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- 2 cups flour
- 1 tbsp. sugar
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup dried buttermilk powder (available in most grocery stores)
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/4 cups unflavored
- soda water
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Growing up, there was always that one kid whose house everyone wants to go to. Maybe it's because his or her mom served Nutella sandwiches with the crusts cut off for dinner. In Stacey Flowers's case, the allure lay in her backyard, where dead bodies deliciously decomposed beneath the ground. How could any kid resist that? "We used to play 'Ghost Ghost' - a form of hide and go seek - for hours," says Ms. Flowers, a public relations professional in Toronto, who refers to the cemetery behind her childhood Brace bridge home as "her playground." Her voice falls to a hush, as though she's narrating a ghost story: "One night, I was standing over a grave and it caved in," she says, noting it wasn't the act of anything exciting like a poltergeist, but rather a rotting coffin. "I sunk down into the ground, and we all freaked out and ran out screaming. That was the last time we played there."
As Ms. Flowers got older, she says she became more respectful of the consecrated area and cemeteries in general. "It's funny, in New Orleans, they have funerals to music - or as they call them jazz funerals. People go to graveyards as places of celebration. Here, they're fenced off and solemn."
Indeed, you'd be hard pressed to find a jazz trio tooting horns by grandma's tombstone in Toronto, but in New Orleans the vestiges of death serve as a form of amusement: A Gray Line bus tour carts beignet-bloated tourists on a "ghosts and spirits" adventure to look at relics from voodoo ceremonies, vampire-slaying kits and "age-old tools used by mystical inhabitants of the city." According to online reviews, another popular tour guide is BloodyMary, a psychic priestess certified in "voodoo bone throwin'."
In Toronto, there are more conservative strolls through burial grounds. The Muddy York Walking Tour goes through the sublime Mount Pleasant Cemetery, which is filled with statues, fountains, gardens and trails and is the final resting place for many prominent people, such as William Lyon Mackenzie King and silent screen star Mary Pickford. The
Tiimothy Eaton family is there - its pillared crypt presided over by two regal concrete lions.
But not everyone wants to live near dead souls, venerated or otherwise. For many, the thought of headstones in the yard is a bone of contention (sorry) that is held in similar disdain as living next to a funeral home, religious institution or a school.
Andrea Feldman, a real estate agent with Re/Max Hallmark, recalls selling homes from blueprints near the Elgin Mills Cemetery in Richmond Hill in the '90s. She says her Asian clientele refused to buy there. "That was mainly due to feng shui," Ms. Feldman says. "They believe in chi, which is energy. What emanates from a cemetery is too yin and would be harmful to neighbouring homes."
But a crematorium wasn't off-limits, she says."[The Asian community] believes all the crystals that hold the memories of the person during their lifetime have been completely destroyed by the fire during the cremation process."
Ms. Feldman eventually sold all of the houses (though not to Asian buyers) and not at a discount, either. "Land is so valuable in Toronto that a neighbouring graveyard isn't problematic. "There's actually a premium on all of the houses and condos close to the Mount Pleasant Cemetery because it's so beautiful," Ms. Feldman says. It helps, of course, that the location is near chi-chi Rosedale, Forest Hill, Moore Park and Chaplin Estates.
Sam Dubeau, who creates custom stationery through her website, Have & Hold Design, and her partner,Michael, were thrilled to buy a condo on Merton Street beside Mount Pleasant Cemetery. (The two are diehard horror-movie fans, incidentally.) It wasn't just the prestige of the address, but the actual property. "Once we saw the beltline at the back of our condo, it was honestly so beautiful it ended up being a plus, especially this time of year when the trees are changing colours," says Ms. Dubeau, who often walks their pug, Roxy, through the nine-kilometre former rail line that borders the cemetery and is also a draw for cyclists and joggers.
"Neither of us is superstitious, anyway," Ms. Dubeau adds, "so the graveyard wasn't a factor at all." In terms of traffic, Ms. Dubeau has also never even seen a funeral procession in the five years they've lived there. "It's a really quiet area, and I work from home so it's perfect," she says. The cemetery also ensures another building will never obscure Ms. Dubeau's pristine view from her window.
Toronto filmmaker Carl Laudan also appreciates his backyard graveyard. He and his wife, Kate, live in a house next to Prospect Cemetery beside Earlscourt Park at St.Clair Avenue West and Caledonia Park Road. "It's an oasis,"
Mr. Laudan says. "The lovely thing about having that cemetery behind us is it's a green space. It filters all the air-Toronto is so polluted, but here it's just trees. It's like living behind a park that no one goes through very often." (Hey, if you can't afford a pricey ravine lot, a less-desirable cemetery as a neighbour may be for you.) "And I find the universal symbol for 'No Zombies' just takes care of the dead-people problem," he jokes.
Another plus, Mr. Laudan says, is the connected park, which attracts owls, cardinals and eagles - a surprising thing to learn given the urban setting. "There's also a weird guy in the cemetery," he says. "He tends to wander by the gravestones wearing branches that have fallen as antlers, and making very strange noises."
But Mr. Laudan isn't too concerned. After all, in the grand scheme of things, his home is a paradise. He doesn't have to deal with loud backyard barbecues or someone's bad taste in outdoor decor.
As Mr. Laudan puts it: "Honestly, I prefer my neighbours dead."


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24th Oct. ~ Sound Bath with Divine Light Sound Healing ~
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As promised at our meeting this evening here are the details for the Divine Light Sound Healing Sound Bath.
I received this notification (below) from Amanda yesterday:
There are only 10 places on this occasion (and as far as I'm aware 6 have gone already) It's only £10 so do let Amanda know if you want to go,I will be there. I had my first one-on-one sound healing from her on Tuesday this week which was revelationary and incredibly releasing ~ been feeling pretty fabulous since then and things have been shifting.
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When I step aside and sound, I bring in Divine Light energy through my voice. For those of you that haven't heard the sound, it isn't like singing, I am being led to create what has been described by others as waves of love through sound. This has recently been given an added dimension as I have also started sounding and speaking in Light Language (as it sounds - the language of the light).
The Divine Light Sound Baths will be run like Gong Baths in that all you have to do is turn up, lie down and allow the sound to wash over and through you. There will be a brief guided meditation to open and then you just relax as the sound vibrations resonate through your physical being and subtle bodies like ripples on water when a stone is dropped in and if you feel any resistance to the sound waves either release it or just observe your own holdings.
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The eighth annual Roots & Rhythm Festival was well attended by locals and tourists alike.
- The eighth annual Roots & Rhythm Festival was well attended by locals and tourists alike.
"Throughout the day, we had at least 6,000 people attend," said Gail Tucker, executive director of the Greater Honesdale Partnership. "It was absolutely awesome."
The event began at 10:30 a.m. with seven bands rocking main street until the bands took the main stage in Honesdale's Central Park.
The main stage opened with the singing of the national anthem by 17-year-old Honesdale High School senior Leah Schweighofer. In her junior year, Schweighofer attended the PMEA District 9 chorus festival and the Region 4 chorus festival for two years.
This year, she will be studying at the Jon Frederick West Summer Institute in opera repertoire.
The annual Airing of the Quilts was also held during the Roots & Rhythm event Saturday. The quilts were on display throughout Honesdale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. These huggable works of art were hung from buildings lining Main Street.
The ever popular Tunes & Tales event was packed with children taking advantage of face painting and glitter tattoos.
The park was packed with eager listeners for not just headliner Jimmy Vivino and the Barn Burners, but for all of the bands that day.
"This is the biggest crowd we have ever had," said Tucker.
In past events, the crowd would fluctuate depending on what band was on the main stage. This year, "so many people stayed for the whole thing."
The many galleries and artists were also bustling with many spectators stopping in to see what art they had to offer. The special section had art ranging from beaded necklaces to all-natural, handcrafted soaps. "The vendors were busy all day," she said.
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On "Mad Men," a cigarette is never just a cigarette.
Since the opening minutes of the series pilot, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," cigarettes have played an almost totemic role in the life of Don Draper. Not the ones everyone's smoking -- those are more atmospheric -- but, rather, the ones our protagonist is shilling. The very first moment we met him, Don was in a bar scribbling ideas on a cocktail napkin for Lucky Strike, a client he'd go on to win with a pitch about its "toasted" tobacco but lose years later after starting his own firm, then publicly denounce in a manipulative open letter in the New York Times.
All along, Don is well aware of the dangers of cigarette smoking, but he orchestrates campaigns that promote their use and obfuscate their health risks. Cigarettes represent not just everything that's corrosive about his chosen career path but his chronic tendency toward deception and secrecy. Which is why it's not exactly a moment of triumph when he shows up, uninvited, to Jim and Lou's secret pitch meeting with Philip Morris. Yes, he seems to win them over by boasting of his insider knowledge of Lucky Strike's strategy, but there's also something grossly self-flagellating about the whole thing.
"I just keep thinking what your friends at American Tobacco would think if you made me apologize. Forced me into your service. They are still your competition, aren't they?" he asks.
While there is a tiny -- infinitesimal, really -- part of me that's excited to catch a glimpse of the old Don magic again, I'm mostly just repelled at his willingness to sell himself out, to revoke one of signature accomplishments, all for the sake of reclaiming his throne at an agency that doesn't want him. I'm reminded of the pitch he made to Dow Chemicals in Season 5's "Commissions and Fees," in which he made napalm sound about as harmful as an antacid tablet ("When America needs it, Dow makes it -- and it works") and defined happiness as the "moment before you need more happiness."
This time around, Don is more subdued, less obviously bloodthirsty (he's not even foaming at the mouth!), and the ugly, unbridled greed of that moment has been supplanted by a sad desperation to win back his job -- a sad desperation shared by his wife.
In a bid as transparently desperate as Don's overture to Philip Morris, Megan offers up her irritating friend Amy for a threesome with her hubby. A reluctant Don obliges, but the menage a trois lacks the sort of scintillating thrill a similar encounter would have had a few seasons ago. It's not sexy so much as a little sad, and you get the sense that even Don is just going through the motions (it was awful for him, I'm sure). The next morning, Don and Megan look tired and hungover, and Amy nervously bolts for the door. Free love sure can be awkward.
The sordid threesome comes after a string of ugly behavior from Megan that starts when Stephanie shows up, looking both filthy and radiant in her flower-child garb, looking for help. Megan kindly -- and sincerely, I think -- offers her a warm shower and a carnivorous meal. What's startling is how quickly she turns against her guest, after a throwaway comment about knowing all of Don's secrets. Driven by jealousy of Stephanie's emotional intimacy with Don -- she's the only person alive who still calls him Dick -- Megan snaps, dispatching her guest with a $1,000 check and the completely disingenuous claim that Don wouldn't approve of Stephanie's "disorganized" circumstances. (Megan's embarassed by her husband's money, except when it comes in handy.)
We've seen Megan act petulantly (orange sherbet, anyone?) and manipulatively (using Don to finagle an audition for Butler shoes), but I don't think she's been this cruel before, casting out the closest thing Don has to family (other than his children) out of jealousy. It's interesting how, for all their differences, Megan and Betty revert to almost the same tactics when they feel their marriage is under siege -- brazenly flirting with other men, taking their frustrations out on the vulnerable and masking their insecurities with sexual adventurousness.
With her enormous hair and wild Pucci mini-dress, Megan is even visually reminiscent of the Betty we briefly met on the Drapers' trip to Rome in the waning days of their marriage -- the last time she used those Italian language skills she's so proud of. That's not to say that Megan and Betty are really that much alike, only that being married to Don Draper has a way of bringing out a woman's cruel, petty side. Don fell for Megan because she was kind and open-hearted, and after four years of marriage she's turned into a jealous shrew, albeit one with groovy friends open to a little swinging.
Kicking out Don's pregnant, hungry quasi-niece is exactly the sort of spiteful thing Betty would have done in her first marriage -- and, let's be honest, would probably still do now. In her latest incarnation, Betty has transformed into a monstrous political wife, one a little too thrilled with the reflected glory of her husband's mildly successful career (note the humble bragging about how nervous Henry's constituents are around her). In some ways, Betty was born to play her current role, which plays both to her vanity and to her insecure dependence on men.
Unfortunately, her relationship with Henry is souring quickly. Betty has always chafed at the limitations of her domestic role yet also defined herself by them. We can see both impulses at work in this episode when she literally insists on staying in the kitchen just to spite her husband. She loves the attention and prestige that comes with being Henry's wife, yet resents how she is required to censor herself. I might be sympathetic with Betty's desire to be more outspoken if it seemed to derive from genuine conviction. Instead, her anger has more to do with Henry's failure to live up to her ideal of a loyal Republican husband.
You can practically see steam billowing out of her ears when he expresses mild reservations about the cost of the Vietnam War, which she supports unreservedly. Betty is about image and facade, and there's little room for nuance or complexity in her fantasy. That's why she's irate, rather than concerned, when Sally comes home with a broken nose. "Don't worry about me finding a man. I already have you to keep me in line," says Sally, who has a laser-like ability to target her mother's most acute insecurities (but who, it should be noted, has really evolved into a kind and loving older sister).
Before I go, I'd like to hold a moment of silence for Michael Ginsberg's right nipple, sacrificed on the altar of commerce along with Guy MacKendrick's right foot and Ken Cosgrove's right eye. (Always the right appendage -- what could it mean?) In the grand "Mad Men" tradition of on-the-job maiming, a deranged Ginsberg slices off his nipple, like a latter-day Van Gogh, and gives it to Peggy in a gift box. Aww, who says this show isn't romantic?
In the run-up to The Nipple Incident, it's clear Ginsberg is suffering some kind of mental breakdown, one that he blames on the constant drone of the new computer. What's really triggering his condition is unclear: Ginsberg has always been a bit, shall we say, loopy, and frankly we don't know him well enough as a character to really understand what's going on inside his head. (I mark his arrival as the beginning of "Mad Men's" too-many-characters-to-care-about problem.) For most of the episode, Ginsberg's unraveling is played for laughs, particularly the scene when he shows up at Peggy's apartment unannounced and wonders about her "interesting arrangement" with Julio. (Please, television gods, bring us a spinoff with Peggy and Julio. It's all I ask.)
But our laughter is tempered with discomfort, because even before he slices off his nipple like one of Daenerys Targaryan's slaves, it's evident that Ginsberg is either on some crazy drug cocktail, losing his mind, or both. Whatever the exact cause of Ginsberg's breakdown, it's an event that has more of a symbolic impact than an emotional one. He's the most creative (read: eccentric) member of the creative team, and he's the first casualty of SC&P's technophilic new way of doing things. No wonder Peggy was giving the computer the evil eye.


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The exhibition, which opened to the public July 1, explores the inspiration visual artists have derived from music, from George Gershwins melodic rhapsodies and Billie Holidays soulful blues, to Bob Dylans folk anthems and Madonnas pop songs. Many have responded by transforming something that is arguably intangible into a physical form, allowing viewers to ―see songs‖ in art. Seeing Songs presents an eclectic visual mix drawing on music as critical inspiration. Composed of objects from the MFAs collection and several key loans, it features nearly 60 works by an international group of artists in a variety of media. Highlights include Breitz wall-size installation of singers on 30 monitors, photographic portraits of rock legends Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, and Tina Turner, and expressive prints by Wassily Kandinsky. Seeing Songs is on view in the Foster Gallery through February 21, 2010.
"When you look at some of these works, with their bold colors and abstract forms, you can almost hear the music that inspired them," said William Stover, assistant curator of contemporary art at the MFA and curator of the exhibition. "Although considered one of the most ephemeral of the arts, music, and the emotional power that it conveys, has long been a subject for visual artists. With advancements in technology, they are finding yet even more interesting ways to respond to it."
The exhibition follows the evolution of artwork from abstraction through video art and their connections to musical forms as varied as classical, jazz, and pop. Six videos play an important part in the exhibition: two are on view during the entire run of Seeing Songs, and four are included in a rotating video program. The show features the Boston premiere of Candice Breitz Queen (A Portrait of Madonna) (2005, The Vanmoerkerke Collection, Brussels), which explores the dynamics between pop stars and their fans. Karaoke-like interpretations of Madonnas hit album, ―Immaculate Collection,‖ serve as the focal point for this eye-catching video presentation. A grid of 30 screens showcases the life-size heads of Italian fans of Madonnasome of whom do not speak English but know all the words to her songsseen in heartfelt performances of impassioned idolatry. Also on view during the run of the exhibition is Annemiek (1997, Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery) by Rineke Dijkstra, who offers a portrait of a teenage girl, displaying the awkwardness and self-awareness of youth, as she lip syncs to a song by the "Backstreet Boys."
Videos in rotation during the run of the exhibition begin in July/August with Gillian Wearings Slight Reprise (199495, Courtesy of the Artist and Maureen Paley Gallery, London). Evoking the ―fly on the wall‖ documentaries of the 1970s, this video portrait of self-styled heavy metal ―air guitarists‖ draws upon the common fantasy of being a rock star. It is followed in September/October by Trine Lise Nedreass Singer with Butterfly (2003, Courtesy of the Artist and LUXE Gallery, New York), a video of a one-hour musical performance (done specifically for her camera) that has been edited down to a one-minute piece. In it all vocals and music have been cut out, leaving only the pauses between songs, making the viewer focus on unachieved desires and aspirations. The rotation continues in November/December with Christoph Brechs Opus 110A (2001, Courtesy of the artist and KUNSTAGENTEN Gallery, Berlin), a study of the back of conductor Chistoph Poppen leading Shostakovichs Symphony for Chamber Orchestra, 110a. Running the length of the actual performance, the folds and creases in the conductors tuxedo jacket replicate the rhythm and pace of the music. The final video, set for January/February, is Ana Prvackis Tent, Quartet, Bows, and Elbows (2007, Courtesy of the Artist), a hybrid of performance and video, which shows a white tent-like structure that shakes, quivers, protrudes and bulges to the rhythm of music by Lithuanian composer Ignas Krunglevicius. When the music has stopped and the structure recovers it original shape, the artist walks into the frame and unzips one side of the tent, allowing for the source of the music to emerge.
Rock n roll is well represented in Seeing Songs, where legends such as Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr are captured in colorful pop-art posters created from photographs by Richard Avedon, while Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, and the Jefferson Airplane are pictured in naturalistic black and white images by Herb Greene. The exhibition draws from the MFAs large collection of photographs by Herb Ritts to include images of Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Madonna. Other artists, such as Patti Smith and the Ramones, are seen in a compilation of photographs of 12 album covers by Nayland Blake, titled The Seventies (1991, MFA). This retrospective of the decade reflects the adolescent Blake's identification with musicians who personified the rebellious spirit and raw power of rock n roll. Also featured in the show is the folk-rock tradition as recorded in photographs of musician Bob Dylan by Eliza Dorfman.
The sound of music also has long been visually preserved by artists in drawings and paintings, as can be seen in Wassily Kandinskys bold, abstract works, which he sometimes labeled ―improvisations‖ and ―compositions.‖ Klange (Sounds) (1913, MFA, Boston), a book with color and monochromatic woodcuts, and Violet (1923 MFA), a color lithograph, are two of several Kandinsky works on paper included in the show. Also on view is Stuart Davis masterpiece of 20th-century American painting, Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors7th Avenue Style (1940, MFA). In this visual equivalent of the syncopated rhythms of jazz, Davis evokes the energy of both this musical style and city life through his innovative composition of lively shapes and lines and his palette of vibrant color. As well, Arthur Garfield Doves George GershwinIll Build a Stairway to Paradise (1927, MFA), is a wonderful example of the numerous music-related works created throughout his career. Like Davis, he was particularly attracted to the improvisational techniques of jazz, and references to musicranging from Louis Armstrong and George Gershwin to the popular big-band sounds of Bing Crosby and even the avant-garde work of Igor Stravinskyare reflected in his paintings.
Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs is the third in a series of small, focused exhibitions, drawn mainly from the MFA collections, which examine trends, issues, ideas and new ways of looking at art and artists that have emerged in recent years. In 20072008, the MFA presented Contemporary Outlook: Japan and Contemporary Outlook: German Photography. Seeing Songs is one of several exhibitions, special events, and opportunities aimed at younger audiences that the Museum offers throughout the year. These include the Elaine and Jerome Rosenfeld Concerts in the Courtyard summer series, mfafirstfridays, and free admission to the Museum on Wednesdays after 4 p.m. Concerts in the Courtyard, which runs from June 24August 26, features an exciting range of music from Africa, the Caribbean, and Spain, as well as soul, gospel, and Cajun sounds from America. All concerts take place outside in the MFAs Calderwood Courtyard on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. (in case of rain, concerts are moved to Remis Auditorium). Also offered is mfafirstfridays on the first Friday of every month in the Koch Gallery, where fine art, live music, cocktails, and a delicious tapas menu enhance an evening of socializing. During the summer, the event becomes mfasummerfridays each Friday from July 3August 28 at 5:309:30 p.m. in the Calderwood Courtyard, where cocktails and music are served under the stars.
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BAKER � Dreams of a perfect season came crashing down for the Baker football team Friday night. Cottondale team scored 22 fourth quarter points to take a come-from-behind 28-23 win over the Gators (10-1) in the Region 1-1A football semifinals at Doug Griffith Memorial Stadium.
BAKER � Dreams of a perfect season came crashing down for the Baker football team Friday night.
Cottondale team scored 22 fourth quarter points to take a come-from-behind 28-23 win over the Gators (10-1) in the Region 1-1A football semifinals at Doug Griffith Memorial Stadium.
Cottondale (7-4) scored touchdowns of 17, 80 and 65 yards in the fourth quarter to erase a 10-point deficit and take the win.
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Baker Coach Matt Brunson was quick to give credit to the Hornets.
"We faced a very talented and athletic football team as we knew they were," he said. "They presented us with some problems and they made a few big plays there toward the end and we didn't.
"Overall we've had a great year and I'm proud of these kids. It was unbelievable getting back the district championship and winning 10 (games) and I can't say enough about these kids."
Norris Calhoun got things started with the 17-yard run that cut the Gator lead to 16-12 with 10:02 left in the game.
Less than three minutes later Calhoun was on the receiving end of an 80-yard swing pass from Justin Klotz. The touchdown came with 7:33 left in the fourth quarter and gave the Hornets their first lead of the night.
Calhoun showed his versatility when he hit DeMichael Faulk with a little jump pass for the 2-point conversion.
Things looked bleak for the Gators after a three-and-out that gave the Hornets the ball at their own 22 with 6:30 left in the game.
Momentum swung back in Baker's favor when D.J. Thomas picked off a Klotz pass and returned it to the Hornet 6-yard line.
Richard Stroheker carried the ball for five yards. On the next play Thomas scored his 29 and final touchdown of his senior season.
Malcolm Griffith's extra point put the Gators up 23-20 with 4:34 left in the game.
The lead lasted 20 seconds as JaWann Sherrod scored on a 65-yard run. Shaundre Macroy took the 2-point conversion in to give the Hornets their final margin of victory.
The high octane Gator offense that averaged better than 40 points a game during the regular season couldn't do much against a big and fast Hornet defense.
Baker got off to an early 3-0 lead when Griffith hit the first of three field goals from 33 yards out with 7:49 left in the first quarter.
A 31-yard field goal by Griffith with 10:32 left in the half pushed the Gator lead to 6-0.
The Hornets tied the game on a 55-yard touchdown run by JaVotai Hall with 8:54 left in the second period.
Thomas scored his first touchdown of the game with 19 seconds left in the half.
Griffith's third field goal of the night came with 2:17 left in the third quarter and put the Gators up 16-6, but the Hornets were about to attack in a vicious swarm of fourth-quarter points.
Thomas, who averaged 200 yards a game during the regular season, was held to 99 yards on 30 carries. Stroheker added 54 yards on 12 carries and caught one pass for 45 yard.
Baker quarterback Jon Beck struggled against the speedy Hornet secondary as he completed just 4-of-13 passes for 85 yards.
The Gators managed just 235 yards in total offense while Cottondale racked up 360 yards.
Thomas admitted it was tough going against the big Hornet defense.
"It was just a battle up front and we came out on the bottom of this one," he said. "We've been on top for a while. All good things must come to an end at one time or another.
"I guess that's the way this went."
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Lady Antebellum Don't Think They're Worthy of Being Made Into Dolls
Tim and Faith have a set; Taylor Swift has one, too. But for some reason, 'Own the Night' trio Lady Antebellum don't think they're worthy of having dolls made to look like miniature versions of themselves just yet. In a new feature for the Wall Street Journal, Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood remained modest while dishing on toys and tours.
"Garth Brooks sold 100 million records. Tim and Faith just got dolls," Haywood said, explaining that their group is a long way off from that level of superstar status. Kelley chimed in with agreement, saying, "I don't think we're doll-worthy just yet."
But with five Grammys already under their belt and likely more on the way, the humble group has already soared to unbelievable heights, even if they can't see it. As they gear up for the second leg of their tour, which kicks off on Jan. 27 in Tulsa, Okla., Lady A expressed that they're worried they can't live up to the hype on their first-ever arena run.
"It's kind of scary when you see the Staples Center and the American Airlines Arena in Dallas — when you actually look at it on paper," Haywood admitted. "When the rubber meets the road, will we really be able to sell this many tickets?"
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Arlington is in the Prairies and Lakes region of Texas. With a city population estimated over 359,000 it is Texas' 7th largest. It is third largest city in the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex. This city is south of the sprawling DFW International Airport.
The city was founded in 1875 and is named after Lee's Arlington House (of present-day Arlington County, Virginia). After the arrival of the railroad in 1876, Arlington grew as a cotton-ginning and farming center, and incorporated in 1884. The city could boast of water, electricity, natural gas, and telephone services by 1910, along with a public school system. By 1925 the population was estimated at 3,031, and it grew to over four thousand before World War II.
Large-scale industrialization began in 1954 with the arrival of a General Motors assembly plant. Automotive and aerospace development gave the city one of the nation's greatest population growth rates between 1950 and 1990. Arlington became one of the "boomburgs," the extremely fast-growing suburbs of the post-World War II era. U.S. Census Bureau population figures for the city tell the story: 7,692 (1950), 90,229 (1970), 261,721 (1990), and 359,467 (2004 estimate). DFW Airport opened in 1974 which also contributed to unparalleled growth in the region.
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Immediately east of 360, however, lies Grand Prairie, a highly industrialized and increasingly 'slummy' part of the Metroplex. If you are going to the horse races at Lone Star Park, or seeing a show at the adjacent Nokia Theater, you will not run into any problems, as these venues lie north of IH-30 and are quite isolated from the rest of Grand Prairie. As with East Arlington, just be very careful walking anywhere at night in Grand Prairie. To the south of Arlington sits Mansfield, which was rated as one of CNN/Money Magazine's "Best Places to Live" in 2007, and notsurprisingly is one of the safest areas in all the Metroplex.
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Despite all the claims by leftists like Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, et. al., the Restoring Honor rally was the most peacful and good-mannered that D.C. has seen since, well, has ever seen period.
There was no hate. And the claims of it being an all-white crowd were quashed with the presence of a large number of African-Americans and their families, including Harry R. Jackson. (I know Rev. Jackson was there because I saw him in a video of the event, a video that Keith Olbermann either never knew existed or, more likely, deliberately chose to ignore.)
Anyway, James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal has a fantastic summary of what he saw and heard at the rally.
From his column:
|This army of well-mannered folks that marched into Washington seemed comprised mainly of people who had once marched in the U.S. Army or other military branch, or at least had a family member who had. Perhaps that's not surprising, given that the event was a fund-raiser for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides scholarships to the children of elite troops killed in the performance of their duty. The day was largely devoted to expressions of gratitude for the sacrifices of U.S. soldiers, for great men of American history like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and for God.
But it didn't end there. Dave Roever, a Vietnam veteran, offered a closing prayer in which he thanked the Lord for the president and for the Congress. Despite the unpopularity of the latter two, no booing or catcalls could be heard.
Perhaps feeling defensive about how they would be portrayed in media reports, various attendees wore t-shirts noting that they were "Not violent" or "Non-violent." For other participants, there was no need for an explicit message. Relaxed young parents felt comfortable enough to push toddlers in strollers through the crowded areas along the memorial's reflecting pool.
If Olbermann, Matthews and the other members of the hate-filled left would actually take the time see reality, they might not look so foolish when they make their outlandish claims.
One aspect of the event made it undeniably superior to other rallies of comparable size: the area was cleaner when they were done than it was before they started.
|Not only was the rally akin to a "huge church picnic" (in one Journal reporter's description), but one had to wonder if the over-achievers in this crowd actually left the area in better shape than they found it.
After the event, walking from the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool through Constitution Gardens, this reporter scanned 360 degrees and could not see a scrap of trash anywhere. Participants and volunteers had collected all their refuse and left it piled neatly in bags around the public garbage cans. Near Constitution Avenue, I did encounter one stray piece of paper—but too old and faded to have been left that day.
Contrast that with how Obama supporters left the mall after they were done so rudely singing "Na-na-na-na. Hey! Hey! Goodbye!" to George W. Bush:
Here is a video showing how the participants of the Restoring Honor cleaned up in a way that Obama's supporters didn't even dream of doing:
And although Glenn Beck himself claimed to disagree with the final two paragraphs, they are relevent:
|The conservative Mr. Beck's ability to draw this many people to Washington may suggest enormous gains for Republicans come the fall. But the GOP shouldn't expect voters to simply hand them a congressional majority without making them earn it. If pregame chatter and off-season optimism translated into victory, the New York Jets and the Washington Redskins would meet in the Super Bowl every year.
Between Saturday's crowd in Washington and the tea partiers agitating for limited government, we may be witnessing the rebuilding of the Reagan coalition, the "fusion" of religious and economic conservatives that political theorist Frank Meyer once endorsed. Reagan always believed that the Republican Party was the natural home for this movement, but GOP leaders in Washington need to prove they are worthy of it.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Three weekends remain in the No. 3 Yale women's sailing team's regular spring season. This weekend the Bulldogs will head to Boston, Mass., to race in the 44th Women's President's Interconference Regatta. The regatta will be hosted by Boston University with racing taking place on the Charles River, in FJs.
The women's sailing team has yet to race in a major intersectional on the Charles this spring, but during the fall season the team finished in the top five at all three of the events it competed in there. At the Regis Bowl, hosted by Boston University in late September, freshman skipper Morgan Kiss took her first stab at managing the shifty winds that the Charles River is known for. With less than three weeks of college sailing experience at that point, she finished a very respectable fourth in B division.
Six months and many practices and regattas later, Kiss will be returning to Boston University's venue to represent the Bulldogs in B division once again. She will be teamed up with sophomore crew Amanda Salvesen, for whom this will actually be the second weekend in a row of racing at BU. Salvesen is the only change to Yale's lineup from last weekend when the Bulldogs took third at the Dellenbaugh Regatta, hosted by Brown University.
Returning to sail Yale's A division boat will be sophomore skipper Marlena Fauer and sophomore crew Eugenia Custo Greig. These sophomores sailed to victory in A division last weekend at the Dellenbaugh and are looking to have a repeat performance this weekend.
When asked what the key to success would be for this weekend, Custo Greig jokingly responded, "Marlena is my key to success." Fauer, sitting directly across from Custo Greig, quickly followed up by saying, "'Euge' is my key to success." While these responses were mostly a lighthearted strategy for getting rid of a nosy reporter, one could sense something earnest in their voices. Custo Greig and Fauer have been regularly sailing together for nearly two years now and there is no question that their success has been positively correlated with their confidence in one another.
After this weekend, only two weeks of practice and one regatta will remain before the Women's New England Championship. The New England Championship, which will also be raced in Boston but not on the Charles River, is the first step in qualifying for the ICSA Women's National Championship that will take place in June.
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Laura isn't interested in being America's next snowboarding sweetheart, and this might just be the thing that sets her apart from the crowd. Of her current approach to the sport, she says, "Contests are important for the mass. Video parts are important for the subculture, and I'm more interested in the subculture than the mass." Hadar is all about keeping it real, but in a real way, and in recent years that has meant filming with Runway, 50-50s down ledges, massive bomb drops, and enough technical rail trickery to win the '06 Vail Session and a slew of jams. She's a snowboarder's snowboarder from her offbeat sense of style to the tight crew of girls she rolls with. She's got tons of snowboard pride and an open mind to where her career is headed—think it's deeper into the city? Think again.—Annie Fast
Birthdate: 12/27/1984
Sponsors: Artec, Holden Outerwear, Oakley, Nike, Nikita, Coal Headwear, Milosport, Satellite Boardshop
Hometown: Aspen Valley, Colorado
How did you make it to where you are now?
I knew when I was young-I fell in love with snowboarding. I was in high school and I hated it and I was never good at it, so I just did anything I could to snowboard. My mom really helped me out to get me to motivate when I was super young. She was like, 'Oh, you've got a passion, you've got to follow that and work really hard at it.'
I snowboarded my way through high school, moved to SLC, and did the thing: just ride as much as possible, put myself in the right situations, and hang out with the right people, and go to contests, and blah, blah, blah. And now I'm here, I guess.
Who influences you?
For sure Mikey LeBLanc is my main man. I definitely go to him and he's helped me out a lot. Love him forever. And my family. My two best girls that I grew up snowboarding with Lindsay Lathrop and Molly Purnell, and then my crew of girls really inspire me Izzy, Lindsay, Marybeth, and CC. My homeys, the wolves. Any people who are committing themselves to exploring their talents: artists, musicians, even doctors, I'm like, "Damn dude, I can't believe you're doing that." It's so dope. Aww shit, I'm doing my thing-I gotta do it harder. You're working so hard-I gotta work hard.
What scares you?
First thing that comes to mind is not living up to my potential, that's a humanistic fear. I think that's the biggest one, and what scares me also is not appreciating where I'm at and who I am and the people I'm with. It's not like an overriding fear of mine, but I never want to not be appreciative.
What's more important-contests or filming a part?
For my own personal goals, filming is more important because there's no way you can get the satisfaction from dedicating yourself to showing what you can do, and how you do it, and the style you do it in. Nothing can compare to that, but at the same time there's definitely something to be said for riding really good under the circumstances. I've competed a lot, especially when I was younger, and now I'm a little more turned off from it because it's so hard to film a part and do the contests. But to be able to balance that-that just shows that you're at the top of your game.
What has snowboarding taught you?
This was at the advice of Mikey (LeBlanc) and something I come back to a lot. I had a dream to become a pro snowboarder. It's been seven years since I definitely knew that's what I wanted and I did anything I could and committed myself and went through a lot of bullshit. At times I wanted to give up and throw in the towel, but I just stuck with it, and it's taught me that anything I want in this world you can have it if you try hard and you push yourself-if you put yourself out there, you don't give up, you can do it. That's the best, most amazing thing.
What's next for you?
I've finally got to this place where I feel comfortable now, where people respect me and my riding, and trust me, and believe in me, so I want to take that trust and confidence and really do it for mmyself now. Really make every day count not just for the shot, not just for the sponsors, or the video, or the photog, but for me. I want to get up into the real mountains. I love city riding, but my inner Colorado mountain hippie daughter wants to go soul searching in the deep powder-covered mountains and trees. The reason that I've been doing more streetstyle stuff the past couple years is that it's way more accessible. I don't have a snowmobile. I don't have a truck. These are things that I will probably attain in the future because I've made it to the point where you can and that's where I want to go.


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Charlotte is about to gain a global audience. The president, half of Congress and a multi-national army of 15,000 journalists will make it so.
That makes this a very big story locally. Dare I say the biggest news story in our city's history? And yes, I was also here in 1989 for Hurricane Hugo.
For more than a year, The Charlotte Observer has planned how it will provide you comprehensive coverage of this historic moment – in print, online and over your phone.
We've built mobile apps, planned for nearly 50 pages of additional news coverage, designed a special convention section on CharlotteObserver.com., and forged partnerships with other major news organizations that will pay off with additional coverage for you.
In addition to reporting the news of the day, we'll tell you what you personally need to know. If you want to be involved, you'll learn how you can be. Rather steer clear? There will be advice for you, as well.
As politics goes, you may be more interested in what happens in Tampa the week before the DNC as the Republicans hold their convention. We'll put you there, too.
The Observer is sending a team of journalists to the RNC, both to cover the political scene and to give you an idea of how that city is faring with its event. We will also bring you stories from that region's premiere newspaper, The Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) under a content-sharing arrangement. Similarly, that paper's readers will see Observer coverage during the DNC.
Watch for more on our plans in the days to come. But for now, I'll touch on three current features:
-- Beginning Tuesday, we'll anchor convention developments on page 2A of the printed paper. And, of course, you can expect at least one convention-related story on 1A daily as the city prepares.
-- On CharlotteObserver.com, check out our special web edition of DNC coverage. There you will find all we've reported on so far, including full-color maps of road closings, profiles of delegates, the roster of speakers and a list of groups signed up to protest. You'll also see our 2012 Visitor's Guide to the city for conventioneers.
In three weeks, every major media organization in the world will report on the convention in Charlotte. But you can count on the Observer to also report on what it means for Charlotte, now and in the years to come.
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A Friendly Nod to a Guy I've Never Met
When you're a critic in a town (all right, a city; all right, a metropolis), you often know other critics, especially those you admire. That said, I have never met V. A. Musetto. I don't know anything about him except that I read somewhere that he's the film editor of the New York Post. I have no clue as to what "V." stands for, let alone "A."
But I like his writintg, and more to the point his quirky sensibility, by itself and within the incongruous context in which he works. Every few days (maybe it's weekly, but I haven't checked) he's given a little column called Cine File in which he waxes enthusiastic about movies he likes. They are almost always obscure.
The latest column is about Romanian films, pegged to a Film Society of Lincoln Center festival of same. Actually, this is as close to mainstream as Musetto gets, since a lot of people have taken note of late about good films from that country, most notably "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days."
Usually Musetto is waxing on about the outer fringes of American indie films or Korean films or South American films or Alaskan dog-sled films (I made that up, but there are certainly some of them and Musetto surely knows them all). There are other critics in New York alone who because of their tastes or because they've been marginalized by their publications dwell in the twilight zone of film. One thinks of Dave Kehr and his always richly informed, passionate column about DVD's in the Times, or J Hoberman about anything in the Village Voice (amazing that he hasn't been fired, yet).
What's so pleasing about Musetto is that he plies his obscurantist trade in the pages of the Post, which normally deals on a -- how to put this? -- more earthily populist level. Maybe he has the goods on Rupert Murdoch's sexual quirks, and can write what he writes with the threat of blackmail forever hanging on high. Maybe the Post doesn't much care about "wasting" a tiny amount of space on a film nut's favorites. Whatever: He's fun to read, and he's the kind of critic who keeps the shaky institution of the newspaper movie critic still very much alive.
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John, love this column. I remember reading Andrew Sarris when I was in college. Believe it or not, he was 'fringe' back then ... And all these years later? Still fringe -- only now at the Observer.
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The difference between heat and temperature is explained through this student-lead NASA eClips segment, along with a lesson which includes a pre- and post-test, and an activity using the Frayer model. The Real World series of NASA eClips™ connects... (View More) classroom mathematics to 21st century careers and innovations and are designed for students to develop an appreciation for mathematics through real-world problem-solving. (View Less)
This afterschool curriculum includes six lessons plus supplementary materials (e.g., videos, PowerPoint presentations, and images) that explore how light from the electromagnetic spectrum is used as a tool for learning about the Sun. The curriculum... (View More) is designed to be flexible to meet the needs of afterschool programs and includes recommendations for partial implementation based on time constraints. It was specifically designed to engage girls in science. (View Less)
This is the first module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Activities are self-directed by students or student teams using online videos and data from the SDO satellite to explore, research and build knowledge about... (View More) features of the Sun. Students build vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections, and creating resources to use in their investigations. Each activity comes with both a teacher and student guide with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos and internet resources. Activity 1A: Structure of the Earth's Star takes students through the features and function of the Sun's structures using online videos, completing a "Sun Primer" data sheet using information from the videos, and creating a 3D origami model of the Sun. Students use a KWL chart to track what they have learned. Activity 1B: Observing the Sun has students capture real solar images from SDO data to find and record sunspots and track their movement across the surface of the Sun. Activity 1C has students create a pin-hole camera to use in calculating the actual diameter of the Sun, and then calculate scales to create a Earth-Sun scale model. Students reflect on their learning and results at the end of the module. An internet connection and access to computers are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This is an activity about electromagnetism and the Sun. First, learners will do a KWL activity using six vocabulary words. Next, they will build an electromagnet and investigate how it works. Finally, learners will relate the workings of their... (View More) electromagnet to a Solar Dynamics Observatory magnetogram image of the Sun. Per group of learners, this activity requires materials such as a length of insulated wire, alligator clips, a 2-D-battery holder, two D-batteries, and a nail. (View Less)
Learners will read or listen to a story about two sisters, Marisol and Sofia, as they explore the Sun's role in the water cycle. Additionally, numerous extension resources are included in the accompanying educator guide, such as suggestions for... (View More) no-cost language arts activities, links to further science activities, a book walk cue chart to guide classroom discussion before, during, and after the story, a graphic organizer, and alignments to the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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Students will learn about black holes through reading a NASA press release and viewing a NASA eClips™ video segment. Then students will use tables and mathematical expressions to compare black hole sizes and temperatures. Common Core State... (View More) Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts are identified. This activity is part of the Space Math multi-media modules that integrate NASA press releases, NASA archival video, and mathematics problems targeted at specific math standards commonly encountered in middle school textbooks. The modules cover specific math topics at multiple levels of difficulty with real-world data and use the 5E instructional sequence. (View Less)
Students will learn about NASA's Fermi satellite and gamma ray sources through reading a NASA press release. They will also learn about gamma rays and the electromagnetic spectrum by viewing a NASA eClips™ video segment. Then, students will use... (View More) percentages to explore the origins of mysterious gamma ray sources in the sky using NASA Fermi data. Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Art are identified. This activity is part of the Space Math multi-media modules that integrate NASA press releases, NASA archival video, and mathematics problems targeted at specific math standards commonly encountered in middle school textbooks. The modules cover specific math topics at multiple levels of difficulty with real-world data and use the 5E instructional sequence. (View Less)
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Pitney Bowes Unveils pbSmart Codes
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
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Pitney Bowes Inc.'s pbSmart™ Codes is being introduced in open beta to thousands of marketing executives attending the DMA2011 conference in Boston this week. The latest addition to the pbSmart suite of marketing communication solutions is a web-based software tool that can integrate QR codes to physical and digital marketing materials to create interactive marketing campaigns from a desktop. The end-to-end solution allows businesses to create marketing campaigns from QR code creation to dedicated mobi-sites that can appear on any mobile device and printed marketing materials, integrate with email and social media, and deliver real time customer analytics and reporting.
Once scanned by Pitney Bowes's QR code reader, ScanShot, or other readers, the code directs a potential customer to a mobile web page with information about its business, including a website, coupon, video, product announcement, special promotion or customer service.
pbSmart Codes enables a business to develop an interactive marketing campaign using QR codes that bridges the physical medium to dynamic mobi-pages effortlessly. The platform allows unique QR codes to be added to printed materials, such as posters, flyers, yard signs or exported to other communication channels. Printed materials are then ordered through pbSmart Codes and shipped by Pitney Bowes. Built with dynamic needs and flexibility in mind, the mobi experience of the customer can be altered, adjusted or regularly changed, but the QR code design remains the same. Marketing collateral never has to be replaced when the promotional offer changes. The product features an instant feedback mechanism to capture emails for future campaigns, and provides analytics to know if their campaign is effective and to measure ROI.
"Pitney Bowes is thrilled to deliver this exciting, end-to-end QR code solution that enables businesses of all sizes to engage and interact with their customers in ways we never before thought possible," said Neil Rader, general manager, small and medium business, Pitney Bowes. Imagine a patient in a doctor's waiting room, scanning a QR code and learning about a new medical procedure in a matter of seconds or a retail store that has a QR code with a message 'Scan Here for the Deal of the Day' to help drive sales in a new, fun way. Today it's more challenging to get the attention of customers and engage them in the moment. pbSmart Codes now provides the channel to connect with customers virtually anywhere on their terms. We think it's such a fabulous opportunity for small businesses, we're offering a free version to get them started."
Until recently QR codes have been used by Americans in the most basic ways. A survey conducted by Pitney Bowes in April of small and medium business owners found only 18 percent used QR codes often in their marketing. Among them, 45 percent used them on business cards, 45 percent used them in print ads, and 44 percent used them in direct mail. The main reason for resistance in using them was that they were too difficult to understand (37 percent). Despite the early resistance, a study by comScore, Inc. released in August, found that in June 2011 alone, 14 million mobile users in the U.S., representing 6.2 percent of the total mobile audience, scanned a QR code on their mobile device.
pbSmart Codes works easily with other customer communication solutions including Pitney Bowes's pbSmart™ Connections, pbSmart Marketer™, and the Connect+™ Communication Series.
The introduction is the newest addition to Pitney Bowes's pbSmart suite of cloud-based products designed for small and medium businesses to create, produce, deliver and measure their own customer communications in a more customized and personalized yet affordable way to help grow their business. pbSmart products and services can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection.
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