is "Can you help me find a job?" or "Can you introduce me to so-and-so?" I literally roll my eyes. I love helping people so it pains me when people don't get how important keeping up your network is when times are good.
Apparently no one (or no one will admit it) could have anticipated the economic state we find ourselves in worldwide, and despite the inordinate amount of angst I felt before taking on a day job, in hindsight someone (possibly the Flying Spaghetti Monster) was looking out for me and my family. Somehow I had the foresight (a.k.a ESP) to take drugs beat the angst into partial submission and accept the job which I'm now grateful for. I'm still trying to figure out how to get to what usually ends up being a good result without beating myself up inside to almost a bloody pulp before I realize the decision was not such a bad one, but that's a topic for another blog post a whole novel.
There are four professional groups I meet face-to-face with fairly regularly throughout the year that mean a whole lot to me for a variety of reasons and they are:
B2C CEO/Founder Group – A small group of us meet monthly for lunch to discuss the challenges and joys of running a business that sells products to consumers (i.e. B2C), which is completely different than selling directly to businesses (i.e., B2B). I happen to be the only woman in this group, but in my career that has typically been the norm. The format is that we share something good and bad that has happened to us both professionally and personally since the last time we met. I really like this format because it allows us to get to know each other as human beings…not just business people. This month we discussed all the challenges some of us are facing with money, employees, and finding other creative ways to keep our businesses going. One person in the group had to put his business on hold for a while due to the economy. Sadly, he also recently discovered that one of his key technical people committed suicide which really threw him for a loop. Most of the rest of us are just taking it a day at a time and trying to keep our businesses alive. When I shared during our meeting last week, they all told me I shouldn't give myself such a hard time and beat myself up for not being motivated to do some of the things I need to do after my day job and family commitments. I really needed to hear that because I have a lot of respect for them and it gave me some room to breathe. Last month we discussed mid-life crises since I seem to be in the middle of one (middle of my mid-life crisis sounds about right) and one guy said the way he dealt with his was to start a business! One thought he had to be married with kids to experience one but the rest of us who were married with or without kids quickly assured him that was not the case and he then said he's been experiencing one for most of his life. 🙂
Boss Ladies Group – Another small group of only women about my age (all with small children) that meets monthly for lunch. When one of us has a baby, we work around their schedule if we can. We talk about our businesses and balancing our interest in building them while balancing our desires to be great mothers and wives. One of the women who formed this group invited me to speak to them probably a year or so ago, and I liked the group so much that I asked if I could become a member! Unlike the B2C and Web CEO groups, most of the women in this group do not have technology businesses. The businesses range from restaurants, to event planning, to consumer packaged goods, to marketing consulting.
Web CEO Group – This is a larger group that meets probably once every other month and there are a handful of other women CEOs in that group. We typically meet during a weekday afternoon. The format has typically been that we pick a topic and present what we've learned or questions we have that we pose to the group in that topic. Topics have ranged from internet marketing, to fund raising, to how to stay alive. A couple of us in the group have taken on outside jobs to continue moving our businesses forward.
Tuesday Ladies Group – This is another small group where we tried to meet bi-weekly but after a good start, many of us couldn't make it consistently so we meet more sporadically. This group typically meets in the evening so I have a harder time making these meetings given that I'm the only one in the group with small kids. I'm actually the youngest one in this group with the others ranging in age from their 40's to 70's! Some of the women are entrepreneurs and some of them work for larger organizations but in my mind they are all very entrepreneurially minded. They have such wisdom to share not only in business but also in life. I get to hear and feel their life experiences, and I get such perspective from them both personally and professionally!
I had to take a hopefully temporary break from a weekly Blog Mastermind group that I'm involved in that I mentioned in my Giving Things Up post. Even though the calls are held over lunch I had to take some things off of my mind's plate and that was one professional group I had to cut.
I also try to stay connected over email or phone with my family and friends when I can because without that support network, I surely would have lost it (more than I have) by now. I would do what I could to help pretty much all of the people in these groups if they needed it, and I'd like to think they would do the same for me.
So for those of you who are still employed, cultivate your network now but please be sincere. Just like on any of the social sites (e.g., twitter, facebook, linked in, etc.), people can detect insincerity or even desparation. If you always have a 'what's in it for me' approach, you won't get as far as if you have a 'how can I help you approach.'Author: Aruni | Filed under: entrepreneurship, networking | Tags: entj, meyer's briggs, networking | 15 Comments »


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